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holding up? is london ready? we are there live as the city races to prepare for the event the world will be watching races to prepare for the event the world will be watching today, friday, april 22, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this friday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m willie geist in for matt this morning. it s a beautiful day in london. will and kate probably would like to bottle up the weather and save it for next friday. i was thinking about the queen meeting the middletons for the first time. what if she didn t like them. it s done, isn t it? we re past the point of no return. do you remember a week before your wedding? the butterflies settle in? i was pretty calm. were you nervous? i was at the bachelor party. she doesn t seem nervous. william said he s getting the butterflies and all of that. natalie morales has made her way across the pond and we ll check in straight ahead. there she is. on a more serious note a group of teenagers are among six people now under arrest in connection with a gruesome murder in florida. a 15-year-old boy was lured to a home, tortured and killed. it could be tied to a post on facebook. the latest on the investigation ahead. plus, mel gibson speaks out in his first major interview since tapes of the infamous conversations between the actor and his ex-girlfriend were released. he dropped a bombshell saying he doesn t care if he ever acts again. more of what he had to say coming up. more on john mccain s trip to libya to meet with rebel forces. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel caught up with him in benghazi. good morning, richard. reporter: good morning, meredith. senator mccain called the rebels heroes and believes the united states must do more to support the rebel movement. if that doesn t happen the senator warns the conflict will drift into stalemate and cities like misrata will continue to come under constant attack. [ gunfire ] reporter: witnesses say nowhere feels safe in misrata now. [ explosion ] reporter: the city, once home to 300,000 is surrounded on three sides by gadhafi s forces. rebels are battling to drive out gadhafi s snipers from the city center. so far, nato air strikes have done little to protect the people of misrata. rebels say they need close air support here, accurate air cover that can t come from fighter jets flying thousands of feet in the air. but some help is coming. the u.s. announced it is deploying at least two unmanned predator drones. the predator is used extensively in iraq and afghanistan and are specifically designed to trackle individual targets and destroy them with small, hellfire missiles ideal for urban war. the president has said that where we have unique capabilities he is willing to use those and, in fact, he has approved the use of armed predators. reporter: many rebels believe without even more u.s. and nato support the conflict could drag on into a lengthy stalemate. i believe that gadhafi should go and i believe that a stalemate would lead to serious consequences including the possibility of the rise of the influence of radical extremists. reporter: senator john mccain who, today, visited the rebel fwap toll of benghazi appears to share that concern, traveling with a small entourage and little security he was aexamined by american flags. a girl gave him a bracelet, a warm welcome. he also met with young people who told him they want more american help. in misrata the situation remainses dire and dangerous. a few predators may not be enough. a ship carrying hundreds of wounded and refugees from misrata arrived in benghazi thursday. also on board were the bodies of two western journalists killed in misrata this week. for today richard engel, nbc news, benghazi. senator mccain said he does not support sending american ground troops into libya but says the u.s. can do more militarily to help the rebels, that there is a danger of overcommitment and a danger of a protracted stalemate. meredith? richard, thank you very much. it s 7:05. here s willie. thanks. if you re driving to grandma s house for easter it s going to cost you. the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas stands at $3.85, 99 cents higher than what we were paying at this time last year. mike taibbi is in chicago where folks areal feeling the pain at the pump. good morning. reporter: good morning to you. rainy chicago today. here, drivers are already paying $4 plus, in most cases plus a lot. at this mobile station it s $459.9 for a gallon of regular unless you want a car wash, too. president obama has asked the justice department to look at the reasons the priceses at the pump are climbing so fast. to say the price of gas is rising hardly tells the story. it s been a day-by-day climb with no relief in sight. i pulled up to the gas station and thought i would need a second mortgage on the house to pay for it. i don t like it. i don t feel i have any control over it. reporter: in fact, six state and the district of columbia are averaging more than $4 for a gallon of regular. every time you go to work, a big chunk of your paycheck is being eaten up. reporter: that s why president obama, in reno, nevada, to talk about the budget, took time out to talk about the impact of gas prices on household budgets and efforts to minimize the pain at the pump. the attorney general is putting together a team whose job it is to root out cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, including the role of traders and speculators. we ll make sure nobody is taking advantage of american consumers. reporter: industry analysts see little relief on the horizon. it s hard to predict where gasoline prices are go. it seem it is stars are aligned now for gas prices to continue to climb, at least in the short term. reporter: a weak dollar, continuing unrest in the middle east, increasing demand for oil in the summer months, all leading to thepossie even beyond the grimmest predictions. if we have a hurricane that hits the gulf of mexico in the wrong spots you will get a gas spike. you could blow well above $6 if we have a bad scenario late in the summer because of hurricane location. reporter: for some drivers the car will be in the garage long before that. if the prices go up to $5 i m riding my bike to work, for sure. reporter: if you have to drive and you re cruising around looking for the cheap price, keep an eye on the fuel gauge. aaa is reporting a big increase in the number of road service calls for frustrated drivers who run out of gas. the numbers over your shoulder are staggering. mike taibbi, thanks. luann hammond is ceo of drivingthenation.com. good morning. good morning. gas prices have climbed every day for the last month. we have seen six states over $4 a gallon. mike reported it could go up to $6 a gallon by this summer. what s behind this? it used to be that america had so much gasoline that they could use. we could get it from anywhere, but libya off line 2% to 3% is huge. we have emerging countries using a lot more gasoline than they used to. we had the report from libya. the violence led to moammar gadhafi stopping exporting of oil but the u.s. doesn t get much oil, if any, from libya. why does that affect prices here. because other countries have to get it somewhere else. they will get some of what we are using and will pay more than we would have paid. it takes the supply pie and you have to divy it up in different ways. this is a supply problem? it s a supply problem because we have people that don t want to use less. so it does make the demand go up. interesting yesterday that president obama created a task force. he said, quote, to root out causes of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices. is there price gouging or is this political so the president can say, look, i m concerned about oil and gas prices? i think the president is concerned. but every president who s seen $5 or $6 a gallon has been concerned and have done this. they haven t really found price gouging so it probably won t happen now but it s a good political move. the ripples go far beyond the gas pumps with a story like this. memorial day, about a month or so away. people will be traveling this summer. how does it impact consumer spending beyond what they are paying for gas? it will impact it in every way. the difference is in 2008 when we had this gas price gas before, used cars weren t really in demand. because of the japanese shortage, because used prices are high, if they want to sell pick-ups now you can sell it at a big price and get a decent car that gets 40 miles to the gallon. some get 50. i was at the new york auto show and one question i asked every executive is are you ready? they have been saying, yes, we are ready. fiesta gets 40 miles to the gallon, mazdas get 40 miles to the gallon. the chevy volt, electric, it s only fitting that tonight at the tribeca film festival it s revenge of the electric car . maybe we ll get better, more fuel efficient cars out of this. thanks so much, lou ann hammond. thank you. now a check on the top stories. savannah guthrie is here for ann at the news desk. good morning. in the news, republican senator john ensign of nevada resigns today amid an on going ethics probe into his extramarital affair with a former staffer. a committee has been investigating the issue for a year and a half. ensign says he s done nothing wrong. j.p. morgan chase will pay out $60 millionle tole military families the bank is accused of mistreating. the bank acknowledged overcharging thousands of military families and wrongfully foreclosuring on more than a dozen of them. the body of a missing north carolina honor student has been found. felicia barnes disappeared while visiting relatives in maryland. her body and the body of an unidentified male were found wednesday morning in maryland. police are investigating if there is a connection between barnes and the man. the family of an american journalist captured in libya now knows she s alive. claire gillis was allowed to call home. her parents appeared on today yesterday appealing for any information on their missing daughter. gillis said she was captured by forces loyal to gadhafi and is in jail. after u.s. drone attacks killed 25 people in pakistan this morning a senior military official told nbc news pakistan stopped u.s. forces from using an air base along the afghan border. the u.s. said the attack targeted a militant hideout but some civilians were among the dead. japan approved a $50 billion emergency budget today for the reconstruction effort after the devastating march 11 earthquake and tsunami. the spending package is just a fraction of the estimated $300 billion in damage caused by the disaster. the recovery effort marks japan s largest public works effort since world war ii. and christians around the world are celebrating good friday today. thousands are heading to pray at the church of the holy sepulchre. back to meredith, al and willie. you look festive like the easter bunny in your purple. is that a compliment? willie and al. we have severe weather to talk about sadly. from dallas, central texas all the way to southwestern ohio, we re looking at large hail, damaging winds and tornados possible. all part of a system making its way up. we have low pressure and heavy rain developing. rainfall amounts anywhere from two to three inches of rain, and over the next 72 hours they could get five inches of rain in the mid-mississippi and ohio river valleys, and we have flood watches from southern missouri into pennsylvania today. good morning. the rain will be arriving in the metro area by late morning and off and on during the afternoon. we will have the rain continuing. right now chilly and cloudy in the 40s, and the highs in the low 50s today. that rain off and on into tonight. and higher amounts, and parts of western maryland may cause flooding. and then saturday and sunday we warm up and a chance of an afternoon thunder and that s your latest weather. a new state of the art prison in new hampshire sits empty this morning, not because there are no criminals to lock up. there is no money to open it. kelly o donnell has details. good morning. reporter: good morning. this is a big and concrete example of the spending cuts and budget battle we saw here in congress. 276 million of your federal tax dollars paid to build it but the money to open it was cut. i went to northern new hampshire near the canadian border to see it. spring arrives late in new hampshire s north country, but a man-made delay is breaking hearts and wallets in this town. it s critical to us. it will have an impact on families struggling to hold on. reporter: they are waiting on this a new federal prison carved out of a mountain-top. a medium security facility that will add more than 300 new jobs. construction wrapped up months ago, but money needed to open was stripped when congress made cuts to this year s budget. new hampshire senator jeanne shahe shaheen. we have a $276 million prison that s brand new standing empty because congress isn t willing to put in about $28 million to get it started. reporter: that means no money to transfer inmates here and hire prison staff. i would like to have a meeting to regroup. reporter: mark belanger works at the unemployment office where they are desperate to see the prison jobs filled. people are getting discouraged. they stopped asking and they are waiting to see when it will be a reality. reporter: after paper pills and manufacturers moved out berlin spent years trying to get a federal prison here and claims it could bring $40 million to the local economy. we re counting on some employment, generating spending in town and in the county. reporter: the northland dairy bar restaurant has been in this family for 50 years. i can t believe they spent that money to build a prison without having the funding to operate it. reporter: there is a price for not opening. it will cost taxpayers $4 million this year to keep this facility maintained, secure and ready to go. that s with no inmates here. while democrats and republicans say painful budget cuts are necessary, shaheen calls the cut short-sighted. it doesn t make sense to cut in areas that affect public safety which is an issue here with respect to starting up this new prison. reporter: so there actually isn t much partisan finger-pointing here which is unusual. democrats and republicans, especially from new hampshire, tried to save it but when the budget cutting was done this didn t make the cut. they will have to wait for next year s budget fight to try to get it open. a lot of people in new hampshire waiting for jobs to show up with the prison. kelly, thank you very much. 7:18 and here s meredith. thank you. the big day is almost here. seven days and counting before the wedding day of prince william and kate middleton. apparently natalie morales couldn t wait. she s at buckingham palace checking on the last-minute preparations. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. i have been counting down like everyone else. the massive crowds are here already just for the daily changing of the guards ceremony here at buckingham palace. imagine what it will look like next week. william and kate will have just been married at this time next week and all eyes will be on the balcony awaiting their first kiss as husband and wife. until then every last effort is being made to ensure that everything is picture perfect. the bunting is up. the flags have been raised. with just one week to go, the finishing touches are all around as london gets ready for the big day and the eyes of the world. at buckingham palace they are sharpening the knives. the tension will ramp up. reporter: and polishing the family silver. double checking, triple checking. reporter: the westminster boys choir is having its final rehearsals. with its young members told not to eat chocolate or drink soda to save their voices. the household cavalry is hard at work, buffing and shining. and those guards with the bearskin hats are rehearsing their steps and making sure uniforms are shape-shapip-shape there is only one standard and that s excellent. we strive to achieve that and we are working hard to make sure we do the job properly on the day. reporter: security is, of course, a major concern and the metropolitan police and scotland yard are taking no chances as they launch one of the biggest security operations in their history, monitoring possible threats from the ground and from the air. people want to come to london to peacefully protest can do, but it is a day of national celebration. if we see anybody enganling in criminal behavior we will act quickly and decisively to deal with it. reporter: the man who will marry william and kate, the archbishop of canter it bury is sharing his thoughts. i have been struck with the way william and kate have approached the big event. they have thought through what they want to say. reporter: apparently kate won t say obey following the example set by princess diana 30 years ago. instead, kate will promise to love, comfort, honor and keep prince william. as the countdown continues the princess bride is not withering under the strain. seen around town, shopping perhaps for her honeymoon trousseau. most are excited about the day. i m excited about the royal wedding. i think it will be good. reporter: mother nature is putting on a show with record highs and not a drop of the famous london drizzle in sight. sun, sun, sun reporter: historically the sun has shown for royal weddings. hopefully i didn t jinx it by saying that out loud. the only weather-related concern here, the beautiful, gorgeous picture perfect tulips are in full bloom now and they are doing every little bit of pruning and primping they can do to make sure they don t wilt before the big day. meredith, i know you are headed here tonight. we ll see you tomorrow morning. pack a lot of summer dresses. i will. i ll add on to the summer dresses. thank you very much. just ahead, mel gibson breaks his silence. wait until you hear what he has to say about the tape scandal and his acting future. we re back in a moment. this is today on nbc. 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. just ahead, the stars of the classic sit com happy days tell us why they are not so happy these days. plus, as we count down to will and kate s big day a glimpse at the royal wedding gown collection after the local news and weather. 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detectives who have looked at the facebook page where seth professed his love for amber believe it may be a case of jealousy gone wrong. sometimes you think you have seen it all and they surprise you. in a case like this it goes to mother s outrage, your senses, your heart. reporter: residents here in marion county, florida, are horrified and angry. he s crazy. i don t understand how no one could hear the gunshots. reporter: hundreds gathered where seath was murdered to remember him and demand justice. what happened to him was wrong. you know, i hope they get life in prison. reporter: others want more. i hope they get the electric chair and they burn. burn. and we can all sit and watch them like they did with him. reporter: michael bargo, unemployed, living with his grandmother has a defense attorney. did he do it is a different question of can they prove it. i didn t reach did he do it. that s a moral question. i deal in proof. that s what i deal in. reporter: the judge has now ordered all of those arrested and here at the jail to be isolated from one another so they cannot discuss the stories with each other of what allegedly happened. a story so horrifying it s hard to believe it s true. kerry sanders, thank you so much. we turn now to al for a check of the weather. al? announcer: today s weather is brought to you by preen garden weed preventer. good morning. we have wildfires burning throughout the southwest. take a look at this one. this is in jefferson, colorado. in jefferson county, high winds fuelling the wildfires and they continue to burn throughout much of texas, albuquerque on into the southwest. we are continuing to see southwest, and continuing to see the wildfires and no relief in sight. the temperatures around the country, we have the heat throughout the south. low humidity, and below normal temperatures in bismarck. same in billings, where they will have a high of 41. dallas today, 89. midland, 96. nashvil nashville, look for a high of 82 degrees today. here is what is happening had your neck of the woods. cloudy and chilly. the radar showing showers in the central shenandoah valley, and it s advancing northeast heading towards the metro area where the temperatures are in the low and mid-40s. 46 now at reagan national. and highs reaching the low 50s with an occasional shower coming through as well as this evening. and then maybe a passing thunder you need to keep track of your weather any time day or night go to weather channel on cable, weather.com online. meredith? al, thank you very much. members of the cast of the popular sit-com happy days are reuniting in a battle for money they say they are owed stretching back to the 70s. lee cowan is in los angeles with more. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, meredith. you may remember the front of the house. it was the fictional home of the cunninghams that we saw every tuesday night. it was supposed to be in wisconsin, but it is actually a real life home in los angeles where the characters supposedly had so many happy days, but this week four members of the cast in addition to the estate of the late tom bosley filed a lawsuit claiming all the memorabilia, the lunchboxes, t-shirts, glasses, earned them little if nothing at all. reporter: it s not just the jukebox, everything about happy days is iconic. the fonz s leather jacket hangs in the smithsonian. but the show was also a merchandising bonanza. look how tough i am. reporter: the show s stars can t believe how much their images appeared on lunchboxes, board games, comic books. i have never played this. reporter: there are current items, too. t-shirts and mugs are available at the online store but it was the happy days slot machines that were one too many. somebody said, boy, you must be cleaning up. reporter: but mrs. c says she hasn t been. joanie said she s gotten only a few hundred dollars and for ralph and potzie, nothing. for 37 years, not a statement, not a dime. reporter: not for lunch boxes, t-shirts, games, figurines. not a statement, not a dime. reporter: in a lawsuit filed this week the actors claim they were stiffed out of millions in merchandise money because they allege paramount and now cbs who acquired the rights in 2006 never told them they earned it. they have taken the policy of don t ask, don t pay. you don t ask, we don t pay. i think we figured if they owed us money we d get something. maybe we were naive about how business works. i ve still got it. reporter: cbs acknowledged the actors are owed royalties. in a statement cbs says what s in dispute is the amount of money they are owed. their records claim only around $8,000 each. they are talking thousands owed and you guys are talking millions. big discrepancy. yes. reporter: very big. obviously their calculator broke. reporter: happy days was one of the most watched shows ever. appointment television on tuesday nights. are you worried at all that the lawsuit may look petty, given how much the show has given you all? petty? they re makinging mon money. they re collecting money and we are being cut out. what s petty about that? we worked hard. we deserve what s in the contract. there is nothing petty about that. reporter: cbs said it s open to more mediation but the m matriarch of the family fears in the end they will be told to sit on it. tuz it make you angry? i have such low expectations. reporter: from people? from the business. i m not angry at all. reporter: meredith, conspicuous in their absence are the show s other big stars, henry winkler and ron howard. the cast members think their contracts were worded differently although henry winkler said he supports his fellow cast members. ron howard had no comment. meredith? i m angry for mrs. c. lee cowan, thank you very much. coming up, a teenager who spent the past six months faking her own pregnancy will explain why she did it. up next, a rare glimpse at the royal wedding gown collection, right after this. oh oh oh just love me oh oh oh just hold me oh oh oh just kiss me oh oh oh just want me l-o-v-e love, love, love we expect a lot from our cheese. why did the cook get arrested? 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[ panting ] don t you dare hang up on me. i can t listen to this anymore. reporter: heated conversations between mel gibson and his ex-girlfriend oksana gregoriava, leaked on the internet. i ll report her to the [ bleep ] people that take [ bleep ] money from the wetbacks. reporter: now speaking out for the first time since they were leaked a candid mel gibson expresses regret for what he said. when asked if people were angry about what he said, mel responded, i was angry at me. but no one expressed any anger at me. they may have felt it. as for if he felt the private conversations would be put out to the public he said, who annotates such a personal betrayal? following the release of the recorded conversations which gibson said were edited he suffered backlash in hollywood and beyond. his response to the critics, it s one terribly awful moment in time, said to one person in the span of one day and doesn t represent what i truly believe or how i have treated people my entire life. gibson was also asked about his scrapped cameo in the sequel to the hangover and how some cast members pushed to have him removed. gibson said he likes the director and the people in the film and said, you just have to let it go. a lot of people wonder if he can recover from it. he has a new movie coming out. jodie foster is in it as well. apparently he confided to her about the tapes. they remain good friends. just ahead, tom brokaw and jane pa pa pauley look back at their fondest memories on today. i buy plants, i bring them home, and then.i water too little. too much. or i just forget. but look. this is doing fine. why? it s planted in miracle-gro moisture control potting mix. it holds 33% more water. than ordinary potting soil. releasing it as plants need it. not when i get around to it. and there s miracle-gro plant food mixed in. so you get miracle-gro results. i like that. 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we ll get them out of the seats fast. they re getting comfortable. they look terrific. a big crowd for tom and jane. absolutely. i want to ask them actually if they had any inkling at the wedding in 1981 that maybe the marriage wasn t going to work out too well. you would be surprised what they have to say about it. what s going on? we have to catch up with tom and jane later. also ahead, a classical violinist breaking all the rules and earning a big name for himself in the process. jenna bush hager caught up with him and she ll share his story coming up. you have heard the phrase nice guys finish last. it may also apply to women as well. what if you re a so-called nice girl? what can you do if you never get what you want? we ll show you how. you have gotten plenty and you re not that nice. oh! i m nice. you re wonderful. the thing about nice girls, they don t know how to stand up for themselves. they re people pleasers. you have learned it over the years. yes, i just did it. let s go to the news desk. savannah guthrie is filling in for ann today. good morning. good morning to all of you. in the news, president obama says a task force led by the attorney general will look into the dramatic rise in gasoline prices. he told a town hall meeting thursday in reno, nevada, that the investigation will focus on price gouging and market manipulation. the national average for a gallon of regular gas is $3.84. it s up 30 cents in just the past month. senator john mccain is in libya today to show his support for the rebels fighting moammar gadhafi s forces. the top republican on the senate armed services committee, he said he wants the u.s. to do more to help the rebels who he calls heroes. in syria, tens of thousands of people are in the streets today demanding president asad s resignation despite his promises of reform. security forces have been firing live rounds and teargas to disperse the prodemocracy protests. in yemen, tens of thousands poured into the streets of the capitol today to demand that their president of 32 years abdul saleh resign. a man wanted for questioning in an attempted bombing at a mall. it happened on the 12th anniversary of the shooting rampage at nearby columbine high school. police are looking at if the event was deliberately planned to coincide with the anniversary. toyota is recalling suvs sold in the u.s. between 2007 and 2008 in order to fix an air bag problem. toyota also says it expects the global production to return to normal by november or december after last month s japanese earthquake and tsunami disrupted operations there. for more on the recall you can head to our website, today.com. finally, a washington state high school student faked being pregnant for six months to teach other students a lesson about prejudice. gabby rodriguez revealed thursday that her pregnancy had actually been a social experiment for her senior project. i made my senior year better by doing this because i get to, you know, say i made an impact in some of the students lives here. reporter: overall rodriguez says the responses from student and staff have been positive. now back to meredith and willie. thank you very much. it s cold out here. it is. crazy cold. al needs to do something cold. what is with this, al? it s cold. can t get much by me. 30 years ago when jane and tom were doing the royal wedding, these young ladies were nowhere near. what is your names? claire and meredith. just happens to be brokaw s grandchildren. let s check your weather. grandpa is awfully proud. rain and thunderstorms, 58 degrees. as you look at the radar, you can see we have heavy rain making its way through the midsection. snow back through the central northern plains. risk of storms in texas into ohio. sunshine mt. pacific northwest. and sunny and warm along the gulf coast. and it s the high school show choir from ridgeway, virginia. and that s what s going around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. clear, cloudy and cool this morning starting off this friday morning with radar showing rain advancing southwest to the northeast, and heading towards the metro area. we will have the rain on and off into the highs. and right now we re in the 40s. tomorrow, warmer and might get a sprinkle. and hot on sunday. could get an afternoon thunderstorm. remaining warm monday and tuesday. let s head down to willie. coming up next, we re excited about this. tom brokaw and jane pauley return to today to look at historic moments they covered including the royal wedding of prince charles and lady diana. we ll catch up with them after this. tacy. who runs circles around asthma. and dan. he never lets high cholesterol get him too low. and amy with her arthritis well in hand. they go to walgreens. where their pharmacist not only refills prescriptions but gives advice. immunizations. and health tests. staying on top of your health starts right in your neighborhood. walgreens. there s a way to stay well. good morning [ male announcer ] there are sixteen fresh-picked oranges squeezed into each carton of tropicana pure premium and absolutely no space for added sugar, water or preservatives. tropicana we put the good in morning. tropicana you gotta try honey bunches of oats with almonds! it s got real, sliced california almonds with a third less sugar per serving than honey nut cheerios. wow! delicious! try honey bunches of oats with almonds! take toast. spread with i can t believe it s not butter. add jacques. he s french. oui! oui like! 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good morning. a splendid morning. it is as they say a splendid morning. then the summer of 1981. it s charles and diana. we were on the edge of our seats, just because it was such a great show. and nobody does spectacle like the british royal family. we had been through so many big events. we made history. we covered history. there had been no bigger audience than the wedding of charles and diana. people waiting in the church didn t have the seat that we had. we had the front row seat. tom brokaw and jane pauley, good morning to you. good morning. brings back memories. it does. good and bad memories. 1981, tom. you re on today, but your background, you were a white house correspondent. your boss comes up and says, we re going to cover the royal wedding. initial reaction? i had not been a royal enthusiast but it was one of the greatest weeks of my life. i had such a good time there. you were surprised? you couldn t help but be swept away by the tsunami of joyfulness, the pride of the british people. they were perfectly cast. charles was the most eligible bachelor in the world. hers was the face to launch a thousand magazines. the picture of innocence. it all played out perfectly. they had wonderful weather and no one does ceremony better than the united kingdom. and we had a front row seat. we were literally stationed in front of buckingham palace, as you will be, hang out with richard burton and michael caine. not a bad way to go. not bad. this is the book we have been given to prep, jane. it made my heart palpitate nervously. you had the same thing. i think i probably knew all the numbers, facts and how many yards of the dress and how many pearls and blah, blah, blah. once it starts, this out. it s completely irrelevant. you re just wow. it s like a 4th of july but during daytime and in slow motion because it s seven hours of coverage. this one spectacle after another. you just try to keep up. we are looking at the glass carriage. that was one of my memories was trying to get several hundred yards of fabric and a very large father of the bride in a glass carriage. there was generally concern that it wouldn t manage. at one point we were talking about reverence. we introduced to america tina brown who was not well known. she was nervous about what she could and could not say. she had a lot of inside information. on the first day, after the first appearance of diana i blurted out, my god, look at her feet they are as big as gun boats and tina knew she could say anything. you got criticism for that, too. leading up to the wedding, the assassination attempts on the president, the pope, were we ready for something positive? i think so. a week after i got back i went back to climb the grand tetons and their wives and girlfriends had rented motels to watch the wedding. that was a commentary on what the country is looking for. a little joy, a little uplift. that was the beginning of it, i think. i think my immortality is as long as people remember princess diana and this wedding which will be a long time, i m going to kind of be in the background. you said that tom knew all the facts and you were the impressions girl. your impression of the kiss? i was so impatient. you wanted romance. you wanted fairy tale. they stood there forever. i kept thinking, i might have even said it out loud. kiss her, kiss her. that kiss exaggerates the romance. i m afraid that there wasn t the chemistry we wanted. you even sensed it then i had dinner a couple of times with people close to the court. women who knew the relationship and they all said the same thing. this is an arranged marriage. he has another girlfriend it was camilla. the queen will not approve of him marrying. that was known going in. we reflected that discreetly on the air. and we have never told the story before. the morning of the wedding, queen elizabeth asked jane to help her pick out a hat. of course, yes. and prince philip kept asking me, do i sit on the left or right? i m helping to dress kate. they were so grateful they went into the vaults and came up with a rare heirloom which jane and i are prepared to give you. oh, how lovely! this comes from the ancient history. is this china? oh, thank goodness. a lovely piece of tin. thank you so much. do you have another for me? honey, i will let you have that one. tom, thank you so much. kate oh, my. kate! i m getting ready. we re back after this. 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he s reallile been the only man in my life who truly accepted me the way i was from the very beginning. no one had ever loved me so simply like this. he s a wonderful fiddle player, extremely musical and is very he s got the virtuoso way of playing that i like very, very much. reporter: the avant-garde style is shaking up the world of classical music. i never would have guessed that less than two years after graduating from julliard i would have made my carnegie halladay buy and would be sitting here with you today. reporter: in the world of beethoven and bach, not everyone was ready to embrace his edgy style. people said, you can t go to carnegie hall looking like this. i work very hard. it was a very moving experience to step onto that stage. very emotional. the audiences usually react with this collective [ gasps ] to know i have that impact, even not having picked up my violin, that s when the performance begins. it s the moment i am on stage. reporter: the moment of the first gasp. yes, absolutely. reporter: you said you are the viagra for classical music. and aspirin to pop culture, yeah. reporter: his ultimate goal is to bring mozart to the masses. my message is an artist is i want to bring classical music back to the mainstream culture. amazing. super phenomenal. great interpretations of the pieces. he was really good. i was impressed with it. i think he s going to make it really big. we ll be excited we saw him now in a small venue, you know, before everyone knew about him. reporter: but he says gaining acceptance has been an uphill battle. when you think about the great composers like mozart and beethoven, they were misfits as well. having been born a strange fruit, i like to say. i felt that i fell so far off the tree. all of those experiences are part of my art and part of the music. it s dedicated to the younger generation who really may go through similar experiences. the empowerment and the message of really, truly being yourself. reporter: he uses the pain of his past to inspire. he began his career performing at the grammys and says he hopes to step back onto that hopes to step back on that stage once again. the rock star of classical music. thanks. 8:26 is your time now. just 47 degrees out there. the spring roller coaster continues. tom will let you know if we will have a warm or cool day today and what the rest of the waektds is like. if you take new york avenue in or out of the city, your commute is about to get worse. one lane in both directions will be closed between penn street northeast and florida avenue northeast beginning on monday. those lanes will remain closed for about two years. good morning. four-day forecast. areas of light rain today from time too time. the highs in the low 50s. might get an afternoon thunder shower, and sunday maybe an afternoon storm. no delays between springfield and i-66. the american legion bridge, good both ways. tonight on news4 at 5:00, meet the local executive that plans to sleep outside buckingham palace 8:30 on this friday morning, april 22, 2011. a little chilly out here, but otherwise a beautiful spring day. we have a massive crowd gathered here on the plaza to enjoy the weather. i m meredith vieira along with al roker, willie geist and savannah guthrie. matt has the morning off, as does ann. straight ahead, daniel radcliffe like we have never seen him before. harry potter himself now starring in how to succeed in business without really trying. daniel and his costars perform live for us in a bit including john laroquette who has never been on broadway before. this is his first show. i think of him as a broadway star. i was shocked. and i guess these folks aren t here for me, but daniel radcliffe. and sunday is easter. and world renowned chef eric ripert is here with his tasty lamb stew. and are you a nice girl? i am. you are, too. maybe. we ll talk to the authors of a new book who say being mr. or miss nice gal is not the way. we ll talk to them. natalie morales made her way across the atlantic. she s in front of buckingham palace. looks like a marvelous spring day. she s there to give us the low-down on the last-minute preparations. just a week to go until the royal wedding. nat looking springlike herself. the weather there is so beautiful. here, not as nice. it s okay, but cold. right now the long-range forecast is looking nice. for us? upper 60s, low 70s. low 70s. here, not so much. let s show you what is going on as far as your eastern weekend. rain in the northeast on saturday through the ohio river valley. a risk of strong storms back through texas. and sunny and warm through the southeast. and then subpoenaed, virginia, 85. egg harbor, michigan or wisconsin, i should say. 56. and cotton city, rain in the pacific northwest. and wet weather into the northeast. we have rain coming in across virginia, and parts of the west virginia. that s advancing southwest to northeast. just scattered light showers. we have temperatures under the cloudy sky just in the 40s all around the region, just 46 at reagan national. occasional light showers in the afternoon. highs reaching the low 50s. might have patchy drizzle and fog into early saturday morning. and saturday afternoon, might get don t forget. you can check your weather, especially for easter sunday, day or night on weather channel on cable, weather.com online. coming up next, some much needed advice for so-called nice girls. looking to take charge at home and work. first this is today on nbc. what do we have here? 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a nice girl is someone who behaves according to the rules she was taught in childhood. that s why we call it nice girl. okay? . but it s a problem when women overrely on behaviors they learned in childhood but they don t add adult assertive behaviors. you have five tips for nice girls looking to take charge of their lives. they include know what you want, believe you deserve it, communicate directly and concisely, be prepared for push-back and put yourself first. so if you are able to do that to know what you want, how do you get it without being perceived as pushy or rude? i think what s really important for people to understand is that we are not suggesting that nice isn t necessary behavior. nice is simply not sufficient, as lois described it. it s really about being assertive for what you need and at the same time keeping in mind the needs of other people. so in my frame of reference it s always a negotiation. as the lady in the piece put it, with assertiveness you can bring happiness. absolutely. our experience has been, and research shows, that what s good for women is good for men and good for families. and society more broadly. we have questions from recovering nice girls looking for help. the first one, an anonymous viewer e-mailed us and writings my moral hther-in-law has been g with us for 15 years. i can t take it anymore. i have had the discussion with my husband before and he seems to see nothing wrong with it. advise, please. this is no longer working and could destroy our marriage. this is a complex situation. she s been there 15 years. i think she ll need professional help. she needs somebody to broker a discussion between herself and her husband. it s all in the communication. why hasn t this been discussed before? it s been 15 years. so she s going to get push-back. she has to prepare for it and i think she needs help. she ll be challenged as to why didn t you say anything . exactly, sooner. carol, standing up for yourself can be a challenge at work. michelle writes, help me ask for a raise. my colleagues got them and i did not. i have been at this company for seven years, have the credentials the company wanted for us. i was the first to get them and yet still no raise. your background is negotiation. how does she do it? the most important thing to realize is it isn t enough to go to an employer and say, i deserve a raise. you have to substantiate the value you bring. what is the business case from the employer s point of view? there are lots of ways to do it, but i encourage people to keep a brag book. make sure you are journalling your accomplishments so when it comes time to ask for a raise n you are in a different situation because you can point to specifics. it s not can i get a raise, it s i deserve a raise. with the right tone of voice, of course. sometimes in seemingly small ways it can pay off, it doesn t have to be a big deal. maybe assertiveness in a small area can help you? in a restaurant, say a meal isn t prepared the way you want it. being willing to say, excuse me, i asked for this rare and it s really well done. i would really appreciate another meal. small ways really empower you. more importantly, meredith, they empower your daughters and the women around you. i think we owe it to everyone to exhibit those behaviors. maybe you start with the small ways to build up to bigger things like the raise or whatever it is in your life. absolutely. okay. thank you so much. the book is nice girls just don t get it. up next in today s kitchen, a delicious stew to spice up your easter meal. first this is today on nbc. announcer: today celebrates easter is brought to you by m & ms chocolate candies. can t resist them. we re back at 8:43. this morning a classic lamb stew for the holiday. eric ripert is chef at l le bernardin restaurant. good morning. what do you call this in french? . [ speaking french ] doesn t it sound better than lamb stew? how do we start off here? we have the lamb, very tasty and delicious. what you need to do is basically braise it because it s tougher than the leg of lamb. so i sauteed the lamb with some flour. you remove the lamb from the pan and deglaze with some white wine. explain deglazing. it means we are going to take some of the you see yes. the meet caramellized in the bottom. what did you put in? white wine. okay. then we have onions and garlic. all spring vegetables. carrots, a little bit of tomato. we have a bouquet garnis, basically parsley, bay leaf and thyme. you just put back the lamb. back in the same pan? same pan. we have the chicken stock. you add the chicken stock and we ll let it boil for about 45 minutes to an hour. 45 minutes once the chicken stock goes back in. and we don t have to worry about it. just leave it. then blanch some vegetables. that s a big word for basically boiling vegetables. we have turnips here. when they are tender, remove them. baby turnips? baby turnips. to stop cooking you put them in ice water. can i get baby turnips at any grocery store? they are simple to find. we ll add some of the peas that i have branched. baby carrots, string beans. these are separate from the other vegetables. they are separated because they cook in a different way. they will be cooked dark if we add them. a little bit of butter never hurt anybody. we just have to go now in the back and we are going to plate. so the butter will melt slowly. we have the stew. so that s after 45 minutes to an hour? to an hour. it should be looking like this. we just have to plate it, of course. so we are going to go like that. why do you like the lamb stew over the leg of lamb? the leg of lamb is delicious, no doubt. but it is much more expensive and to tell you the truth it s not as tasty as the lamb shoulder we braised. you like the taste of the stew better than the lamb? i do. it s easier to cook and less expensive. you don t have to worry about it. you just let it boil and then you can put some spring vegetables on top and it brings color on it. beautiful. we have the baby carrots, turnips, peas. that s it. so you re basically woshing with a pot here, a pot there. what i like is really to add a little bit of the sauce. you can see the consistency of the sauce? beautiful. it s like the reduction of the jus of the lamb and we have a little bit of that. we have one here, one here for you. i have to taste it, i m sorry. i can t wait any longer. it looks delicious. it s very tender. actually the trick to know when the meat is cooked you go with a knife and go through the meat. the meat doesn t even stick to the knife. it means it s falling apart. breaks up on you. that means it s cooked. it s delicious. the best part for me is it s easy to cook. very easy. beautiful. you can cook for the entire family. here we have some braised white beans if you decide to do the leg of lamb. i ll stick with the stew. it looks easier. eric, happy easter to you. thank you. up next, a live performance from daniel radcliffe and the broadway cast of how to succeed in business without really trying. announcer: the toyota concert series on today brought to you by toyota. he has won audiences over as the young wizard harry potter. now daniel radcliffe is conjuring up success on broadway starring as the overachiever j. pierpont finch opposite john larroquette in how to succeed in business without really trying. daniel and john, good morning to you. good morning. hello, meredith. last time i saw you, daniel, you said you don t read reviews ever. they are saying you re great and that you are as well. both of you brilliant in what you are doing. when you decided to take on the roles did you have any idea what you were getting into? well, i think i had more of an idea than you. i had done a year of dance training because i knew i would have to dance in the show. nothing prepares you for t broadway. you trained 17 hours a week? nine. go with the 17. it sounds better. and you, john, you were talking before. we thought you had been on broadway before. i had the high class problem of being on a series and not able to donate the time necessary. as far as knowing what i was getting into, as soon as i knew this gentleman would be in it i knew i would be in for fun. was it intimidating in the beginning? god, yes. i use my body but i don t dance and sing. to concentrate on that, to get it right, i knew the comedy would come because i knew working with dan would be easy and we d find the comedy. trying not to make a fool of myself on stage was the important part. you haven t done that for sure. it s a classic musical. to be part of it must be thrilling. it s amazing. we have a fantastic company. for me and john it s trying to keep up with these guyses. what number will you perform? tonight tonight? we re going it tonight as well. but this morning we ll do brotherhood of man. take it away. thank you very much. you see, wally, even though we are all part of the cold corporate set-up, deep down under our skin there is flesh and blood. we re all brothers. some of us are uncles. now you may join the elks, my friend and i may join the shriners and other men may carry cards as members of the diners still others wear a golden key or small greek letter pin but i have learned there s one great club that all of us are in there is a brotherhood of man a benevolent brotherhood of man a noble tie that binds all human hearts and minds into one brotherhood of man your lifelong membership is free keep a-giving each brother all you can oh, aren t you proud to be in that fraternity the great big brotherhood of man no kidding. is there really a brotherhood of man you are a brother a benevolent brotherhood of man oh, yes, oh, yes i know the ties that bind all human hearts and minds into a brotherhood of man oh, yes your lifelong membership is free keep a-giving each brother all you can oh, aren t you proud to be in that fraternity the great big brotherhood of man oh, that noble feeling feels like bells are pealing down with double dealing oh, brother you, you got me me, i got you oh, that noble feeling feels like bells are pealing down with double dealing oh, brother you, you got me me, i got you you your life long membership is free keep a-giving each brother all you can oh, aren t you proud to be in that fraternity the great bigrotherhood of man [ cheers and applause ] daniel radcliffe, john laroquette and the cast of how to succeed in business without really trying. a reminder, the final harry potter film premieres in july. we re back after your local news. 8:56 is your time now. good morning. it s friday, april 22, 2011. this morning, a virginia man is facing several charges after leading police on a chase on i-66 through three counties. police arrested austin griffith on route 29. he is charged with dui and drug possession and eluding police among other charges. a the caps are back, 3-1 in their series against the rangers. game five starts at 3:00 tomorrow right here on nbc 4. 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[ metal dings ] [ male announcer ] capital one bank. the most branches and atms in the dc area. ovie. we still got maryland. what s in your wallet? back now with more of today on a friday morning, april 22, earth day, 2011. a great big crowd out here on rockefeller plaza. i m al roker along with willie geist and savannah guthrie. natalie has made her way to london already for the royal wedding. you look right at home at buckingham palace, nat. reporter: i m hoping they will let me move in. what do you think? actually, i ve got to tell you. this is the most stunning, and i was here last november. it was dreary and gray, but everybody was excited because they announced the engagement. to be here now, a couple months later and see how gorgeous everything is. the weather couldn t be more perfect. al, you said it would continue like this through the wedding day. i m excited to be here. the first to arrive and hang through until the end. almost makes it sound painful. hang through to the end. you can manage somehow. stay strong, natalie. find a way. in just a moment we have been talking about it all morning. pain at the pump. gas prices creeping higher overnight. this morning, dire warnings from experts. we could hit $6 a gallon in the coming months. hard to believe. we ll have the latest on that. also ahead, on today s real estate from california to texas to big sky country in montana we ll show you what you can get for $500,000 these days. it may give you nice ideas about where to relocate. and we know the song sunday, monday, happy days that s not an invitation to sing. but for some of the cast things aren t so happy. they are suing cbs for using their images without paying for them. we ll hear their story. ann is off so savannah has a check of the morning s top stories. indeed. americans around the country facing skyrocketing gas prices as the national average sits at $3.84 a gallon, 99 cents more than last year at this time. mike taibbi is in chicago with the latest. mike, good morning. reporter: good morning, savannah. drivers in the chicago area are paying $4 plus. in most cases plus a lot. at this station it s $4.59.9 unless you want to buy a car wash which on this rainy day in chicago is not likely. president obama said he s ordered the justice department to look into the reasons why the price at the pump is climbing so fast. to say the price of gas is rising hardly tells the story. it s been a day-by-day climb with no relief in sight. i pulled up to the gas station and thought i would need a second mortgage on the house to pay for it. reporter: in fact, six state and the district of columbia are averaging more than $4 for a gallon of regular. every time you go to work, a big chunk of your paycheck is being eaten up. reporter: that s why president obama, in reno, nevada, to talk about the budget, took time out to talk about the impact of gas prices on household budgets and efforts to minimize the pain at the pump. the attorney general is putting together a team whose job it is to root out cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices. reporter: but industry analysts see little relief on the horizontal. it seems the stars are aligned for gasoline prices to climb. reporter: the reason, the weak dollar, unrest in the middle east and increasing demand for oil and energy products in the summer, all leading to the possibility of a gas price surge even beyond today s grimmest predictions. it is really quite possible that you could blow well above $6. reporter: for some drivers the car will be in the garage long before that. now, if you have to drive and you are cruising around for the cheapest price keep an eye on your fuel gauge. aaa is reporting an increased in frustrated drivers who run out of gas. been there. mike taibbi in chicago. thank you. senator john mccain has arrived in the rebel stronghold of bengha benghazi, libya. he was an early supporter of military intervention there. he refers to the opposition as his heroes. john ensign of nevada resigns amid an ongoing ethics probe into his affair with a former staffer. the senate ethics committee has been investigating the issue for the past year and a half. ensign insists he s done nothing wrong. investigators have released new security camera images of a man wanted for questioning in an attempted bombing at a suburban denver mall. it happened on the 12th anniversary of the shooting rampage at nearby columbine high school. police are investigating whether the incident was deliberately planned to coincide with the anniversa anniversary. firefighters in west texas say two huge fires covering 360,000 acres are both 75% contained but they say it will be days before residents of a burned out lakeside community west of ft. worth will be allowed back to inspect their property. a washington state man is now charged with a federal hate crime. 36-year-old kevin harthem was named in a new indictment in spokane. he s accused of placing a bomb along a planned route of a martin luther king parade in january. the bomb was found before it could explode. for you sleepyheads out there an aspiring engineer is hard at work so you can stay lazy. a university of florida student created joe on the go. a robot which serves as an alarm clock, makes your morning coffee and brings it to your bed. that sounds like just what the doctor ordered. let s get a check of the weather from al. no robots. never touched by human hands. let s show you what is going on. severe storms stretching from central texas all the way to southwestern, ohio. and damaging winds and hail and isolated tornados from missouri into indiana. lifting a warm front bringing in moisture. isolated tornados, and rainfall from three to six inches of rain in the next 24 hours, and could be double that in some areas locally over the next 72 hours and beyond. and that s why we have flash flood watches and flood advisories as well, and flood watches and flash flood watching stretching from missouri all the way to western pennsylvania. there is a flood watch out for the panhandle of west virginia. they could get a couple inches out of the system and small creeks and straermds out of the banks there tonight. and here we have scattered showers moving in from the southwest to the northeast this morning and they will move on through. it s chilly under the cloudy sky, and only in the 40s now. and then tomorrow afternoon, as well as sunday afternoon, could get an and that s your latest weather. savannah? al, thanks. this morning on countdown to the royal wedding, one week to go. natalie morales has made her way across the pond to buckingham palace with the latest on the last-minute wedding preparations. good morning. reporter: good morning to you. you know, buckingham palace always looks spectacular but now it s special, so everything is just magnificent. the tulips in full bloom. this time next week william and kate will have been married and will be inside enjoying a reception with about 650 of their closest guests. every little thing being planned to make sure everything is picture perfect. the bunting is up. the flags have been raised. with just one week to go, the finishing touches are all around as london gets ready for the big day and the eyes of the world. at buckingham palace they are sharpening the knives. the tension will ramp up. reporter: and polishing the family silver. double checking, triple checking. reporter: the westminster boys choir is having its final rehearsals. with its young members told not to eat chocolate or drink soda to save their voices. the household cavalry is hard at work, buffing and shining. and those guards with the bearskin hats are rehearsing their steps and making sure uniforms are ship-shape. there is only one standard required for any state ceremonial occasion and that s excellen excellence. we strive to achieve that and we are working hard to make sure we do the job properly on the day. reporter: security is, of course, a major concern and the metropolitan police and scotland yard are taking no chances as they launch one of the biggest security operations in their history, monitoring possible threats from the ground and from the air. people want to come to london to peacefully protest can do, but it is a day of national celebration. if we see anybody engaging in criminal behavior we will act quickly and decisively to deal with it. reporter: the man who will marry william and kate, the archbishop of canterbury is sharing his thoughts. i have been struck by the way in which william and catherine have approached this great event. they have thought through what they want for themselves and also what they want to say. reporter: apparently kate won t say obey following the example set by princess diana 30 years ago. instead, kate will promise to love, comfort, honor and keep prince william. as the countdown continues the princess bride is not withering under the strain. seen around town, shopping perhaps for her honeymoon trousseau. most in london are excited about what will be a day of celebration and joy. i m excited about the royal wedding. i think it will be good. reporter: mother nature is putting on a show with record highs and not a drop of the famous london drizzle in sight. sun, sun, sun here it comes reporter: historically the sun has shown for royal weddings. so let s keep our fingers crossed that that s the case next friday. now, the only weather-related concern is ensuring these gorgeous tulips don t wither before the big day along with me. i feel like i m in rio. i was there last week. the temperature is about the same. beautiful. i bet they have royal tenders for the tulips to make sure they are perfect. reporter: oh, yes, they have been pruning. don t forget, today will be live in london with special reports leading up to the royal wedding. on the big day we ll have complete coverage start at 4:00 a.m. eastern, 1:00 a.m. 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[ male announcer ] chex cereal. five flavors. gluten free. this morning on today s real estate what you can get for $500,000 or less. from a colonial with mountain views to a contemporary in the pacific northwest, barbara corcoran is here with beautiful homes you will want to see. good to see you. good morning. we want to go to bozeman, montana. this is gorgeous. we are talking just under $500,000. it s $499,500. it s a sophisticated college town, two hours north of yellowstone park. this is a big colonial house. almost looks make believe with a wrap around porch on 1.39 acres. but it has a ten-acre park around it and you don t have to pay the taxes. looks like julie andrews should pop off the porch and start singing. that s the living room. it s rustic. i think it s so simple in its design through the house. does it work? it works. come on. you will be comfortable here. we have a shot of the kitchen. unusual with the brick floors. all the appliances are updated. it has the new stuff where you want it, in the appliances. don t drop a glass jar. and i have worked on that. i know it makes your feet tires. this is unusual. i love that room. who couldn t sit there and feel loved and cozy with the fireplace. it works. there is a dining room with lots of sunshine. the wallpaper ought to be taken off. that s too personal. it has extra large windows, the beautiful french door. it lets sunshine in. it s modeled after a revolutionary war house and it looks like it s in that century. let s go to seattle , washington for just under $400,000. the house couldn t be more opposite. seattle is known for great coffee, great rock bands and has lots of tech jobs. this is a youthful, modern house that fits in with the attitude of seattle. it s an eco-friendly design. the exterior is wrapped to collect rain. it s covered in cedar and the floors have radiant heat. that s a big terrace that overlooks the mountains. you can see downtown seattle. a beautiful spot. the living room is sleek and stylish. it s meticulous. like out of a catalog. i love the floors. they are stained dark. the fireplace is nice. a thoroughly modern house. the kitchen is beautiful. it s got oak cabinets and slab counters. it s half bafake, half real and doesn t collect mold which is important in seattle. to mobile, alabama. lots of southern charge. they have had an influx of 5,000 jobs and capitol investments over $1 billion. i love that they took that house at dusk. it looks like a doll house. it s an 1854 house in an historic district. it looks small but it s 4,300 square feet big. those little dishes should be taken off the wall. but it s a great family kitchen. needs a bigger table there. the original details are throughout the house like 12-foot ceilings. that s an office. it s stunning. i haven t seen a better office, again, with its own fireplace. i want to sit there and get my work done. each bedroom has its own fireplace. there s the master bedroom. you can see the lightness in the place. kept the colors light. there is a gorgeous bathroom. everything about the house is gorgeous. i wish we could see that kid s bedroom. there you go. there s a better one. bigger than my living room. let s go to texas. this house is for $480,000. this is a bedroom community just a few minutes from dallas-ft. worth. it s what you would imagine a mansion to be in dallas. $479,900 with five big bedrooms. over 4,300 square feet with a saltwater pool, a porch with outdoor fireplace and your own putting green. there is a sweeping staircase in the formal dining room. look at that. looks like the commander in chief ought to march down that entry way. the living room is bigger than most hotel lobbies. the formal dining room has hand scraped wood floors. when you see the kitchen it looks so important. i can t imagine making a hot dog in there. the master bedroom, if you see it in a minute, there we go. dining room. a king has to sit there. that s where the king sleeps [ al trumpeting ] good to be the king. definitely. good to be barbara corcoran. thank you very much. thanks, al. good to see you. up next, not so happy days. the cast of the beloved sit com takes cbs to court. aye! we ll tell you why after these messages. it s pretty revolutionary. patented, actually. it takes a snapshot of your good driving habits, so you can save money. like a snapshot? 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i m trying to learn it. i have never played this. reporter: there are current items, too. t-shirts and mugs are available at the online store but it was the happy days slot machines that were one jackpot too many. somebody said, boy, you must be cleaning up. reporter: but mrs. c says she hasn t been cleaning up. hello shortcake. reporter: joanie said she s gotten only a few hundred dollars. for rafflph and potzie, nothing. for 37 years, not a statement, not a dime. reporter: not for lunch boxes, t-shirts, games, figurines. not a statement, not a dime. reporter: in a lawsuit filed this week the actors claim they were stiffed out of millions in merchandise money because they allege paramount and now cbs who acquired the rights in 2006 never told them they earned it. they have taken the policy of don t ask, don t pay. you don t ask, we don t pay. i think we figured if they owed us money we d get something. maybe we were naive about how business works. i ve still got it. reporter: cbs acknowledged the actors are owed royalties. they have been working for more than a year to give them their due. in a statement cbs says what s in dispute is the amount of money they are owed. their records claim only around $8,000 each. they are talking thousands owed and you guys are talking millions. big discrepancy. yes. very big discrepancy. obviously their calculator broke. reporter: happy days was one of the most watched shows ever. appointment television on tuesday nights. are you worried at all that the lawsuit may look petty, given how much the show has given you all? petty? they re making money. they re collecting money and we are being cut out. what s petty about that? we worked hard. we deserve what s in the contract. there is nothing petty about that. reporter: cbs said it s open to more mediation but the matriarch of the family fears in the end they will be told to sit on it. does it make you angry? i have such low expectations. reporter: from people? from the business. i m not angry at all. reporter: noticeably absent from the lawsuit are the other big actors, ron howard and henry winkler. the cast said they had different contracts. we re back after your local news and weather. get him too low.ets hil and amy with her arthritis well in hand. they go to walgreens. where their pharmacist not only refills prescriptions but gives advice. immunizations. and health tests. staying on top of your health starts right in your neighborhood. walgreens. there s a way to stay well. starts right in your neighborhood. today we re going to surprise people with the taste of activia. that s good. wow. this is really good. great flavor! it s really creamy, it s really tasty. ooh! wow! jamie lee curtis! it s activia! it s delicious. i am shocked. it s hard to believe it s that good for you. it s so good. try the fabulous taste of activia today. taste it, love it, or it s free! and now discover activia dessert. in rich indulgent flavors like strawberry cheesecake. try activia dessert today. 9:26 is your time now. 47 degrees. another roller coaster day in this spring of april. good morning to you. it s friday, april 22nd, 2011. one lane in both directions will be closed between penn street northeast and florida avenue northeast, beginning on monday. those lanes will remain closed for two years. could be messy out there. cloudy and chilly on this friday morning. good morning. we have temperatures around the region just in the mid-and upper 40s. the radar showing some showers continued to move southwest to northeast, just scattered light showers that stretch from southern maryland into the panhandle of west virginia. the showers will be with us from time the time with highs in the low 50s. maybe a few more light showers tonight. maybe drizzle saturday morning or an afternoon thunder shower on saturday. sunday, dry and hot. over on the capital beltway, the inner loop and outer loop between springfield moving without delay. 270, very light volume. it s the opportunity of a lifetime. tonight on news4 at 5:00, meet the local executive that going to the chapel and we re gonna get married one week to go. the wait nearly over for kate middleton and prince william. for the 2 billion or so folks who will be watching them exchange vows next friday, all week we ll be live in london sharing the last-minute plans and developments. of course we ll cover the wedding live starting at 4:00 a.m. eastern, 1:00 a.m. pacific time on april 29th. going to be exciting. coming up on today, decorating for easter. if you thought the marshmallow chicks were just to stuff the easter baskets, we have crafty ideas on how to use them for fun decorating projects. speaking of arts and crafts we ll check out small scale limited editions from jewelry to art work for the home to add a special something to your sense of style. first, jenna wolfe and amy robach are here with a preview of what s coming up on weekend today. we are counting down to the royal wedding and saluting the veterans of world war ii getting a chance to see the memorial built in their honor. we ll travel with them as they head to d.c. for the very emotional truth. on a different note, reality catfights. yeah! wow. what a turn. made that turn on two wheels. it seems the ladies are always ready to rumble while the guys steer clear of the chaos. is this really how women act? no. then we ll meet the latest lip synching sensation. the teenager whose clips are watched by millions. he s good. we ll introduce you to the young man. those stories and more coming up this weekend on today. from the sublime to the ridiculous. and then there s me. thanks, guys. al, how about the weather? let s see what s happening for easter weekend. tomorrow, easter weekend. tomorrow, rain through new engla england. showers in central california. sunny and warm in the southeast and gulf coast. and then in egg harbor, 75. and heavy rain into texas and on into the mid mississippi river valley. look for rain in the pacific northwest. and that s what is going on around the country, and here s what is happening in your neck cht woods. cloudy and chilly and still in the 40s, and radar showing scattered light showers heading towards the northeast. those showers will be passing through our region from time to time, just light showers maybe a half inch total by the time it tapered off this evening. and then cloudy the rest of the day, maybe an afternoon thunder shower. sunday, hotter and could get an isolated thunderstorm. and that s your latest weather. now a check with our good friend mr. willard scott. hey, uncle willy. oh, the sunshine of florida. here we are at the beautiful carribe royale. i keep moving hotels. they keep throwing me out. we have to get money from nbc to pay the bills. happy birthday from smuckers. take a look as the jam jar spins and we see the beautiful and exciting margaret olsson from marshalltown, iowa. 100 today. had bypass surgery when she was 84. had hip replacement at 92. doctors call her a wonder. god bless her. how about that? we have leonard ashburn of east orange, new jersey. 100 years old. and world war ii vet, attributes longevity to the fact that he believes in the good lord and adores his friends. you can t beat that. e they wi ethel robinson from placerville, california. 100 today. loves to play golf. had ale hole in one not long ago and won a new car. dallas texas s carl hen it is rich, 100 today. had his first primary care physician when he was 98. obama would love him. hilda crabtree of des moines, iowa is 102. lives independently and enjoys playing the piano for friends at the service center. can t beat that. we have beatrice cohen from new york, new york. 100 years old. an avid swimmer and piano player. loves to eat a nathan s hot dog at least once a week. we have chicago, illinois s fritzi eisenberg. owned a fashion boutique and loves giving fashion tips to friends and she is good. carroll and wilma smith, 75 years they have been married. they love each other very much. that simple statement says it all. they take care of their farm. they mow eight acres. that s all from beautiful downtown orlando. now back to little old new york. thank you, willy. up next, unique style finds that are limited editions to help dress up your outfits or your home after these messages. d morning good morning [ male announcer ] there are sixteen fresh-picked oranges squeezed into each carton of tropicana pure premium and absolutely no space for added sugar, water or preservatives. tropicana we put the good in morning. don t suffer waiting for your pills to kick in. add alaway. for fast eye itch relief that works in minutes and lasts up to 12 hours. only alaway comes from bausch & lomb. for fast eye itch relief, add alaway. while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. a loaf of bread, some butter, a packet of hidden valley ranch, and i get what might be the best thing since sliced bread. ranch bread. 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they are an easter favorite. they are cheap, cheap, cheap and we have fun things you and your family can do as we head into easter. i like to leave the peeps out and get a crust on them. if you leave them out a little bit it s easier to deal with them. easier to cut, style and do things. style your peeps. what are we starting with? we are starting with a peep-a-boo cup. you take a white cup and just cut it like a broken egg. you know, just cut out pieces like that. then once you have that, just poke a heel in the bottom, take a chop stick which if you re like me you have tons of these around from takeout. peek it through the cup. okay. that s one way. you need the thing. oh, that s not right. oh, my god. this is working out well. al, watch me. take a peep oh! ah! then tie a ribbon around it. it s easier than you made it look. any 3-year-old can do it. somebody give me a 3-year-old. we have 11-year-olds. now we have knives. you want to leave these out, use a knife to cut them, take melted chocolate and dip them in to make a v-neck sweater. how about a cardigan? fine. put it on waxed paper and let it dry. hopefully you don t get it all over like that, but okay. next you take icing you get at the grocery store and you can make a little bow tie. just draw it on there. simple. then three little buttons and you re good to go. a little tux. if you want to do the full line of them you need a spatula and spread it over the top. it s hard to tip the whole thing in. easy and fun to put around the center piece. a peep bouquet. just take fabric-wrapped florist wire. get it at any florist shop. stick a peep on and put it in a vase we filled with tissue paper. then to make the leaves we just used cutout leaf shapes, a glue gun and glued it on there. fun for the family to do. the peeps come in different colors. colors, shapes, the whole thing. next we have the peeps sun flower. you need an embroidery hoop you can get at a craft store. we took a wooden dowel painted green. you need lots of whoops. sorry. it s not only me. you need lots of glue like a lot of glue. use a hot glue gun, put it in, tighten it, stick it in foam in a pot or we used little enamel pots. stick it in and you will glue gun the peeps around. you can t eat them? some things that are glued you don t. we have had questions about whether or not they last. listen, don t put them outside because they are sugar. this is a disposable craft. peep basket? we took a flower pot, filled it with candy. and a peep wreath. a preath. want to eat some peeps? the other thing is eating them. the one thing you can do is eat them. for the peep wreath, take a wreath form, hot glue gun and glue them around. i think charlie and chloe think they taste good. all right. lots of colors. happy easter. we re back in a moment. first this is today on nbc. this is the sleep number store, a place that changes lives every day. welcome to the sleep number store. a visit here can improve your whole life. as the sleep number setting goes down, the mattress gets softer. that s nice. as the sleep number setting goes up, the bed gets firmer. it s really molding to my body. here, you ll learn how your bed may be causing pain and how the sleep number bed can relieve that pain right in the store. the small of my back was not being supported before. now it is. we have a left and a right so you can each control your individual side. there s no debate, because you can have it your way and i ll have it mine. we save a lot of marriages. wow. they do that a lot. when you find somebody s perfect level of comfort, that may be the first time they ve ever felt a bed that feels exactly like they re hoping it would. hurry in now to the sleep number white sale, for amazing savings through april 30th. and queen mattresses always start at just $699. only at the sleep number store. to us, you re not just a person. you re a number. coming up on today, kathie lee and hoda check out some extreme summer camps. that sounds dangerous. and some lucky ladies from the crowd on the plaza get an instant makeover. first your local news and weather. happy easterer, everybody. sto stop. feeling like winter out there in the 40s. we ll talk to tom about bringing back the spring. 9:56 is the time right now. good morning, i am barbara harrison. police are on the hunt for a gunman in northeast washington. a man was shot this morning along south dakota avenue. crews are cleaning up debris after a huge tree crushed a home in maryland this morning. it was along dewberry street. nobody was hurt in the home. the tree coming down is not weather related. probably a old tree that decided to give it up. here, around our region, light rain and not much wind at all. the patches on blue on radar are showers. we had a few sprinkles in washington. and chilly day, and then tomorrow up around 70 during the afternoon. remaining warm monday and tuesday next week with highs near 80. traffic is quiet out there on the interstates. no construction in sight, and that s good news. northbound lanes on 95 are open. and then between i-95 and 355, wide open. enjoy. coming up, our garden experts here and he s talking hey! you want that? you want a warm, super-delicious strawberry toaster strudel yeah but now i have nothing to eat sure you do. hey! you can have the pop tart! llsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat than listening ere noto our favorite songs. there nothing we love more than listening to our favore song but our favorite thing is eating totino s pizzaolls. but our favoritehing isatg totino s pizolls e re the kids in america oh, oh,h captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. we are so glad you re with us today. it s try day not dry day, friday. we look like two big easter eggs. we do. where is bobbie? i had no idea we were all dressed up in this daffodil yellow. we all got the memo. since it s try day, we are going to try something. we are going to try fried peeps. come on! you know how you can fry everything, oreos and twinkies, they take the peep. they put egg whites, graham cracker crumbs, shredded coconut and drop it in the fryer. clog and artery, at least. do they fry it. i don t like peeps regularly. but this? i love. i would just peel the skin off that. stick it on your thigh. that s delicious. peeps have been around forever, haven t they? they last a long time. doesn t that worry you a little bit, how long they might last in your stomach? what is the shelf life of a peep, 6,000 years? forever. i have two in my fridge that have been there forever. the marshmallow and corn syrup. a lot of that good stuff. i wonder if you ve been wondering about this. why is easter so late this year. i m wondering why spring is so late this year. it never falls before march 22nd, cody s birthday or after april 25th. it s always in the spring, the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. got it? nobody knows what that means. however if the full moon is on the equinox it s after the following full moon. so what happened? so why is it late? we don t know. here is something you re going to like. out there somewhere is a jellybean. you know how sometimes people say they see the virgin mary in a piece of toast? in this case they say tate middleton in a jellybean. i know. it really does sort of look like kate middleton. that s scary. thank you for the split screen. that s going to be auctioned off on ebay. somebody noticed it in a jar of jelly beans. they want to get like $600,000 for it or something. no. that s what they said in the meeting this morning. no, $815. no. no. that did not no. it s not just my eyes that are going, it s my ears, too i gave up on my thighs. still how much are they trying to get for it? $800. that s ridiculous. maybe wills will buy it for her for a wedding present. everyone seems to be it s weird about the wedding. a lot of people are talking about it. a lot of people aren t. a lot of people are talking about the fact why aren t they into it? there is going to be a lot of money spent to cover it, but i ll be curious. i want to see the wedding dress. i want to hear their vows and see their vows. it s always more interesting with the royals after the wedding. you know we are not going to england for the wedding. we ve been banned from that. they ve seen our show and said no thank you. we ll be here in new york in the states with most of you. we are going to be at trump s party. we are going to get dressed in our jammis at 4:00 a.m. because that s when it comes on. we ll be there with a mimosa or bloody mary. little sip of something, as my daddy used to say. we ll watch the royal wedding that way. you know what i was so happy to hear that children are happy about, most happy? it s not about stuff. there were 1,000 kids or maybe 800,000 kids. this was a group of english kids or were they bulgarian. whatever. go on. the number one thing on their list was playing with their friends. parents are always trying to give their kids presents and gifts. the number two, we should point us, is their birthday which means presents. it also is a party and with their friends. lower on the list were computer games, playing with toys and chocolate. i do this with hanna. my mom will give her something, but what she likes is do you want to play in the cloud and that s my big comforter. auntie hoda, can we play in the cloud? the idea of giving someone here is a silly band is like, okay, but the other is much better. my mom is a grandmother and great grandmother to lots of kids. when she would visit her grandchildren, they would go, grandma what did you bring us and she said, i brought you me. you re supposed to be excited about it. kids do want presents. grandma is bringing me her next week. that s my easter present. i love my mother, by the way. cass and i are flying down to florida. i am determined to get rid of this cold. we are going to go down to florida. frank is going off to see cody for the weekend. we are going different directions. we ll meet up again some time sunday evening. nice. it s going to be beautiful in florida. you re going to florida for a totally different purpose. i m going for spiritual reasons. hoda is going for nooky. am i wrong? no. okay. there is a study that shows this. have you ever been in extreme pain? what do you do? whether putting your hand in an ice cold bucket of water. thanks, guys. or whatever. the deal is there is a study that says if you use four-letter words, it s easier to endure the pain than if you just sit there and say golly day and things you say. okay. we are going to have to be will they be able to bleep? cover up your mouth. hold on. one, two, three. mother. you do one. how about this, holy ow! what s the point of this? seriously? everyone has a story now it s starting to hurt. i m taking mine out. you re such a wimp. i m going to tell my friday funny. with your hand in there? morris, an 82-year-old man went to a doctor with his complete physical examination. a month later the doctor saw the man walking happily down the street. on his arm was a gorgeous young woman wearing red stiletto heels. the doctor said you re doing great. he said i m doing exactly what you said to do, get a hot mama and be cheerful. the doctor said i didn t say that. i told you you ve got a heart murmur and be careful. take the cloth. how was that? i ve gotten used to pain in my life, hoda. you develop a tolerance for it. you know what it s time for? bobbie s buzz. bring her up. hello, bobbie. you look like a gorgeous daffodil. it s earth day. in honor of earth day i wanted buzz to go gre. women here in the office are flipping for these thursday/friday bags. you get a canvas carry-all and you can take it to the grocery store. you ll reduce the amount of bags you use. it looks like a purse. yes. you want to reward companies that are sustainable. i m a big fan of whole earth beauty. they are on the show today. they are not only organic ingredients, but packaged well. when we are done with the wine bottles, you can go to recyclebank.com. here is the best part. i want everyone at home to pay attention. if you recycle, they ll reward you with discounts, coupons and gift cards. they ll give you something back for going green. we need to protect the planet. yes, we do. this is the good message today. how much do we love bobbie? a lot. and our crew really loves bobby we won t say anthony. this is a big reveal. all week long we were telling you, etsy.com. we love it. we were looking at all these different things and we are going to judge the winner of the reuse contest. the other judges were martha stewart, lauren bush, ivillage, andy cohen and torri spelling. is she pregnant? a drum roll. do you remember the entries, the jump rope, all those different things. the bracelet i love. the winner is something this one liked. i voted for this. it was the clawfoot bath tub couch. not because i loved it so much but i thought about the impact on the environment. it takes up so much room that the room it would take up in a landfill could be a lot of zippers. jill morrison created that. she is the lucky winner and will win a trip to orlando with three guests four days, three nights at orlando universal parks. if you want to buy that tub, it is pricey. $1,700 big ones. for hoda, that s nothing. who has a claw bathtub. there s an art piece. there are so many people on etsy that do this. etsy likes us now. that s good. it s time for the friday ambush makeovers. feel my hand. it s freezing. you know, each year, olive garden sends over 100 of us to study the art of italian cooking. we learn from master chefs. we visit the local markets. we talk to the artisans. we learn all the little secrets of italian cooking and bring them back to share with you. inspired by italy, our new handmade puff pastries. generously filled with italian cheeses and herbs. try them with sauteed chicken breasts in a creamy garlic sauce or with braised beef in a balsamic demi-glaze. tonight at your olive garden. let s do this. you re a little early! 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no. i wish. that sounds like fun. what did you do today, son? well, i argued and some more arguing. think i won the case. he did the acting camp. around the country, there are hundreds of speciality overnight camps. for aspiring illusionists there is tannon s magic camp in pennsylvania. for rock stars in training there is camp jam. for kids with a need for speed, there is even a flight camp at randolph macon academy in virginia. the american camp association has accredited more than 2,000 camps including the id chain of technical and computer camps. brandon frank has been attending since he was 7. he xcels in sports and art, but the camps let him embrace his technical side. i think i get a lot out of it. i think the instructors are good and they teach us a lot. he learned so much he founded his own app design business with seven apps in the itunes store. back in california, pali adventures camp director says a great camping experience comes down to fun. campers learn best when they are having fun. that s the main focus when a camper comes here, they have to have fun. they will learn by accident almost. those camps were just the tip of the iceberg. kids and their parents can choose specialized camps for extreme sports, the arts. in case you were wondering, there is a journalism camp for budding reporters. i should have gone to one of those. thank you, sara. we ve got tips for parents prepping their kids. nice to see you. these are older kids we saw on this feast. we wonder when the right time is for sleep away camp. sleep away camp around age 8, maybe age 7 if you have a kid ready to go. you have to listen to the signals your child is sending. if you have a child who is separating from you and good on sleep away play dates or visiting relatives, that is a good sign. some kids get upset. there is homesick and something really bad. how do you know the point is, maybe take your kid out? when we are going straight to the call home at the very first week of camp and they say i want to come home, but i think at that point you ve done your research, hopefully met with the director of the camp, hopefully talked about what their policies are about homesickness. a good camp will keep your kid occupied and know how to manage those emotional moments. should you say to your child, you re going to stick this out. this may be hard, but this is part of life learning how to commit to something and stick it out. i think you have to tow a hard line. you have to read that. that is very individual based on your kids. some kids need time. don t sign up just for a week of sleep away camp. give yourself a little time. the first week might be hard for the first time camper. you went to sleep away camp? i did. i remember getting home sick the first day of school, new faces. by the end of the week you think you ll never be able to live without these people, keep in touch for life. you always survive. when frank s first daughter vicki was at camp when shoo he was little she hated it so much. she sent him a letter saying, i m going to jump out the window. he wrote her back and said you re on the first floor. nice piece. thanks for coming to visit us. up next, chef gavin cason. this is the sleep number store, a place that changes lives every day. welcome to the sleep number store. a visit here can improve your whole life. as the sleep number setting goes down, the mattress gets softer. that s nice. as the sleep number setting goes up, the bed gets firmer. it s really molding to my body. here, you ll learn how your bed may be causing pain and how the sleep number bed can relieve that pain right in the store. the small of my back was not being supported before. now it is. we have a left and a right so you can each control your individual side. there s no debate, because you can have it your way and i ll have it mine. we save a lot of marriages. wow. they do that a lot. when you find somebody s perfect level of comfort, that may be the first time they ve ever felt a bed that feels exactly like they re hoping it would. hurry in now to the sleep number white sale, for amazing savings through april 30th. and queen mattresses always start at just $699. only at the sleep number store. to us, you re not just a person. you re a number. now on today we are going to celebrate easter with delicious bruchb ideas. easter sunday is a popular time to gather families and friends for lunch. instead of serving the traditional ham or lambs, gavin casson is here to make a tart. we ll change it up and keep it vegetarian. this is going to be a crimini mushroom chart. we start the pan with olive oil and garlic. we ll roast off the mushrooms. you can use any mushrooms you want for this. these you prefer? i prefer these because i think they are very affordable. i think anybody can get them. that s important. is there any nutritional value to mushrooms? of course there is. it s all about how much do you eat and how much fat you put with the mushroom. but they are not high in calories? no. little pinch of salt. whenever you cook mushrooms, when you add the salt you, have to know it s going to drain the moisture. the water comes out and you have to let the water evaporate. you get this right here. what s happening down here? we ll sweat some shallots, which we ve done and garlic. would you add a quarter of those? i would love to. we d all this cream right here. oh, dear. i didn t say healthy, i said vegetarian. two eggs. then you blend that. we can blend it, if you want. you blend that quickly. that s our custard. we have this tart shell which has not been baked yet. we are going to dock it. we ll take the fork, put that all over it what this does is this helps the dough from rising up when we bake it. another way to stop the rising is we put this piece of parchment paper over and pour these rocks on, rocks, pebbles, marbles, rice. take them off before you serve them or you ll break grandma s molars. this is called the blind bake. take all those mushrooms. put that in the base. the ones you didn t grind up. onions. do you want to grab the fontina cheese? is that what this is? it s nice and prepped for us. you pour it and pop it. pour this mixture over like this. let s head to the eating department. eating and drinking. yes. come on, gavin. sara shows up in time to eat. cut in. what are we drinking? this is the smash and grab. of course it is. that s how she got jay. stop it. you ll ruin my relationship. champagne, lemon, mint, simple syrup and bitters. did you say whiskey? yes. what do you call this? a fontina and crimini tart. we ll have this for easter. next week we have darius rucker. and we ll get you ready for the big royal wedding. happy easter. captions by vitac www.vitac.com when you can have pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits? the warm, light delicate layers are like nothing else. add a layer of excitement to your next meal. 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