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warning residents to get out. we re there live. and gas pain. the national average has hit $4 a gallon according to a survey. but relief could be on the way today, monday, may 9, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. the videos, documents and computers taken from osama bin laden s compound are called the single largest collection of terrorist materials ever seized. they include some of the last known images of the terror leader before he was killed. it could take weeks or months for analysts to look through all of this. but they have already uncovered the names of possible al qaeda operatives. we are going to have more details on that straight ahead. and natalie holloway s mother opens up about her daughter s disappearance in aruba. joran van der sloot has been considered the suspect. she ll talk to him face to face. what did they say? we ll ask her when she joins us for a life interview. on a much lighter note we ll kick off our series called anchors abroad. have you ever wondered what s popular in other countries? we spread out to star on the shows. my assignment the longest running sci-fi series in history, britain s dr. who . the last part there was acting? it was. acting in high heels. well, there s a category for that at the oscars. i m sure. let s begin with a treasure trove of intelligence taken from osama bin laden s pakistani compound. nbc s peter alexander is in islamabad. good morning to you. reporter: matt, good morning. evidence seized from osama bin laden s compound here is, as you described it, the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever fwatherred. enough, they say, to fill a small college library and the u.s. released five videos. they do not have audio. bin laden looks less like the world s most wanted terrorist and a lot more like a prisoner in his own home. they are the late nest a long line of osama bin laden videos but these tapes the u.s. government wants you to see. armed only with a tv remote, a gray-bearded bin laden appears to be an old man watching video of himself, as one person described, reich like an aging . his surroundings are sparse. people say he remained an active leader of al qaeda even as he avoided detection for five years in a military town two hours outside islamabad. president obama believes bin laden had a support network inside pakistan. we don t know if there were people inside government, people outside government. that s something we have to investigate and the pakistani government has to investigate. reporter: new video shows bin laden fumbling his statements, at times looking off camera for direction. we showed the video to a former head of pakistani intelligence who dismissed the clips as meaningless. this doesn t prove anything. it doesn t prove he s still in charge. reporter: is it possible osama bin laden lived in abbottabad for more than five years without the help of anyone within the pakistani intelligence or military? i m certain it is possible. i am absolutely certain that the military or the isi did not provide him advice. reporter: the u.s. wants access to bin laden s three wooifs in pakistani custody. the youngest reportsedly told authorities the family lived here just an hour and a half outside islamabad as early as 2003. this is a rural farming village, a place where villagers say everyone knows one another and say it s impossible a 6 4 foreigner, a man with a large family and a familiar face like osama bin laden could have hidden here. [ speaking in a foreign language ] reporter: no one would dare give him shelter, this man explains. they are still suspicious, with many unconvinced bin laden was killed. this afternoon, pakistan s prime minister is expected to make the first official statement about last week s events in a speech before parliament. meredith? thank you very much. what else is being gathered from the huge cache of intelligence? jim miklaszewski has more on that. good morning. reporter: good morning. what u.s. intelligence is looking for is names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails. anything that could potentially help head off future terrorist attacks. but what analysts found already is that osama bin laden was more in charge than anyone had thought. despite the video of an aginging bin laden fumblinging with inii remote appearing out of touch, raids on the compound show bin laden was calling the shots still for al qaeda. if he was so out of touch, how did he survive so long, so close to pakistan s capital and a military academy? the immediate focus is on al qaeda secrets which provide chilling details. the intelligence shows bin laden was intent on killing americans in large numbers. documents showen planning for attacks on moving trains out of new york, washington, d.c., and los angeles, aimed at producinging mass casualties. the top priority in searching the thousands of documents is to determine if any terrorist attacks are imminent anywhere. hopefully it will lead to the breaking up of plots that may have been imminent. it will lead to their operatives. it will lead us to people in other countries who may have been supportive. reporter: we already have the names of possible al qaeda operatives who are now on watch lists to keep them off planes and alert enforcement. they are also looking for the money trail, the names of financial supporters, bankers and bank account numbers to help dry up al qaeda s funding. most importantly it s the unknown that may knock al qaeda back on its heels. without knowing what information is now in the hands of the americans, every al qaeda operative may fear he s the next target. they will be afraid to take calls from the network, afraid to meet people and many of them will be wrapped up by saudi intelligence, pak intelligence, u.s. cia. some may get visits from navy s.e.a.l.s. reporter: the tense relationship between the u.s. and pakistan could be tested this week. the pakistani government is questioning osama bin laden s three wives. the u.s. wants in on the interrogations and has asked to do so. so far, the pakistanis have refused. jim miklaszewski, thank you for very much. . good morning to you both. good morning. let s start with five videos of bin laden released over the weekend. when you watch, what does it tell you about bin laden and why would the administration release those in particular? they are trying to show, one, that bin laden is still in control annual a major player and at the same time trying to diminish him as an old man, trying to look young and in control. there are conflicting messages. why would they want to send those messages? if you look at 2006 when zarkawi had an image of him with a gun, you want to demystify the image that bin laden created for himself. the problem is we don t have audio. it would be more impactful if we had the audio that goes world trade center clips. meanwhile there was a drone attacking yemen targeting anwar al awlaki. do you think there is a connection between that attack and what was found in bin laden s compound? probably not, but we ll learn more about connectivity as we go through information picked up in the raid. i think operations in yemen were ongoing before that. in the future we could see connectivity, but that was before. there are communications between al qaeda central and the franchises of al qaeda and yemen. we have every reason to believe that al qaeda and the arabian peninsula operates on their own. when they make decisions that s their business. i believe al awlaki has been a target for years regardless of what happened in pakistan. when al zawahiri says taking bin laden is like taking a grape from a bunch of grapes, there is truth to that? we had a 9/11 hi jacker in his will say it doesn t matter if osama bin laden is killed or captured. we are all osama bin laden. al qaeda will be there tomorrow. what about bin laden s widows that the u.s. is trying to gain access to. what does it say that they are denying access? i think pakistan wants all the information from those women first and there is nothinging that says they were involved. the interrogators would verify what they were saying and there is potentially great information they have. there have been eyewitnesss to this. they have been with bin laden for the next six years. they have seen people that come in and out of the compound. even if they hadn t had deep discussions with their husband, they have seen things. they have observed things. they witnessed things that could be valuable to u.s. investigators. pakistani media reported a name they think is the cia chief in islamabad but they say the name is incorrect. are we looking at back it is lash now? it s retaliation. pakistan is upset about what happened here. the military and intelligence apparatus is upset. this is their way of getting revenge. you wonder why are they obsessed with getting revenge against the u.s.? shouldn t they be interested in cleaning house given the intelligence failure? they have been hue mill yated humiliated at home. they are in a terrible situation, thrashing about, looking for ways to re-establish credibility. if there is a lack of trust between the u.s. and pakistan, what s the relationship going to be going forward? we need each other in that part of the world. it will be difficult. we have to find a way to work together and they will have opportunities to rebuild the trust with these people they have and other ways when we get operational they have to step up. it fends on what intelligence is picked up from the compound. if there is information in the compound suggesting that senior intelligence officials or military officials in pakistan knew about bin laden s presence and were aware of t it and perhaps aided in it, well, that s going to lead to very serious questions between the relationship between pakistan and the united states. evan cole man and michael sheeh sheehan, thank you very much. here at home, rising flood waters along the banks of the mississippi have thousands of homeowners headed for higher ground today. memphis bracing for possible record flooding. janet shamlian is there. good morning. reporter: matt, good morning. the engorged mississippi river is now lapping at the streets of downtown memphis including here on beal street, a place it hasn t been in almost a century. these are muddy, leech-infested waters that have swallowed neighborhoods all around here and the water is still rising. with the mighty mississippi swallowing more of memphis by the hour, emergency workers are going door to door, urging hold-outs to quickly gather what s important and bussing them to higher ground and safety. had to get my medicines together. come on, sir. we got to go. reporter: places like the hope presbyterian church for people who left their home. you see the heartbreak in their faces and it s out of their hands. there s nothing they can do about it. reporter: on sunday the engorged river drew spectators who could only watch and wonder as flood waters crept closer to record levels. roughly 48 feet, just inches below a record set in 1937. it s just overwhelming to see it so high. interesting. hopefully it won t get much worse. reporter: it may do just that. with the crest now coming sooner than originally predicted the army corps of engineers deployed more than 150 engineers to check the levees and pump stations. in one second that water that s behind us now would fill up a football field 44 feet deep, in one second. reporter: while workers place sandbags as jay gray learned, in some spots it s too late. i m in an area that s normally a playground for kids at a school. it is now literally part of the river. behind me you can see a row of houses. you can t see that they have a lower level. it s been swallowed by the water here. reporter: forecasters say it could take weeks for water to recede in memphis and in vicksburg, mississippi, the predictions are dire. two sisterers who survived the 1927 flood that left 700,000 homeless are in their 90s now and facing yet another historic flood. there s nothing we can do about it. the crest is now predicted for as early as tonight or tomorrow morning. some 3,000 homes and businesses in memphis andle shelby county are considered the danger zone. and south of here, vicksburg, mississippi are in line next and businesseses and casinos are starting to close. back to you. we ll keep our fingers crossed for people on the mississippi. tough time. now a check of the top stories. ann curry back from pakistan and at the news desk. good morning. on mother s day, two planes were diverted. a delta plane was forced to land after a note was found in the bathroom with the word bomb on it. aboard couldn boarboar boarboar person tried to open a door on the plane. the plane was landed in st. louis. the incident is under investigation. tensions are on the rise across the middle east today. in syria, human rights groups say government forces are going door to door, detaining hundreds of people expected of organizing protests. a 12-year-old boy was killed in the military crackdown and a child as young as 10 was arrested. in libya as fighting rages, residents of misrata and tripoli are facing food shortages. mandy drury is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning. we are not seeing relief at the pump yet. gas prices have on average hit $4 a gallon nationally. many places around the nation are well above that price and it looks like commodity prices such as oil, gold and silver are starting on a strong note. if you have an ipad or iphone, apple has overtaken google as the world s most valuable brand. that s interesting. thank you so much. a new study may prove that autism is more common than previously thought. south korean researchers studied the population as a whole and determined the number of children with autism, they have uncovered a higher percentage than previous studies that looked at children with high risk factors. and two stranded pilot whales were among 20 whales that beached themselves last thursday in the florida keys. at least 13 of the whales die. the rest are being rehabilitated and freed. they are beautiful. let s go back to matt, meredith and al this morning. thank you very much. i feel guilty to say we had a stunning weekend in new york. all along the mississippi those people are in bad shape. that s right. we re talking about theg time. we re also talking about the heat. we skipped spring and have gone right to summer. big strong upper level high pressure ridge is going to really send those temperatures soaring. above normal temperatures, anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees above normal. del rio, texas, 100, new orleans 89, 90 in little rock, 89 in kansas city. albany, georgia, will see a high of 93 degrees today. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the here it s cool under a clear sky, down into the low to mid-50s in washington nearby suburbs, 40s in some of the rural areas of maryland and virginia. later today we should make it into the mid-70s with lots of sun. more of the same on tuesday and wednesday. then on thursday, more clouds around, highs low 70s. mostly cloudy on friday and into the weekend there is an increased chance of some rain it looks like for saturday and sunday. mornin and that s your latest weather. meredith? al, thank you very much. it s taken almost three years but jury selection is set to begin for the murder trial of casey anthony, the florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee. kerry sanders is in clearwater, florida, with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, meredith. the big issue in a high profile case like this is usually finding an impartial jury, but there is a double whamy here. the 12 jurors and eight alternates will have to move about two hours away to orlando where they will be squeserred for up to two months. the challenge for the judge is finding citizens who can give up that much time. 25-year-old casey anthony is accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. while it is a civic duty to serve if picked the trial will last up to eight weeks and court week. jurors will be chosen from one city but will have to move to a hotel in orlando. they will leave their jobs. a juror gets $15 a day for the first three days and then $30 a day until the trial ends. kendall coffey. because this is a high profile case there could be people already with their mind made up that sneak on the jury because they figure they could be the person to write a book about the case some day. reporter: casey is accused of killing her daughter caylee, motivated, prosecutors say, to free herself from the duties of being a single motherer. there are dozens of photos of casey partying while her daughter was missing. they will hear it took 31 days before casey said she didn t know where her daughter was. first there was a story of a supposed nanny that had taken off with caylee, but police always focused on the chief suspect, casey. they charged her with murder and then caylee sle skeletal remains were found in the woods a five-minute walk from her home. while it was ruled a homicide, there is a catch. they couldn t figure out how she died. the manner of death is homicide. the cause of death will be homicide by undetermined means. reporter: prosecutors say they have scientific evidence, tests that show casey s car had the smell of death, a single strand of hair from caylee in the trunk they say proves she was already dead. in all more than 2500 pages of evidence. the defense says they have experts to discredit the prosecution s conclusions. i think the challenge lies with the state. they are the ones who have the challenge to establish that this is science. reporter: usually when jurors are picked for a case they know who the jurors are and who the alternates are. in this case the judge won t tell the 20 chosen who s going to do the deliberations until the case is presented and t deliberations begin. they will decide whether she s giuilty or not and then they wil recommend death or life in prison. meredith? kerry sanders, thank you very much. coming up, new details in the disappearance of natalee holloway. what did her mother say to the prime suspect when she talked to him behind bars? beth holloway speaks out in a life interview. first, this is today on nbc. just ahead, the country s youngest congressman shows off his 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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? tonight on news 4 at 5:00, cupcake wars at a local college. students put four bakeries to the test. we ll find out who earns bragging rights. plus starbucks versus mcdonald s. you may be surprised to find out how the two stack up when it comes to counting calories tonight at 5:00. good morning. right now clear and cool. we re in the 50s and 40s around the region. later today into the mid-70s, lots of sun. more of the same tuesday and wednesday. thursday and friday, more clouds around. could get some rain other the weekend. highs near 70. jerry, how s traffic? for the most part we re doing fairly well, some heavy traffic, but the good news is there are no major accidents to impede the flow. 395 headed through landmark, 270 looking good most of the way on down. thanks very much. we ll have another news 7:30 now on this monday morning the 9th of may, 2011. as we check out the view of manhattan from the top of the rock on a perfect morning in the northeast. i m meredith vieira alongside matt lauer. just ahead, new details in the six-year-old disappearance of natalee holloway. the prime suspect, johannes van der sloot, is awaiting trial on a separate murder case and holloway s mother beth met with him face to face behind bars. we ll talk to her about the meeting exclusively ahead. also ahead on a different note, our special series anchors abroad. we decided to look at what s hot on television in other parts of the world. meredith gets started with her star turn on dr. who. plus you have heard of the capital beltway. we get ready to meet washington s washboard. why is he bearing his stomach on the cover of a fitness magazine? and a big announcement on the future of this show. let us begin with the disappearance of natalee holloway. we ll speak to her mother beth in a couple of minutes. first, michelle kosinski has the latest on the case. good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. it s hard to believe nearly six years later the natalee holloway case is just as convoluted, strange and cold as ever. the prechief prosecutor says th are no new leads. nataliegna natalee holloway s mother is trying to get to the bottom of it. when investigators couldn t get van der sloot to talk beth holloway thought she had one choice to try herself. she took a camera crew into the jail and confronted him face to face. that s been beth from the beginning. i will pursue it with every ounce of energy that i have and i m not going to stop. reporter: it was 2005 on this tiny tropical island. natalee holloway and classmates were celebrating graduation, a bright future, spent the night at a popular bar where. all three men were arrested and released. never charged with a crime. six years later not a strand of hair or piece of clothing has ever been found. the focus has come to rest on van der sloot who said he left van der sloot asleep on a beach. he kept talking publically and each time the story changes. a renewed real hope of finally solving the case came last year when authorities said vander sloot offered to tell beth holloway s attorney where to find natalie s remains in exchange for a quarter million dollars but the information was bogus. they indicted him for extortion in the u.s. another almost unbelievable twist van der sloot arrested in peru, accused of murdering student stephanie flores whom he met at a casino on the anniversary of natalee s disappearance. he told investigators he was willing to tell them everything he knew. so far, nothing. anything pertaining to the case i m not going to talk about. reporter: if he or anyone thinks beth will give up the search for her daughter he s only fooling himself. it s strikinging how often people ask about the case and talk about it. lifetime will run a movie followed by the first part of a new series called vanished with beth holloway in which she highlights other families cases. beth, it s nice to see you. good morning. good morning, matt. i was reading up on the story and it occurred to me it was mother s day. for six years you have had to go through mother s days without knowing what happened. are you any closer to understanding what happened than you were six years ago? i m not sure if i m closer to understanding what happened. i feel now i have a sense of accomplishment and with that being said, joran is in prison where he belongs. for me, to go there and visit him was something that it was right for me to do. can i ask you about that visit? you went down there and we know he s in prison for other reasons. it is my understanding you went there without even telling your own attorney which was a bold move. were you concerned it could backfire? no, i wasn t, matt. i don t think i had that thought process. for me i knew it was the right thing to do. i wouldn t go back and change anything that i did. i went there to give joran information, to remind him that i m still here. with that said it let me focus on what i can do. i have been fuzzy over the years about how you accomplished that visit exactly. i would imagine if you were to have signed in as a guest, joran van der sloot would have said, i don t want to speak to beth holloway. how did you get inside what is a maximum security prison? i went through the proper protocol. i turned in my cell phone, gave them my passport and did it like everyone else. you talked about giving him information. i have seen the video. can you describe what it was like to look him in the eye? of course it s hard when you are looking at your loved one s perpetrator face to face, eyes to eyes. for me it was the right thing to do. i wouldn t change anything and remind him that i m still here. from all i have read about joran van der sloot over six years it occurs to me he s a pathological liar. did you have hope of hearing any shred of the truth from him? i didn t go there to get information. i went there to give him information, remind him i m still here and i will always be here. this extortion case against him has been well reported he was seeking some $250,000 from your family in exchange for information about what happened to natalee. it s been widely reported that he eventually got $25,000 and it turned out to be a hoax. it was another lie from him. was it worth going through the process? i know the fbi tracked the payments. oh, absolutely. parents that have a missing murderered loved one will do anything to get a resolution. so there is nothing that i would not have done. when you heard he had gone from aruba to peru and we heard about the murder of stephanie flores what was your reaction? how could we connect the two? we were heavily communicating with joran leading up to stephanie s death. it was disbelief that he could commit such a heinous act. pending trial on that. when you heard what he s said he did to stephanie flores, in some ways did it seal the deal? did you no longer have doubts about what happened with natalee? absolutely. when i learned of the ferocity in which he murdered stephanie, that really validated for me how natalee met her death at the hands of the same killer. as michelle mentioned in the piece there are tv shows coming up now. a movie an a show where you talk about people who have been missing. do you think you can do some good in this, use your pain to help others? absolutely. that s why i m here this morning. with joran in prison i am able now to focus on vanished which is so americans can see missing persons cases are practically an epidemic. i have been able to focus on the natalee holloway resource center for families. able to focus on mayday 360.com which is for all travelers. beth, nice to see you. i wish we could have better news. thank you very much. good to see you. it s 7:38 and we ll be back later on. tracy pollen who portrays you in the new movie. on. tracy pollen who portrays you in this new movie. first let s get a check of the weather from al. and let s look at the week ahead and see what we ve got cooking for you in your part of the country. below normal temperatures new england, out west below normal with rainy conditions in the plains. way above normal in the midsection of the country. by midweek that moves east, above normal temperatures out west with rain along the pacific northwest coast and then the latter part of the week below normal temperatures midsection of the country, wet from the southeast all the way on up into western new york. above normal temperatures out west through the plains and the rockies. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. a fresh and cool spring morning under way around our region. right now bright sunshine. we re in the mid-50s in washington and near the chesapeake bay but inland it s just near 50 degrees. and temperatures later today throughout the entire region should reach the low to mid-70s, lots of sunshine. more of the same on tuesday and wednesday. and then into thursday and friday, both of those days a lot of cloudiness around with highs in the low 70s. over the weekend, if you want to keep track of your weather all day [ laughter ] if you want to keep track of your weather all day long go to weather channel on cable or weather.com online. matt? 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(announcer) it s more than just that great peanut taste, choosing jif is a simple way to show someone how much you care. choosey moms, choose jif. so before we went to commercial we said we d be back with a big announcement about the future of the show. are we throwing another wedding? are we doing that again? how many more royals can we marry off? no, no. this is a difficult day for me. i m going to try to hold myself together here. but after months of personal reflection and private conversations with my family and friends i have decided to leave today in june. even as i say this and i know that it is the right thing i m really sad because for the past i like to say ten years but it s only been five this has been my second home. i look at you and the folks at home who don t get to see the wonderful men and women of the crew and everyone in the control room and across the street that bring the best show on television to the morning every day. i m humbled at what a great experience it s been for me. i have had a great time, but time is one of those weird things you can never get enough of and i want to spend more of mine with my husband richard and my kids who are now rolling their eyes going, no more time, mom! but i m going to do it anyway. it means that i can t be here every day. i hope to stay in the nbc family. that s my goal. but it won t be sitting at the couch every day. it was september 2006 when i sat down next to matt at the anchor desk and i realized he was going to be really annoying. you said something to me that morning get out. i think i said, are you wearing that? i was so nervous and you said, remember, this is not a sprint. it s a long distance run. i have tried to run it with my heart and soul and i pass the baton to someone i know who will do great. there are a lot of things i would like to say about meredith and her decision. but suffice it to say that i think we all feel blessed to have had these last five or six years with you. you should know at home that meredith is universally adored here at today, not just by those of us on the couch but all the people behind the scenes. she s brought class and dignity and talent and a joy of life to this show over the last five years. we will miss you like crazy. but we are going to have a little time at least. we have a few weeks to torment you i mean pay tribute to you and we ll do a lot of that. transitions on this show don t happen often. they are rare. so when they do we try to accomplish them with ease and make them seamless but bring new talent and energy and a new perspective to the show. as we are sad to say good-bye to meredith, we are thrilled that ann curry will be taking the a step from this cushion, leaping over here and coming over to this cushion. ann has been such a key member of the show for more than 15 years, has brought her warmth and her desire to tell important stories to today. i know you will continue to do that. congratulations. so sweet. you know, i feel like the high school computer nerd who was just asked to the prom by the quarterback of the football team. you re just the best. i m so excited to work with you, but i have to say i think this day is really meredith s. i just want you to know that you have been a gift to this broadcast. you have been generous and you have been a great girlfriend. and i know that i have said this to you and i need to say it publically which is to say if i could choose, you would not go. you would stay here and let us wake up with you every morning not literally, but you know. i have this sort of i m trying to resist the urge but it s true that i have big shoes to fill. i know you like your shoes and you tonight want people to think you have big feet, but it s true. we have all felt the great joy of having you here. you re right. he s not easy to work with. annoying. no, no. he s the best. really the best. just to be in your company and be able to wake up i know i will get to laugh more because of you and because of you, al. so i m really so grateful that you have extended yourself to me. i think the other part of the good news this morning is we also get to keep it in the family, as it were and announce that natalie will be taking my job. all right. you have been so great. you have been here for five years, have been a correspondent for us and you have been co-hosting the 9:00 with us. it will be great to have you. we ll continue the girlfriend part and also make sure you have to hang out with us. i ll be here. i m going to be out there with lenny. he s going, oh, no! and i ll be drinking. anything could happen. more. yeah. and they are telling me, yes, we are also having another wedding. we are doing the wedding again. i don t know about that. anyway, a lot to get to over the next several weeks and we ll have some fun and share memories as well. we will be back right after this. losing weight clicked for me when i lost weight right away. that weight tracker continued to go down and down and down. weight watchers online has some great tools. i just love the chinese buffet cheat sheet if you like the chicken and vegetables you can put a little serving here and you actually make your plate. it just blows my mind to even think i ve lost 100 pounds and i have weight watchers online to thank. the fun, funkier me has come out to play. 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[ female announcer ] kellogg s fiber plus cereal. positively delicious. good morning. it s 7:56 on this monday, the 9th day of may. i m joe krebs. in the news for today a permanent reminder of the 9/11 attacks will be placed at ft. mcnair today. the u.s. military will dedicate an 800-pound block of limestone rubble left from the attack on the pentagon. it will honor the armed services members who responded to the scene that day. d.c. police there s a chance more suspicious letters may turn up at district schools or mail facilities today. 39 letters laced with a harmless white powder turned uf last week. we ll take a break, come back and look at weather and good morning. sunny now in the 50s. later today into the mid-70s. lots of sunshine. more of the same tuesday and wednesday. thursday and friday, more clouds. the outer loop of the beltway still slow new hampshire to georgia avenue. over on 95 and 395, minimal delays. travel lanes are open all the way to the 14th street bridge. thanks very much. now ba 8:00 now on a monday morning. it s the 9th day of may, 2011. we have stepped outside to soak up a little of the sun. a great crowd of people has gathered on the plaza on this nice morning. you know, it doesn t take long for transitions around here. i m matt lauer along with al roker and meredith has already taken up her spot in the crowd with lenny. never too early. you can come back on our side of the barricade. this is nice. how you doing, len? all right? looking forward to having the company out here? coming up, we have the situation, all the talk about his abs on jersey shore, move over. we ll look at the youngest member of congress, aaron schock. the congressman is posing on the cover of men s health magazine showing off his six-pack for a good reason. he d like to challenge you at home to get in better shape and get healthier. the congressman will join us to talk about it in a couple of minutes. also, do you have what it takes to act? this morning we are kicking off a special series called anchors abroad where we traveled the globe to make surprise cameos on some of the biggest international tv shows. coming up, i will start with a role on britain s longest running sci-fi show of all time. on a different note we catch up with david goldman, the new jersey father who fought for five years to bring his son home from brazil. is the custody fight finally over for good? he ll tell us about it. lots to get to. let s go inside to ann at the news desk with the headlines. all right. bring meredith inside the barricades. thanks, matt, al and meredith. once again, the u.s. is pressuring pakistan to let american investigators question three of osama bin laden s widows who are in custody there. meantime officials say evidence seized from bin laden s compound last week shows he was still calling the shots for al qaeda. the president president obama has revealed that the odds are slightly better than 50/50 that bin laden would be in the compound when he gave the go ahead for last week s military strike that killed him. evacuation order centers are filling up. officials went door to door in memphis sunday urginging hundreds of people to leave their homes. the river is expected to crest within inches of record highs today as it flows through tennessee, mississippi and louisiana. a woman s amazing story of survival may hold the key to finding her husband. the canadian couple disappeared when they got stuck and lost in the mud on a remote road seven weeks ago. george lewis now with the story. reporter: it started as a mystery. on march 19, albert and rita crechin vanished heading to a las vegas trade show from their home in british columbia, canada. these surveillance photos in oregon are the last pictures of them. their van ended up 400 miles away south of the idaho border. our understanding is they took a few wrong turns. they wanted to take a scenic route. reporter: it got them stuck in the mud. three days later, albert, 58 years old, left on foot with a gps device similar to this one looking for help. rita remained with the van rationing what food she had. she ate snow and made the best use of her surroundings to replenish her fluids and obtain some calories with hard candy, maybe beef jerky. reporter: after 49 days rita spotted hunters and flagged them down. she had survived the odds. now making what doctors call a remarkable recovery she spent mother s day surrounded by her family. we prayed for a miracle. reporter: now their prayers are to find rita s husband alive. the search for him was halted because of bad weather. searchers hope to resume looking for him this morning. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. and it looks like a remote controlled toy come to life. the largest un-manned helicopter ever built in china made a successful test flight. china says it will be used for surveillance and scientific exploration. time to go to al for a check of the weather. to al for a check of the weather. today s weather is brought to you by miracle gro garden soil. start right, finish big. and we ve got a high school group. where are you guys from? 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you don t get those results without time and effort. how diligent are you? i have a crazy schedule as a member of congress, both in d.c. and back in illinois. to get in my workout i get up around 5:30 in the morning, get to the gym to do an hour or two of a workout. a lot of working out. really careful about what you eat though you are on the banquet circuit from time to time. this is a sensible combinatio exactly. it doesn t have to be drudgery. i cheat once in a while and have a scoop of ice cream, you know, a piece of pizza. but it s about choosing healthy things. when i m at a banquet table i don t grab the bread basket. eat the vegetables, ask for a side of fruit. little things. david, let s bring you in. that s what s going to help other people. this is nothing dramatic. he didn t go around and change his life overnight. little steps. that s the idea behind the summer challenge. basically if you canni inget fir summer you can stay fit for life. to aaron s point, the centers for disease control estimates 80% of the dollars spent on health care could be saved if we just exercised and ate right. this time issue, you talk about how busy you are. the number one reason people give for not working out or being careful about what they eat is time, being rushed. how do you propose people get around it. you have to schedule your day. you can always fit in fitness. the fact that he s working out helps him to work so hard. you have to make a lot of small choices. you have to basically make smart choices throughout the day, get the healthy foods into your diet which crowds out the junk. congressman, we ll ask people to start this and we ll do a progress report mid-summer and come back and check on people. exactly. they can go to today.com or men s health or women s health to sign up. we have healthy eating tips and a workout regimen. we ll stick with them. what do you think people can lose? how much could they lose between now and labor day? it depends on what their size is now. if they cut back on carbs, have a healthy regimen, 10 or 20 pounds. for me it wasn t losing a ton of weight. i have a lot of meetings, i have to speak a lot and i notice a huge difference when i work out in the morning and when i don t with how productive i am throughout the day. being told to ask, are you single? people down stairs are curious about it apparently. yes. simple answer to a weird question. congressman aaron schock, thank you very much. david, as always, good to see you. learn more about the fit for summer fit for life challenge at our website, today.com. up next, meredith shows off her acting skills on britain s longest running and most successful sci-fi show ever. find out how it went after this. we are fed up with being fed on. we demand k9 advantix ii. it not only kills fleas and ticks, it repels most ticks before they can attach and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn t repel. any tick that isn t repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. so let s put our paws down in protest. no fetching, no friendship till we all get k9 advantix ii. join us at poochprotest.com. 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(announcer) some use hydrogenated oil. reddi-wip s uses real dairy cream. nothing s more real than reddi-wip. we are back now at 8:17 and we are kicking off a special series we are calling anchors abroad. after this morning s announcement we should call it anchors aweigh. we traveled over seas to star in some of the world s hottest tv shows and meredith is first up. all right. dr. who has been on in england for nearly 50 years. it takes british people to the ends of the universe and i have always wondered what s out there. thanks to this assignment i got a chance to find out. reporter: in wales, people are used to seeing strange sights, like alien physicians makinging house calls, cyber men patrolling the streets or roman soldiers using cell phones. it comes from an unassuming sound stage that doubles as the head quarter for a time traveller known as the doctor. for years he s been exploring the universe and saving the world. just remember who s standing in your way. reporter: no one knows how old the doctor is, but he s changed his appearance at least 11 times. i m the doctor. reporter: the bbc broadcast his adventures on dr. who since 1963. in these parts and beyond, the doctor has turned into a legend. millions of self-described whovians follow his every missouri. lucky in nrkingenues join him a got a chance to be his travel buddy. they travel through space in a police box. what do you think it takes to be a good time traveller? you have to have a pair of louis vuitton shoes. i see you re wearing a pair. i have a pair myself. so you re already set, i would say. reporter: if you get motion sickness, is this the thing to do? it s not like flying in a plane or driving in a car. very smooth. you re not even aware that you re moving. sometimes he has a bumpy landing. reporter: when you get in this tardiff, do you know where you are going? sometimes we think we do and we end up somewhere different. recently we ended up in the oval office in 1969 and we weren t expecting that. reporter: where were you expecting to go? i don t know. not there. i think it was acapulcacapulco. reporter: who s a better driver? i don t get distracted like he does. reporter: easily distracted? yeah, yeah. reporter: i learn a lot about the doctor by the time i meet him. you re famous in america. reporter: he had already heard of me and matt lauer as well. you re the smart one apparently. reporter: but i have more reconnaissance work to do before headed to space. so we are inside. we are. reporter: tell me how it works. this is the engine. this is where we fly it. reporter: this is how you fly it? yeah. you can pull that back. reporter: the doctor shows me tools like the sonic screwdriver which can unlock any alien technology and the stranger parts of his travel machine. oh, that s ketchup. reporter: what? like ketchup on yeah, a burger. reporter: what make as great time traveller? you have to be a risk taker, encourage ambition, a lack of fear. do you think i have what it takes? absolutely not. nowhere near. really? it s a tough truth. not even a little bit? maybe you will be the first american companion. you re saying that now? i ll send you an e-mail. that s like the check is in the mail. though the doctor doesn t think i m ready to be a travel companion his flight director has another role for me to play. i want to be a time traveller but i can be an alien. well, it s full. but don t panic. we have a role picked out for you news reader. news reader? anchor person. do you think that s what i do. there you go. you see? i have your part here. is that a page? a couple of lines. crowds lined the mall today as holy roman emperor winston churchill returned on his personal mammoth. that was fantastic. should i do it with a british accent? crowds lined the we ll stick with your american tongue. more believable. all right. just what we re after really. i fulfill my duty without a hitch. happy, meredith? very happy. are you sure you don t want the british accent? i m happy with your native american tongue. crowds lined the mall today lined the mall as the holy roman emperor winston churchill returned to senate on his personal mammoth. brilliant. thank you, meredith. absolutely top work. i won t be thwarted. i will complete my mission and take it for an intergalactic joyride. look, i want to try this. please let me try before those guys come back. if i ever make it back, i owe you big. okay. i m not sure where i m headed but if it s anything like the doctor s destinations it can only be one of the most dangerous, most exciting, most thrilling places in the universe. oh, what is going meredith s here. this is not what i had in mind. get in here. you re in our world now, missy. where is she going? talk about depressing. you go all the way and that s where you end up with kathie lee and hoda. oh! ouch! that s a long way to go for that. it really is. but you re in it? you re going to be on television in britain? you saw me. at the news desk. cool though. yeah. i really thought i would have something more the most popular sci-fi show in britain. it s a gig. i should not complain. did you guys know the show? oh, sure. i didn t know it before we went there. it s really an unassuminging sound stage compared to what you would find in l.a. it s modest but they produce a show people adore. wow. creeping, creeping. keep going. it s because i have on the high heels. it s hard to creep in high heels. i would like to see you do that, matt. i want to give a special thanks to the bbc cast and crew who put it together and new episodes of dr. who including me will air in the u.s. at the same time they air in england. catch it on bbc america at 9:00 p.m., 8:00 central time. okay. cool. you guys are off traveling later in the week. we are. we ll look forward to it. up next, chelsea handler is live in studio. our studio, but firs local news and weather. 8:26 is your time now. good morning, i m eun yang. in the news, georgetown university has issued an alert. police say three men broke into a house along s street early saturday morning. one of them had a gun. they tied up the people inside and stole lap tops and other electronics. weather and traffic are next but first here s what we re working on at 5:00. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, cupcake wars at a local college. students put four bakeries to the test. we ll find out who earns bragging rights. plus starbucks versus tonight at 5:00. good morning. blue sky, bright sun, temperatures near 60. later today mid-70s. more of the same tuesday and wednesday. thursday and friday more clouds around. over the weekend, a likelihood of rain saturday and sunday, highs near 70. problem with an accident inside the beltway arlington boulevard west of carlin springs road blocked off both directions momentarily. kenilworth avenue very heavy as you head in through northeast but a broken down car has been cleared. 8:30 now on this monday morning, the 9th day of may, 2011. perfect day for site sightseeing in new york. just ahead david goldman finally brought his son home from brazil a year and a half ago. that was after some five years of fighting to get him back. what is their life like now? how is sean adjusting? david s written a book and is here to tell us about it coming up. also, we have chelsea handler here, the late night talk show host is a notorious practical joker. amazing she has any friends or co-workers left. she s written a new book about her exploits. it s told from the perspective of the victims called lies that chelsea handler told me. i look forward to talking with her. sounds like you should be on your guard. we might be kindred spirits actually. i would say that s true. also on a serious topic, five of the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions in women. what you need to know to protect yourself. do you like chinese food? love it. mexican food? yeah. do you think about combining the two? no. jose has and he has exciting ways to excite the tastebuds as we say hello to chinese hoisin and salsa? i m not sure. first let s say hi to kiera knightley starring in last night. we love you. oh, thank you. i love you, too. interesting film. this is about a couple that s been married for seven years. this is about 36 hours in their life in which they are both tempted by others. tell us about your character. i think she s a woman who knows exactly what she wants from life and is stable and bumps into somebody who makes things tricky for her. suddenly she has to question everything. it s left up to the viewer. the movie opportunity make one a bad guy or a good guy. it says what are your life experiences and what do you think about this and who do you judge more harshly? i thought it was powerful. the director told you to play yourself as much as possible. was that frightening? terrifying. the director happens to be one of my closest friends. she was like, do that thing you do. please don t make me. so, yes, i did. i haven t been married, so it s not me. it is a character, but it was cool. the person who is supposed to be your husband is supposed to have cheated on you? that will take a lot of acting don t give it away! but the scene must be impossib impossible. what are you up to next after this one? i m going to l.a. to do a film with steve carell. i hear he s lovely, so i m looking forward to it. so are you, kiera knightley. i saw you in the children s hour in london. you were wonderful. oh, thank you. thank you so much. by is called last night and out in select cities. thank you. thank you very much. mr. roker. she knows how to exit. she s in the car already. let s check your weather and show you what s happening the week ahead. below normal temperatures out west, above normal temperatures gulf coast. below normal up in new england. the midweek period the heat stretches from the great lakes all wait down to the gulf. a little rain out west and rainy conditions mississippi river valley where they don t need it. the week ahead, normal conditions along the east coast and above normal temperatures out west. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. a royal blue sky and cool temperatures now. it s near 60. later today warming up into the mild mid-70s. lots of sunshine, all the pollen counts will be rather high. a lot of grass and tree pollen in the air the next few days but dry weather all the way through. over the weekend some rain likely saturday, saturday you can get your weather any time day or night. weather channel on cable, weather.com online. thank you. up next, how are david and sean goldman doing after that prolonged international custody battle? david is here to talk about it. first, this is today on nbc. when you re resonsible for this much of team, you need a car you can count on. back at 8:37. this morning on today s update a father s love. we followed david goldman s battle to be reunited with his son for years. how are they doing? we ll talk with david in a moment. first, his story. in 2004, david s wife took their 4-year-old son on what was supposed to be a two-week vacation to brazil. soon after she told david she had no plans to return. under the rules of an international treaty known as the hague, sean should have been returned to david within six weeks. that didn t happen. then a series of stunninging events. bruna got a divorce, remarried, became pregnant and died hours after giving birth. her brazilian husband and parents, sean s grandparents continued to fight david in court until on christmas eve 2009 sean was allowed to leave brazil and return home with his father. david has now written a book about his journey called a father s love. good morning. good morning. it s been almost a year and a half since sean has been home and the number one question people have is how is he doing? he s flourishing and it s a miracle that we are together. miracles can and do happen sometimes. i know that both of you have been seeing a therapist. you write in the book about sean s transition from nightmare to normalcy. during the time he s been home has he talked about brazil much? not really. it s almost as though when we were brought together and we got on that plane you could almost see this weight removed from his shoulders. i try to bring it up and point out things that we used to do together as a family with his mom, but on his own he really doesn t. sometimes he ll say, my mom used to like this song. so we have an open dialogue about it. i don t want to push him to say things or go down a road if he doesn t want to. you want it to come naturally to him, all in good time. and let him know that he can. he does know he can. there are people who think it s all in the past now, sean s home, but a lot connects him to brazil including his maternal grandmother. she s fighting a legal battle in new jersey for visitation rights. what contacts has she had with sean since he came back? first, we reached out to them right away before they started the litigation in new jersey courts, to give them access to continue the relationship. it s all still she wants what she wants on her terms. what s best for her, i suppose. but not looking at sean, his well-being, stability. sean has a dad and always had a dad they tried to erase from his life. i have to say that her husband, sean s grandfather, passed away recently. what would allow you to let her have access to sean? a bit of a change in her behavior. stopping all this legal quandary, this quagmire in both countries that i m still swimming in,ing fighting appeals and fighting their suits in both countries. just, hey, sean, how are you? did you have ice cream today? want to see a ball game? just like a grandparent should be. so this is not are you still spending money to fight the case in brazil? i m still spending a lot of money in both countries and borrowing money to spend money on my lawyers here and in brazil to do what i can to keep him safe. they still have filings in brazil to overturn the decision to send him home and bring him back. that can t happen, can it? as far as i can, it can happen. how can you trust someone knowing what their goal is? let s talk about the book. i understand sean has not read it. it s tough. there are parts in this where you talk openly about your feelings about his grandparents, his mother. are you worried about his reaction when he reads it? i wrote the book knowing if he chose to he would read it. everything in there is 100% true. i didn t need to em bellish or o overboard. everything in there they have done to themselves. i would be proud if he would read it. and to know what we did to be together and hopefully we ll be able to get some of these other children home with the book as well. it s a tragic issue. there are so many families and parents that live this 24/7. they need help. they need to get their children home. we are talking close to 3,000 children around the world that are being held against their will. in mexico, japan and 16 american children who are in japan, they didn t even know where they are after the earthquake and tsunami. their parents, god help them. i m glad your outcome was positive. miracleses happen. thank you so much. i will miss you. you did so much for us and i will always be grateful. thank you, david, very much. love you. i love you. the book is a father s love, david goldman. up next we catch up with late love, david goldman. up next we catch up with late night bad girl can t get better. unless we were kicking it on my couch in pjs, watching our soaps. yeah, that would make it worse. much worse. the new blueberry waffle with maple sausage sandwich. it just might be the perfect breakfast sandwich. so try one today. hurry in for the new blueberry waffle with maple sausage sandwich today. we are back at 8:45 with chelsea handler. she s been called howard stern, joan rivers and chris rock all rolled into one. not a good idea to mess with her. take a look. you know what s embarrassinging when i see you with another woman? you know, in this collector s edition of us weekly it talks about all the women you flirt with. it says chelsea handler. another one of your victims. how do you think that makes me feel as a woman? do you want to talk about anything personal in your love life? probably not, right? [ clears throat ] you look very beautiful. he s like 14, isn t he? that doesn t matter to me, matt. now handler is out with her fourth book lies that chelsea handler told me. welcome back. welcome back to me. lots of people say good to have you here at that moment to me. not that i have doubts about this, but at one point last year your three first books occupied positions one, two, and three on the new york times bestseller list. it s true. can you believe it? is it pabl possible to rig t list? i think so. but it s surprising someone of my stature can have that happen to them. it s very flattering. it is. next up is the kardashians, i would assume. you are notorious for practical jokes. we talked about it before. i think the premise of the book is ingenious. you basically got all of the victims to write the book for you. so you hue millmiliate them and write the story. it was a nice way for me to put out another book. they get money from the book? they all got paid, big time. you re a practical joker, too. what do you get out of it? i love that moment when the person realizes you pulled the wool over their eyes. i like the lead-up of everyone getting in on the lie with you so people with you have to lie, too. they don t want anything to do with the lie, but they are forced to lie, too. it becomes a huge lie and everything is in on it with one person. this goes back to a long time. don t people walk around constantly on guard? basically it s over and now that the book was released and it s out. you re a reformed practical joker? everyone s on to me. everyone assumes everything i say is a lie now. a lot of practical jokes aren t appropriate for morning television. you told your boyfriend about a fake dog funeral, convinced a co-worker to come home early from his honeymoon telling him he would be featured in time magazine. there was no time magazining photo shoot. that was a testament that was him not taking his marriage seriously. that was my he didn t come home. he was going to leave his honeymoon because we told him there was a time magazine photo shoot. at the end i felt bed and said, absolutely not. you obviously don t love your wife but she should know about this. when you were 7 you had a lemonade scam and were selling raffle tickets, telling them they were going to meet carly simon? she did live tr there and i saw her in a car once. that was enough? that was an in, yes. there is a picture in the book of you in a beauty pageant. what was your talent in the pageant? what was your skill? they didn t have a talent category for my pageant. that s why i chose it. that made it easier. lying. practical jokes. lies. bring me up to date on other things in your life. david hasselhoff has always been the person you want on your show. he won t come on. he said he s scared of me and doesn t know if he can stay sober long enough to deal with the interview. i have a feeling he didn t say that. i lied about the second part. you have a contract coming up in 2012. are you going to keep doing this? no. i m coming over here for meredith. what do you want to do? i like what i do. i would like to continue doing it, but i would like to add layers to it. i love the book world. i m excited about the book. i would like to do more television, but i m growing up a little bit. i have to at some point. so i would like to do more serious stuff, but keep staying with the comedy. i have a big tour to support this book. after i m done with the live tour i will take a break from stand-up for a while. don t give it up. you re good at it. you are. oh, thanks. matt. i wish i could say the same for you. thrown under the bus by chelsea handler. the new book is called lyinies that chelsea handler told me. stick around for this. mexican and chinese cooking. first, this is today on nbc. not that long ago, many families were priced out of an overheated housing market. but the times have changed. get the facts at remax.com. it s a great place to see all the listings in thousands of cities and towns. with lots of houses to chose from and down-to-earth prices the dream of owning a home seems more attainable than ever. find out what an experienced re/max agent can do for you. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today. so i did this restaurant 400 years later. i was uniting both cookings. this is called 20 vegetable fried rice? this is what i do at home all the time. oh, my god, this is hot. yeah. so we put some onion, some garlic. some ginger. and this is going to start cooking a little bit. if i don t burn it. all right. then this is a great thing. do you like cauliflower? i do. do you like brus sell sprouts? i do. carrots, mushrooms. zucchini. anything you like. soybeans. this is perfect. i can do different vegetables? you can do one or 20. baby vegetables. the onion is here, everything goes in. little bit of that, little bit of that. the carrots, radishes, soybeans, jicama, why not? and you like to cook with your children? yes. this went down too much. now you make slices with the help of the mandolin. my daughters love this. butterfly. they began making beautiful butterflies. beautiful carrots. my daughter is watching. so that s okay. don t worry. we re fine. i want you to last a few more weeks. here we go with the vegetables and the meat cooking. then we have the egg going. the omelet is finished. here we have the beautiful omelet. we cut it in cubes. first we go with the rice. one, two, three, four. i love your cooking. plain old white rice. that s the rice of the day. some oyster sauce. some soy sauce. mm. it doesn t take long. amazinging. there s the egg. everything is here. oh, my god, this is a good fried rice. oh, so sorry. then you finish with all the vegetables on top. but fresh. little bit of dressing. we have a beautiful fried rice for everyone at home. anne? not bad. good luck tonight. good luck. back after your local news. good luck. back after your local news. 8:55 is your time now, it s 62 degrees. good morning, i m eun yang. chopper 4 is over breaking news in montgomery county. crews are battling a fire at a house in silver spring in the 12300 block of charles road. it s not clear if anyone was in the house at the time the fire started. we ll bring you the latest information as it comes into our newsroom. we ll take a quick break. weather and traffic are up next. first here s a look at what we re working on for news 4 at 5:00. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, cupcake wars at a local college. students put four bakeries to the test. we ll find out who earns bragging rights. [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. we make the time to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. but what we should also be celebrating, are the moments. the ones that could have been just another day, but became extraordinary memories. moments when we learn about the world that came before us, and a little more about ourselves. let s celebrate together. colonial williamsburg. come be part of the story. and now is the perfect time to celebrate with the summer bounce package. plan your stay at colonialwilliamsburg.com good morning. temperatures climbing into the 60s and later today into the mid-70s. lots of sunshine. more of the same tuesday, wednesday and more clouds end of the week. how s traffic, jerry. the american legion bridge a little heavy on the outer loop after river road across the bridge span. over on 395, better than normal. minimal delays until you get to the 14th street bridge. thank you. we are back with more of today on a monday morning. it s the 9th of may, 2011. just take a look at some smiling faces. these people are happy because we have got a beautiful morning here in midtown manhattan after a great weekend. springlike temperatures, bright sunny skies. doesn t get any better than this. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with natalie morales and al roker. although we are having great weather here, we are starting to think about people who live all along the mississippi river. that river expected in places like memphis, tennessee, to crest above 14 feet above flood stage today. other cities and towns along the river in trouble as well. we re going to have a report on that coming up in just a couple of minutes. also coming up, natalee holloway, the 18-year-old disappeared on a senior trip to aruba some six years ago. her family has been trying to keep the investigation going, keep attention focused on where she might be, what might have happened to her, her mom beth holloway is going to join us for a live interview in a couple of minutes. i was thinking of yesterday being mother s day. imagine what she goes through every day of her life. on that day it must be more painful. we ll talk to beth holloway in a few minutes. and did you know medical mistakes are the eighth leading cause of death, higher than car accidents or breast cancer? so we are going over five commonly misdiagnose mod condits in women and why nutrition is vital to maintaining health. in case you were sleeping saturday night and missed it the pregnant tina fey made a surprise visit to saturday night live, reprizing one of her most famous roles of sarah pal palin. we have a recap of the best lines. a lot to get to. let s head inside. ann curry is at the news desk with the headlines. hi, ann. thank you very much. let s talk about the news on mother s day. three planes had security shake-ups. a delta flight was diverted after a note was found in the bathroom with the word bomb on it. no suspicious devices were found. on an american airlines an unruly passenger rushed a door. and a continue nental flight wa diverted when a person tried to open a door. the mississippi river threatens to unleash record flooding today. janet shamlian joins us from memphis with the latest on the story. hey, janet. good morning. reporter: good morning. the bulging mississippi river is now lapping at the streets of downtown memphis, including here on legendary beal street where they haven t seen water like this in almost a century. these are muddy, said to be leech-infested waters that have swallowed entire neighborhoods here and the water is still rising. with the mighty mississippi swallowing more of memphis by the hour, emergency workers are going door to door, urging hold outs to quickly gather what s important and bussing them to higher ground and safety. i had to get my medicines together. get on the bus, sir. we got to go. reporter: places like the hope presbyterian church for people who left their home. you see the heartbreak in their faces and it s out of their hands. there s nothing they can do about it. reporter: on sunday the engorged river drew spectators who could only watch and wonder as flood waters crept closer to record levels. roughly 48 feet, just inches below a record set in 1937. this is all astounding. it s just overwhelming to see it so high. interesting. hopefully it won t get much worse. reporter: it may do just that. with the crest now coming sooner than originally predicted the army corps of engineers deployed more than 150 engineers to check the levees and pump stations. in one second that water that s behind us now would fill up a football field 44 feet deep, in one second. reporter: while workers place sandbags as jay gray learned, in some spots it s too late. i m in an area that s normally a playground for kids at a school. it is now literally part of the river. behind me you can see a row of houses. you can t see that they have a lower level. it s been swallowed by the water here. reporter: forecasters say it could take weeks for water to recede in memphis and in vicksburg, mississippi, the predictions are dire. two sisters who survived the 1927 flood that left 700,000 homeless are in their 90s now and facing yet another historic flood. there s nothing we can do about it. reporter: the crest of the mississippi is expected here earlier than predicted. they were thinking wednesday but now they are saying tonight or tomorrow. 3,000 homes and businesses in memphis and shelby county are in what s considered the flood danger zone. that s to say nothing of mississippi where the water is headed next. thank you for reporting on the story that s still developing. u.s. intelligence officials hope to head off future terrorist attacks by searching through documents seized from osama bin laden s compound in pakistan last week. the u.s. is also pressuring pakistan to let american investors question investigators question three of bin laden s widows who are in custody in pakistan. jury selection starts today for the high profile murder trial of casey anthony. the florida woman is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee to free herself from the burdens of being sangle motherer. anthony claims caylee was kidnap bid a babysitter. and thor brought in $66 million at the box office. fast five in second and jumping the broom in thd. now back outside to matt and office bringing in $66 million. fast five was second and jumping the broom was third. let s get a check of the weather again. thanks. we ve got these guys here it s all your birthday all on the same day? no, a few days apart. what s your name? shawn. and. robin. and? conor. nice to see you guys. let s check your weather. we ve got a lot of heat down south. a big ridge of high pressure building up. the jetstream goes way to the north allows all the hot air to surge north. amarillo 97. kansas city will see 89, little rock 90. record highs anywhere 10 to 20 degrees above normal. risk of strong storms in the  northern plains. sunny skies in the pacific northwest. windy and wet along the new england coastline. plenty of sunshine through the gulf coast into the mid-atlantic states. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. bright sunshine and a blue sky and we are warming up here past 9:00 into the 60s. 62 at reagan national and it should continue to climb into the mid-70s by mid-afternoon. lots of sunshine. more of the same on tuesday and wednesday. thursday and friday as the weekend is up we have more clouds coming in. looks like the weekend itself is looking wet. afternoon highs near your lates ann? today s woman is brought to you by the makers of zyrtec. love the air. this morning on today s woman, five commonly misdiagnosed conditions in women. today is national women s check-up day, a reminder of how important it is to see a doctor regularly to maintain good health we all need and help us catch problems early. dr. kerry peterson is a contributor to women s health magazine. good morning. good morning, ann. so is gender disparity a reason why there are so often misdiagnoses? we have so many women misdiagnosed with important illnesses they should know about? sometimes it plays a role. with heart disease the symptoms women get often differ from symptoms men get. other ways you may see it is certain symptoms may be tributed more likely in women to anxiety or depression than you would see in men in some cases. mm-hmm. we ll be specific. there are five you say we should probably really think about when we go in. one is auto immune diseases, an umbrella phrase to talk about a number of these immune diseases. that s correct. hard to diagnose? difficult. they affect 23 million americans, more common in women of child-bearing age. first off, when the immune system attacks your healthy cells because it mistakes them for pathogens. depending where your body is attacked depends on what symptoms you get. the most common symptoms are vague. dizziness, fatigue and fever which could be tributed to other problems that a physician may not go in the direction of seeing it as an auto immune disease. you may want a second opinion. if you re feeling the symptoms you may want to make sure you get a second doctor. possibly, but in addition what s done is called watchful waiting. you observe your symptoms over time and see if anything new develops to point your doctor in a certain direction. the key thing here would be to be vigilant and pay attention to your body and the symptoms you are experiencing and bring it to the attention of your doctor. something else may be said that women don t spend enough time being vigilant about is heart disease. we don t act like it s the number one killer. we think it is a men s disease. in women under 45 it kills 25,000 women per year in this country. it s a significant problem. the two issues we see are first that the symptoms can be other problems. racing heart, chest pain, shortness of breath can be tributed to panic attacks in women commonly. on the other hand, some of the symptoms women experience are atypical and it may be missed all together. like? they may get nausea, sweats and dizziness, not the typical symptoms you expect with a heart problem. you could think it s menopause or hot flashes. that s correct. also another disease that s hard to diagnose is ovarian cancer and it s a diller. it is the fifth most common cancer seen in women and the number one killer of reproductive cancerers in women. 50% of women are diagnosed at an advanced stage. it s difficult to diagnose because early on there are no symptoms. when symptoms develop they are often tributed to other problems. for example one of the symptoms can be frequent urination. your doctor may attribute it to a bladder problem. it can cause bloating and constipation which can be attributed to a stomach problem. i want to make sure to get the other two hormonal imbalances. yes. very common. wide array of symptoms. early on it can cause emotional, behavioral changes like weight gain, trouble sleeping or depression. later on you have more targeted symptoms. endometriosis? it mimics a lot of symptoms. severe menstrual cramps can be attributed to a bad period. surgery is the only way to diagnose. be vigilant, own your health more because we can t always be guarantee guaranteed. and consider a second opinion. thank you so much. up next, an exclusive interview with the mother of natalee holloway, beth holloway will be here with tracy pollan who plays her in a now movie. and she wasn t fired. instead nene walked out on celebrity apprentice. you ve been stuck in the garage while i ve been sneezing from the dust in here, and the pollen outside. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my allergy symptoms. it s the brand allergists recommend most. lilly and i are back on the road again, where we belong. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. 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you said you went there wanting to give him information. well, i think first and foremost any parent who has a missing loved one will do anything and everything in order to have a resolution or have some sense of settlement as to if they begin to move onward. for me, meeting him face to face and eyes to eyes, i was not there to get information. we know that s not going to happen. but to give him information to remind him, i m still here. i will continue to be here in order to see this through to the end. tracy, you play beth in the movie. we have a clip. let s take a look quickly. i cannot believe i am leaving here again without her. i just want a place to lay flowers. you re the lawyer, john. explain it to me. maybe it s time to let go. maybe it s time to what? time to stop? what would you do, john, if this was your child? when do you stop? we see the determination as well. you have met over the years. this is the second film. this picks up. it s the sequel. it picks up from where the first one left off. how did you get attracted to the project? well, i heard about the story before the project came to me. i was always fascinated with the story and so frustrated that there had not been a resolution. i read the script and i thought it was incredibly well written. i just wanted to portray beth s story. and sitting next to each other there is a resemblance. over the years have you developed a friendship? have you been able to work together to try to get the mission really to try to find out what happened to natalee? we met in south africa when i was filming the first movie. we hadn t seen each other again until we met again in new orleans and so it sort of felt like coming home. mm-hmm. i was truly honored when tracy made the decision. what is it like to have a first-rate actress like tracy play you? i m truly honored. there could not have been a better chance. tracy is an amazing actress. oh, well, thank you. of course married to michael j. fox. you have four children together. right. so playing a mother who lost her child. imagine to delve into the character you had difficult getting to that place. really, you re confronting your worsting nightmare. you know, that beth had to go through. you have to take a deep breath and realize that this is an important story to tell. it was very difficult. i have two teenage daughters and to know what she d gone through. exactly. now they are much closer to the age that natalee was. it was difficult, but it was really worthwhile. beth, do you think you will be closer to ever finding out what happened? do you feel you re closer because joran is behind bars though he may never talk? with joran in prison our chances of finding out what happened to natalee are much greater. but i feel, as i said, he is where he belongs. now i can focus on things that i can. vanished is for americans to see that missing persons cases don t have to be an epidemic. i think there are things i can focus on now. we are so glad you re doing well. it looks like you re keeping the word out there and hopefully finding answers. thank you so much. beth holloway and tracy pollan. great to have you here. thank you. our best to michael and the kids. catch it tonight on lifetime immediately followed by the series premier of vanished with beth holloway at 10:00/9:00 central. coming up, we check in with the class of 2020 and meet an unforgettable 3rd grader who is thriving despite autism. first, these messages. the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. that s what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain. while the other guy s flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. to have their close-ups taken by a fashion photographer. then we asked them to try new dove visible care. a revolutionary new line of body wash with the highest concentration of nutrium moisture. visible care makes skin visibly more beautiful in just 1 week. when they saw how much more beautiful and radiant their skin looked with new dove visible care. there was only one question. new dove visible care creme body wash. but they d rather they disappear. mott s medleys has two total fruit and veggie servings in every glass but magically looks and tastes just like the fruit juice kids already love. mott s medleys. invisible vegetables. magical taste. these ladies have been exercising, watching their diets and enjoying activia light. well? 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[ speaking in a foreign language ] just one. good-bye. oh! that was close. so close. saved by the gunshot. happy mother s day to natalie. our own natalie morales traveled to south america to star in a latin soap opera. that was like you and matt. that s a joke. or a telenovella as it is called there. it s part of our special series this week called anchors abroad where we all what the heck? a cat fight. you got into it. this could be an oscar award winning do they give oscars for this? at least an emmy. they sent me back home. kissing, slugging people. i did not. cut, cut, cut. but the point is you did a show basically as part of the series. i did. anchors abroad. was it fun? it was uncomfortable and interesting. i clearly have no acting talent which is a good thing. i don t know. looked convincinging into me. i don t think so. you get to be mr. wiggles later. that sounds good. i don t want to talk about what they made me do. coming up, we have more of the ongoing series following the class of 2020. this morning, a 3rd grader who s really making the grade. what makes him special? he s autistic and thriving many a main stream classroom. we ll find out what his parents did to make him successful in class. what a terrific series. it is, and this young man steals everyone s heart. also ahead, tina fey was moonlighting this week on saturday night live. we don t have to question whether she was hilarious. we know she was. we ll talk about it coming up. and on today s kitchen, some fabulously delicious pointers on a summertime favorite, crab cakes and fried tomatoes dressed up with sour cream and prosciutto. first a check of the weather. give it to us. cream and bri chute owe. first a check of the weather. give it to us. what do you think? i think we ll be looking at some pretty nice hot weather. record highs texas gulf coast into the mid-mississippi river valley. risk of strong storms in the plains. sunshine in the pacific northwest. as we look ahead toward tomorrow. slight risk of strong storms in the upper mississippi river rally. the southeast, ohio river valley and clouds in the pacific northwest, sunny and warm in the southwest, mild and sunshine in the northeast. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. temperatures now climbing into the 60s with that strong may sun and a blue sky. 62 now at reagan national, later today into the 70s with lots of sunshine and it looks like we ll repeat this on tuesday and wednesday. end of the week, though, we ll have more clouds around. it should be a bit cooler. highs low 70s thursday and friday. then as we get into the weekend, it looks like a likelihood of rain from saturday into saturday night and off and on all right. that s your latest weather. all right, al. thank you. now we welcome nene leakes. you know her as the no-nonsense, tell it like it is real housewife of atlanta. she shocked donald trump and company when she quit celebrity apprentice last night. take a breath. i know you were runninging late but it s okay. you re here. why did you walk off before you got to the boardroom? you know, this is how i feel about it. i feel you re damned eed if yo damned if you don t. it was not a good situation for me. it was toxic. people were manipulative and backstabbing. who? just contestants on the show. i feel if you are raising money for your charity, you don t have to be backstabbing, lying and manipulative. i know it s a show, but we are playing for charity. had i stayed any longer, it wouldn t have been good for me. women of domestic abuse, our slogan is if the situation isn t good, you get out. i chose to leave. simple as that. i feel like, had i stayed, it would have been criticism. had i left it would have been criticism. so i m the kind of person, i make my own decisions and i do what i feel. if i feel in my gut that i m doing the right thing, i do what i feel. i don t really worry about what anybody else has to say. so i did what i felt i needed to do at the time and i don t regret it. one of the things people watching reality kinds of programs sometimes wonder is to what degree is it real and to what degree is it made up? did you feel what you describe as backstabbinging and all of that was just done for television? sounds like you felt it was real and you took it personally. it was real. it wasn t like it was made up. even on the housewives show, everything that happened is real. we are not scripted. we re just like anybody else, we re just in front of the cameras. i see the clip. star was very manipulative and a big liar. is that where most of the anger is directed then? dealing with star jones in particular? star was very manipulative. i was very disappointed in the way she played the game. but it is a game. but you re playing for charity. she was fired, too. we re not on survivor eating bugs, making a million for ourselves. it s for charity. did you get anything good out of the experience in the end? it was an okay experience. i was going through a lot on the show. i was going through a divorce. i just wasn t in the place where i needed to be stay on that show. we had 16-hour days. the days were long, the challenges were hard. you had to be thinking. we had very little sleep. i don t regret anything that i did on the show. i really don t regret. to answer your question about star, i don t think it was anger. i was very disappointed because we were forming a relationship outside of the show. we would have dinner and drinks and we double dated with my husband and her boyfriend. then i found out she was being very backstabbing. it was disappointing to me. i m very loyal and i don t like it when i come in contact with people who are not loyal. we hope you can feel better eventually over it. we re glad you took a moment to speak with us. it s a new day. it happened last year which a lot of people don t know. we filmed in october and november of last year. now you re good. this is a new year and i have moved on greatly. nene leakes, i m glad to hear that. thanks for having me. we want to mention that celebrity apprentice airs sundays at 9/8 central on nbc. coming up, class of 2020, a 3rd grader with autism is making the grade after these messages. that way to her book club. t she ll probably say something like, everyone had a wonderful time. the food was great. it was good to get away. but let s be honest. mom just caught air! now, there s a first. tell us what you ve always wanted to do, on facebook. 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bree: oh, is there a castle nearby? marcy: no, but there s a charming farmhouse. bree: right next to my posh castle! i m sensing a theme here. well, i am the queen, dear sister. this morning in today s kitchen, what s for dinnerer? new takes on old classics? chuck s day off follows chuck on his only day off as he prepares food for family and friends at his popular montreal restaurant. he s here to make crab cakes and fried tomatoes. good to see you. so, crab cakes, people are intimidated but they re pretty easy. crab cakes, all about the crab. it seems there is everything else but crab. for this, a lot of crab. what kind of crab? lumpmeat, beautiful, blue crab. yeah. we can just eat it like this. saltines. got to go with saltines in there. notice there is not much of anything. i want the crab to speak for itself. mustard, mayo. egg for binding. bind it. lemon zest, just a touch. chives. salt. pepper in there. all right. it s as easy as that. you don t want to be too rough and break up the crab. not too much. just mix everything together and the beauty of it is because there is a lot of crab you want to really squeeze the patty to be sure it stays. kind of like that. yeah. now golden brown on both sides. little bit of oil. doesn t take long to cook. the crab is already cooked. so you re really giving it a golden crust, nice and crispy, warm all the way through. yeah. looks like this. okay. get them nice and golden brown on both sides. you can finish them in the oven, brown them prior. what do you like to serve it with? spicy mayo. or by itself. just like that. put a little bit on there. some chives. how is that good? now we have fried red tomatoes. why not? in montreal, we don t get green tomatoes. do what you can with what you ve got. so basically, i like a big slice, super simple. season it. salt and pepper, always. you ve got a double dip going here. yeah. flour, egg, panko. mm-hmm. boom, right in the pan. that s all there is to it. that s it? we have some going here. right. get it golden brown and crispy. i notice you have some prosciutto here. crispy pruosciutto. you can do it in the oven or pan. it s a pork product. delicious. crumble that on top. come on in. i like everything you said. go nuts. chive it up. is that bacon? prosciutto. please, enjoy. dig in. well done. way to hold off. can i tell you something? i m not holding back. go ahead. crab cakes. thank you. i m going to have a bite. we won t double dip. thanks. fantastic. chuck hughes, how s the restaurant in montreal? i can t even get a reservation. it s off the charts. that s really tough, hey. chuck hughes, thank you so much. fantastic. it s all about the crab. there you go. we have marlo thomas on. after your local news and weather. your local news and weather. yum, well done. good morning, everyone, it is 9:56. i m barbara harrison. we re following breaking news. chopper 4 is over the scene of an accident involving a commuter bus on the airport access road. we ll go to jerry edwards for the very latest. it occurred within the hour eastbound on the dulles toll road in the airport lanes on the approach to wolf trap. chopper 4 remains over the scene right now. the accident involves a commuter bus and couple of other vehicles. there is a fuel spill. right now the eastbound airport lanes are completely closed off. as you can see from these live pictures, authorities are directing all the eastbound airport lane traffic into the main lanes westbound headed on out toward the airport. your travel lanes are open. we ll keep you updated. thank you so much, jerry. let s check our forecast now. beautiful out there. yeah, bright sunshine. we re warming up into the 60s. later we should hit the mid-70s, lots of sun. dry weather through the rest of the week so the pollen count will be up. grass pollen and tree pollen. high 70s today, tomorrow, wednesday and thursday. more clouds by the end of the week. then as we get into the weekend, it looks like a likelihood of rain on saturday, saturday night and sunday. highs near 70. barbara. all right. i ll be back at 11:00 a.m. for news 4 midday. first here s what we re working on for tonight at 5:00. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, cupcake wars at a local college. students put four bakeries to the test. we ll find out who earns bragging rights. plus starbucks versus at 190 miles per hour, the wind will literally lift ordinary windshield wipers off the glass. so, did we build a slower car? 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it was great. it was a glorious weekend back here. that was one of the first things i fell in love with you about, how much you love your family and how much, i would say the excitement in your eyes just to go and see them for a weekend. i share that with you. my mom wasn t here. we celebrated before. cass was with me. cody comes home he ll be a senior as of tuesday, be a senior in college. unbelievable. it was quiet, church and brunch. angelique walked by with one of her son, jim bell s beautiful wife. the older you get, the more you want the simple things. i have a song about that. i m going to sing it for you now. no, i m not. it segues into meredith today. there was a big announcement as you may have already heard. meredith decided she is going to leave the today show. ann curry is going to take her place. natalie is going to take ann curry s place. meredith is so real. what i love about her, she lived her life on her own terms. nobody tells her what to do. when she feels like it s time, it is. she announced this morning why it was important for her to leave the today show. next month. let s listen. it s a difficult day for me. i m going to try to hold myself together here. after months of personal reflection and private conversations between family and my friends, i decided to leave today in june. it was september 2006 when i sat down next to matt at the anchor desk. i realized he was going to be really annoying. i really had a great time, but time is one of those weird things you can never get enough of it. it just keeps ticking away. i know i want to spend more of mine with my husband richard and my kids, ben, gabe and lilly who are rolling their eyes saying, no more time, mom. i m going to do it anyway. that s meredith encapsulated form. she is speaking truth at the same time she is expressing her heart. everyone knows her husband deals with very serious illness, multiple sclerosis and other things. you do start to realize time is your most precious gift god gives us. we are going to miss her so much. we are happy for ann. ann said if i had my way, you would stay. i love that she said that. ann has been here at the today show 15 years. she s been such an incredible person on the show. she traveled the world and hugged everybody in the studio at least 100 times. and the dalai lama. we are so happy for natalie. we just adore her. it s a bittersweet day around here. life goes on. yes, it does. meredith said she wants to continue to be part of the nbc family. i loved. hopefully we ll see a lot of her. there is a reason we have a cute dog on the set. not just because he is a cute dog. she loves this dog so much. if you recall last week, when did he have lunch? he had breakfast on mommy s shoes. usually there it is. there is bambino eating my valentino. i don t usually take them home, i leave them here at the studio. i wore them home, unfortunately, the other day. as much as i love them, bambino loved them more. we had more than 500 facebook fans write in to tell us about their own experiences with their puppy. they can t help it. kate from washington state says her golden doodle maui has eaten the siding off her house. that costs almost as much as a valentino to replace. gabi says calvin is a beagle mix, a nice quiet dog until he destroys all the blankets, the carpet, the trash. it s not as if you left a lot of things for him to toy with and chew on. this golden retriever enjoys eating through walls. oh, my gosh! there is something else happening there. that dog has issues we don t want to get into. hopefully we ll get good training tips. we ll get a segment because of what happened to you. what we are going through right now, he had been freshly groomed until yesterday. it s such a glorious time of year back here in the spring. unfortunately we have rabbit nests all over our property. they can t help it. they are animals. it s instinctive to them. they like to bring home presents to mommy. it breaks your heart. it s bad to be on the end of the food chain in nature. really bad. all righty. it s bad to be on the other end of a bad tip. quite the segue. there is. there is a brooklyn food delivery guy. if you live in new york you know when you order food you wait 30 minutes or however long and it comes. if you re lucky. this guy got sick and tired of getting really, really bad tips. he decided if he took a photo of the receipt that showed how bad the tip was and posted it online to out the worse tippers. name of the person and the address. he got fired for it. here is an example. roll back. on olive street he says he got tipped $1.55 for about a $20 order, $19.43. he got $1.55. that s not good. here way think. we order a lot. in new york, we order a lot. these guys come pedalling up on bikes and deliver the food quickly. he s on his bike, it s raining and he is tired. we don t realize they get a very, very low base salary. right. i don t know if there is any official national restaurant association, i don t know. we live out in the country where they drive around in a car. it s not as in bad weather, always more. i m not a big, i don t believe you should tip big anyway if you haven t had good service. i think you should deserve whatever you get. these people that expect a 20% or 15% tip and they ve been rude or ignored your table, don t reward bad behavior. wonder what you guys think? 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could you take your dog for a nice long walk or run? you know my house. he runs all the time. that s the prescription. a lot of exercise outside your home, joe you the side your yard. your yard becomes an extension of the home, kind of boring. her yard is big. no, no, still, hunting would be great. these dogs used to hunt and hunt rats. these dogs? that s why they bark a lot. does he bark? his sister and brother taught him to bark. i love this. this is a great chew toy. this is an antleer. this is a deer antleer. it s great because they can t bite a few things off and that gets into their stomachs. they can t do that with this. put it in chicken broth. takes delicious. do you like that? this is exciting. he wants the valentino. or one of these great bones and put food inside it. peanut butter, is that okay? yes. you can do that. also depending. you ve got three dogs. big, medium and little. make sure they don t fight over the food. thank you so much. how to keep the frizzies from sneaking up on your hair after this. our starting five. yeah. boom! so when we go out, like the other night, we have to make sure they get enough to eat. pass these down to your brothers and make sure they get some, okay? 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i think because you give of yourself, too. with st. jude s and everything else. it s a combination of having a sense of humor about what happens in life and knowing you re making a difference. focus isn t always on you. when i m in st. jude and meet those kids, they are so optimistic. you have comedians sprinkled through here. what did they teach you? was there a general theme? i interviewed them all. i wanted to find out how did they grow up? what made them funny. i know what i got funny. what made them funny? everybody had a person in their childhood that was funny. every one of them. made them laugh and they were able to make laugh. another thing was interesting, none of them except for kathie griffin was the class clown, none of them. i said to conan o brien, you weren t the class clown? he said no. the guy that gets up on the desk and changes the clock time and all that stuff, he said he usually ends up in a motel shooting. they don t end up being medians. i think when i was writing it, i started laughing about all the things in my life. i remember my dad made a joke about everything. i would fall down and hurt my knee and say my knee hurts. he would say it could be worse. i d say how? he said, it could have happened to me. judge that is funny. he did that about everything. we don t think of the lebanese people as stand-up comedians. why would you say that? they are wonderful people. i don t think about them performing in the catskills. i m not saying they can t be funny. in general hoda, in general. that s all right. a little prejudice now and then is not so bad. it s like jackie mason. lebanese people are funny. they are kind of the same people. same noses and drink the same water. greeks are funny. everybody can be funny, all right? you ve got other projects. you re talking about a broadway thing. yes. i m going to be in an evening of one acts. elaine may, woody allen and ethan cohen. i m in the elaine may play. i play a ditsy blonde. no offense, girl. there is only one blonde at the table. it s a wonderful part because it is very different. is it a limited run? i hope it s not limited. it s going to be on broadway. the title is? it s called now relatively speaking. my place is called george is dead. that s hysterical. we wish you all the best. good luck with your book again. a big smooch to phil. how is that love machine? 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(narrator) from unforgettable adventures, to the wizarding world of harry potter, only at universal orlando resort. we have two new members from florida. kimberly sandrich lost a whopping 115 pounds and her theresa lost 111 pounds. my name is kimberly. i m 21 and always struggled with my weight. my heaviest i was 265 pounds. i m kimberly s mom theresa. i ve been a yo-yo dieter over 30 years. at my heaviest i was 236 pounds. as a teenager i hated my life. i xelged in school, my social life was nonexistent. i never had a boyfriend or a ton of friends. i felt guilty watching kimberly go through so much pain and suffering. i carry this tremendous guilt i was the reason she was obese. my parents were always supportive of me. they never taught me how to eat properly. family dinners, we would speed through the drive-through. i decided to lead by example and lose the weight first. i found medi-fast. the structured plan fit well in my lifestyle. with my mom s support i lost 115 pounds on medi-fast. i went from being shy and always hu hungry to confident and craving-free. i am so proud of what we both have accomplished. not only did i save my life, i saved hers. let s check in with the leader of the joy fit pack, joy. what a perfect story. kimberly says her mother made this happen. she was her inspiration, her support. we love theresa. love them both. this is what they were having issues with? moms and daughters shared a passion for cookies. i want to show you some of the monstrocities. three scoops of ice cream with crushed cookies. kimberly ate a bowl of oreos, 860 calories. i wanted to offer up a few ways lower in calorie. scoop of light ice cream with one or two crushed cookies. 300 calories. this is a nonfat greek vanilla yogurt mixed with one crushed cookie. vanilla wafers, a scheer of vanilla ice cream. what do we keep eating over and over? you see they now enjoy it. every once in a while it s okay. we ll meet them one by mom. here is theresa s before picture. come join the joy fit club. oh, my, my! wow! are you the same person? you got younger, too. everything happened at once. should we bring kimberly out? kimberly s before picture. hold on. kimberly before. there she is. come on, kimberly and join us. she is gorgeous. 225 pounds down. did you help each other out? i had originally, i was a yo-yo dieter through all the years. i was on two blood pressure medicines. i was feeling it. i felt my body dragging. i thought i ve got to get the weight off. i asked kimberly to go on with me. she says, no, mom, love food too much. the offer stands. i went on my journey, reached it. and maintained it for a year. then you came onboard. tell us about that? i saw she lost weight. i know that it s possible to lose weight. it s hard to keep it off. i saw she maintained for one year. i was like this works. it s possible. you went on the same program the medi-fast? this is the one with prepared meals. right. they learned how to eat out and cook. they are doing a little bit of everything now. they kept it off. you must feel so good. i bet that flablood pressure no longer a problem? i went to my doctor. when i got down to my goal, he said, let me introduce myself. you re a former patient of mine. or you look like a former patient of mine. you look like sisters. congratulations. that s awesome. next, guess who is here? david and sean goldman. now we re hittin the road with the proglide challenge. 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[ male announcer ] hey, if viva can handle mike rowe s mess, just think what it can do in your home. grab a roll for yourself and grasp the unquilted difference. you may remember this case. in 2004 david goldman s wife took their 4-year-old son what was supposed to be a two-week vacation to their native brazil. she never returned. she remarried, became pregnant and tragically died after childhood. took five years of legal battles for david to be reunited with his son sean and granted permission to bring him back to the u.s. it s been about a year and a half. david has written it in a book called a father s love. hey, david. nice to see you. it s really involved book. you go into every bit of the detail. what struck me so much was how completely out of the blue this came to you. you thought you were living that fairy tale life in new jersey. i never had a clue. never had a clue. drove them all to the airport, my wife, my son, my inlaws, loves, hugs, kisses. noticed a little more luggage than usual? nothing that raised alarm bells? no it was offered up she was going to two weddings. my inlaws and my wife were going to two weddings. one in the mountains. climate changes. i had no indication whatsoever. this has been a long journey. meredith documented it over the years. how is it now? you re both home. you and your son are home together. is it a normal father/son relationship? it is a normal father and son relationship. believe in miracles because they happen. he is flourishing. one of the things, they admitted in brazil he was held illegally, retained unlawfully. international law. as well as domesistic law. they have their own amber alert laws in brazil like we do. a parent can t just flee out of the state borders without parent consent. she was looking for american citizenship. she ultimately fell in love with this man who was a prominent lawyer in that area in brazil. specializing in international child abduction law. unbelievable. how ironic is that? it s unbelievable, but it s true. that s what makes it a wow. when you decided to document it all and put it through the book, at one point you are son will be reading this book. he is 10 now. yes. are there parts you don t want him to know about or do you want everything exposed? right now i don t want him to have to relive it. even as far as the tv shows when they show that last dreadful scene when they dragged him through the streets to put their stamp on what they wanted to do, he doesn t need that. he still has issues with that, that last day when they did that to him. i think we have very little time. tell us where it stands now. aren t you asking now that the grandparents drop all legal hold on him? we asked that right away before they started the continuation of the litigation in new jersey. we reached out and said on conditions you can see sean, stop the litigation in both countries, be normal grandparents, visit and have ice cream. don t say we are fighting for new the courts, this and that. it would have to be supervised visits. do you know what? we have to start someplace. who knows if they would have done the right thing or continue, maybe they still have a chance to do the right thing. for his sake, i hope. for sean s sake. little people don t deserve big people s problems. there are over 3,000 american kids in different countries that need our help, too. it s an amazing book. we are glad you and your son are safe together. in time for father s day. that is awesome. bless you. how to keep the summer from ruining your looks. 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[ male announcer ] mach tower. heart racing. jaw dropping. coming soon to busch gardens williamsburg. summer is on the way which means frizzy hair and greasy skin. there is something you can do. jennifer goldstein is here with products to keep us pretty. it s great to be here. take us away. summer hair is a pain in the neck. before summer starts, make sure your hair is in good shape. we have a bore bristle brush here. it brings the oil down towards the end of your hair and keeps it moisturized. they are a little more expensive but worth it. they are, but you can get them at the drug store, too. the in-salon straightening treatments, we heard about. this you can buy at the drug store and takes out the frizz. we are reminding you to protect your hair when in the sun. mix up your own protector with water and almond or olive oil. that is a new concept to a certain person standing here. everybody has different texture. this is straight. you can actually air dry in the summer so you re not going to get the damage of the blow-dryer. we have garnier product smooth and creamy. clip it up on top of your head and when it come down you get a little wave. think of it as a good season to give your hair a rest. wear hats. curley hair. or wavy hair. same thing. when damp put in your product. here we wrapped it around a roller. air dry it that way. we have an oil serum from dove. air drying can take a long time. you can go throughout the day. by lunch it s air-dried. maybe not on tv, but in real life. this is me. this is gorgeous. that s beautiful. karen used yo don t want to . that breaks the curl pattern. i m i shouldn t touch, but it s such touchable hair. make-up. we have two foundations here. one from origins, one from avon. both have anti-aging properties and will help your skin tone look better. shouldn t you exfoliate? yes. lauren has summer make-up look on. what she has on is the foundations we talked about and then she used a lash serum so her lashes are longer. a waterproof cream shadow from tarte. it has anti-aging properties, as well. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month for a year. call now and you ll get this special bonus: $100 back. there s no term contract required. if you don t absolutely love fios you cacancel any time with no early terminatiofee. fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers the best channel lineup, superior picture quality and more hd, plus the fastest internet in the u.s. why keep paying for cable? get fios tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month, plus $100 back. this is a limited time offer, so don t wait. call 1.877.827.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that s 1.877.827.3467. at 800-974-6006 tty/v.