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now in a notorious jail after being denied bail on sex assault charges. after his lawyer hints at what could be his defense strategy after his lawyer hints at what could be his defense strategy today, tuesday, may 17, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. when arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver went public with their separation a week ago, a lot of people wondered why it would be happening after 25 years of marriage. we have more information now about what likely contributed to the split. in a statement released overnight schwarzenegger says after he left the california governor s office in january he told his wife maria he fathered a child with a long-time member of their household staff. he says it happened more than a decade ago before he was elected and apparently he s provided financial support to the woman and child from the start. we have the latest details in a live report ahead. also ahead, a today investigation that will probably shock and surprise parents. how far would your kids go to get better grades? a growing number of college students are abusing a prescription drug claiming it can help them focus and study harder and it can be as easy to get as a trip to the school library. coming up, the resultins of our investigation. and christina christina agus to us about a difficult year for her and her show the voice. let s begin with arnold schwarzenegger. miguel almaguer has details from los angeles. good morning. reporter: meredith, good morning. it was a week ago today that arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver announced their separation in a joint statement at the time saying they were, quote, working on our relationship. that news shocked many and we may now have an answer for the split. i arnold schwarzenegger. i arnold schwarzenegger. reporter: former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has admitted to fathering a child with a member of of his household staff more than a decade ago. in a statement to nbc news early this morning, schwarzenegger said, after leaving the governor s office i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. last week, after first announcingi inthe speed of ligh schwarzenegger spoke about the marriage at a los angeles dinner. we both love each other very much. we are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children. and we are taking one day at a time. reporter: the unidentified staffer has retired after working for the family for more than 20 years. before schwarzenegger s statement admitting the affair she told the l.a. times which broke the story that her then husband had fathered the child. schwarzenegger has reportedly taken financial responsibility for the child from the start. schwarzenegger and shriver married in 1986. schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder turned actor, shriver a member of the kennedy political dynasty who became a network news correspondent, working for years for nbc news. together, they had four children and by 2003, schwarzenegger decided to run for state office. i am going to run for governor of the state of california. reporter: shriver defended her husband on the campaign trail after he was accused of groping women during his time as an actor. you can listen to people who have never met arnold or met him for seconds years ago. or you can listen to me. i advise you to listen to me. reporter: this year the couple faced drastic change and deep personal tragedy. in january, schwarzenegger left office, while weeks later shriver lost her father sargent shriver. in recent months the former governor pursued work in hollywood as the former first lady remained devoted to women s issues. at their last public appearance together ten days ago she was spotted without her wedding ring. last week after the separation was first made public, shriver sent a twitter message. thank you for all the kindness, support and compassion. i am hum bl humbled by the love. thank you. in his statement after admitting paternity, schwarzenegger said, there are no excuses and i take full responsibility for the hurt i have caused. i have apologized to maria, my children and my family. i am truly sorry. last week patrick schwarzenegger, maria and arnold s son tweeted, quote, appreciate your messages. small speedboat in life. luckily we own hummers. we ll cruise over it. all will be okay. no public comment today from maria shriver. meredith? thank you very much, miguel almaguer. we ll have more in the next half hour. here s matt. security is high in dublin where queen elizabeth ii is making an historic visit. just hours before her arrival police found a small bomb on a bus on the outskirts of the city. john yang has details. good morning to you. good morning. you see queen elizabeth i in irish green, the first english modern to set foot on independent irish soil ever. this discovery of a bomb on a bus miles west of dublin. officials detonated the bomb safely this morning. this is in the wake of dissidents who want britain out of northern ireland saying the queen would be a fair target while she s here on irish soil. there is a massive security presence. 8,000 national police, 2,000 military personnel. a bigger presence even that s planned next week when president obama visits. john yang reporting for us on this story. thank you very much. it s now seven minutes after the hour. here s meredith. matt, thank you. we are learning new details about the sex crime case against dominique strauss kahn. he s locked up without bail this morning. jeff rossen has the latest. good morning to you. reporter: hi, meredith. good morning to you. this is a man who s used to the finer things in life. what a change she s had. last night, slept in a jail cell about 11 by 13. we have set this up to give you an idea how big or small that is. you can barely walk around in here, let alone touch your hands to both walls. we are learning more about what police say what happened inside the hotel room over the weekend. the official criminal complaint we obtained is so graphic and violent we can barely mention half of it on morning television. what s emerginging this morning also is a possible new defense theory that it wasn t an attack at all but something they both wanted. dominique strauss kahn, step up. reporter: the power broker in the power suit sure didn t look it monday. unshaven, tired and dishevelled in court, listening to the accusations against him. rape in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree. reporter: a fall from grace in just days. saturday he was living the life in a ritzy manhattan hotel. by sunday, hauled off in handcuffs and this morning, dominique strauss-kahn, one of the world s most powerful men, head of the international monetary fund and a favorite in the french presidential election is now just another inmate at new york s feared reikers island. he has no human contact other than a person dropping food and an hour outside by himself in a yard. reporter: police say he sexually assaulted a hotel maid twice in his suite at the sofitel in times square. according to the complaint he shut the door, attempted to pull down her pantyhose and engaged in oral sexual conduct by forcible compulsion but his defense lawyer hinted at another theory that it was consensual. we ll prove in our judgment that mr. strauss-kahn is innocent of the charges. reporter: in the courtroom monday the judge called strauss-kahn an extreme flight risk no bail. the risk would be that he d leave, go to france and never come back and the french government would not be helpful to the united states. reporter: he s married to his third wife, an american-born journalist who flew to new york monday to support her husband. and this with young woman says in 2002 he attacked her. no charges filed. in 2008, strauss-kahn admitted to an affair with a lower level employee at the imf. the press is in a feeding frenzy. he told a newspaper the obstacles are money, women and my judaism. yes, i love women and so what? he said. he worried current french president nicolas sarkozy would try to frame him with a fake rape with the victim promised $500,000 or a million euros to invent the story. the case may turn on the dna, the forensic evidence. police say they gatherered a good deal of it at the hotel room. now they are waiting to see if it matches strauss-kahn s dna. as for the accuser, a 32-year-old african immigrant who lives in the bronx. we spoke with her brother. off camera he said she s in tears, distraught. she has a 9-year-old daughter and works and does everything for her. jeff rossen reporting from queens, new york. michelle kosinski is in paris. good morning to you. even as i say good morning we are getting reports now the man has been charged, sent to prison. i don t know if people in france know about reichers island, but it s notorious here. what s the reaction in the press, on the streets? reporter: that s all they are talking about. french president nicolas sarkozy asked his political party to treat it with dignity and without emotion. strauss-kahn is someone many here saw as the next president of france so this is the story. his face, looking defeated is on the covers. this one says the prison. look at this k.o. which means knockout here as well. this is a system in which the press are not allowed to show the accused in handcuffs. there are no cameras in the courtroom. i would say reaction ranges from disbelief to outright disgust. to see their vip paraded before cameras, socialists call it inhumane and many here understand the transparency of american justice but say it looks like a humiliating public exhibition like something from ancient times, matt. michelle kosinski reporting from paris, thank you very much. meredith? linda fairstein was the chief of crimes in the district attorney s office for years and is a crime novelist. good morning. hi. there are some people in france speculating that it could be a political set-up. meanwhile in this country investigators think they are building a good case based on evidence uncovered at the hotel. the positive i.d. by the alleged victim and the fact that he was arrested at the airport before leavinging to return to france. you have been doing it for some 25 years. you know the system. what s your take on this? it seems the immediate outcry the woman made, the crime scene finding, forensic evidence of value in the hotel that the prosecution was building a strong case. the nypd speciale victims unit and d.a. s unit. they are extremely experienced, aware of false reporting. it s a real issue in sex crimes. i m not inside the case, but i can t imagine they haven t considered things like whether or not this could have been a set-up. i assume it was examined from the beginning. strauss-kahn has admitted a dna sample. combined with what s at the hotel what will prosecutors be looking at? that was his hotel room, so his dna should be all over the room. where it is will be significant. if it s on towels and linens, that s not extraordinary. if it s on the clothing of the woman who claims he was attacked that s hugely significant in favor of the prosecution. he was accused of sexual assault in 2002 by another woman. no charges were pressed although they may be now. there are rumors. he does have an infamous reputation in france. one woman say she s been cornered by him. how does this influence things now? it will influence public opinion. some of it may be used by the prosecution if they are, in fact, legitimate claims. they may not be able to use them on a direct case, for example, if there is a trial. should he take the stand in his own defense and present his good character. then the prosecution can really cross examine him about bad acts. let s look at what the defense may be using in building the case. yesterday at a hearing the lawyer said for strauss-kahn, the evidence won t be consistent with a forcible encounter hinting that the two had sex but it was consensual and the lawyers also pointed out he made a phone call from the airport telling the hotel he had left his cell phone behind. why do that if he were trying to flee? how strong is the case? the prosecution case looks stronger. the lawyer is extremely talented, really good. the first defense was he has an alibi. he wasn t there. he was lunching. then it becomes, well, gee, if there was sex she must have wanted it and it was consensual. dna won t tell you if there was force. just an exchange. if he cannot get out of the defense part that suggests there was a sexual encounter the defense always goes to consent. calling from the airport is interesting. you can play it either way. he knew he got out of the hotel okay. he wasn t stopped, arrested there. he might have thought he had gotten away with whatever happened and made the call from the airport thinking his power perhaps had worked to prevent the woman from making a charge. hard to tell. linda fairstein, thank you very much. thank you. here s matt. thank you. now the insure rishrinking gop the presidential race. chuck todd, good morning. what do you think? good morning. the republican portion of the presidential race, the preseason part and the circus sideshow is coming to an end. hello, everybody. reporter: for weeks, donald trump insisted he was serious about his presidential aspirations. they think i m out promoting celebrity apprentice. that s not the reason. i don t need the publicity. reporter: on monday at an nbc entertainment presentation for advertisers and with the future of the show hanging in the balance, trump ended his flirtation with the white house run. gary, you re fired. i have decided we ll continue onward with celebrity apprentice. we ll continue making lots of money for charity. i will not be running for president, as much as i would like to. [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank everybody very much. reporter: trump had shown strength in early gop polls thanks to support from tea party conservatives who responded to his confrontational style and attention for pushing the conspiracy theory that president obama wasn t born on the united states as trump did on today. i would like to show him show the birth certificate and i hope he can. i would love him to gom come out with a birth certificate. reporter: president obama put an end to that talk in april by releasing his original birth certificate and three days later skewering trump at the white house house correspondents dinner as an unamused trump sat in the audience. no one is prouder to put this matter to rest than the donald. that s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like did we fake the moon landing? reporter: the next night trump s celebrity apprentice was interrupted by president obama breaking major news, further deflating trump. the united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. reporter: trump follows mike huckabee who, like trump, said he d rather stick with his tv career. all the factors say go, but my heart says no. reporter: after huckabee the biggest question mark is mitch daniels who s being pushed to run by many george w. bush supporters, and two women who could shake up the race, michelle bachmann and sarah palin have yet to reveal their plans. analysts say the entire field benefits from trump s departure. most republican strategists took a big sigh of relief upon hearing that donald trump was not running. reporter: under the radar yesterday mitt romney, the front runner on the republican side raised over $10 million in one day of fund-raising. that s the work of presidential politics and why everybody considers him a front runner. chuck todd, good to have you here. now to the other top stories of the morning by ann curry at the news desk. good morning. we begin with heart break along the banks of the mississippi river where residents hope their homes can be saved from flooding. with several flood gates open engineers are keeping watch to be sure no cracks or holes break through further endangering the levee. so far engineers say the levee is holding strong. early this morning nato air strikes pounded two government buildings in tripoli. the strikes at the interior ministry. officials are reporting the libyan oil minister deflected and fled to tunisia. nato aircrafts clashed with pakistani overnight near the border with afghanistan. two soldiers were wounded after progress from senator john kerry s visit to islamabad. pakistan said it would return the tail of a classified helicopter destroyed on the raid on osama bin laden s compound. and astronauts on the shuttle endeavour are at work already inspecting the shuttle for damage it could have incurred during lift-off. today they woke up to beautiful day the song gabrielle giffords chose for mark kelly on a previous mission. a passenger on a flight to florida monday snapped this photo giving us a rare glimpse of lift-off from above the clouds. another reason to be happy about air traffic control. now back to matt, meredith and al. you had to know that was the shuttle or that could look like the start of something bad. what a sight though. isn t it? wow. ann, thank you very much. mr. roker with a first check of the weather. it s raining. boy, it s raining here. it is. it will keep going. let s take a quick look and show you what is going on across the country. risk of storms across the northeast with a lot of rain. and rain and snow out west. sunshine from the plains all the way down to the gulf with temperatures around much of the country about 10 to 15 degrees below normal. that s what s going on around the country, and here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. we continued to see scattered showers across virginia, and west virginia and columbia. and these will be with us from time to time without the morning. right now getting flooding in the panhandle of west virginia. and there is a slight risk an afternoon storm could produce wind damage later today. more of the same on wednesday. thursday and friday, we have a that s your latest weather. matt? al, thank you very much. just ahead, more from the announcement that arnold schwarzenegger has made. he fathered a child with a member of his household staff some ten years ago. how a high profile couple could survive something like this. but first, this is today on nbc. i m drinkin dunkin . dunkin iced latte. iced dunkin decaf. estoy tomando café helado. large caramel iced with skim. one shot of hazelnut, iced, cream and sugar. i wouldn t want it any other way. get your iced coffee your way. america runs on dunkin coffee. coming up, a well respected teacher accused of molesting a young student, but it was all a lie. he ll share his story. and an eye-opening investigation on so-called smart drugs abused by college students for better grades after your local news. there s a place where everyone feels at home. where the company, the conversation, and the food make all who enter feel welcome. a place that feels as warm with a crowd. as it does with just a friend. it s a place you ll find town house crackers. because they re part of what makes your place the place. welcome to town house. where good times reside. you know that comes with a private island. really? 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(announcer) some use hydrogenated oil. reddi-wip s uses real dairy cream. nothing s more real than reddi-wip. good morning. it s 7:26 on this tuesday, the 17th of may. prince george s changing his plea on corruption charges. he is accused from taking cash in return for help from developers. we will take a break and come back and look at a weather forecast. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. good morning. there is flooding in the panhandle of west virginia. scattered showers on and off throughout the day. we could get heavier downpours that could cause flooding. and more of the same tomorrow. tom coming in from the eastern shore jammed off the bay bridge with an accident on the westbound span, an overturned car. and 395 jammed, an accident before 7:30 on a tuesday morning, the 17th day of may, 2011. just take it in. absorb the misery out there. it has been pouring for the last couple of hours. the good news for these people is al says it will rain until friday. they re stuck outside. we were supposed to go out there. not a chance. didn t happen. inside, very happily inside studio 1a i m matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. ahead a today hidden camera investigation exposes what some kids call study buddies. we are talking about a prescription drug being abused on college campuses to get better grades. we found them buying it illegally in the library at a school. our investigation ahead. also ahead it s been a roller coaster year for pop star christina aguilera. a divorce, the national anthem flub at the super bowl, a case of public intoxication. now she s finding success as a coach on the voice. christina will be here talking about it in a live interview. let s begin with more on the overnight stunner from arnold schwarzenegger that he fathered ale child more than ten years ago with a woman who worked in his home. natalie morales has more. there is no comment from maria shriver but over the years the marriage has been the source of much public scrutiny with reported troubles and allegations schwarzenegger had groped women. many say it was maria s enduring support that allowed them to become one of america s most powerful couples. maria shriver, a member of the kennedy family diynasty was a member of the nbc news group. in 2003 she defended schwarzenegger who was accused of groping women during his time as an actor. you can listen to people who never met arnold or met him for five seconds 30 years ago or you can listen to me. reporter: her support then led to his landslide victory. since then the republican foreign born action movie star and the liberal polished member of one of america s most pressle tee prestigious families became a formidable team. maria stood by him becoming one of the most visible first ladies in california as she brought attention to volunteerism and women s issues. that changed when schwarzenegger left office in january. the two effectively began leading separate lives. while schwarzenegger jetted around the world, looking to restart his acting career, maria stayed closer to home, working on her women s empowerment website and spending time with her four children. video of shriver last month showed her without her wedding ring. two months ago on youtube she posted a video talking openly about transition. it s stressful to not know what you are doing next. how did you find your transition? personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, financial. how kid did you get through it? reporter: after the separation was made public, shriver sent a twitter message saying, thank you for the kindness, support and compassion. i am humbled by the love. thank you. according to the los angeles times some of shriver s friends say she was unhappy for years and made no decisions until after her father died this year. thank you very much. bonnie fuller is the editor in chief of hollywood life.com. dr. gail saltz is a today contributor and a psychologist. first of all, he told maria after he left the governor s office. i think that will cause anger in people saying he stayed quiet to protect his political career before he came forward. how do you feel about that? he absolutely stayed quiet to protect his political career and his marriage. she was such an asset to him. she stood by him all those years and he knew it would be devastating that somebody so close to them that she had known for 20 years was the person who had cheated with him and he fathered a child with. and because she stood by him in 2003 and made that statement and to find this out some ten years later. makes her look like a fool. when you think about it, he knew this before he ran for public office. correct. he must have felt he could keep the secret, despite the fact that any public official in this country faces enormous scrutiny. he did keep it secret. the issue is when you think about infidelity, what s painful? what s painful is betrayal. this is a different kind and level of betrayal when you keep a secret that you had an affair with someone who was in the home and now there is living proof and you kept that a secret in the service of your career instead of putting your wife s concerns first. they are both survivors. what struck me is not maria and arnold so much but the kids. the four children range in age from 14 to 21. i would think as someone who counsels individuals and couples they have to put personal anger aside to keep their kids in a protected place. they have to try to protect their children, work it out between themselves. and work as a family so that the children can maintain a good mother and a good father. i would say i feel what s terrible to some degree or will be difficult is this child who believed that one person was his father for the first decade of his growing up who is now going to discover that another person is his father. that will be painful. what s also going to be difficult is that i m sure that maria and arnold s children knew this child well and knew the woman who he had an affair with. so that s very confusing. they were in their household for 20 years. they probably played with this child growing up and the child played with them. so the whole relationship is going to be extremely complicated between all of them. go ahead. what the shame is normally i would say a 25-year marriage, even if it ends i would say is a successful marriage. that s a quarter century. that s really good. unfortunately, this is going to taint all of that. we have all seen cases in the past where some marriages survive after this, others fail. is there a rule of thumb? what allows a marriage to succeed and what generally ends a marriage after something like this? if people get together and understand what brought them together in the first place and that s still there. and they acknowledge how important the life narrative they have shared together is and that turns out to be valuable to them. to these people that could be the case. to a kennedy family who knows how important a life history is to the meaning of the rest of their lives, that s a possibility. i don t count it out completely. ladies, thanks. good seeing you both. it s 7:37. let s get a check of the weather from al. at s get a check of the weatr from al. we have got a mess on both coasts. let s start in the a double barrel low is circling around and bringing the moisture off the atlantic. look at the rain we re getting, and we re talking about flood watches and flash flood watches from virginia all the way up into new england. and some areas picking up two to three inches, and locally we could see four inches of rain in the next 24 hours. we have another big system barrelling onshore bringing rain from los angeles to the pacific northwest. and then we re talking about snowfall. some areas could pick up a foot and a half. we had occasional showers overnight. good morning, i am tom kierein. radar showing heavier downpours in culpepper down towards charlottesville. and then there is flooding in morgan and berkeley counties. eastern shore getting heavier downpours and later today heavier downpours could cause flooding anywhere in the region, and also a passing thunderstorm with damaging winds, and more on a day like today you want to keep track of your weather all day long. check out weather channel on cable and weather.com online. matt? 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reporter: a drug deal is about to go down. i can sell four today. reporter: the drug for sale, one of the most popular with college kids nationwide. the attention deficit pill adderall. it s highly addictive. when you play with addictive substances you get burned. reporter: for years it s been prescribed as the go-to drug for kids with adhd, increasing attention span and focus by boosting dopamine levels in the brain. our investigation found many college students are abusinging adderall buying and taking it illegally without a prescription. when i m an adderall and i m looking at the textbook. i forget everything else around me. it s given me the boost to work nonstop for ten hours a day. reporter: jenny and mike, not their real names, are college students at the top of their class, thanks, they say, to adderall, better known as campus as the smart drug or study buddies. one university found over half of the seniors took it to increase their grades. baseball players take steroids to be the best. students take adderall. reporter: it s an academic steroid? steroids for school. reporter: and students say it is a necessity to handle the load of papers, exams and cram sessions. if everyone else is doing it, why shouldn t i get the advantage? reporter: of all your friends, no one has expressed feared like, yikes, this isn t my prescription, maybe i shouldn t take it? no. they want to do well in school. reporter: getting it without a prescription is a felony. we found scoring a stash is as easy as a trip to the school library. we sent a today show intern to the library. do you know anyone that s here that has adderall? reporter: it took her less than 30 seconds to find a student selling it. how much? $5. reporter: watch as he takes us to show her the pills. we said we were out of cash so she gave us a free tutorial on how to get our own prescription. i guarantee you with half the symptoms you can google. it s in their interest to prescribe it to you because you have to go back once a month, check in and give them money. i went to a doctor and told them i couldn t focus. by the end i walked out with a prescription. reporter: it was that easy? incredibly easy, yeah. reporter: experts say getting good grades with adderall may not be as easy as they think. does it make kids smarter? no. reporter: dr. walcott is from the national institute on drug abuse. she said it stimulates areas of the brain to help focus and stay awake. in some instances this type of drug can hurt you. for example, when people want to do creative or i imaginative thinking. reporter: creative writing, essays, painting could be negatively impacted by taking it? this is correct. reporter: in some kids adderall can have a dark side. it s a schedule ii narcotic as dangerous as cocaine or meth. for all intents and purposes it s speed. you are putting something in your brain to make you think you re okay when you re not. next thing you know you ll be spinning out of control. reporter: that s what happened to ali, a college freshman, an honor student struggling to keep up with school. a friend gave her am adderall. you become dependent. you use it one night to study for a test like i did. next thing you know you re using it every night to study. reporter: within weeks ali was addicted, buying and taking several pills a day with devastating side effects. mood swings, insomnia, panic attacks and depression. soon her grades began to slip. it snuck up on me. i went from being on an academic scholarship to being on academic probation within six months to being asked to withdraw from the university after a year because of adderall. reporter: now in recovery, ali said her family had no idea. experts worry parents may look the other way, as long as their kids do well in school. it s like a don t ask, don t tell thing. they don t want to know. they re paying for the report card. reporter: if they get the desired results, don t tell me how you did it. don t tell me how you did it. experts say 1 in 10 kid wills become addicted and side effects include psychosis, stroke and even death. never take it unless it is prescribed by a doctor. the risks aren t worth it. and kids that learned how to fake the symptoms and get the prescription is a wake-up call for doctors as well. at least reputable ones. drug experts say the drug has been overprescribed and that s contributing to the epidemic and the fact that students feel they are taking a vitamin. they think it s safe. parents need to get involved and say this is dangerous, don t do it. amy, thank you so much. ahead, a teacher struggling to redeem his career and reputation after being falsely accused of molesting a young student. he ll speak out in a live interview. first, these messages. 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a virginia teacher was accused of sexually molesting a female student. he was arrested and tried but it was all a lie. he said the false allegation made his life a nightmare. he s here for a live interview. on a lighter note, who hasn t planned what they would do if they hit the lottery? a couple from california won $266 million and they have an exciting way to spend some of the winnings. they will be here to explain later on. it doesn t include us. first a check of the top stories from ann curry. good morning. nice to see you inside. in the news, a bomb was defused in dublin, ireland before queen elizabeth began her first state visit there. the device was destroyed after it was found on a bus. a second suspicious device was soon found after but it was a hoax. the chief of the international monetary fund is being held without bail this morning in one of new york s most notorious jails. dominique strauss-kahn was denied bail after prosecutors warned he might flee to france. he s being held and will be back in court on friday. residents on the mississippi river are gathering what they can from their homes. the rising waters gushing from the open morganza spillway are taking longer than expected to reach the towns in their path. the spillway opened saturday to devertical flooding from baton rouge and new orleans. a criminal trial is now under way of nancy kerrigan s father. mara schiavocampo is in massachusetts with the latest on the story. good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. what a sad day for the kerrigan family. a father dead, his son accused of manslaughter. prosecutors say nancy s brother mark choked his father in january of 2010 causing him to have a heart attack and die, but the family said the father had pre-existing health conditions and they are standing behind the accused. famed olympic figure skater, nancy kerrigan, a heart breaking drama in court as prosecutors allege her brother mark is responsible for the death of her father dan. this defendant grabbed his father around the neck with such force and shoved him to the kitchen floor. reporter: during opening statements in front of a packed court monday the prosecution claimed mark was angry that he couldn t use the phone and choked his father, causing him to fall and have a heart attack. they say he was drunk, presenting as evidence a bottle of scotch they claim he practically finished off. then more dramatic evidence as jurors heard the frantic 911 call made by kerrigan s mother brenda. oh, my god. i hope he s not dead. oh, my god. please come right away. what happened to him, ma am? he fell on the floor. oh, my god. reporter: the defense paints a different picture claiming 70-year-old dan kerrigan had existing medical problems. he had high blood pressure. he had high cholesterol. he had diabetes and he smoked. that s the evidence of what killed him. reporter: the kerrigan family stands by mark. sitting behind him on day one of the trial. nancy kerrigan is on the list of potential witnesses to be called but legal analysts say it would be too risky to put her on the stand against her brother. the jury will look at her and say, oh, that s our beloved olympic champion. reporter: he cried openly faced with the charges and the death of his father, a loss felt deeply by the family, now brought together in court. we reached out to the kerrigan family for comment about the beginning of the trial, but we didn t get a response. ann? mara schiavocampo, thank you so much. it was an emotional day on monday for a delaware girl celebrating her 4th birthday. she said she wanted onlile one thing for her birthday, a picture of her mother, an army captain serving in kuwait. she got more than a picture. she got the real thing when her mom walked through the door. the reunion made it the best birthday ever. can t get enough of that. it s 8:05. let s get a check of the weather from al outside in the rain. it finally stopped. at least a little bit of a break. all the folks wearing the kathie lee and hoda pajama party t-shirts. they got a free shirt. not bad. it s soa of these folks wearing kathie lee and hoda t-shirts. let s check it out and show you the pick city of the day, hagerstown, maryland. out west, anywhere from 9 to 21 degrees below normal. and temperatures working their way into the 50s in the upper mississippi and ohio river valleys. we have a risk of strong storms here in the northeast, and mid at lanic states, wet weather. and mountain snows in the sierras. a mess. birthday boy? gabriel. all right. here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. scattered showers near washington. and northern prince george county getting rain. and then to the west, thunder showers, and a moderate shower there in western loudoun county. and then later today we could get heavy downpours this afternoon and early this evening, some of which could produce flooding. and that s your latest weather. matt? i ll take it, al, thank you very much. up next, pop superstar christina aguilera on putting recent struggles behind her and finding a big hit with the voice after this. obviously only one of you will survive. liquid miracle-gro.-to-ue it s a revolutionary way to grow a great garden. liquafeed makes feeding as easy as watering. no measuring, mixing or guessing. just attach, insert and feed. plants get the perfect balance. of water and nutrients. to grow twice as big. liquafeed from miracle-gro. and prevent weeds up to 3 months with miracle-gro garden weed preventer. no hoops to jump through to get it? 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you re trying to find it s not a matter of range or how many ad libs or your vocal technicality. you have to be moved and inspired almost back before when you were moved by billy holiday or aretha franklin, before you could see their faces all the time. back to the time of listening to a 45 or an album without the visual. it s great. i m so excited and inspired doing the show. it stands behind its name, the voice . one thing that s different is you re not a judge as much as a coach. you get to offer advice. one thing you said to a contestant recently. you said don t worry about the words. i never worry about the words. i don t know if you were poking fun at the national anthem or giving real advice. what would you tell people in particular about fame? they are going to be more famous after this show than you were after ten years of your career. hopefully. that s part of my being inspired is by helping people along their journey. i just hope to be a positive influence. i think it comes from a great place. this was a year of many highs and lows and different things and going through a divorce in the public eye where things will be magnified and speculated about and judged. these people have to know it going into hey, if you want a career in doing this, you have to roll with the punches. you will have highs and lows, but keep going. every time you take the stage it s another opportunity to prove to the world and to yourself that you are stronger and get up there a better person. i was reading about you last night to prepare for this. there have been tough times this year. the national anthem, the fall at the grammys. almost fall, yes. the public intoxication. there was a time when your friends, the people who love you the most tried to intervene in your life. is that true or anal exaggeration? i think there were definite disgruntled ex-employees along the way. some people want to kick you when you re down. for me i have been in this business a long time. i have been singing since i was 6. you re going to have high and low moments. but right now i feel i have found my true friends and the people who are there for me and stuck by me and just supported me. when you go through a hard time you don t need people judging and ridiculing you. people around you will support you and love you through whatever difficult times you are going through. you had the friends because there were people not attacking you who were genuinely concerned about you. well, only i know that on a deeper level of whose intentions were what. after you have been in the business for some time you are able to weed out, is this person on a power trip, feeding frenzy of this is great for you. some people like the drama of creatinging it around you to make themselves look better that, oh, i saved her when really you just have to be a friend and support. recording artists say, all of what i go through goes into my music. you have great stuff to put into your music. great material. it will be an introspective album. but with songs like beautiful or fighter, finding the beauty within imperfections and overcoming struggles in hard times, rising above it all, that s what the record is about for me. good stuff. christina aguilera, good luck on the voice. thanks for coming by. thank you. catch the voice at 10:00/9:00 central on nbc. next, a well respected teacher arrested for molesting a young student, but the charge was a lie. his story after this. choice for my patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that s not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there s no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don t take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you re 75 or older, have kidney problems or a bleeding condition, like stomach ulcers. or if you take aspirin products, nsaids, or blood thinners. tell your doctor about all medicines you take, any planned medical or dental procedures, and don t stop taking pradaxa without your doctor s approval, as stopping may increase your stroke risk. other side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem, ask your doctor if pradaxa can reduce your risk of a stroke. sure. cake or pie? 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norah o donnell, thank you very much. sean and karen lanigan are with us exclusively now. good morning. good morning, meredith. what a nightmare you have been through and you are still living though you were found not guilty of molesting this student. i want to go to january of last year when you were pulled out of the classroom, taken into another room with police officers. correct. and basically told nothing for a while. it was confusing, right? finally they revealed this student was going to accuse you of molesting her. yes. for 25 minutes it was small chit-chat of who i am, what i do, how i interact with students. i didn t really understand they two detectives were talking to me. 25 minutes into it the lead detective said, you have no idea why you re here, do you. i said, no, i really don t. what s going through your mind when they told you the accusation? i was stunned. absolutely shocked. i love all my students. just absolutely stunned that a student would make these accusations. nine days later you were formally charged. karen, he s going to go off to jail, tells you this is happening and your children. you have three very young children. describe what it was like in your home that day. it was devastating. i ran home from work, comforted him and tried to discuss with our children, prepare them for what was going to be happening. it was unbelievable. i couldn t imagine the emotional distress. you wanted to take it to trial. they offered you a plea bargain and you said, no way, i didn t do anything. it went to trial and after 47 minutes of deliberation the jury came back. you think, great, everything s okay now. no, it isn t. no. i thought the world was off my shoulders when the jury came back. i thought i would be back in school the next day after memorial day weekend, back on the soccer field and reunited with the community of centre ridge. but i was reinstated within 12 hours of soccer. i was coaching my kids, the other teams i had. you weren t allowed back to the elementary school. what s the reason if you were not guilty? i never understood why i was not able to come back. i petitioned the principal to come back for graduation, see the kids, say hello and he denied the request. you had to leave your job because of that. what s it done to your family? overall it made us stronger as a family. we have bonded together to try to get through this tough ordeal. but it put us in a huge financial bind. $125,000 just in legal debt alone. yes. that and it s still rising. emotionally it s been a nightmare. we both don t sleep well anymore. i m in therapy just trying to deal with the stress of putting it behind us. it s a complicated story, your life story obviously, but in terms of resolution do you plan to sue the school, the police department, the parents of the child? right now i m trying to get my job secured for the fall and trying to secure as much money as we can. my lawyers will handle everything else after that. sean and karen, thank you very much for joining us. this can t be easy for your family. appreciate it. thank you very much. now here s matt. meredith, thank you very much. broadway joe namath on the plaza here. great to see you. i just want to quickly say you are involved in something important. the university of alabama, you know the area deaf stavastated tornadoes. what are you trying to do? everything we can do. i will be there sunday and hopefully throughout the week. nick saban our football coach has the team out there. everyone is lending a hand. it s a team effort just like life. a lot of people are suffering. we have to help out. you went to school there? it takes your breath away, knocks the wind out of you. people had their homes, their history and you look at the rest of the country and what s going on, too. it s tough. we ve got to lend a hand. they can find out more on broadwayjoe.com? yes. broadwayjoe tv. yes. and joe, throw this. your biggest fan. a little button-hook. i am familiar with this. right over oh! he s down! he s down! we re back with much we re b today. 8:26 is your time now. good morning. prince george s county executive johnson will be rearraigned in federal court today, and that s a strong indication he will change his plea on corruption charges. he is accused of taking cash and 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. radar showing heavy downpours and thunder and lightning 75 miles west of washington. elsewhere, a few light scattered showers. we could have a slight chance of an isolated storm producing wind damage and there is flooding from heavy downpours this afternoon. more of the same tomorrow. and then the drive in on 66 is jammed with another accident reported eastbound outside of manassas. 270 crawling. and an accident reported on 270 south. oh wow, look at that. 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if i could do that i wouldn t need tjob. let s show what you is happening. here in the northeast, and the mid-atlantic states, a risk of strong storms. and rain back into the pacific northwest. and sunshine through texas up through the central plains. and tomorrow, more sunshine and mild weather. and down in the gulf coast, more heavy rain. thunderstorms out in the rockies and the pacific northwest and windy in central texas. that s what s going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. cloudy and cool in the low mid-60s and radar showing lightning. and later today, we could get some heavier downpours closer to washington, perhaps some flooding as a result, and maybe even an isolated storm producing wind damage, and more of the same later tonight and tomorrow. and then thursday and friday, we have a diminished chance of mainly afternoon n t forget. you can check your weather any time day or night. on a day like today, do it often on the weather channel on cable, weather.com online. now a check of the 100-year-old birth todays with willy.com. the honeysuckle is in bloom and smells so good. such a parasite. what a shame. thomas edison brought it over, you know. he liked it. we have smucker s buddies today. preston root, morristown, new jersey. used to work at metropolitan life insurance for years. so did my dad. a good company. burnie montgomery of columbia, south carolina, is 105. enjoys quilting and attending church. how about that? trust in the good lord and she says you will live forever. we have richard wechsler, san diego, california. one of the prettiest towns in the world. 102. proud w wrwii vet. he received special awards and he s attended his 80th college reunion. moscelene farney of wichita, kansas, 100. lives independently with her two cats. can t beat that for company. takes water exercise. she loves that and she s a happy birthday girl today. we love that. thomas mcdowel of pompano beach, florida. are retired optometrist and real estate developer. not bad for a nice guy. delfina bucci from north providence, rhode island. 100 and loves to dance. a cancer survivor for 44 years. that s beautiful. back to new york. all right, willard. thank you very much. now we say hello to austin andrews, the latest contestant to have the scales tip against him on nbc s the biggest loser couples. austin, good morning. good morning. let s take a look at the numbers here. you started at 396 pounds. yeah. wow. how much now? 235. fantastic. it s so incredible to walk through the rest of my life knowing i m healthy and fit. i love it. did you think you would get to that point? no. i had lost hope. to be chosen for the experience and to go so far and realize it was just coming off week after week is just incredible. you showed so much heart. one thing that revealed so much about your heart is something you are doing to pay it forward. tell us about it. me and courtney were good friends on the show. we wanted to partner together to work with students and teachers and educators to help people, help kids get the weight off and be healthy. i needed the help. i needed someone to step in for me. i want to be that right now. whatever we can do to help. that s where we re at. still think you have a shot at the at-home prize? i m five pounds away from goal. i feel incredible about where i m at. you have already won. i have. i m great where i m at. i love muay thai. i m training at home with a fighting club in l.a. and i might do an amateur fight at some point. meredith likes mai-tais. you look great and what you re doing for the kids is so important. thank you for inspiring them. i think you re great. biggest loser couples airs tonight at 8:00/7:00 central on nbc. up next, mario batali whips up an italian feast in less than a minute. i m not sure about that. first, this is today on nbc. announcer: today s cooking school is brought to you by i can t believe it s not butter. fresh butter taste with 70% less saturated fat than butter. back at 8:39. this morning on today s cooking school, the short order way to make fettucini alfredo. you are starting. let s not waste time. the longest thing that happens here is the pasta cooks. then we have asparagus. you take one, i take another. take a mandolin and shave it. this frightens me. don t be afraid. go like that. keep your fingers away from the blade. just like that? like that. alfredo is confused in america. creamy sauce. you re done. we re going to throw fresh asparagus in there. could bel cel celery, broccoli, anything you like. there is no cream here? no cream. the true alfredo created where they used to make great movies and there were american actors around. we thought we made it for americans but it s a simple butter, parmesan and the noodles. i have chosen green and yellow pasta. why? because it s referred to as wheat and straw, the green and yellow. you can buy it fresh? you can make fresh pasta in less than the time it takes to go to the store but you can use store bought pasta, too. cook it until it s short of al dente. this cooks in a minute. the key to great pasta is understanding that you put a little bit of the pasta water. it makes it seem creamy because the water and butter emulsify. do you throw it in there? it goes right in the pan like so. you don t have to step back. no one s going to get hurt here. just in case. i understand. you have expensive clothes on. and an expensive lawyer. we can throw that lawyer in here with the sauce if it were up to me. how long? cooks for 30 seconds. add the cheese. just dump it on? and while it s on the heat the cheese just forms what looks like a creamy sauce. the asparagus has a little bit of crunch but it s not necessarily cooked like it would be all the way through. you want some crunch? i like a crunch. fantastic. this is delicious. do we grate more cheese on top? we do. are you confident with the grater? i m fine with that. let s grate a little bit on each one. which way? this way? exactly. there you have it. wonderful. back here we have a couple more things. take your pasta. here we have fava beans and fresh greens dressed with lemon juice, olive oil. what s that? orange marmalade. why? it makes it sweet and crazy. when you taste the fava beans in the salad which i will give you a spoon in a second you will notice there is a sugary little thing going on. isn t it good? mm-hmm. we are creating an emulsion here. how long have we been doing this? less than three. gives us enough time to talk about my next project. i m working with monster.com. i created a new job in my new business about how we ll talk over the world of internet tv waves and the internet business has been modified and people are helping me. monster.com will help me find new candidates for the position. they will help me understand, modify and edit this incredible footage from shows like right here, right now. this is a great job for somebody who wants to get into the business. it s an introduction into the world of tv and the world of food. excellent. mario, you are a genius. for this recipe and more, visit today.com. click on food. up next, the winners of a $266 million jackpot are giving back in a big way. first this is today on nbc. this morning on education nation new initiatives to boost college attendance among latino students thanks to an unexpected source. a couple won $266 million last year and they are giving back to their old neighborhood in a big way. we ll talk to them in a moment but first here s miguel almaguer. reporter: 11 miles outside of los angeles you will find the blue collar community of pico rivera, a working class latino neighborhood where generations lived for years and traditions live on as well. from mexican rodeos to softball in the park, community pride runs deep here and families send their children and grandchildren to the town s only high school. el rancho high. it was a welcominging community. reporter: jackie and gi gil cisneros have longstanding ties to the school and the community. my grandfather was mayor. my parents went to high school here. reporter: the couple became the talk of the country when they won the lottery last year. a $266 mega million jackpot, money they are now putting back into the community in the form of a scholarship. going to college and getting your college education is a family commitment. everybody has to be involved. you can t just put it in neut l neutral. the graduation rate is good, over 90%. but the problem is the vast majority of students here never go to college. the scholarship is designed to bridge the gap. former el rancho students like sergio silva, class of 94, say they lack resources and family support. i didn t have the proper guidance, i think. i was three classes a way from transferring and i just stopped going. reporter: for the graduating seniors, scholarship opportunities can play a huge role. we dream big. we dream of schools like nyu and big schools we want to go to. sometimes we can achieve it because of intelligence but we don t have the money to go. reporter: the money will be there and with it the opportunity for change in this community. for today, miguel almaguer. jackie and gilbert are now at el rancho high school along with the president of the hispanic scholarship fund. good morning to you all. good morning. jackie and gilbert, you must be like rock stars at that time school given what you are doing there. how many students do you hope to help? a lot actually. we hope this could continue on for years to come. hundreds, hopefully. thousands maybe. what was your reaction to this, frank? i knew in getting a college degree in every household here which is the goal of these wonderful people will not only change the lives of the students but the entire family and generations to come. i was elated. probably even more so the parents and the students at this school must have been elated to have the opportunity. gil, when you think about the obstacles for latinos in higher education, what comes to mind? what inspired you and jackie to do this? well, kind of reflecting back on my own life and when i went to college. it was pretty much i knew my parents would support whatever decision i would do. but there was no push towards college. there was no college fund. there wasn t money for that. i kind of knew that i was pretty much going to have to do it on my own. luckily for me i was able to receive a scholarship that enabled me to go to college. you know, now that we have the means to do some good, we want to give other students the same opportunity. boy, i m glad you guys won this money. this is a terrific thing for you to do. jackie, have you been able to talk to any of the students there, hear from them what their reaction is to what you re doing? no, not yet. this is kind of the first anyone s going to hear about it is on today show. later in the morning we ll have a community announcement, slash, press conference, if you will. where students, teachers and members of the community will find out about the gifts. are you offering a full ride to students or a partial ride for finishing their college education? it s a small amount of tuition assistance. the program is actually there are two parts to it. there is a community involvement. one person we talked to in the piece there, family. we want to get the family support there. there is a program there to help families understand the importance of college and what it would mean, a college education means but also, too,  there is a financial scholarship portion of it to help kids financially. gil and jackie, congratulations on having a life that s going to have a great deal of meaning for a lot of young people. thanks for your great gift. frank, have fun spending the money with the kids. oh, it s the kids we are focused on and we are excited. up next, we ll catch up with the latest idol to get the boot, james durbin. the latest idol to get the boot, j[ male announcer ] want to achieve more with your money? 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[ male announcer ] scotts naturescapes advanced mulch. good morning. most of the northern virginia and maryland and the district dry now, but in the highlands and central blue ridge, flooding in madison, and greene and paige counties. let s head out and take a look at 395 northbound. jammed. and anacostia bridge jammed up. topside back now with more of today on tuesday morning, may 17, 2011. it s been pouring here in new york city. we are amazed there are still people out on the plaza this morning. we want to thank them for sticking around. being here on a rainy day. pretty much everybody gets on television. and we have wet hair. i look like a drowned rat. i m ann curry here with al roker and natalie morales. on a sad note we are learning more about why arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver separated a week ago. the governor revealed he secretly fathered a child with a long time member of the household staff more than a decade ago, before he was elected. apparently he s provided financial support to the woman and the child. we ll get the latest in a few minutes. also on a different note, answers to your diet dilemmas. can you change your metabolism to burn calories? and what s the truth about, quote, added sugar. and if you re going to exercise what to eat before and after the workout. joy bauer has advice. you know what s going on. i have no idea. you re fantastic. also ahead we ll get ready for another steals & deals, our popular segment. we have a wide variety of products at deeply discounted prices for today viewers. today s theme is father s day. yes! just a month away. jill martin has ideas to get you started. order now. we are trying to make sure she doesn t lose her head over that. we have a serious story to start with. a bomb was defused in dublin, ireland, before queen elizabeth began her first state visit there. it was destroyed after it was found on a bus. a second device was found soon after but it was a hoax. the chief of the international monetary fund is in jail at new york s reichers island after being denied bail. he was arrested after allegedly attempting to rape a hotel maid. his political party in france meets today in the wake of the scandal that may oust the one-time french presidential favorite for 2012. well, today the senate foreign relations committee is holding a hearing on u.s. relations with pakistan. relations were strained after the raid that killed osama bin laden and senator john kerry is just back from pakistan where he tried to bolster ties with islamabad in the war on terror. the crew of endeavour checked the heat shield to ensure there was no damage from monday s launch. wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords picked this morning s wake-up song beautiful day by u2 for mark kelly, her husband. endeavour docks at the space station tomorrow. and in norway, the olympics of facial hair. 200 men from 15 countries competed for best in beard and mustache honors. whoa! 70 americans were among the competitors. the u.s. took home six gold medals. germany took home seven. a german also won the overall winner. oh, my goodness. how much product is in that thing. jealous? i am. to those of us who are folcally challenged, man. that s a lot of mustache wax. my dad would have a mustache with food on it. dad, you have to clean your mustache. no, i m just saving it for later. let s talk about the weather, let s talk about the weather, shall we? yes, i think that s a good idea. we have a big system making its way up the coast, upper level low spinning around and bringing the moisture in from the atlantic. we have flash flood watches and flood watches and flood warnings as well from the virginias up into new england. and we re looking at one to two inches of rain locally in some areas in the next couple hours, and out west, we have another storm system spinning around and that s bringing a lot of moisture as well. in the sierra mountains, we are looking at a half of foot to foot of snow? some of the upper elevations. the radar is showing the district in maryland not getting rain now but central blue ridge into the shenandoah valley getting rain. and then later today, we could get heavy downpours around washington and throughout the region. we might have flooding this afternoon. also a slight risk of a storm-producing damaging winds this afternoon. more of the same on wednesday. thursday that s your latest weather. natalie? al, thank you. we begin with the overnight bomb shell from arnold schwarzenegger. in a statement overnight he said after leaving the california governor s office in january he told his wife he fathered a child with a long-time member of their household staff. nbc s miguel almaguer is in los angeles now with the details. natalie, good morning. it was exactly a week ago today that maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger announced their separation in a joint statement at the time saying, quote, they were working on the future of their relationship. that news shocked many. we may now have a reason for the split. i arnold schwarzenegger. i arnold schwarzenegger. reporter: former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has admitted to fathering a child with a member of of his household staff more than a decade ago. it came before he took office during his 25-year marriage to maria shriver. in a statement to nbc news early this morning, schwarzenegger said, after leaving the governor s office i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. last week, after first announcing the speed of light, schwarzenegger spoke about the marriage at a los angeles dinner. we both love each other very much. we are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children. and we are taking one day at a time. reporter: the unidentified staffer has retired after working for the family for more than 20 years. before schwarzenegger s statement admitting the affair she told the l.a. times which broke the story that her then husband had fathered the child. schwarzenegger has reportedly taken financial responsibility for the child from the start. schwarzenegger and shriver married in 1986. schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder turned actor, shriver a member of the kennedy political dynasty who became a network news correspondent, working for years for nbc news. together, they had four children and by 2003, schwarzenegger decided to run for state office. i am going to run for governor of the state of california. reporter: shriver defended her husband on the campaign trail after he was accused of groping women during his time as an actor. you can listen to people who have never met arnold or met him for seconds years ago. or you can listen to me. i advise you to listen to me. reporter: this year the couple faced drastic change and deep personal tragedy. in january, schwarzenegger left office, while weeks later shriver lost her father sargent shriver. in recent months the former governor pursued work in hollywood as the former first lady remained devoted to women s issues. at their last public appearance together ten days ago she was spotted without her wedding ring. last week after the separation was first made public, shriver sent a twitter message. thank you for all the kindness, support and compassion. i am humbled by the love. thank you. in his statement after admitting paternity, schwarzenegger said, there are no excuses and i take full responsibility for the hurt i have caused. i have apologized to maria, my children and my family. i am truly sorry. this morning there has been no public comment from maria shriver. natalie? all right. miguel almaguer in los angeles this morning. thanks so much. bonnie fuller is here from hollywoodlife.com. good morning. good morning. i know you have been talking about this already this morning. what stands out is that arnold waited until after he left office. it s been a secret for the last ten years. he ran for office back in 2003 knowing this child was his. how do you think he was able to keep this skeleton in his closet for so long? it s amazing, isn t it? i think clearly it was only he and the woman involved that knew the secret and they kept their lips zipped. because she was married there was no it wasn t unusual that she was pregnant. clearly she had the confidence of maria as well. she was a member of the household staff. for 20 years. that s why this must be so extra devastating that she was a confidante of mariano doubt as well. i think this child probably played along with her own children in that house. what the child must be going through as well if the child is learning of this. i m sure the child is learning about this. probably didn t know until recently as well. and that s got to be devastatinging, too, to think you have a father and it turns out it s somebody else. for the schwarzenegger children, i agree. they probably grew up with this child and knew them, not knowing it was a half sibling. all in all it s a tremendous blow to the family. we know maria talked about transition. she delivered a statement on the youtube video talking about changes in her life and what she was going to do next. how will she get through this difficult period in her life? she lost her father this year. now this. she lost her mother over a year ago. she s keeping busy and she s a strong woman. she s a very strong woman. she also has a tremendous family support. she still has a large family. she has children and she s very talented. she had a great career. she talked about a videotape about transition and she stood by this man. people trusted her when she said he didn t cheat. now she s got to re-evaluate what s most important to her, what she can do next. i bet she comes back to work. bonnie fuller, thank you for your perspective this morning. now here s al. time for joy s diet s.o.s., answers to our daily diet dilemmas. joy bauer has the bottom line on everything from changing your metabolism to the truth about sugar to what to eat before and after a workout. hi, al. we ll go to skype. this is from maryland. valerie is there. and a friend. is that your daughter? yes. what s the question? can metabolism be changed at all or is there a way to speed it up as you get older? yes. great question. there are things you can do to slightly rev your metabolism. first is exercise. cardio, anything that gets your heart going. biking, dancing, walking, jogging will rev your metabolism while you do it and keep your metabolism elevated for a few hours afterwards. most days of the week do cardio. strength training, weight lifting, lungs, planks, pull-ups increases muscle mass. muscle is three times more metabolically active than fat. do strength training two, three times a week for 10, 15 minutes. when it comes to food think protein. our body works hard to digest protein more than carbohydrates and fat. it doesn t have to be gigantic amounts of protein in breakfast, lunch and dinner. and i bet you will have a rev in your metabolism in the next couple of months. thank you, valerie. whose your daughter s name? leslie. first time we have had a co-host for a question. i love it. kevin is on the phone in california. what s your question? hi, al. hi, joy. i m very confused about the talk about added sugar. is it excess calories that cause weight gain or can excess sugar even if you stay within your daily calorie allowance cause weight gain? calories matter most. if you eat a super high sugar diet but you keep your calories in check for your weight management goal the sugar will not cause weight gain. excessive sugar will cause inflammation throughout the body. it contributes to plaque in your arteries. it s terrible for your skin, elevates triglycerides. so regardless of weight status, everybody needs to minimize the sugar. thanks for the question. thank you, joy. thanks, al. up next, steals & deals for dad. yeah. great gifts at great prices exclusively for today viewers. i want that one. and the best beachwear bargains. first, these messages. ooh-oo, child things are gonna get easier ooh-oo, child, things will get brighter someday, yeah [ male announcer ] wherever you are, whatever it takes, like a good neighbor, state farm is there. state farm is there. we can t guarantee she ll always mind her table manners. we can t guarantee she ll be much help with the yard work. we can t guarantee she ll stay out of your personal space - not that you d want her to - but we can guarantee that petsmart grooming. .will make your dog look great. try us today. with the petsmart grooming look great guarantee , you re happy. or it s free. petsmart. happiness in store.™ [ female announcer ] there s a place called hidden valley where kids not only eat their vegetables, they can t get enough. hidden valley ranch, makes vegetables delectable. with dud, reject, flop, failure, bust. introducing the mccafé frozen strawberry lemonade from mcdonald s. we re tart and tangy with the sweet taste of strawberry. oh, yeah. how do you like me now? 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[ nurse ] i m a nurse. i believe in the power of science and medicine. but i m also human. and i believe in stacking the deck. this morning on jill s steals and deals, looking ahead to father s day. from cuff links to clothing we have great gift ideas that could be perfect for your dad. we have deeply discounted prices just for you. jill martin is here with money saving goodies. just in time for father s day. this will all get delivered. le right. father s day is june 19th. we are planning ahead because if you are like me i wait until the last second. these will be shipped for father s day. we have amazing deals. be patient, go to today.com. you will get a code that will link to the company website. we have deals up to 85% off. neither i nor the today show benefit. we are bringing you fabulous deals. let s get to it. we have great t-shirts and four casual styles. this is very in now. 35 to 45 dollars. the retail price comes in four styles. you see right here in the middle is the depot graphic. dark green, black and cream. then the white polo. then the gray long-sleeved shirt. here is the gray thermal and another set of tees right there. the retail price is $35 to $45. they are sold in bloomingdale s, nba arenas. mark wahlberg, david beckham, matthew mcconaughey are all fans. the deal price is $7. that s amazing. fabulous. over here let s move over. this is for the dad. everyone loves these trunks. the celebrity following, the heat s dwyane wade, russell brand, daniel craig. remail $32. deal price, $7 for a two-pack. that s 78% off. $7 for two. very good. and it s regular shipping. it s not hiked up because of the prices being low. very good. now over here. every dad likes a clean close shave. you have gorgeous razors. this is not something you would normally splurge on. one of our producers tried it and said it was amazing. the retail is $90 which is pricey. but for a father s day gift, hand crafted razor which holds a gi gillette fusion blade. this little ring is nickel plated metal for extreme durability. there is even a pink one. i have a feeling women will want them. the retail is $90. the deal, $18. that s 80% off. comes in a great box. it s a great gift even if you want to give one. a lot of men wouldn t treat themselves to that. i love this. this is the portable charger, doctke docker, alarm clock. great for travel. it s splash proof. retail is 159.99 on a rechargeable battery or ac power. it has an alarm clock. hook up a cd or mp-3 player. the deal is $48. fantastic. that s 70% off. finally over here our high end luxury item. it s the cuff links. these are soldle at the finest jewelers. retail is $395. they come in two styles in multiple colors. they are both sterling silver. you see them here. all in different colors. so the retail again, $395. the deal price, $59. that s 85% off. beautiful. they come in a pouch with a beautiful box and there are all different colors. gorgeous. you see the crocodile em bossed strap as well. great. casual to dressy, wear it with anything. dad will be happy. thank you, jill martin. the five steals & deals products are clothing by sportique apparel, the cotton trunks, five blades luxury razor by e shave, portable stereo aihome and the gorgeous cuff links by justin vanderfair. head to today.com for promotion codes and the websites offering the exclusive bargains to you. coming up in today s kitchen, the right techniques for preparing clams and oysters. we ll show you more after these messages. for those of us who have lactose intolerance, let s raise a glass to cookies just out of the oven. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. 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yes, definitely. clams, oysters. an expert chef will show us how to master the mollusks. i made a paella and i thought, at what point will these clams open? that s not good. they did, but it took a while. if they don t open, they are not done. i need to master them. if they open before you cook them, that s not good either. unless they are talking. talk to us about the weather. pismo beach and all t business let s check it out and show you what is going on. anyway, we have a risk of strong storms along the mid-atlantic. rain and snow out west along the coast. we have sunshine through the gulf coast. that will continue tomorrow up into the upper mississippi river valley. more heavy rain in the northeast and new england. wet weather with snow in the pacific northwest, and sunny and warm throughout texas and it will be windy in central texas. good morning. no rain in washington. most of northern virginia and maryland and west virginia, but as you look at the radar in the central blue ridge region, there is flooding going on there. in greene, madison and orange counties, a watch in effect until 11:00 this morning. we could get heavy downpours closure to washington that could cause flooding. and a storm could produce wind . nbc s new hit show the voice has stepped up the competition, moving into the battle round where contestants are on the same team facing against each other in a series of duets and their team mentor picks one from each battle to advance. vicky martinez is on team cee lo and made it through the first battle round. good morning. congratulations. good morning. you said it was an emotional experience to get past thatle level. totally. what was it like hearing the judges say, we choose you? it was a whirl wind. i just felt like, you know, my heart was just in and out and in and out. they did a lot you didn t get to see. there were people crying. tears coming down. i was hoping, oh, don t show me crying. how tough was nicky dawson as an opponent? you guys were note for note? we were friends from the beginning since we got to l.a. and, you know, for us when he put us together we were like, okay, we ll just make a promise to each other that we are going to make it the best song. it s not about battling each other, we weren t competitive people. so this is justle all about having a good song. that said, is there something about the dynamic, the pressure, intensity that pushes you to perform at a level that you don t normally? i think so. it s like you have one chance to shine. you have to give it your all. they re not doing retakes, oh, you forgot the lyrics. you have to give it your all. it s live, baby. mentored by monica and cee lo green. not bad. congratulations. good luck. thanks for having me. you can catch the voice tonight at 10:00/9:00 central on nbc. up next, we have bargains on the trendiest beachwear. first, these messages. part of my job is teaching my patients how to take insulin. but i ve learned a lot from patients who use flexpen. flexpen comes pre-filled with the insulin i take and i can dial the exact dose of insulin i need. i live my life on the go and need an on-the-go insulin. i don t need to carry a cooler with flexpen. novolog is a fast-acting, man-made insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes. do not inject novolog if you do not plan to eat within 5 to 10 minutes after injection to avoid low blood sugar. tell your healthcare provider about all medicines you take and all of your medical conditions, including if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. the most common side effect of novolog is low blood sugar. other possible side effects include reactions at the injection site. get medical help right away if you experience serious allergic reactions, body rash, trouble with breathing, fast heartbeat or sweating. ask your healthcare provider about novolog flexpen today. learn more about the different insulins available in flexpen at myflexpen.com. flexpen, insulin delivery that goes with you. 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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not hard. i will show you how. you can try one after me. get your oyster knife to the heel of the oyster, give it a pop. a nice little wipe and there is a muscle to the left-hand side. give it a scrape. put it in here? turn it up so you have a pocket there. a ledge. yep, give it a wiggle and a twist. then take off the top, put it in there. turn it around and you have a muscle right there. give it ale little scrape. perfect. that s it? yeah,le chill it down. when you go to buy oysters and clams what do you look for to buy them fresh? you want them heavy. if it s a big oyster, you want them nice and heavy. you can t have a light oyster. what kind do you like? west coast, east coast? i like west coast. they are more cucumber-y. this one s not going to open. so give up and move on? let it relax a little bit. massage them, sing? give them a rub. so just put your knife at the top like this. pop it open and scrape. there are two muscles on this one. so scrape like this. if you re serving them fresh it s an easy sauce. what is the sauce we are making? the sauce for the oysters is a mignonette. this is rice wine vinegar, seasons and unseasoned. one is more fruity than the other a bit like you. all right, april. whoo! then some shallots and a little bit of cilantro. it s very aromatic. give it a taste, a stir. cocktails. i love cocktails. me, too. you can eat it on anything, cocktail sauce. i had never seen it until i came to new york. people love it. i have chili, horseradish, lemon to make it bright. little bit of vinegar. another pop. and then lemon juice. you can just give it a stir while i get some salt. not too much salt because the brine you don t want to kill it with salt. how is it? fantastic. it s nice. thank you so much. hi! i love cocktail sauce. have some. bottoms up. we ll have more coming up. april, thank you so much. suze orman is out there, raring to go. all that after your local news and weather. good morning. 9:56 is the time right now. i am barbara harrison. in the news at this hour police r looking for two suspects after two men were shot and killed. it happened around 2:00 this morning. both men were pronounced dead on the scene. and jack johnson will be re-arraigned in federal court today and that s a strong indication that he will change his plea on corruption charges. he previously pleaded not guilty. he is accused of taking cash and contributions from developers in exchange for favors and trying to cover it up. we have heavy rain that is producing flooding around the central blue ridge this morning and further north we don t have hardly any rain right now but later today we may get heavier downpours this afternoon, closer to washington. and there is a slight risk, an isolated storm could produce wind damage. more of the same tomorrow. and new york avenue remains backed up through the work zone here at florida avenue. dry pavement at least for the moment. and then on the beltway, looks decent, inner loop and outer loop looking the same. here is what we are looking on for news4 at 5:00. a bargain on four wheels. why your car may be worth more at 190 miles per hour, the wind will literally lift ordinary windshield wipers off the glass. so, did we build a slower car? or design wipers that could handle anything? what do you think? the cadillac cts-v, the world s fastest production sedan. we don t just make luxury cars, we make cadillacs captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. we actually made it to booze day tuesday, the 17th of may. it is dreary and nasty outside. that doesn t matter, we are going to have a party here. and we are going to have a party on thursday. we are not going to get out of our pajamas for it. we know sometimes you guys are in bed at this hour in your pjs and watching us. we decided wouldn t it be fun if we had our own pajama party. we ll have some guests. we won t tell you who they will be because we haven t booked them yet. no, we have them, they know who they are. earlier there were people on the plaza wearing in the rain our pajama t-shirts that said, welcome to pajama party. they ve gone home to get some sleep. i didn t hear the news until i walked in to the hair and make-up room this morning. heard the sad news about, that arnold schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child ten years ago with a woman who worked in their household staff. we thought at the time last week when they announced their separation there must have been some catalyst for it. maria is a great friend to nbc and a great friend to the show. she is one of those people when she walks in the room you gravitate toward her. so is arnold. a very strong person, as well. i was thinking when you hear about something like this, i mean, he admitted to fathering this child. this is someone, the woman lived in their home. was married. was married. you can only imagine maria was there for milestones in that child s life and her kids shared in that child s life. you can t help think what are people thinking? i was shocked but not surprised. i think a lot of people feel that way. the details are shocking but i don t know. i don t know why i m not totally surprised about it. here is the thing that surprises me. the woman continued to work in the household for another ten years. she only retired in january, which is when arnold left the governorship. it s just weird on lots of levels. the other thing that surprised me is, he had, according to his own admission, he had the child before he was running for governor. knowing when you run for political office you are under the microscope. the idea that he wasn t worried or he didn t think it was going to come up, which actually it was kept a secret. i m surprised given the way the press is about those kinds of things that this thing wasn t unearthed somehow. there is always a small detail, always something that is out there. i don t think there is some double standard because somebody is a movie star as well as politician. somehow the moral lapses of movie stars, people in the entertainment field are not as shocking to us as say a this might be. arnold did release a statement saying he said after leaving the governor s office, i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. there are no excuses and i take full responsibility for the hurt i caused it. have to apologize to maria i have apologized to maria, my children and my family. i m truly sorry. i ask the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time, while idea serve your attention and criticism, my family does not. i like the last part of it. i think the press could not talk about how maria has been humiliated. i can t stand reading that. she didn t do anything wrong. he humiliated himself. he devastated her. i think we should use the verb properly. you know? a lot of guys wonder why women get so lathered up when we hear stories like this. a lot of people there was a physical, a chemical reaction with tiger woods. how could he have done that? i think because the infidelity rate is so high in this country, if you have in your history any, any of that, it brings back all that stuff. you start thinking he did what? suddenly your baggage becomes that story in a weird way. when people are asking why is everyone, it s not you, he didn t do anything to you, but everyone can t help thinking about their own history. their own story. i know more people than not that have been cheated on. it s just, when it happens to famous people and then again, there are children involved. now we thought they had four children, there are five. they perhaps grew up playing together and not even realizing they were half brother and sisters. we are going to discuss this further. we ll have gail sultz and bonnie fuller who will fill us in on what she has. okay. i don t know what that said, do you? i do know what that said. we talked about this 8-year-old little girl who was given botox shots by her mother. so she could compete in her beauty pageants and such. we wondered at the time what would happen. she has been, human services has come in from san francisco, launched an investigation and taken her away. we don t know where the child is. her mother defended herself saying many other mothers do the same thing in the pageant circle. 8 years old. if there are mothers giving botox to their 8-year-olds and it s a normal thing, we need to know about it. that is ridiculous. can i say i ve got the giggles because you know that sign you couldn t read? will you hand me that sign? first of all, i ll show it to you in one second. i was asking tammy who is our senior producer on this program if we had special video. yes. we are going to talk about this memorabilia that is here. it was going to come into play. this is all from, what is this from? the hard rock cafe has a 40th anniversary. they are going to, all this memorabilia is going to go on tour. this secret note i will revalue comes after we were trying to figure out what to show. this is ray charles. it s a playboy magazine. ray charles couldn t see. so this is a playbook magazine in braille. how do you read the magazine in braille? i guess you can read the stories. let s face it, everybody reads playboy magazine for the stories. then i couldn t help about thinking what happened with kathie lee yesterday. there was a segment where bobbie thomas where bobbie thomas put her hands on her cans. i don t know what was up, she wouldn t let go. i want to show you the piece of paper tammy handed me. have bobbie boob video. yes. have it. just want you to know. i was looking at that. i told you i thought i had cataracts. i got my eyes checked. i don t have my glasses yet. don t you love when they say maybe it will be a day or two? it was a week ago. anyway this is marvin gaye. this is also on tour. this is his actual address book with secret phone numbers. in there there is prince s phone number. some of the jackson family. we have a phone. we were going to call it. call prince. what could he be doing? what is the area code? i couldn t see the note. this is madonna s like a virgin. who could forget that? this was the very first thing given to the hard rock, eric clapton s guitar, which is awesome. this is literally the beaded jacket michael jackson wore in the video. he was so small. actually. yeah i don t think i can. sort of. look. how amazing was that video though? if you look inside, it s a backstage pass to see liza minnelli. are you serious? yeah. isn t that cool? what else is there? buddy holly s glasses back here. i m getting no answer on prince s number. i m just letting you know. okay. maybe i could break into this and use buddy holly s glasses. speaking of music, we are getting tons of contestants for our contest the voice. now we are up to 300. whoa! we ll let you listen. we can t see some of our contestants. go ahead. we re ready. a few stolen moments is all that we shared you ve got your family and they need you there i m beautiful in my way god makes no mistakes i m on the right track baby i was born this way don t love yourself in regret love yourself we heard four of them now. we can t wait. we are going to have so much fun. you still have time to enter. go to klg and hoda.com. give us a couple minute video, a capella. we ll pick and choose. we have a fan update. don t we? our pajama party on thursday. we want our fans to join us. take a picture of yourself watching the show in your pjs however crazy they are and post them on our facebook page or go to our website. we want you to join us in this experience. invite some of your girlfriends over. we already are. we are, but they should. have your own parties. you are so clever. i know. it isn t fair. it s booze day. it s watermelon. more shocking news coming from the arnold schwarzenegger household. 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the key here is you want to have a high fico score. the higher your score, the lower your interest rate. if you pay off your car, less money you owe means you have a better fico score. of course pay off your car. whoever told you not to is a little, if you know what i mean. what if it s her mother? you just upset the family situation. your mother that is giving you idiotic advice. my husband and i are in our late 20s and owe $40,000 in student loans and pay $700 a month. we have an $1,100 mortgage and $15,000 in savings. we would like to move within the year. would it be better to use our savings that pay down our student loans or for a down payment on a new home? what should karrie do? what do you think? is $15,000 going to be enough? oh, my god, you got it right! that is what she is about. you thought it through. that is what you are not doing. you need an emergency fund. you need to make sure you have money if you re going to buy a house besides the down payment on a home. you need an emergency fund. truth of the matter is you need to save this money no matter what you do. forget either of those two things. you need the cash, stash it. build it up. one from danna. you mentioned 2012 is not going to be a good year in the market. who cares? the world is coming to an end. i have my iras mostly in mutual funds and bonds. where would be a good place to move my irss. i m 61 years old and plan to work five or six more years. you think five or six more years is going to be enough? if you think all of you are going to retire at 67 or what you may not given be this economy. therefore, you need to make sure that your money is very safe and sound. not so much in what it s investing in but what it gives you. are you in exchange traded funds or individual stocks with high dividend yields so even if the market goes down and price goes down, your income stays the same. that is the key. that is what needs to happen here. especially with world events. and catastrophic things that are happening in the world. you think the price of food will go up like crazy. of course it will go up. and fuel. what can people do about that? plan for it. oil goes up. when oil goes up, the price of plastic goes up. when plastic is yoplait, all these things. the cost to deliver the food goes up. when oil goes up, it means people start researching ethanol which means corn goes up. the price of food is going to skyrocket. skyrocket. dig their own gardens this summer and plant. you plan for it. things are only really bad news when you haven t planned for it. when do you think you ll see the price of food going up? right now. they are going to have to do it slowly but surely. they are about 40% under budget. we have time for one more. over budget, i should say. i m entering my last year of college and will graduate with around $60,000 in student loans. i ve been saving $10,000. i m not sure whether i should use that money to pay off a loan debt now, invest in a mutual fund or save it? you re young. you have $10,000. you re going to need money for a first and last to rent a place, car payment. take half of it and put it in a roth ira. within the roth ira keep it safe and sound. you can take any money in a roth ira out without any penalties or taxes. if they need it, $5,000 safe. who is better than suze? nobody is better. nobody! you can get more advise on the suze orman show saturday nights at 9:00 and midnight. you re off to shoot with miss oprah. you new united center with miss winfrey. actress and mother of four takes a comedic look at her bad body image. can you tell which little one is dressed for less? 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tell me about your issue. from the book. you re right. everyone has their own personal, you know, the title is the best thing about my is it s behind me and i don t have to look at it all the time. i had a lifetime of body shame about it. everybody has their issue. norah ephron had her neck. everybody has their personal. i thought it was interesting your dad took you to weight watchers when you were 12. apparently i was big mama lukin and i didn t realize it. we come from an italian family. four words you never heard in my family, no thanks, i m full. look how flat my stomach looks. and your puppies are doing fine, too. can i tell you the self-esteem wackamol i went through for what to wear. you guys always look perfect. do i show my arms, not show my arms? you re still dealing with this. i put it on my website. what do i wear? what about these shoes? this is my diet now. i don t diet. i don t believe in it. all these people who struggle and go up and down. they can t wait to turn the tabloid. kirstie alley, she is big, little, losing, dancing. i wear big shoes and big hair. that s my diet. why? they put everything in proportion. thank you, kathie lee. big tude. what is this about having a young lover of yours? who told you that? we heard from your publicist. you have to in l.a. i went through a hideous divorce. you have four children. that i know of. thank you. i ve got a couple in the teens. one big boy who just moved back home. i don t say his age because he s just a good friend now. somebody else s kid. we don t celebrate my birthday. it s now called second mother s day. the big boy came back because that s what they do now. he pursuing his dream. could that include getting out of my basement? and a job. no rent. not even the cell phone bill. 10-year-old identical twins. you re right. i m a celebrity-adjacent working mom. what about the lover? yeah. he is a great guy. i had a hideous soul-sucking divorce. the answer is yes. right to my self-esteem. are you justifying a guy who is 12? he s slightly older. i will say a young boyfriend is like having a very enthusiastic puppy with a laptop and 24 hours a day tells you you re hot. what s wrong with that? it s all in the book. it is very, very funny. you re a wonderful actress. we need to see you more in the movies. did you hear that? we ll dress your little ones for less. 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