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a closely guarded secret? we ll tell you today, thursday, may 26th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. she s back tomorrow. this storm is unbelievable. although there were reports of more than 80 twisters on wednesday, fortunately this time no one was killed. of course, no one knows the power of a tornado more than the folks out in joplin, missouri, where the death toll there has risen again. take a look at this aerial photograph of joplin. this is before the tornado. now look at this new image that shows the twister s path of destruction. we re going to go live to missouri for more on this latest round of storms in just a couple of minutes. shocking, just shocking. also, nearly nine years after her abduction, elizabeth smart has finally got the chance to confront the man who abducted her and held her for nine months. and the daughter of arnold schwarzenegger s mistress speaks out for the first time. when did she learn he was the former governor s son? we ll hear from her coming up. let s begin with another outbreak of tornadoes and severe storms overnight. jim cantorry is in poplar bluff, missouri. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. for the first time this morning i m not standing in front of a tremendous amount of wreckage here. so many people here, about 18,000, took refuge in the coliseum or hotels because they felt unsafe in their own home. either way we had over a thousand reports of severe weather, 81 reports of tornados. the good news, no loss of life. at one point, 11 states under a tornado watch. this twister wednesday in elsinore, missouri, marking a dangerous path across several states in the nation s midsection. there is widespread damage here. reporter: near bedford, indiana, a reported tornado ripped several homes apart. tornado warnings sounded in indiana. it battered neighborhoods. it was horrible. i thought i was going to come apart. reporter: tasha bennington saw it coming and ran for cover. her back windshield shattered. we saw lots of winds. reporter: the airport in greensburg suffered major damage. trees were uproot and tossed right through a building. another tornado swept through the town of sedalia, missouri. in oklahoma, the death toll from tuesday s tornado outbreak has risen to nine. and in hard-hit joplin, officials say the death toll now stands at 125 as residents there continue to search the rubble and come to grips with the heartbreak. i mean the house was ripping apart. reporter: nbc s brian williams interviewed bethany. her husband was killed by the tornado. he threw his body over his wife as the couple took cover in a bathtub. people keep saying he wouldn t have wanted it any other way, but if i could have taken twice as much damage just to have him alive, i would have. reporter: just absolutely heartbreaking, matt. we ve had a year s worth of toerjds already, not yet the end of may. what makes this year stand out is the types of tornadoes, ef-4s, ef-5s, the top of the scale. those are responsible for over 85% of the tornado deathings and so far 500 people have lost their lives. back to you. jim, thank you very much. so what can we expect today? we ve got al roker upstairs. al, good morning to you. ann, thank you so much. you look today. you see a risk of strong storms stretching from mobile, alabama, all the way up to montpelier. here s why we ve been seeing all this rough weather. this is the jet stream. we ve got this severe jet, about 6,000 feet. we ve also had a lot of moist air coming out of the gulf and that has been bringing all these strong storms. however, as we get into the weekend, we ve got a building high pressure ridge. that s good news. a trough back to the west. jet stream moves way to the north and that has cut off effectively the fuel for the tornado machine. the good news is after today we get a break in all this severe weather. matt? all right. thank you very much. we re going to check in with you a little later on. but now president obama s european tour. he arrived in france for the g-8 summit while here at home there are signs sarah palin is seriously considering a run for the white house. chuck todd is in doueauville, france. what s on the agenda? reporter: well, there s some things that are precooked, and what s precooked is getting all of these eight powerful countries to agree on a certain level of financial aid packages for the fledgling democracies in the middle east. representatives of both of those countries will be here making their final case. where there will be some friction has to do with the military strategy, dealing with libya and trying to get gadhafi out. as you know, the french and the english would like to see a more aggressive role played by the united states. and there s a couple of side bars that could become a distraction. mark zuckerberg and then france which is chairing the meeting is going to try to rally support to keep someone from france to keep them from running forimf. there s an article that says there s a possibility that sarah palin may now seriously be running for president. a couple of factors that keep the tea leaves buzzing. she s got a new home in arizona. the rehiring of key political staff members, and the return to a full slate of public appearances. she also recently said she has the fire in her belly. what are the oddsmakers saying about this? reporter: well, i can tell you the one thing. the one person that s happy about this is mitt romney. anything that distracts another candidate or prevents another candidate from raising money or getting oxygen essentially in this field is a good thing, and sarah palin will soak up a lot of attention. now, she doesn t have a huge financial base among major donors in the republican establishment. she can do well with the grassroots. but it is a way it hurts people like tim pawlenty who are trying to get off the ground, jon huntsman, all these guys that are 1%, 2%, 3% in the polls can t get any attention. if palins in there, it gives mitt romney more. the next happen yes, sir is jim. chuck todd in france with the president this morning. chuck, thank you very much. now, let s get a check on the rest of the morning s top stories. good morning, natalie. good morning, everyone. former imf chief dominique strauss can is waking up in a sprawling home in one of manhattan s pricier neighborhoods. last night he moved into a $50,000-a-month rental. he s charged with a rape of a hotel made. the legislation would extend anti-terror tools such as roving wire taps and lone wolf suspects for the next four years. republican rand paul wants to debate on parts of the act which he says threatens constitutional rights. tucson s jared loughner stands deemed to stand trial. he s been ordered to undergo four months of intensive treatment in a missouri facility in an effort to make him fit for trial. he had to be removed after saying, quote, thank you for the freak show. she died in front of me. now let s head to melissa lee. housing is in focus. real tie track reporting that sales of distressed homes fell in first quarter but they still made up28% of total sales and that is the highest amount in about a year. tune into my premiere tonight, code wars. we answer questions is it a threat or possible. we ll take you underground. you will not believe what you can buy. that s at 9:00 p.m. tonight on cnbc. the hacker underground. thanks so much. there is a new american idol. scotty mchotty beat out lauren to become the youngest winner ever. now the former grocery store clerk has won a record contract. he says he wants to spend some time on the couch eating chips and watching espn. i think he deserves that. they ll perform next week. it was a country showdown. i stayed up way too late watching it. very exciting. they re both so equally talented. as someone who hasn t seen that show, was that editorial mchotty yours or mccaughty. mr. roker is here sporting a spiffy new ipad cover. that s so much. let s see what is happening for you, and for today we re talking about a difference in temperatures. ahead of the front k look at the temperatures. roanoke, and chicago, 52 degrees. we have a risk of strong storms from new england all the way down to the gulf coast. rain moves into the pacific northwest. we are looking at cool temperatures, and l.a. 74. that s what s going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. dress for hot weather. we ll be in the low 90s by late this afternoon, but comfortable now with hazy sunshine, and in the 60s near 70. and today there is a small chance of isolated storms later this afternoon, and a slight risk one of the storms will produce wind damage. and then tomorrow a chance of storms and still hot. heat wave continues into al, thanks. now to an emotional day in court. for the first time she faced her former captor face to face on wednesday. nbc s miguel is in salt lake city. reporter: her word wers breechlt she was in court to see the man who kidnap and raped her, sentenced to life in prison. elizabeth smart arrived in federal court to face germanster. the first time since her kidnapping she spoke directly to brian david mitchell. in court he was shackled and singing hymns throughout the entire hearing. surrounded by family, smart took a deep breath, stood tall, and without notes looked at mitchell and said you took away nine months of my life that can never be returned, but in this life or next, you will have to be held responsible for those actions, and i hope you are ready for when that time comes. i told brian david mitchell today in court that whether he received his just senn stens here on earth or after this earth life that one day he will have to be responsible for his actions. reporter: smart s nightmare began in 2002 when she was just 14 years old, kidnapped from her bedroom at knife point. nine months after she disappeared, smart was spotted near salt lake city not far from where she lived. brian david mitchell and his estranged wife were arrested for kidnapping, but their trials and convictions took years. smart spoke directly to mitchell before his life sentence was handed down. i know that you know what you did was wrong. you did it with a full knowledge. i absolutely 100% believe that brian david mitchell knew exactly what he was doing when he kidnapped me and all the events that followed. reporter: in court smart s final words to mitchell were clear. i want you to know i have a wonderful life now. you will never affect me again. now 23 years old, smart has attended college, traveled overseas, and has start add foundation with her family to help bring home the missing. i thinking one of the biggest ways to overcome any trial in life to kill from any kind of experience is by helping those around you because by lifting those around you up, you end up lifting yourself up as well. reporter: a young woman with an unforgettable past and a promising future. today is the ending of a very long chapter and the beginning of a very beautiful chapter for me. i was happy for the opportunity to say what i felt that i needed to say, and i m thrilled it s over. reporter: in court mitchell never spoke nor even acknowledged smart. elizabeth said she was just fine with that, adding that she moved on with her life and said what she wanted to say. all right. what a spectacular girl she s turned out to be. it s now 7:15. thanks. here s matt. backs to politics now and the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by gop hopeful newt gingrich and his wife. lisa myers has more on this story. lisa, good morning to you. good morning, matt. newt gingrich has always described himself as frugal, which is why this story about a huge line at tiffanies just won t go away. it explains how gingrich managed to buy as much as a half million dollar in jewelry, pay it off over time, and not pay any interest. sparkling diamonds and an iconic blue box have worked magic for men for decades, but for newt gingrich, not so much. he and his wife have been dubbed the blingriches. $500,000 at tiffany s? there s a simple explanation. the guy buys his engagement rings in bulk. i m going to buy a key ring from tiffany s. half a million dollars? you bought half a million dollar of jewelry on credit. talk to tiffany s. it s a normal way of doing business. we re very frugal. we live within our budget. we owe nothing. reporter: tiffany provided nbc news a statement, basically confirming gingrich s account and says it routinely offers interest-free borrowing for up to one year for credit-worthy tiffany customers. though experts say very few americans can qualify for the same deal gingrich got five years ago. in order to have this kind of deal, you have to have great wealth to qualify for a quarter of a million tore half a million dollar worth of credit at the line at tiffany s. this here looks quite similar to this one in the tiffany catalogue. price, $45,000. political analysts say just as john edwards became defined by his $400 hair cuts, newt gingrich risks becoming known for bling, which may make it even harder for candidates to relate for voters struggling in a fragile economy and working to pay off their own credit line at sears. look. most people don t have homes that cost $500,000, let alone jewelry bills of that amount. it s not something that people can relate to. reporter: gingrich says he just doesn t get what all the fuss is about. i m totally mystified. i owe no personal debts, none. we paid off our house, we paid off our cars, we own four small businesses. we happen to be successful. we asked for his spokesman for a comment about this. and he told us the gingriches have a right to spend the money the way they want and the right to give the gifts they want to give. it s their money. matt? lisa myers in washington. thank you very much. it s 19 minutes after the hour. once again, here s ann. thanks. now the latest on the arnold schwarzenegger scandal. the daughter of the mistress speaks out for the first time now that her little brother is the son. reporter: she learned her brother was the son of arnold schwarzenegger just like everybody else. she told telemundo it hasn t changed her feelings about her mother. she s like a superwoman. she s always been there for us, for me and my brothers, and that s why me and my brothers will always be there for her. roso is the first child of schwarzenegger s housekeeper to speak publicly. she says she hasn t spoken to her mother since last week s revelation. i love my mother and she s a great inspiration for any woman that is, you know, out there, you know, working for their kids. reporter: for his part, schwarzenegger was spotted for the first time in more than a week. seens ryaning a bike alone in the quiet town where he and his family have spent vacations together for years. the nationial inquirer er accused them. drawing a quick response from schwarzenegger s attorney who called the allegations totally and completely false. two retired california hire way patrol officers from schwarzenegger s protective detail came forward as well releasing statements saying they never witnessed him saying or doing anything inappropriate. my mom doesn t need to justify hers, you know. reporter: jackie roso is also attacking reports that cast her mother in a negative light. it doesn t matter what any newspapers say or anything because, you know, i know my mom, and, you know, her friends and her family, we all know her. what they put out there it s like it s just, you know, gossip, rumors. reporter: for today, peter alexander, nbc news, los angeles. coming up, casey anthony s friends and former boyfriend testify about her demeanor in the immediate days after her daughter s alleged murder. we re going to get details on that. but first this is today on nbc. coming up, is is it a boy or a girl? why his and her parents are keeping it a secret and the uproar about their controversial decision. also coming up we re going to get a rare and exclusive look inside the home of one of the greatest movie stars who ever lived, elizabeth taylor. first your local news.  good morning. it s 7:26 on this thursday, the 26th of may. i am joe krebs. and police are warning metro riders about a gang of car jackers that is believed to be behind two similar crimes, the latest yesterday morning at the parking garage at the largo metro station. [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it s just one reason 80% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. good morning. temperatures nowin the60stonear 70, but here comes the heat wave later today and tomorrow and saturday, each day temperatures hot and a chance of afternoon storms near 90 on sunday, and memorial day, tuesday and wednesday still up around 90 and increased humidity. along i-270 stop and go off and on before germantown, and then the inner loop will be hazy, and then a jammed beltway through shurling ton and across the 14th street bridge. and 1 in 5 girls have it, and 7:30 now on a thursday morning. it s the 26th of may, 2011. it s a beautiful day in downtown manhattan. keep your fingers crossed we get a carbon copy of this day tomorrow. find out what al has to say about that prediction in just a little while. meanwhile inside studio 1a, matt lawyer along with ann curry. the bold claims by the defense team that her father helped cover up his granddaughter s death. we have the live interview coming up in a little while. also coming up, if you needed to raise $2,000 in 30 days, could you do it? the answer is no for nearly half of all families in the united states. so what can people do when they find themselves financially fragile? we re going to get advice coming up this morning. not only that, but people above and below the poverty line. a lot of middle-class people are financially fray jail as well. plus, this is a baby named storm and only a handful of people know whether this child is a boy or a girl. we re going to tell you why his parents or her parents are keeping their baby s gender such a closely guarded secret. we begin this half hour in florida where the murder trial of casey anthony enters its third day. nbc s kerry sanders is joining us now. hey, kerry, good morning. good morning, ann. prosecutors are starting to lay out their case to prove that casey anthony murdered her 2-year-old daughter caylee because she was more interested in being a party girl than handling the burdens and responsibilities of motherhood. casey anthony was dressed conservatively, a sharp contract to picture after picture after picture shown in the courtroom tuesday, snapshots taken at a hot body contest, just four days after 2-year-old caylee was either murdered as the prosecution claims or accidentally drowned in the family s swimming pool as the defense argues. you didn t notice sh was upset. no. or crying. no. or sad. no. reporter: the so-called shot girls. did you ever see casey drink or get drunk? no. reporter: casey s friends who joined her at an orlando nightclub pushing drinks. each testified casey showed no signs of distress, no indication that caylee, the little girl they all knew was dead. maria kish even rode around in the car prosecutors say casey used to drive around the dead body. when you sat in the back seat, did you smell a foul odor? no. reporter: and then there s casey s boyfriend. how would you describe her demeanor? happy. which was. happy to see me. happy all the time. reporter: he was with casey at a blockbuster video store the day caylee cried. did she ever cry? no. did she ever actener scared? no. did she ever act nervous? no. reporter: for the prosecution, casey was happy to have her single life back. the defense, there s nothing to claim that her daughter was murdered. her daut eers mouth taped shut. the defense dropped a bombshell in the openings saying she drowned and casey was sexually abused by her father, an accusation he strongly denies. experts say if the defense is going to prove that it was an accidental drowning and that her father george knew about it but forced her to cover it up, it s haev burden. i think with the kind of bombshells defense is dropping they re going to blow up in their face unless they have sensation sensational. reporter: faced with two months of testimony like this, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they would be willing to come in and listen to more testimony on memorial day. the judge has yet to announce if he can open the court on a holiday to move his trial along. all right. kerry sanders. thanks. mark joins us from orlando. good morning. good morning, ann. can you tell us how your client, casey s father, reacted when he first learned that the defense was going to accuse him of sexually abusing his daughter? we actually knew about this defense approximately six weeks ago, and we ve dealt with those issues since then. it wasn t a surprise. the only surprise was the detail added by mr. baez. was he angry? was he shocked? what did he say to you? well, there s attorney/client issues there so i can t discuss what my client said, but i alone was very angry on behalf of my clients with the presentation on tuesday. i want to play for you, mr. lippman, a portion of an interview your client, george anthony, gave to meredith a little less than a year ago. and he was asked by meredith if he still had faith in his daughter. let s listen to what he said. i m going to stand behind case because number one i m her father. i want to find out what happened to caylee. i do. so does cindy. i can t throw my hands up and be done with my daughter. i can t do that. i can t do that to my family, to my daughter. in light of the defense, is george anthony s faith in his daughter now wavering? it s an interesting situation. you have the love of a father for his daughter versus the truth, and here george anthony s nothing but the truth, has always maintained that he would always tell the truth as to what happened, what he knows, and he s done so each and every time he s either ben cross-examined, deposed, or any statements he s ever given. so certainly he stands by his daughter and hopes that whatever happens, that the truth comes out at the end of the day. you re painting a picture of a man standing by his daughter even though the team that s defending her has taken a pretty strong slug at him. does this defense increase his concerns, his worries, his fears that maybe his daughter had something to do with his granddaughter s death? certainly again i can t necessarily discuss what he says but it raises concerns about her mental stability, not whether or not she s able to sit for trial, but the issues that have been raised by the defense are at this point nothing but conjectu conjecture, and if it s supported by their client, then it does raise concerns for her mental stability. meantime you ve gone so far as to say you will take legal action if your client, george anthony, is painted as a potential suspect. what legal action will you take? who will you take this legal action against? certainly some of the things that mr. baez said in his opening statement and i have to point out, opening statements are nothing but their opinion and conjecture. there s been no facts that have been presented. throughout the duration of the trial, if there are no facts presented to support his allegations, it was nothing more than a story present odd about the family. you re saying you might take legal action against the defense attorney? absolutely. how is casey he knows go ahead. he knows the media we re faced with, the implications of what were going to be said. it s interesting to have him say those things without any sort of support in any deposition that he s been a part of with george anthony, those questions have never been asked. generally when you raise things like that, you should know the answer before you ask. meantime i have to ask about cindy anthony, your other client. how is she holding up with all of this swirling around her? this family is a very stoic family. obviously it s a very difficult time for them. i can t comment on what we talk about, but certainly i know it s very difficult, and i also wanted to point out one of the main reasons i m here today is george wanted everybody to be aware that yesterday was national missing child day and he doesn t want to take away from anybody else just because of the national attention this case is getting. all right. point taken. mark very much. let s get a check of the weather from al. hey, al. thank you, ann. we re talking about not only tornados but flooding we have video i guess not. okay. there is it. high water causing problems in the eastern montana town, and a jog jam causing big problems. they are finally starting to see clearing later today. now as we take a look and show you on our map what is going on for today we do have a risk of strong storms stretching from new england all the way down to the gulf coast and showers through montana and look for sunshine into the south tomorrow, and a sizzling texas. a risk of strong storms here in the northeast, and rain in the western plains. that s what s going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. it s 7:40 on this thursday morning. hazy sunshine and mild temperatures, upper 60s to around 70 degrees, and later today will be the hottest day of the season so far. should make it into the low 90s by midafternoon and there is a chance of scattered thunderstorms, and a greater chance and another hot day on friday. saturday afternoon could get passing thunderstorms. near 90 on sunday and partly cloudy, and mostly sunny, hot and humid. don t forget you can keep track of weather all day long. go to the weather channel or weather.com online. ann? thank you so much. we going to going side mansion. it s on the mattrket. we re going to give you a tour. why half of all americans consider themselves, quote, financially fragile. that s right after this. back now at 7:44, this morning on today s money, are you financially fragile. nearly half of all americans are living on the economic edge. jean chatzky is today s financial editor. good morning. nice to see you. good morning. nice to see you too. this financial fragility or being financially fragile, had not heard of it before. how do you define it? it means somebody who cannot come up with $2,000 within a month or they would have to go through great lengths like selling their house, pawning, or taking out a payday loan. we re talking about someone who has a big expense, if their transmission blows out of their car and they had to do that, having to pay that extension would put them over the financial edge. right. or the roof leaks or you have a big medical expense. there are people watching this saying they re at or below the poverty level and that $2,000 figure is impossible for them. what i found in reading this paper further is there are some people we would consider middle-class who also consider themselves to be financially fragile. i thought it was interesting that people who earn upwards of $75,000 a year to $100,000, 25% of them say they re financially fragile. that could say less about their ability to raise $2,000 and more on their life and their economic picture. and the amount of money we maintain in the bank. we ve become terrible savers. we need a safety net, and it has to be at least that $2,000 figure. but we are bad at saving. where do we start? we start by making savings in a way that s automatic. you make a good decision one time and the money just goechls you ve got to get that money out of your hands. out of the spending aaccount. out of the spending account. what you don t want is for it to show up on your receipt because then you think, oh, i can spend somemoney. you ve got to put some barriers to withdrawing the money in place. this is why 401(k)s work. the money goes somewhere automatically and it goes somewhere. and if you want to touch it, you have to pay taxes and penalties. as you ve said to me on this program dozens of times, we all need a financial cushion. absolutely. put it in an internet bank and make sure you can t touch it. thank you. 7:47. up next, who controls the half billion fortune left behind by one of the country s westiest and most exclusive woman? we ll have that coming up. one of the richest and exclusive heiresses has died. she passed away on tuesday. prosecutors were looking into how her vast fortune was being handled. nbc s jeff rossen has the latest. hey, jeff. good morning. reporter: hi, ann. good morning to you. just to give you an idea how much money we re talking, she owns the largest apartment on all of manlt s fifth avenue. inside this building behind me, 42 rooms worth about $100 million. that s just the beginning of it. she herself is worth about half a billion dollars by some estimates. when she died this week, big questions started. what will happen to all of her money, especially considering her closest advisers are under investigation for stealing millions from her. she pass added away this weeken a new york city hospital living under an alias. reclusive until her final breath. she leaves behind three massive estates. this one in santa barbara hugs the california coast. its value, over $100 million. clark s estate in connecticut is worth over $20 million. and, of course, the prestigious fifth avenue property filled with dolls and fine art worth over $100 million. clark hadn t seen any of them in 20 years. instead she was living in seclusion in what would be her final home, the medical center surrounded by her french doll collection. clark s lifestyle is so mysterious, this is the last known picture ever taken of her in 1930. her death two weeks shy of her 105th birthday means the battle begins for her riches. she was buried wednesday evening the way she had lived, alone, no ceremony, no funeral mass, no priest. it was a strange life that came to a strange ending. reporter: new york prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into her inner circle. her lawyer wally and her accountant irving. the gfters want to know if she was taken advantage of all those years. they have a roomful of documents to go through. reporter: wally quietly arranged his sell, a stradivarius violin for $6 million and a rpainting. as we say, follow the money. it goes some place. the court may freeze the money, put it someplace, lock it up, and have someone other than these two people in control of it until they can sort out the facts. reporter: clark who divorced young and had no children inherited her wealth from her wealthy father, a copper king. she reportedly has a will, too, but it remains unclear who s in it. the mystery stretches beyond the grave. we reeved out to both her attorney and the accountant. the accountant never called us back yesterday, but we did hear back from a spokesman for the attorney wally. he told us, cloak, madame clark s passing is a sad event for everyone who love and respected her over the years. she died as she wanted with dignity and prove sichl we intend to continue to respect her wishes for privacy. it s important to note, ann, they would not comment on the ongoing criminal investigation against them, and we should mention this apartment is so big behind me if it does end up going on the market depending on what s in her will, it would make a huge splash here in the always business new york real estate market. jeff rossen, thanks. coming up, a cute baby. is it a boy, or is it a girl? 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395 northbound, delays begin just inside the beltway. and then north through landmark and shirlington. 8:00 on a thursday morning, the 26th day of may, 2011. a beautiful spring day. come to new york city. we have one here on our plaza. we ve got a huge crowd as well. lenny and his friends also memberses of our military here because it s fleet week in new york city, and we always appreciate the service. nice to have them with us. meanwhile out on the plaza i m matt lauer along with ann curry. meredith is taking the day off. al roker is here as well. if you can produce this kind of weather tomorrow morning, we ll have a smoking concert. rihanna is going to be bringing us great sound. if you re in new york city, come on down. also this morning we re going to talk about elizabeth taylor. she s got a house pictured in architectural digest. they took the pictures before she got sick. they re pretty dramatic. also ahead, couples expecting a baby often get asked the question are you having a boy or a girl. a lot of people like to keep it secret, at least till the baby is born. what about keeping the gender of your child secret months after the baby is born? why would you keep that mystery? this is storm. only six people in the world know whether storm is a boy or a girl. just ahead, the controversy over his or her parents decision to keep that secret. and then a little bit later on, the diet secrets of hollywood s superstars. we re going to reveal them so maybe you can get a few tips yourself. all right. and you re look at me. you re fine. let s go inside. natalie morales for ann at the news desk. an astonishing 81 tornados in 21 hours brought more destruction to the nation s heartland overnight. it europe rooted trees, damaged homes and overturned vehicles. meantime the radar showed the path that killed over 121 people tuesday in joplin, missouri. he has evaded capture since 1995 when he was indicted for organizing and master mooinding the genocide, the largest of mass murder in europe since world war ii. he s been told h cannot join the european union until he is arrested. the state department is orderering all non-diplomatic residents to leave yemen. political violence has killed dozens of people this week. a tragic accident has overshadowed the start of fleet week in new york. a u.s. marine was struck and killed by a car as he was crossing to return to his ship overnight. senate democrats force add vote on a republican proposal. all went on record supporting the controversial changes. it came one day after the republicans won a surprise victory. the traders at the new york stock exchange observed a spon tan use moment of silence wednesday after learning cnbc anchor mark haines had died suddenly the night before at his home. he was the founder of cnbc s squawk box morning show. our thoughts are with his daughter and wife. good friend to us. oprah winfrey bid an emotional farewell to her audience on wednesday as she ended her talk show s 25-year run. she s focusing now on a new show for her own cable network. and are you smarter than saechbth grader? probably not if that seventh greater is tina, the 13-year-old texas middle schooler won the national geography bee on wednesday. he answered correctly. very smart kid. i don t think i would have known that. let s go back outside to sidney actually, just turned 7. made us this for the today show, and hi, today show, because her mom loves the today show. thank you for that, and great job. we want to g a check of the weather and we have al out here in the crowd. looks like mr. bill s sister. that s very sweet. very sweet. what is your name? dan. and yours? rachel. what are you doing here? i told her we were coming out here to meet matt lauer, but that was a lie. i love you and have been waiting my whole life for you, and i came out here to ask you to marry me. will you marry me? is that a yes? yes! all right! hey, now! wow! that s congratulations. how long you have been dating? 18 months. very nice. maybe you can qualify as one of our couples here and get married on the plaza. i would love you. nice to see you. where are you from? vegas. you came all the way to vegas to do this. you can do that in vegas and get married in vegas. and let s see the ring. brilliant earth. very nice. all right. let s check your weather shall we and see what is going on, and whatever you guys do for your wedding song, don t get the one our director add, joe michaels mama told me not to come. partly hot and 93 degrees, and as you look at the radar, strong storms firing up through the ohio river valley. and then we have wet weather through the plains. plenty of sunshine through the southwest and along the east coast, things will be hot. temperatures 90 in washington, d.c. 87 in tampa today. that s what s going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. yes, we are commencing a heat wave beginning today and it will last through the weekend and into next week and already in the low to mid-70s throughout much of the region. and in the 80s by noontime and in the 90s for a brief time in late afternoon and late afternoon and early evening there is a possibility of a passion thunderstorm. a slight risk of wind damage from any isolated storm. and then a chance of storms tomorrow and again another hot day and on saturday a chance of passing a and i had to show this? who s this? lizel. thanks for coming. thanks for sharing. let s head back to ann. thanks so much. on the top of the debate the question this morning is it a boy or a girl. why his or her parents are keeping the gender a secret and the uproar it s caused right after this. i didn t understand it. i found ohat connected our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means, i can feel better and do more of what matters. 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[ male announcer ] serve it up on tasty flatbread. and wake up to the fresh taste of the sunrise subway melt. build your better breakfast, only at subway. we re back now at 8:10. is it a boy or girl is the first question most couples get when they announce they re having a baby. but one couple has decided to keep their child s gender a secret. the story is generating a lot of buzz and also a lot of debate. can parents raise their children gender-free? that is what one family is trying to do. there s no blue or pink for this baby. the parents idea is to let the child eventually pick their gend gender. reporter: at first glance this baby looks a lot like any other, bright eyes and a big smile. look closer. is it a boy or a girl? can you tell? it doesn t even matter. this canadian couple doesn t think so. they decided to raise their 4-month-old baby storm genderless, allowing it to choose his own orientation. it s created an uproar. we have to understand the discussion of gender is not just about body parts or clothes we choose for ourselves or colors we like. it s about science. science is telling us there s a male and female brain. they say the only people who know whether it s a boy or a girl are one family friend and the older brothers. the family sent out an e-mail. we ve decided not to share storm s sex for now, a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand-up to what the world could become in storm s lifetime, a more proagreeive place. the parents want to opt into this kind of utopian idea that, oh, we can just let our child be free. well you know what? that is completely to misunderstood what it means to be human. reporter: but they re not the only parents publicly fighting gender rules. cheryl, author of the book, my princess boy, allows her son to dress as he chooses, even if it s a tiara and tutu. it s a sense of empower. something they can do. my son is very happy and healthy, has fun what he s doing. it s not contagious. he s a kid like any other kid. reporter: it has bloggers abuzz. here s mommy blogger on offbeat mama.com. for me the goal isn t to remove gender from the equation. it s to support my son in making decisions about his own identity. while many support this, stan suggests this is more about mom and dad. to think that the child could choose who they re going to be, male or female later on is absolute storybook thinking. we ran a poll on our website. more than 52,000 people responded with 11% saying it s a great idea while 89% deemed it a terrible one. matt? thanks very much. jamie is a staff reporter for the toronto star who first wrote about this family. of course the president of the child mind institution. good morning to both of you. you spent a couple of days with this family. there may be viewers watching this thinking these parents want attention or they want to be different for difference sake. what was your impression of the couple? i tried to remain as objective as possible, but my sense in spending two days with this family is that they re very kind people and regardless of whether or not you agree with their choices they care deeply about the children. how does the way they re raising storm, the child in question, how is it similar or did similar to the way they raised their other children? they re 2 and 5 and they ve been encouraged to be creative with gender. they make decisions to appear like girls every once in a while. they grow their hair long. pink is jazz s favorite color. he wears an earring, sometimes dresses. he s found himself in the line of fire sometimes, are you a boy or a girl and why are you wearing pink? so i think their decision with storm was formed by their experience with their other two children. harold, is this possibly a good idea, taken to an extreme. we applaud we tend to applaud parents who allow children to be themselves, but does gender neutrality or hiding a gender go too far with this? well, there is no such thing. the problem is when kids are born, they re not a blank slate. it isn t, oh, now we re going to see what happens. we re born with a personality. we re either slow to warm up or we are very difficult or we are a more aggressive person, and we do have male brains and female brains. we can t pretend these differences if your 2-year-old son is not speaking as fast as your 2-year-old daughter, we know those developmental differences are because the male and female are different. when we talk about development, this baby is 4 months old, so i m guessing there s no immediate impact on this child right now. but what happens if they carry this forward to a period in the child s life where there is that self-discovery? most kids by the time they re 3 or 4 figure out even by themselves without the rest of the world that their genitalia is different than other people s genitally, and that kind of define wls i stand up or sid down. and what we really want is we like kids to like their bodies and we don t care if they wear pink or blue or if there s a girl who wants to play baseball. that s really terrific parenting. what we don t want to do is confuse a child and keep secrets. i think one of the worst parts of the story is that the 2-year-old and 5-year-old have to hold only the secret. i want to bring you in on that. that s a lot of pressure. now considering all the attention this story s getting, this family is going to be the focus of much of that attention. you ve got a 5-year-old and 2-year-old who are now given the responsibility of keeping this secret. i mean if you ask the parents, the idea sprung very much from the children and their parenting philosophy is rooted in this notion that children can make meaningful decisions the for themselves. so this process is guarded largely by the children. any time that they have a problem with this, then the family will renegotiate. and if you ask jazz what it s like to keep a secret. his response is it s not a secret. i just call the baby storm. were you surprised at our poll? i m not surprised at all. first of all most of us are conventional. we like things to be in boxes. i understand that. what s disturbing to me is while they seem like well-meaning people, it s misguided. frankly, you can t deny a child s sexual or gender and what you want to do as parents is be more than just passive. we want to offer more than some guidance. jayme, this story has received more respoons than any other story in your newspaper. did you have any idea that the response would be so great? no, i think they re overwhelmed by the attention. kathy was quite surprised that the story was on the front page of our paper. so the fact that the whole world is talking about it i think has thrown them for a loop. they think they re very normal people. they go out every day, they go to the park. the kids chase guarder snakes through the park, they play with their bikes. they don t sit around and talk about gender every day. and they ll continue to do that and that there ll be a lot of photographers there trying to get a glimpse to see if it s a boy or girl, which may be an unintended consequence. 18 minutes after the hour. up next, an exclusive inside look at elizabeth taylor s mansion. vo: so to show her what she s missing, we built a pc store in her house. julie: (gasp) employee: thanks for dropping in! julie: you ve got to be kidding me! this isn t my house anymore! employee: have a little look around! julie: very nice! employee: this one is touchscreen. julie: i like that. so there is no tower anymore? wow! i admit i m wrong on this account that there is a computer better than mine. vo: new pc in the house julie(to camera): i m a pc and i m gonna kill him. so let s plant some perennials that ll turn up every year. trees and shrubs to give us depth. and fill it out with flowers placed in just the perfect place. let s start at the place with the best plants, people, and prices. how about we plant a weekend, water it, and watch a summer spring up? more saving. more doing. that s the power of the home depot. we re lowering the cost of a day in the dirt with a special buy on this mulch 4 bags are just 10 bucks. this morning on today s home, an exclusive look inside elizabeth taylor s home. when the legendary actress died earlier this year, she lived in her bel air, california, estate for more than 30 years. it was just listed for sale for $8.6 million. well, just before her death, architectural digest magazine photographied the home and gardens. margaret, good morning to you. good morning. how you came to shoot these images of elizabeth taylor s home is almost a story in itself. it is. it s bittersweet. it didn t turn out as we had originally intended, but i m very good friends with the photographer who was long-time friends with elizabeth taylor, and we had spoken about shooting her house. it s the first time she ever allowed anyone to do so. we spoke about it last fall and waited for the garden to be in full bloom, this spring. sadly as we had been planning the shoot, she went into the hospital. she was expected to come home. we were doing the shoot over the day when she passed away. on the day she passed away, you re in the house. she passed away early in the morning the second day of the shoot. and so it must have been a very surreal experience to be in her house on that day it. was surreal. it was very i think it was very emotional. she has an extraordinary staff, a team of security, and people who have worked with her for a long time, and i thought that they would say, let s just finish this another time or we don t know if we re going to do the story, which would have been completely understandable. they didn t. they invited us back. she wanted to do it. it s very much a family house. and so we came back and finished it. we re looking at some of the images now, and they are intimate. it really looks like a comfortable house. it may not be exactly as people might have expected. what do you think these images that we re looking at tell us about one of the world s greatest movie stars? i think she was such an extraordinary woman. her life was all about glamour, in a period of time. her house, i understand, is how she was in her day-to-day life. she loved family, loved entertaining. it s not huge. it s four bedroom, 7,000 square feet, very secluded. it s not about views and looking over hollywood. it doesn t announce itself. it is simply a lovely inviting beautiful house filled with all the things she loved. impressionist paintings, nowry fabrics. it s very feminine. throughout the house, black and white pictures of everything she loved in addition to presidents and kings and queens and all the dignitaries that she knew over the course of her career. humanitarian awards. it s almost as if, as you re looking at it, it s almost as if she left it. and you have now turned this article into a tribute piece really. you actually have her on the cover. she is on the cover. and we have the interiors of her house, and that s, you know, something that s exclusive. then we also spoke to her family and friends and celebrities. and liz smekt wrote a great tribute to her. we ll look forward to that, margaret russell. 8:26 is your time now. 75 degrees. look at the hazy skies. a heat wave is beginning. tom will have your forecast after the news. good morning. i am eun yang. officers say two men had gotten into an argument inside a home last evening, and they say the suspect stabbed the victim in the chest and took off. police eventually caught up and arrested him. they have not released the suspect or victim s name. we will take a look at traffic and weather, but first a look at what is coming up. one in five young adults have it, but what is to blame? that surprising new research about higwojój?o?ó? hot ar afternoon into memorial day. how is traffic? broken down car just cleared 8:30 now on a thursday morning, the 26th day of may, 2011. that, of course, is pop star rihanna. she s going to be kicking off our summer concert series tomorrow morning right here on the plaza. they ll gather in the heart of midtown manhattan. i m matt lauer along with ann curry while mary dik is taking the day off. we re joined by natalie morales and al roker as well. rihanna, the start of a lot of summer concerts. that s right. a lot of people watching american idol last night will be glad to hear this news. next thursday, american idol winner scotty mchotty mccreery and lauren alaina will be here. and also new kids on the block and backstreet boys are going to be joining out. they re going to be camping out for days like they did last time. some of the kids right here. are you ready for the ex-men:the mutant invasion? this time we re going to go back will talk with the cast members. look at them. how good-looking is that group? and then also a brand-new batch of dogs in need are getting the treatment, and you will see them coming up. we have done well with people adopting the dogs. 100% adoption rate. let s get a check of the weather. let s look at your memorial day weekend. tomorrow saturday, showers in new england. the plains will see showers. southern half of the country sunny and hot. sunday, we have a lot of sizzling conditions, and texas into southwest, and beautiful in the west. and then the rest of the country, the way you want your memorial day, sunny and hot. that s what s going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. our temperatures are climbing into the mid-70s. we have increased humidity and haze in the air, and as the day progresses we will have a rapid warmup and ought to hit low 90s by midafternoon and a the possibility of scattered storms this afternoon. and then we have a greater chance of scattered storms tomorrow afternoon and still hot and maybe storms around on saturday. subpoenaed into memorial day, highs near don t forget, you can get your weather any time of the day or night especially as we head into the memorial day weekend. weather channel on cable, weather.com online. thanks so much. coming up next. first this is today the x men franchise has become lucrative, with the movie pulling in $4 billion worldwide. a fifth installment is a prequel that takes a look at how the x-men came to be. take a look. they re just kids. no. they were kids. he has his army. we need ours. we ll have to train. this is yours. no, it s ours. come on. you don t want to do this. bad things can happen. it controls you. it s why we re here, alex. it s why we re trained. we re joined now by four members of the new x-men cast. a show of hands, who was an x-men fan before they got the role? who had to go out and by the dvds? who was the biggest fan? they point to you because they know you ll wilt under pressure. i suppose i really liked the animated cds when i was a kid. i didn t know anything about the comic. and the rest of you? i didn t know anything really much about the comic books, just the films, the first three films. i think lucas was a big fan. this one is a prequel, so we re going back in time here which raises that question i always have with star wars, which i haven t seen yet either. do you go and start with the first one or could you make this your first x-men movie and go back. i would definitely say spend your money seeing this film. way to go. nice. not only is it far more appealing and sexy, you start the movie where it began. the good news is the first films of the x-men series has done more than a billion dollar. the bad news is the film has done a billion dollars at the box office. what kind pressure do you feel? i don t think we feel pressure. we went and did the good job and i think we re happy with the results. we go, you re the new guys and the other ones made millions of dollars and if we don t make millions of dollars, that s our fault. thousands. thousand of dollar sthoos when the i talk about pressure, james, your role was made famous by patrick stewart. and ian, you re filling the shoes of sir ian mckellan. just the sir. they re knights. they start out as friends but as any fan of x-men knows, it doesn t end that way. what s their issue with each other. what s your problem? what s your problem? i think basically they ve got different views about mao tanlts and humanity. eric wants to cut them out. the only thing that matches the strength of their bond is the strength of their belief in separate ideals and ultimately one of them pays a price. both, you know emotionally but also physically as well. let s talk about powers, okay? this is a discussion i have with my kids all the time. if you could have any power, what power could it be? emma frost can turn her body into diamonds, right? and she s a telepath. when does it come in handy? any time she needs to be indestructive, coolest person ever, expensive. i discuss with my kids, what super mao tanlt power. i m keep mierng flying. flying for sure. yes. i want to fly. nobody wants to be invisible here? i don t really, no. molten lava from your wrists. i d want a tail. why would you want a tail? i think it would look nice. i can pull on it when i m on the computer. it s not a power. it s more an apen damage. it starts with these sort of comments. i don t mean to be. i know you don t mean to be. that s why my mutant wants to kill the people. how do you explain that to your mother in the morning? congratulations, by the way, first of all that you survived this cast and second of all, you re excelling? yes, i am. thank you. oh, my god. how are you feeling? i feel really good obviously. i ve gotten the giggles all the time. so i m good. is that hormonal? it s good. it s really good. we mention your last name. you have a very famous dad who we are proud to have as part of our summer concert series, lenny. don t forget to check out the movie this friday january 3rd. june 3rd. january 3rd. i was looking right at you january, i m sorry. folks, nice to have you. thanks very much. thanks a lot. we re going to back. first this is today on nbc. 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one man s story. good morning. good morning. to take on the charge with a missing arm or leg can seem next to impossible, but one organization is helping wounded veterans with a personal touch f they match them up with local advocates who offer friendship and a reliable connection to the civilian world. more americans were killed and wounded at gettysburg than any other battlefield in the world. its fields and moniments stand in tribute to those willing to give everything in the name of duty. today gettysburg is the start of the american odyssey relay race. two miles. army captain mike irwin is the founder of team red, white, and blue, the organization that helps wounded veterans ease into sieve civilian life. the group has brought 17 teams to the event. it s very easy to forget we ve been at war for ten year, so when people see an opportunity put right in front of them, i can do a run and support wounded veterans, i think people see that as a great opportunity. reporter: mark s legs were blown off in afghanistan. eight months later, this green beret is out on the course competing. my whole life has been completely turned upside down. people say i can t do it again. i hate that word, i can t. i m going to try. reporter: racing with mark are members of his former unit. most did not see him since putting their wounded friend on a helicopter. the bond, it s more than just a friendship. reporter: they re brothers to you? they re brothers. they re all brothers. reporter: in a long list of hardships faced by him, few are more difficult than being torn from the close copy of his fellow green berets. living in a new city for his recovery, mark s transition from warrior to suburban dad is helped along by chris, a team of red, white, and blue member. chris s role includes babysitter, dinner companion, and according to mark s wife tiffany, a willing listener. it was difficult for us not knowing anybody in the area. it s comforting to know we have somebody, a friend, an advocate, a dependable person to call on when we need them. reporter: team red, white, and blue aims to keep their gratitude on a personal level. you don t want to just say, hey, thanks. it s actually saying, you know what? i m going to spend not just my time and energy but become emotionally invested because i do care and appreciate you. reporter: over 17 hours into the race, the course makes a late night turn through the civil war s battlefield. in the darkness, the cost of war is close at hand. i had a bilateral amputation of both of my legs, i had a collapsed lung, was in septic shock, lost my right arm and had an injury on my right arm. they cut it open to release the pressure. it was my good arm. reporter: what surprised you most about your husband through all of this? his resilience. he ll always be a green beret, but he ll never be able to do the same job that he did before. and the fact that he s come to grips with that and he s accepted it and he s ready for his new role in life is just amazing to me. reporter: surrounded by his family and teammates, mark heads for home in this american odyssey. working together, they ve come a painfully long way. but the hope is that the team, red, white, and blue mission goes even further. i think everyone knows someone back 30, 40, 50 years ago. i think that would be the ideal situation in the long run. if they stay in touch 30 years from now and they come together to do an event like this. and i asked mark s wife tiffany, who also served in the army, by the way, what our audience should know about wounded soldiers and she said, and i m quoting here, they should know that they did it for you, they did it for every american out there. these men and women love their jobs. they would do it again if they had to. it s what they need. they need emotional support when they come back. and what they deserve. exactly. amy robach, great story. thank you so much. we re going to take a bit of a hard turn. we ll be back in a moment. 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. back now with our special series from bow to wow. this is where we take dogs from a sheltered home and clean them up and get them adopted. we re proud to say we still have a 100% record. jill is here. hi, matt. we re going to challenge it a little bit because everybody out there wants the pint-size puppy. today we have bigger, slightly older dogs that are a little bit harder to get adopted but i can assure you their hearts match their size. summer is just around the corner at animal care and control in new york city, and sadly the cages are still full of wagging tails, hoping for loving homes. first up, we have this beautiful rust-cloud covered angel named blitz. blitz is a 4-year-old german shepherd mix, and he came in as an owner surrender. his family didn t have time for him. we should mention he has a little boo-boo on his nose. he has some scraped hair there. it will grow back. very affectionate, listens to commands. onto another fabulous 4-year-old, say hello to poppy, a spaniel/kollie mix. he s going to be amazing. he s a little overweight. he s an owner surrender. he s a really unusual dog. i ve about never seen one like this. he is. aren t you rare and unusual? yes, you are, and you re a sweetheart. from a shaggy sweetie to a gorgeous german shepherd mix named max. this is our third of owner surrenders. they brought him in, again, because they couldn t care for them. he s a little shy, a little afraid. he s trusting. he warms up to you quickly. he s enjoying the affection and attention you re giving him. that s all he needs, a loving family he can feel secure with and he ll be fine. finally a proud pointer to perfection. reggie. reggie is a 1 1/2-year-old pointer mix. we ll say purebred. he is magnificent. four powerhouse pooches in need of permanent places to call home. and we re joined once again by richard of animal care & control of new york city. richard. good to have you back. big dogs are a little tougher, aren t they? a little more difficult, especially the older ones. that s why we wanted to dedicate this segment to the older and big dogs. let us get started with the make joefrs. probably the biggest makeover is poppy. let s take a look at what he looked like before the makeover. he need add major haircut. and here comes poppy after. being walked by chief lazenberry. hello, chief. how are you? how old is poppy? poppy is 4. she s not in as good a shape. she ll need some exercise. the tongue s always out. welcoming. chief, what do you think? good. thank you very much. poppy, thank you very much. okay. up next we want to bring out the 4-year-old shepherd mix. let ee take a look at blitz before. and here comes blitz after the makeover walked out by kevin, one of your volunteers. kevin is one of our great volunteers. we re always looking for volunteers to help walk the dogs and take care of the animals. if it s not for the volunteers, they don t get out and get walked. it s a really crucial thing. blitz is a good dog. sits on command. gentle enough to be around ki kids? very much so. thank you very much. our next dog is max. let s take a look at max before. and now max is being brought out by a navy midshipman and we ve got max. hello. richard, what do you think about max? max need as little weight on him and he s a little shy, but he bonds to you very, very quickly. our volunteer had him backstage and every time she walked away he was looking for her. he need as little confidence and tlc. this is, finally saved for last we have reggie bringing corporal lopez with him. reggie s a big don. an example of our purebred dog. about 25% are purebred. he s in magnificent shape. always 8:55 is your time now. good morning. it s thursday, may 26th, 2011. red skin albert haynesworth is accused of hitting another driver in a road rage incident back in february. his attorney says haynesworth is innocent. we will take a quick break and then look at traffic and weather, but first here is what is coming up at 5:00. the surprising new research about high blood pressure. plus we make the time to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. but what we should also be celebrating, are the moments. the ones that could have been just another day, but became extraordinary memories. moments when we learn about the world that came before us, and a little more about ourselves. let s celebrate together. colonial williamsburg. come be part of the story. and now is the perfect time to celebrate with the summer bounce package. plan your stay at colonialwilliamsburg.com good morning. temperatures now in the mid-and upper 70s. heat wave starting today and continuing through the weekend and into next week. a chance of afternoon scattered storms today west of i-95 mainly, and then a likelihood tomorrow afternoon and saturday afternoon. the weather settles down sunday as we heat up in the 90s. we still have backups. the inner loop from springfield jammed along the way, and a broken down car has cleared but it will take a while for that to thin out. the american legion bridge, starting to clear. we ll have another back now with more today on a thursday morning. it is the 26th day of may, 2011. it s another lovely day here in new york city, and we re coming out to say hi to some of the nice people gathered in our plaza along with some servicemen and women. some nearly 3,000 gathered in new york city for what we call fleet week. i like it, every year it s always fun when they re here. the weather was great for them. let s take a look at this little girl. d us that make you happy? look at her. what s her name? lizer. what do we have coming up in this half hour. coming up, nearly a decade after her abduction elizabeth smart finally got to confront the man who abducted her face to face in a court of law. also coming up we re going to be talking about mortgages and giving ourselves a sort of 101 class on it because since the real estate market and the rest of the economy collapsed back in 2008 a lot has changed in the mortgage market. rates are at historic lows. we re going to tell you what you may want to know about the best deal at the lowest costs. coming up, diet secrets of the stars. how do they really keep in such fantastic shape? what are the secrets to their success? we ll get some inside info. maybe you ll pick up some new tips. your life is calling you. that s what oprah told her fans. i watched it. it was very inspirational. it was like a church service. it was the lessons she has learn and her greatest lessons and she gave her lessons she learned as a gift. we re going to show o you some of her farewell from h yesterday s show. bravo. what a run she s had. she s done a lot of good in the world. let s go insigh. natalie is standing by at the news desk with all the headlines. the last 21 hours brought more devastation to the nation s heartland. the devastating weather overturned vehicles and uprooted trees and homes. before and after satellite photos show the path of the tornado that killed more than 120 people tuesday in joplin, missouri. former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss-kahn is now living in a sprawling four-bedroom home in manhattan s priciest neighborhood. last night he moved into the $50,000-a-month rental while awaiting trial. tucson shooting suspect jared loughner has been deemed mentally incompetent to standor that wounded kojwoman gabrielle giffords and killed sixover people. he s been ordered to undergo four months of intensive treatment in a missouri facility in an effort to render him fit for trial. the man convicted of kidnapping elizabeth smart will spend therest of his life in prison. on wednesday smart had the chance to confront him face to face. miguel almaguer is in salt lake city. good morning. reporter: good morning. elizabeth s comments were always brief. she only spoke for a minute and a half. she was able to be in court to face the man who rape and kidnapped her. elizabeth smart arrived at federal court to face her monster. for the first time since her kidnapping she spoke directly to brian david mitchell. you took away nine months of my life that can never be returned, but in this life or next, you will have to be held responsible for those actions, and i hope you are ready for when that time comes. i told brian david mitchell today in court that whether he received his just sentence here on earth or after this earth life that one day he will have to be responsible for his actions. reporter: smart s nightmare began in 2002 when she was just 14 years old, kidnapped from her bedroom at knifepoint. elizabeth smart has been found alive. reporter: nine months after she disappeared, smart was spot near salt lake city not far where where she lived. he and his wife were arrested for kidnapping. smart spoke directly to mitchelle before his life sentence was handed down. i know you know what you did was wrong. you did it with the full knowledge. i want you to know i have a wonderful life now. you will never affect me again. now 23 years old, smart has attended college, traveled overseas, and start add foundation with her family to help bring home the missing. i think one of the biggest ways to overcome any trial in life to kill from any kind of experience is by helping those around you because by lifting those around you up, you end up lifting yourself up as well. a young woman with an unforgettable past and a promising future. reporter: in court, mitchell never spoke or acknowledged smart. ee liz belkt said she was fine with that, said what she wanted to say and is happy to move on with her life. thank you so much. and the little boy at seaworld in san diego made an unlikely friend and got caught up in competition land versus water as he raced a sea otter back and forth. i think they re both having a really good time there. that s so cute. oh, my goodness. six minutes past the hour. they both got some herring when it was over. let s see what is happening for today. we are still dealing with severe storms from mobile to vermont. we could see possible tornados and strong storms. the good news is we will see a change in the situation. we re going to get a cut off of all the bad weather we have been seeing. we do have showers and thunderstorms rumbling through the ohio and mississippi river valleys, and rainfall amounts generally half an inch to an inch of rain especially from buffalo up into new england. here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. mid morning, we re heating up. temperatures in the mid-70s to the 80s throughout the region. it s humid and today should be the hottest day of the season so far, perhaps in the low 90s by the afternoon. and then scattered storms west of i-95, and then an isolated risk of wind damage. and then storms tomorrow and still hot. could get afternoon storms saturday and sunday into next week, time now for today s money and mortgage 101. a nur survey from zillo says almost all home buyers lack the information to get a good mortgage. today jean chatcy is here to tell us what we need to know. jean, nice to see you. nice to see you. you actually feel that a lot of homeowners, home mortgage folks don t have a grasp of what they need to know to get a refinance. refinance or get a mortgage in the first place. that s what the research is showing us. simple things or things that should be simple like fees or the type of mortgage that you should take and whether or not you can negotiate are vastly misunderstood. why do you think that is? i thinking mortgages are not necessarily the easiest instruments. they come in a lot of flavors and varieties. i mean if you look at the top item on the list of the consumer protection financial bureau, it simplifies it. let s get started. a lot of people think an adjustable rate mortgage is the way to go. what s the criteria there? you need to match your loan to the amount of time that you are going to spend in that house. and so adjustable rate mortgages, again, they come in a lot of varieties, and there are loans that are fixed for the first five or seven or ten years and then begin adjusting. they re called 51s and 71 as. if you re only going to be in that house for five or seven or ten years, it can be cheaper. if you don t know how long you re going to be there, 30-dwreer loans are really cheap right now. we talk about fees. there are a lot of different fees associated with a mortgage. are there standards, or can you is there wiggle room? can you negotiate? the misconception is those fees are set in stone when in reality they re wildly any gauchele, everything from the amount it costs to pull your credit and check those documents to doing an appraisal. all of those things are negotiable. how do you negotiate? as you shop for a loan, you need to be asking what are the fees, lay them out for me so that then you can do an apples-to-apples comparison. there are tools on the web. zillo has some, for example, that will help you do that comparison by breaking out the different line items for you. do you make a choice based on the mortgage lender and the fees alone? no. that should definitely be an important criteria, but you also want to look at how good this lender is at closing deals and if you go on the internet these days, you can read reviews from customers who have recently been through the process. take that into consideration. let s talk about points. i heard something about discount point. how do they work? they re like interest paid up front. you can pay one point, 1% of your loan, and it will buy your interest rate down by about a quarter of a pointful the question is how long are you going to be there? does it make sense to make money up front which will save you money every month in your monthly payment over the long term. and there are, again, calculators, but we ran an example. if you re looking at a $250,000 mortgage, the interest rate is 5%. you pay two points or $5,000 to buy it down to 4.5%, you re going to save $75 a month. you only make your money back if you re in that house more than 5 1/2 years. so if this is your forever house, you do it. if it s not, you don t. the rates are fluctuating. should you lock in now? i think right now you lock in. in general, you want to be working with somebody who makes it clear when the rates have fallen to a place that makes sense for you. so if rates are a little higher and they re not working if yore u, you can say to your mortgage lender or mortgage broker, let me know when they fall so that i can lock in right then. and what about prequalifying for a mortgage. if you ve got that letter, does that mean you re guaranteed a mortgage? a lot of people think so, but absolutely not. the thing that means more is prequalification. especially these days when lenders are so concerned with a paper trail, until they say you ve got everythinging complete. you re not done. are we more in the driver s seat now? is there more competition for that money? absolutely, because if you look at home sales right now, they are moving very, very slowly. these lenders have a lot of people to do the work. so you are in the drivers seat, and you should shop and negotiate hard. all right. jean chatzky. great advice. thanks so much. coming up next do, you ever wonder how those celebrities get those great bodies? we re going to get the celebs diet secrets. introducing honey bunches of oats, raisin medley. there s nothing like it! the only cereal with 1, 2, 3 kinds of raisins and crunchy multigrain flakes. you gotta try new honey bunches of oats raisin medley. i didn t understand it. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my 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figure. now she embraces it. on tour, she s dancing so she burns about a thousand calories when on staj. when she s not. she worked with holy five days a week for at least 25 minutes. it concentrates on certain parts of her body. she starts her day with a protein-rich breakfast, specifically egg whites. we know if you eat ample protein in the morning it regulates your app deed and keeps your exercised an focused. she likes to make a beets and arugula salad. it s good for your skin, and she s validating that. a double-double in and out burger. it s two burgers stacked up. she also loves chicken mcnuggets. make sure you get yourself to the gym. next we have supermodel gisele who has a 17 maryland and after two weeks looked just like she did prebaby. she said when she was younger, everyone called her olive oil because she was taller than the boys in class. after she had her baby less than two years ago, she did breast feeding which really helped. she also did kung fu, yoga, and cardio. and now she does this tracy anderson, which is big with celebrities. gwyneth paltrow does it, courteney cox. it focuses on the smaller muscles in your body. she s a supermodel and her body went down. the brownies, cakes, cookies, they have a lot of sugar and it s going to essentially zap your energy. she focuses on a lot of protein, lean proteins and vegths throughout the day which keeps her on top of her game. when she s home she likes nike oatmeal and cinnamon. the cinnamon has medicinal effects. it can help to level out your blood sugar. who knew. and she loves sugar too. and cheeseburgers. and she s married to tom brady, patriots qb. next is rihanna, and you can see her here in the flesh. she s going be in concert on the plaza. but speaking of in the flesh, she never looks better than when she s exposing her flesh. look at how amazing she is. she looks unbelievable. again, we can see her body up close and personal tomorrow. this, again, the great because she burns about a thousand calories just being on stage. this is a new craze with them. everyone s really getting in on it. it s a way to work out, lose weight, and have fun at the same time. did a workout last week. i couldn t figure it out. it s amazing and so much fun. it is fun. so when it comes to her diet, she has four staples, vegetables, fruit, fish, and egg whites. she admits she doesn t like vegetables. she knows the power of produce and goes out of her way to eat a lot. if she wants to lose a few pounds she mini miezs the bread, the starch, the whites. caribbean. her mom taught her how to make a mean spicy curry. spices in curry are anti-inflammatory. i love her here we go again. kfc and cheetoes. next is ryan phillippe, father of two, still has incredible abs. it s clear he hdoes a lot of crunches. he recently did a movie with matthew mcconaughey. he had a bicycle outside the trailer. they both competed. it s really a lifestyle choice. you ve got to love a guy who knows how to cook. he cooks healthy meals all the time. according to his kids, he s an amazing cook. he likes high protein. so he s a burger without the bun type of a guy, and, you know, twoekt the protein and all of the crunches and all of the exercise he does, that s why his abs are shining. yes, they are. in and out burger, no bun, lettuce as a wrap. splurge. that s not really a splurge in my book at all. for more information, you can pick up the us weekly magazine on newsstands tomorrow. coming up, it was a love letter to her fans. oprah s sign-off to her daytime fans. first these messages. value is what toyota does best. after all, toyota s the most fuel-efficient full-line auto manufacturer in the industry. and we have the lowest ownership cost of any full-line car brand. and now take advantage of a great selection of new toyotas from the full-line auto manufacturer that has the longest lasting vehicles in america. plus, every new toyota comes with toyotacare, a complimentary maintenance plan with roadside 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among all the other words of wisdom she wanted to share. i felt like it was an hour long of self-help in a lot of ways, giving people the courage to confront all that is going well and going wrong in her life. i think it was kind of a distill lags of the 4,600-plus shows of what she s learned. i think maybe almost if you re feeling a little down or need a little pep talk, you could pop that in. you could pop it into your vcr and get some nuggets out of that. there were a lot of wisdom and she gave a lot to her fans over the years that inspired us and motivated us. i felt it was really the perfect way for her to go out, her on the stage, standing up in front of her audience, talking to her viewers. i was just amazed the whole time thinking. income, people from the audience had to write essays to be there and just thinging what it would be like to be in the audience. what was great, she kind of poked fun at herself, she talked about her hair, her different styles. her looks. you could 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[ female announcer ] when is it okay to lose the cover-up? when you can. take the special k challenge. and lose an inch from your waist in two weeks. so lose your cover-up, and show off your confidence. design your plan at specialk.com. the wealthiest women in the world. she died at 104. nbc s jeff rossen is here with the details of the case surrounding this mysteriously rich woman. jeff? reporter: we re talking al roker money. she owns the largest apartment on fifth avenue, new easy feat. she, herself, her estimated value, $500 million, half a billion. and so when she died this week, as you mentioned, al, yeah, big questions about what happened to all that money, especially when you consider her closest advisers are now under criminal investigation for stealing from her. huguette clark passed way this weekend in new york city hospital room living under an ail yet, harriet chase, reclusive until her final breath. clark leaves behind three massive estates. this one in santa barbara hugs the california coast. its value, over $100 million. clark s estate in connecticut is worth over $20 million. and, of course, the prestigious fifth avenue property filled with dolls and final art worth over $500 million. clark hasn t seen any of them in over 20 years. instead she was living in seclusion in what would be her final home. the medical center surrounded by her french doll collection. clark s lifestyle is so mysterious, this is the last known picture ever taken of her in 1930, her death, two weeks shy of her 105th birthday means the battle begins for her riches. she was buried wednesday evening the way she had lived, alone. no ceremony, no funeral mass, no priest. it was a strange life that came to a strange ending. reporter: new york prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation boo huguette clark s inner circle. her lawyer wally bock and her accountant irving kamsler. they want to know whether she was taken advantage of all these years. they have a roomful of financial documents they re going through. reporter: wally bock quietly arranged to sell clark s rare stradivarius violin for $600 million and a rare painting for $500 million. now the investigators want to know where did the money go. as we call it, follow the money. it will lead you some place. the court s going to freeze the money, put it in someplace, lock it up, and have someone other than these two people in control of it until they can sort out the facts. reporter: clark who divorcedion ang hand no children inherited the money from her wealthy father, a copper king. along with the money and the mansion, she reportedly has a will, too, but it remains unclear who s in it. the mystery that is huguette clark stretches beyond the grave. we reached out to both her lawyer wally bock and her accountant irving kamsler. we did hear ba from the spokesman for the lawyer who told us, and i m quoting here, madame clark s passing is a sad event for everyone who loved and respected her ore the years. she died as she wanted, with dignity and privacy. we intend to continue to respect her wishes for privacy. al, they would not comment on the ongoing criminal investigation, but i have a feeling this huge apartment behind me may soon be on the market on fifth avenue, so get online to look for it. i couldn t help but notice there is a passing resemblance between you and ms. clark. you should check that out. it s the hat. we re going to help you take the frumpy out of your weekend style, casual ware. right after these messages. e it in. janeed you to pass to. greg. max. greg, why aren t you ready? i m max. of course you are honey. max, you re in. max? coach? 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[ male announcer ] hidden valley ranch. man: and all the pens are put down. woman: and everything there is to learn is learned. man: till the heroes retire and the monsters return to their dens. woman: and all the plots are wrapped up. man: till that day. boy: by hook or by crook. girl: by book or by nook. woman: i will read. this morning on bob by s style buzz, loungeware, while you may dress to impress during the week, the weekend is about comfort. bobbie thomas is here to share some ways to shape up your off-duty wardrobe. bob by, good morning. good morning. just because it s summertime doesn t mean you can get frumpy. this is the tomb of year you want to be care-free. i love this segment. a personal favorite. let e s take a look. first we have gorgeous nancy, the model that s coming out. i want you to be comfortable at home but open the door to the delivery man and welcome your friends. this is a nice slouchy sweatshirt. i love this. it s super soft. she s wearing something that s called a skapri. you re a little more covered so you re not as exposed. she has looks great. she leasooks comfortable. come over on the couch. next we have melanie in our sporty look. this is, of course, if you want to go to the gym. sometimes you want to run errands before or after. what i love about the look, you can work out in this. there s a lot of performance in this. this is a uv profekz sweltdshirt. it has a uv protection of 50 so she can cover her arms, make sure she s not going to get exposure to the sun. they claim that will increase your oxygen because of the fibers. her leggings are from the girls apparel. she s ready to go. looking good. come on over, melanie. neck we have alli showing us the layered look. we love alli with the tinsel in her hair. this is probably my signature look on the weekend. i love wearing layers and long and loose. this is a wrap from macy s. it s only $39. what i love is the actual dress she s wearing underneath is from venus.com. if you come over here, i can show you the tank top version. it s got a great open back but a sports band so you can still wear a bra. it s really inexpensive and you can take in a siesta or lunch with the girls. looking beautiful as always. come on over here. we ll let you sit on the couch with us. next we have paula with the loungy look. she s got the tank and pants from h & m. you can definitely afford to upgrade the same sweats and what i like is that harem pants, do not be afraid to try them. some girls may thing they re not flattering, but they actually are. scrunch up the bottom, have the little ornate waistband and put a blazer on. it gives a little shape. it s like a stylist s secret. makes you look a little tailored. if you put a wedge or heel on you can could wear it to casual fridays at the office. you look great. all our ladies look fantastic. come on over. bob by, it s always great lounging with you on the couch. coming up next, taking the corn dog to a whole new level. but first this is today on nbc. this morning in today s kitchen, what s for dinner? the answer, corn dogs with a twist. you ll find them on every boardwalk on about every pier out there. it s the summer food. jake from colorado has some ideas to take that corn dog to the next level. jake, somebody had to do it. you re the man. we re on the tip of the sphere with the corn dog. for those who have not had a corn dog, what is a corn dog? it s basically a quick batter made with a little bit of corn meal, either flour meal or corn flour. you can do it gluten free. a little bit of sugar, baking powder, baking soda, eggs. you cook it. deep fry. deep fry it. with a hot dog. a hot dog or sausage. i m taking it and saying, we re going go with a buffalo short rip with a little bit of cheddar cheese in it, lobster corn roll and one that s near and dear to me, the mac and cheese corn dog. is this already cooked? i cooked them. when we cooked them, we add a added a little bit of gelatin. hate as low melting point. once we batter it and fry it, that will melt away. how do we get started? take your dry first together, give those a dump right in there. and then we ll grab our liquid which is a little bit of buttermilk and egg and slowly mix it in there. why buttermilk? it reacts with a little bit of the powder or the baking powder, and that s what gives us a little bit more leavening or crunch or volume. is there any oil in this? not in this. we ve got plenty of oil to fry in. this will be our quotient. and the buttermilk gives it a nice creamy consistency to it. corn dog, is it basically more like a southern dish? i m a little partial being born and raised in indiana. the corn dog was raised in indiana. that s the story and i m sticking with it. look us up on facebook or twitter an let us know where you think the corn dog originated. we ve got that all mixed up. got that all mixed up. then we move swiftly to your corn dog sphere of choice and give it a quick twirl. you really don t need that much. and then a little finesse into the oil. and just like that. stand it up. you can stand it up. you probably need to hold it a little bit. whoop. coming together. okay. they may just expand a little bit, but they ll come back together. hole them out and give them a little dip. it s definitely a finesse trip. finesse. i don t think i have the finesse. that s all right. we re quickly going to this result. that s what we re after. because this result is not so good. that looks pretty hideous. this is almost like tempora. what is that? a disaster on a stick. okay. let s get back here, natalie. we ll leave that disaster by ourselves. this is our version of colorado food. this is our lobster corn dog, this is the mac and cheese corn dog. mac and cheese made with a little bit of smoked gupta, cheh dar, and brie. and then tomato. that is the cookie dough pie. we geesht to say a real quick thank ewe. rihanna tomorrow. bring a sign because whoever brings the best sign, concert tickets. that s right. beautiful day out there right now. a nice start for many, a long weekend. some heading out tomorrow. 81 degrees is our temperature, and the time 9:57. in the news at this hour, the d.c. council agreed upon a budget that closes the short fall while avoiding a tax hike for the wealthy. it reduces parking meter rates from $2 an hour to $1 an hour. the parking garage tax will go up from 12% to 18%. and council members rejected a tax hike on those earning more than $200,000. they can do without the service cuts or tax increases because an improving economy has boosted tax revenue. we ll check weather when we come back. no, tom, go ahead. heat wave under way, and here comes summer. we re in the low 90s today, and a slight chance of a thunderstorm around i-95. we have a greater chance of scattered storm tomorrow afternoon remaining hot into next week. trying to wrap up the rush hour, and the backup begins before the pentagon to and before the pentagon to and across the 14th street bridge.j captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello, everybody. it s thirst day thursday. this is going to be fun. p9 rihanrihanna knows how to ro. if you come to the concert holding up a sign and you have the best sign out on the plaza, you willlget a free ticket. a free air of tickets, to one of rihanna s concerts on her tour date. she can really kick it oo her concert. it will be a lot of fun. guess what s coming this week, too? it started actually fleet week with. love fleet week. fun to walk around. last night you and i got first we should talk about hat happened yesterday. when we got home we talked about american idol. i think we should talk about american idol quickly. it was a nail-biter. it was who was going to win. they are among two country stars. a 16-year-old and 15-year-old, right? the 17-year-old, scotty was 17. scotty ended up winning, when you hear him, you cannot believe that voice is coming out of that body. it s like randy travis or something. apparently they ve become great let s hear him singing. this is when i woke up. i woke up to him singing this big song. but i know how i feel i might not have much experience but i know i love this so when you turn and hear him, you sort of expect to see the marlboro man. he will have a long, long career. the folks that love country music love you forever. they love you forever. they are amazing fans. he ll be around it was one of those terrific performances with a whole bunch of celebs. jennifer lopez, stephen tyler. marc anthony sang, bono and the edge. tony bennett was out there. carrie underwood, beyonce and lady gaga. look at tom generals. still alive. that s his sun tan. bono, desperate to sell tickets to spider-man. carrie underwood came. she looked adorable. p> this goes to shoo you what america is hungry for. we had a huge day here yesterday. we went off for our mat any. we heard amazing things about this play we ll tell you about. everybody s giving it odds are they are saying this will win best tony for best play. it called war horse. i knew i was going to love it because people i respect told me so. you thought what did you think? first of all it was called war horse. it had horse puppets in it. i didn t think it was for me before i sat in the seat. after i sat in thh seat and watched the whole thing, i thought, in my life timeeif i could see only one broadway show, that s the show i would see. itts that good. it is the most stunning piece of theater iive ever seen in my life. it is beautifully conceived, brilliantly staged, acted and there is lovely muuic in it. it is not considered a musical. i often tear up at things. yes, you do. you do. when ou start to sob like a baby and you can t stop and you get the heaving thing and you can t speak when it s over because you re so moved, that never happens. it s not like a sad depressing cry. it s an emotional cry. wow, wow. it was so great. lincoln center at the vivian beaumont. i think it will have incredibly long run. i was so grateful. i left the theater thinking they still make theater like this. amazing. can transform your life. it s graphic, yyu guys. don t take your children. matt took his children and he had to leave. it s very hard to watch some of the things that happen to the horses. keep that in mind. i have a lowwtolerance for any violence. this was one of those things as an adult, obviously, you understand it, you get it and you feel it. so yyu know how important it was, the audience was interacting. usually audiences sit and watch. they are talking bbcause they are so moved. -pit s like that. it s based on fact. during world war i, 1 milllon horsee from england were hipped over, literally shhpped over. there was no other way to get them there france to ffght on the front there. only 62,000 came back. pt will rip your heart out, but oh, my gosh. great, great show. then there is more. home from the theater knowing that and babe won t it be fine -pwe went off to the best is y to come tte music of cy colema& whom we lost a few years back. what a great, great giant of the musical theater. great performances. you will love it. it s a lot of fun. it s at the east 59th street theater. go ee it. if you were like a lot of people yesterday you sat at 4:00 oo whenever oprah comes on you sat and watched her final, final shoo. she didn t have any guests. it was just oprah. she called it her love letter. the proper previous days were all about celebs. this was about good-bye. she called it her love letterrto what you re seeiig here, this i thought was amazing. cri cristen chenowith sang this song and they brought out all the men she sent to college. because we knew you we had to change for good that s all that matters in life, isn t it? how many other people you touched, what kind of impact you had by the short. we are just a breath on this earth, just a mist. somebody asked billy graham what you would think he would say . something spiritual. he said, how short it is and each day how important it is you live it. good for oprah. she had so much success. i don ttwish her any more success she doesn t need it. i wish her happinees and peace and contentment. we have good news. every week and month we have an everyone has a story. we did one recently about 4-year-old jack morton. he was here withhhis little brother braden. jack was diagnosed when he was 3 with stage four neuroblastoma. we got a call with his family. here is the really, really good news. jackkhaa been told he is cancer-free, even in his bone marrow and everything. he danced around to that song. he was singing firework. good for him. the gift we gave him was free life tickets or something like that to the water park aad gave him his own pool. he had tubes, he couldn t swim. so happy for them. we are so pleased. and to keep you in a good mood because this is what it s all about. it s time for my play list. cover it up. i didn t look. you saw something. i saw donny and marie. now i know it s called the good life. i was going to surprise you because you would never know by pistening to it. let s listen. crank that, baby. they were two and three sharing one car living in a two bedroom apartment wasn t much but just enough two crazy kids just getting started he worked at walmart drove a golf cart selling drinks to golfers you have to hear the whole & point. here comes the point. sometimes the rich ain t wealthy poor ain t broke you got to find your own river of gold it ain t all about the money sometimes no it don t take a lot when you count up what you got if you ve got love you re living the good life good song. you must have a good song now. a couple of hours with jay last night. wish i could tell you about it. let s go on to okay magazine like we do every thursday. is it okay to smile foo your mug shot? as you know we ve seen many beaming people arrested. kathie lee says it depends on what you re guilty of. hoda says, of course, it s okay. at the time the photo is taken you re innocent until proven. i know wynonna does not like this mug shot. usually you re not broken to jail usually do you agree usually you re not? i don t know if that s true. people get arrested for things they don t do. we vv got travel deals that will make you want to get up and go. stay put. our guys are here. time for today s travel. if if you re looking forward to a last-minute holiday gettaway, start packing. budget travel as six amazing deals you can still book in time for memorial day. are you sure? i swwar these eals are still good. they are super last-minute. if you don t have plans for ttis weekend, you have no excuse because these are too good to be true. starttng off in palm springs, this is a great one. they have gotten an incredible renovation, fire pits outside, 155 pet-friendly rooms. the price is great, $115 a night. super easy. palm springs is about to get steaming hot, but is still bearable right now. and everything is air conditioned. and this is pet friendly. you can bring your dog. lola.can bring bambino, luis and cruises are a great deal. especially this one. this is a seven ight trip. you start off in miami..o cf1 o then you go on the norwegian sky, four stops throughout the bahamas. apparently they have the longest poolside bar at sea. i personally would love to test that out. we would go with you. for people who still never cruisedd you ve got to go on a cruise. how are the flights getting to these places? when you re doing a super last-minute trip, but these trips are spread throughout the u.s. these would be if you re close by already. hawaii is a great deal. san francisco, five nights on waikiki beach. you rr getting five nights hotel for $100. there is a steal to vegas, as well? vegas. you can always get a good bargain. this is a great one. air fare from salt lake city and three nights at the wynn resorts. which is beautiful. we stayed there. chelsea handler is playing this weekend. hide the children. other cruises. you re talking about an alaskan cruise. this is the trip of a lifetime. an alaska cruise out of seattle, seven stops..o cf1 o you re going to see eagles and whales. you ll be on the sapphire princess which has an elegant afternoon tea service. you get the best of wildlife and the best of sea life. one of the last trips i gave my mom and dad was to alaska on one of these, on one of the carnival ships. it s so beautifuu. it s great for kids. it s only 562 for the whole thing. seven nights. per person. that includes your food. they never run out of food. buffet. i was going to say diet now but it starts tomorrow. finally a trip to britain. i love a long weekend get away to britain. who doesn t? aiifaae from new york, three nights right in pimlico. it s walkinggdistance from the thames. you didn t make it for the royal wedding. this is your time $999 through british airways vacation. all these details i m spitting out so much. budgettravel.com. all the booking details. you have no excuse not to get & away. i m going to the beach. coming up next, our guys are @ there is no time like the time when our men gather. david good, david is the author of the man code, the woman s guide to cracking the tough guy. chuck nice can be seen every week on truuv s world s dumbest. every saturday morning is the host of the top ten on centric. he keeps having more jobs. i gottboth jobs from both of you. thank you though. the check s in the maal. median/actor rick unger who can be heard on the cooedy series called come on now and the movie morning glory. he stole that. and the level-headed andrew trees the author of decoding love and club rules and is married with a young son. sara haines is across the street. i m here with ruth anne from ohio. i want to know why every time something needs to be repaired at my house, my husband spends $168 on tools, nothing gets repaired and i have to pay a repairman? he s been waiting for the opportunity to buy more tools. you gave him a great gateway. do yyu not likeethe pro to come in and do it? i want the pro to come in and do it. p> that s like asking for directions. i m not going to ask for directions. i ll get lost. i ll break it five times. happens every time. what do you think? impress my friends. i can t fix anything. when they come over, they see my garage full of tooos. soon as my wife asks for help doing work, i asks like i m asleep. i could be standing up and i ll -pfall on the ground asleep. i pointed out one thing on the fence last week. i said to frank, we ve got to get that fixed..o cf1 oo he s saying, i ll ffx it. ten minutes later i look down anddsix are missing. this has to do with the manly arts. you want to look like the competent man.& in this modern age, most of us don t know what we are doing. tiffany from facebook. the other night i dressed up in sexy lingerie and came out to the living room and said, hey, are you coming to bed? he turned and looked at me and said, yeah, as sson as i sse if john rich ins celebrity apprentice. there is the possibility he is retarded. also, sometimes women, you all put on lingerie. that word is not right. anyway with, she might come out with lingerie all the time. that may not necessarily mean sex. if it doesn t necessarily mean he s like let me find out what s happening here. timing. if it s the foorth quarter of a game and you come out in lingerie, okay, i ll be in bed in a second. you ve got to time it up right. you re saying the man would want to see the final after five years. if 2 you re in the middle of something, if you re six months& in. chuckkhas something to sayy that s fine. timing is fine. maybe he s stupid. i m just saying, if a woman comes out in lingerie and looking sexy and you are not interested, perhaps you are going through a life change and you are interested innsomething else like other men. no. quite frannly, if she came out in lingerie, i m like this, we can finish watching this together. you come over here and e are going to finish watching this together. we have to take a break. hold it. -pwe want to know your thought. it will be the most interesting. we ll be back after youu local news. new information on albert haynesworth legal woes. what happened in court later this morning. the player is facing road rage charges. coming up, performing for us. a high school show choir desperately trying to raise [ male announcer ] there s a new ride coming to busch gardens williamsburg mach tower. dude, it s like two hundred and. .forty feet high. .right in the middle of oktoberfest. .the seats go, whoooa. .up to the top, then. .the music just stops. and the seats totally start shaking. it s insane. but then all of a sudden. 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we are currently on the u uss uss iwojima. why do guys in uniform get more attention than girls in uniform. guys in uniform always get. you know why? the uniform guys like normally include heels and glitter and a pole. that s the uniform we like. we wear heels. listen, when they put your naval uniform in bikini form, we will love you in your uniform. when guys see uniforms, they -pstart thinking police. they get innimidated. women want someone strong and powerful so the uniforms appeal to them. hey, there is a ladd in uniform, i think i m in trouble. what about the fantasies that kind of thing., nurses and that the uniformmis no pants. what you wear on halloween. you ladies look beautiful. our next question is on tape. my question is why do men like to answer questions in one-syllable words, whether it be via text or phone? you could go into detail, leave a details message via text or phone and all you gee back is yep. guys believe there are any amount of syllables in certain quarter sayings and usually you all have used p all but one. women are much mooe verbal than men are. pomen want to use language to ccnnecc more and share emotiin. men use it more as an information exchange. when they hear that long message they want a yes or no to this plan, not she wants to connect with me about something. usually by the time they ask the question, they alreedy worked out the answer. so maay times my wife will ask questions where i know what the answer is. do you think this looks nice, ricky? yes. i shouldn t go into anything else other than yess you start to get yourself in trouble. iim hear with erin from delaware. why does my husband insist oo watching hours and hours of playoff games where his team is not involved, he doesn t like the sport and he is just wasting hours of my time. of your timm. i m going to be very serious with you. you might want to consider checking ii to whether or not he has a gambling problem. if if you start gettinn foreclosure notices, you will understand why he is so interested in teams he has no affiliation with. shouldn t she bb grateful he is home and not running around? i don t know. all right. at least he s not out on the streets. that s the up side. he s not on the streets. you guys have a good holiday. we love you guys. uppnext, hoda and i go head-to-head in a fitness competition. ñ0÷0ñxx . it is time to bust those fitness myths thaa are keeping you from our perfect body. hop on the tread mill and listen up. jennifer cohen is a health and fitness expert and author of no gym required unleash your inner rock star. we like it. there is a prize at the end of this game. we like prizes. okay. you guys ready? yes. we are ready. is the most effective exercise to get those six-pack abs. hoda. false. i m going to say false. false is the right answer. becauseeit s not for the abs. 80% is diet. you can never spot reduce. do you think you could get the question out. i have tele pathy. diet, cardiovascular. doing everything together, streegth, everything and plankss isometricals. true or false. stretching before working out is crucial to preventing injury. we just had this last week. i didn t agree with it. it is not essential, but i think it is. well, i say actually after you work out is more essential because you don t want to stretch a cool muscle. you ant to warm p beeore. warming up and ssretching are two seearate things. people think they are the same. right. you got that one ight. okay. even though you disagree with it. i just know i never had an injury after working out. but i ve gotten one during if i didn t warm up and stretch. she is saying waaming uu is different than stretch. if you just walk slowly or march in place to get yourrblood circulating and moving along. ready. true or false. sweating through your clothes i& not the best indication of how hard you re working out. true. true is the right answer. what? yes. she is right. the best way is to wear a heart rate monitor. you know how efficient and effective you are. everybody ssbody temperature is different. some people don t sweat at all. exactly. some who shall remain o cf1o nameless careful. wwrking out on aamachine is safer because you use perfect form every time. i m going to say false. it s not your question. it s false. false is the riggt answer. we both got that one right. i don t think so. i don t know how to say who. i trust you. what? the djustment, we are going to adjust the machine wrong and you can perfect forr unless somebody tells you it s perfect form. exactly. doing a 60-minute run at a steady pace is more effective okay.a high intensity 20-minute. false. mine lit up. she is correct. she is also cheating. see, look. do it again and again. the prize is not great so it s okay. is that it? we ve got to go. there is no time. hoda wins. let all america rejoice. what s the prize? -p i don t know. wait a second. look at this. you can have it. thanks. bad kids or ad parents, which one comes first. parenting todayyand a touchy topic. bad kids or bad parents? if kids behave badly, is it the faults of the parents? or do kiis behaving happen as the result of good parenting. she likes the letter g a lot. this is one of those questions people ask. there are great parents that -pdo have troublesome children. you don t want to link everybody together. that is not fair. in general would you say nurture, nature, combination, what? i do think nature is o cf1 o involved. personality, but i really get frustrated with parents when they point the finger at their kids and say, i don t knowwhow i got a kid like that. they re not my child. they must be like my husband s side of the family. are they in denial? they are in denial. literally every parent i have spoken to, there is something a lot of parents say it must & pfriends.ence of your that s what s doing it or the shows you re atching. those are a factor at some point, right? there is. but there is a lottof individual responsibility. -pi could take the legal perspective. generally parents are noo at kids. for the bad aats of their although that is changing in some areas. it depends on the state and there has to be negligence on the part of the parents or youu know your kid has a propensity for violence. in general, our owe sight does hold the individual accountable for your own actions based on your age and experience. you know what it seems to me? it may not be a question of being a bad parent. you have bad parenting skills, perhaps. people are thinking if i m a bad parent, i m a bad person. same thing. i always say kids don t come with instruction books. as parents, i laugh because they make you read a manual and make you take a test to drive a car but not a child. it s aaout learning and skills. if you think there is somethingg wrong with your child, you think you re not doing something pight, get tools, get resources aad try something different. there are parents who have children who are autistic. how much outside impact do you think they have over a child? i ve been a therapist 20 years and parent 16 years. if you re hands on taking charge of your kids and aware, everything will be okay. isn t it true most experts children the absolute bare your essential basics by the time they are 6 years old, itts almost too late. is it? there is a ot of discussion, small children, is it easier to help connrol small children. teach them manners. teach them right from wrong. yes. it s the parents obligation. you hhve a moral obligationn parents wait too long, it seems to me. let s pretend you weren t that hard on them early. can you unring the bell? absolutely. a lot of who you are develops the first six years in life. if we had to give up hope on kids age 6, ii s over. it s never too late. as long as they are unner your roof, you can make an impact. no matter what you think, nobody has perfect children..o o except you. thanks, ladiess always such a great discussion. wow them thhs weekend with healthy party dishes. first this is today on nbc.  it s time toohead in today s itchen. we are getting saucy with a memorial day feast made healthy. gavin casen is executive chef of cafe blue. he is here to prove memorial day can be delicious without being decadent. i m from missouri, but that s okay. daaiel is from france. that s true. here is the thing. for me, the hardest part right now is we want to do cold soups because it s beautiful outside. this case we ll do ree pepper. we have roasted red bell and yellow peppers sweated down in here. we have thyme and garlic. then we are going to cook that down. we ll add all this into it, as well. then we are going to cook that down. what is the consisteecy you want, soft? soft and blendable. you want to pour the water. hodaais a good water-pourer. and sherri vinegar. you re adding calories? s. no. you re good. healthy memorial day. we ll blend thatt it s been healthy week here at nbc. that s what we are promoting. that good? that s good. we ll take this and strain it. that s going to go through and that s going to create the gazpacho there. that s how simple that is. why are we straining it? you don t have to. this is how you find it as the cafe blue. you make it thick and delicious. exactly. look at the crab down here. i know the ccab. we have crab from maine. some lime juice and lemon juice. we ll add ome of that. basil. we ll just tear. we are not going to really do anything else to it. love fresh basil in the summeetime. we ll add mango. we are not going to add the green peppers. you do like green peppers, hoda? i like them. don t worry. no, i m kidding. we ll mix that up. crab, mango, peppers, everything. you can do shrimp and lobster..o you don t have to do seafood. whatever you like. it s a garni. then you pour around it. look at that. isn t that pretty? ttat was easy. that was really easy. even hoda could serve that this weekend. here, hoda woman. thank you so much. this is the pepper gazpacho. here we have the spring chicken. we have a lot of beautiful spring vegetables. oh, my goodness. killer, rrght? not as good as war horse but close. that is so great, gavin. chicken and what else is in there? chicken, artichoke, fingerling potatoes, carrot crudite. happy memorial day. tomorrow we ll talk about summer gadgets that will make you the envy of the beach. getting together your family reunion. ambush makeovers. cheers. captions by vitac www.vitac.com x?p60@ú at wendy s we grill fresh beef only from north america cause we believe that s the way you make hot and juicy hamburgers. the other guys use frozen beef and some of it comes from . whonoswhere. you won t find any frozen beef at wendy s. so try our bacon mushroom melt with applewood smoked bacon and a cheesy mushroom sauce. you know a hot and juicy hamburger when you taste it. you know when it s real