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the affair, how she broke the news, and what she wants next for her son today, wednesday, news, and what she wants next for her son today, wednesday, june 15th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television ed a good morning. welcome to today, wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry. the question u.s. officials are asking, why would pakistan s intelligence services obtain the very men who helped take down the most wanted terrorist in the world. retribution for their embarrassment over that situation. bizarre murder plot in england. they have reportedly been arrested for planning to rob and kill a popular grammy winning singer josh stone. we re going to have details on that story. also this morning, two important stories tied to your health. the government just announced new labeling rules for sunscreen as well as a new warning on a very popular technique used to straighten hair. so we re going to get details on both those developments coming up. first, let s get right to the other top stori of the morning. natalie morales, good morning to you. good morning, everyone. we begin with those reports this morning as the pakistani government has arrested several local informants who collaborated with the cia who prepared for the raid that took down osama bin laden. good morning. this is clearly payback time for that surprise u.s. raid that took out bin laden. the five informants reportedly taken into custody include an army major who is providing the u.s. the license plate numbers of cars that visited the bin laden compound. and the owner of a nearby residence that was used as a cia safe house. cia director appealed to the pakistanis to release the five and a visit to islamabad last week, but so far no luck. this is another sign that the u.s. and pakistani relations, which the cia says are absolutely crucial to the war on terror, has suffered another serious blow after that bin laden raid which seriously embarrassed the pakistani military. the pakistanis say today they have not arrested a army major but we ve heard those kinds of denials before, natalie. thank you. the wallow wildfire is now the largest in arizona state history as it now threatens to engulf a town in new mexico. this as officials believe the massive and drubive blaze was sparked by an abandoned camp fire. two people are being questioned in connection to the fire that forced thousands of residents to evacuate. wisconsin s hotly contested so-called anti-union law goes into effect today after the state supreme court ruled that a judge who voided the law acted outside her authority if decision will strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, the plan the governor says is needed to address the state s budget shortcomings. house speaker john boehner is slamming the president for using military action in libya without congressional approval. in a letter boehner gave the president until this friday to explain his legal grounds in action in libya reminding him that by sunday the u.s. will be in libya by more than 90 days without congressional authorization, a violation of the 1973 war powers resolution. now, let s head to wall street. melissa francis is at the new york stock exchange for us. are we looking for a little bit of a recovery there again? absolutely. one thing that s spurring trading today is pandora. it starts trading down here after the open. it priced yesterday. internet radio site. it priced at $16 a share. double the originally expected. the company has never turned a profit. still a lot of buzz about it. we ll be watching that today. as you said, markets much stronger yesterday. the dow up more than 130 points. we re also watching crude oil. we get some key inventory data today. right now crude below $100 a barrel ahead of that. back to you. melissa francis, thank you. bizarre story out of the uk. two men carrying swords, ropes, and a body bag were arrested near the country home of british soul singer stone. the two men are in police custody in connection with that alleged plot to rob and kill the 24-year-old who is a friend of prince william and kate middleton. you ll recall she attended their wedding in april. and good news now. it s a boy. natalie portman has given birth to a baby.according to people magazine. portman and her boyfriend benjamin millepied has yet to release a name. but some have taken to twitter to deliver their congratulations. we congratulate them as well. it s going to be an absolutely gorgeous baby boy with those beautiful parents. and smart. and smart. and great dancers. right. exactly. matt s a good name. luke from star wars. lots of good names. congratulations. let us turn our attention to the weather right now. if you re putting thumb tacks in our map at home, al started in anchorage, alaska, and vegas, and this morning he s in houston, texas. good morning. good morning, matt and ann. it s day three of our cross-country trip. we ve traveled about 6900 miles so far as we come in on the big p penske truck. we are delivering to needy charities across the country. today a new record for a single day, donation group. we re talking about more than 2 $.2 million for a worthy charity here in houston. but what we re also going to show you right now is some really severe weather. we r talking about the risk of strong storms, tornados, isolated hail up to indianapolis with the system. we ve got low pressure pushing on in, warm front, cold front, stationary front into the midwest, upper midwest. heavy showers and thunderstorms. right now chicago, an area from a half inch to an inch of rain from green bay down into southeast. so we ve got wet weather to talk about over the next 24 hours. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happen. ing in your neck of the woods. good morning. here it s clear, cool, dry on wednesday morning. only in the 50s in the suburbs and rural areas. near 60 in washington. and by the bay, later up rnarou 80. a light breeze out of the north and west. we ll have increasing clouds after midnight tonight. mostly cloudy tomorrow. might get a morning shower, afternoon thunderstorm, highs in the 70s. friday, partly cloudy, chance of afternoon storms. over more from houston, texas, and our charity coming up later. matt? thank you very much. there are new details on the anthony weiner scandal. his wife arrived home overnight and many colleagues on capitol hill hope that could ultimately lead to his resignation. luke russert is on capitol hill with more on that story. luke, good morning to you. good morning. as anthony weiner continues to seek professional treatment after his sexting scandal, pressures continue to mount. weiner s pregnant wife huma abedin returned home this morning after a week long diplomatic mission. sources tell nbc news that weiner won t make any final decisions on his political future until he discusses it with his wife. as congress gets back to work, weiner is an enormous distraction for his party colleagues in the house. i don t know what he s going to do. reporter: house minority leader nancy pelosi once again called on him to step down. i came to the conclusion that with the love of his family, the confidence of his constituents, and the need for help, that congressman weiner should resign from the congress. reporter: but during their weekly caucus tuesday, behind closed doors democrats barely discussed weiner and took no action. i wish you would come to my district and deal in ohio and deal with the unemployment faced by 520,000 people that still remain in ohio. so i just urge you to concentrate on what s important for the whole country. reporter: weiner is under enormous pressure after president obama bluntly told ann that the congressman should go. obviously what he did was highly inappropriate. i think he s embarrassed himself. he s acknowledged that. he s embarrassed his wife and his family. ultimately there s going to be a decision for him and his constituents. i can tell you that, if it was me, i would resign. reporter: tuesday republican house speaker john boehner also joined the fray. i do believe anthony weiner should step down? yes. reporter: weiner, granted a two-week leave of absence by the house has not appeared in public since the weekend. his where abouts are unknown, while he reportedly undergoes professional treatment. they began a preliminary inquiry and they hope his decision comes soon. we re going to find out. reporter: and, matt, one democratic aide told me that weiner should go because his colleagues are so upset with him if he were to come back to the house he would be a, quote, man without a country. matt? luke, thank you very much. it s ten minutes after the hour. here s ann. matt, thanks. as we ve been reporting the campaign of newt gingrich got off to a bumpy start. now the gop hopeful is facing new questions about why his entire senior campaign staff walked out on him. investigative correspondent has new details on that. michael, good morning. food morning. campaign sources tell nbc news the private blow-ups within the gingrich campaign were worse than his public gaffes. lower costs, instead create millions of american jobs. reporter: in new hampshire on tuesday newt gingrich was doing his best to stay on message. my whole focus this morning will be on specific steps to get this economy fixed. reporter: but he s still facing constant distractions. can you answer why the charity you founded 2 $00,000 to your for-profit company? reporter: it s a campaign that is struggling to stay alive after gingrich s entire senior staff quit. current and former campaign sources is telling nbc new details about the conflicts that led to the exodus. campaign insiders say the problem circles around the role of his third wife. publicly supportive wife, but aides say privately a demanding one. gingrich s aides felt that his wife was making unreasonable demands on his time. she was very particular about the way she wanted things done. reporter: gingrich advisers say she even dictated the campaign schedule, refusing to allow early morning take-offs for events so she could have her hair done. the sources say she also demanded the campaign help arrange screenings of the couple s movies produced by gingrich productions, a for-profit company. there is even a link promoting the movies on the gingrich campaign website. but the conflictses ask lated memorial day weekend when his staff wanted him campaigning in south carolina. instead, gingrich flew home to accompany her to the opera at the kennedy center. a few days later, the final straw. the greek isles. gingrich put his campaign on hold to go with callista on cruise. 16 staffers resigned. they make decision together. reporter: gingrich s campaign spokesman defends the candidate s strategy. the fact is this is newt s campaign. he s going to run it the way he thinks is best for america. reporter: but many republicans wonder if gingrich can ever rofr. start as one of the worst campaign starts in the history of campaigns. my guess is he s going to be done fairly soon. well, the conflicts that devastating impact on fund-raising, when the first campaign reports are filed next month, gop sources say that front-runner mitt romney will report more than $40 million so far. and for gingrich, sources say as of this week, the number is likely to be no more than $3 million. matt? thank you very much. david gregory is moderator of meet the press. david, good morning to you. i don t want to spend a lot of time on whether callista gingrich is one of the problems in this campaign but i do want to ask you if it can get back traction that it has clearly lost over the last couple of weeks. it s very difficult. mike just said, fund-raising is key, despite his name recognition, he s not made much of a dent in the polls. aside from the top tier candidates. the interesting part about his wife is that she was very much marketed early on as a key piece of this campaign. he had had trouble with extramarital affairs in the past. he was trying to demonstrate to conservative voters who care about family values and marriage that he was a different guy that he had changed. and now you have these distractions. so bottom line, very difficult to get off the mark here. newt gingrich is a guy with big ideas. he s a blunt-spoken guy. he gets other people thinking and talking. is it possible, david, that he is destined to be a much better provocature than a candidate? yes, right now he s just appearing to be a flawed candidate who can t get his operation together. it s difficult to show up big at a debate and get people talking about you the way people are talking about michele bachmann when this is the focus. he wants the focus on his ideas, the economy, america s place in the world. it s not getting there. when you re talking about monday night, 36 hours out from that, in that 36 hours much of the talk on the gop side has been about two candidates who are not yet in the race. we re talking about jon huntsman and rick perry. what does the interest in them tell you about the satisfaction with the gop candidates that are in the race? that it s low. that you do have an emerging front-runner in mitt romney that a lot of primary voters know and there are still real questions about whether he can get through the primary and ultimately beat president obama. this is not unusual. you have a large unsettled field across the republican party. there still is this desire for somebody to sweep in and take care of that early state in iowa and really make a mark. once mike huckabee decided he was not in it created a void. is that void going to be filled more by rick perry or jon huntsm huntsman, probably rick perry in terms of social conservatism. that s right. as a tea party candidate, somebody who can make a mark, jon huntsman is getting a lot of traction right now. he announced yesterday after the debate he will have an announcement that he will get into the race. he s seen as an intriguing candidate. i think he will get a lot of attention within the media. i ve also talked to republican strategists who say the romney camp should not be keeping him at arm s length. and finally, let me ask you about congressman weiner because it s mandatory on a morning like this. and the new public policy polling coming out right now says 60% of voters across the country think he should resign. when you look at what s happening here, david, where with jobs being such a key issue and with the debt ceiling and with housing numbers so bad, the fact that politicians, members of congress, even the president are being forced to talk about anthony weiner, how much longer can this go on? i don t think very much longer at all. this is there s two factors here. who do his constituents think, what does his wife think, obviously. also from his democratic colleagues as you heard this morning a great deal of pressure. there is some feeling an ethics inquiry will force his hand, force him out. there is a stubbornness factor i hear about from talking to top democrats to say, look, there s only so much we can do here. we have to keep the pressure up. david gregory in washington. david, nice to see you. thanks, matt. all right. 17 after the hour. ann? after months of preview, several accidents and a complete reworking of the show, spider-man finally opened on broadway last night. this morning the reviews are in, ranging from mere mediocrity to spectacular and dull at the same time. nbc s anne thompson is in times square this morning with details. good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. some who thought spider-man would never open but this multimedia extravaganza is taking its place on the great white way. at last, spider-man officially landed on broadway. after six postponements, opening night brought out a a-list crowd, including movie stars, supermodels, even a former president. to see the most expensive broadway show ever. it survived an avalanche of trouble, by the men who wrote the songs u-2 s bono. everything just went out of control. tonight we pulled it back. reporter: the $70 million reach for the stars spectacular got caught in its own high-flying web. previews were riddled with errors that stopped the show. actor christopher tyranny fell 30 feet, one of five cast members injured. and all the hype about the broadway debut of these rock stars turned off theater insiders and critics. when you re told something great is about to happen, you immediately go, okay, show us. then you kind of set up for bad news. reporter: backstage it wasn t about them but the cast. our prayer is, and it s a serious prayer right now, is just for a blessing on tonight s show and safety first and all your charisma will not be a problem. reporter: the audience loved the flying sequences. and critics are now mixed about this new and improved version. it s just a bore, sniffed the new york times. a tasty diversion, in the opinion of the new york daily news. in this crowd there were plenive of fans. any time something is different and cutting edge, you know, they always want to knock it down. reporter: the feel good vibe lasted all of the way through the curtain call when the original director fired after brutal reviews in february was called up on stage by her replacement philip william mckinley. like peter parker who struggles with his dual roles aseenager and super hero, bono and the edge are adjusting to being rock royalty and broadway rookies. break a leg. break all eight legs. reporter: now, even though spider-man has opened it is still a work in progress. bono says it s about 90% done with more tweaks to come this summer. ann? anne thompson this morning. thanks. coming up, for the first time arnold schwarzenegger s former mistress reveals her son to the world and speaks out about the affair. we have details. but first, this is today on nbc. anthony s mother takes the stand in her daughter s murder trial. pippa middleton is jet setting with one of the wealthiest men in england. 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[ female announcer ] now, select cards come postage paid. happy father s day, daddy. introducing purina one beyond a new food for your cat or dog. introducing purina one beyond good morning. 7:26 on wednesday, 15th of june. i m joe krebs. a deadly shooting in washington. the shooting occurred on della field place, not far from sherman circle. one man in his 30s is dead. no word on whether police have a suspect. we ll look at our weather and check out clear and cool. temperatures in the 50s throughout the region. later climbing to near 80. lots of sun and blue sky. low humidity. tomorrow, more clouds. might have a morning shower or afternoon thunderstorm. highs in the 70s. might get an afternoon storm friday. small chance of a morning hower. how s the traffic? big problems in virginia, you can see on 66 and 395. a look at 66 east of 123. it is packed for you. look at the 14th street bridge. delays will start on 395 north from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. it is a parking lot out there. back to you, joe. thanks very much. another news update in 25 minutes. now back to the today show after this short break [ male announcer ] spare toothbrush, just in case: $4. home cooked meal: $28. first date finest: $33. having time on your side: priceless. mastercard paypass. bringing you the most convenient ways to pay. learn more at mastercard.com/paypass. 7:30 now on this wednesday morning, june 15th, 2011. people are outside, stick around for the next few days because on friday we ve got country superstar kenny chesney on our plaza. just a suggestion, they should go home tonight and maybe tomorrow come back on friday. yes. come on back on friday. inside studio 1-a, just ahead, we talk about arnold schwarzenegger s mistress, breaking her silence, speaking to a magazine about her affair and the son she had with the former california governor. also ahead, do you find the labels on those packages for sunscreen a little confusing? there s a wide range of spfs. some claim to be waterproof, some are sweat proof others are marketed just for kids. ahead, what the government is now doing to make those labels clearer and more effective. that would be nice. remember pippa middleton? hard to forget. she s been called the most eligible bachelorette in england. now there are reports that she is stepping out with one of the richest men in the uk. live in london with that story. all right. but let us begin this half hour with the woman at the center of the arnold schwarzenegger scandal. she s telling her side of the story now for the first time. nbc s peter alexander is here with details on that. matt, good morning to you. with all the focus on anthony weiner it s kind of hard to believe that a month ago it was revealed that arnold schwarzenegger fathered a child with his own housekeeper, mildred baena. she is finally breaking her silence, answering questions about the affair, and what she said happened during a dramatic confrontation with maria shriver. mildred baena insists this will be her one and only interview. an effort she says to set the record straight about her affair with her former boss arnold schwarzenegger and their no longer secret son joseph, identified by his mother for the first time publicly. baena, until recently a trusted member of the schwarzenegger family staff, tells hello magazine she doesn t want her 13-year-old boy, born just five days after schwarzenegger and maria shriver s youngest son, to be ashamed of who his father is. 50-year-old housekeeper says her affair with schwarzenegger was short lived. it was a few times, 14 years ago. i thought i loved him. baena calls schwarzenegger a good man and denies reports that he had known about the child for years, saying, never have i told him joseph was his son, never did he ask me, and never did we talk about it. the twice married mother of five claims she beto suspect joseph was schwarzenegger s son as he grew up and increasingly started to resemble his famous father. beginning last summer maria shriver heard the whispers and ultimately confronted her, asking if her husband arnold was joseph s father. i dropped to my knees and i was crying saying that, yes, he was, and i was so sorry, baena tells hello. maria was so strong, she cried with me and told me to get off my knees. we held each other and i told her it wasn t arnold s fault, that it takes two. while baena says schwarzenegger helped her buy this $250,000 home, she claims she wasn t paid a dime for her interview with the british magazine. since the scandal first broke last month schwarzenegger has largely stayed out of view, surfacing briefly for lunch his sons patrick and christopher. he has told his friends that he thinks it s not that big a deal and he doesn t really get what all the fuss is about and that he would like to still reconcile with maria and still loves her. reporter: shriver was most recently spotted on a weekend hike with two of their children at home in los angeles, though she s reportedly moved out of the family home and staying at an exclusive beverly hills hotel. for her part, mildred baena says this has been the scariest, most painful, confusing, and disappointing time of her life. but that her thoughts really go out to shriver. i want her to know that i admire her and my apologies come from the heart. i never intended for anyone to know, not ever. i never wanted anyone to be hurt by this. and one other point i think that really catches your attention when you read this interview is the son joseph s initial reaction to finding out that his dad was arnold schwarzenegger. he found that out as his grandma. baena said in typical teenage fashion, his response was, cool. apparently looking forward to building a new relationship with his famous dad. matt? all right, peter alexander, thank you very much. let us get a check of the weather of the weather now. al has made his way on his len a hand tour to houston, texas. al? thanks a lot, matt. i mistake earlier. i said $2.2 million. i was wrong. it s almost $2.7 million worth of donations. fantastic charity which we ll reveal in the next hour. the heat is on now and it continues. why? big upper level high pressure system dominating, jet stream to the north. we ve got sizzling weather from southern california into florida, and that s why we ve got extreme drought across the south. temperatures, anywhere from five to ten degrees above normal. afternoon highs in little rock. laredo, 107. miami beach, 96. the rest of the country, cooler weather as you make your way around the western great lakes and the northern mississippi river valley. pacific northwest looking good, temperatures 50s and 60s. 100s persist from the southwest into the desert valleys. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. a gorgeous morning. we ll have a delightful day on the way. later, as we climb to near 80. right now it is cool. only in the 50s throughout the region to near 60 in washington and by the bay. today up around 80, low humidity, lots of sun and blue sky. clear sky early evening, mostly cloudy tomorrow. might get a morning shower thursday or afternoon thunderstorm. more of the same on friday but warm with all this extreme weather going on you want to check out the weather on weather.com. looking forward to your big reve reveal, al. to another emotional day at the casey anthony murder trial as prosecution prepares to wrap up its case. nbc s kerry sanders in orlando this morning once again with the latest. kerry, good morning. good morning, ann. bruite eprosecutors have two te tall filings to enter into the cord report and then they plan to rest their case in the murder trial. for the past 18 days they have presented the evidence that they believe will convince the jury that casey anthony murdered her 2-year-old daughter caylee so she could live the life of a party girl. your honor, the next witness is cindy anthony. reporter: for the third time casey s mother cindy was on the stand, compelled by the prosecution to testify against her daughter casey. this time talking about caylee s winnie the pooh blanket found with the toddler s skeleton later, as casey sat on court, jurors watched as prosecutors displayed a photo of the tattoo inked on casey s left shoulder. she got it just 17 days after caylee died, but before she had told anyone that caylee was missing. the tattoo says, bella vita, italian for beautiful life. how long did the tattoo take to apply? withdrawing time, roughly probably about 30 minutes or so. reporter: bobby williams testified tuesday he was not just the tattoo artist, he was also casey s friend, someone who knew she had a 2-year-old daughter named caylee. prosecutors asked, how was she acting when she got her tattoo? normal. what does that mean? didn t seem upset about anything. did she seem happy? yeah, i guess pretty happy for the most part. reporter: casey s defense suggested in questioning her decision to get a tattoo was to memorialize her dead daughter. is it customary, in your business, that people get tattoos to remember their loved ones that have passed? they do, yes. okay. and that s something you do quite often? yes, sir. reporter: but then the prosecution asked when she came in on the second and got her tattoo, did she appear to be mournful? excuse me? was she mourning, did she appear to be mournful? objection, judge. reporter: the judge ended that line of questioning, but there were other contentious moments tuesday, including a fight over a heart-shaped sticker. they say it was found on a piece of cardboard in the woods. but when the jr. saw it the sticker had fallen off the cardboard. the defense says the sticker means nothing, but an fbi expert has testified that residue from a heart-shaped sticker was found on the duct tape. the prosecutors say covered caylee s mouth and nose. casey reporter: cindy anthony will likely testify again for the defense, but on tuesday, she was emotional as she looked at two photos. first of caylee wearing this shirt with the words big trouble comes in small packages and then a second of what remained of that t-shirt, also pulled from the woods where caylee s body was found. as she left, she mouthed to her daughter, i love you. casey s look, for the jury to figure out. today s expected to be a short day for the jury. the defense won t begin presenting its case until tomorrow. ann? 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broad spectrum basically means a product that protects against uva and uvb rays. those are the rays that cause skin cancer and premature aging. in the past there was uvb coverage, not uva. only broad spectrum designated sunscreens with an spf value of 15 and up will be allowed to claim that they reduce the risk of skin cancer. right. 15 is important because with an spf of 15 you can block out about 93% of the harmful rays. and then every time you go up there s incremental change. most dermatologists will recommend an spf of 30 because that s what their patients normally use. above 30 or higher you re probably looking at great marketing and not so much science. we re used to seeing packa packaging that looks like this. you re not going to see any claims they can t make. waterproof, water resistant, they re going to be gone. there s going a real drug look label to it. we have a script of this. this is what is going to be sort of your brand x. it will basically say what the spf is, uva, uvb protection, but then there s going to be a separate drug label listing every single ingredient. and people are accustomed to looking at things like this. you can see what s in it, might you have any allergies to any of these pings. like a cold medicine. you know what? that s exactly right. in europe, these are cosmetics. in the united states, they fall under the drug category. we re used to seeing spf factors of like 110. it s only going to be 80 and above. 80 and below. 15 is the minimum. most people for children will sago to 30 to 50. here s the real important thing. i don t care what number you use, you have to keep reapplying it. that s right. and by the way, most medical organizations tell you to apply it all year long, not just in the summer months. all year long. and every two hours if you re out in the sun. and real quickly. a lot of packaging that i see and i buy for my children says waterproof or sweat proof. they re going to be a lot tougher on those labels. how about so tough that you won t see those anymore because reality scientifically you can t say that. if your kids are sweating or out of the pool, reapply it. for an adult, golf ball size of sunscreen. we underuse it. we re going to see these changes probably summer of 2012. next summer, yes. nancy, thanks. up next, england s new star, pippa middleton steps out with one of the wealthiest men in the uk. that s right after this. -wee! -woo hoo. 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troubles in maryland. outer loop of the beltway, you ll see congestion as you make your way from college park to georgia avenue. going up to 27 oh delays 270 south from germantown towards rockville. thanks very we re back now. 8:00 on a wednesday morning. it s 215th day of june, 2011. 59 degrees, which is kind of unusual for this time of the year. it s a beautiful morning here in rockefeller center. it just got more beautiful because that man, the sexiest man alive, according to people magazine, ryan reynolds is out on the plaza shaking hands. he s also the star of the new green lantern movie. let me tell you something about mr. reynolds, you may not know, one of the most polite guys, well mannered. smart, sexy, very good writer, makes his own clothes. he s fantastic. i m matt lauer along with ann curry here on the plaza. al roker is on his lend a hand today tour. he s on his third day of that wonderful trip that he does every year. and that finds him in houston, texas, this morning, where he is giving out lots of great things to people in need. we re going to check in with al in just a couple of minutes. all this morning we ve talked about another health risk. you talked a little bit about sunscreen. now we re going to talk about a hair straightener. when you go in to have your hair straightened, sometimes people can have breathing problems because of that. it s a good time to go out and buy something special for the guy in your life. if you re out of ideas, you re running out of time because ft. there t father s day is sunday. we have natalie in at the news desk. the republican field for the 2012 presidential race is filling out. utah governor jon huntsman said tuesday that he will formally enter the race as u.s. ambassador to china. and texas governor rick perry also said tuesday that he seriously considering entering the gop contest. meanwhile, president obama visited pouerto rico tuesday underscoring the importance of the latino vote for to his re-election plans. the pregnant wife of embattled congressman anthony weiner arrived home this morning after her overseas trip with her boss hillary clinton. he was waiting for his wife s return to make any decisions about resigning over his sexting scandal. supporters of california s gay marriage ban proposition 8 is planning a major appeal. on tuesday a judge ruled that the judge previously struck down the ban last year had no reason to divulge that he was in a long-term gay relationship. a levee break may get a reprieve. the army corps of engineers said the barrier should be finished today just hours before the surging missouri river reaches hamburg, eye awhat. life expectancity in the united states has reached an all-time high. just over 78 years. but a study out today also notes that lifespans are getting shorter in some areas, especially in the south. and in a quarter of the country girls born today may live shorter lives than their mothers. researchers suspect smoking and obesity are partly to blame. what s trending today, british police have arrested two men reportedly in connection with a plot to rob and murder grammy winning singer joss stone, the 24-year-old british son songstress. reports were the suspects were caught near stone s country home with swords, rope, and a body bag. american soldiers are taking to twitter to cheer the army s decision to ditch the black whowoo brigades. they are revert back to the caps inste instead. elite units will keep their green and maroon however. crystal harris has called off her engagement and saturday s wedding to playboy tycoon hugh hefner. he s 85 and she s 25 and says she still has the utmost respect for 8:04. back outside to matt and ann. i got one of those berets. i think at the beginning of the afghanistan war. they re very smart looking. very handsome. al roquer in houston, texas. thanks so much. as we told you, this is a single big effort day donation we ve ever done, almost $2.7 million. and one of the reasons why we re starting early, we got so much stuff. joining us, toys r us, baby rchltz us, thrr us, helping us three year in a row. helping with $150 worth of products. open up that truck and let s see. what are you bringing today? a little bit of everything from cribs, car seats, booster seats, food, formula, diapers and more. we re not going to reveal our charity just yet. obviously it has something to do with kids. why have you been so great to us these last three years? toys r us, babies rr us committed to the families we serve and kids in need. we re thrilled to be a part for the last three years. thank you. everybody we see jeffrey back there. it s a hot day, i m sure jeffrey s perspiring. let s check the weather. pick city happens to be houston, texas. got up to 99 yesterday. today, another sizzling day, near 100. and as we look on the satellite and radar, you can see storms across the upper mississippi river valley, they ll take their time moving across the great lakes. a risk of strong storms. more rain in the pacific northwest. sunny, lovely, up and down the eastern seaboard. 75, boston. 83 in washington. 107 in phoenix. as more stuff continues to come off the toys r us, babies r us truck. that s what s going on around the country. we look at the chopper from channel local 2. we ve got another chopper day. oh, baby. that s what s going on around the country. here s what happening in your neck of the woods. sunlight streaming through the trees, brilliant sun, mid and low 60s. 65 at reagan national. lots of sunshine. highs reaching low 80s by midafternoon. tomorrow, more clouds, a might get a morning shower. perhaps morning show or or storm friday. over the weekend, saturday partly cloudy, mid 80s. and the giving is just beginning as we get ready to reveal our charity coming up in the next half hour. matt? al, thank you so much. we ll see you in a couple of minutes. when we come back, though, we re going to talk about a popular hair straightening technique that some people fear could be bad for your health. what women need to know right after these messages. my pale dry skin and glowing moisturized skin? jergens natural glow daily moisturizer. it gives you natural looking color, guaranteed. jergens is the difference between landing and making an arrival. jergens. the beautiful difference. 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[ male announcer ] six indulgent layered desserts, at 150 calories or less. new temptations. it s the first jell-o that s just for adults. back now at 8:10. women go to great lengths to get their hair just right but reports say that some techniques may put your health at risk. from the old-fashioned blow dryer to the new fad, a government agency recently released a hazard warning to salons across the country on certain kerotin straightening solutions. jennifer has been a hairstylist for nearly 20 years. i ve never had any concerns with any product i ve ever worked with before. reporter: but after deciding to add a popular hair straightening treatment to her service, that changed. my clients started asking me about the brazilian blowout. i was seeing the befores and afters, and their hair looked really beautiful. reporter: she tested the product on herself before applying it to her customers. the result, not what she expected. within ten minutes our eyes started burning, we were having difficulty breathing, our throats were getting sore, my lungs were burning. and i had to be put on an inhaler. reporter: so-called kerotin treatments have recently come under fire because they contain formaldehyde. but they say the treatment does not exceed the exposure levels. still, this year osha, the occupational safety and health administration, issued a hazard warning to salons about the potential risk of these products, saying some of their air test showed levels higher than the accepted limits. members of congress have asked the fda to start regulating these items. essentially we want to make sure that consumers know what s in those products and that the salon workers who use them know about it, too. formaldehyde exposure can be extremely toxic to your skin. you can get a rash that is red, blistery, and weepy. if you inhale it, it can give you some type of cancer. reporter: dermatologist says formaldehyde is almost everything, things we sit on, things we wear. but the danger comes when it s heated and turns it from a liquid to a gas. when it smells bads, that s how we re programmed. we re supposed to get away. reporter: ventilation is a top priority at 901 salon in west hollywood california where smoothing treatments are applied daily. we re opening our windows, turning on the fan, to get enough ventilation to make the client feel safe. if you re going to provide that service you have to have ventilation. i don t recommend that it be done in a salon that doesn t have windows. reporter: and for many who have had the treatment, they say it s life changing for their hair. i can get up in the morning and wash my hair, barely dry it, leave the house and look completely put together and polish polished. i don t have to worry about frizz. it s totally manageable. it cuts my product usage in half. and just every day is a good hair day for me. reporter: but no matter how much it helps, even stylists say you should still know what you re putting in your hair. i m still having problems. even today i m sensitive to chemicals i ve never been sensitive to before. now, states across the country are also taking action. ohio s board of cosmetology is advising salons to make people who get brazilian blowouts to sign waivers that it comes with certain dangers. we re now joined by celebrity hairstylist sally and nbc s chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman. good morning. breathing problems, sore throat, burning lungs and now that possibly even cancer. long term, this is a big issue. well, you know, yes, it is long term issues. short-term issue if your eyes sting and throat burns. long-term issue because formaldehyde is on a list of tox tick chemicals. i think it comes down to this really big question. what do you want in your environment, what price for beauty, and informing a consumer as to what products are going to be used. still, the point is this doesn t happen very often, these symptoms, right? i never once had that complaint. and, again, there s no formaldehyde in our keratin treatments that we re using in our salons. the word keratin is not the word you want to look for. right. the word is formaldehyde. exactly. what about your workers or workers in general? if some clients are suffering some impact, what about the people who handle this stuff all the time? well, actually, again, i was looking online, there s no real reports that clients are complaining. if anything, when i ve bee walking through the rooms here, women are freaking out loving it. again, it s a matter of, i mean, you know, for beauty, the passes that you do are really about how much damage you can do to the hair. and we have i mean, everyone should have vents and air conditioning going on and fans. i think that s the issue though. not every salon is going to have vents. if you walk into a nail salon or hair salon, we ve all been smacked with that scent, must be acrylic nails here, there is formaldehyde in the air. that is your body s defense saying this is not normal, back away. that cumulative effect is the concern for the government. that s why formaldehyde has been added to this list of toxic chemicals. you just really have to be smart about it. are you willing to pay the risk. and find out what your salon is using. some salons will use different products. you know, there are i just want to say at-home treatments. we were the first to come out with the keratin spray. so if you re afraid of all of that, spray it in your hair, activate with it a blow dryer and it s not permanent. it will last until you shampoo your hair again. really quickly though, if you do have these symptoms don t do it again. is there anything you should do medically? no, get out of the room, wash your hair, get out, don t do it again. all right. dr. nancy snyderman, thank you for being here this morning. thank you. coming up next, creative father s day gift ideas from the grill to the gadgets. that s right after this. uh, laugh lines? 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[ male announcer ] discover you time anytime. mccafé your day with a mcdonald s frappé. smooth and icy caramel or mocha blended just for you and topped with a decadent drizzle. narrator: today s whip is brought to you by mcdonald s. i m loving it. we re back at 8:19 with a special edition of today s whip because this morning it s all about gifts for dad. we have four experts to help you find the perfect father s day presents for their t. men in your life. we re going to start by doing grilling. kenny callahan is executive chef at manhattan s blue smoke restaurant. father of two. happy father s day to you. thank you. thank you. got to clean the grill before we cook on it. these are wild brushes. these are the grill daddy. stainless steel bristles and they have steam attached. any kind of residue, old meat or old fish, you can steam clean your grill. battery operates? battery operated. work tons same theories of iron. these things expensive. start very cheap at $14.99 and go up from there. that s not bad. i know you love this tool in particular. this hook. what s that about? rosewood meat hooks. they have a sharp point. just a little safety thing here. what s good is you can grab your meat. you can make nice grill marks. if you need to turn anything, you have a nice long handle. it s nice and light and not expensive. only $9.95. great for flavoring, a lot of people like to put the wood chips in there. these are really inexpensive. i think this bag is $3.95. royal oak, they make these are wood chips. they also make chunks. they have a great charcoal as well. you just do you put a lot in the fire or just a little? a little in there. it will smoke up. if you need a little more smoke, add more. i love pizza. you can cook pizza on the grill with your own pizza stone. granite pizza stone from williams-sono williams-sonoma. you put it right on the grill, nice and hot. a little expensive. $75. the granite stays nice and hot and it keeps it crispy. let s go with the thermometer. why do you like these? two different types. this is thermometer is ten bucks. if you re cooking a large piece of meat on the grill, you want to have a nice thermometer. this is high end. this is from brookstone. you have a remote control. put the probe in the meat, put this next to the grill, attach it. have beers with your friends, it s going to tell you when the meat is ready. again, happy father s day. matt, thanks. from cameras to tvs, digital, we ve got digital expert mario armstrong wi for these tech-savvy dads. mario, good morning. good morning. your first idea just the best. i m totally grooving on this idea. it s called the i-watch wristband. they all hold an ipod nano. you have your music, photos, fm radio, podcasts, all types of good stuff on your wrist. you can easily pop the nano off and put it on any other style or wristband. let s move on to the cameras for people who like to take pictures. digital slr rz hot. a lot of people are using them for graduation. great pictures, better zoom and fast shutter speed. action sport, the kid gets that soccer goal, you don t want to miss it. great small version. $499 on amazon. this is crazy. this is the man cave tv. these are by handspring. these are 28 htvs, 19 inch to 55 inch. the sports lover, beautiful. this is this rocks. this is a clicker with a remote rocks? because it s got a bottle opener. so cheers to us. let s have a beer. you can have a beer. this is the universal remote and holds up to eight controls, up to eight different devices and you can have your beer. one second left. this is perfect for matt lauer because his golf game is pretty rough. golf balls that keep going straight. these are self-correcting golf balls. they re not pga legal but great on the golf course. thank you so much. once again, here s matt. ann, you get laughed off the course with those. every dad needs some good tools. this is kevin o connor and contributor to this old house magazine. let s talk about this. power goes out. you like this radio. self-powered radio. doesn t run on electricity or batterie batteries. if you re in an emergency, 90 seconds of cranking, 15 minutes of listening time. expensive? no. only $50 from american red cross. it s not just for weather emergencies. bring it to the beach, crank it between innings, listen to the ballgames. you re doing a project. we ve all had this happen. trying to hold a tool in one hand, flashlight in the other hand. tripod? tripod to go hands free. you ve got kids? yes. so you give each one of the kids a flashlight. and i would rather work in the dark just to keep the peace. they each get one of these. if they don t want to help you, that s all right. how much? $32. stanley. all right. if you are going a project at home you ve got to be safe. you like this pair of glasses. our friend has been telling people to use safety glasses for 20 years. he wants you to be safe. if cool is your thing, these are the these are fashionable. quickly about the drill here? comes in at under two pounds. it s got the light in the front. it s got a quick release chuck. you can hang it off your pocket. here s the thing i love. 90-degree drilling. look at that. get into tight spaces. kevin, we re going to make that the end. thank you so much. appreciate it. happy holiday to you. matt, of course, a way to a man s heart through his stomach so make dad a tasty sandwich. this is from esquire s new cookbook eat like a man. this is a breakfast sandwich, amazing. everything that s good about life. salty meat, nice creamy mozzarella cheese. and life is better with a fried egg. everything in life, sweet basil. the kids can do it. the kids can help because it s like building. quickly here. the steak sandwich. this is the way to a man s heart. perfect steak. beautiful meat. top with it salad for health. healthy sandwich. healthy with all that cheese. it just makes you feel better about the world. it s really delicious for dad. dad should feel better about the world. ryan, thanks so much. just ahead, from our ryan here to ryan reynolds, sexiest 8:26 is your time. good morning, i m eun yang. wednesday june 15th, 2011. police investigating a deadly shooting in northwest washington. someone shot and killed a man from dellafield place. investigators are not released the name but say he s in his 30s. police in month dpomry county need your help finding the person responsible for a hate crime. someone sprayed graffiti including ethnic slurs on walls, windows and a basketball court. if you have information about the vandalism contact montgomery county police. we ll take a break now. [ female announcer ] keurig brews more than just hot coffee. now you can brew over ice for delicious iced coffee or tea. hot or cold, keurig is the way to brew everyone s favorite cup in under a minute. choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. good morning. sunny, 60s now. later today low 80s. lots of sun. more clouds tomorrow, maybe morning shower or afternoon storm. saturday, partly cloudy. could get a late-day storm sunday. how s traffic. all running close to schedule. look 95 in virginia, north in virginia, delays start in dale city and continue to 395. 8:30 now on a wednesday morning. june 15th, 2011. bright sunny morning here in the heart of midtown, manhattan. we ve got a big and energetic crowd assembled on rockefeller plaza. i m ann curry along with matt lauer and natalie morales. al is in houston this morning on what is going to be the biggest morning ever for lend a hand today. you know, al is so excited about this. he s just really been talking about it. with good reason. he works hard on it all year long to make this come true this week. big reveal coming up in a moment. also ahead, something for the women out there and the men. green lantern, big movie now coming out at the box office. its star is ryan reynol he, of course, a great actor but happens to be people s magazine reigning sexiest man alive. the sash and the tiara to prove it. and he s inside. also a really nice guy. we ll talk to him about the movie in a couple of minutes. guys like to hang out with him as well. i said for men and women. coming up, jane pauley is here and she s got an inspiring story about a woman who answered the call of the while is living out her dream. exciting. first, let s go to houston and talk to al. a check of the weather. al? ann, natalie, matt. thanks so much. we re so excited, the charity which real reveal, we re giving them $2.7 million of goods and services. we ve got trucks lined up to help donate. one of the folks who has a truck here is from hasbro, karen davis, thank you so much. donating more than 4,300 toys and games to our charity today. we did. it s a great charity that you selected. h hasbro helped you out. over the week donating $150,000 of game spz toys. we try to help kids all over the world. we re thrilled to partner. karen davis, thank you. it s so big i had to get somebody to help me. who better than houston native, ms. jenna bush hager. texas not houston. close enough. texas. we have kyle lowry here of the houston rockets. you guys are donating, too. 200 pairs of sneakers and 1,000 tickets. a lot of fun for the kids. you have been active with this charity for a long time. right. giving back to the charity since 1995. we re glad to be here today. thank you so much, kyle. we can t leave out the stros. tell me about the stros. we have manager brad mills and j.r. towles. what are you donating? in addition to help unload the we re donating $5,000 to this charity. huge. 1,000 tickets. there s a hat. i m an honorary houston astro. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. here, cool, comfortable this morning. low humidity. and temperatures low inned mid-60s. we ll be in the 70s by noon time. low 80s midafternoon, sun, blue sky. tomorrow more clouds, morning shower, afternoon thunderstorm. highs in the 70s. friday, morning shower s possible or afternoon storm. highs in low 80s. partly cloudy. partly cloudy saturday, mid 80s. sunday, partly cloudy. late-day storm into sunday as well as off jen and i are coming back to reveal a charity which happens to be a favorite charity of jenna s. $2.5 million worth of stuff to give away. you re going to have to give it away right into kathie lee and hoda s show. when we come back, actor ryan reynolds is live in our studio. we ll talk to him. but first, this is today on nbc. [ cherie ] i wanted to make a difference in my community. [ kimberly ] the university gave me the knowledge to make a difference in peoples lives. [ carrie ] you re studying how to be an effective leader. [ cherie ] you re dealing with professionals, teaching things that they were doing everyday. [ kimberly ] i manage a network of over a thousand nurses. [ carrie ] i helped turn an at-risk school into an award-winning school. [ cherie ] i m responsible for the largest urban renewal project in utah. [ kimberly ] and university of phoenix made it possible. learn more at phoenix.edu. back now at 8:36. the highly anticipated film green lantern hits theaters friday with ryan reynolds. hal is the first human ever to become a green lantern and to make it official he must take that, oh, so important oath. take a look. bride s day, when black is night. no evil shall escape my sight. not those who worship evil s might, beware my power, green lantern s light. ryan reynolds whose eyes are now brown. yes. good morning. it s great to have you here. i know the women watching are excited to see you. people who like green lantern are excited. i ve got to ask you a question that i can t ask very many people. okay. that is, which is more personally meaningful to you, having been voted the sexiest man alive or getting your very own action figure? which is your i m going to take the action figure because when you re a kid you don t think about the former, you think a little bit more about the latter. so, yeah, my nephew is obsessed with these things right now. i m that s sort of a bigger win, i think, in the long run. i think it is. i think it is. yeah. let s talk about your wardrobe for this film. yeah. because i would think that it might have i mean, you know, you, i mean, look terrific, i m sure, in spandex, but i would think that you might have had a problem with what you had to wear. it was somewhat tough. in the mythology of the film the suit was made of energy. what i m wearing is actually a motion capture suit, which is a really, really tight-fitting gray suit that is designed to capture all my movements. and then the computers generate the actual suit that i m wearing. it s cool. yeah. yeah. but, yeah, yeah, the actual motion capture suit though is designed to do that and take the joy right out of life. the shooting of louisiana, the middle of summer in that thing and it s just yeah, it s like wearing an all over turtleneck. yeah. so there was a price to be paid. there was a price to be paid, yeah. okay. on top of that, you know, you had this situation where you had to embrace fear because, as i understand it, this was about flying. and you don t yeah not a big flier. are you afraid of flying? i am i m a little afraid. i have problems with airplanes. i ve always had problems with airplanes. i used to take something so i could get on a plane and i could comfortably get through it. it would make the whole world taste like chocolate and i would land and get down and walk away and be fine. but you can t do that when you fly as much as i do so i ve had to get over it. on film i was up on high wires. we were flying all over the place. sometimes 60 feet per second flying across the city, across sound stages. it was really, really interesting and really terrifying at first. but then i got into it. how did you get into it after all this? you had to overcome your own fear. you re wearing a turtleneck in this hot environment. what propelled you, you know, to really be into this, this role as green lan lantern. i don t mean to make it sound to ultraistic but my nieces and nephews were so excited. i kept thinking about help coming to see this film. aw. you get overall that crap and get up there. after the 17th, 18th time doing it you say, you know what, this is actually a little bit of fun. and i think, i guess we were talking about earlier, i think, you know, we all need a hero right now. yeah. meantime, your life is just going off in all kinds of directions. you re starring with jason bateman in the change-up and you mentioned you re shooting in africa with denzel washington. yeah. can you believe your life? i really can t. i mean, i look in the mirror and my eyes are the size of dinner plates right now. it s bizarre. i mean, i never would have predicted this. working a lot. i uld who love a little break but i recognize i have very, very good problems. yeah. yeah. congratulations. thank you very much. people love to watch you. you re such a talent. and we find out from this article that you ve written called why i m obsessed with ryan reynolds by ryan reynolds. it s a little tongue in cheek. yes. congratulatio congratulations. cheering you on. again, the movie is called green lanterns. coming up next, the biggest morning ever for lend a hand. we ve got al s big reveal. he s very excited about it. but first, this is today on nbc. [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. it s hump day around here but it s a big day on day three of al s lend a hand tour, his cross-country adventure. this morning he s made his way down to houston, texas, and jenna bush hager. jen and al, good morning to both of you. thank you so much prt for the last 29 years our charity has been making a huge impact here in houston for kids and families that have been deglekted to poverty. today jenna bush hager has spent a lot of time with the good folks here, jenna. i have. many of these kids come to casa with nothing, dealing with staggering levels of abuse and poverty. but the minute they walk through the doors here at casa, they re given a loving and hopeful home. i believe that every single child deserves to have a family and to be loved. reporter: that is the heart and soul of casa de esperanza. i never cease to be amazed at the courage of the children who walk in that door and believe that somebody loves them. even when people have hurt them. first things first, thelma said. reporter: love is what heals at casa. established almost 30 years ago with just a $500 donation. kathie foster rented a tiny inexpensive house in a rough neighborhood and took in her first child. casa has now expanded to ten houses currently home to some 50 kids, ranging from newborns to teenagers. in all, 3,000 kids have come through these doors. for many, it s their first time living in a safe, stable environment. when the kids first get here, what kind of conditions are they typically in? a lot of the kids come in just really with nothing. and the moms really have nothing to give them. reporter: the ultimate goal? reuniting kids with their families. but if that isn t possible, casa helps to facilitate adoptions. after six months coming into casa and the rest is history. it changed your life. changed my life. reporter: will jones came to casa when he was 8. after the death of his mother, he had been abused and in and out of 17 foster homes. but casa broke that cycle, finding him a permanent home and a loving father. my dad is probably my best friend. there was a lot of times when i would push him away type of thing but he was persistent and would not let me go. reporter: volunteer driven, casa is committed to changing the world one child at a time. the program includes everything from medical to developmental to educational services. you do everything you would do for your child, and i think that s the benchmark. whether that means nutrition, whether that means going to a doctor s appointment, we are just there. reporter: and it was one of the first organizations in the country to take in children with hiv. a personal cause for kathie who adopted six casa kids of her own. the oldest, teresa, died of aids when she was just 15. no child should die without a mother. and i really felt like that just couldn t happen and i wasn t going to let it happen. reporter: whether it s her own family or her extended family at casa, kathie says she gets more than she gives. they have loving and caring people who teach me things every single day. reporter: casa de esperanza, which means hope can go a very long way. the volunteers that live here are amazing. they commit to one year, but many stay longer, saying it s hard to believe the precious smiles of these wonderful little kids. all right. well, here we go, kathie, phil, you guys ready? let s open it up! here we go! strollers, $145,000 worth. friends at united airlines, $10,000 in cash. i just got hit by a big check. 200 miles in mileage plus miles. 18 donating $55,000 in laptops. good neighbor pharmacy, $42,000 worth of cash and products. frigidaire, they bring in freezers, washers, dryers, refrigerators, paula seen and serta mattresses. 100,000 bowls of oatmeal. underwear, $25,000 worth columbia sportswear, they ve been withes from the beginning. jackets and fleece. groceries, $10,000 forth of diapers, wipes, detergent. raymond james and associates, $10,000. munchkin, $10,000. ikea, $10,000 worth of gift cards. philips energy saving eco energy saving light bulbs. slim jims, $10,000. wells fargo, 10$,000 worth of cash. yo crunch, courtesy of sam s club, $10,000. cici s pizza, 10$,000 as well. guys, walk with me over here. we ve got nice folks from smithfield. they have been donating. and al davis is with us. yes, al, it s a great day. they say they do it big here in texas. today, ufcw and smithfield foods is going to do it big and donate 1240 servings. we have more to give this week. we appreciate that. al, we ve got more, coming up, matt, big stuff. don t go away, as we continue the big give. $2.7 million worth for our friends at casa de esperanza. that s wonderful. thank you so much. oh, my goodness. all right, al. cheers. that s great. such a great charity. makes you cry, doesn t it? so fantastic. well-done. jenna s piece, my gosh, how poignant was that. coming up next, we re going to be checking in with jane pauley on one woman s journey from the office to yellowstone. pauley on one woman s journey from the office to yellowstone. so exciting to see 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 at 8:52 with your life calling today. we re with today contributor jane pauley working with the aarp which is produced and sponsored a service of reports for us. she s here with us now about a story of one woman who listened to her own heart. good morning. good morning. barbara o grady was a geologist, managing environmental clean-up projects in denver. her office window, her kids were grown, her life was calling, it was the call of the wild. yellowstone national park, timeless natural wonderland, where bison still roam. good morning, everyone, and welcome to yellowstone. reporter: this is where 59-year-old barbara o grady found herself. yellowstone for me is the answer to the question, why. reporter: a certified interpretive guide, she tells visitors the story of the wilderness. and because the hot water had already broken it down, making it much softer, it was able to just eroded away very easily. reporter: a far cry from windowless conference rooms. and at home, he was a mom with four kids. it was a juggling act phase of my life. we all worked together. but it was so hard. i felt like not the best mother, a lot of the times not the best worker. reporter: craving a little time alone, 14 years ago she took a trip to glacier national park to take a class on wolfes. wolfes? totally random. did you think that was at all strange? not at all. it was something very primal. there was just something something very important missing from my life. and i needed to find it. so it will be a little bit challenging to find white goats reporter: she was still in her 40s, but a seed had been planted. did you think your life was going to reveal itself or that you had to go find it? i was confident that there was going to be a little bit of a revelation. my job was to recognize it. reporter: and at the age of 55, she did. i like, oh, my god, this is it. reporter: it was a pailen to ji pro sect in yellowstone unpaid. i said yes, right away. reporter: it was a pivotal moment in your life. your marriage was not going to survive this. i think we both knew that at the time. it was a very high price to pay. reporter: her kids were out of college and starting new lives. four years ago she began a new life, too. it s going to go a little higher, i think. wow. that s really beautiful, isn t it? you re a woman on your own now. my husband said that he believes he s the only man in the united states that has lost his wife to a national park. just watching the cycle of life the animals go through, i think it really helps put your own life in perspect perspective. two reality checks. barbara took early retirement so her check is a lot smaller. 8:56 is your time now. good morning, i m eun yang. wednesday june 15th, 20 1. following breaking news now. anne arundel county, live at chopper 4, over a triple stabbing in crofton. three women were stabbed around 6:30. rescuers took each victim to the hospital. detectives have not said what led up to the stabbing or the relationship of those involved. we ll have whether and traffic when we come back. beautiful day under way. l lowhumidity, bright sun, blue sky. later today, into the low 80s. tomorrow, clouds around. might get a morning shower or afternoon thunderstorm. highs in the 70s. on friday, might get morning shower, afternoon storm. over the weekend, saturday, partly cloudy, highs mid 80s. sunday, partly cloudy, 80s. chance of afternoon or evening storm. danella sealock, how s traffic? unusual days in d.c. new york avenue, right here this is outbound new york avenue. normal days sorry, inbound and this is outbound. look at this. new york avenue westbound going regular and eastbound is jam packed. traveling in the district, east bound heavy, westbound normal. back in 25 minutes with another news update. for now, back to the today show. we re back now with more of today on a wednesday morning. 15th of june, 2011. nice people in our plaza. thank you very much for coming down and saying hi. i m matt lauer along with ann curry and savannah guthrie. coming up, a little bit more about a story that made huge headlines a month or so ago, the scandal involving former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. for the first time mildred baena is speaking out about her affair with the former governor of california and movie star. in a magazine she reveals how her son reacted when she told him schwarzenegger was her father and the dramatic confr t confrontation she had with maria shriver. and we re going to have answers to your money emergencies. 911 team is here to talk about your questions from taking money out of your 401(k) to pay for your mortgage. saving for retirement, and also help protect your money. we ve got expert advice on that this morning. and also, this morning for you, royal watcher, st. james palace just released the itinerary for prince william and kate middleton s visit to california. we re going to tell you where you might want to catch a glimpse of the royal couple. and i also want to mention a few moments ago we had jane pauley on our broadcast. i want to mention for those because everyone is a fan of jane s. she s at noon eastern time today going to be doing a live internet radio call-in show at aarp.org/jane. so you can get to talk to her then. if you want to catch a glimpse of mr. roker you re going to have to do that in houston, texas, this morning because he s been giving away great things all morning long. for example, the recipient this morning casa de esperanza in houston. it was a record-setting morning. way more than $2 million of merchandise for that very worthwhile cause. al, record breaker. congratulations. thank you so much. our producers have done such amazing work. kathie foster here. you want to open up a cafe, that would be great. but casa. yes. but there were other folks. slim jim is giving you $10,000 forth of stuff. penske truck rental, sara lee, paula dean furniture, ocean kayak, near town mini storage, two men and a truck movers, special thanks to pr evolution. how are you feeling? overwhelmed. overwhelmed? we ve got more. come on over here. we ve got jansport. you guys are donating $275,000 worth of merchandise. we re very excited to be back for our third year with you on lend a hand. today the jansport brand are helping youth to get tout outdoors. over 10,000 jansport backpacks. what are you going to do with that? many, many, many things. we ve got one more thing for you, too. not just one. but nice thing for you. 2011 toyota sequoia. here it comes. that s right. you can get the kids to school and to doctors appointments. it will seat eight comfortably. it s worth $65,352 from our friends at toyota. this is to help you expand your mission. helps us take care of many more children than we already do. you see the lovely children here today. their lives a s ars ar s ars ar because of you all. you do such wonderful work. jansport backpack. matt, back to you. a lot more giving here in houston. not only today but two more days this week. it s going to be great, al. thank you very much. congratulations. let us now go inside. natalie is standing by at the news desk with the headlines. good morning again, matt, ann, savannah. more strain on the u.s. relationship with pakistan with reports the pakistani government has arrested several local informants who collaborate with the cia to prepare for the raid that took down osama bin laden. one of the people arrested was reportedly the owner of the safe house that cia members had rented while conducting surveillance on bin laden s compound in abbottabad. the pregnant wife of anthony weiner arrived home this morning. democratic colleagues said weiner was waiting for his wife s return to make any decisions about resigning over his sexting scandal. the wallow wildfire is now the largest in arizona state history as it now threatens to engulf a town in new mexico. this as officials now believe the massive and destructive blaze was sparked by an abandoned camp fire. two people are now being questioned in connection with the fire that has forced thousands of residents to evacuate. st. james palace has released the itinerary for prince william and kate middleton s three-day visit to california next month. it begins friday with a diplomatic reception followed by a saturday polo match for charity in santa barbara. a black thai bash and visits to an inner city arts program and jobs fair. government is out with new rules on sunscreens and what goes on the label. starting next summer of 2012 sunscreens will be labeled broad spectrum if they protect against the uvb rays and more dangerous uva rays associated with skin cancer. the rules also ban words like waterproof and sweatproof. more than 8,000 americans die every year because of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. sometimes grocery shopping can make you feel, well, like rapping. especially if you re the comedy group fog and smog. their song about the trials and tribulations of going to whole foods might ring true with the fans of all thingsout the trial tribulations might ring true for fans going organic. i m looking at my list, organic, lemon twist. some girl in yoga pants looking at me funny. i m trying to find a decent pinot noir for under 20. the cheese counter. we just ran out. take it easy, man. i try to calm myself. i ve been edge. whole foods parking lot. the hip-hop sendup to mini shopping carts have the likes of lil jon and ryan seacrest buzzing as it heats up on youtube. six minutes past the hour. al with a check of the weather in houston, texas. thank you, thank you, natalie. joined by tomi, third year in a row you ve been helping us out. what do you have for kathy? we have 475,000 worth of products. 20,000 for beautiful children. thank you. something like this really helps the kids self-esteem. doesn t it? absolutely. they come in with nothing, to be able to dress and go in society like everybody else makes the world a difference. our beautiful children are the best. thank you for everything. everybody. let s check your weather. we ll show you wwe ve got sever weather from the mid-mississippi river valley. showers and thunderstorms. heavy thunderstorms stretching from chicago all the way down into the southeast. anywhere from one to two inches of rain over the next 24 hours. that s what s go on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the wood. good morning. mild and dry, bright sun and blue sky. 68 at reagan national. later today low 80s, lot of sunshine, low humanity. tomorrow, mostly cloudy. might get a shower in the morn organize afternoon storm. and more of the same friday, a bit warmer. on saturday, partly cloudy, highs in the mid 80s. and as we get into sunday, partly cloudy, 80s again. but there s a chance for afternoon or evening we ve got a lot more as we continue giving out $2.7 million worth of stuff, natalie. looking forward to it, thanks so much, al. this morning on today s money 911 we re ready to answer your most important financial questions. david buck is the founder of finishrich.com and author of at the time free for life and sharon epperson. a lot of great questions, as always. first up, we have jimmy on the phone from north carolina with us. jimmy, good morning. what s your question for our panel? yes, ma am. good morning. i have a good amount of money in my 401(k) that i ve saved through my company plan. i m 62. i ll retire in three years with my company, with the airline. i ve got two boys, 20 and 21 years old. and i m trying to leave this money to my sons. i have no need for it. when i pass, i d like to be able to leave them this money with as little or no tax burden as possible. is that possible? all right. let s turn it over to jean. is it possible? we want to know if he would like to adopt us. yes. sweet. so here s the deal, jimmy. you will actually have to pay the tax fess you don t want your kids to pay the taxes. and here s how you do it. when you retire, you roll that money from a 401(k) into an ira. then you convert that ira to a roth. if you expect that your tax bracket will actually go down, you want to wait until it gets to its lowest level before doing that conversion because you re going to have to pay taxes on any of the money that you condition vert, you can do it in chunks, you can do it over time. it s your choice. but if you were in the 25% tax bracket you can quickly run the numbers and figure out it s a pretty hefty $25,000 tax bill. father s day. it is. because they never have to pull the money out of the roth. they will never have to pay taxes on it again. it can grow tax free forever. father of the year award. next, a viewer joining us via skype. ramone in san diego, california. good morning, ramone. good morning. what is your question for your lovely group? my partner and i just inhe t inherited some money from my parents, enough our retirement and savings. we looked into cds and iras. we re pretty conservative with our market risks. david? ramon, do you have a retirement account right now? i had one previously but i was with an airline and got laid off and cash ed it out. there you go. first thing i do want you to do is go back and open up a an ira account. fund an ira account. use the $5,000, you can get a tax deduction, deductible ira or a roth ira. here s my best advice for you right now. get a financial plan done. you re a perfect candidate for a financial plan. don t rush out and spend the money. instead, take $1,000 to $1500, meet with a certified financial planner. have them sit down with you and go through your goals, risk tolerance, objectives, then go and invest the money. get yourself six months to get financial education. don t be so eager to invest the money. have the savings already for six to nine months for expenses. this is a great way to jump-start the fund. we re going to twitter now. question from thomas. in order to get better terms and financing on my mortgage, do you recommend me withdrawing from my 401(k)? 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[ female announcer ] we all age differently. roc® multi-correxion 4 zone moisturizer with roc®retinol and antioxidants. lines, wrinkles, and sun damage will fade. roc multi-correxion. correct what ages you. for the first time the woman at the center of the schwarzenegger scandal is telling her side of the story. nbc s peter alexander has the details. good morning with all the focus on anthony weiner it s hard to believe it was just a month ago it was revealed that arnold schwarzenegger fathered a child with his own housekeeper, mildred baena. after weeks of hiding she s breaking her silence answering questions about the affair and what she said with a dramatic confrontation with maria shriver. mildred baena insists this will be her one and only interview. an effort she says to set the record straight about her affair with her former boss arnold schwarzenegger and their no longer secret son, joseph. identified by his mother for the first time publicly. baena, until recently, a trusted member of the schwarzenegger family staff tells hello magazine she doesn t want her 13-year-old boy born five days after schwarzenegger and shriver s son to be ashamed of who his father is. 50-year-old housekeeper said her or fair was short lived. it was a few times 14 years ago. i thought i loved him. baena calls schwarzenegger a good man and denies reports that he had known about the child for years. saying, never have i told him joseph was his son, never did he ask me, and never did we talk about it. the twice married mother of five claims she began to suspect joseph was schwarzenegger s son as he grew up and increasingly started to resemble his famous father. beginning last summer she says maria shriver heard the whispers and con fronted her, asking if her husband arnold was joseph s father. i dropped to my knees and i was crying, saying that, yes, she was, and i was so sorry, baena tells hello. maria was so strong. she cried with me and told me to get off my knees. we held each other and i told her it wasn t arnold s fault, that it takes two. while baena says schwarzenegger helped her buy this $250,000 home, she claims she wasn t paid a dime for her interview with a british magazine. since the scandal first broke last month schwarzenegger has largely stayed out of view, surfacing briefly for lynch with his sons patrick and christopher. he has told his friends that he thinks it s not that big a deal and he doesn t really get what all the fuss is all about. and that he would like to still reconcile with maria and still loves her. reporter: slooifr ver was most recently spotted on a weekend hike with two of their children near their home in los angeles though she s reportedly moved out of the family home and has been staying at an exclusive beverly hills hotel. for her part, mildred baena says this has been the scariest, most painful, confusing, and disappointing time of her life. but that her thoughts really go out to shriver. i want her to know that i admire her and my apologies come from the heart. i never intended for anyone to know, not ever. i never wanted anyone to be hurt by this. one other point that really catches your attention, i think, when you read this interview is the son joseph s initial reaction to finding out that his dad was arnold schwarzenegger, baena says in typical teenage fashion, he said, cool. and that he s looking forward to building a relationship with his famous father. all right, peter alexander, thank you. coming up, more of al s tenth anniversary record-breaking lend a hand tour. today he s in houston with some heart-warming surprises ahead. plus, how some of the most amazing bodies in tinseltown keep in shape. the fitness secrets of the stars. but first, this is today on stars. but first, this is today on nbc. 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[ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we re gonna continue. good morning. 9:26 on this wednesday, june 15th. i m aaron gilchrist. following breaking news now in anne arundel county where police are investigating a triple stabbing in crofton. three women stabbed around 6:30, all women taken to shock trauma in baltimore. detectives have not said what may have led to the stab organize the relationship between those involved or whether they have any suspects at thi good morning. right now, we re in the 60s. bright sun, low humidity, today low 80s. tomorrow, more clouds. might get a morning shower or afternoon storm, highs in the 70s. morph the same friday, but warmer. saturday, cloudy, 80s. sunday, partly choudloudy, 80, storms. 280 south, significant delay as you approach montross road. that car fires out but you will see delays as you go from no! where do you think you re going? what the heck? that s jim carrey in his latest comedy mr. popper s penguins about a man s whose life begins to unravel when he inherits a half dozen flightless birds. he s going to tell us all about it tomorrow on today. excited to see it? yeah. when he s in the house, things get a little it s crazy. wacky. it should be fun. looking forward to it. i m savannah guthrie along with natalie morales. coming up, the hottest bodies in hollywood. how they stay fit and trim and some, of course, look half their age. we re going to get some of their fitness secrets. al is on his tenth anniversary lend a hand tour breaking all the records for needy kids in houston, texas, today. al, it s been an exciting morning. sounds like a rock concert this morning and now you ve got something cooking. thanks so much, guys. i mean, so exciting here. in fact, we ve got some more donations. this coming from jordache and our friends, liz, and what do you have for us? i ve got $125,000 worth of jeans! wow. and i ve just so happy to be here, al. thank you so much on behalf of jordache. she s jeans are carried nationwide at walmart and we are all so happy to be part of this great event. thank you so much. fantastic. kathie, hold on just a second. bring this on up from the garage from our friends at gilman automotive group. the people from gillman. the nice folks from gillman providing this fantastic, fantastic vehicle. oh, my gosh. this beautiful chrysler. chrysler. beautiful town and country minivan, top of the line for you folks at casa. thank you so much. everybody from gillman. thank you. spectacular. you re able to get the kids around easy. absolutely. let s collect your weather. we ll show you for today, we are looking at some spectacular weather along the eastern seaboard. rain moves in later. we ve got a risk of strong storms midst section of the country. beautiful weather in the southwest. tomorrow heat continues in the southern tier of the states. more showers making their way into the east with thunderstorms. northwest not a bad day. great weather in the southwest. on the toasty side. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your next of the woods. good morning. bright sun, blue sky. low humidity. temperatures now in the 60s throughout most of the region. now, reagan national is at 68. today, into the low 80s, sun. tomorrow, clouds, highs in the 70s. we may get a morning shower or afternoon storm thursday. on friday, more of the same but warmer. on saturday looking partly cloudy, highs into the mid 80s. and on sunday, again, into the 80s, partly cloudy. might get a late-day storm. mond one of the reasons we re here is because offen that bush hager. we have roddy roast here. roddy, what are you doing here for the folks at casa de esperanza. we re so excited to be here. it s really an honor. for nearly 80 years ethan allen has been helping people in communities around the world feel at home. so we re really proud to be able to help casa de esperanza continue to be the safe haven that it s been. terrific. $125,000. $125,000 worth of furniture. that is spectacular. awesome! yeah! this is the biggest day ever. it just seems to get bigger, jenna. everything is bigger in texas. everything is bigger down here in texas. back to you guys. that s so great, al. thank you. and coming up next, we re going to switch gears and talk about people magazine s list for the hottest hollywood bodies. we ve got that coming up. 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[ female announcer ] now, select cards come postage paid. well, looking for some added motivation to hit the gym this morning look no further than the pages of people magazine. they ve chosen the most amazing celebrity bodies. people magazine senior editor is here. good morning. good morning. i love the person at the top of your list. jordan sparks. she s so cute. was on american idol. she has really grown up and slimmed down. absolutely. you know, she came into the spotlight at age 17 and a size 14. she recently turned 21. really became a woman. she wanted to lead a healthier lifestyle and lost 30 pounds and is now showing off a sexier bikini body. what did she say her secret was? she started off with hikes and doing high-impact cardio. what really did it for her, she loves zumba. all right. let s move on to kristen cavalari. jeans have helped her out. it s gorgeous. she said she works out and works at staying bikini fit. absolutely. we asked her to be a part of this issue because she is somebody who has the body in the spotlight at all times. there s an added pressure for her. right before the shoot she worked out three times on the week and treadmill for 40 minutes she preferred this string bikini because she said it adds curves. she loves doing that because it adds curves to her bottom. serena williams, a wonderful tennis player not built like a tennis player. she realized that at age 17 that she was bustier and curvier han most athletic women. she loves going out in a bin i can bikini. our next group of folks, people half their age, look nothing like their real age. at the top of the list is halle berry. even her trainer says that no 20-year-old can compare to her. she just defies gravity and mother nature. she works out with gunner peterson. in the gym three to five times a week an hour. dedicated. two friends next on the list. jennifer aniston, a lot of women think she looks fantastic. she says yoga is the key. she s a big yogi. she doesn t just always go out in a yoga studio. she pops in a dvd which just goes to show all you do sometimes is pop in a dvd at home and you can have a killer body. she says pizza and mexican food are her weakness which we can all relate. absolutely. sometimes you have to have thoetd indulgences. courteney cox, another beautiful woman on this list says that she s on a low carb diet. sounds like she works at it. she s got a celeb who pretends it all comes naturally. she looks like she never left her 20s. sles just like her friend, jennifer aniston. her big weakness is eggplant lasagna. okay. let s do our final. body moments of the year. no list would be complete without pippa. of course. specifically pippa s rear. definitely. at the royal wedding, not to take away from kate middleton but after the royal wedding everybody was talking about her bum. right now she has three facebook pages dedicated to that part of her body as well as her own twitter feed. kirstie alley, really slimmed down from dancing. that s right. besaw her shrink before our eyes week in and week out on dancing with the stars. her own weight loss program, organic liaison. let s show beyonce s body moment. that dress. that dress, that performance. she just showed off a knockout figure but stepped up again and showed why she s a healthy role model. our own hoda kotb made the list. a little bit extra inspiration this morning for all of us. thank you. thank you. and coming up next, we ll go back to al in houston for a little texas barbecue. that s right after this. 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how about that? pulled pork. hey, al, nothing brings people together like a backyard barbecue. we are heating up casa de esperanza today with my world championship pulled pork shoulder, my grilled corn grilled mexican corn, and baked bean sdpls and something else. and something else. do not forget. hold on, folks. my great friends based right here in houston have donated this custom grill for all the kids to use. wow! with adult supervision. with adult kings for charcoal have stepped up and given them enough charcoal to keep this baby lit all year long. wow! how about that? that s fantastic. how about this? look at that. oh, yeah! man, that s a barbecue. we are cooking it up. as a matter of fact, our directors lit all year long, that s a different kind of thing. pulled pork? absolutely. this is exactly what we do in competition. that s an injection? you think about it. you have this big hunk of meat and you hut it on the grill. cooking at kingsford for 1 ho4 s hours. this is apple juice brine. salt, sugar, little bit of lemon juice and maybe a touch of worcestershire. shoot it. shoot it? yeah, that looks good. fill this baby up. it s all in the wrist, isn t it? that s it. that looks like an art of some sort. wow, man! once that s filled with the injection we want to go on with the dry rub. we want to get full coverage on this baby. full coverage. what s in that dry rub? we ve got garlic salt, onion salt, paprika, salt, sugar, black pepper, eycayenne pepper. we go on for 12 to 14 hours on 225 degrees. low. indirect heat. indirect heat. away from the charcoal. you re exactly right. and then this is what we get right here. this is the finished product right here. that looks good. if you cook it right, this is what happens. falls right off the bone. you get the bone off just like that. only in texas. look at that. oh! look at that. oh! how about that for pulled pork? look, it s haley s comet! that s unbelievable. that looks good. and hot. mexican corn? this is a great, great way. basically you start out with corn, straight off the cob. pull the husk. you want to grill it until it s nice and charred and done. then you want to take half mayonnaise and half yogurt. any cup of yogurt or a special kind? any vanilla yogurt. absolutely. a little bit of lime juice. 3/4 cup of mayonnaise, 3/4 cup of yogurt, and some lime juice. you want to mix that all up. right. so you whisk that up. and then you paint your corn. okay. you paint your corn with it. once it s already been grilled. it s grilled. it s grilled. you paint your corn. and then you want to mix. you ve got chili powder, cayenne pepper and cumin. and then you dump this in cheese. mix that up like that. you coat it. there s the finished product. we re going to coat this corn. oh, yum. it s ready to go. that s fantastic. how about that? simple way to spice it up on the charcoal grill. you can t have a barbecue without some baked beans. you ve got to have baked beans. we have the full meal right here. we have cooked for everybody today, al. the whole gang! the whole gang. my friend. champion of the memphis in may barbecue. you are the man. thank you. all right. fantastic. we re going to come back here in houston, casa de esperanza, to finish everything up for our third day, the biggest day ever of lend a hand today. but first, this is today on nbc. well, mr. al roker and his lend a hand team really out did themselves today. al, good job. where do you go next? hey, well, you know, we re going to be packing things up here, jenna bush, first of all, thank you, jenna bush hager, for bringing casa de esperanza to our attention. what a great group. awesome. i love the biggest day was down here in texas. that s right. they know how to do it, you know how to do it right in texas and the city of houston. so fantastic. we re going to be heading next to the beautiful city of birmingham, alabama. we ll also be dealing with some tornado stuff because, of course, tuscaloosa was so devastated there. and we ve got a really special guest who is going to be joining us. ms. paula dean. whew! we re jealous of that. we had such a great time here. they do such great work. kathie foster, the gang, and, again, to give out $2.7 million worth of stuff is amazing. thank you for including me. it was so much fun. you really i love having you here. tell your folks i said hi. i will. i will. for sure. and, by the way, if you want to find some way to donate, go to our website, today.com and we re going to link you to the charities we ve been helping here. but you also give you other ways and ideas to donate and to give to charity in your community. we want everybody to lend a hand. while i get ready to get out of here, look on the bottom of your screen, promotional consideration provided by these very nice people. you know the big problem is, we have so much stuff, our truck, our penske truck is blocked. i can t get out. so, i borrowed this from one of the kids, savannah. so i m going to see you from birmingham. i got to get started now! we ll see you later! all right. it s going to be a long trip there for al as he makes his way out of texas. i thought everything was supposed to be bigger in texas. apparently not the transportation. way to go. all right. we ll catch up with al tomorrow in birmingham, alabama. remember, as he said, if you want to learn more about how you can lend a hand, you can check it out on our website, todayshow.com. coming up, liza minelli finds out who goes on to win the coming up, liza minelli finds out who goes on to win the show. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you walk into a conventional mattress store, it s really not about you. they say, well, if you want a firm bed you can lay on one of those, if you want a soft bed you can lay on one of those. we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. this is your body there. pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. then they start telling us, well, yeah, i feel sore righ there in the morning. my lower back. that s right where i ve be experiencing pain. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting an allow the bedcontour to your individu shape. oh yeah. it s really molding to my body. when you find someb perfect level of comfort, that may be the first time they ve ever felt a bed that feels exactly like they re hoping it would. you can adjust it weer you want so you don t have to worry about buying the wrong mattress. your sleep number s a 30. my number is 50. i m a 45. once they get our bed, they re like, why didn t i do this sooner? 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stop it. the last few days have been icky, rainy and chilly, it doesn t feel like june. no. it s not even summer yet. no, it is not. i didn t have enough sleep. why, hoda? i wasn t feeling well. i was going go to the opening of spider-man. but you saw the voice. this is what i loved about it, we know how confusing it is with the judging and the voting and it seemed like a big mess at the time. at the time you thought it was a mistake now you don t think so. they started the show with christina aguilera s team of four. america saved one of the team of four. christina had to pick from among the three who she was going to pick. right there, she picked beverly. she s the bald rocker and so then christina had to pick from among the group and remember raquel? from long island. she picked frenchie. now it s frenchie and beverly are the two that she picked for her team. how many more weeks do they have left to go? i don t know. so tee is the one. he ended up picking the shy girl. here s what s funny. you know what he said before he chose her because there s the country guy who is is a terrific singer and the other great rocker on the other side. he said you two are terrific. i can help her more. i can mold her more. don t they want the person who is ultimately going to win it? she might. is she that good a singer? she s good. he has his reasons, but it s a terrible position to be in. we ve been experiencing around here with our little, you know, cheapy version. i mean, come on! this is not cheapy. she s been killing herself on this. it s big for us, but in terms of prime time network we have a little version of it. this is what s fun about ours. so we have our two teams. unfortunately, your team has had a little bit of an issue. yes. you lost one of your one of our young ladies needed to have a gall bladder emergency surgery. this is her. amanda rose hall. she was a great singer. she was. now that i ve been loving you so long beautiful. i loved her whole heart. it is cheapy. look at the way i m turning around. and i m wearing the same dress. is that the same dress? it seemed to be. anyway, we want to wish her all the best and hope she s feeling better. today i m down to a married couple and it s b.j. and tasha. yeah. and then that s kat. begging you please, please ooh! yeah. she was good. here s what s going to happen today, just so everybody knows. they re great. but i don t want nothing at all if it ain t you baby there i go. wilma flintstone. you are wilma. all right. now what about your team? are we going to show them? of course, we are. these are rock stars as well. three great people. one from oh. okay. i turned on her do i wear the same outfit every single day? seriously! i don t want to say anything. it is. chris is awesome. he had a beautiful voice. you can make your heart i told you so that you had to go those are my three today. yes. okay, guys. here s the great part right here. liza minnelli is going to be judging. she s going to watch. she s going to pick the winner from my group and yours, they ll select one of the three or maybe two. montego glover from tony award-winning musical. won the tony last year memphis has been mentoring both of our teams. you ll see a piece that we shot with them yesterday. it will be fun. it s going to be fun. we have dish on arnold. mildred, the housekeeper, some are saying close member of the family over the years spoke to hello magazine. said she did not get paid for the interview. yeah. i don t know how that happened because hello openly pays. they re pretty open about that. so there is a photograph that we can show of her and her son. that s the picture that she gave to hello magazine. his name is joseph and he s 13 years old and i guess in person bears quite a resemblance to arnold. she describes the story of how, according to her, maria was asking her if the child was arnold s and at one point according to this woman she dropped to her knees and confessed and said it was his child. maria asked her to get up off her knees and comforted her. so, anyway. no. i don t know. you know maria and you said that did not surprise you that she might have that reaction. if that s all true, she s a very compassionate person, i can t imagine that if someone was sobbing in front of her would say get up. and i ll deal with my husband when i m finished. i don t know what to make of this, that it happened through thanksgiving last year. and she said stay through the holidays. if you re doing that for your family you have your priorities straight, but that had to be a cold christmas. i would say it was. a cold christmas. you are in people magazine. let s see it. let s talk about the rest of people. this is the fun body image issue. everyone s wearing a bikini bathing suit. look at jordin sparks. it s like jennifer hudson. look how everybody is in a bikini. look at paris. okay, hold. let s just show matt damon. no shirt required. so my thing had nothing to do with not wearing clothes. i am fully clad, but they had this thing, here it is. there s this machine at the mall in the king of prussia mall in pennsylvania. yeah. is that where it is? anyway, you stand in this contraption, this is what s cool about it. you hold your arms out and it scans your body and it spits out a list of the jeans that fit you the best. it will say levis size 10 or j. crew size 8. cheryl crowe if you love her jeans. it spits out the little thing so instead of going jean shopping to every single store to see this one fits you, this one scans your booedet and ones that fit me best are levis. you stand by them. i liked it because it made it easier. i don t like going in and out of 15 stores and if someone says this is what fits your body, go try yours on. but levi makes all different kind of jeans. it says boot cut. it scans your body. isn t that a smart idea? you don t pay for it when you go to the mall. i think the vendors do. i ve never seen that before. i ve never been into it at an airport, much less they say it doesn t have any of those that it bounces off. i don t want any more rays. uh-huh. all right. none of us get enough sleep. right. but this night explain why you want brownies all of the time or you want to eat carbs or enchiladas. it says when you re exhausted. and who isn t? you crave carbs which we know, i think. yeah. most people who work the overnight shift know the feeling. you re always reaching for something because it keeps you awake. you want energy. so there was a second study that said feeling sleepy during the day might make us less likely to resist temptation in the form of rich. that all makes sense to me. you get a lot of sleep. you get tons. i get none and you never sleep. i always sleep. i love that. i know, you can t sleep, what s wrong with you? i have a solution to it now. never in my whole life have i slept with a dog. all right, once in college, but no. i m kidding. bambino sleeps with me now. what? between you and frank. no. there he is. he sleeps at the bottom of the bed. you have to be careful not to squish him. if i m up or frank s up, we have bambino now and there s a reason to be up. i call him schnoosh schnoosh. this morning frank says where s my schnoosh schnoosh. there he is looking for bambino. if you want carb, love on your puppy instead. this came from a special vineyard, i ve heard, from sources. it s supposed to be great right here in new york state. it s called chateau merlot rose and it s styled after wines in the south of france. it s 100% merlot, but what are they talking about? it s it looks like rose. taken from a merlot grape, i suppose and made into a rose. don t confuse me. it s $18 a bottle. we went to aspen to the aspen food and wine. so excited. it s from it s go back. it s from long island s north shore. chateau. congrats to the folks of the today show. remember the i ve got a feeling video we did? that thing won an edward r. murrow award. are you sure it wasn t fred mcmurray? no, edward r. murrow. we got one of the top awards in journalism for that. great, great stuff. that was produced by jen long. we love her to pieces and she ll be with us in aspen. are you with your furry friends? these are my own pet balloons which we had in the segment the other day, but when we had these at the office these are not just for kids, i just want to let you know. we have all played with these and there are 27 different types of animals and you can order them at my own balloon.com. they have just enough helium that their little legs hit the ground and they are too much fun. all of us have these at our computers. the pig and the frog are the cutest. they re very cute. and the pressure s on our contestance. only two are going to go to the finals. and the search for today s voice continues. my team is there. somewhere. so far it s just my team. there s another way to help eliminate litter box dust: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. downy fabric softener. bounce dryer sheets. and a pie pan. 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[ ribbits ] after all, your hands are only as clean as the towel used to dry them. upgrade to kleenex hand towels for a clean, fresh towel every time. go to kleenex.com and see what could be on your hand towel. should you discipline someone else s kids? if you re at the park or on a play date and see a child acting out s it okay to be firm and try to teach them right from wrong? or should you just remove your child from the situation? susan schwimmer . and love in the time of colic. this is a touchy, touchy subject. you two happen to disagree. we will agree to disagree. i do not think you should discipline other people s children. there are rare circumstances if you re in a position of authority, coaching a little league game or teaching sunday school and those children in your charge, discipline them. on play dates, on the playground i don t think you should discipline other people s children. that is their parent s responsibility. what if that child is harming your child. let s pretend that child harms your kid. that happened to me. another child, i was watching my kid at the playground. another kid bites my kid and a fight ensues and i m there to separate my kid and it s not easy to deal with another kid especially when the other parent is absent. you don t want to get sued either. i had to say bying is unacceptable. i ve been at the playground where they re about to kill themselves. if something terribly changious. oh, sure, change your story. but that s not what most people are dealing with. most people are dealing with altercations with the kids on the monkey bars and they re being a little too wild because you know what? you can always take your child out of the situation. why should you always be strong do that? i don t think you should get in the business of disciplining other people s what about teaching a kid to say please or thank you. i think kids should be able to respect lots of adult authority. i ve had kids who say you re not my mom, i don t have to listen to you. that s a bad attitude. kids need to respect any adult. what if the parent s standing right there. okay. their parent s right there and would you say something to that child? i say say something to the parent. parent to parent. they an imbalance of power, an adult against a child. the other thing is today, today a lot of kids are dealing with a lot of issues. there are emotional issues and problems in the family. it is also part of the reason they re acting that way is they re not being taught. my message to all of the parents throughout. hello? mom up. dad up. yes! parents your own child. i know, but that s not reality. you what the reality is? there s usually a babysitter there who is texting, a parents who is chatting about how hard it is to be a parent to another parent. i ve been now two years in a row on a book tour with two little books for children. last year 100 kids came, one child said thank you. and then this past year just the past year i was at the bronx zoo with two kids that are trying to kill me and the mom is, like, take a picture. what is wrong with you? i agree with you. i think if you can take your child out of the situation, you can say to your child, you what? this isn t great behavior. i don t like what s going on here. in a way you re right. you can t control everybody else. you can control your kid. you can make your kid the best kid you can be. when you re at a playground, at a play group or birthday party. it s the safety of your child and it s the safety of other people s children and it s everybody. here s the mistake that i made. i have disciplined other people s kids and i ve sought out a parent and i ve kind of freaked out on the parent and that s where i made the mistake. what i would say is if your kid is doing something wrong go to the parent, calm down and have a reasonable discussion and try to be a reasonable adult. there are two different things we re talking about. when a kid can harm or hurt, maybe the kid has bad manners. there are a lot of tough spots. you go to birthday parties and they jack the kids up sugar and see what happens. it could be a zoo. a kid s just taking every dixie cup, slamming it, slamming it, slamming it. you cannot slam all of these dixie cups. they re for everybody. i never let it go. i just don t. no. you go for it. i respect your opinion, but i don t agree with it at all. mine is a little angel, so yeah, right. thanks, you guys, so much. always great to see you. up next, the photos that will make you say, what? right after this. i better skip breakfast. yep, this is all i need. 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i actually don t know. i thought it could be a credit card. they could have gone with we will validate rather than we ll whoop you. stephanie from stone wall, massachusetts. sent us this photo. hey, at least they warned us. as opposed to one right out in the open. it will be submerged. 6. 600 feet. i don t understand that on any level at all. finally, we have a photo from jonathan maxwell from huntington, west virginia, which way? oh, my gosh. i mean, you just let me know. oh, no. someone did that. no. that is legit. it s legitity, but do you think someone painted it at their house? they did a good job if they did. this week s was so great, people sent in so many photos. keep going to klg and hoda.com. keep posting. how did famous singers get their start? we ll find out when we play who knew. you know what s coming up. someone will get their start here. there s my team. look at them. judge liza minnelli will decide who goes to the finals. come on, kids. we ll be back after your local news. sometimes life can be, well, a little uncomfortable, but when it s hard or hurts to go to the bathroom, there s dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn t make you go. it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax stool softener. make yourself comfortable. revlon launches growluscious plumping mascara. the new mascara with a conditioning formula that helps strengthen and plump lashes up to 200%. instantly. for maximum volume. and a killer look. new revlon growluscious plumping mascara. dr. joshua starr is making a surprise visit to students and teachers today. coming up on news4 midday what tops his to-do list as he begin his new job. i m barbara harrison. looking for a healthy glow for the summer? men and women, we ve got advice for you. what you need and what you do not need for the we are back on this wine day with who knew? today we ll talk about how famous singers got their start in the music industry. kathie lee is across the street at the nbc experience store and she ll hand out money to those who are right and a cope of her cd. i like your new hairdo. thank you very much. shorter for the summer. i like. i liky. let s see how good our people do across the street. i said hello to this family and i asked where are you from? thousand oaks. and by the way, frank gifford is my great uncle. he is my husband s great niece. which of these pop stars did not get their starts on the new mickey mouse club. was it justin timberlake, christina aguilera, britney spears or nick lachey. d? yeah! darn n. darn! you ll have to take the money. i m sorry. he looks heart broken. oh, what the heck, he s family. nick was the one. nick was the one, he had to wait until he was in college to get his start. the other once were barely teenager, all of them, christina aguilera, justin timberlake and britney spears on the 199 -94 season of the all new mickey mouse club along with, get this, oscar nominee, ryan gosling. really? he wasn t nominated. back across to kathie. nice folks from texas. which coach from nbc s the voice worked as a waiter before getting signed to a record deal? was it adam levine, cee lo green. adam shelton or none of the above? it s a happy day. she gets my cd. looks happy. the correct answer there is adam levine. adam levine worked two weeks at a johnny rockets. it doesn t count. well t kind of does. he was slinging fries and some burgers and a lot of ladies were probably asking if fries came with that shake. here s the thing. he was in between record deals and he had two different bands and the first one was when he was in high school and then came maroon 5 after college and worked as a waiter. i like how he did it the old fashion the way. back across. nice folks from columbus, ohio. which singer tried to get discovered by visiting record labels with a tape of herself singing along to karaoke tracks? carrie underwood, taylor swift, miley cyrus or shania twain? taylor swift. you knew it before i asked the question. i like taylor swift s moxi. i mean, she really does folks, talk about moxi. she was 11 years old and she made the rounds at the labels in nashville with her karaoke tracks atrack s and she had to wait two or more years. she got her start at the blue bird cafe. you know who else did? garth brooks, two years before taylor was born. you just made her feel bad. who knew that? that s great. which singer s career took off after being a vocalist on the 1970s game show name that tune. it was carly simon? kathie lee gifford, aretha franklin or carol king, which of those four tanfantastic singers was? carol king. well, he ll know about you after he listens to your cd. as all of america knows, it was, of course, kathie lee gifford. oh, oh! yes, she must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time. sing it, kath. what s that? you used to be the one is there any more glorious sound than the sound of your own voice? yeah. hey there this singer got his start by making homemade videos on youtube, the kind you can watch and not be embarrassed. listen to this clip and tell us who it is. justin bieber. baby, baby, baby she got it on one note, just irn beeber. justin bieber a mere youngster at the time, 12 years old. his mom started putting up clips of him singing other famous pop songs and they introduced him to usher. you re the best. coming up next, let s get ready to rumble. it is time for the battleground, who will be picked for today s voice. look at the crew, but first, these messages. well, there s a change in the weather there s a change in the sea so from now on there ll be a change in me and my walk will be different my talk and my name [ male announcer ] rust-oleum ultra cover 2x gives you twice the coverage, twice as fast as any other brand. .changes made for nearly 100 years, we ve been giving people the power to change. .changes made we ve been giving people the power to change. parentheses have a place. but not on your face. juvéderm® xc is the gel filler your doctor uses to instantly smooth out lines right here. temporary side effects include redness, pain, firmness, swelling, bumps, or risk of infection. ask your doctor about juvéderm® xc. let s do this. you re a little early! 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[ male announcer ] new digiorno pizza and nestlé tollhouse cookies. it s not delivery, it s digiorno pizza and cookies. now time for the battle round and today s voice. we are very excited after rehearsing with our team. we selected three contestants and mono ttego from the great. and we are honored to have the legendary, talented liza minnelli as our official judge. did you know she s won an emmy, an oscar and a tony. one of the few in this business. you have the best reviews of your career called confessions and she is now going on tour. where are you going to be this summer? oh, gosh, i m going again and i m going first to london. you love london and they love you. i m going around england which i enjoy and paris. which i really love. check your local listings, basically. it s your basic europe moment. go on your european local listings. it s a true europe moment, and i am so thrilled to be doing it. you will have a tough job ahead. tough job. we will go to sarah and sarah will give us the rules. as we mentioned we have kathie lee and hoda s teams performing today and at the end the legendary liza minnelli will pick one from each team. how about just liza. i feel weird just saying liza it s liza minnelli. they ll pick one to go on to the next round where america will vote on the final winner. so you will see both. finally time for my team to perform. let s see how rehearsal went. here they are! hey! good to see you. are you guys excited? tasha, b.j. david will be accompanying you. tony nominee from memphis montego glover, everybody! all right! and so you know what you ll be singing, it s going to be ain t no mountain high enough ain t no valley low enough first of all, this team s got to win. if i don t win i ve got to quit. she knows nothing about music. have you seen the music she likes? please. flashlight you re drunk, picture it. you ve got to do it. let s knock them out of the park. baby baby now you guys take the first one. no rain that was good, you guys. you see the pressure that people are under when they perform? they ve got to learn it so fast. they have to learn their own parts. whoever sings the melody, make sure you pound it because they ll go there first. first of all, they re so open and so willing to sing. and they re excited. and they re excited. and now team kaths kathie le our married couple, tasha and b.j. and cat from mississippi wi with. ain t no mountain high enough you rocked it! you rocked it! that was absolutely fabulous! wait, when we come back when we come back, right? we re not judging now. when we come back we ll have my team. team hoda is coming back after these messages. that was great, you guys. ou think eh, thirty days. max. we ll see about that. 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[ femalennouncer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don t. multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories per serving. more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. we re back with more of kwd today s voice. we heard from kathie lee s team and now it s time for my team to perform. let s take a look at our rehearsal. okay. we re about to bring in the winning team, the a team. the a team s coming in. come on in, guys. when i picked you guys i knew from the beginning there was something special and unique about each and every one of you. so do you want to know what song you re doing? yes. are you nervous about that in. okay. oh, baby, give me one more chance i m so excited. yeah, come on! one question, can we try switching these two? yeah. i like that arrangement. let s switch? cool. three of you, treat this song like it s been heard by your audience for the very first time. now it s much too late for me to take a second look. now it s much too late for me to take a second look. yeah. that s it. that s it, guy snoos. how are we doing with the hair what are we talking about? i don t remember. totally amazing. all right. without further ado, team hoda, chris murphy and ashton both from dallas, texas and alexis, she s actually from new orleans. so hit it, david. one, two three, four! really good! with dance steps! i like the dance move, you guys. both teams were terrific and we ll come back and talk to miss liza minnelli. it s up to her. tough job. who will move to the final, but first this, is today on nbc. [ female announcer ] welcome to busch gardens williamsburg, where d.c. goes to get away. maybe it s because washington d.c. loves the legendary coasters. or that your entire family will have fun, even the little ones. it could be that water country usa has more of the waves, slides and rides everyone wants. so plan your getaway and come play. you never know who you ll run into. get started at buschgardens.com/dc. we re back with today s voice and everybody is really nervous. we. we just heard each team perform live. team kath. and who s go the finals and we ll find out who win. just teedzing. let s listen and watch. okay. first of all, you want to start, kathie lee? you know what, let s hear what montego thought. team klg, so, so great. nice, tight harmonies and everyone was committed to the vocal. all of the notes i gave you everybody you took. you guys were great. what did you think? i thought the same thing, i thought you were wonderful. i understand you can t hear yourself very well, can you? so, for that, you re really doing good. you were just, just great. i wish i could have heard their voices better sitting here, too, as well. it was harder to hear. sitting with someone now we ll listen to team hoda. here s what you guys just did. all right! so everybody was fantastic. what about them, montego? listen, guys. every single note i gave for you individually and you took it, i am so pleased. good energy. hoda wanted to step in, you put the step in. choreography is hot. liza, what do you think, baby? i thought it was wonderful. i really did, and it s hard to pick one of you because it s such group effort and you all sound so wonderful together. but we ll have to and it s actually up to you. team klg first. what we should point out is one s a duet. so you re going to pick the duet or the individual. so who s it going to be, liza? well, alexis wait, wait, wait. team klg. oh, my god! already? doing that one first. well, b.j., tasha fix them. b.j. and tasha. and team hoda. team hoda. well, you already heard. alexis, you re in. so everybody should feel good, though. you were all great. by the way, everybody was a home run. you guys did so well. you made your families and your loved ones proud. god bless you. thanks so much. thank you to it s tough to just come in on this because you re all wonderful. and now there will be a singoff between the duo and alexis. and tomorrow we have angela lanesbury. i m such a fan of hers! who isn t? and five-minute beauty rituals. montego, thank you so much for everything you did. you ll be back with us next week. so will you, miss liza. david freedman, thank you! fabulous book. bye, everybody. bye, everybody! have a great wednesday! captions by vitac www.vitac.com