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today, friday, june 24, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, welcome to today on friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry. can you imagine waking up one morning and finding out the guy living next to you is on the fbi s ten most wanted list. his neighbor said she knew he had a temper but had no idea about his violent and infamous past. we ll hear from her just ahead. a bombshell at the casey anthony murder trial. her mother testifies she was the one, not casey, she was the one who searched for chloroform on the family computer. is she covering up for her daughter? we ll ask cindy anthony s attorney. also this morning, who could forget the red jacket that michael jackson wore on his famous thriller video? this morning it s right here in our studio, going up for auction, expected to fetch a scary price for a lot of people. we ll be talking about that and also show you other iconic items from the king of populate they are morning. guess what? they started arriving here yesterday. this morning they have packed both sides of our plaza. who are they hear for? none other than grammy winner bruno mars, one of the biggest pop acts around these days. he s going to perform in our 8:30 half hour. the question this morning is who is going to wear the fedora better, bruno mars or matt lauer? or my friend kermit next to me here. does that mean i have to raise my voice now? let s talk about the top news stories, savannah is in at the news desk fortunately morales. in the news there s word there may be a link between saudi arabia a osama bin laden and the pakistan government. if cell phone that led the u.s. to bin laden s compound contained contacts from a militant group. meantime, a letter written by bid laden uncovered in last night s raid showed he can consider changing al qaeda s name. he thought the group had become known for killing too many muslims and needed a new identity that linked to a holy war with america. a dangerous waiting game in minot, north dakota, where officials have done all they can ahead of a record breaking river surge. kevin tibbles is in nine not this morning. kevin, good morning. reporter: savannah, not only are they calling this flood historic, some are calling it a prayry tsunami and the water keeps on rising. the rivsawyer rez river is on t rise. predictions get higher and higher as overloaded dams are expected to release more water. this bridge, if it goes, minot would literally be cut in half. red cross shelters are filling up as more residents flee their homes for safer ground. we moved everything up as best we could. reporter: more than 4,000 homes and businesses are said to be in the direct path of the floodwaters. it s pretty devastating to know my place is going to go under water. reporter: the expected crest of the river could reach eight feet above the record floots of 1881. more than 12,000 tons of dirt have been hauled in to build temporary levees. whatever devastation the river brings to minot, people say they are determined to rebuild. i ask the citizens of minot to stay strong and we ll get through this. reporter: officials here say water levels are six times greater than flood protection systems here were even denined to hold. savannah? kevin tibbles in minot, north dakota. thank you. two men arrested in an alleged attempt to attack a military recruiting station in seattle were reportedly inspired by the ford hood massacre. the fbi nabbed the pair in a sting operation. they say they were looking to attract as much attention as possible to their attack. now to wall street, cnbc s mandy drury is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning, savannah. hopefully it will be a kam calmer market in stock land. we saw greece come to an agreement with the imf and eu on extra tax hikes and spending hikes. it needs to go to a vote next tuesday, but it is necessary to be able to unlock further aid to try and prevent default of greece and world markets. that s what we re watching today. mabel it s an occupational hazard of being a baseball mascot. the phillie phanatic was hamming it up in the stands at a minor league game when a foul ball conked him right in the front. the fanatic played it off like a pro. tom ber going in the suit for nearly two decades. he was taken to the emergency room, released and said he s doing fine. it is now 7:06. back to ann and matt. you laugh no, no. it was that final keel over. i was concerned. let s go outside. huge crowd out there. mr. roker is in the thick of it. very people know that the philly fan nattic is related to ann. is he related to kermit, too? it s all relatable. this is a huge, huge crowd, one of our biggest so far this season for bruno mars. the good news is it looks like the weather is going to hold off for a little bit. we ll keep our fingers crossed as we see all those folks waiting for the man who is going to be the lazy song, the lazy s. let s check our weather. risk of strong storm two areas, casper, denver, memphis, and home oem ha. east, a risk of strong storms from cape lookout, albany, new york, new england, damaging winds, heavy rain. flood advisories for the tri-state area. flash flood watches from the pennsylvania area into connecticut. rainfall amounts from one to three more inches. ground s saturated. any more heavy rain, there will be flooding in the northeast. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. a small chance of storms around our region later this afternoon. it s turned less humid overnight. 70 suburbs and rural. mid-70 in washington by the bay. eastern shore. and later today, we ll climb into upper 80s. a small chance of storm later this afternoon east of i-95. sunday, lower humidity. a the bruno mars countdown continues. ann? thank you so much. we re learning more about the arrest of james whitey bulger and how one of the most wanted men in america managed to elude authorities for 16 years. pete, good morning. reporter: good morning to you. during all that time the fbi and federal prosecutors were hunting for whitey bulger checking out tipgs he had been spotted around the nation, even overseas, it turns out he had been living in the same california apartment nearly the entire time. barbara gluck thought there was something peculiar about the neighbors across the hall. an attractive couple, though the man she knew as charles gasko had a fierce temper. there were several times where we would start to chat and he would in a very rage-filled voice go stop talking and come with me. reporter: he turned out to be whitey bulger, a boston crime boss on the run. since shortly after he fled to dodge organized crime charges, he s been living in that california apartment building for 15 years, the property managers say, paying cash. late wednesday fbi agents arrested him there along with his long time girlfriend catherine greig after getting a tip in response to a nationally televised fbi plea for information about her. the fbi is offering $100,000 for tips leading to catherine greig s whereabouts. reporter: the fbi says agents found cash and guns inside the apartment. the fbi s evidence response team conducted a thorough search of the residents and found the following. over $800,000 in cash, more than 30 firearms including miss stols, rifles an shotguns. reporter: two decades ago bulger ran the irish mob in south boston. a reporter who grew up there says he was liked by many. he had the reputation of a robin hood physician your who protected the neighborhood, kept drugs out of the neighborhood, things like that. reporter: in south boston shlths some were amazed he was arrested. he would have been a legend. he would have been more of a legend. reporter: no such regard in the family of debra davis. he s accused of strangling her in 1981. her brother stephen doesn t consider bulger a legend. i m an eye for an eye type of guy. i would have been more glad if i found him. reporter: on thursday bulger and greig appeared in federal court in california to formally hear the charges. he was ordered by the court to be transferred to boston to face the two federal indictments waiting for him there. reporter: before bulger fled he was an fbi informant helping shut down his rivals, the italian faf yeah in north boston. his agent handler has been convicted of turning a blind eye to his crimes. if he starts talking now, he could open a sad chapter again for law enforcement. pete williams this morning. thank you. thank you very much. if you thought the presidential buzz was loud already, just wait. new jersey s republican governor chris christie is celebrating a very big win this morning. he just persuaded the democratic-controlled legislature in his state to pass historic pension and health care reform that he claims will save his state billions of dollars. governor chris christie is with us exclusively. governor, congratulations. thank you, matt. it s huge. this reform, according to your estimates and other estimates will save your state something like $130 billion over the next 30 years. you said, quote, it s an example of bipartisanship that the president and congress can only aspire to. is this something that could only happen at the state level? no, no, it s not. what you need to do is everybody needs to take risk, bring skin to the game. i have to tell you, i would not have been able to achieve this for new jersey without the senate president steve sweeney and the speaker of the assembly, sheila oliver. let s look at the bigger picture. you know exactly what s going on in washington right now. specifically what can the president and members of congress learn from what you ve just accomplished in new jersey? first, the president can show up. i mean, you can t negotiate through a secondary person. with all due respect to the vice president, the president s got to show up. i spent hours and hours and hours, matt, with the senate present and the speaker personally in my office over weeks negotiating this. when you say the president has to show up, both sides need to be willing to really grab compromise. eric cantor, the house majority leader, just walked away from the table in the last day because he doesn t want to consider raising taxes. was that the right move? listen, if that s what they needed to do to get the president in the room, then so be it. based on your experience, is that what chris christie would have done in a similar situation? well, no. i m the governor i would have try to get dragged into the room. i didn t have to get dragged in the room. i knew it was my responsibility. we didn t send seconds into the ring. we got into the ring ourselves, battled it out, came to compromise, convinced our colleagues and we did it. it comes with a cost. when you look at your situation in new jersey right now, teachers don t like you, the public employees unions, they hate you right now. your approval rating, 47% of the people in new jersey disapprove of the job chris christie is doing in the state. simply go with the territory? yes. you earn political capital in order to spend it to achieve big things. what makes what happened in new jersey different than other places is we did it in a bipartisan way. this is not just a republican plan or a democratic plan, it s a bipartisan plan where we compromise to put the people first, matt. the taxpayer is going to be saved over $130 billion over the next 30 years. we needed to bring equity and shared sacrifice to this. this took a long time. this was a year-long process. during that time you became known as a guy who speaks in blunt terms, sometimes to a shocking level. i ve always admired that from you. i really have. but i listened to a comment you made recently and even i was surprised. this is an exchange you had with a voter over cuts in education. let me play it, okay? schools, you sent them to private schools. i was wondering why you think it s fair to be cutting school funding to public schools? first off, it s none of your business. i don t ask you where you send your kids to school. don t bother me about where i send mine. is that a little blunt, even for you? no, it s not. her point is completely ridiculous. i shouldn t be able to make decisions about budget tear issues that relate to public schools because my children go to private school? that was the question. it s none of her business where i send my kids to school. i thought it was a fair question, and i ll tell you why. she clearly sends her kids to public schools. she s saying, governor, i understand you send your kids to private schools, but is it possible, though, then you don t understand how these cuts are going to affect families like hers on a daily basis. why isn t a fair question? it s nonsensical. to think as a governor you don t understand every cut you make and the effects it has on people is nonsensical. the fact is, wherever i send my children to school, my wife and i decide we want our children to go to catholic school because it helps reenforce the values we re teaching. i m a product of the public schools, went to the public schools in new jersey my entire life. the idea to think that as governor somehow that makes my ability less powerful because my children go to school. you know what my skin in the game is on public schools? i pay $38,000 a year in property taxes. my kids don t go to the school that uses most of that money. that s my responsibility as a citizen, to help to fund good, free public schools in my state. i m not complaining about, not asking her for any money to send my kids to parochial school. so it s none of her business. when it s none of your business, it s none of you business, matt. you had lunch recently or a meeting with rudy giuliani. what did you talk about? don t say it s none of your business. no, no. you sure? what we talked about was his future, my future. did he say are you running because i m considering it? and if you re running i don t think i can win in this area and i don t want to get involved? no, he didn t say exactly that. something similar to that? he again asked me about what i was going to do. i told him there s no different answer because i m here at lunch with you than everything i said publicly. i m governor, want to be governor, i m not running for president. i haven t heard no this often since i asked the homecoming queen to the prom. matt, i had the same experience, baby. i feel your pain. so it is no, even though it looks like, you re going to speak in iowa next month before a crucial straw poll. you recently met with campaign donors out there. so is your mouth saying no and your heart still considering yes? i got invited by the governor to come and speak about education reform which is something i feel passionately about. he s a friend. i m going to go do it. some folks from iowa want to come to new jersey. anybody that wants to come to new jersey, i m in. let them come. i care about the future of our country and i want us to have the best possible candidate in our party to run for president. but it s not going to be me. thank you for being here. governor chris christie. by the way, i want to tell you he s going to be david s guest on sunday morning on meet the press. it s 17 after the hour. here s ann. turning to lindsay lohan breathing a sigh of relief because she s not heading back to jail. on thursday a judge ruled even though she tested positive for alcohol, she didn t violate probation in any way. nbc s lee cowen is in los angeles with more. reporter: this all stems from a party she held at her home. the judge wasn t particularly pleased that lohan doesn t seem to be taking incarceration at her house very seriously. but when it comes to drinking, she said legally she can t be punished for that. she arrived in court looking more the professional than party girl, more up tight than easygoing and for good reason. lindsay lohan was about to defend, not only hosting a party at the home where she s supposed to be under house ar ref, but why she also tested positive for alcohol. not exactly model behavior, legal analysts say, for someone on probation for dui. she s bringing the fun to her. she s having parties, drinking at her house. that s the antithesis of why she s on house arrest. reporter: inside, judge stephanie soughtr in was hardly pleased and spent more than an hour discussing whether the troubled star let should go back to jail. in the end, the judge ruled while lohan was guilty of extremely bad judgment, she was technically not in violation of her probation, a fact highlighted by her legal team. even if she drank alcohol, she s permitted to drink alcohol in her home. drinking alcohol is legal. reporter: in and out of different courtrooms and different rehab programs, there was a time when lohan was ordered to stay completely sober. it turns out that order expired nearly four months ago. the reality is, she s done everything right this time. reporter: it means if lohan wants to remain on the wagon, she ll have no legal entity looking over her. there s no random drug tests, no alcohol monitoring bracelet, nothing to force her into compliance. and that worries some addiction specialists. her drinking may escalate. her use may escalate. herself-destructive question haif yor will escalate before it gets better. for now, lindsay lohan is very much on her own. once that home detention ends at the end of this month she ll start chipping away at nearly 500 hours of community service she s been sentenced as well. when it comes to those parties, no more of those, at least not big ones. in fact, the judge ordered that lindsay lohan can have no more than one person over at her house at a time. lee cowen this morning, thanks. it s 7:20. here is matt. thank you very much. michelle obama begins the second leg of her africa trip today. she arrived in botswana where she has a full day of events planned. nbc s kristen welker is traveling with the first lady. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, matt. on thursday i had the chance to sit down and speak with the first lady one on one. we talked about some of the highlights on this trip, including what it was like to meet an icon, south africa s nelson mandela. it was surreal. i never imagined in my lifetime that i would have the opportunity to meet, shake hands with, sit in the home of nelson mandela. take me inside that room. what was it like to be there with him? i don t know that it means anything different for me as an african-american first lady because nelson mandela means so much to so many people, but i feel blessed. and when i look at his legacy, i feel like i need to work hard to live up to it. do you think malia and sasha understood how profound that moment was? i think malia more so than sasha, because she s older and is studying history. sasha will understand. is this a one-time thing of them being in the spotlight? you vaulz the balance of protecting them, making their lives normal but letting them have opportunities like this. in a recent interview with ann curry the president said i am sure there are days where i say one term is enough. do you ever feel that way? i think we have a lot more work to do. so i m ready for more. he s ready for more. what s your strategy going to be in 2012? we don t have a strategy. i want to be helpful. i want to help amplify all the good work that he s done, and i want to keep building on the issues that are important to me as well. do you have any hesitation about getting back out there onto the campaign trail? i have always enjoyed campaigning because i really like people. because when you are connecting with people, you re reminded what we re doing this for. reporter: now, earlier today the first lady visited an hiv/aids clinic in botswana. later she ll meet with the president. she ends the trip on a bit of a lighter trip, a safari with her family. matt. kristen welker traveling with the first lady. thank you very much. just ahead, explosive testimony at the casey anthony murder trial as her mother admits she searched for the word chloroform on the family computer. we ll talk to cindy anthony s attorney about that. first, this is today on nbc. coming up, michael jackson s thriller jacket along with other personal item from the king of pop s collection. plus take a look at our concert crowd, bruno mars taking the stage a little later. he ll sing the lazy song after this. against fleas and ticks. and not just adult fleas. what makes frontline plus complete is that it breaks the flea life cycle killing adults, eggs and larvae. and it keeps killing fleas and ticks all month long. that s why it s the #1 choice of vets for their pets, and yours. unleash a complete killing force in every dose of frontline plus. good morning, i m meteorologist tom kiernan. partly cloudy. we have lower humidity moving in. a pleasant morning in 60s to 70s throughout the region. later today into the 80s, might get an isolated storm later. over the weekend, low humidity saturday and sunday. highs mid 80s both days. 60s in the morning. monday, tuesday, humidity returns and a chance of storms. danella, how s the friday traffic? 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[ beep ] having time on your side: priceless. mastercard pay pass. bringing you the most convenient ways to pay. learn more at mastercard.com/paypass. 7:30 on this friday morning, june 24, 2011. check it out. our plaza is overflowing, our biggest crowd of the summer so far. they re here for one man, one of music s biggest names, bruno mars. his concert starts one hour from now. already cheering. i m ann curry alongside matt lauer. it s really nice to have all these people outside. a great crowd. coming up, a dramatic new twist at the casey anthony murder trial. here is what happened. casey s mother cindy took to the stand once again and told jurors that she used the family computer to run an internet search for the word chloroform, testimony that directly contradicts a key prosecution theory. we ll get the latest and talk to cindy anthony s attorney in a few minutes. also michael jackson s thriller one of the most popular videos of all time. who can forget the red jacket? take a look. it s here in our studio along with other items of the king of pop s estate. coming up, we ll be talking about how you could own one of those. the latest on the adorable polar bear cub found abandoned in the alaskan wild and nursed back to health. now she s about to get a brand new home thousands of miles away. we ll have her story. let s begin with the explosive testimony from cindy anthony at her daughter s murder trial. nbc s kerry sanders has been following the case. kerry, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. prosecutors told the court that casey anthony murdered her daughter with duct tape and chloroform. but now, bombshell testimony by casey s mother, cindy, is calling that key prosecution evidence in to question. casey anthony showed little emotion as her mother cindy returned to the witness stand. good afternoon, mrs. anthony. good afternoon. reporter: if there was any question about cindy s resolute support of her daughter, she s raced those doubts with her surprising testimony. if the computer entries were made, i made them. reporter: prosecutors have argued casey used duct tape and chloroform to kill her daughter and presented evidence from the family s confiscated computer to show someone searched the word chloroform. on thursday, cindy told the jury it was her. i started looking up chloroform i mean chlorophyl and that prompted me to look up chloroform. now, i don t understand how you could get those two mixed up. not getting them mixed up. if you look into chlorophyl, there is some bacteria associated with chlorophyl production. reporter: cindy is a nurse, but her search for the obscure chemical was because she feared her two dogs were eating bamboo in the yard and could get sick. prosecutors fired back. i take it you did not tell them that you made those searches, correct? i did tell law enforcement. in fact, i told you during my deposition in 2009 that i mode those searches. reporter: casey s reaction, wow. skeptical prosecutors say time sheets show cindy and her husband were at work when the searches were made. now cindy is calling that into question. why would your work schedule show you were work? could have been an error. reporter: you may remember when the prosecution presented its evidence based on her computer searches reporter: a computer expert said he found 84 searches for how to make chloroform. did you type those words into the search bar on google? i don t recall typing in how to make chloroform. i recall typing in the word chloroform. reporter: but now the defense is questioning if the state s computer experts concealed their full examination of that hard drive. the reports are different. reporter: the defense asked about another examination on the hard drive. and how many times does it show that that website was visited? one, sir. reporter: just once. you didn t testify to this jury about that report, did you? no, sir. reporter: the question now for the jury is do they believe cindy? is her credibility strong and is it stronger in part because of that conflicting evidence presented in those computer searches? ann? kerry sanders, thank you so much. we re joined now from orlando by the attorney for casey s parents, cindy and george anthony. his name is marc lippman. good morning. good morning. thanks for having me. let me ask you this question, without getting into what other news outlets are reporting, can you answer yes or no, do sin dee and george believe their daughter still believe their daughter is innocent? they don t know whether or not she s innocent based on the crimes that have been charged. certainly they don t believe or condone or support the theory that they ve levied against george anthony and the allegations of molestation or him helping move the body or cover up anything casey may have done or may not have done. given those points being made by her defense team, how difficult is it for george and cindy to stay in that courtroom, to still support their daughter? they want to find out what the truth is, no matter how difficult it gets or how easy it may become. they don t know what happened and they re hoping to get some closure and at least find the truth of what happened. meantime, this testimony that cindy gave yesterday about 82 hits 84 hits on the computer, being that she s the one who did that, why should the jury believe that this is not just a mother saying whatever she can to save her daughter s life? let me clarify that for you. the 84 hits was in reference to how to make chloroform. my client testified she never researched how to make chloroform. she researched as a derivative of her search for chlorophyl, chloroform came up. when you research chlorophyl and the effects of chlorophyl, chloroform will show as part of a negative use of chlorophyl. but she didn t research the other terms that the prosecution went over with her yesterday. that still doesn t answer the question. why should the jury believe her in saying that? why shouldn t they simply think here is a mother trying to save the life of her daughter? my client has only told the truth throughout. this isn t new evidence to either side. certainly it was presented to the prosecution in my client s deposition in 2009. specifically she was asked by ms. burdick when she spelled chlorophyl, she spelled it wrong the first time and then it was corrected and she spelled it right the second time. it s not like the prosecution didn t know about the search and they can t say that s new evidence presented yesterday. certainly it s something that both parties had access to and was used by the defense yesterday. mr. lip man, thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks very much. savannah guthrie is joining us in her role as today s legal correspondent. savannah, your sense about the significance of cindy anthony s testimony? i think it s hard to overstate how important this testimony is. i think we may look back at the most critical five minutes of the entire defense case. and here is the reason. if the jurors believe it, if they have a reasonable doubt as to who searched that computer for the word chloroform or how to make chloroform, that strikes at the heart of the prosecution s evidence that this is a premeditated murder. if jurors believe it s a premeditated murder, we re talking about the death pen amendment. if they reject the evidence of premeditation this is the primary evidence of premeditation that s now been called into question, you re not looking at a death penalty case most likely. there are other ways they could potentially get to it. i think it s incredibly important. it s a bombshell. we may look back and say that s the five minutes where sin dee anthony affectively saved her daughter s life. meantime, listening to marc lippman this morning, you start to imagine what it must be like for this family, for cindy and george to be sitting in that courtroom not sure. they want to believe that their daughter is innocent, but not sure. they re not sure. cindy anthony has already been a witness for the prosecution against her daughter, now a witness for the defense. and then these incredibly painful allegations leveled against the family in the context of this trial. it s hard to imagine. let s not forget the central point, there s a little girl who died. by all accounts, cindy and george anthony loved and doted on that little girl. they ve seen some incredibly affecting and hard to look at testimony in the trial. do you think cindy anthony s testimony was important enough that it s possible that casey does not have to take the stand? it s possible. but here is the thing. the defense still hasn t told its story, still has not put on proof of this accidental drowning. certainly hasn t put on any significant or substantial proof about casey s claims that her father molested her. no matter how you slice it, if they want to tell that story in a compelling way, i continue to believe there s only one person who can tell the story and it s casey casey anthony. for the latest in the trial, catch a special dateline 9:00, 8:00 time here on nbc. let s get a check of the weather from al. thanks so much, ann. we re up here, look at this huge crude for bruno mars from 48th street over to rockefeller plaza. people are lined up waiting for the king of the lazy song. more lazy folks in missouri today. that s where they ve got massive flooding of the missouri river. not just in parts of north dakota but in missouri. 600 families evacuated. thousands and thousands of acres of farmland flooded. and the flooding is going to last into the weekend and beginning of next week. as you look on the or hand, we ve got drought to talk about. we got extreme to severe drought from the southwest, gulf coast, into florida. the drought causing big problems. in fact, rainfall amounts from five to 20 inches below rainfall since the beginning of january. that s the big problem there. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. mostly cloudy but it has turned less humid. we re down into the 60s to near 70 degrees throughout the region. now 75 at reagan national. later today, we ll have some sunshine breaking out from time to time. during afternoon reaching mid and upper 80s. a small chance of isolated storm, late afternoon, early, eat of 95 around the bay and eastern shore. lower humidity for the weekend. we ll have partly cloudy skies saturday mid 80s. don t forget. the check the weather any time of the day or not. go to weather channel on cable. weather.com online. bruno mars coming up. my people! my people! ann! al, thank you so much. still ahead, how the way you fight could have a big impact on your marriage. plus, a live concert as al mentioned from one of the hottest performers around the world, bruno mars. that s after these messages. nothing starts your day like honey roasted, honey bunches of oats. with a kiss of golden honey. and the same calories per serving as special k original. who knew 120 calories could taste so delicious? 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in this case the fire resistant roof kept the flames from eating all the way lieu the asphalt shingles. but it did light the dry vegetation of the gutters and the fire then spread to the eves. what that says is we don t have to have overwhelming force in order to keep this from happening. what we have to do then is to get rid of those ignitable materials. reporter: fire experts call it a defensible space. a 100-foot perimeter to keep embers off the home. if we can prevent that from happening, we can save people s homes. reporter: firefighters are battling a wall of fire down the road, they may not have time save your home. concrete, clay, metal as well as asphalt, composite shingle roofs are the best they say for preventing fires. and the wood shingle is oftentimes the most fire-prone. i looked good in the helmet and the guys behind me have already offered me a job. take it, tom. thank you very much. one of the most adorable polar bears you ll ever see set to move into her new kentucky home. details on that right after this. what can you do with curly frizzy hair? 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it does not matter. we also have one of the biggest crowds of the year, as al has been saying all morning long, massive crowd stretching about four city blocks here in new york city. they don t seem to care about the weather. no, they don t. they are all about the mars. exactly right. bruno mars coming up in concert in about 30 minutes. we re looking forward to that. i m matt lauer along with ann curry and al roker. we ve got great music on the plaza. we have some items that once belonged to a music icon in the studio. that s right. we re talking about michael jackson, some items being auctioned off, including something he wore in the video scream and also a fedora which we happen to know is something that bruno mars like. big fedora day. we re all married. on occasion we ve had an argument. you didn t say it right. on occasion, not fornication. for an occasion. this has gone downhill quickly. why do you argue? do you argue to win or get to the truth? knowing which one to argue for can help your marriage. we will explain a little later on. thank you. it s hard to argue because my wife is always right. is that the right answer? absolutely. i like to argue. i like it when my husband argues back. there you go. anyway, let s get to the news. natalie is off today. savannah guthrie is at the news desk with the headlines. good morning everyone. in the news today the weekend flood threat is getting worse in minot, north dakota. water levels in the souris river are expected to top a 130-year-old record. more evacuations are being ordered now on top of the 12,000 people already forced from their homes. farther south in bismarck, north dakota, the missouri river crested several feet above flood stage pushing at least one home off of its foundation. the family living there had already left. the suspect in a long island new york pharmacy massacre pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance thursday. officials said 33-year-old david laffer showed no he morse for allegedly killing four people including a bride to be and a high school senior during a robbery, police say was for pain killers. his wife faces arraignment today. fugitive boston gangster james whitey bulger is being returned to his hometown today to face charges in 19 murders. bulger, one of the fbi s most wanted, was captured wednesday in santa monica, california. he fled boston in 1995 to dodge a murder indictment. the new york state senate is meeting again today on the stalled gay marriage bill. a marathon session ended late last night with majority republicans still decides if they would even bring the bill to a vote. several changes have been proposed on behalf of religious groups who are opposed to same-sex marriage. now for a look at what s trending today. quick roundup of what you re talking about online. oprah winfrey is denying a tabloid report that went viral on twitter and facebook that she had already secured her dream interview, a murder confession from o.j. simpson. he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend ron goldman back in 1995. former playboy model anna nicole smith who died in 2007 is a top search item on yahoo. supreme court ordered her 4-year-old daughter is not entitled to a portion of the estate from smith ice 90-year-old billionaire husband. pop idol justin bieber was reportedly knocked to the ground during a fan surge outside a macy s department store here. afterwards he tweeted simply new york, wild day. it s 8:05, back to alo al. thanks so much. we ve got bieber fans here. we ve been even bieber we have bruno mars fans. you ve got let go now. wow! all right. let s check your weather, see what s happening. milwaukee, wisconsin, great station, wtmj, nbc 4, cloudy, cool, 68 degrees. and you ll see we ve got a risk of strong storms already firing up in the plains. wet weather in the northeast where we ve got flood watches in effect, slight risk of strong storms back through the plains here in the east. sunny and hot in the west. 74, morning fog in los angeles. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. partly sun any. temperatures in the 70s throughout much of the region. right now 76 at reagan national, continuing to climb into 80s later today. lower humidity moving, maybe isolated storm early evening. over the weekend, lower humidity, highs in low 80s saturday and sunday. blustery wind tomorrow. lows in the 60s and higher humidity monday, tuesday, with a chance of storms. less than 30 minutes to bruno mars, ann. that s right, al. people are very, very excited. coming up, why knowing your fighting style can help improve your marriage and also, as al just mentioned, the moment all these people have been waiting for. bruno mars live in concert. first, these messages. 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 if you have painful, swollen joints, i ve been in your shoes. one day i m on p of the world. the next i m saying. i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i m surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. 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patrick and samantha wall ravens have been married for years. th they have an occasional disagreement. pat will come down after work, put his keys down, put his sunglasses down, put his shoes there, his briefcase there. we have a trail i can follow through the house. i get a phone call from samantha saying can you go pick up matthew at basketball practice, bring him home, feed him dinner and i have all these other things going on. and i m thinking, what are you doing? when things get tough, they each have their own way of dealing with it. my profession is i m a research analyst and i think a lot about things. i go more on emotion, more spontaneous. opposites don t always attract. it really bothers me when he won t give in. that s when i start getting emotional. when she cries, she wins because then i feel terrible and then i think, oh, wow, you re right. katherine rossman can relate. in her recent column for the wall street journal, she wrote about arguments with her own husband. they learned it all comes down to how we re wired. he pulls out these charts for us to look at to understand the way our brains were different oopsz. it was actually very, very interesting and enlightening. he even took a personality test which reveals he argues by using the left side of his brain which is analytical and methodical. katherine fights using the right side, emotional and sensitive. same goes for a lot of couples. patrick and samantha is that all you re making? doing their best to be good partners despite their different personalities. listen, i m a thinker and she s a doer. that s the bottom line. we re working on it. every day we work on our relationship. we re doing our best. patrick and samantha did agree on one thing. when disagreementing come up, communication is key no matter what your fighting style is. she got the last word which is something she prefers. that s what she said. no question. tamron, thank you very much. pepper schwartz is a relationship expert with perfectmatch.com. gary marcus is a professor of psychology at new york universi university. good morning to both of you. good to see you. is it more important to find out why we fight or how we fight? i think they re both important. why tells us what the goal is. if your goal is to win, you ll have a different outcome than if the goal is to understand. how is important because you can do a lot of damage if you fight badly. and you can learn to change your behavior so you don t run into the same problems over and over again. yeah. let s talk about the stereotypes, gary. for the most part it s assumed this may not be right at all in all households but that women are more emotional in arguments, and men can sometimes be distant and dismissive. fair? i don t think it s really fair. i think what really matters is there are differences between different people, between different individuals. there are lots of reasoning styles. people can be more analytical or not, for example. there s no good data to show that s a systematic thing over time. rather, the brain allows us to do these different kinds of things. with training we can become more analytical. the brain evolves so we have both analytical capabilities and not and we have to learn to integrate them. one of the things that gets lost in arguments are facts. those are the first things to go because once it s calculates past the original argument, it s no longer about what you started arguing about. i think a lot of arguments aren t about what you re arguing about. they re really struggles for dominance or for understanding or emotional connection or fairness. and the issue is just the pretext. it devolves down to the things you haven t handled between each other. how would you suggest that couples stay on topic when it comes down to a fair argument? i think it s really important to understand how the brain works and why it is that we don t stay on topic which is that the brain is built so that when we get in an argument, we just use the first piece of information that comes to mind and we often want to show that we re right. we want to feel good about ourselves. we need to compensate for that. we have to realize that the most recent thing is not necessarily the most important, so we re mad about this that happened yesterday, but there s a long history of being together that s great and you need to remember that. you need to remember that what you really should be doing in an argument is looking for the truth. to do that you need to understand the other person s perspective. if you do want to be more successful in arguments, not talking about winning here, but disarming your partner is often helpful. you just related a story about what s happened in your life? yes. we can get into many intense arguments. what he ll do is reach over and take my hand in the middle of the argument so i can either yank it away in which we escalate to a really bad place or i relax into it and we talk to each other and we remember that the point is the problem is the problem, you re not the problem. i m not the problem. let s concentrate on the problem because that we could solve. gary and pefrpper, thank youo much. you did this without getting into one argument. afterwards we ll argue. let s head outside to savannah. we re getting set for bruno mars to take the stage at the plaza. first a little trivia to see if these bruno mars fans are devoted. here is our question. which tattoo does bruno mars does not have? 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it s his parents names. awe, sweet. our concert in a few minutes, now we ll head back to ann in the studio. tomorrow marks the 2-year anniversary of michael jackson s tragic death. this weekend some of the superstar s most iconic items are put on the auction block. we have darian julian here from martin s auction block. two years later, how much has the value of michael jackson s personal items increased? tremendous, anywhere from 30% to 50%. the value of his items has continued to go up. exactly as time goes by, presumably that will continue to go on. just like elvis or marlin monroe or the beatles. let s move on to the piece da resistance, the red jacket. how much will it go for. we estimate $2 million to $4 million. it s an extremely rare piece. we anticipate it will go over $1 million. it s fun to be looking at it and standing right next to. but also to note it s been signed michael jackson inside and also on the left sleeve. yes, here on the sleeve and inside. this jacket was designed by debra landis and given to his long-time designers tompkins and bush. looking at the performance shirt that we wore for the 25th anniversary of motown. it s amazing how small he was. it s very small. he was 23 years. he premiered the moonwalk on this. we sold the glove that we wore during this performance for $425,000. we already have business well over $30,000. really? this is something quite beautiful because it s in his own hand. the lyrics to the song beat it. but you want to be bad, just beat it, beat it, no one wants to be defeated. this piece we estimate $2,000 to $3,000 but sold as much as $75,000. these are not annotated. michael was very charitable and giving. this is something he really did for charity. now it s become auctioned off. let s move on to you, martin, and ask about this hat. there th one he wore in a performance. smooth criminal. he gave it to wade robinson, sort of michael jackson s protege. we told fedoras up to $70,000. it s easy to forget how good an artist he was. he s an artist in every sense of the word. performer, fashion icon and great artist. fantastic sketches throughout his career. sold them upwards of $60,000 to $70,000. we have a guide price of $6,000. this is self portrait? yes. this wig he wore at a news conference? yes, march 5, 2009 in london. made from real hair. it comes from his stylist who bought it for $3700 in november of 2008. i remember you had your haircut for charity around that time. so there could be a double whammy here. you know, i think maybe? it s kind of the same color. there you go. it could be actually my hair. hopefully it goes for a lot of money. estimated four to six, but if we prove ann curry, the sky is the limit. the final item is this . this remarkable shirt. during the duet with janet. again, it was the most expensive video at the time, $7 million to create it. our guide price is $4,000 to $6,000. great photographs of him wearing it. all these items will go on the auction block in beverly hills. a portion of the thriller jacket will go to benefit shem ball la reserve where tippy head ron is. thank you so much this morning forgiving us a fun glimpse. up next, talking bruno mars live in concerted after your local news. 8:26 is your time 75 degrees. i m eun yang. relief from the heat. here s meteorologist tom kiernan with your weekend forecast. hi, tom. lower humidities moved in. blue sky. live picture from sky watcher camera looking to virginia. low and mid-70s. 76 at reagan national. later today 80s. lower humidity this afternoon, might trigger a scattered storm. low humidity in place over the weekend. saturday and sundays, highs mid 80s. overall great weather for the caribbean festival in washington. thank you. we ll take a quick break. good morning. i-66 in virginia, slow from 123 as you approach the beltway. a look at 66. this is 66 at cedar lane. thanks so much. another news update in just 25 minutes. for now, back to today. 8:30 on friday morning, june 24th, 2011. oug biggest plaza crowd of the year this morning. a party atmosphere. that s because you re about to be treated with summer concert from one of the hottest pop acts around, talking about bruno mars taking to the stage in just a few moments. matt, this crowd i understand stretches all the way to the north, up to 56th. amazing how big it is. some of the people that are here were here yesterday. he was here in november. boy is he a breakout solo artist now. by the way, if you re marking your calendar. we have more great music next friday morning. we have pitbull here along with neo and t payne to get you off for your fourth of july weekend. oddly enough that s also savannah s nickname, pitbull. and i ve only been here two weeks. watch that. still ahead, we ve got some good news. jenna bush hager is going to introduce us to a remarkable group that does great work building safe places for kids to play. plus the target numbers you should strive for to keep yourself in good health. let s get a check of the weather, first of all. are we going to have a nice concert without any rain? i think we ll get through it. it will be okay. as we move into the weekend here in the east, a few showers. plains tomorrow. sizzling from the gulf coast to the southwest. nice and sunny, mild in the pacific northwest. sunday, sunday, beautiful up and down the eastern seaboard. west coast looks good. showers in the plains. risk of strong storms in the mid-mississippi river valley. that s what happens going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. less humid on friday morning. bright sunshine pouring throughout much of the region. live picture from sky watcher camera and the temperatures are in the low and mid-70s. most of the region upper 70s on the eastern shore. later hiding upper 80s. lower humidity moving in. might trigger passing storms, though, east of i-95. saturday and sunday, low humidity, highs mid 80s both to get ready for the weekend, check the weather channel 2, three, four times a day or go to weather.com online. now, let s head down to d.c. and say hello to uncle willy. i love a birthday party especially when you have people there that are 150 years old. it s unbelievable. they say people will be living that long in the next century. take a look, if you will, please. this is herschel morris, serves as a fire chief, loves to dress up as a clown, have been in the harbor day parade for 60 years. here is richard overton, 105. proudly served in ww ii and enjoys playing dominos and checkers. long-time friend to everybody that has ever met him. regina, love that name, sweat regina. she s regina mcnamara from spotsylvania, virginia. served many years as a volunteer with meals on wheels, helping other people. that s a wonderful group. they do a great job. and meta dishman of stant stevens church fshlgs virginia, 108. loves to travel and her favorite place to go in all the world is japan. she loves japan. and avic clarke, 111 years old. happy birthday to you, 111. and she loves she says this, eat schmucker s jelly every morning for breakfast on toast or an english muffin. harry and christine magney of brainerd, minnesota, 75 years they ve been married. harry turned 101 and she s a young 100. back to new york. god bless you, too. coming up next, a man who has dedicated his life to helping kids play. and then bruno mars live in concert. this is today on nbc. we re back at 8:37 with today s good news. for some kids who live in tough areas, the neighborhood playground is either too dangerous or doesn t exist. today contributing correspondent jenna bush hager found a group dedicated to changing all that. good to see you. good morning, matt. this is a great organization. kaboom and there s a safe place to play where there was none. i recently caught up with the force behind this mission. just a big kid himself, darrell hammond loves to hear children laughing. and nothing makes him happier than watching the pure joy of kids as they play. this is fun! play is a child s right. it s fun, but it s also how kids build their brains, their bodies, how they build social skills. reporter: hammond didn t always have that kind of joy growing up. my father was a cross-country truck driver and he left my mom and all of us kids and became wards of the state. reporter: he ended up at mooseheart, a group home for 300 where he could live with his whole family, mother, too, get an education and feel safe. he lived there for 14 years. he recently returned. oh, my gosh. i do what i do today because of what started here for me as a child. reporter: what started as a drive to show children they can maim amazing things happen has turned into an inspirational movement around the country. pipe by pipe, beam by beam, kaboom. what about kaboom? it s about an explosion of hope and opportunity and possibility. it s about watching disbelief disappear and the impossible become possible. reporter: hammond has built 2,000 playgrounds by bringing together $20 million from donations and community organizations and rounding up one million volunteers. you guys like this b playground? yeah. reporter: it s even more special because they get to design it and watch it come to life. it does show and demonstrate to kids that adults care about them, the ones that live around them and the ones that they don t know. there we go. now, that s how it s done, right? reporter: i got a little dirty, but it was worth it. kaboom is having a big impact. more than just giving children a place to play where there was none, it can change a community. philadelphia s walnut hill is struggling. we are in an area where drug dealers are. open dump. it was terrible. when you live in the inner city, it s definitely an everyday fight. there are tough places. physical transformation that takes place. but also a human transformation takes place, too. this playground has definitely added a lot to this community in a very positive way. neighbors are talking more, getting together more, being more neighborly. it makes for the kind of life that we all fight for and that we all want in the community, in any community. by taking an interest in these kids today, maybe they ll pay it back, both as a young child but also certainly as an adult. how have you seen it transform here? you can really see their hope, their spirit, in seeing that great things can happen in their neighborhood. this is the debt i m repaying to society and plus it s fun. reporter: one man, a rough start, now rewarded with laughter, smiles and a feeling he is giving back and helping communities to move forward. hammond has written a book called, you guessed it kaboom. it profiles his life and how he learned the most important thing for him is giving back. he s great. by the way, congratulations to those million volunteers that he has rounded up. that s fantastic. they do such great work. jenna, thanks very much. up next, concert time. bruno mars does his thing in front of our largest crowd of the year. first this is today on nbc. 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[ beep ] having time on your side: priceless. mastercard pay pass. bringing you the most convenient ways to pay. learn more at mastercard.com/paypass. the toyota concert series on today, brought to you by toyota. wow, what this enormous crowd has been waiting for. one of the hottest tickets in the music business. ladies and gentlemen, bruno mars. today i don t feel like doing anything i just want to lay in my bed don t feel like picking up my phone so leave a message at the tone today i swear i m not doing anything i m going to kick my feet up and stare at the fan, turn the tv on throw my hand in my pants nobody is gonna tell me i can t i ll be lounging on the couch just chilly in my nuggie yes i said it, i said it. i said it cuz i can today i don t feel like doing anything i just want to lay in my bed i don t feel like picking up my phone so leave a message at the tone cuz today i swear i m not doing anything nothing at all nothing at all yes, i said it. i said it. i said it cuz i can today i don t feel like doing anything i just want to lay in my bed i don t feel like picking up my phone so leave a message at the tone today i swear i m not doing anything i can t gonna comb my hair because i ain t going anywhere no, no, no i ll just strut in my birthday suit and let everything hang loose today i don t feel like doing anything i just want to lay in my bed i don t feel like picking up my phone so leave a message at the tone cuz today i swear i m not doing anything nothing at all nothing at all nothing at all [ cheers and applause ] bruno mars is just getting started. this is today on nbc. 2011 has been a good year for bruno mars. the 25-year-old has already had four hit singles, won a grammy award. his debut album is now certified platinum. he joins us here on the plaza. bruno mars, good to see you. hello, sir. can i tell you something? i have never seen this many brazilian models in one place. that s what i get. that s what i get. you were here in november eight months ago, right? yeah. the crowd was a little smaller. it s grown substantially. what s the best thing that s happened to you in this year? you know what? this right here, being able to come to new york and seeing all this. they re making signs for me right now. look at that. the story behind your success is well known. you wrote a lot of hit songs for other people. do you miss any of the anonymity that came with those days? you ve given up a lot. i don t have any regrets. i had the opportunity to work with such great artists. i m just happy i m here. you re thankful for whatever you re getting. like flo rida, shawn kingston, adam levine, cee lo green. i got lucky. i had the honor to work with those guys. cee lo green taught me a lot just with that one song. now that you re the guy with the grammy, are you going to keep writing for other people? absolutely not. i m done! of course, of course. i read a thing in the paper that was nice. john legend had a concert, had an after-party, got up and grabbed the mic and he got up and performed. he got up with you there. just the way you are was on and he got up and sang. incredible. on tour. going to continue throughout the summer? make sure to go to brunomars.com in a city near you. you re going to sing? run away baby. ladies and gentlemen, bruno mars. i know it s early new york, i know it s early. you know what? i feel like moving, i feel like shaking, i feel like dancing. can i hear my james brown? my james brown? one, two, three. 8:a5 55 is your time. friday, june 24, 2011. i m eun yang, let s go to tom kiernan in the storm center with the forecast. looking good to far. sure is. good morning. we ve got lower humidity continuing to move in, sunshine as well. temperatures around the region are in the 70s. right now reagan national, temperatures hitting the mid and upper 70s. as we take a look around the region quite a bit of sunshine pouring down. clouds developing later this afternoon as we climb into the mid and upper 80s. lower humidity moving in as the day progresses and might trigger a storm later east of i-95. around the bay and perhaps the eastern shore. lower humidity for the weekend. saturday and sunday great, highs in the mid 80s. blustery wind saturday. and lighter wind sunday with more sun monday, tuesday, next week. getting more humid for a couple of days. and maybe some afternoon storms each day. but that low humidity returns midweek next week. thanks so much. thanks so much. we ll take a quick break 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. good morning. report of a disabled vehicle blocking center lane on the beltway outer loop as you pass colesville road. delays from new hampshire avenue and continue on to pavelka gaga avenue. back to you. thanks for that update. another news [ female announcer ] have you ever seen a glacier while sunbathing? why not? have you ever climbed a rock wall in the middle of the ocean? or tried something really wild? why not? it s all possible in the n. royal caribbean s floating nation. where you are free to do anything you want. which may be nothing at all. royal caribbean international. why not cruise from baltimore? visit royalcaribbean.com today. enjoy the rest of your day. my name is bruno mars. i love you. and we are back with more of today on a friday morning, the 24th day of june, 2011. a great crowd. they are thrilled because we just had a wonderful concert from bruno mars here on the plaza. the weather held up and the songs were amazing. like a 70s soul band. what about the band? the band was fantastic. well done. well done. out on the plaza, i m matt lauer along with ann curry. we ve got al roker here as well as tamron hall. a big crowd on the plaza. what s coming up? coming up, we ll be talking about the target numbers for your health. they deal with cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index. what numbers you need to know to ensure your health. my heart is racing from bruno mars. i know i m in good health right now. i think you have the vapors. we ll show you with barbara corcoran some amazing home values in the low to mid 100s all across the country. some amazing houses. before we go any further, let s head inside, natalie is off today. savannah guthrie standing by at the news desk. hi, matt, good morning. in the news, word there may be a link between osama bin laden and pakistan s government. the new york times reports the cell phone of the courier that led the u.s. to ben laden s compound contained contacts from a militant group linked to pakistan s intelligence agency. a letter written showed he had considered changing al qaeda s name. he thought they needed a new identity linking it to a holy war with american. surprising turns in the casey anthony murder trial. nbc s kerry sanders joins us live from orlando with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning. prosecutors have told the court that casey anthony murdered her daughter with duct tape and chloroform. but now a new bombshell testimony, casey s mother is calling that key prosecution evidence into question. casey anthony showed little emotion as her mother, cindy returned to the witness stand. good afternoon, mrs. anthony. good afternoon. reporter: if there is any question about her resolute support of her daughter, she s raced those doubts with her surprising testimony. if those computer entries were made, i made them. reporter: prosecutors argued casey used duct tape and chloroform to kill her daughter and they confiscated evidence to show that someone searched the word chloroform. on thursday cindy told the jury it was her. i started looking up chloroform i mean chlorophyl and then that prompted me to look up chloroform. now, i don t understand how you could get those two mixed up. not getting them mixed up. if you look into chlorophyl, there s some bacteria associated with chlorophyl production. reporter: cindy is a nurse, but her search for the obscure chemicals she testified was because she feared her two dogs were eating bamboo in the yard and could get sick. prosecutor linda drane-burdick fired back. i take it you did not tell them that you made those searches, correct? i did tell law enforcement. in fact, i told you during my deposition in 2009 that i made those searches. casey s reaction, wow. september cal prosecutors say time sheets show both cindy an george were at work. but now cindy is even calling that into question. why would your work schedule show you were working? could have been an error if my supervisor filled out my time card. reporter: you may remember when the prosecution presented its evidence based on her computer searches reporter: a computer experts said he found 84 searches for how to make chloroform. did you type those words into the search bar on google? i don t recall typing in how to make chloroform. i recall typing in the word chloroform. reporter: now the defense is questioning if the state s computer experts concealed their full examination of that hard drive. the reports are different. reporter: the defense asked about another examination on the hard drive. how many times does it show that website was visited? one, sir. reporter: just once. but you didn t testify to this jury about that report, did you? no, sir. reporter: the question now for the jury is credibility, do they believe cindy? and are they more likely to believe cindy anthony now based on the con dplikts on the number of searches on the computer for chloroform. savannah? kerry sanders in orlando for us, thank you. a rescue plan is under way for the lost baby penguin who captured worldwide attention when he turned up on a new zealand beach 2,000 miles from his antarctic home, nicknamed happy feet, the 10-month-old was becoming confused between sand and snow and tried to eat it. they moved the penguin to an ice box to nurse the penguin back to health until a permanent solution is found. talk about a late bloomer. it took gilbert hakim warrick almost 100 years to find the woman of his dreams. he said he never found the right girl until he met virginia hartman at the nursing home. at the age of 99, gilbert got married for the first time. virginia says, quote, we ll have a good time no matter what.9:06. just in time, savannah. skies have opened up here. just a bit. it s okay. talking about bruno mars. love that concert. one more song coming up. first your weather, show you what s happen. strong storm from the plains working to the east. here in the east, looking at strong storms, damaging wind and hail. also could see locally heavy rains. we ve got flood watches and advisories in the new york area from northeast pennsylvania into southwestern connecticut. rainfall amounts one to three inches of rain before it s over with. the ground already soaked, that s why we re looking at possibility of flooding. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. sky watcher camera showing sunshine around the metro area on this friday morning. and just past 9:00, we have our temperatures climbing into the mid and upper 70s. 79 at reagan national. less humid now but even less humid for the weekend as the lower humid pushes in. might trigger passing isolated storms east of i-95. saturday and sunday, highs both days, low humidity. humanity returns first part of i have to keep my cameraman dry because i love him. savannah. today s daily dose is brought to you by delicious fiber one chewey bars. cardboard, no. delicious, yes. get that image out of your head. let s go on. this morning on today s daily dose your target numbers for healthy living. do you know where you should be? dr. nancy snyderman is nbc s chief medical editor. good morning. good morning. let s start with blood pressure. what s the magic number? for those that aren t clear on it, why is this so important? i don t want do have everyone glaze over with too many numbers. these are the kinds of things that are free. we re not talking about insurance coverage. this is stuff you should know. the classic is 120 over 80. i happen to think that s a little bit of the high normal now. doctors would like to see 120 over 70 or 110 over 70. the top number means the heart is pushing blood through the blood vessels. the lower number is when the blood vessels relax. so those two numbers, basically you want to be at them or lower. anything higher and you re looking at high blood pressure or hypertension. an e-mail from kristen in new york who asks, my blood pressure is 91 over 61, at the bottom of the normal scale. i know there are health issues associated with high blood pressure. are there health associated with low blood pressure as well? that s me. i m 90 over 60. a lot of people say they re lower. that s white coat hypertension. like stage fright? right. if you know it s 90 over 60, the biggest thing is you might feel light hated every once in a while. that s what we call orthostatic hypotension. it means when you move, your blood pressure drops a little bit. interesting, it s really good for when you get older and your blood pressurizes normally. other than being light headed occasionally, not a problem. better to be low than high. yeah. let s move on to cholesterol. we hear all about good cholesterol, bad cholesterol. where should we be and what is this? ideally everyone would like to have levels lower than 200. that s a combination of hdl and ldl, the good and bad cholesterol. when it goes higher, this waxy substance we need for our cells working and vitamin d production, the problem is when it goes too high it causes plaque buildup in your arteries. that s what causes strokes and heart disease. if your doctor says your number is 220 or 230, you have to make sure it s broken down into good and bad cholesterol and something else called triglycerides. jim from indiana asks, i used to have high total cholesterol, above 230. after my doctor put me on medication, my cholesterol is 110. jim should get together with our low blood pressure writer. i have the same situation. my cholesterol was 230. i went on medications. it drochd into the 150s and i slowly got off of it. diet and exercise can take care of a lot of people like this. talk to your doctor. you might want to get off your medication and monitor and see if you can live without them. blood sugar, a lot of people associate that with diabetes. you say everybody needs to know this number. just like blood pressure. you need to know this when you re a teenager. 80 to 120. the only way to get an accurate reading is a morning, fasting blood sugar. that means you don t eat anything after midnight. you will go in and get your blood measured or pee in a cup and have it digitally read. a minute left. two more numbers. healthy weight. body mass index. this is the hardest formula for anyone to remember. look it up online and know you have twob between 21 and 25. if you re over 25 you re overweight, over 30 you re obese. weight circumference. why do we need to know this other than to fit into those jeans? because you carry toxic fat around your middle. the fat around your middle releases hormones that make your blood pressure go up and put you at risk for all the bad stuff. for women, your waist can t be greater than 35 inches, for men, 40 inches. get a tape measure out. there isn t a lot of wiggle room. if you re shaped like an apple and not like a pear, you re at increased risk. dr. nancy snyderman, thank you so much. still to come, lindsay lohan back in court but not back in jail after failing an alcohol test. we ll have the latest on her legal troubles. up next, fabulous homes and fabulous prices. we ll show you what you can get for your real estate dollars right after these messages. like tacoma, of ts the best-selling compact pickup in america or the rugged tundra, named a 2011 best overall value of the year by intellichoice.com. and right now, get 0% apr financing on a new 2011 tundra. plus, every new toyota comes with toyotacare, a complimentary maintenance plan with roadside assistance. we have lots to choose from, so hurry in today. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? 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[ carol ] this could turn me into a history buff. this morning on today s real estate, what can you get for under $200,000. today barbara corcoran searched out the best deals on the market and has it for us. good morning. let s get started. cheap prices. redding, pennsylvania, four-bedroom home priced at $114,900. a house within walking distance to the best kindergarten and middle school in the area, built in 1908. there s a great shot. out front there s a friendly porch, a stonewall and a big old tree. the interior is totally hip and modern. when you have a look at this, you realize, am i in the same house? but you are. the living room has wood floors and a room big enough for an up right piano. the light-filled dining room has hardwood floors, a double window and an eat-in kitchen has exposed brick walls, tall wainscotting that have been updated just enough to keep it in line with hat the kitchen is supposed to look like, but modernizes it in the same breath. the attic has a finished bedroom for teenagers. great spot to put the teenagers up there. out back is a covered patio with a wood deck. a terrific house. remember, it s 114,000. cleveland, ohio. two-bedroom home priced at $155,000. this victorian cottage has a brick driveway in one of cleveland s oldest and most diverse neighborhoods. it has the broad front porch and lb brat gingerbread trim. the main living has soaring ceilings and a graceful staircase. it s kind of unusual. that was a picture taken at night. i ve never seen that done for showing a house. it s really effective. the formal dining room has vaulted ceilings, a floor-to-ceiling china cupboard that you could probably negotiate to include. the sunny family room, it needs a throw pillow or two. you ll have a peek at it. it s very large and it s an extra space. i m sorry. i missed that photo. outside in the back yard you ll see a really nice brick driveway. it has a pond, a waterfall and a two-car garage. there s the dining room. sorry i raced ahead. having that two-car garage in this neck of the woods, no one has them. an extra bonus. beautiful terrace. next is a three-bedroom home in mesa, arizona, priced at $160,600. mesa is popular. people like it. it s 30 minutes from downtown phoenix and it s a friendly area where everyone knows their neighbors. i think the simple landscaping matches the solid lines of the house. you don t have to do a lot with landscaping. that looks picture perfect. the living room has tile floors, oversized window and warm yellow walls. the family room is oversized and has handsome wood floors. this is a meticulous house. you really don t have to do a thing to it. the kitchen has a big dining area, granite counters and an island, perfect. the fence back yard has a covered patio, a big lawn and a privacy fence. taxes on this how is $1400 a year. that s nothing. we go to the east coast, sarasota, florida. another popular city. three-bedroom home at $169,000. i think when people hear sarasota they picture a retirement community. what they don t know is sarasota has one of the best rating school systems in florida. it s 20 minutes from the famous beaches of sarasota. the powder blue home has a sturdy block and stucco construction, an older home in perfect condition. i think blue has to be their favorite color. it s on the outside, on the inside, it s in every room. the living room has those cool tile floors that are popular there with the sliding glass doors that lead to the len nye out back. there s also a dining room with blond wood floors, chair rails and crown molding and the big double windows there. the all-white kitchen has a sunny dining area, glass brick above the sink. out back a sparkling pool, that s all i d need to be happy. why not pick up a chair and be happy forever. our last home, rockford, washington, 187,000, five bedrooms, less than $20,000 a bedroom. a good way of looking at it. in this town there are only 482 people. this is a storybook home built in 1895 on the historical registry, a gingerbread house. i love the porch, love the white picket fence. the living room has original wood floors and an ornamental brick fireplace. the dining room has a chandelier original to the house. a peaceful sunroom, a cheerful kitchen with original white cabinets and sunny walls. i think it needs a little more color than all that white. at least there s room for a small table. out nice, a green lawn, lilacs and 100-year-old trees. nicely done, barbara. have a great weekend. thank you, you, too. still to come, one of the hottest tickets in the business, bruno mars rocking our plaza. first, these messages. 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you know what, you go in a little and it feels fresh. it shouldn t have mold or corn husks have any wrinkles on them. put it on the grill outside or a grill pan and then just rotate as it chars. how long? like ten minutes. what will happen is that the natural sugar from the corn, it s going to start to come out and carmelize as it chars. do you soak the corn before you grill it? no, i don t. nothing, straight there. perfect. then you have choices. you always do. you grab your corn. you can put on corn sticks or use your corn holders, and then you can, if you want, rub some butter, which i do i want to do that. i love butter. rub some butter. if you want, you can rub some mayo which you want to do. you know me so well. and this cheese here so interesting, is it cohita. this is fresh cheese, you can use feta cheese, they re cousin s. then you re going to roll it all over. we want that. of course we want it, pati. to give it a little spice, what do we do? then we ll add ground chilli. you can use any kind of ground chilli, chipotle or a mix, and some salt. delicious. and a squeeze of lime. a little lime. and then you have your crazy corn. and then you give it a bite. i dropped my lime. i got excited. okay. mmm! let s stay here. okay. you have a salled for us, also including corn. tell me about the salad. so people think about avocados from mexico that are creamy let me get that. pati, forgive my friend. we can go back, we can go back. we re talking about now corn, quack mo not guacamole. it has corn, meaty avocados and quick vinaigrette that has lime juice and apple cider vinegar that i love because it s straightforward, salt, pepper. i love how the lime picks up with the corn and bursts with flavor. yes. to top it off, pumpkin seeds, sprinkle that on top, and then i call this a chop-chop salad. it looks delicious. mix it all in. and this, which is a treat. it s a tort. it is a blessing between a corn soufflet and cornbread. it s moist enough and firm enough, super versatile. you can eat it on the side of meat or fish. if you have any leftoverless, you can have it the next morning with a cup of coffee. you top it with you top it creepy people visiting me. get your napkins around. thought you d never ask. then you top it poblano rajas. good job. then we get to taste. and then you get to taste. you can have it with the rajas or without. pati, thank you so much. up next, another song from bruno mars. this is today on nbc. coming up with hoda and kathie lee, the results of instant ambush makeovers for two lucky ladies plucked from the plaza. this is hot and delicious. plus the hottest toys for kids to keep them entertained this summer. something for every age. that s right. of course, we re still so blown away by bruno mars. it was like a 70s soul review. as tamron would say bruno. we like to say it like that. let s all say it together. bruno! this is from his platinum album, singing just the way you are. you haven t heard it like this. have a great weekend everybody. new york city, put your hands up like this. see if you recognize this one. oh her eyes her eyes make the stars look like they re not shining her hair her hair falls perfectly without her trying she s so beautiful and i tell her every day yeah, i know i know when i compliment her she won t believe me and it s so it s so sad to think that she don t see what i see but every time she asks me do i look ok i say when i see your face there s not a thing that i would change cause you re amazing just the way you are and when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while cause girl you re amazing just the way you are her lips her lips i could kiss them all day if she d let me her laugh her laugh she hates but i think it s so sexy she s so beautiful and i tell her every day oh you know you know you know i d never ask you to change if perfect s what you re searching for then just stay the same so don t even bother asking if you look ok you know i ll say when i see your face there s not a thing that i would change cause you re amazing just the way you are and when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while cause girl you re amazing just the way you are the way you are when i see your face there s not a thing that i would change cause you re amazing just the way you are and when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while cause girl you re amazing just the way you are yeah girl you re amazing just the way you are thank you so much. enjoy the rest of your day. my name is bruno mars! i love you! 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yes. she s channeling. michaels, too. michael s craft. she said you can get them at michael s craft. i said to somebody who shallo re main nameless, jimmy, do i look younger. and he goes, yeah, 52. you know what? once i thought about it i said i ll take 52. all right. here s something kind of cool. michael jackson is making a comeback. he has a song called behind the mask. there s this crazy video called sounds brilliant when you think about it. all around the world, people take chunks of this video. 1,600 people from 103 countries, you guys. .? when i come to you you re sitting in your room you sit around in the strangest place so take off the mask people from all different languages were singing it. 103 countries, i think. that s pretty cool. very nice. how huge do you have to be that your music is that well known in 103 countries. very few people. i guess madonna could say that. the beatles. but he s unique. and gaga now probably. you give a lot of commencement speeches. i ve given a couple, but i did start off one by asking people if they i couldn t remember who my commencement speaker was to save my life. i was like who was it? was it an astronaut or a dean? i couldn t remember. i think in those moments, i don t pknow. you are so preoccupied with everything that you don t remember. do you remember who spoke at who said i graduated? oh. sorry. i had a lot of living to do, baby. i left one semester shy, baby. did you? yep. i was studying acting and i got an opportunity to act. so i m not going to suggest anyone else doing it that direction but everybody has a different path. but i have spoken before. and what do you say when you speak at these things? don t do it the way i did it. mine was at marymount university down in washington. and i had just been through working with president clinton on the labor relations and sweat shop. getting all kinds of laws passed and changing the world basically. and so they gave me a ph.d. for that. i said you know what? in most cases i d say i didn t deserve it. i deserved it. so but i remember talking to them about how when life, you know, throws you a curve like that, there s a purpose for even that. sure. and some good can come from that. here s a little i always like to look at the recaps of different graduation speeches. let s take a look. the jig is up. the clock has run out and the future with a capital f now rests with all of you and your goofy hats. you ll be astonished by how much of the rest of your life will be consumed by the same junior high, petty jealousies you encountered in adolescence. what do i know about harvard? i know it is the oldest american university. i know it provides the ultimate experience in higher learning. and, according to the movies, i know it is filled with people who get rich by either inventing things or suing the people who claim they stole their invention. if you pursue your dreams, you can t quit when you fail. you can t quit when you mess up and you can t quit when life seems to deal you a tough hand. every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. but do you have the guts to fail? if you don t fail, you re not even trying. every single day i walk into the oval office and for all the days of my life, i will always remember that in no other nation on earth could my story be possible. could your stories be possible. we ve already thanked the parents today. but, please, don t forget to thank them again when you move back in with them. i didn t realize that president obama was at miami-dade college. that used to be miami-dade junior college. when i first left high school, i went to miami-dade junior college. you did? i did. good school. when i am in a funk, i google graduation speeches because when you think about how much work had to go into these speeches, these are some of the best speech givers ever. and it s what they chose, the lesson to give off to people it really is a pick-me-up. if you are ever in a funk and want to get out of it, doing that or watching them on youtube. i can t therm one i gave or got. college students apparently drink a lot of beer. this is very controversial. if you go to a university, usually you pay a tuition inspect some cases, the school of engineering may be morunfv expensive than the school of journalism sociology or journalism. so this is starting they say to be to become more of a trend. you may to v to pay more per semester to be in the college of business, for instance. and they are saying because to get the quality of professors they have to pay more money for that. i don t know. you need good professors for everything, you would think. do you think it s a scam? i just think it s another thing. colleges are so expensive anyway. my gosh. private school, a very fine private school is now over $40,000 a year. and this is for like school. not even it s a junior high, i think, and a high school. that s unbelievable. it s before college. can you and they have no they have people begging to get in because everyone feels like if their kids don t get on that path to greater education right. they re not going to get in to but that starts here with preschools in new york. in a lot of cities they are pushing to get their kid into the right preschool so they can move on. i always tell my kids and everyone else what my daddy told me. find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it. that s the way. you re going to love this. speaking of something you love to do. it s called i don t really want to say it. i ll say it for you. it s called poop freeze because it s your dootie. you are walking your dog and it s summer time. you know what happens? it can get nasty when they have to relieve themselves. it can start steaming. and you can t pick it up because it is nasty. okay. so they ve coming up with this stuff called freeze. you squirt it. you don t need it? okay. so this is what we ve done. i could have brought bambino s in this morning. touch it and feel it. it s moist and gooey. we ve soaked it in water. are you sure? i don t know. we re going to spray it with the poop freeze. is it frozen? okay. you think it was nasty before. now how long does it sit. pick it up. you pick it up. i m not picking it up. is it hard? no. oh, kind of. you got to spray more. it s not that. you have to. it s not freezing. we re blowing the neighborhood away. my gosh. it s not working. oh, my gosh it is. it like calcified it. just frost and toss. and it s cold. is it? oh, yeah. it works. okay. all right. anyway i m bringing bambino s in and we re going to try it. it s apparently easier to dispense. friday funny i never get that much laughter, so an elderly man and a beautiful young woman walked into a jewelry store. the man told the jeweler he wanted a special ring for his girlfriend. the jeweler showed him a $5,000 ring. the man said no. i would like something much more special than that. so the jeweler went to his safe and brought out a beautiful, stunning diamond. he said here s a stunning ring at only $55,000. the young lady s eyes sparkled and her whole body trembled with excitement. seeing this the old man said we ll take it. the jeweler asked the man how he would like to pay. the man answered by check. but i know you need to make certain my check isjf good. i ll write it, leave it with you so you can make sure it clears monday morning and then i ll stop on monday morning the jeweler called the old man and said there s insufficient funds in your account. the old man said, yes, i know. but let me tell you about my great weekend.jfñ that s a good one. you know what it s time for? bobby ?; bobbie s buzz. how are you? i m doing fantastic. did you know it s9 national smie month? no. it is national smile month. so i have some ways to make your choppers stand out. this thing that kind of looks like an ipod but it s not, hoda is called glow brilliance that and it s part of this light bright trend to help you do an at-home professional teeth whitening. they also have go smile out on the market. you stick that and both of these the only time i ve seen bobbie look unattractive. the only time in all these years. both of these are supposed to help you get whiter teeth without the sensitivity and a lot less than going to the tentist for a professional visit. and then this is a new toothbrush made with titanium and some other stuff. you don t need toothpaste. kills bacteria and limits plaque. it s the future. it s brand spanking new out from asia. and then last but not least, supersmile by dr. smeigel. jennifer lopez swears by his quickie and cameron diaz michael s quickie. it s a teeth whitener on the go and these tongue cleaners and what s a tongue cleaner. how do we use this? bend it back and forth. yours is sprayed down with oh, it has the poop thing on it. oh, that s all right. vial to have a sip of this. like a scrape. and in a way, this will take care of bad breath during the day and a lot more. ew. that was that s the drink. it is white. it s the frosting. maybe it s just plaque. okay. we wanted you know what? although today is a fun day, it s a sad day because yosef, one of our favorite p.a.s, it s his last day with us. we love you. come back and see us any time. wish you all success. god bless. he s a sweetheart. coming up next, oliver platt tells us what s ahead with his new show the big c. still ahead, ambush makeovers amazing results right after this. 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[ male announcer ] your favorite movies right when you want them. watch unlimited tv episodes and movies instantly through your game console or other devices, all for only 8 bucks a month from netflix. they know they have guns, right? second season of the dramady the big c premieres this coming monday. oliver platt plays a husband determined to support his wife whose battle with stage 4 melanoma is causing their son to act out in unpleasant ways. take a look. he s been aggressively farting. he s been farting pointedly and aggressively. he even fart framed kathy. was anybody hurt? no. deeply offended. oliver, we re delighted you re here. we sure are. thank you for coming back. it is my pleasure. you say it s been a great pleasure doing this first season of it. well, that scene was not so you know, not the scene but the scene we re talking about was disgusting. you know what s great? here s the thing. when it comes to just another day at my house. fart framing is a normal thing in the i ve heard about frank. no, it s not frank. he s not the perpetrator. we re not going to give away who it is. it could be somebody nels the house. when you think about cancer you don t think about anything funny but somehowd found a nice way, a tasteful way to involve comedy with something as tragic as melanoma. you know, i think the brilliance of the sort of the delicate dance, the writing the show does is, you know, the truth about the way that people actually respond to great crisis doesn t actually have as much to do with the sort of mellowdramatic movie of the week thing as it s sort of highly unpredictable. it s ;orabsurd. it s very human. it s extreme. it s predictable. and you were so healing in itself. humor is an incredible weapon against situations like this. yeah. i think it s interesting. you talked about how sort of cancer reminds you that your life has margins and you were saying, we wereht reading in t note why do we wait forwo# something so tragic to realize there s just a fine item out of time. and start living it the that s the great irony. we re all going to die. why do we have to wait until we get a more sort of like immediate, you know, death sentence to live our life more fully. why aren t we loifrg life more fully every day anyway. that to me is the irony. do you  like you do? i try to. the show reminds it reminds me to, actually. but it is a very ironic thing, i think. and you ve been hearing a lot from the people who see the show. and it started to mean a great deal in their lives, right? the people that let you know what matters to them. just standing here. joseph, whose last day it is. yosef, yes. he came up to me and said i want to thank you for your show because yosef s mother suffers from cancer. he said i watch your show and it s incredibly healing to me. but i said to him, tell me. if your mother had passed away, would it would it be as healing and he said it would actually probably mean more. wow. and that meant a great deal to me. and this kind of thing happens a lot which i think speaks to the value of the show. it s always in the writing, isn t it? you have great writers over there. and laura is the executive producer. and astonishingly effective, a real executive producer who gets up a lot earlier than she needs to and who, you know, works very, very goes to all sorts of meetings. incredibly effective in the casting. and also unbelievably gifted actress. yes. you are no slouch yourself, oliver. great to see you, darling. season two of the big c premieres monday night on showtime. catch up on the series with the big c the complete first season now out on blu-ray and dvd. sarah standing by with questions. nice moves. just wait until you hear our answers. we don t know what they re going to be. we never have any idea. looking good there, sara girl. 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no. are you ready for a little tlc? i am. are you ready for that makeover? i think so. i never take time for myself, so it will be fun. oh, we want to see. so terry is joined by her daughters danielle and frankie lynn. and some of the girl scout troupe is here, too. keep your blindfolds on. here is terry before. terry, let s see the new you. come on out. oh, my. wait, wait, wait. are you guys ready? take off your blindfolds. speechless is about the only word. okay, terry, we re just going to tell you before you turn, you re going to freak out. you want to put your glasses on so you can see. turn around. oh, my. wow. that is amazing. that is so dramatic. lewis, the hair. thank you. i love it. look right here. the first lesson here is if you do just i mean, i understand crunching your hair because it s quick and easy but guess what? you have to work a little harder. jennifer lawrence gave her this great haircut. soft layers. shows it off. okay. i just want to point out, the family is dumbfounded. like drop jaw. what do you guys think. she looks great. you look beautiful. the color is awesome. the highlights were just too white, too frosty. so i just made them more gold to blend with her new caramel hair. and beautiful makeup today. gorgeous. she just did the most beautiful simple makeup. a little bit of makeup, hair color and a great>ok haircut. and that dress. she spends 99% of her time on everyone elser and youw3 do deserve to invest little time and blow drying your hair. you have a wedding this weekend and you haven t put a pair of heels on in two years. and i had to get her in heels so you look fantastic. and you can wear that all year. go join your family. you can step right over to them. the second lady is alyssa dendy, 32 from long island new york. it s always been her dream to receive an ambush makeover. she was thrilled when we approached her. why do you think your mom deserves a makeover? because she does a lot of things for us and she deserves this. and you? because she s beautiful and she does everything for us. are you ready for your makeover? yes, i am. i m very excited. all righty. now she is here with her children. wait. let s we ll try to kourch their eyes. and their friend angelica. one last look. alyssa before and here s the new alyssa dandy. not yet. not yet. don t look yet, kids. all right. kids, you can look now. no, she s over okhere.xd that s this woman. you want to see yourself. turn around sweetheart. it s such a change. gorgeous. oh, my god. all right.çó wow. you see what she did. çó that s me? alyssa looks like the young woman that she is now. what she did is she put on a hairw3 lightener that made her hair sort of yellow. it s naturally so dark that it turned a bit orange. so what i did is i toned down the ends. made the roots a little bit lighter and this is the latest trend in hair color. darker at the roots, lighter on the ends. this is the edge of the color. jennifer lawrence gave her this great bob and you are just as simple as can be. and bobbie, tell us about this outfit. she admitted she doesn t wear anything but sneakers, sweats, leggings and sometimes jeans. so we needed to get you in something fashion forward because you are hot. this print is such a fashion forward trend. we mixed the necklace. nude shoes. you are good to go. you look stunning. kids, what do you think? 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we tested tons of toys. find the best of the best at parents. fun and affordable options great for kids of all ages. adults included. they can be used in the backyard. how about christopher john. what is he playing with? he s got fisher-price s i can play golf. it reallyxl gives toddlers a se of i can do it accomplishment. kathie has been playing it. can you get it in there? two clubs and three balls and this guide ramp makes it easy for him to get a hole in one and it all stores inside itself so parents love it for portability. that s adorable. so cute. terrific. this is the freeze ball from wild planet. $13 for kids ages 6 and up. and despite the name it is a really high energy game. it combines dodgeball, freeze tag and the silly bands craze. kids love those. running and jumping and, you know, freezing, thinking fast, to collect these bracelets out in the field. this one looks cool. this looks so much fun. they are bowling. they are playing with parents crazy caterpillar bowling set made by manhattan toy. retails for $45. this ist( one where you can get the whole family involved. set up the pint sized pins. it s light weight. no nobody is going to get hurt. turn the back yard into a bowling alley. give another go. all right. and you are a pro, girl. nice job. thanks, guys. what s noah up to? noah is eating a km snow cone. and fundex games made a lot of kids and parents excited when they brought back the retro. so you just put the ice cube up here. you hold this down. and out comes the ice. you can add fruit juice or the flavor aid package to give it nice flavor and enjoy an icy treat on a hot day. fun to make and eat. perfect. enjoy, kids. hi, honey. hey. what do we have here? we have this made by fat brain toys. fat brain toys. what s great is if you soak this in u/0water, all the water slin off. so this is one to keep in the car, bring it to the park, the pool, the beach. kids will have a blast and be cooled off. that s $11. that s easy. nice and affordable. this is the pumpaneater. it s not summer without a water balloon fight. kids don t have to come inside and use the faucet or garden hose. you use that to fill up the balloons. when you re done, everything goes back in so you are ready the minute a fight breaks out. what is this thing? this is the y pike. he love this. he always look for toys that grow with kids. and kids as young as 9 can use this as a walker and then you can flip it around and it becomes their little car to ride on. what is he playing with? spring s ecodump truck. it s sold at amazon.com for $15. and this is good for the kids that like to play in the dirt and the sand. totally eco-friendly, too. thank you so much. thanks for having me. up next, we re going to make some burgers. we re going to build a great one after these messages. revlon launches growluscious plumping mascara. with a conditioning formula that helps strengthen and plump lashes up to 200% instantly. for maximum volume. new revlon growluscious plumping mascara. let s do this. you re a little early! 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[ where d.c. goes to get away.o busch gardens williamsburg, 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 kitchen and getting saucy with mouth-watering updates to your favorite burger recipes. here with flavorful toppings that will give your burger a healthy boost is a contributing chef from prevention magazine. always great to be here. a very unique burger as always. kicking off this summer, make something changes. lowering our calorie count but adding a lot of flavor. so we re going to start with a great salmon burger. we re going to add we have some about a pound of salmon diced up and any special salmon? the wild or it doesn t matter? at prevention we prefer wild. more expensive, but better. it s better for you. is it more expensive? yeah, both are great, but this is whole wheat bread crumb. about a quarter cup of whole wheat bread crumb. one egg white in here to add a little moisture. garlic. pickled ginger. going to kick it up. a little spice and a little sweet. we have a little ginger is supposed to be awesome for digestion. it s so good for you. and reduced sodium soy. kathie if you wouldn t mind pulsing it. pulse, ól+u1mñ see how it is going to make it nice and ground so we have a patty already. perfect, darling. perfect. then what we, do ap little sesame seed right on top. why is that? it adds great flavor and great texture. here we have it. this one is already q/zfinished. four minutes about on each side. so it s great. now we re going to add just some more basil? this is spinach. baby spinach. and a little more pickled ginger just to give it so you aren t put anything cheese, no mayo, nothing. it doesn t need it. all that flavor is in the burger already. about 420 calories. it s a whole wheat bun. counting the bun? counting the bun and everything. if you lose the bun you can put it on greens. speaking about losing the bun, this is it. a bison burger.w buffalo. so lean in fat. good with cholesterol. what we re going to do to amp this sup we re adding pepper jelly. a little chili. it just gives it such great flavor. this is some low you don t like pepper jelly? instead of the bun, we have the tomato. which is beautiful. look at that. and then i won t put jelly on one, but we can just add a little more jelly. if you want to try it, try the salmon burger. i m going to take a little taste of this burger. we prefer a grass-fed bison, but mm. oh, my god. it s socm  good. so good. it s unusual. you don t expect the ginger is great. the little asian kick to it. that really makes it different. infusion. and it s so good for you. all those omega 3s we need to fight heart disease and keep our skin and our joints. love it when you talk dirty. such a sweetheart. thanks so much. stick around. we re going to have hot new trends and cool summer cocktails. summer is officially here. what s the best way to beat the heat? we think it is drinking fun and fruity cocktails. tony is author of the modern mixologist contemporary classic cocktails. hello, tony. what are we making? i was just at the convention in orlando. the hot topic is a distilled rice distillate from japan. these are all kinds of words he is speaking that i don t know. first thing we re going to do we re going to muddle a little bit. kathie, you have lime and blackberry. hoda and i have lime and we need to add our simple syrup. about an ounce. you are ready. i m ready to muddle. i ll muddle through. you ve muddled before. you have no idea. by the way, feel his biceps, kath. wow. if only i could muddle some more. i don t know why i m sweating. i already got the job. all right. but you got to keep it, baby. you got to keep it. you go, klg. we re going to add our soshu. two ounces goes right in there. you are using the young coconut with the pineapple. and kathie lee is using lemongrass and ginger. no more muddling. stop muddling. ice goes into the mixing tin. all right. we ve chilled our glass. you know this is not going to be good. keep the tin down there. slight angle twist, pop. all right. now at? we ve made our seal. it won t come apart. now a quick shake. all right. not near hoda s hair. now to break our two fingers on the glass with your left hand. and two fingers on the tin. and there s your sweet spot. see your sweet spot on the tin? you know where your sweet spot is. of course she does. i have so many. anyway. a sweet spot a pop. a pop. can i pop your sweet spot. please. there it is. now did you get yours? you know i can t find mine. okay. now what? we just we dump the entire drink into the glass. okay. all righty then. and there we have it. it looks beautiful. that s a beautiful looking drink. simple, right? how does yours taste, kathie? p0y&ly good. jerry would be proud. really good. i m sorry. what s going on down here? also at the wswa convention this year, rum was the hot thing. so what we ve done is an iced tea for summertime. like a long island iced tea? i brewed fresh g fresh lemon juice. i ve sweetened with t with agave nectar. we ve add someday spiced rum. a little bit of mint? quant rcuantro. it s really quaffable. @ñ some kind of lessons here today. we like the language you re speaking. all right. i like that. ooh. that s good. surprising. i like that. what do we á=ut on the end? i couldn t come on the show without making a drink in your honor. you are a fan of the keys. started off with mango and lime. i added simple syrup to balance that. compari and orange are beautiful together. let s take a sip. isn t that what we had at the opening of the show? we re going to tick telewith a little soda. we had this, too. i think we had this already, but thank you. tony, thank you, hon. you are adorable. you got the job. before we go, a programming kathie and i are going to take a few days off so nbc can bring you the wimbledon coverage next week. but we will see you back here next thursday, everybody. we re going to miss you. have a great weekend. god bless. 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