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room. who is alex trebek? we re going to hear from him about his heroic day, today, thursday, july 28, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. i m matt lauer. alex trebek did the captain america routine. didn t end that well. we ll talk about that later. for weeks, month, the bitter fight raging on capitol hill. the house is expected to vote on one proposal to cut spending and raise that debt ceiling. house speaker john bohner s plan is facing stiff competition from the democrats and his own party. duh it have a chance to pass? we ll talk to the house members ahead. the murder case against drew peterson in jail accused of killing hi third wife. but now experts say the case may never make it to trial. we ll explain why. also, a single mother pulled over and thrown in jail and she would remain there for seven months faced with a mountain of evidence that seemed to prove that she committed a series of crimes. it turns out, that woman was the victim of a revenge plot orchestrated by her exboyfriend. going share her story in an exclusive live interview this morning. a look at something this, is a lancome makeup ad featuring julia roberts. looks good. it s been ban in great britain along with christie turling ton because the images were overly air brushed. fair or unfair. talk about that coming up. let s begin on thursday morning with the time ticking away to reach a deal for the debt ceiling. kelli o donnell is our capitol hill correspondent. good morning to you. good morning to you. this is a test of john boehner s leadership. he delivered a blunt message to his own members to get in line. he believes that was more credibility, that was their word, with some of the most conservative members when they retooled their proposal to raise the debt limit and cut spending by going deeper with the cut. and now, after so much talk, that vote comes today. reporter: the politics of grid lock hurtles. i ve had kidney stones that are easier to pass than this. reporter: and the prognosis from democrats is dire. the speaker s plan is on life support and it s time for him to pull the plug. reporter: john boehner claims his debt limit plan has been revised after a last-minute fix. they reworked the package and it s projected to cut more, $917 billion over ten years. it is a test. this is a big step trying to get control of our deficit and our debt. reporter: in an interview for brian williams for a sunday special, taking the hill inside congress, boehner played down a lot of opposition from his own members. mr. speaker, is it fair to say you have a bit of a rebellion on your hands? or do you feel i have a little bit of rebellion on my hands every day. it comes with the territory. you re not worry? never let them see you sweat. reporter: the speaker is getting heat from democrats too. 50 signed a letter saying they would block the plan because it would force us once again to face the threat of defaulting in five or six months. harry reid wants to kill the boehner bill and get one of his own. i m disappointed bohnev eed . good person. he s painted himself in a corner. reporter: they played this film clip from ben affleck s movie to fire up their members. then upset democrats jumped at the chance to show it again. going to hurt some people. this is a political fight, one in which they are more interested in scoring points and hurting the democrats and the president than they are to protecting the economy. reporter: from that to music, it s gone viral. raise the debt ceiling raise the debt ceiling sorry if that s stuck in your head today. but maybe art will influence life. it could be some movement today. if the house cannot get this through, we re back to the situation of can harry reid s plan somehow come to save the day if you will. there s a lot of uncertainty. house republicans still need to convince a small number of those who have been most resistant at least publicly and it will play out today. ann? kelly o donnell, thank you for reporting on your story. brian williams spent time on capitol hill thursday talking to the major players of the special, taking the hill inside congress. good morning to you. good morning. you should know. we have been scheduled for months. and, of course, the day for us to arrive on capitol hill with all of the cameras and journalists happen to arrive in the middle of the pinched battle. so there we were yesterday. you and i last time talked about your roots and a very humble part of this country. you go back to ohio, i imagine you re going to find some people who are thoroughly disgusted with what they see out of washington. are you prepared for that? of course i am. what do you tell them? i say this is a system of government that our founders gave us. no one ever said it would be pretty. but we ve got two political parties in this town. we have different beliefs in what the appropriate role of the federal government should be in our country and in our society. so that s the john boehner we found yesterday and a viewer s guide. when they start saying things like this was supposed to be hard, the founders wanted this to be hard, that means they have no clue where this process is going to end up. we heard that about six times yesterday in going from office to office with members of the leadership. it was quite extraordinary. in talking to boehner, it was interesting to hear your question to him and his answer. how much of the opposition is with his own party hindering the deal as far as you can tell. my first question to him was a lot of friends of his said, look, this isn t fair. he s supposed to be the head of one party. he s got several factions that he has to try to manage. and we find it on the line with the white house. we saw only one white house official yesterday on the hill that there s a lot of talk in dc that this swing across town from the white house to the hill, we ve got just a few days, however, the expression the whole world is watching. most important, all of the voters and the viewers across the country are watching this. they re watching their national politicians. many of them behaving badly. they re also watching a spirit of compromise. did you see anything? one thing there s going to have to be compromise. the other thing we re not seeing is just agreement. and, boy, there s a lot of posturing going on. the the age difference was notable. what we ll see in the days and hours to come is some of the folks that have been around for a while and listen carefully to what john mccain said yesterday, folks who have been around a while kind of rise up and say this is how we do it. this is how the system has saved us. this is the that is the three amigos as they call themselves, graham, lieberman, and mccain in their office yesterday. and some of these old alliances may help bring about. plan in the end. this story needs a lighter note. and you found some in the hall of congress yesterday? i m sitting here in the cafeteria in the office building waiting for a member of congress when darth walked up. and darth vader comes up to me. again, i was minding my own business. he gave me the little two-handed death ray there that we recognized from the volkswagen commercial. the nicest kid, he s on the hill lobbying for children s hospitals across the country, given his own medical history. he had a heart ailment as the younger guy. he pulled up a chair. the highlight of my day. and ours this morning. apparently darth vader has a good side. brian williams, thank you for that. you bet. you can see taking the hill inside congress at 7:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 central time here. should be fascinating. look forward to that. the top stories of the morning from natalie morales. good morning. of. good morning, everyone. new details this morning about the arrest of self-confessed ath terrorist anders breivik. good morning. police add more details. two minutes after they made it to the island, they found breivik on the ground with guns on the ground. police were air frad tofraid to him. they thought he was carrying a bomb. he want add lift. he stalked the teenagers like a shooting gallery on an island near oslo. really helpless. 360 miles to the north, a mother said she experienced the worst hour of her life. 5:42 the afternoon. she got the text message from hell. i told police there s a maniac going here. julie was hiding among the rocks while the killer hunted the teenagers and shot them one-by-one. reporter: another text. here she says, i love you. even though i yell at you sometimes. then i really almost broke down. because that was so so moving, so touching. reporter: for one hour, mother tried to hold it in. aztecs continued from the island of death. then at last, it s over. the killer surrendered to police. her brother had no idea about any of it. later he said he found it odd to get a text message from his twin sister saying, i love you. natalie? from oslo, thank you so much. outrage in new york city from first responders who became ill after working at ground zero. federal officials announced tuesday that those with cancer will continue to be excluded from the $2.8 billion federal fund allocated for them. the reason, officials say, there s no proven link to exposure to the world trade center site and cancer. first responders met with the fund administrator last night to protest the news. a film premiere in hollywood turned into a riot wednesday night. threw bottles, band losed cars and police in riot gear. police tried to disperse the hundreds who showed up for the screening. at the stock exchange. are we expecting a repeat of wednesday s drop? investors are on edge because of debt concerns in washington, d.c. as well. the s&p 500 saw the biggest one-day loss in eight weeks. it is, by the way, down about 3% so far this week. while the markets are jittery, it seems to be a little concern out of the bond market. the ten-year yield remains firmly under 3% that the investors won t worry that the u.s. won t make good on the debt payments. 62 companies are reporting today, including colgate and exxon. natalie? looks like the florida marlins have a new if unwanted mascot, this praying mantis made itself comfortable in the dugout, crawling on to clay hensley s shirt. they became pals so he left his buddy to scare somebody else. the bug pounced on him, clearly giving him the creeps. can t blame the guy. screaming like a little girl. like matt and al. very harmless thing, the praying mantis. oh, yeah. they re freaky looking, though. yeah, they are. it s okay. i m sure that s the last time the pitcher will see that no, they ll do it over and over again. oh, no! meantime, on a difference note, we have a tropical storm to worry about today. it s a small one.orry about. we do, a small one. we re hoping it brings relief to drought in southern texas. right now tropical storm don, winds 40 mile per hour, named after our meteorologist. the system makes its way on shore saturday. it will be a minimal tropical storm 60 miles per hour, bringing with it two, three inches of rain from corpus christi, san antonio, if it stays on the current track. heavy rain throughout the upper midwest. chicago now wettest july on record, almost ten inches of rain for this month. and that rain continues to fall today on into the afternoon. they may be looking at one to three from chicago to detroit. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. here around the washington region humidity increase overnight but pleasant morning. right now 79 reagan national. but we re in the 60 in the suburbs and rural areas. today climbing into low 90s. cloudiness around this afternoon. hazy, hot, humid friday. highs near 100. over the weekend less humid and cooler. both days saturday and sunday partly cloudy a slight chance of right? right. stand by. that s your latest weather. thank you very much. the high profile murder case against drew peterson could be in jeopardy following a ruling. the illinois police sergeant is charge in the death of his third wife. kevin tibbles is live in chicago with details on that. kevin, what happen? a big blow to the prosecution in this case which had hoped to use a new illinois law allowing hearsay evidence to be use in court. now much of that evidence cannot be used against drew peterson. drew peterson has been behind bars since 2009, awaiting trial in connection of the death of his third wife, kathleen salvio. she was found in a bathtub with no water, while her death was ruled accidental, her body was exhumed and peterson arrested for murder. the appellate court has barred certain evidence from the upcoming trial. some legal experts speculate it may not be able to go forward. very disappointed out of our court system, makes a mockery out of everything that everybody stands for. peterson grabbed national headlines when his fourth wife, stacy, vanish in 2007. he even appeared on the today show proclaiming he had nothing to do with either case. can you look me straight in the eye and tell me you had nothing to do with the death of his third wife, kathy, or the disappearance of the fourth wife, stacy. i had nothing co-with either of those incidents. in 2009, illinois passed a law allowing for hearsay in a case where witnesses have been silenced. it was dubbed a drew law. but the latest ruling prohibits some of the hearsay evidence from being used against him, including statements salvio made against drew peterson to kill her. this looks like the casey anthony case, in which everyone s prior beliefs, not the evidence, tells them there s something wrong here. he s thrilled with the ruling. word-for-word was, that s great. it s about time. he wants to get to trial, he wants to get it over with. throughout, he never appears to shy away from publicity, peterson is planning to play in a movie star rob lowe as peterson. sure rob lowe isn t doing this for free. i m sure lifetime isn t giving away the advertising time in the show. drew wants money. he s entitled to it. that s the american way. prosecutors in the case say they strongly disagree with the appellate court s decision. there s no word of whether they planned a further appeal. drew peterson could go to trial as early as september. matt? ken tibbleses in chicago. kevin, thank you very much. 18 after the hour. here s ann. thanks. alex trebek, long-time host of the quiz show, jeopardy will have surgery tomorrow after chasing a burglar out of his hotel room. good morning. a terrifying thought for anyone to wake up and find someone going through their belongin belongings. this time the victim was alex trebek who was able to outsmart the burglar. what entered the country with bolivia? chile. sorry, it s peru. alex trebek had all of the answers as he hosted the geographic bee. in a san francisco hotel room, he found himself in a bit of jeopardy . i woke up, saw a figure in our bedroom hotel room. thought i was dreaming. i realized immediately someone had been in the room. i put on my underwear and ran down the hall to see if i could find her. reporter: he did find her. when he got to her, he, well, quizzed her. she came out of the room where the ice machine is. and i said, what were you doing in the room. i wasn t in your room. what were you doing up there? i was visiting friend. i said, no you weren t. reporter: he was quick thinking but not as quick on his feet. he ended up on crutches after rupturing his achilles tendon after chasing the culprit. i crashed down but i hobbled back to the phone and informed security. reporter: police arrested 56-year-old lucinda moyers and charged her with burglary. he got most of the belongings back except some cash and a piece of jewelry. trebek hosted jeopardy since 1984, received an emmy award for lifetime achievement. and for game show host turned crime fighter, the correct response is who is alex trebek . eight rounds in the championships. true to his reputation, the unflappable host fought through the pain using the podium to hide his injuries. you re going to be tempted to blurt out responses. if you do,ly have to chase you out. lucinda moyers told a local station that she was arrested based on her record and because trebek is a celebrity. she s still in jail and she will have a court appearance later today. as for trebek, the 71-year-old is having surgery tomorrow and will be in a cast for six weeks. ann? thank you so much. a great sense of humor. give that man a cape, right? exactly. i could have lived the entire rest of my life without knowing he sleeps in the nude. that s fine. that s what you took away? got stuck right there in that part of the story. can t remove it from the brain. it s in there. what is, what is wrong with that ? we wish him the best with a surgery and speedy recovery. that s right. we have a lot to talk about. including we have the crime novel, the single mother who spent seven months behind bars after she was framed by her exboyfriend for a crime she didn t commit. the story in a live interview, but first this, not sure what that s about. coming up, air brush outrage. why ads are being banned in great britain. the woman who owns 1200 pairs of shoes. we re going get a close look at them and meet her. but first, get your news and weather. good morning. it s 7:26 on thursday, 28th of july. i m joe krebs. in the news4 today, the long, unhappy saga is over. espn reports that the redskins are agreed to trade albert haynesworth to the patriots. the redskins will get a fifth-round draft pick in 2013. haynesworth sign $100 million deal with the skins in 2009 and it s been paid $41 million of that. we ll take a break and look at weather and traffic. beautiful summer morning. clouds coming in and it has turned humid. we re in the 60s, near 70. later today low 90s, cloudiness, turning more humid. hazy, hot, humid tomorrow, up near 100. cooler, less humid for the weekend. big delays on the beltway starting out in maryland, outer loop, slow from new hampshire avenue towards georgia avenue. and inner loop in virginia, delays from 95 as you make your way towards route 50. another update in 25 minutes. back to the it is 7:30 on a thursday morning. july 28, 2011. people out on the plaza this morning. lenny and all of his friends enjoying the pretty morning here in new york. by the way, supposed to stick around for 24 more hours. free for a live concert and one of the most popular rock bands for a long time, talking about journey on the plaza tomorrow morning. studio 1-a, matt lauer with ann curry. coming up, when it comes to air brushing photographs, how much is too much? that s the question we ll be addressing this morning. these ad campaigns featuring julia roberts and christie turlington have been banned in europe and some complaints. why people are complaining after this. also, the danger of not gaining enough weight during pregnancy. are images of celebrities looking trim and fit while expecting putting too much pressure on the average woman. details on that story as well. and a lot of people love their shoes. but we found one woman who takes her obsession to a whole new level. she owns, get this, 1200 pairs of shoes. she has to have three closets just to keep them all. we re going to get to meet her and we ll look at her shoes coming up this morning. a little out of control. no question. a woman who was arrest in jail for seven months for a series of crimes prosecutors now say she did not commit. we re going to talk to her exclusively in a moment. but first, natalie has her story. good morning again. good morning, matt. it s something out of a crime novel. simonea was driving along when police pulled her over, cuffed her, and put her behind bars. she was charged with carrying out a series of armed robberies and police say they had a mountain of evidence against her. it is unreal. you do not think that things like this happen in real life. reporter: simona said what happened to her is unimaginable. it started five years ago when she started dating this man, gary rambertan. he seemed like a genuinely good person. never did i think that he was capable of anything like this. she says the relationship started to get rocky, but they stayed together. he began staying at her home. eventually she asked him to leave, but says he refused. on march 8, 2009, she said he attacked and raped her at home. he was arrested and released on bail pending trial. but soon after, prosecutors say he started plotting an elaborate scheme against her. they say he recruited people to pose as robbery victims, showing them her photo, pictures of her jeep cherokee, and her license plate so they could give details to police. prosecutors say the web of lies was so detailed it all pointed to simona as a suspect. i m driving along. the next thing i m being asked to step out of the car and handcuffed me. no explanation whatsoever. literally, i thought i was going to drop dead right there. she insisted she was innocent, she said she had an alibi. surveillance photos that placed her at a connecticut casino at the time of one of the robberies. the only thing that i thought could have saved me didn t. reporter: she spent seven months in jail, and then in december of 2010, the break that changed everything. prosecutors say a police informant called in a tip that pointed to jerry rambertan. investigators say they linked calls to his cell phone to people who say they were robbery victims. those supposed victims, prosecutors say, eventually confessed to police. so happy, so excited. but at the same time, i couldn t help but to be angry. charges were dropped and police arrested rambertan. he s in jail charged with rape, conspiracy, and tampering with a witness. he s pleading not guilty of all charges. jerry is not guilty of raping simona. he s innocent. while he was fighting the rape charges, his money disappeared from his account. and we believe that we re able to show that simona is the one that took the funds. reporter: as for the setup, the lawyers say other people were out to get her. other people who were involved were looking to have simona arrested because they had financial problems with simona. they had a beef with her. they were the ones that indicated that they would get her back for what she did to them. reporter: the case is getting national attention. dan baleski has followed it from the beginning. one of the glaring lessons of this is reliance only on witness testimony can be very, very dangerous in a criminal case. witnesses can lie, witnesses can concoct elaborate stories. even police can be duped. reporter: and prosecutors say two of the people rambrattan hired to pose as the victims confessed to making up stories. meanwhile, his trial will begin in october. matt? thank you very much. simona is with us now exclusively along with her attorney, nick. good morning to both of you. good morning. when you were living with this guy, jerry, you had concerns about him. you were concerned about his personality. some of the stories he told you didn t add up. is that accurate? yeah. i just thought that he was i thought he lied a lot. he didn t see any other harm in him though, you know? you didn t think he was dangerous. you just thought he was someone who stretched the truth? exactly. after the alleged rape took place and he was released on bail, you must have been terrified. i was, i couldn t go anywhere at all. and i couldn t leave the restaurant lapt and i had to be very careful because soon after he got released, i get visits, friends of his, people that we doet know would visit me at my restaurant asking me to drop charges against him. being lied to you. yes. yes. the day you re arrested. you re driving in your car, you re pulled over. police stopped you and said uh you know you did it, admit it? did you know what it was. when they arrested me, they didn t say anything. nothing was explained at all. they asked me to step out of the car and they needed to take me for some questioning. and that s it. you end up in jail and spend quite a long time in there, you have a daughter. she s 12 or 11 at the time? she was 12. she s 13 now. so you re separated from your daughter, and you re sitting there in the jail which had to be an experience i can t imagine, you have a strong suspicion that this former boyfriend is somehow responsible for what you re going through. i knew from the day i was arrested because there s no other reason why i would be sitting through. i didn t do anything to be sitting there. you never committed a crime before. no. you re not the type to pull off an armed robbery, much less a series of armed robberies. exactly. so when you talked to the police, and say, look, i ve been framed. they hear that every single day from everyone in jail. what was the reaction? i think they thought i was just trying to blame it on him. i really did it and i was being a drama queen. that s the reaction i got. it was totally ignored. they looked at me like i was crazy. no presumption of innocence in your opinion in your case? no. nick, i m trying to figure out how this could have happened. there was evidence. there was evidence that showed that she was actually somewhere else during the time one of the robberies occurred. there was a kind of grainy surveillance video that showed them at a casino. why was this not enough to convince the police that this was wrong. so much more than that. this was no brilliant plan. this was this was a man who was being prosecuted for raping her, a history of impersonating police officers which they knew about. and from the first daisy mona w day, simona was telling them, this guy did this. we see it all the time. police have tunnel vision. prosecutors have tunnel vision. once they lock on, it s tough to get them off of it. if they had looked at all, they would have seen, this couldn t be true. simona, you re the one that s sitting out of jail and free. he s the one sitting behind bars awaiting trial on a slew of charges. are you confident he ll now be convict? i hope so. but you don t have much faith in the justice system anymore, do you? how could i? i ve been sitting in jail for seven months and telling them who was behind this from day one. they didn t listen. seven months away from her daughter, a loss of a job. i think your house to go to foreclosure? yeah. how did she get we say where do you go to get your reputation back. that and where does she go to get her life back? it s going be difficult. we re planning on filing civil rights claims in the fall. we re looking at the case very carefully and we re going to do our best to help her get her life back together. guys, thank you both very 7:39. let s get a check of the weather from al. today s weather brought to you by tropicana. good morning, everybody. we have a nice group here. where are you from? south carolina. very good. let s check your weather, see what south carolina s weather and everybody else. good news is, you re not going to see a lot of heat. but from dallas up to chicago, we ve got heat watches, warnings and advisories as the heat wave starts to spread again. 103 in dodge city. 104 in dallas. 27 days of 100-plus reading. nashville, music city, up to 100. spread out, looking at temperatures in the 100s in the southwest. 60 and 70s along the pacific northwest coast. showers through western new york. strong storms possible from extreme northwestern pennsylvania all the way into nebraska. sunshine in the pacific northwest. gorgeous day today. portland, oregon, looking for sunny skies and a high of 81. that s what s go on around the country, here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. a soft summer morning, temperatures are pleasant now. we re in the 60s to near 70 throughout most of the region. reagan national 79. it will get more humid as the day progresses, with cloudiness around as well. afternoon highs climbing into the low 90s. and then tomorrow, hazy, hot, humid. highs reaching near 100 during afternoon. over the weekend, saturday and sunday, partly cloudy both days, less humid. settled into next week. where are you guys from? nebraska. it s nebraska day today. that s right. don t forget, you can get your weather any time of the day or night on weather.com, on looib on-line or the weather channel on cable. how to protect your money if the country s credit rating is downgraded. and the woman who owns 1200 pairs of shoes. 1200. but first, these messages. money, money, money back now at 7:44. surviving a possible downgrade as lawmakers wrangle over the debt ceiling, wall street is watching stocks plunge on tuesday with the dow falling 200 points. the s&p dropped 27 points, and the nasdaq tumbled 75 points. the worst day in five months. what do you need to do to protect your investments? jean chatzky is here to help us out. good morning. nice to see you. even if washington comes up with the deal, the u.s. credit rating is still likely to be downgraded. it s because the underlying problem here is the deficit. s&p basically said we need to see $4 trillion on the table in order to make us feel more stable, make us feel like the u.s. does deserve the triple a rating it has. neither plan has that money. the bottom line is the indecision has hurt the markets and based on this, it s likely to hurt the economy. the question then comes what does this mean for everyday people? what should we be doing? you have to think about the country like a person whose credit score goes down. when the credit score goes down, it costs you more to borrow money. it costs more to borrow money, there s a trickle down effect. it costs companies and individuals. people and companies will have less money to hire, less money to spend. that s good for the economy overall. we want to protect our money. let s talk about the categories step-by-step. number one, what do we do about the investments if you re elderly or you need your hands on short-term cash. the key thing is the short-term cash. short-term cash, the money that you need in the next 6 to 12 months doesn t belong in the market. it never belong in the market. it seneeds to be in cash in saf havens. that s true for the retirees that need that money to live on. you need to move it. mortgages? mortgages are tied pretty directly to the ten-year treasury. they haven t popped yet in any great degree. they re likely to go up by a half to a full percentage point. if you re refinancing, if you re buying, you want to lock in. credit cards? what do you do there? pay down your credit card debt. again, there s a tie between these treasury rates and credit card underlying rates. if one goes up, the other is likely to follow. pay down your debt. you ll have to pay more eventually. student loans? max out your federal loans before heading to private loans because private loans are the ones most likely to suffer from this. okay. could this affect our purchasing power? absolutely. an effect on the dollar, so anything that s produced overseas may get more expensive, just another signal to americans that they have to watch their budget in times like this. you come up with a little good news. it might not last forever? the volatility is the issue here. the fear is the issue here. if they get a plan, if they get results sooner rather than later, things should stabilize. it could take months or even years to for that credit rating to come back. jean chatzky. always good to talk to you. thank you for your perspective. sure. coming up, the controversy over the makeup ad featuring julia roberts and christie turlington. why they re now banned in britain after this. 6 we re back now at 7:50 with ads featuring julia roberts and christy turlington now banned by britain s advertising standards agency. not because they re offensive or because they re deemed overly air brushed. christy turlington ad that was banned too. a liberal member of parliament who says these images are inappropriate because there s excessive air brushing and digital manipulation. because they re advertising prubl products that are supposed to erase flaws, create flawless skin. if they re overly air brushed, actually it s not truth in advertising. that s what they say. on the basis of the evidence we ve received, we couldn t accurate expect what the product could achieve. we need one of those too. i do too. advertising standards authority. air brush. you re a kid. you have a track and all the toys they did all of this stuff and they didn t. oh, i know. exactly. by the way, the ridiculous part of this, julia roberts and christy turlington. beautiful women. aging amazingly well. if we could all look like that, right? yeah. no. well don t take a shot at me now. how about we zoom in. we by the way, earlier we we showed you the footage of the praying mantis on a pitcher in baseball and he freaked out. it reminds us of our favorite video of of a former anchor for nbc affiliate who had a gecko or a lizard jump on him. i think michael scott. not telling you what oh! more from your local news. @w@7@g@ @7@7@g@g@g@g@g@g@ @7 good morning. time right now 7:56 on this thursday. it s the 28th day of july. 78 degrees in the nation s capital. red skins training camp begins today but you will not see albert haynesworth out there. espn reporting the skins have traded the lineman to the new england patriots for a fifth-round draft pick in 2013. metro has announced it will replace the escalators at the bethesda metro station, but be patient. the project isn t expected to begin until 2014. also plans to replaces ka laters at the pentagon and dupont [ kimberly ] when i was 19, i found myself alone with two children and no way to support them. people told me i wasn t going to do anything. and i just decided i have more to offer than that. i put myself through nursing school, and then i decided to go get a doctorate degree. university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people s lives. my name is dr. kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. good morning. we re in the 70s now, with sunshine. but later today cloudiness. highs climbing into the low 90s, more humid. hazy, hot, humid on friday. saturday and sunday surgeoner turning less humid. highs 90s. we have an accident on new hampshire avenue at ednor roadblocking lanes on new hampshire avenue. police is on the scene, fire is on the scene, as well as ambulance. while come back in 25 minutes with another update. joe, back to you. thanks. now become to the today show after this 8:00 now on this thursday morning, july 28, 2011. we re going to in the plaza. saying hi to their friends and family back home. tomorrow, this place will be rocking with the sounds of a band, journey will perform live here on the plaza. and we re very excited about that. meantime, i m ann curry with matt lauer and al roker. talking about when you re pregnant. there s a concern about the transition and how they look in their bodies. millions of women, of course, get pregnant and have to deal with this issue. now the question is, are celebrities who sport a baby bump, are they perhaps sending a dangerous message to average women. that coming up. most of us would love to have three roomy closets. well what if you had three closets who were rooms. this woman she got, just for shoes, three closets, 1200 pair of shoes. she s got so many pairs of shoes, she doesn t even remember buying some of them. we re going to meet her just ahead. also ahead, a quick follow-up to a story we brought you yesterday. frank rodriguez, a father of four from texas who has been on the sex offender s registry since he was 19 years old. the reason back then when he was 19 and his future wife was only 15, they had sex. it landed him on the sex offenders registry where he s now been for 15 years. well, they talked about how that has ruined his life over these past 15 years. so after the segment, we asked you to weigh in, should frank rodriguez be labeled as a sex offender? we got 53,000 people responding on our website. and here are the results. 93% of you said frank should not be labeled a sex offender. 4% said yes. 93.5% said no. and just to remind people, this affects it ability to find a job. how people feel about him. he had to register when he went on family vacations. it s been a dramatic it s had a dramatic impact on his life. is there anything that could change this? there s a law that s being considered to be change in texas that might actually allow him to petition to be removed from that list. so we ll be following the story. a story in progress. get a check of the top stories. natalie is at the newsdesk, hey, natalie. good morning, matt, al, good morning, everyone. the house is scheduled to vote on john boehner s plan to raise the debt limit and prevent a government default next week. boehner scolded republicans to get in line behind the plan which he quickly reworked to increase spending cuts. democrats and president obama said boehner s plan doesn t stand a chance. the eyes of texas are on tropical storm don as it moves through the gulf of mexico and could bring some welcome rain to the drought-stricken lone star state. it s expected to make landfall in texas tomorrow. police in the suburb of washington, d.c. are warning young women to be on alert at shopping malls after a series of attacks. nbc s justice correspondent pete williams has more. pete, good morning? natalie, police here in fairfax county, virginia say they re looking for a man who has struck five times in the past five months, slashing at young women with a knife or a razor blade while they shop. the latest in a bizarre series of attacks came just this week. police say an 18-year-old woman was shopping at this mall in northern virginia on monday when she felt a sharp pain. she realized there was bleeding. someone snatched her, and caused about an inch and a half wound in her rearend. investigators say they believe the man seen in these surveillance photos is responsible for monday s attack and at least four others in the same area of northern virginia since february, all at popular retail stores. he s described as a heavy set latino man in his late 20s. the gentleman who has been trying to take advantage of them when he has an opportunity. and it s certainly very, very unique situation and someone is out there doing that. reporter: so far, the attacks have produced superficial wounds. the victims have been in the late teens and early 20s. the attacker has struck in the late afternoon or evening when the stores are more likely to be busy, making it easier to melt away in to the crowd, natalie? pete williams in fairfax, hopefully they catch that guy, thank you. foreclosure activity slowed down in the largest metropolitan areas in the first half of the year. realty track says banks are taking longer to move against homeowners behind on their mortgages. and a look at what s trending today. a quick roundup on what has you talking on-line. the internet has a new action hero. deputy host alex trebek tore his achilles tendon while chasing down a female burglar from his san francisco hotel room. he faces surgery tomorrow. and some information you didn t need to know about trebek. the host admits he had to put on his underwear early wednesday before that chase. the white house indulged in a classic internet prank known as rick rolling on tuesday. it had a tweet about a boring press conference that redirected it to a video of never going to give you up. and the viral video has a new youtube hit of their own. the dance troup to create this mind bending music video for their song, all is not lost. i could watch that one all day. it s 8:06 right now. go outside for a check of the weather from al. thanks so much. what s your name? marisa. where are you from? cleveland. all right. way to go. happy birthday, ladies. let s check your forecast. we ll show you for today, we are looking at tropical storm don. named after don nash, our big kahuna in the control room. wins 40 miles per hour moving west-northwest 10 miles per hour. making its way on shore early saturday as a medium tropical storm, 60-mile-per-hour winds, may bring 2 to 3 inches of rain. showers today through the gulf coast. strong storms possible from the dakotas back into western pennsylvania and western new york. beautiful in the pacific northwest. sunshine, mid-70s to low 80s. 107 in phoenix, arizona. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. sunshine, but it is turning more humid here on this thursday. right now we re in the 70s. around most of the region. right now 81 reagan national. 80 near the bay. later today with cloudiness around we ll climb into the low 90s, more humidity. hazy, hot, humid on friday, near 100 during the afternoon. over the weekend, turning less humid. afternoon highs low 90s, partly cloudy, settle into next week. and that s your latest weather. ann? thank you so much. you think you have a lot of shoe? this morning, coming up, we re going to meet a woman who has 1200 pairs. that s right. that s back after this. 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give yourself a year that s good information for you, mara, as i know you re expecting your own bundle of joy. thank you. dr. katherine bergdorf is the reproductive psychologist and nancy schneiderman is nbc s chief medical editor. good morning to both of you. biggest risk of gaining too little while pregnant. you starve your fetus. not good for the baby. overeating and undereating are both bad. at a time we re talking about africa s greatest famine in 60 years, i find it vulgar, the whole idea of thinking your body is deformed while you re pregnant. do you agree there s unrealistic standard being set by celebrities. absolutely. people want healthy babies. you have to be a healthy mom to have a healthy baby. that means maintaining a healthy weight. the amount of weight you should have is between 25 and 30 pounds. some women may gain 15 to 20 pounds if they re light build. some women gain more. i gained 40 pounds with each pregnancy. there are norms per woman. but the the average is 25 to 30 pounds. you want to stay healthy. we want to exercise. you can exercise all the way through pregnancy. how much is too much? depends on your build, your genetics. but you can talk to your doctor about what s appropriate for you and you want to stay within a range that makes sense. if you re losing too much or gaining too much, like you said, both are issues. but you know if you already run 45 minutes a day, keep running 45 minutes a day. but don t start adding another aerobics class and this and that. you want to counter your your appetite or you think you should only gain seven or eight pounds. but exercise during pregnancy is normal, healthy, and frankly good for you. how you think about it is the key. you have disordered thoughts about what you re eating and is your body image distorted. if you feel obsessed about how you look. i don t look thin enough or i look fat, talk to somebody about this. what s crazy about this. julia roberts and the fact she gets air brushed and women during pregnancy think their bodies are deformed. we ve become cuckoo about hating our bodies. pregnancy should be nine months of root beer floats and bliss. this is an upper east side white girl obnoxious problem. strong statements. it s irritating, we want perfect babies, perfect lives, i find the whole thing vulgar. we can t glamorize a lethal psychiatric disorder. anorexia and bulimia, i have women in my practice who vomit throughout their pregnancies to maintain weight. that s not healthy. pregnancy should be one of the most glorious times. celebrated. they re not liking the segment. so let s get real. 8:26 is your time on this thursday, july 28, 2011. breaking news right now along new hampshire avenue in montgomery county. right now traffic is closed in both directions because of a deadly accident. let s go right to danella sealock with a look at roads. good morning. good morning. this is really going to affect your commute this morning on new hampshire avenue. right here at ednor, the police have it blocked off a fatal accident. police are there, ambulance are there, fire s there. if you re traveling southbound new hampshire avenue you re diverted on to route 108, make a right, then a left on route 182. back to you, eun. thanks so much. a quick break. forecast is next. empty nest, new kitchen, new us? who are we? chic, modern, daring dinner-party hosts. that sounds dangerous, maybe we re more the tradiotional sunday brunch set? i ll expect slippers and a cocktail to be ready when i get home from work. point taken. how about. peaceful, quiet cottage in the country folk? now that s us. save up to 20% on every kitchen style, now until august 21st at ikea, the life improvement store. beautiful summer morning under way. we ve had humidity increase overnight. it will be increasing as the day progresses. afternoon highs climbing to the low 90s. we re in the 70s now. and it will be getting more humid. hazy, hot, humid on friday. saturday and sunday, less humid and cooler. partly cloudy both days and into next week. more settled weather on the way, near 90, tuesday and wednesday. thanks, tom. more ne any way you want it that s the way you need it 8:30 now on a thursday morning. the 28th day of july, 2011. picture-perfect day here in new york city. keeping our fingers crossed we get another one just like this tomorrow morning. it on the plaza to enjoy the music of journey under sunny skie skies. enjoying it? also okay. and your 90 pair of shoes. matt lauer along with ann curry, natalie morales and al roker. tasty treats, the one and only martha stewart. it s one of the best things about summer. a beautiful berry pie. and who else but martha stewart knows how to make that crust, how we delight our families. going to taste it ourselves coming up. i know, pie. great movies coming out right now. but coming up, movie reviews from a mom s perspective to see which releases are shelling out for tickets and a babysitter. and talk about what the kid actually might sit through. use credit cards like airline miles, cash back purchases. you know that a lot of credit cards have hidden charges that you don t know about? we re going to reveal those to you in a little bit. well, good. the weather forecast, mr. roker. let s show you what you ve got. coming up for more today, a list of strong storms from western new york all the way back to central plains. beautiful in the pacific northwest. sunshine at temperatures in the low 80s. rain along the gulf coast. then for tomorrow, we ve got a slight risk of strong storms in the northeast. also through the central plains. tropical storm don will approach the gulf coast, bringing rain there. sizzling weather elsewhere in texas. monsoonal moisture through the southwest. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. gorgeous summer day under way. good morning. turned more humid. temperatures around the region in the 70s, most areas. near 80 in washington and by the bay. today, increasing clouds, temperatures climbing into the low 90s by midafternoon, a hazy, hot, humid day on friday. over the weekend turning less humid and cooler. partly cloud yo both saturday and sunday. here s look into next week. look likes more settled weather on the way. a small chance of a few thunder showers tuesday evening. highs near 90 by then. 24 hours a day. get your weather on weather.com or on the weather channel on cable. let s go to uncle willie in dc. summertime and living is easy. every cat fish is delicious. happy birthday. i threw that in. and we have a birthday salute as the jam jar spins about. if you will, please, take a look. this is albert peterson, west windsor, new jersey. 100 years old. loves all sorts of current activities. keeps up and watches meet the press,he s willing to do things and accept challenges. that s good, and change goes along with it. ethel aspey of carmichaels, pennsylvania, 100 years old today. loves to watch the food network and tries to cook all of the recipes they have. takes a lot of skill to do that. george tretter of rockville, maryland. 100 years old today. and enjoys the tv and will celebrate the 75th anniversary with the sweetheart. how about that? mary hamilton, richmond, virginia, 104 years old. accomplished wonderful artist they tell me. and an average golfer. can t beat that. and omer johnson of russellville, alabama, 100 years old today. just brought a brand new tractor because he could help pick watermelons. they are heavy, pal, i know that story. and margaret chalmers from hyde park, massachusetts. 108. and enjoys gardening, croch crocheting, and making all sorts of wonderful books of braille for the blind. that s it, that s all. all right, thanks so much. coming up, how to make the perfect pie with martha stewart. that s coming up. but first this, is today on nbc. this morning on martha on today, it s all about pies. they are a great way to use summer s freshest fruit. martha is here to show us how to make one kind of excuse me, dough, that will open the door to crimping, cutting, and crumbling the perfect crust. it s straight from the pages of everyday food. good morning. good morning. how many pair of shoes do you own? not enough, obviously. i wear the same shoes for years. so what are we doing today? why is this one kind of dough so important? it s the perfect pie crust. it s a simple recipe. and it will be on your website. and rolling it out, making unusual pretty crust. i think a pie should be pretty. it should be delicious. it should be fresh. it should be golden brown. and flavorful. do you always make your pies? do you go buy them at the supermarket. never. it s so easy to make a pie. so easy. you ve never done a jiffy crust from the supermarket. it takes just as long to make a pie. it takes 15 seconds in the foot processor. all right, cool. we made the pie crust, we chilled it, we rolled it. this is a strawberry pie for you. and we ve cut the crust, rolled it out, just fit the pie. and, look, you can use a pastry chip like that and make little cutouts. and you have to pick these out with a are the cutouts only for aesthetic reasons? or do they help the pie vent a little also. it lets the steam come out and it s it s pretty. all right, so now you take this and you put it on top of it? carefully lift. and you can do we ll do a lattice too. so you put that on. nicely done, mr. lauer. look at you. look at that. and then you have to what do you do with the edges? crimp you have to match the edges. crumple it up a little bit. press down with your thumbs. you do that? i ll do that. when it comes to the filling, there s three ingredients, fruit, sugar, or something to thicken it. flour or corn starch. depending on what you like. you ll practice and you ll know. this is a simple one. this is a crumble pie. okay? i ll show you how to crimp. so you can do yours. and use your first two fingers or these two fingers. these two fingers. thumb and forefinger. thumb and forefinger. you can press like this. you can use your other thumb to press in. i see. that s simple. see how you re doing it? yes, perfect. yea, terrific. and it does some people s fingers are too little. matt s are perfect. you can do your little peach pie. you re just crimping the edge. this is only for style, the difference. yeah, it s pretty. these are all of the different toppings. if you wadon t want to do that,y mom use add fork. look how pretty that was? you wash this right away? oh, yes. after you do your pretty crimping or i ll just finish crimping, use an egg wash that is one egg mixed with either water or milk. do it on top of this one also? you bet, do that with a brush. and then, sprinkle it with with sanding sugar. what is sanding sugar? it s a little coarser, shiny sugar. do you use regular sugar? you can. it will give it a taste. you get a sparkle. a bling. okay. get that to the hot oven. these fruit pies should bake at 375 to 425 and they should bubble in the center. when that s bubbling in the center, 45 minutes or so. right. then the pie is done. you have to crimp that. i will crimp that. it s good. but you have a crumble topping that this crumble topping. what s in there? light brown sugar, flour, butter, equal partings. interesting that really everything you re using is pretty simple in termings of s ingredients. that has to be. you flay the edge. too the lattice top is the i mixed my cherries. all your cherries are mixed. a tablespoon of sugar and a spa tablespoon of flower. to thicken. you use your cutter. do you have your cutter. you can use a ruler to cut this. if you get expert at it, you do it free hand. it s a little bit over a half an inch? a half an inch, yeah. then you lay these on. okay? but then you have to weave. you lift each one as you go in and out of it. do it this way. i messed up. weave it. it looks pretty when it s woven. you lift up. put it under there. then yeah. and if you have a child who s really adept in the kitchen, this is a fun thing for a child to do. they re laughing at us. who are they laughing at? i don t have the patience for that. i would go with this one. but it looks pretty. then to finish this one off, you use your thumbs to press down each of the la tis strips, okay? do you cut the excess off? then you this is what i love. i hold the pie up like that and you cut off like this. see how neat that is? that s professionally done. you egg wash the top of that too? you egg wash the top. but you have to crimp to make it that doesn t look so pretty. i would crimp this like that. is that pretty? go down and take a look at some of it here. yeah. this is like a yeah, good job. you did. thank you so much, martha. yea, yahoo!. perfect. don t put those on our beautiful table. okay, sorry. real quick. okay, this is a nectarine crumble pie. this is a blackberry pie with a cutout top. gorgeous. a yellow plum gallet. gorgeous. raspberry tart, tarts, pies, open faced, closed, they re delicious and perfect for summertime. we re all salivating. we wish you a happy birthday. yes, next week. don t wish me yet. next week. happy birthday. put this on next week. we want to crown you queen i ll wear this next week. happy birthday. no you won t. up next, reviews of the latest hollywood releases from a mom s perspective. but first this, is today on nbc. [ 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. today ice today s two moms and a movie is brought to you by windows 7. all you really need for college. back now for a special series, two moms and a movie. we get movie reviews from a mom s perspective, which new releases, rather, are worth getting a babysitter for. which ones will your kids sit through? takes from alison bell, film critic for more magazine and comedian carrie riley. good morning, guys. we have three movies, crazy stupid love, cowboys & aliens. and the mursmurf movie . my thought was the trailers were misleading. the trailer, even the poster, you go into it thinking it s going to be a raunchy r-rated sex romp. like the 40-year virgin. it wasn t. it s a romantic comedy of people over 40 with kids in a marriage. it s just misleading. but this is this is not a criticism of the advertising. let s talk about the movie. no, the advertisinadvertisin. the movie is okay. i like steve carell. there are two story lines i could have cared less about. i thought they should have wrapped it up earlier. i m right to the party about ryan gosling and how hot he is. i would like to whole movie to be about him and emma stone. he s something else. he is something else. he s terrific. but this has got such a great cast wi cast. i m not one of the moms that weighed in. i loved this. the babysitter story. it was just the wrapping up at the end. it feels all sitcom predictable. i would recommend seeing it with your girlfriends. i wasn t disappointed. you can t bring your husband? for you, you can? he owns a business and oh, no. getting back together. okay. without giving it away. i don t know. one thumbs down, one thumbs up. moving on, talking about cowboys & aliens. this is a story with daniel greg and harrison ford. my husband looks like that, that s why. ha! beyond the obvious, what would you love about the movie or hate about it? you want to go? i loved it. first of all, it s james bond in chaps. what is better than that. he looks good. he had his shirt off the whole time, which he earned every penny in that paycheck. but in poor harrison ford. like he would have had that hot role like 20 years ago. but i applaud harrison ford. he did great. he was like indiana jones and hans solo. he was great. they play off of the other movie roles in a way that you could love the character but they were new character earles. personally, i could have done it without the aliens. i loved the aliens. i like the mix of it. you like cowboys and aliens. no, i love the cowboy general regenre. i love the aliens. very serious. they looked great. they re aliens, they re not supposed to look great. i didn t think the special effects were amazing. and then the inside of the spaceship looked like a b movie set. okay. it s a huge hit. not going to say thumbs down? thumbs up? thumbs up. thumbs up for harrison and daniel. i was scared. i was actually scared. moving on, the last movie this morning, the smurfs movie. it s so good! we went with our kids last night. one of mine hid under the seat from gargumel. i know how to swear in smurf. you know how? son of a smurf? smurf you! their own world. the smurfs are protruding. there s a lot of information to be learned. perfect for young kids. it really is. cowboys & aliens, not perfect for young kids. no. no. smurfs should be 5 and up. there you go, 5 and up. thank you so much for both of you. great advice. and still to come this morning, how to stay cool and stylish in this summer heat. but first this, is today on nbc. i love this job. you tell me what to see. we re back at 8:51. and this morning on leonard s look, mike leonard learns the fine art of being a statue. everywhere i go i will always know if the early bird truly does catch the worm, then why would anybody believe all good things come to those who wait? if time really is money, then what s in it for those who stop to smell the roses? and are we supposed to hit the ground running? or hold our horses? go for broke? or savor the moment? no wonder we re stressed, giving all of the conflicted advice on how to live our lives to the full els. in chicago, even the statues send mixed messages. how many times have we been told the best way to earn a buck is by showing some hustle, aggressiveness, willingness to pound the pavement and look busy. that might be true in most cases but not to trish rowland or her mentor harold lee who work opposite sides of downtown chicago s main thoroughfare, michigan avenue. this is the job. it s how i make my living. reporter: and this is how one turns doing nothing in to an art form. the art of being a statue. reporter: art, of course, demands some serious pondering. so cue the ponderers. notice the broke neoclassical man wrist influence and how suddenly it toys with the psychology of our inner most fears. yeah, everything you do in life is psychology. reporter: now examine the artistic technique and how it speaks to our most basic and primal fizz logical needs. i only let myself take a deep breath once every ten minutes, that s really hard. a great art critic needs time to probe for what is profound and meaningful, but, due to the extreme superficiality of my boss, who will go nameless, i have three minutes until the bell tolls on this story. let s deal with the basics, harold, in your 26 years as a statue, what can you tell us about the economic benefit package? i do make some good money. i made $300 sunday, 6 1/2 hours, sometimes i ll make $30. reporter: trish, could you have foreseen working as a statue prior to the elimination of your corporate job a few years back? never, no. but you run across things in life and you should always try new things because you never know what you ll run into that you love and find a new career. reporter: a stable career offering steady work, lots of idle time, and the freedom to break for lunch when ever the mood hits, a situation that takes some getting used to. once upon a time, it was the career that led to the statue, now it s the other way around. for most of recorded history, statues stay put. now they go home at night. with this still a bit alarming to some commuters. still had this myself. reporter: yeah, well, i guess it s better to be safe than sorry, except when nothing ventured means nothing gained. for today, mike leonard, nbc news, chicago. i wonder if they miss a spot when they re putting on that silver paint. i can t get over the fact that they don t breathe swallow, breathe, take a deep breath. take a deep breath. goes on in europe, right? yeah. it kind of answers your inner most need to sort of stare at people. we have the person who does it in the statue of liberty also on a hot day. yeah. just ahead, the hidden perks you re not taking advantage of when it comes to your credit 8:56 is your time now on this thursday, july 28th, 2011. good morning, i m eun yang. a deadly accident in montgomery county causing major delays right now. let s go straight to danella sealock with a look at traffic. good morning. good morning. the fatal accident occurred on new hampshire avenue south of ednor road, causing significant delays for you. closures on new hampshire avenue in both directions. travel on new hampshire avenue southbound you want to make a route on route 108 and a left on route 182. if you re traveling northbound, left on norbeck, right on norwood, left on route 108. parents taking your children to camp sunshine you re being directed to route 198. avoid new hampshire avenue. thank you. it is now 8:56. good morning. temperatures around the region now heating up. we re around 80 degrees throughout much of the area. right now reagan national s at 82. increasing clouds on tap for the rest of the day today. we ll have also increasing humidity, highs low 90s. hot and humid tomorrow. over the weekend, partly cloudy saturday and sunday. highs in the low 90s both day. first part of next week, settled weather continues. highs near 90 tuesday and wednesday. more news, weather and traffic for you in 25 minu back to today on thursday morning. it s 28th day of july, 2011. nice day here in new york city. maybe a little bit more humid than it has been in the last day or so. but that s okay. we re not going to whine. yes, we will. we ll whine a little bit. anyway, i m matt lauer along with ann curry, savannah guthrie, and al roker. how is it that complaining? alex trebek. that s right. yes. we re going to get into that. yes. meanwhile, coming up in a little while, the power professionals are back. yes, we re going to go over some of the hot topics, one of which is the dsk accuser announcing a public media campaign coming out identifying herself. was it a good public relations move? was it a good legal move? talk about that. a new study that makes the places to travel and finds that the u.s. is the place where people visit here in the other places, they gained the most weight. the u.s. beats out italy, france, all of the great places with food. usa! usa! weigh in on all of those issues. then we all know about some of the credit card perks like cash-back programs or mileage programs with the airlines, but there are some hidden perks that you may not know about. we are going to tell you about them in the fine print that could potentially save you hundreds of dollars a car rentals to travel insurance. find out if they offer you these deals. with the rising temperatures, we might want tips from bobby thomas on things like heat-proof makeup, health-proof makeup. clothing and accessories to help you beat the heat. hear from her coming up this morning. if i could interrupt and give you your moment of bliss. interrupt yourself? yes, before you started to say something, i wanted to show this face, that s your moment of bliss this morning. what s his name? cole. cole. six months tomorrow. beautiful. okay. there you are. al has that same green jump suit. hand in my mouth. we ve got a lot to get to. let s go inside. natalie has all of the headlines. hi, nat. good morning, matt, savannah, good morning, everybody. the house is expected to vote on john boehner s plan to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling. even if it passes, it s said to have a little chance senate and the house threatens a veto. the white house warned of catastrophic consequences if there is no debt deal by tuesday. norway said it will set up an independent commission to investigate the massacre reviewing that country s security services to see what lessons could be learned about the response of the tragedy. police expect to interrogate anders breivik tomorrow. in somalia half of the population is going hungry. the world food program is sending in almost 25 75 tons of food over the next few days. the region is in the midst of the worst drought it has seen in 60 years. hundreds of people crash with police last night outside of the same chinese theater in hollywood. they were forced to leave a film premiere when officials said the theater was overcrowded. two people were arrested. and jeopardy host alex trebek is going to have surgery on his achilles tendon. he was injured chasing down a burglar who stole cash and a bracelet out of his hotel room. people are moving out of rural america and in to cities. rural america accounts for 16% of the u.s. population. that is the lowest ever. police and road crews use push brooms this morning in australia to corral a surprised visitor. there, a five-foot crocodile emerged from a storm drain. a wild life ranger captured it and took it away on the front seat of his suv. not exactly sure i d like having someone like that in the passenger seat next to me. a crocodile, a friend. four minutes past the hour back outside to mr. roker. thank you. it s no joke, you came from a thousand oaks to hug ann. ann, this lady came a thousand no, from a thousand oaks for a hug from you. there you go. i give a good hug. she does. nobody gives a hug like ann curry. thug out! yeah. i like it! let s check your weather. ann pulled into the crowd. my gosh. show you right now, we ve got tropical storm don right now, 45 miles east-southeast of corpus christi, texas, 40 miles per winds. should come onshore early saturday as a medium storm. all in all, not too bad. 60-mile-per-hour winds, rainfall amounts. two to five inches of rain between corpus christi as far east of houston chicago o hare dumped now. it s their wettest july on record. storms train in from omaha into grant rapids. looking from 3 to 5 inches of rain over the next 48 hours. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. here, a beautiful summer morning under way. we ve got the humidity up a bit but still comfortable. we re in the upper 70s to around 80. much of the region. we have some high clouds coming in, across maryland and west virginia. but much of virginia very sunny. but much of the region will see increasing clouds today, along with increasing humidity. afternoon highs low 90s. hot and humid tomorrow, hazy sunshine, near 100 during the afternoon. saturday and sunday, partly cloudy and that s your latest weather. savannah? i ve been taking care of business now to today s professionals, a panel of power players talking about the stories and surveys that are important to you. star jones, an attorney, author, and tv personality. donny deutsch is chairman of deutsche incorporated, a multibillion dollar advertising agency. and dr. nancy schneiderman is a doctor. billion dollar option. she s got a nice skill. supersmart. nbc s chief medical editor. quite fired up already this morning. yes. here we go. let s start with the accuser of dominique strauss kahn. she came forward and told her story. she had a rape allegation against him. was this a good legal move? the prosecution has pretty much let her know and everybody else know that they re moving toward dismissing the case. it feels the final desperate move of somebody who was out of moves, quite frankly. she told what i saw as a convincing story of the sexual incident. there s a whole lot wrong with her credibility. but as a prosecutor, i always evaluated things based on whether or not they had details. and i think that the sexual allegation, the rape, if you will, had details layered to it. it didn t sound like lies to me. everything else in her life may have sounded like a lie. but ultimately, this interview was designed to place public pressure on the prosecutor. absolutely. looking not to press charges or pursue the charges because of the credibility issue. donny, ho howe do you think sh came through as a public relations move. we live in a 15-minute world, legality aside, we live in the world now that people want the spotlight on them whether it s good or bad. it s something that s what you think it feels. part of it was i don t think the rape victim ever wants it spotlight. i know part of this could be i ve got to cash in on this. not saying whether her stories or true or not true. but we now know the light goes on, everybody whether it makes sense or not, we re trained the media world is training people, shine the light on me, whether it s stupid or not. the victims have been shield in the past and there s been the law to shield identities. the fact she steps forward against the legality or the marketing aspects but one of the thing is that her narrative has changed. people who undergo a sexual attack, they don t have a linear narrative right off of the bat. so the fact that there are discrepancies, at least to someone who s sort of been there, i was attacked in college, i couldn t put the narrative together for quite sometime. so i think that doesn t matter. now, the fact that she s lied before about how many kids she had and maybe those are survival skills. i don t know. let s talk about why? you raise a good point that a person who has been traumatized may get some facts wrong in terms of the narrative. but, star, as you know, this is a person who prosecutors feel lied to the grand jury, lied to them, and lied about a prior allegation of rape. isn t that the deathnail for prosecution. it is not. i ve tried a case where a crack head prostitute fell asleep in the middle of her testimony and i got a conviction. that s not it s not a death nail in any way. and remember one thing a lying, cheating, sneaky, maybe prostitute african immigrant who is a crack head could be a rape victim. and that is the thing that we all need to rebel. no question there. there s no perfect victim. let s move on to an air brushing controversy. donny, this one is going to you. overseas, they pulled a couple of ads featuring julia roberts and christy turlington on the basis that they ve been so overly air brushed and we can show them to you that it s not truth in advertising. donny? i m aghast. i can t believe it. i m ashamed that i m a part of this industry. look this, is a fantasy in movies, we like people a certain way. who cares? we are selling what you are i m bing it. but you re a big girl. you re a big girl. so tired of advertisers being blamed because we set this idealistic world up. and ironically, we re the most successful campaigns right now is a dove campaign that shows very real, very you know, not perfect-looking women. so i don t think it s smart marketing. but i m kind of children of parents being rendered helpless by the heinous magazine people because we we change what julia roberts look like. everyone knows that s not a real photo. i don t want more government in my life. one more instance of i m so tired of blurred haplessness of our public of what the media does, politicians do, people can make their own decisionings. that does not look like the mo most egregious example of air brushing. i talked to cindy crawford. she told me, star, tell women i don t wake up cindy crawford every day. they make me to cindy crawford. no one should think the face you see in the advertisements are ones that you can achieve. because i can t achieve it with the help. air brushing superskinny is a dangerous thing. i agree 100%. we move on, divorce on the decline. this is surprising. among the gen-x generation i put myself in, divorce is declining. you have a theory? i m a baby-boomer, you re a g erge n-x. we re going to rebel against his or her parents. divorce rate is going up, they don t want to be together. kids are going to say i don t like the way you lived your life. i live my differently. i was the wild child in my house. i have two of the straightest girls you will ever meet. they re rebelling. it s a classic. two things at play. it s economic. a lot of people can t cut the pie in half. there are a lot of people who are they simply can t do it. it s not an option. filing taxes separately. number two, kids who grow up from divorce and who have suffered through it said it s not going to happen to me. and they stay together for the kids. someone who s divorced and a happy, great dad, a great relationship with my kid s mom. first choice is a happy marriage under the same roof. two happy parents. second choice, two happy parents apart. third choice, two unhappy parents with kids. where do you come down? is it better to stay together to keep the family unit together, even if the parents are miserable? they re making the house hold miserable, it s not better to stay together. it s more about making sure that the people in the house, your children, can look to their mother and father and say this is the kind of woman and man that i want to be. happy parents, happy children. all right, next topic. american overload. i love this topic. they put together a map for people coming overseas, the different countries. where did you gain the most weight on vacation? usa! we like our 13-inch plates. absolutely. the portions are bigger. when i m on vacation in europe, i can lose 8 to 10 pounds. i walk down the street in new york and i m going to gain. america beat out italy, france. tell you one of the scariest things, if you look to india, this is a new obese, wealthy part of the world. the indians now with increased money to society, increased food. the wealthy are becoming fat. and i mean a real obese issue. you go to india, you re going to overeat. you go to see, you go down to disney world, you see parents and kids eating turkey legs. they re walking around the place like fred flintstone with turkey legs. what is that? and fried ice cream. i mean, yeah. i know. yeah. okay. hang on. we have to remember we have these urban deserts where you can t get fresh foods and in a foreign country, especially in italy and places in europe, you can really walk down the street and ghetto may toes and europeans are yeah. even if you re walking around all day, we live a more sedentary life style. move on to kids and cell phones. a new study out. a lot of talk about whether cell phones causes brain cancer. this studies there is no risk. there is no evidence. i want to underscore. there is no scientific evidence that cell phones cause cancer. for all of the people who write me and say i m wrong. show me the proof, there is no proof. there s some increase of cancer scientific study, well eel report it. but right now there s none. how long that i have a very precocious 8-year-old who by the way is not getting a cell phone. who desperately wants one. i m a believer in a certain age 10 and 11 for safety and limited numbers on the phone. but i have such an issue with kids being too connected all the time in everything. whether it s ichat, this it may not be causing brain cancer but a kind of social cancer. i agree. too much connectivity for kids. what s the right age, though? if you think about it for a minute, if you have one of the kids that gets taken to school by their mom or dad or care giver and then they re in school, then they ve got afterschool programs and then they re home with their family. who the heck they need though call? i mean, in fact, it s about a latch key kid that s going to be alone yeah. obviously my mom used to say don t stay out after midnight. no good ever comes of it. no good happens after midnight. yeah. and you know what? we don t need to be hearing about that. actually, good segue. moving into after midnight. alex trebek, host of the jeopar jeopardy show woke up in the middle of the night with a burglar in his room and he leapt out of bed to chase down the burglar. but first, he shared he had to put on his underwear. there s a female burglar in his hotel room that happened to steal his cash and his wallet? and his jewelry. and other things. he went to go and chase the person down. naked. but the key fact is he said i put on my underwear and then i ran after him. donny, i almost hate to ask you, is this a common practice? for men? i i, myself, sleep au naturale. sometimes i get chilly i put on a t-shirt. i feel comfortable. when my kids are at my house, i have some shorts on when i m sleeping. sorry, nancy. go on. but equal time. i like to sleep naked. i make sure that i have some clothes on that i stay in a hotel in los angeles. sometimes they can have little earthquakes in the middle of the night and you don t want to have to be there i wouldn t chase a burglar down the hotel hallway, i m sorry. i did ask her. she hasn t volunteered. how i sleep at night? you ll never know. footed pajamas, scarf. i m taking a beating. i want a serious answer. what do you sleep in at night? star jones, donny deutsch, nancy schneiderman. always a pleasure. this is not what happened to by the way, this is how fantasies go on, deutsche. yeah. we don t need the boys at home. yeah. if you have a question or an idea for next week s panel, they re so shy. let s get them out of their shell. and to our website, today.com or tweet us @todayshow. from shopping to traveling. hidden card perks to save you big buckles. and later, beating the heat and staying pretty in the hot tub. makeup tips for summer. but first, these messages. i ll never tell. 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[ female announcer ] giving in to snacks? there s a better way to satisfy your cravings, twice a day with special k. enjoy something sweet. and something salty and still stay on track. so go ahead and embrace snacking with special k. 9:26 is your time on thursday, july 28, 2011. i m eun yang. deadly accident in montgomery county causing major delays. let s go right to danella sealock with a look at traffic. good morning. good morning. the accident occurreded on new hampshire avenue south of ednor street, causing delays because new hampshire avenue is shut in both directions. so avoid the area altogether if you re traveling southbound new hampshire avenue, what you want to do is make a right on route 108 then a left on 182. northbound, left on norbeck, then a right on norwood, then left on 108 to reconnect to new hampshire avenue. paren parents dropping kids off at camp sunshine, take route 198. thanks for the update. good morning. s it around 80 degrees. and we ll have increasing humidity as the day progresses. also more clouds moving in highs low 90s. hot and humid, hazy sunshine tomorrow. saturday and sunday, partly cloudy both days. less humid, too. highs low 90s. not too humid into next week. nighs here 90. partly cloudy monday, tuesday, wednesday. that s the way it looks now. thank you. more news, whether and track for you in just 25 minutes. back to the today show. don t stop believing hold on to your dreams street lights people friday is almost here. finally. tomorrow on our summer concert stage, journey is going to be treating our crowd. what s so funny? thinking of the video we shared early. kicking off the weekend in style. savannah and i are rocking out today and breaking in to some journey s t-shirts. on a nationwide search right now on the perfect journey t-shirt. okay now? you re back with us? watching the video of the praying mantis. it s hilarious. coming up, beating the summer heat and look good doing it. bobbie thompson will tell us how to sweat proof your makeup and clothes that will keep you cool, she says. an inspirational young man. he s 11 years old, raising money for a cure. he s battling a condition that s common. most of us have never heard of it and he s battling that and raising awareness. when you think about summer, usually you think juicy tomatoes. and who s more juicy than the sc scotto family. where are the tomatoes? they re cheeky. that s for sure. they may be juicy, but they have a lot of ham.with deliciou. extra cheese. always with them. first, a check of the weather. absolutely. let s show you what s happening today. first, off, lots of sunshine in the northeast. we do have some strong storms, though, making their way from the western great lakes on into the central plains. sunshine, beautiful incific nor. sizzling and hot in the southwest into texas. tropical storm don approaches the southern texas coastline. a slight risk in the central plains and storms in the northeast tomorrow. plenty of sunshine in the southwest. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. it is a soft summer morning. temperatures now in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. getting more humid today. but still, it s comfortable now. later this afternoon, up into the low 9 o s. increasing clouds. tomorrow, hazy, hot, uncomfortably humid. highs near 100. saturday and sunday, less humid both days. partly cloudy. highs reaching low 90s. now natalie is thinking about alex trebek. the worst part of that story is, he has his underwear on, right? let s not get to that. this cannot go anywhere good. thank you, al, for the weather. natalie, hang in there. trying. coming up al is shutting me up. he is. cool beauty routines after this. the most fuel-efficient full-line automaker. take advantage of the summer s best selection and the year s biggest deals on our most popular models. don t miss the perfect opportunity to get the toyota you ve always wanted. plus, every new toyota comes with toyotacare, a complimentary maintenance plan with roadside assistance. toyota s nationwide clearance event ends soon. hurry in today before time runs out! hurry in today before time runs out! that comes fromove a little green leaf zero-calorie, guilt-free no artificiality my skinny jeans zipped in relief [ announcer ] truvia. honestly sweet. 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so the first thing you say is to minimize how much you re applying to your face? we start with the beauty routine and we tend to put the layers on. get a multi-tasker. both of these are fantastic. i have everything on the website. this is by estee lauder. they re this is going to actually take care of evening out your skin tone, spf, minimizing your pores. the all in one wonder. you can go without foundation. yes. you can swap through a pressed mineral powder. that s going to give you coverage and it won t slide. it s water resistant. you could go for a swim if you apply this right. and another thing if you go to your eyes, i don t use eye liner, a lot of women do. they smear down because it s really hot. this is your own custom color pallet but use an eye shadow and you need a round tipped brush to give you that kind of control. moving over, some of the other items from beating your body heat. and showing starting with shoes. it s hard to keep your feet cool. a couple dollars at the drugstore go a long way. silver linings is a silver ion to fight moisture and bacteria, you have these that are fantastic. these are summer inserts. insoles? men and women, you can cut them to fit. it will go a long way. for girls like me who have girlfriends. this is a cool product. it s a bra liner. it fits to most of your bras and will absorb extra moisture. if you re in a pinch, i know the guys are going to cringe. they didn t cringe when they saw you do that, you can use a panty liner that can stick on the inside and go under your arms. okay. girl talk. for men and women, guys who hate ring around the collar. it can go inside the shirt. that s a good idea. ladies can do that too to avoid the makeup. pop a little these are so great. these purse-sized deodorants. and one of my favorites. this is cora s yogurt which keeps you cool after the sun, but anti-monkey butt. what? favorite for soldiers in afghanistan and iraq. they have blogged on their website. i don t know what monkey butt is. very anti-monkey butt. basically chafing season. it gives you a red booty. this has calamine in it to stop the itching and talc to absorb. i m just the messenger. but this is amazing. i learned way too much about monkey butt. bobbie thomas, thank you. still to come this morning, they re crazy for tomatoes. they re plain old crazy. the scotto family whipping up an italian feast. but first, these messages. i can run just like the wind i will hide up in that tree no one will ever find me wish this day would never end would you like to be my friend? 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olive oil and vinegar. mix it all together balsamic, okay. now we get it. here s the hard part right. we stuff it. and that s the hard part. wait, wait then we have our pasta with bread crumbs. very nice. we re moving on now. that s amore. let s go down to we have veal. we have these veal chops at home and trying to figure out what to do with them? lunchtime. lunch or dinner type situation. this is a big lunch. we ve taken the veal chop and we re pounding. people with use a cloth or something on top. i like the saran wrap so you can throw it out afterwards. you want to throw it outafter wards. we pounded it. very thin. soak it ahead of time which is here. then start the vegetables. awe snd saute them? in olive oil. start with the tomatoes. peppers, onions. and you like the cherry tomatoes. they re in season, right? a little salt. pepper. going to saute that puppy for two or three minutes. once we ve done that, going to take the topping, as if that s done already. how long did you saute it? two minutes on each side. want to get it on each side and we re done with it. top that with this. balsamic vinegar. amazing. yeah. you re done. mouth watering good. right. we love it. okay. no meal is complete without dessert. we re making an ice cream float. what s the word? oscomato that means to drowness. we re going to drown our ice cream in gelato and good stuff. very old school. chocolate syrup. give me some cream soda. yes, the whole thing. yeah, go for it. and then we re going to add espresso. oh, i like the sound of that. and we re going to mix it up. want me to stir it? yes, the only thing i m qualified to do. and i thought you said i-forgot-oh. oh. it means you re drowning it. you re drowning it. you know, you kids should get out more. it s a beautiful country, italy. so we re going to pour it in to our little ice cream here. any ice cream would work? any, sure. and we re going to add a little whipped cream on top. what s this? well, that is amaretto . it s chocolate, a little bit of cinnamon, and we re going to add a little bit of amaretto. add the whole thing in? just kidding? pour liberally. and give you guys a shot at something. yes. okay, thank you. happy drowned oh, my. it s almost the weekend. we can celebrate. exactly. dressed uproot beer float. you put chocolate sauce on top. chocolate sauce on top. very simple recipe. have it outside, inside. don t forget mine. thank you, sir. all right. al-forgot-oh. have a couple of these and al-forgot-oh. oh, i remember you. john anthony, elena, thank you so much. recipes are on our website, today.com. back in a moment. but first this, is today on nbc. and this is my cvs. we look out for patients by offering care 1 on 1. we help them save money with generic prescriptions. we talk to them about prescription safety and help them save money. plus we discuss possible side effects and help them save money! we help them save money. get care 1 on 1 and talk savings, safety, and side effects when you transfer or fill a new ongoing prescription. i m carla, and this is my cvs. and his, too. still to come on today, hoda and kathie lee hit the road and the beach. they re going to show you their wild time together coming up. we re hoping. we re saying. watch out rehoboth. who cares? relationships and dating from a man s standpoint. oh! in all humor, there is truth. thank you. have a good summer? great. there we go. we love this. we will never forget about this. forget about it! oh, i m sorry. first your local news and weather. have a great day! tomorrow, journey, live. get ready to rock with america s all-time favorite. the toyota summer concert series, only on today on nbc. 9:56 is your time now on this thursday, july 28, 2011. good morning, i m eun yang. redskins training camp starts today but you won t see albert haynesworth. the skins raider traded the lineman to the patriots for a fifth-round draft pick in 2013. metro announced it will replaces ka laters at the bethesda station but be patient. the project isn t expected to start until 2014. also plans to replace the escalators are at the pentagon and dupont circle stations. an update with traffic with danella. there were some bad accidents. new hampshire avenue closed. we had an accident, fatal, on new hampshire avenue south of ednor street. it s shut down. southbound new hampshire avenue, make a right on route 108, left 0 on route 182. northbound, left on norbeck, right on norwood, left on route 108 to get around this. and parents dropping children off at sunshine day camp, you want to avoid the area altogether and take route 198 instead. a look at today s forecast. tom? beautiful summer day under way. temperatures around the region now climbing into the low and mid 80s. later today low 90s. cloudiness, more humid. hazy, hot, humid on friday. over the weekend, improve, cloudy, less humid saturday and sunday. highs low 90s. settled weather continues into next week. more news, weather, traffic in 25 minutes. back to the today show. from nbc news, this is today, with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. -plive from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody, you have made it all the way tt thirst-day let celebrate and drink l, huh? something. it s july 28th. we have nothing. we ve got tea. how are you, hoda-woman? great. you know what, one of our most awkward television moments for you. was rrpriced. we had gene simmons and his long-time girlfriend 26 years. shannon tweed with us. we had an interview that was so inccediblyyawkward. it was about his infidelity and with girls. let s relive that awkward moment. didn t you know what you were getting into, shannon? u to be true.hat your mate tells if somebody tells yoo something, you believe them or you don t believe them, and you go forward. it s clear that men please don t lump yourself in with other men, other men are good. there s some really good ones over there on the couch i d like to getthold of. in the hole new series, we see the relationship unrrveling to this point. p> it s pretty much unravelled. did you have a fling with those girls? or was it just that picture? p> he s had a fling with many girls. what s the status right now of your relationship? well, you ll see, i don t want to give it away. but it s not looking great. it s still awkward. it made bbt we didn t know if they were putting us on. or if they re serious. apparently he s now proposed. it was on their series yesterday. why don t ww just watch. i want to see what the proposal really looked like. let s just watch this. you re the only one i love, and our the only one i ever will love ann i ve never said those words to anybody. and i don t ever want to, i used to watch those movies where -pthey say, i can t live withou you, but for me, it s true. shannon, pleaae marry me. i believe it. iibelieve the whole thing. i don t. hook, line and sinker. you don t belieee it? you saw her, she doesn t act, that s why the cameras were there. didn t it look sincere to oo you? gene simmons at all.would like and when i first met him i was so surprised at, he s a very likable guy. he s very smartt i don t know what to bbliive. and i believe one thing, that his hair doos not blow well in the wind. it s like, whoa! he has tte worst -p she admits, he admits, too that they re not married. he has bad hair. he sayssit, brilo-paddish. it would be better to keep it shorter. anyway, we just want them to be happy. now yesterday i ve got to explain something. for everybody that was in the theater with us yesterday at the round-about theater. the manhattan club at theesamuel j. friedman theater. we went to see tyne daly in master class. she s from agney and lacy. she s a brrlliant woman, so talented and i love her to pieces. acclaimed performance. this is what you get whee you get your playbill. you also get this, which says is your cell phone off? i am a maniac about this. she s crazy.& i go, hoda she s always checking everyone else s phone. 2:17 this is what happened. i m sitting there and listen to what came out. hold on because can you hear me can you ear me that s barbra streisand. that s my ringtone. at the theater i started to freak out. i had turned my he said she turned it off. when you tried to stop it it gets louder. and people are looking at me. they were scowwing and mad, aisle.ally the lady acrossed it s a story about maria callas, the opera singer. and barbra streisand is singing and i sucked in my breath which made me have the coughing jag you just heard me. and you tried to put your purse under the seat of the lady in front of you. which didn t help. i apologized to everybody. p> it was bad. i said it was bad. and i got into the coughing ag that wouldn t stop. i ve never been so hated as i was i take that back. i was pretty hated yesterday. and i left a note for tyne. and she was brilliant the first act. it was really great. it really was. we were bad, but it was a great play. so ere ii the latest you re not going do believe this one. this australian woman was on a business trip and she was in her hotel room where she was having sex, okay? then, while she was having sex, a lamp or something fell and hit her in he face. it happens. so she ecided that she was goinggto sue for workmee s comp. since she suffered it during a business trip. she had injury does her nose, her mouth and her tooth. it s only workmen s comp if you re a hooker. ammi right? you re right. i think so. she said it was during the course of her employment. she wasn t employed at that very moment, you know? anyway. here s something else that s going to be like what are they there s pole-dancing classes ffr 7-year-olds. in northern ireland you can sign up your 7-year-old for these pole-dancing classes. england. what? england. it sayy ireland, northern england. i read it incorrectly. ireland is kind of north of england. so, are there pictures of these kkds? apparently with their parents permission, they were posted on facebook, so you could see the pole-dancing. because grandma wants to see that, too. they say it sspurely forfe for fitness and not sexual. we re going to bring in another gee whiz thing. since yyu re coughing. it s not allergies. let s bring on the fattest cat. otto was featured in parade o magazine. otto was 35 pounds. but otto has been in the joy fit club and now has dropped, how many pounds has otto dropped? six. he was 5, he s 29 right now. for a 500-pound human, that s 100 pounds he s lost. he was not well taken care of by his owners. and triss greeley who works at the columbia animal hospital, they took him in, put him on a how to eat well and live bettero it s very sad, because he has arthritis because hh s a little too heavy. so you know, just like humans, cats, animals need to be taken care of. just aa people do. we re glad that otto, he s working on it. he s so sweet, lady. sooeone says he looks like a pillow pet. he does. thank you, thank you very much. he ll be in parade magazinn this week. in case you were wondering. is it okay or not okay. from okay magazine, of -pto kiss an animal on the lips. only if you re absolutely sure where those lips have been hoda says it s not okay. i m all about petting and snuggling, but not about jay. bbt kissing on the lips? i can only imagine where fido s lips have been. but you know, i can t resist bambino. i don t try to, i try to chnush him, and sometimes his lips are there. and sometimes i m sitting there, doing devotions and he s having -phis way with himself and i m thinking, hmm, ppobably not a good idea. yuck. this one is about if you break up with someone and you want your money. this one s called, who s got your money. this is a little aggressive, but a fun song by tina perro. let s listen. i m feeling cuz you re not you say no, but people been talking you around the block she aan t even hot i was crying that s called revenge. [ laughter ] spending all of your dough who s got your money money i like it, i like it. get in there. up next, actor dominick cooper fills us in on his chilling double role on the silver screen. and still ahead, you asked and they ll tell, our guys tell all. and rehoboth beach today! bared his chest and his pipes in the musical version of mama mia. it s a far cry from his new role in the devil s devil where he plays a character related to saddam hussein in the late 80s. take a look. no, no, no! how was that? excellent. wow. dominic, the devil s double. but it s an actor s isn t it? where you get a role like this? aanightmare technologically. it is a dream nd that s what was so compelling about the story. or about the fact that this reel man had to do this. front, who was just ripped from what he was doing. and his family. but, yeah, for me, trying to separate and to find them oth. it was essentially so exciting. if you for a minute as an audiencc member don t knowwwho you re watching and the whole thing forces people to think. this is a true story. there was a book about it. and latif himself was oo the set kind of watching his life unfold. what was that llke for you, knowing he was there? it was difficult, i met him in the beginning and the links about the who he was and the experience he had. and the scars of both mentally and physically are still very fresh. his recent history. i think i didn t want to pry too much in the memories. but it was helpful, wasn t it? yeah he was helpful. he never interfered. and once he knew we were uuing the story and we would manipulate and change it so it was much more filmic and what we were creating was essentially a pangster film, he stepped back. i said i m not trying to impersonatt you, i want to have the essence of you and pull you and make the two characters very individual and very different. you said one of the hardest things was trying to find something that was human in the man, that, because you can t be all, all evil, right? and yet, you couldn t find anything. you do have to find yeah, everything i uncovered and all the research i ddd, i found he became more and more hideous in my eyes. i found him more repugnant. i couldn ttbear the idea of o o -pportraying him. i spoke at length to liam about mother and had a terrible father. did latif have to have tons of plastic surgerr to be a dead ringer for udaa? he had cerrain bone structure changed and dental was different. so you were going back and forth to your trailer to get the teeth in or? yes, literally like that from one moment to the next. it wasn t like i could spend a lot of time playing crazed lunatic uday. and then for the first week, i was doing a scene like that. what happens to latif? what happened, first he s resistant. but then he falls into the role. that s what i found so to. incredible. the way this man, a soldier from a very modest background, has to become a very good actor. go do a tv appearance and go into a voluatile situations. all of this opuuence and extravagance. porn and the violence of the man. he haaed it. heecouldn t stand it. he had to become someone who he despised. kudos to you. this movie the devil s double opens this friday in theaters in new york and l.a. thanks again, dominic. up nexx, what s on your man s mind? hmmmm. our guys tell all. the answers, right after this. and rehoboth! úwúwp#p!x! that s our boys. it s time to regroup with our guys tell-all panel to heep you make rhyme or reason of your man. first up, the signature single guy, david goode, author of tho man code. next the very funny chuck knight who can be seen every night on true tv s world dumbest. and he s been maaried for 13 years and has two school-aged kids. and comedian and actor rick younger who is married with a son who can be seen in new york in the play one, two, whatever you do. really? it will be running in august, my wife wrote it, she stars in it and i m in it as well. we have to come see it! and thhn last, buu not least, the levee-headed hank god for andrew trees, the author of decoding love. guys. let s go across the street to sara haines. first, kim from chicago. my question is, what i don t get is how my husband can go away on a guy s weekend and he comes home and i say, what did you guys do? and he gives me nothing. he can t recall a thhng. he doesn t give me any details and women, when we re together i can reveal my whole girlfriend s life story. there s a lot of missing parts that i don t ggt. did you see the movie the hangover ? i don t know if you ever saw the movve the hangover but when he comes home and he doesn t know ha happened that weekend, too much happened that weekend. p> we got the man code. what happens here it never happened. you don t need to talk about it. sometimes you guys aren t great with details. or you think what s interesting to us would not be interesting to you guys. am i being nice? or different. yeah, the kinds of things that we think are interesting yeah, we went to the bar and then we ent to theebargain. and then we went to another bar. listen if he comes home and his face andrew, why don t they give us more detail? men and women do communicate very differently. women, if you aaked them about a conversation, they can give you the whole blow-by-blow. you notice our eyes glaze over when you go into their petails here s another question. my husband never wants to anything on weekends together. when i m asked to do something with my sister-in-law, he throws a fit. what? per out. he doesn t want her to go, but he doesn t want to go anywhere. that s wwat she s saying. i m still single. i don t have to deal with that. that one, i don t understand, let s move on. sara? we ve got melissa from oklahoma with a a stumper for you. and when i go out with my onth. girlfrieeds, a lot of the guys out there are already married and have kids. so i wwuld like to know, and i m not approachable for some unknown reason. so what can i do to be more approachable? for you know, i mean people just assume i m married. you re pretty, that s why you re unapproachable. i m going to say that like are you serious, i m serioos when i say that. no, i m joking. there s actually a science behind this. if you want someone to approach you in a bar and you re a wol, you need to make eye contact and smile a numbbr of times in a short period of time. comfortaale with. yoo need to do it half a dozen times in 15 minutes. being the single guy, you intimidate guys. stop hanging with the married people. -phang out with single people. we got to go gang. but we re going to continue a little bit more. really, we re having them back? all right. they ll be back right after this. and, weere going to rehoboth beach! pight after your local news. good morning oom i m tom kiernan. beautiful summer morning. temperatures into the low and mid 80s. 86 in washington. it s turned more humid. we have clouds around on tap for later this afternoon. we ll have afternoon high temperatures climbing into the low and plidsand mi i m laura, and this is my cvs. i just transferred a prescription to cvs because they have care 1on1. it s where the pharmacist stops and talks to me about safety and saving money with generic prescriptions. laura, let s talk about possible side effects. it s all about me. love that. get care 1on1 and talk savings, safety, and side effects when you transfer or fill a new, ongoing prescription. i m laura, and this is my cvs. it s all mine. on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! 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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 on this thirst-day thursday, with david goode, chuck nice, rick and andrew trees on our dpis panel. patty from california has a tough one for you guys. it s one you can all relate to. why does my husband feel the need to repeatedly watch the sportscenter highlights all -pday because there s something going to change? there s subtle nuances, they come back, reanalyze, breaaing news, i ve missed a a whole gaae. i want to microanalyze that missed tag. i want to see it over again. it s like the cat with the bouncing string, we re just watching it. we don t mind doing it over and over again. it s like 27 times. like talladega nights we re different..o cf1 o weere different and viva la -pdifference. here s a a facebook post. i m 25, my boyfrienddis 28, we ve been together more than a year. things are going really well. but he just started talking about not wanting kids or marriage. i want both. out ann hope he changes his mind or break up. they re rrlatively young. i think to giie them a little more time, if she really thinks hees a great guy, with some paramettr that i m going to give pim another year. should talk about why he doesn t want to. something relating to his past? it s a mistake. it s a deal-breaker, to go forward anyway? it always ends up wrong. i say don t do it because you end up wasting tiie. that would be like, that s like my wife saying to me, i hope one day you will be a white man. that makes three of us. but in certain circles, he is the white guy. i m the rapper, he s the white guy. not so much. another california girl, this is mary, patty s sister. hi, my husband and i like o and for some reason he always thinks he s a guest at his own party and why is that? that s a good question. thaus why he had the party. hh tricks you into taking care of everything, taking care of him. but she s enjoying it, though. he s on a different committee with the party. he s on the eetertainment committee. that means he can sit stilllin the nice seat, he s got to entertainnpeople, make people laugh. he s hosting just from another committee. it sounds like she s not too unhappy about it. here s a facebooo post. if y boyfriend and i are out at the bar and an ex of mine walks in, should i let them meet or should i leave the bar? i look at it like this iff the x is uglier than me, then, yeah, iill eet him. no problem. but if he looks like denzee washington? just keep it to yourself. if you go running out ecause somebody shows up, now you got to explain a whole lot more than if you just it is such an awkward thing. if you see someone you dated and just wave across the room. i think it s a confidence levee that you have with the person yyu re seeing. you are going to look insecure. but hey, maybe you could walk over and introduce them. everybody has a past at a certain point. and the past and present should stay separate. hello, i d like you to meet the man i used to have sex with. if you bump into each other, you introduce. you don t go hunting the guy down. we have the answer to the first question. the guy who wouldn t let his wife go out. he didn t want her to run into why do you guys match today? it s kind of cute. we all do. i m with kelly from virginia. let her rip. why are men obsessed with boobs, it doesnnt matter what size, big or small. they re obsessed with boobs. we reetrying to go back home to theebirthplace. we get pulled away from them way too early. so we re always trying to get back. boys, thank you. rick, you re still breastfeeding. weere not going to ask andrew what the real reason is. there s some intereeting science. that we l save for another day..o cf1 o up next, we share our love foo rehoboth beach, when we come back. pg]ñú when kathie lee and i met for the very first time, we had this instant connection. we realized we shared a lot of things, our love of wine and rehoboth beach, delaware. my mom s got a house there. and i spent the summers there growing up and still have family there. soowe decided to take you along on a visit tt our favooite beach town. rehoboth beach is a place for making memories, a reminder of more simple times. a day filled with the swwet smells and sounds of the summer. when we startee oming here in 1964, i was 11 years old. my mom and dad bought an inn in 1967. started cleaning, i haven t been back to rehoboth a lot since my daddy passed away here. it s been eight years. it s the first time i ve been & able to go back to the old inn and not feel sad. i feel grateful for all the great memories we had there. i went with my mom and sister back to our old inn. it s now owned by a friend, but 7 brook lyy still feels like home. this is the hang ten room. kathie was in love with all the surfers. where s my door? right there. welcome, hang ten. are there any smooch marks on it? i practiced kiising on the door. it was the 60s and i was a teenager. there was no better place to be. one particular night, i was smooching with my love right here and i realized, oh, my gosh, it s getting late. so we jumped up anddi started o the trek down to the inn, very hurriedly, like this. and here comes my brother and my father. so i thought, oh, my gosh between theetwo of them, i m not going to have a heinie left. even though i m not doing anything wrong, what 16-year-old girl doesn t smooch once in a while and we turned this corner and right here so close, they caught up with me. my daddy lit into me like crazy and he told my boyfriend never to come back here again. the beach was also where i earned my very first paycheck. business on the boardwalk for 80 years. oh, my gosh, my boss, barry is here! barry! barry was a great boss, but i was not that great an employee. kathie had all of these friends from florida who were surfers and they would sit out here on the back of the bench and once in a while ttey got them a little hungry, and is i know that barry, who was the grratest guy in the world nd i let them have food. young lady, would you care for some famous kohr s custard. that s a big one, baby. there you go! i still got it and it s still free! and though some things have here, there s one constant even decades later. hoda discovered it, too. this is just a spot where we can get away. it s laid back. it s easy-breezy. people are so super-friindly. it s one of thoseeplaces that feels like home. my mom boughh a place in rehoboth six years ago and er home has been filled with family and friends ever since. my 5-year-old niece, hannah is the family superstar. and jay loves our lazy days on the beach, too. we go to the beach and we plop. we lay all day long from the time the sun is high until it sets. when the sun has set. weeusually go and grab a bite. it s chow tile. go fish is such a special place, we fall in love with the people. we rr nevee about the place, we re about the people. we fell in love with allison, when she created this. if you re looking for the fish. mmmm. this is very good, guys. you should try it. i love mill place because i like the vibe. like the feeling when you walk in, i like the ppople. hey, groovy. how are you? i m good. how are you? on a typical morning in rehoboth beach when you come to your place, the coffee mill, it is jammed. let s make a toast. the margaritas going to be later. on this weekend, in a a place where the past and present rehoboth avenue. back then in the 1800s, hodaa cobblestones. that s where i worked. little kohr brothers, hi! there s your mother and her neighbors, the only people here. funland. i m so excited. boom. do some bumping! oh! that was an attack. look what we re playing for, a stuffed whale. next up? drag queen volleyball. we put on dresses and we we re out to play. a new tradition here in rehoboth. let s kick some butt! team hoda! woo! woo! [ cheers and applause ] and though time has moved on, some things stay the same. rehoboth remains a simple place, a simple american town that still captures our heart. so here s to old memories and new ones in rehoboth. what fun. great job, karen. she had never been to rehoboth. karen is our producer on the great job, sweethearr. great place. you melded theeold and the new. i use the term old loosely. so well. my mom was worried how she would look. you looked great, joanie girr. coming up, how to upgrade your party without spending a fortune. after these messages. fancy sweet 16 or a garden party in your back yarddyou can have a a fortune. we re herr with advice on how to upgrade your party without spending a fortune. we have the editor in chief of country living magazine. extremely expensive and easy to do. most people email invites and post them on facebook. but you can kick them up a notch on a budget. these are seed packets, we printed out the information, cut little strips, wrap around, tape it in the back. pop it in an envelope your guests get a gift before they even show up. we re talkingg$2 to $3 per shall we set the table? one, the essential this time of year and less than $1 each at orientaa trading.com. i went to a party thh other night and i never put mineedown. and thoughtfuu, you can use them again and again. people will steal them when they leave. it s still theft, sarah. it was a long ride home. centerpieces. you know, you could easily spend over $100 tryiig to fill a big face and that s what you do it yourself and hire a florist. this, little glass bottles inside. and three stems of flowers and easy and yes, a fresher idea, another idea, go wiih a potted plant. afterwards, plant them in the yard. these are silk flowers, about $1 each. little magnets on the back. that lets them stand up and another gift for the guests, fridge magnett. you re genius. and napkins, doesn t because you re outside, doesn t mean you can use the paper towels, these are fabric scraps and can you cut them with pinking gears and these are curtain rings from the dollar store. the most important thing and please help yourself. what are they? white wine, this is my favorite. it s called vino verde, it s got a little bit of fizz in it. it s like a shower for your insides..o cf1 o light. and like $5 a bottle. $5 to $10, tops. what is the garnish you put in these? frozen grapes on a skewer and you serve it..o cf1 o and it s sort of like a martini without the memory loss. and another white wine i love is an austrian white, $15 for a bottle this big, it s a crowd pleaser. what s the the end here, this candy buffet, what s going on? if you haven t had enough to drink. let s pour some sugar on top of it. these glass jars, $5 to $10 at walmart or -mart and bulk candy. which will run you about $2 a pound. and weet little paper bags. remember the penny candy? 15 cents for the bags and guests can make their own favors. any way we can save a buck. sarah gray. thank you veryymuch. up next, a wedding dance you ll never forget. our sara shows ff her web-tastic find of the week. 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[ cheers and applause ] i can t see frank the dad actually owns skater world roller rink in san diego. ss it s a theme. they did this two ddys ago. the ggoom totally supported it. they decided to do it with a little flair. i tried roller-dancing in central park and that airs next tuesday. i can t picture frank doing that as cassie s weddinn. so we ll see that on tuesday and wednesday is latina day, right? we re doong a wwole, everybody s coming to the plaza to dooa zumba! it s going to be fun. do have to do that? yes. all right. tomorrow you guys, plaza ambush makeovers and we have the late, late show s craig ferguson ambush makeovers and we have the late, late show s craig ferguson with us. captionssby vitac www.vitac.com