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two years later, a surgery has given this courageous woman a new face and we ll see it for the first time today, thursday, august 11, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. i m matt lauer. for the last three days, the dow has either closed up or down by more than 400 points. it s been incredible. things are mostly bearish right now over the last 14 trading days. the dow has lost more than 2,000 points and that is nearly 16% of its value. and on wednesday s plunge, it was fueled by concerns over banks both here in the u.s. and in europe. so we re going to get the latest on this story straight ahead, matt. also ahead, the latest on the search for a maryland woman. she vanished more than a week ago. the fbi is joining the investigation. the police have a suspect in custody. we re going to talk to that missing woman s boyfriend about the cryptic facebook message he received from her shortly before she disappeared. on a different note, what is more important to women? sleep or sex? i m not looking at you. have you ever wanted to spend more time at work to avoid your own kids? we re going to talk about a revealing survey of moms coming up ahead. as we told you a second ago, we re going to show you chimp attack victim charlotte nash s new face three months after the ground breaking surgery. a lot of our viewers will remember a couple of years ago when we saw how the chimp attack left charlotte s face. it was difficult to see. as bad as that was, today you re going to be very, very happy to see a remarkable transformation. we ll get to that latest in the show. we begin with another tumultuous day on wall street. maria bartiromo is here with her take on this. there are people at home right now shaking their heads because they think this seems so random. they want to know why investors felt good enough about the market to drive it up 400 points on tuesday and bad enough about the market to drive it down 500 points yesterday. i think the day we saw gains in the market, people were looking for a bottom. we re all trying to figure out when this ends. we did see money move into the markets. the federal reserve came out and said they were going to keep interest rates at low levels until 2013. on the one happened, nd, okay, s for the next two years, did they tell us 2013 because the economy will be weak for a couple of years. france, we have a problem in fran. their debt may be downgraded now. are we to believe on tuesday no one had a thought that might happen? but on wednesday, it s a great problem? it s a great point. day-to-day, different sentiments to take place and manifest in major moves in the stock market. the bottom line is france, all of the eurozone have a bigger problem than the united states right now. that is spending more than they re taking in, massive amounts of debt. so that s really what s under the european side of thingings. are we at the point where investors are so nervous and lack so much confidence that any piece of information, any rumor drives the market dramatically in one direction or the other? oh. it s the right way to put it. the bottom line is we re looking for evidence that there s reason to buy in a sustained manner. better than expected earnings, a deterrence of economic development in the u.s. we haven t seen that, we haven t seen a sustained move to the upside. banks took it on the chin yesterday. big time. maria bartiromo. thank you very much. appreciate it. now here s ann. thanks. the three siblings that spent more than a week on the run from the fbi are behind bars this morning. they re arrested following a dangerous high-speed chase in colorado. miguel, good morning? ann, good morning to you. all of the siblings are being held here at the pueblo county jail. they face four counts of assault on a peace officer. the first will be a long laundry list of charges. a caravan and a jail for a family of fugitives who spent eight days on the lam. the end of the road for the dougherty gang after a high-speed chase here along southern colorado s i-25. proceeded at a high-rate of speed. obviously you have individuals who have been identified as very dangerous. reporter: with officers tailing lee grace dougherty and brothers dylan and ryan, police say the sibling suspects opened fire on patrol cars with an ak-47. officers ahead used so-called spike strips to flatten the trio s tires, sending the white sedan crashing into a rail. we heard the gunshots and sirens and we come running out and we see the cops ha s have t guns drawn. police say leigh grace drew a handgun and officers shot her in the leg. one of the brothers was tackled by police. the other captured on foot a short distance away by nearby workers. i told him, hey, there s nowhere to go. just give up now. he proceeded to ignore us. that s when we decided to take him down. for the 20 something siblings with a long criminal history, it s the second high-speed gun-blazing chase in eight days. the crime spree occurred when the officers tried to pull the trio over for speeding. police say just five hours later, the dougherty gang robbed a bank in georgia using an ak-47 and a machine gun. arsenal weapon. weren t afraid to use them. with their faces plastered on billboards from florida to texas, the outlaws made it all the way to colorado. tuesday, police say they bought camping gear at this store, then tried to buy ammunition at walmart, following tips the police tailed the dougherties on the the interstate, the bullet pursuit over a mile later. this went as it was supposed to. reporter: three of the most wanted now captured. a fugitive family s cross-country mayhem is over. the dougherty gang will face serious charges in three states but because they re arrested here in colorado, the legal process will begin here. they could be in court as early as today. ann? miguel almaguiere, thanks very much. cook taylor is the sheriff of pueblo county, colorado. good morning to both of you. good morning. sheriff taylor, let me ask you, it s not every day that armed and dangerous fugitives are in your jurisdiction. what can you tell us about the citizen s tip and how you responded? the whole investigation was the combination and collaboration between all of the law enforcement agencies here in pueblo. the citizens giving us a tip that our initial contact with the individuals down in southern colorado and the state patrol is incredible chase and stoppage of the vehicle is all put together by collaborating together with each other. on that point, how was it that you were able to take these three in without having any officers hurt and being able to take them down alive when one went down fighting and profilers predicted a shootout, sheriff? well, when you have quite frankly, the state patrol that s in their professionalism and how they do business, they were chasing the vehicle. they deployed the stop spikes. our deputies were behind them. we got help from another jurisdiction. just everybody working together and the training and everything else that came together that day. okay, can you describe quickly the guns and ammunition that you found on them. also their common? i can t tell you much about the demeanor, i can tell you there were two ak-47s or skss after the car was crashed according to the state troopers and my staff that were on scene as well. the young lay i cunoung lady hab gun when she exited the vehicle and subsequently that was taken to the custody. we re doing an inventory right now for the state patrol. we have the vehicle here for the sheriff s office. they ll do that inventory. there were indications of additional weapons in the vehicle. we don t have a complete inveb toir yet. it does seem to be a good example, good cooperation between local authorities and the fbi. you actually had billboards up with the faces of these fugitives on on them. what can you tell us about what worked here? again, a terrific collaboration of local, state, and federal agencies sharing rapidly using our tools and advanced technology. it started on the east coast with both florida and atlanta field office engaging really the media to start that man hunt. and working with the state figs centers relaying to all of the law enforcement agencies around the country the armed and dangerous nature of the subjects, the dougherty family, and, more importantly, things to be cautious of as you approach them. so it was a terrific collaboration. that information was relayed here and then the good citizens of colorado started calling in tips which again helped the fbi, local and state agencies focus their efforts. and then at that point, the colorado information and analysis center tore kayak fusion center here in colorado passed pertinent intelligence to all of the local, state, and federal agencies for us to move in. well, sheriff kurt taylor, congratulations to you and all of the officers involve in this effort. thank you so much. thank you. thanks, ann. now 7:11. here s matt. the 2012 presidential race is heating one the first major test for gop hopefuls. the iowa republican straw poll takes place this weekend. two names not on the ballot getting a lot of the attention. chuck todd is the political director and chief white house correspondent. he s in des moines. hi, chuck. good morning, matt. we re in for a whirlwind 48 hours. there s a republican debate tonight. the straw poll on saturday. but the two noncandidates are testing a large shadow of the field of actual candidates. i believe in this country. because i believe in americans. reporter: leaving little doubt he s about to jump into the republican presidential race, rick perry tested out possible stump speech lines wednesday. this west texas optimist sees our brightest hour is just around the corner. reporter: in an exclusive interview with time magazine provided to nbc news, perry says he has the fire in the belly required for a grueling campaign. getting to the all in point and the idea that this is what i m supposed to be doing. reporter: another noncandidate is making waves with most of the political world in iowa, sarah palin is trying to keep her name in the mix, releasing this video saying her bus tour is back, coming to tomorrow s iowa state fair. they love their country in good times and bad, and they re always proud of america. meanwhile, the official republican candidate s crisscrossed iowa in saturday s straw poll. mitt romney in pella sounded nonchalant about perry s possible candidacy. a fine man, a fine governor. he expressed his own specious over perry s 26 consecutive years in the private office. i know how the economy works. the next three days will be crucial for the two minnesota repibbs camped out in iowa. tim pawlenty and michelle bachmann. she s playing up the iowa roots and outsider status. from waterloo, we re honest people. i lived a real life. i didn t go to washington to be a politician. i am not a politician. former governor tim pawlenty who struggled to catch fire and backed off a promised attack on romney in a previous debate says he s prepared to go on the off tonight. i know how to put the hammer down when that needs to happen. i ve done that as well. fair or not, saturday s straw poll could be make or break. for some candidates, rick pawlenty, if they don t do well, it could have a hard devastating impact on the campaign going forward. on a scheduling note, just this morning, we learned that sarah palin will be in iowa today, bus tour events today. we ll try to step up a little bit on the debate tonight. the white house reconfirmed that the president has no plans to cancel the vacation that begins next week after a trip to iowa, matt. chuck todd in iowa this morning. thanks so much. 14 after the hour, here s ann. now to london and that city s violent riots. police raided the homes of the people suspected to being involve in the violence as vigilantes took to the streets to protect their neighborhoods. michelle is in london again this morning. good morning. it s been a gang of teenagers armed with bricks, not guns, the fact that this has been a failure for police is so outrageously stunning to british citizens that some are now forming groups to protect themselves. is britain really broken as some would say? or could this really happen anywhere? what looks like more rye yolting is police chasing bands of vigilantes seeking justice. we re here for one reason to stick up for our families. and getting lots of support. they need backup. some turned on police. these guys armed themselves with stones. some threw rocks at teenagers riding a bus. britains are fighting back against so-called jobs, hooligans, and for four nights turned cities into war zones. all they want to do is kill, take, steal, or rob from their own or people who are working hard. no more room for it. in birmingham where three young men were run over protecting their street, the father of one spoke out. i lost my son blacks, asians, whites, we all live in the same community. why do we have to kill one another? the prime minister offered this when we see children as young as 12 and 13 looting and laughing, it s clear that there are things that are badly wrong in our society. unemployment here hit a record high. many are bored. they feel they ve got no future, they have nothing to lose. rather steal it than go out and work for it and earn it. the level of violence has been sickening. this man is in critical condition, beaten trying to stop rioters. the breathing victim here, a malaysian student in the uk one month was just attacked as bicycle stolen. seeming to help or robbing him? he s now awaiting surgery. the government vowed to crack down after the fact through prosecution. and getting some help on-line for more citizens willing to turn in their young neighbors. you have to set an example because we have to punish people to stop this mess. every single day here in england, we heard people say, you know what, this would never happen in america. police would put a stop to it. they say that s what we need here. just this morning, the prime minister said they re going to take a closer look at cities like boston as examples on how to deal with gang problems. ann? michelle, such a sad tragic there. thank you so much. natalie has a look at the headlines. good morning, nat. good morning, matt, ann. good morning, everyone. we start with five service members getting killed as fighting intensifies. 51 internation unanimous service members have been killed there so far this month. after spending the night searching the ocean for a missing navy fighter jet, the military says they ve recovered the two crew members. the plane crashed near san diego last night. good news to report in the fight against cancer, scientists have been able to successfully destroy cancerous tumors in patients with advanced leukemia for the first time ever. robert bazell has more on the achievement 20 years in the making. bill ludwig said doctors told them without the experimental treatment, he would only have weeks to live. in the position of full health, no cancer in oh my system. ludwig is only one of three patients who have gotten the novel treatment in the most novel form of leukemia called cll. the results are so spectacular, many believe it could mark the beginning of a major advance in cancer treatments. each of the patients was eradicated. reporter: the team at the university of pennsylvania removed white blood cells that normally fight infection, genetically engineered them with a harmless form of hiv, to reform themselves and return them to the patients. the research was too risky to win government support, but barbara netter, who started a foundation with her late husband, edward, provided the seed money. we wanted to do something more hope to do something more. it will take years more of study to know if the initial excitement is warranted. but at least three lives have been saved. robert bazell, nbc news, philadelphia. attorneys for arizona governor jan brewer are asking the supreme court to rule on the constitutionality of that state s tough immigration law. the controversial measure makes it a state crime to be in arizona illegally. the parts of the law were blocked when taking effect by a lower court judge. a colden opportunity this morning for nasa s mars rover as the six-wheeler reached the rim of the endeavour crater after the three-year journey across the red planet. the crater will give the opportunity a snapshot of martian history by exposing rocks and land much older than the rest of the planet. now 7:20. back over to matt, ann, and al. amazing to see the pictures for millions of miles away. what an incredible piece of technology that these have been for us. cool stuff. natalie, thank you very much. let us get a check oft. getting a break finally. but we also have a big area of risk of strong storms from the dakotas back into the arkansas and parts of mississippi. we could see small shot of tomorrow tornadoes but likely damaging winds, hail and heavy rain already firing up from northern texas across into parts of mississippi. looking at anywhere from a half inch to two inches of rain in some areas especially through southern florida. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. a fresh and cool thursday morning. good morning. right now under a clear sky, temperature at reagan national 72. elsewhere, in the 60s, most locations. 50s out of the mountains later today into, the 80s with sun, low humidity. tomorrow partly cloudy. still not humidity. great weather for the skins/steelers game. increasing humidity and clouds saturday, small chance of afternoon storm a likelihood of some showers and thunder showers that s your latest weather. ann? al, thank you. still ahead for the first time since the ground-breaking transplant, charlotte 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low humidity, more of the same friday. more humid over the weekend. showers and storms likely saturday night and into sunday. how s traffic now danella? still have that accident i-6 east at route 50, blocking your left lanes. starting at fairfax county parkway. lanes are packed. another news update in 25 minutes. back to the today show after this break. 7:30 on a thursday morning, august 11, 2011. blue skies indeed as you look out over the western side of manhattan, central park in the foreground. george washington bridge way in the background in the hudson river on a beautiful morning here in new york city. and the music by the way is our way of letting you know that grammy winning zac brown band will be live in concert here on today. meanwhile, inside the studio, i m matt lauer alongside ann curry. new developments in the disappearance of a maryland woman in aruba. that s right. 35-year-old robin gardner was last seen a week ago. but now her travel partner has been detained. we ll talk to gardner s boyfriend about the cryptic facebook message he received shortly after she disappeared. flash mobs. you saw this. they were meant to be a lot of fun. people dancing and singing. police are seeing a spike in flash mobs with a more sinister purpose. one woman recovering as she was attacked by a group of young men. also, we ll be talking about the road to recovery for chimp attack victim charlotte nash. two years after her vicious mauling, she s received a rare facial transplant. this morning, her new face will be revealed for the first time right here on this broadcast here on today, talking to charlotte s daughter and brother about that as well. people will really be encouraged to see these images. it s great news. but we want to begin the half-hour with the new details in the case of a maryland woman missing in aruba. tom costello has the latest on this story. tom, good morning. hi, matt, good morning to you. this case is similar in some ways to the case of natalee holloway who disappeared in aruba six years ago. 35-year-old robin gardner left maryland on the way to aruba without telling her boyfriend. the man she travelled with is under arrest. that s gary giardono on baby beach in aruba telling police he last saw her when they snorkeled together. now he claims she never came back to shore. his attorney in aruba is michael lopez. my client has been detained for a murder investigation. he gave the police all kinds of cooperation. they met on match.com a year ago and agreed to fly to aruba when she lost her job recently. she had a boyfriend richard forester. she told him she was going to florida to see family. now he fears for her safety. i m not angry with her. if she s found and brought back to me, i ll be angry then. but right now that s not even a factor. back in maryland, gary giordono has a violent history. allegations of domestic violence against an ex-wife and two restraining ordered requested by previous girlfriends, one claimed he started to hit me on my face, neck, breast, and buttocks. he started to choke me with both hands. another report said that he threatened her and said the world would be better off without me and he could help. in 2003, he was convicted for shoplifting electronics, the fbi has joined the investigation in aruba. former fbi profiler, clint van zandt. giordono is alleged to have had a history of violence with past girlfriends. the authorities have to look at that and look at any evidence that s going to suggest they left the hotel together or he left by himself. robin s disappearance is an eerie reminder of 18-year-old natalee holloway s disappearance in aruba in 2005. jury ran van der slojuron van d never charged. but despite the concern about the impact on tourism, robin gardner s disappearance needs publicity. no matter what they want or what they think is right, it is important that we get the media involved. aruba, of course, is a dutch territory. we re told that robin gardner s blackberry and ipod have been turned over to the police. they sent the blackberry to the netherlands for a more thorough analysis. matt? tom costello, thank you very much. robin gardner s boyfriend, richard forester is with us. mr. forester, good morning to you. good morning. tell me about the relationship with robin, how long have you been dating her before she took this trip? we ve been together for about 2 1/2 years, but fairly exclusive, i guess, since about january of 2011. she told you she was going to see family members in florida. how did you find that out? i found that out once i d spoken to a family member when they told me she d been reported missing. did she send a text or e-mail at some point admitting that she s in aruba? at that time, did she admit she was there with someone else? no, i did get an e-mail saying that she was in aruba, but it s just a change in plans as far as where they were going. mr. forester, have you heard of gary giordono? have you met him? do you know anything about him? i never met him. i heard his name before. i was under the assumption he was just a friend. when you got that e-mail that she was in aruba, she added no other information, she didn t talk about it being fearful, nothing that might help in this investigation? no, i have to tell you, not when i got that e-mail. on tuesday morning on the second of august, a little after 2:00 in the morning, she posted a note a message on my face book wall saying this sucks. i didn t get it until the morning when i got to work. i questioned her, i didn t know what it feels. she didn t respond. i e-mailed her throughout the day. later on in the day, between, probably i don t know somewhere around 3:00 in the afternoon, she sent me an inbox message on my face book saying, you know, i love you, i care about you. we ll talk about this and sort it out when i get back. sounds like she left more questions than answers. yes. when you hear that the two of them went snorkeling and she didn t return to the beach when he did. he then tried to leave aruba, you say that has to be a lie. why do you say that? just knowing her, matt, i i believe that she s too concerned about her hair, about her makeup. at that point in the evening afternoon, she being in a place like aruba or somewhere, she s probably had a couple of drinks and she s not going to stop to go swimming in the ocean at that point. she s probably going to be getting readdy to go out for dinner for the evening. but i know she s never been a fan of snorkeling, she said she may do it, but wasn t that interested. she is a swimmer, but would prefer to be in a swimming pool. now, being in a place like aruba, that might be a little different. but i just don t accept it for one minute that she was snorkeling. also the story from what i understand the change too, from they were snorkeling to they walked out to a point where the water was almost above their heads and they decided to swim back to shor. when he got back to shore, turned around and she he couldn t see her he couldn t find her. i asked this. i hope you understand the tone that i ask it with. you seem to know her very well about what she would and wouldn t do, and, yet, it comes as a surprise to you that she would actually be in aruba with another man. you re right. you re absolutely right. i do feel like i know her very well. she was going through some some tough times. she d lost her job recently. so i can t say where her mind is at at that point. my biggest concern she was there with another man. obviously that s an issue. but my biggest concern is that she s found and found safely and i m able to have that discussion with her. when you hear allegations that mr. giodono has perhaps been violent or threatened other women in the past, do you fear that he has in some way brought harm to her? very much so. well very much so. i ve done my own research. i ve had people come out from his past who have contacted me and told me some pretty pretty bad details. so i i definitely have a a very bad feeling. but at the same time, i just try to stay optimistic and hopeful that that she ll be she l return home safely. richard for ester, appreciat your time. thank you. let get a check of the weather. today s weather brought to you by certified service, expert service right at your chevrolet, buick, gmc, cadillac deal. 14 years ago matt and i held these twins and here now, 14 years later. what s your names again. madison. and. ashley. now you ve got a couple of siblings? courtney and john. where s mom? hi, mom and dad. wow. 14 years. you guys look better, we look a lot worse. fantastic. so nice to see you guys. thanks for coming. let s check your weather, see what s going on. we ll show you for today afternoon temperatures, cooling off, gorgeous, new england the northeast, into the great lakes, 70 and 60s, low humidity, going to be fantastic. hundreds, those though continue in texas. 40th day in a row of 100-plus readings in dallas. risk of strong storms from northern mississippi into the dakotas. beautiful weather in the pacific northwest. temperatures in the 70s along the california coast. 90s in florida and miami. you ll see showers, hit or miss thunderstorms and the national park service in the house. they ve not the big chips down battery park. very nice. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. here we ve got the bright sun and a blue sky. temperatures in the 60s to near 70. low humidity in place today. afternoon highs climbing into the 80s. and lots of sun. tomorrow clouds around, still not humidity. morning lows 60s, afternoon highs in the 80s again. on saturday getting more humid highs in the 80s. a likelihood of showers and thunderstorms late saturday night and through the day on sunday, ending sunday evening. could get too that s your latest weather. matt? thank you very much. just ahead, the chimp attack victim charlotte nash unveils her face for the first time. the transformation is remarkable. x back now at 7:44 with a twist on flash mobs. what started as a way for groups to organize through social media has taken a violent and dangerous turn in cities across the country. we have details on this from chicago. mara, good morning. good morning, ann. these flash mobs are what happens when social media meets mob mentality. they re happening in places all over the world from london to chicago where last week hundreds organized to crash a street festival. the problem is especially bad in philadelphia where lately the city of brotherly love has been a rash of hateful behavior. if you want to know what can go wrong if you re running through a flash mob, just ask emily. a few people in the mob started yelling, you better run, we re a flash mob. the 27-year-old editor for the satirical newspaper, the onion was walking through a philadelphia neighborhood with friends when pandemonium broke loose. i got punched in the face. i tried to run, i fell down and i got hit and kicked a few more times. according to police reports, she was jumped by a flash mob, beaten ferociously by a group of young men, her leg seriously broken in two places. some say the flash mobs have come a long way from their beginnings as an way to organize pillow fights to dance parties. but there s nothing fun about the latest form of flash mobs. in cities all around the country, teams are organizing mayhem in ways never seen before when social media meets mob. last month in l.a., crowds shut down hollywood streets and clashed with police after a dj tweeted about a free block party that never happened. at times, the flash mob turns into a flash rob. in april, 20 teen s stormed thi upscale store. in june, a group of 40 kids, some as young as 11 raided a pennsylvania sears grabbing everything from socks to watches. when we become part of a flash mob, all of a sudden, that am anymorety takes over and we no longer look at consequences to our actions. we let the mob dictate for the most part what the behavior will be good, bad, and the ugly. it s a big problem in philadelphia where emily was attacked. they had a lot of really angry kids who don t really have respect for other people. reporter: emily ended up hospitalized for ten days, racking up overwhelmingly high medical bills. city officials are now fighting back, extending a weekend curfew for minors. if you re doing things you should not be doing, we are going to get you off of the streets. trying to ensure the only flash mobs in the city s future are the fun kind. now, while there have been arrests in some of the cases we showed you in the case of emily s attack, police showed up on the scene immediately but no arrests have been made. ann? thank you so much. still ahead this morning, do you look for reasons to stay at work instead of going home to be with your children more. a surprising survey of mothers. but first, these messages. finding a perfect match can be a lifelong quest. people are getting help thanks to a new twist in the world of dating. kerry sanders explains. you could you like the camera, don t you. it s date night for norville and kabob. oh, a good boy. two homeless jobs. a handsome dog when i m done. like so many single people, just looking for some loving. since this the today show and we love the before and after pictures, first, the before, a springer spaniel dropped off at the shelter by his owners due to the tough economy. and kabob, a stray mutt found in a ditch. if speed dating works for single women, why not for dogs? so scrubbed clean and sporting new dos. you smell better. kabob before, norville after. just b yourself and you ll find a perfect home. joined a dozen other cleaned up pooches and speed date. the mood set, a little wine and cheese. speed dating for dogs. and in minutes here in orlando, kabob finds chemistry. big date night. what do you think of kabob. i love him. you love him? you just met him. that s all it takes. this underscores a serious problem in the united states. too many dogs, not enough owners. only 56% of the dogs that go to shelters are put to sleep. euthanized. which means kill. a couple other there i want to see. jess and margaret want to be part of the solution. i love him. what s going on, huh? as for norville love at first sight. it really is speed dating. he found his new love cindy wiggins in like ten seconds. unfortunately, speed dating for dogs is a lot like speed dating for humans. you don t always wind up with a match. but, oh, there you go. there s always next time. speed dating for dogs, because for so many of these guys, time is running out. for today, kerry sanders, nbc news, orlando. ahead, a remarkable new look for chifrp attack victim, charla nash. her new face for the first time. but first, your local news and weather. good morning, everybody. i m jim handly. time 7:56 on this thursday, august 11. today there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate the 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bobby flay is in the house. bobby. it s raising the bounty. we love when flay is in the house. smells terrific. a little later. go inside. natalie is standing by at the newsdesk with a look at all of the headlines, good morning. good morning, it s an anxious morning on wall street. the day after the dow plummeted 540 pounds over fears of the u.s. and world economy. the dow is down 16% from its high back in april. this morning, asia s markets were mixed and london s ftse has gone up and down in early trading. the republican presidential candidates will face off tonight in the first iowa debate two days before the crucial straw poll there. meantime, texas governor rick perry is expected to jump into the race this weekend. and potential candidate sarah palin arrives in iowa also today. three siblings accused in a multistate crime spree are in custody after a week on the run. leigh grace dougherty and brothers ryan and dylan were captured after a shootout near colorado city. leigh grace was shot in the leg as she was captured but her injuries are not life threatening. churches in missouri are looking frantically this morning for a 3-year-old girl who vanished near her home this weekend. we have the latest from senath, missouri, good morning. authorities said they found a couple of items that could be potential evidence in this case, not far from the family s home. but this morning, no sign of 3-year-old brianne rodriguez. the search for 3-year-old brianne rodriguez turned to a wooded area just a mile from her home. k-9 teams tackling heavy brush and the sheriff hoped the specially trained cadaver dogs wouldn t find what they were trained to uncover. this is not the first time you ve been through here? no, we ve been here a couple of times today. but sometimes you miss things. what led them to this isolated patch of land? the police chief tells nbc news the investigation has turned up potential news. you have dogs out here today. what are you looking for? why this specific area? this area was of interest. we have another that we detected. breanne s parents said she disappeared saturday as she was riding her bike on the dead end street near her home. they believe someone abducted her. what have you heard from the police today? they said they re working on it and as soon as they find something, they re going to call us. on wednesday, friends and neighbors gathered at sundown for another vigil as much to comfort breeanns s parents as themselves. and authorities are looking for a late-model white van that could be tied to this case. natalie, back to you. we hope for a break in the case there. thanks so much. brian williams has a preview of what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. brian? good morning, coming up tonight on nightly news, tough troubled young people who found peace and purpose in an unlikely place and they work hard for the privilege. interesting story. have it for you tonight. natalie, for now, back to you. now for a look at what s trending today. a quick roundup of what has you talking online. a new poll about the most hated person in america is the top ten. number one is casey anthony followed by spencer platt and octomom nadia sulieman. there s a question encouraging burt and ernie to get married. it would prompt a positive message to young people. the latest craze, deep-fried butter. yes, you heard that right. it was a big hit on the texas state fair. but you might want to keep the cardiologist on speed dial. it sounds with al. al s pick city today is brought to you by the capital one venture card. what s in your wallet? and our pick city today happens to be los angeles. hey, did you know that if the city of los angeles were a state it would be the fourth largest state in the united states? 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[ laughs ] i m proud to be a grill master. i love food. my name is charles himple. i m a red lobster grill master, and i sea food differently. back now at 8:10 with the latest chapter of charla nash s amazing recovery. in may, she underwent a face transplant. we re about to see her new face for the very first time. it may be disturbing that the transformation is really remarkable. jeff ross has the story. hey, jeff? hi, ann, good morning. charla nash was attacked in the highway behind me. it was violent. travis the jifrp ripped off her face and her hand, her survival, a medical miracle. that wouldn t been bthe only miracle. charla nash has a new face and this morning you re about to see it for the first time. the transformation has been difficult to watch from beautiful vibrant mother to helpless victims, disfigured and unrecognizable. after the attack, charla nash wore a veil to cover herself. travis the chimp came at her with such force, charla never stood a chance. he s killing my friend. who s killing your friend? my chimpanzee. it took off charla s nose, mouth, and hands and left her permanently blind. doctors saved her life, but wouldn t stop there. attempting the country s first ever double hand and face transplants. charla spoke with nbc news just weeks before her life-changing operation. this is my face and hands together. that would be nice. be able to do everything on my own. these are the first images of charla s new face revealed this morning for the first time. her brother and teenage daughter, briana were at the hospital when the ban daniels ca bandages came off. the progress is stunning. this photo was taken two months after the surgery two months ago. this is charla today. the swelling has gone down and her new face has molded to her bone structure. i think she s pretty impatient as to the recovery. but she s recovering very well. her speech is getting much better. she s been getting up and she s starting to eat. charla is still too weak to give an interview, but told us, i m beginning to feel my jaw and chin and i can move my mouth and smile. yes, yes. can you smell charlie? yeah. reporter: charla is now breathing on her own now. and remember, she hasn t eaten solid foods since the attack. her first meal, eggs with cream cheese. i still feel weak, charla told us, but little by little, i m getting stronger. charla has been doing well. she s met all of her milestones so far and has been stronger every day both mentally and physically. the surgery took more than a dozen doctors and lasted 20 hours. there were complications, though, after the operation. and charla s new hand had to be removede e removed. her new face took and has already changed her life. today charla is in intensive therapy and for the first time since the attack, she s able to do things most of us take for granted, eating, talking, smelling. doctors aren t sure when she ll have full function back in her face. all depends on her progress. but so far, they like what they see. and for charla s family, there s new hope after years of such pain. ann. jeff rossen, thank you so much. rossen s brother, steve and daughter briana are joining us exclusi exclusively. good morning to both of you. a miracle? what other word would you use? you ve been watching her face form over this period of time. the last time we talked to you, she was in icu. what has it been like to see her emerge again. it s good to see the rapid progress and a happiness a new hope has been sparked. and it s so nice to see her ready to get at it again. what about for you, steve? initially after the operation, she was quite sick. so i was there for like two weeks and i don t know if she said ten words to me during that time. and so from that point and now they interviewed her this morning. they got her to talk, you know, they mentioned her statements and everything. and her optimism is, you know, back again and so we re quite ecstatic. the idea that now there s the possibility, the beginning of her own ability to smile. i see you smiling too. and just thinking about that. what does that mean to your family? what does that mean to charla? just for her to make an expression, something that we ve had to take from her words before, just nice that she her body language can express how she feels. hitting all of the milestones, doctors say, breathing on her own, smelling, eating solid food. it really is amazing. at the same time, she has faced such a grueling challenge after the other. shortly after the surgery, she had to have both hands removed because of the complications. what would you have to say about her resiliency? first, i want to mention that the hands were a successful transplant. there were complications with pneumonia that made it so that the doctors say they didn t thrive. there s no circulation to the hands or not enough circulation. so i forgot the question. she wants independence. yeah. it s got to hurt to not have the hands. got to hurt her emotions. how has she stayed strong? all she said was just like with the attack that we re going to start from this point and look forward, you know? and very optimistic that the face thrives and looking forward to the next attempt at the transplant. there will be another effort to transplant her snands many more surgeries planned? what is the future? i know for now, we re worried about her getting her strength back and just in general getting her back on her feet and used to her face. and just wondering about the steps in the process. you don t know who donated so that your mother could have her face? no. but i what would you say to that person s family. what they ve done for us is so amazinamazing. i m so thankful. this has given my mom the hope to move forward and a chance at a life again. you want to encourage other people to donate if they can? right, this is a good opportunity to mention the people that they should prepare for that event now that the loved ones can express the opinion on what they wan to do. it s just modern science moving forward, you know? but if they do consult with their loved ones, they know the feelings and make an educated decision. we re so happy to see your familiar moving forward. briana, look at you smiling. there you are, briana, thanks for being here. it s been great. we re back after this. there s only one way to really take care of your pet s fleas and ticks. and that s with the highest quality medicines available. so, for years, i would offer frontline. but now i have a new recommendation one that can be found right in this store. petarmor plus. it has the same active ingredients and the same flea and tick protection as frontline, but costs about half the price. always give your dogs and cats the best. and now, for a lot less. new petarmor plus. same protection as frontline, at about half the cost. only at walmart and sam s club. hey parents, it s going to be a see, i m not just teaching woodwinds and strings. i m teaching attitude! if your kids want to sound cool, they have to look cool! so, here s what they ll need: denim, graphic tees, leggings and tunics, more denim, backpacks, headphones, hair gel, denim, converse one star shoes, denim, shaun white hoodies and denim. school takes a lot. target has it all. 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(announcer) choosey moms, and dads, choose jif. this morning on reque today kitchen cook twg the bounty of fruits and vegetables cooking with bobby flay. welcome back. we get to cooking. yes. no! no you re playing yourself on entourage . you re playing a fictional version of flay. there s a flays in l.a. doesn t exist. i m singleton show. but having an affair with ari s wife. but married to my wife stephanie in real life. how s this story line playing out at home? the actress that play terry reid and my wife are good friends. you might want to keep it that way. relishes now. the first is a corn and onion relish over here. tell me about it. here s what i m thinking. summer is you can almost see the close of summer. let s get to the bounty of summer. when i go to the farmer s market, as i m sure you do, to me, the three things i see a lot of aretomatoes, corn, and peaches. why not utilize it in a unique way. fish tacos. i make them a lot at home in the summer and for lunch. and i can make a corn in and onion relish. and, of course the spiciness of onions goes right with the sweetness of corn? right. so what i do for the corn relish is grill the corn, shuck the corn. if you don t want to, make sure you cook it and take it off when it s cool. i add balsamic vinegar to this. again, another great summer ingredient is fresh basil, of course. salt and pepper and move on. it gathers a little bit. the onion takes over, doesn t it? exactly right. tell me about the peach you cook peaches a little bit. they bring out more of the natural flavors for the point. what i like to do is put a little ginger in there, fresh ginger, to cut the sweetness. it s fresh ginger, peaches, i cook them a little bit. i add green onions and cilantro. but i was reading you add some uncooked peaches to this same thing. is that consistency? a little bit of contrast and texture. if you throw the hot pieces over the uncooked peaches, they ll cook a little bit. you want to keep the extra peaches as well. put honey in there. a little bit of honey. instead of making tacos, you can take a fillet and add a little bit of this ginger peach relish right to it. this is just from the farmer s market right to the table. you can use the corn relish on this too. yeah. absolutely. this is great for any kind of grilled fish. citrus from fresh lime and a little bit of oil and i pour it over the top of the grilled fish and it s light and it enhances the flavor. you make the taco and you take the fish fillet and crumble it. you break it up any way you wan to. take that vinaigrette and start making our tacos. gor corn relish, tomatoes, lime, corn tortillas, and just away. can almost see the end of summer. we re back with much more 8:26 is your time. 73 degrees. a beautiful day in the nation s capital. enjoy it. tom will have your forecast in a moment. good morning to you. i m eun yang. thursday august 11, 2011. in the news4 today, backlick road in fairfax county is back open following a deadly accident. three people killed in a crash near i-95. a pickup lost control, tore across the median, struck an suv and a car. the cause is under investigation. we ll take a quick break now. weather and traffic next. woman: working for cox is not for the faint of heart. i love what i do. i enjoy the work, but it s a very hectic pace. let s go, don t want to miss a thing strayer university met my needs in terms of my family, my work/life balance. the fact that leading companies are hiring strayer graduates is impressive, but it s not surprising. these companies want us so badly. i m felicia blow, and i earned my mba from strayer university. good morning. sunny, 70s most areas. later today, sunshine, low humidity, highs upper 80s. tomorrow cloudy, not humidity. storms late saturday night and off and on through the day sunday. we have congestion in our area. travel on 270, the good news, as you head south towards the spur, nothing slowing you down. no accidents either direction on 270. 395 delays start from the beltway and continue as you make your way towards the 14th street bridge. thanks so much. more news, weather, traffic for you in 8:30 on a thursday morning, august 11, 2011. just 137 shopping days left until christmas. oh, boy. those are the world-famous radio city rockettes performing a wish you a rockette christmas one of the brand new number from the christmas spectacular. november 11 to january 2. tickets are now on sell. the radio city rockettes, ladies. thank you very, very much. merry christmas, i guess. good to see you. al roker and natalie morales. more great entertainment coming up tomorrow when the zac brown band will be here for the summer concert. we want to mention what s coming up in this half-hour. we ll talk about the latest gadgets for students of all ages. it includes an alarm clock that will have your kids jumping out of bed to go to school. jumping out of school okay. we need that, also, have you looked forward to a pile of work at your office? maybe to keep you at work a little longer so you don t have to go home and face your kids. it happens. a lot of us, i think, get so burdened a lot when you get to taking care of other kids. apparently, we ll be talking about a new survey survey some y stay at school longer. don t see a lot of that. it s terrible. first, a check of the weather. absolutely. let s see a look ahead to our weekend. first, for tomorrow, risk of strong storms in the mid-mississippi river valley, up into the plains. beautiful out west. heat continues there. mild along the east coast. saturday rain moves in. sunshine in the western two-thirds. and then sunday, sunday, looking at heavy rain in the northeast. into the mid-atlantic stated. more rain through the southwest. sunny, hot out west. that s what s going on around country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. bright sparkling sun, blue sky, low humidity. gorgeous summer day. around the region in the 70s. today we ll get into the upper 80s with lots of sun and low humidity. tomorrow more of the same, though it may be have more clouds in the afternoon. but then on saturday getting more humid. increasing clouds. isolated thunder show. a likelihood of showers and storms late saturday, on off and on that s the latest weather. we want to tell you about a great idea coming to the weather channel with the best of twitter and the weather channel. they re teaming up with twitter to bring you the weather channel social. it will allow you for the first time to see all of the weather-related tweets for your city through your local forecast, on the web or on the mobile phone. join the conversation, head to weather.com/social. and you ll need your zip code. check your zip code and get all of the tweets. as a matter of fact, a lot of the social networking has been helpful and beneficial in the severe weather in the last year. great. thanks for that information. when we come back, our survey of what mom said about that. but first, here s today on nbc. okay, you re the good cop. i m the bad cop. look, it s still a great time to refinance. listen up, buster! we re not gonna pay any closing fees. i d do what she says, friend. i can t control her. well, it s the no closing fee refinance, so we pick up the closing fees. oh, you re gonna pick up the closing fees? 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[ male announcer ] visit capital one bank today to refinance your mortgage, and we ll pick up, on average, $3,300 at closing. what s in your wallet? i m good. back now at 8:38. back with the special series, real mom secrets. this morning, what moms confess to doing in our today s mom s blog and parenting.com survey to get a break from their kids. every mom needs an escape. sometimes at the end of the day, the greatest reward is bedtime. you d be surprised what they ll do to bring order to the home. i let my kids have soda with breakfast on the weekends, it was like magic. sometimes you use whatever you work. adults it s a bonus or incentive, it s still bribery. i don t see how it s different for children. in a survey by parenting.com, 30% of mothers say they use their job to avoid taking care of children, a stat that might hit close to home. sometimes i pretend i m busy on the computer. i can t do the 10th jam of the day. i have been known to obsessively clean the house to get out of playing little games like memory with my kids. my secret is i take my time and go down every single eye of the grocery store. even though i m only there to get a few things. 53% of moms would rather have a night of uninterrupted sleep than sex. no, no, no doing whatever it takes for shut eye. i pretend to be a sleep for my husband. the editor and director of parenting.com which helped to conduct this survey and dr. nancy schneiderman is the chief medical editor. good morning to you. good morning to both of you. what did you find about the length that some moms will go to get a little piece and quiet. it s amazing. it runs it gamut of the innocuous i will run through every aisle of the grocery store which i have to say i d if with. i pretend i m working. i let my kids watch too much tv so i can get some peace and quiet. it goes on from there to extreme measures too. it tells us the significant number of moms feel they need breaks. 23% say they missed their alone time most. 14% they miss their prebaby body most. sleep and 13% said spontaneity. i think that alone time is low. we tend to think that women who want alone time are selfish. that s exactly wrong. i think this is self-preservational. women put themselves on the back burner. when we have given to our kids and husbands and our friends and family, we really run out of steam. that s when we get sick or frankly feel like we re going to fall apart. one, i think a lot of the women are fibbing and they should be saying i think the numbers are all higher. but then let s get back to the society and say, of course you can get some time by yourself, that s how you recharge your batteries. a healthy thing to do. help you to prevent something else. 18% of children have calmed him or her down with a long car ride or plane ride. 8% medicated their child on a regular night just to have some peace and quiet. if you get to that point, obviously you need some alone time. i think it covered yeah. absolutely. we think you know, people don t know what they re doing it. it s so common, parenting.com, momstoday.com. talking to moms, we talk to moms all the time. did you ask what they re doing to medicate their kids? cough syrup or what are we talking about? ranges from i give my kids a tiny bit of alcohol at night to get them to sleep. whoa, whoa are you serious? the alcohol a glass or a sip of wine. this is a response. she said i gave my kids a tiny bit of alcohol a night. i don t know what tiny means. that comes from generations and generations and generations of moms with colicky babies. they put the pacifier in whiskey. the joke was put the pacifier in rum and you should take a swig. it calms down. that turned to over-the-counter medications like antihistamines that caused drowsiness. i think that number is low. a lot of parents take their kids on long trips will give them something. there s no standard for pediatricians to say, okay, you can medicate your kids other than some kind of medical procedure. and don t assume if you give your child a medication it s going to sedate them, sometimes it revs them up. get to the last number, the 53% of moms surveyed said they would opt for a night of uninterrupted sleep versus a satisfying sex with their partner. you think that s lower too? 80% at least. you telling me you ve never been there. of course. we made them you d choose both if you could. if you had to pick one yeah, sleep. men, be warned. that s the reality. that s why we wear flannel! thanks, nancy, so much. on that note, we have to leave. oh, well. coming up next, some styles, the hottest back to school up in the morning and out to school 8:45. this morning on back to school today, gadgets for your tech savvy students all of the cool kids in school will be using the latest tech gadgets. digital life style expert mario urkel arm strong here. let s start off with saving parents money. if they don t do their homework, they can miss out on savings. what s the suggestion? two main things. schools have prearranged deals already for the vendors alrey. if you shop unline or on-line o store, have proof you have a student in school. lap tops, standard operating equipment for a lot of students. you have one that s not expensive. $399. a g-16. a great performance. for $399. comes in a variety of colors. 15-inch screen size. not too heavy. not too small. memory, 2 gigs. i would recommend bumping up the random access memory or the processor. this is going to last for a little while. no. won t have to upgrade every year. every kid carries a backpack. these are cocoon innovations. inside there s an organizer for all your cables and wires. it makes it easy and complete. it s waterproof or resistant. a build-in stowaway cover inside the bottom of the backpack. rain yea day, you know what will happen? how much? $70. great. tell me about this over here. the i safe backpack. great for kids 8 and up. a security feature, like regular backpack and everything else. if the kid is in danger, there s an alarm to emit a loud alarm and flashing lights. what s the cost on that one? $50. keeping the lap top shape. lojack. they recovered 20,000 lap tops from this particular software. the way it works is you file a police report and they recover a team from absolute to track it down. how much is the service. $39 or $59 for the premium. buy one, get one free. reliable printers, very important. not the printer that costs so much. nine times it s the ink and the kar cartridges. love that, compact, dorm room. it s wireless. you can share it among family members and it does scanning and copying. it s no problem. going to be fine. you won t run through it every week paying more money on it. talk to me about this. web cam. this is a logicam web cam. they re great for kids traveling and going away and you want to see your kids. this should come with a conversation. you want to make sure that your kids are not capturing things on the web cam they ll be sorry about later. good safety point right there. but i think this is a way for you instead of picking up the phone to talk to my son orp daughter, i want to see them, how they re going on. what s going on in school. that s right. i skype a lot. i love that. talk to me about the alarm clock. everybody has challenges getting up. especially when we start back in september. this alarm clock is the sonic boom. it vibrates and has a loud noise. i put this vibration in my kid s mattress and it literally shakes the bed. he didn t like it he didn t know i was doing it. for example, let me see if i can make it do this. he didn t know i was going to do it for him. here s the hour, 8:48. the alarm is set. and that will get you out of bed. put that in your mattress. thank you. all right. taking notes with a pen and paper no longer. you can use this to record. sony recorder. you can pick up lectures from afar and record over 500 hours. and downloading textbooks, save a lot of money this way. 80%. people think you have to carry heavy textbooks. go to amazon, look for your listing for textbooks, see if they re on-line to rent instead of carrying the textbooks around. talk to me about the software. evernote, a free application, three different devices, a phone, tablet, or computer. when i take notes on class, i can do it on any of the devices. they re all synced up. great research tool, powerful. i keep my notes from in school. thank you very much. appreciate it. up next, the lighter side of sports. spanning the world with lynn ber mapp. but first this, is today on nbc. back now at 8:50. good friend lynn berman is here to take us on a wild ride of sports. good morning. good morning. see this month s feature. the all-star baseball game and the end of the nfl walkout. what were truly the top sports stories. let s go spanning the world. unbelievable. all right. on your mark, get set, and a cirque du soleil first pitch. all right. play ball! in soccer, you can bend it like beckham. no, really, that s david beckham with a goal. yeah, or blast it like bing hamm, goalie bing hamm for san jose, 90 yards for the score. here s my favorite. australian rules football. they don t let you do that over here. miguel jimenez. you put your left foot in, you do the hokeypokey. oh, the twins, and safe. how about the seniors at wimbledon. a little backhand, forehand, back oh, this could go on all day. how about golfster martin kimer putting out of a helicopter and no! yeah, right? what s parker doing 200 miles per hour in a funny car. it would be nice if the steering wheel didn t break off in his hand. that s a tour de france, the car gets in close to the action. the motocross, it s chad reid. every one of these highlights. nobody got hurt! right. the genius of the month, the running of the bulls, he decides to go naked. and the bull decides too. he wasn t hurt either. the hot dogs. i don t believe that. the united everett soccer player went backwards on a penalty kick. that s not sportsman like, is it? then they tried it in manchester city right in the game. he missed his shot. the coach was not amused and then he benched him. and when rapino scored from the u.s. and she got musically patriotic. born in the usa our invocation of the month. nascar, please rise for pastor joe nelms. lord i want to thank you for my smoking hot wife tonight, please forgive me. religious, huh? and the baseball game, david is the human home run. he proceeds to blast himself out of the park. oh! it is gone! oh, my gosh! human home run. hey, it s a living, right? thank you so much. just ahead, ways to stay cool and chic in the dog days of summer. but first, the local news and weather. i knew you d like that. it is now 8:56. 74 degrees. good morning to you. i m eun yang. thursday, august 11, 2011. tomorrow night the redskins will take on the pittsburgh steelers for the preseason opener. quarterback john beck is out. he s nursing an injury. the same goes for chris cooley. coach shanahan has not released his plan for how long the starters will play. watch the skins first preseason game against the steelers tomorrow here on nbc 4. coverage starts at 7:30 with the post game report afterwards. go skins. weather and traffic next. good morning. sunny, upper 70s now, later today upper 80s. sun, low humidity. low humidity tomorrow but more mumd saturday could get showers and storms saturday night and sunday. congestion remains in our area, starting with the outer loop of the beltway in maryland. slow from colesville road toward the mormon temple. i-66, delays at suddenly and continue to centreville. we re back now with more today on a thursday morning. the 11th day of august, 2011. nice people hanging out on the plaza. al has provided just a picture perfect morning. we thank him for that. we thank them for stopping by. coming up, our professionals are back. talking about this week? we have hot issues. saw the controversial cover with michelle bachmann. some say it was a cheap shot for newsweek to put that photograph on the cover. we ll talk about that. and the age-old debate about whether it s okay to breastfeed in public. star jones and nancy schneiderman and donny deutsch about that. donny s done that. the weather is really nice today. but it s hard to figure out what to wear, good advice to go beyond the shorts and tank tops to get you through the last weeks of summer. natalie loves to run, i run to eat. we ve done some races. morales boot camp. imagine running from boston to san francisco. there s a group of runners competing in a 3100 mile race around one square block. natalie had to check it out. speaking of natalie. let s go inside. standing by at the newsdesk. good morning again. good morning to you once again. good morning, everyone. it s been a deadly day for americans in afghanistan. five u.s. troops were killed this morning in a roadside bombing. 51 international service members have been killed so far this month. most of them americans. more uneasiness today on worldwide stock markets. stocks are down in asia and in europe this morning following wednesday s drop of almost 520 points on the dow. the dow is now down 2,000 points in the last three weeks. and today, president obama heads to michigan to talk about jobs. meantime, republican presidential candidates square off tonight for a debate in iowa. with the economy expected to be a big topic. a straw poll takes place in iowa on saturday. three fugitive siblings are in custody in colorado after a nationwide man hunt that lasted more than a week. the so-called dougherty gang was captured wednesday after shots were fire in a high-speed chase ended in the crash. the three are accused of shooting at a florida police officer and robbing a bank in georgia. and today, police in london are carrying out raids looking for people involve in four days of violence in that city. london was mostly calm overnight, but tensions there remain high. officials say britain will look to the u.s. for help in fighting the gangs blamed for the riots. and a pony in germany needed help getting out of a tough spot after it fell and got stuck inside a wheel from a tractor. the firefighters were able to cut the pony free from the wheel of misfortune. the pony often gets in trouble because you might say it likes matt and ann.d. and al. it s nice. i just got this. yes, the artist is right here and she s so good. your name? janet. janet. rupple. she did one of you, too. i took it inside. fantastic. thank you. thank you. let s talk about the weather. one for me, too, i have one upstairs. maybe she ll do one of the nets. in jersey but coming to brooklyn? when do you play in brooklyn? september 2012. all right. very nice. thanks for coming you brought a basketball. look at that. we ll play a little basketball. anyway, let s check your weather, see what s happening. we ll see that we ve got showers and thunderstorms making that way through the lower mississippi valley. strong storms in the northern plains. that s where we have a risk of strong storms stretching down into mississippi. beautiful out west. along the west coast, temperature perfect. pacific northwest into southern california. rain down in miami. thunderstorms later today. sizzling weather continues through texas, dallas, its 40th day of 100-plus readings. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. for the first time in five days, we may not make it to 90. we ve got the low humidity in place now, temperatures in the upper 70s, later today upper 80s. sun, low humidity, and then tomorrow, not humid highs upper 80s. morning lows low 60s, clouds around, increasing clouds and humidity saturday. highs upper 80s. might get an isolated shower or thunder shower saturday. likelihood of showers and storms around sunday, ending sunday evening, dry first parts your l weather. savannah? al, thanks. time now for another installment of today s professionals. that s right, our panel of power players back. here to take down the hottest headlines and studies making news, star jones is an attorney, author, and tv personality. donny deutsch is chairman of deutsche incorporated, a multibillion dollar advertising agency. but wait, there s more. nancy schneiderman is a head and neck surgeon. take that. nbc chief medical editor. good morning to all of you smarties. good morning. let s talk about newsweek s cover of michellebackman. she s a republican presidential candidate who s getting a lot of momentum in iowa right now. that s the cover shot they chose with the headline, the queen of rage. this raised a lot of eyebrows, dr. nancy s among them. you think this is sexist? sexist, ridiculous, not fair. the inside copy. the word rage is never used. and there is an isolated picture standing in a room that looks like the oval office and looks like she s crying and isolated. she s charismatic and engaging and this made her look cool and mean. donny deutsch can say whatever he wants, he s wrong. a long history of time out here. going to be what is politically biassed, not racially not sexually biassed. oh, you agree it s biassed. it s biassed. i can show you a cover of newt gingrich with hair coming out of his nose. first, why can t they make a statement. that was a real picture. they didn t air touch her. it s not a flattering article. why can t you write an unflattering biassed article. the article does not match the headline or the pictures. but i have to say, if someone who really defends b main stream media a lot, it leads right into and gives credence to the blessed bias. you want people to suck it up. she wants women to run for president. it s a big job. suck it up, man up, put your big girl pumps on. wait a minute but women need to stop with the, oh, they re picking on me because i m a woman. by the way if you want to be in the game, put your big girl pumps on and get in the game. michelle bachmann did not complain about it. but women all over america who are professionals are the ones i m also talking about. we have to step it up. we cannot expect to play on an even playing field if every time it looks like they make us cry or they make us emotional, we whine. as the man between the two women, give points to star. i love you like a sister. but okay. all right, trying to get slammed. john binger cries repeatedly. oh well. newspapers have a long history of picking up flattering portraits. i mean, showed a sign the other day with his face in a scowl. and with the swimming trunks on on one of the one of the national magazines for goodness sake. let s move on to a topic donny is uniquely qualified to discuss. unfaithfully yours. in a new study in the archives of sexual behavior, men why i mentioned donny, men who suffer from nonperformance in the bedroom are more likely to cheat. explain this, if a guy has issues in the bedroom, why does he want to go out and cheat? it s foreign to me. mm-hmm. it s counterintuitive. it makes sense. he needs to prove himself some place else. with a stranger no pressure. the person he s with, that would be the most comfortable place obviously, pathetic and sad, he needs to prove something some place else. medically, is there any explanation? sure. it s easy to bored get bored with a partner. you can blame your performance on a partner. and they re on an adrenaline rush, anxiety, danger. that makes you or allows you to do things you probably wouldn t otherwise. so i think looking for other partners is not a crime. what do you think? it s a little bit of a moral cop-out. people don t take their vows seriously anymore. really? of marriage? i haven t been following that in the media. 50% of divorces in the last 20 years. it feels good, you do it. if the maid is handy, you sleep with her and you get her pregnant. i mean, you they do that every that s a big reach. but i mean there are some men who just make choices. there are women who make choices. and people who take the vows seriously and have a moral compass higher than a hyenas would not you think monogamy is normal? no. you think monogamy is unnatural. i can t believe i just said that. no i think i have to biological, you have to work hard at it. we re going to say i m going to say something very controversial. i can t believe get ready. if you ask a lot of me and women what their ideal life would be, having children, basically having their spouse live a block away. having family, having freedom half the time, having a family half the time. i think that s what we re wired for. we socialize in other directions. it s not like oh i m not saying it s right. i think that s if people are honest. you see a lion with a bunch of lion ness and the lioness goes over here and raises a teeny tiny lion i don t know where we are in this, but i agree with donny. you think monogamy is unnatural. i think it s biologically not normal. but society gives structure to children. i m working really hard at it. i don t know how we got from that study to this. it will be a good topic for next week. moving on to breastfeeding in public. once again, this issue has been raised. a mother was kicked off of a bus in detroit for nursing her infant son. the driver was suspended as a result and ignited this debate again. dr. nancy, i guess the issue of whether it s proper to breastfeed in public, is there a biological imperative of a nursing mother if she wants to go on with a nursing life, she will have to nurse in public? what is a problem in society when a mother wants to feed her child and she happens to be breast fielding we get wiggy. we re so puritanical about not wanting to see a breast but we have no problem watching the victoria s secret models. it s crazy. you have to go to the bathroom but you don t do that in public. what if i said that, i would get in big trouble. busting me look, i think it s a beautiful thing. the only place that i would get a little uncomfortable is if i were with my 8-year-old daughter. them i have to get a whole discussion she a woman has the right to do that. i would never get up. personally, that would be the only time i would have to get into a discussion and she would say, well, did mommy breastfeed me. but a woman should be able to do what you want. we say breastfeeding is natural and feeding a child is the most natural thing. but at some point, don t we have to make some modesty decisions on whether or not a child at 4 or 5 years old needs to be breast fed. no, forget it. if a kid can ask for a happy meal, the kid should not be breast fed. if you re going to breastfeed in public, be discrete. moms are usually modest. they have a towel or blanket. people don t think they should. a lot of people don t think i was not breast fed. can we move on. that explains a lot. okay. for donny. yeah. let s move on. i know last week on this segment, you guys had a spirited debate on this topic, a growing number of teenage students blogged on advertised themselves as sugar babies looking for a sugar daddy. in return, the young women used money from the older men to pay off college debt. you and dr. nancy, star, basically you said prostitution. before we ask you, brandon wade is it the founder of one of the most popular of these websites called seekingarrangements.com. good morning, thank you for being with us. good morning, thank you for having me. let me have you respobd to what panelists think about your website which is it s dressed up prostitution. it can t be prostitution. legally speaking, prostitution is money for sex. money in exchange within the context of a relationship. what s wrong with the husband giving the wife some money, or a rich boyfriend giving the girlfriend some money. in this case, it s simply a sugar daddy giving some sugar baby some money with the context of the relationship with a chemistry,romance. there s nothing wrong with that. may not be legal prostitution. but doesn t it walk right up to the line? i don t think so. i mean prostitution means there s no chemistry. people here, you know, there s nothing wrong with a woman wanting to be with wealthy and generous men. i think people say maybe the website, you know, take advantages of women. but in reality, the women who use the website, i feel, is empowered to better their life. you say those who do these arrangements is like a negotiation. it s very open and transparent. by the way, 40% of the men on the website are married, you say? yes, that s correct. ding, ding, ding and this is chemistry. there s chemistry with a married man and a black card that the married man has. let him respond very quickly and we ll turn to our panel. it s great. it s a relationship. every relationship can start off with a negotiation. would p wouldn t the world be a better place if we could be up front and tell people what it is they have? what is it they want. i believe in brutal honesty. we ll leave it there. seekingarrangements..com. thanks for joining our group today. i heard a lot of mumbles and outright yelling. you still say this is prostitution. you re not convinced. legally, he s correct. it s not prostitution. but morally and ethically, the women know it. it s dressed up in an ivy league education, but simple prostitution. you expect renumeration for sexual favors. i m not sitting in judgment. i m giving an evaluation based on the facts which i m supposed to do. there are many women out there, i do not fault them, who are with men for financial reasons and that s their choice and the man s choice. who are we to sit in judgment if a young girl wants to go to college. how would you feel if your daughter did that? my daughter is in a socioeconomically different position. she wouldn t be. but my daughter, if she ever later in her life for security reasons was going to be making choices that for her well being, that s what she s going to do. these are women who don t come from the same social we re so siding i d logically. if it boils down to she doesn t get her college debt paid for unless she has sex with one of the guys on the website. one of the guys you went out to dinner with last week. these are not my friends. yeah. could be. well, i will tell you i came down on with star last week saying this is any way you want to look at it, the oldest profession in the world. my 23-year-old, the recent graduate of a prestigious women s college called me and took me out and said you are out of your league, you are out of touch. and the young websites that were taking me to tasks were right on. she said she has friends who went out for $4,000 a night as arm candy as she called it and there s nothing wrong with it. i happen to think my 23-year-old daughter is flat wrong. and now the whole world knows it. not thyeah, great and we want a little bit more we want you to open up a little bit more. oh, no, no. no, i m just the vehicle for your opinions. all right, star jones, donny deutsch, dr. nancy. a head and neck surgeon. if you have an idea, log on to our website today.com or tweet us@today show. still to come, choosing the right clothes to keep you cool for summer. how to update your style with affordable looks. but up next, a grueling 3100 mile race all around one new york city block. how can they do that? 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yeah. life is one big circle. why would anyone do this? this is he s won the race seven times. what s on your place list? what keeps you going. i listen to a lot of alba. alba? on this seven-week journey, each runner consumes about 10,000 calories a day. and goes through about a dozen pair of sneakers. the race is the brain child of a bengali spiritual leader who believed running symbolized the search for inner peace of self-ran sself self-rself self-transcendence. it s mind over body every step of the way. quite a lead. for the runners, the volunteers and spectators alike, it s not the race to the end, it s about a journey. when you see the runners across the finish line, words can t express the look on their faces. really priceless. and the 3100 mile race finished up a few weeks ago with the finish runner finishing the 3100 miles in 34 days. in third place, truly an incredible feat for all of the runners. unbelievable what they put their bodies through. not to mention up here. wow. and to do all of that running on almost no sleep. they run till midnight. start at 6:00 a.m. the next morning. vigorous. yeah. determination. we re going to be right back after these messages. promise flights for 25,000 miles, but. 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an accident on the 14th street bridge. a live look, you are delayed slow as you cross the bridge and in d.c., new york avenue, you re going to see delays as you pass the washington times plant. but you will see relief as you make your way towards bladensburg. back to you. thank you. more news, weather, traffic in 25 minutes. back to the today show. adios and valle con dios yeah i m leaving today and if it weren t for tequila and pretty senoritas i d have no reason to stay zac brown studied classical voice? he s the toast of nashville and the zac brown band to be on the plaza to kick a little country to our weekend. that s coming up tomorrow. live on today, spectacular weather. yeah, the perfect day for a little country. if you want to vote for the songs they ll play, you can do that, toes, chicken fridayed, or as she s walking away. text 1, 2, or 3, to 622639. they are hugely popular. this is going to be a crowded plaza. coming up, beating the heat with a cool style for the summer. which fabrics and cuts you should add to your wardrobe to keep you from melting in the summer sun, especially in august. you know how it can get. and today s kitchen, we re going to hit the farmer s market for locally grown produce, all of the ramg lately. take advantage of all of the fresh goodies with seasonal recipes for you. but first, we want to tell you that it s international assistance dog week. the spokesperson and trainer from guiding eyes for the blind. you brought jordy with us. yes, i did. such an important role that you guys play. tell us about it? it s important for all of the amazing things the service dogs do for individuals and it brings a lot of awareness that the dogs do have access to any place in public is allowed to have market and small restaurants as well. helps with awareness as well. on guiding eye for the blind, you guys i used to live right here where you guys do the training. see you on the road. when people want to try to help, to try to figure out what to do, how do they get in touch? okay, guiding eyes we don t charge anything for any of our services so people can apply. we breed, train, and provide life-long support for our graduates for no cost at all. if people want information, they can go to the website guidingeyes.org. gerald and jordi, thank you. let s check your weather quickly. show you what s happening for the weekend ahead. tomorrow strong storms midsection of the country, up into the plains. sizzling in the midsection. heat will continue saturday. dallas will break its cons consecutive 100-degree reading. sunday, sunday, more heavy rain in the northeast up and down the eastern seaboard. western two-thirds not bad. monsoonal moisture in the northwest. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. we are celebrating another day with low humidity here in as we approach mid-august, we ll take that. right now around the region near 80. later today upper 80s, sun, low humidity. more of the same friday but more cloud. increasing clouds, increasing humidity saturday, highs in the 80s. an isolated storm saturday but likelihood of showers and thunderstorms during the day sunday, ending sunday evening. monday, tuesday, wednesday, sunshine returns. highs in the mid to u that s the latest weather. al, thanks. coming up, keeping you cool in the dog days of summer. how to get the right look after the dog days of summer. how to get the right look after these messages. the dog days of summer. how to get the right look after these messages. seeking inspiration from the world s best yogurts for activia selects in paris we discovered the inspiration for a totally new yogurt. activia selects french so silky and smooth with lots of juicy fruit. then our search took us to beautiful greece and this thick and creamy greek yogurt, so rich and full of flavor. it was a grueling trip! try new activia french and greek yogurt. a world of great new tastes. if we re losing water, why don t we just drink water. 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as the heat gets oppressive, there are clever styling tricks to look like you beat the heat. it s all about looking fresh for you. we have good ideas today. we have great models as well to show us the ideas. look at denise before the outfit she was wearing. and here, you re going to see, she s got a little bit of sweat stains, you may not be able to see it close in that picture. she had blisters on her feet. what are persons that would make a person uncomfortable with denise, right? exactly. how would you make changes. we took her out of that dress. this happens to the best of us. every woman s instinct is to pick that flimsy dress that s breezy. most of the dresses are synthetic fabric, polyester, nylon. stay away from those. we took her out. target, $30. isn t that beautiful? cotton. that s what you want to look for. natural fibers of cotton and linen. people who wear linen perspire two times less than someone in a semisynthetic fiber. the breathability of the fiber. we took away the belt. belts are great. we love belts. but in the summer on the humid day, they re going to have sweat pooled around the middle. don t want to do that. keep the dress free and breezy. she had blisters on her feet. she had pumps on. here you opened it up. it makes it easier. exactly. if you re wearing an unyielding pump, the shoe doesn t give. the leather doesn t give way. and it can create really painful blisters. so what we waned to do was give her the polish of a pump with a comfort of a sandal. these are aerosals that were built with a breathable technology. there s height but the coarsend. look great, denise. beautiful, thank you so much. next, we have desiray. if we take a look at the picture she was wearing before, we re going to show you how to layer like a pro glitch her example. she s got a trendy maxi skirt on. you think that works. you want to layer a little bit more. what do you recommend. it elevates the style. in the summer it s hot. we loved it. it was black an opaque. so we went up to this sheer daytime sheer skirt. this is the trends for the summer. we kept the same silhouette but gave her a romper. that t-shirt she s wearing is a romper. cute little shorts that act as a slip and tank top. a perfect foundation piece. this is all wearable apparel. the piece close to your skin is the most workable. so dez rey gets hot, she can take the skirt off and look cute in the romper. if she goes in the office and it s freezing, the frigid air conditioning, she can throw a cardigan over it. layered with a long necklace makes you look a little longer and thinner. exactly. that s $5. easy shoes as well. you look great, denise. thanks so much. talk about dressing to protect. because the oppressive heat also unfortunately means oppressive sun, which you can do a lot to your skin as well. and let s see how rebecca looks in this before picture. and how what was what was wrong with rebecca in this picture? from what you can see is on top of her shirt, all of the grease stains. as you mentioned, it s not just about sweat, but it s about protection. if you put too much sun screen on, you love sun xrooep screen, too much on, it keeps you from looking through the shirt. here s a similar look. not so different from what she was wearing. she wanted to keep the same style. so she gave her the shirt. this is from unicef. this is ultra violet protection factor or ups. like spf for clothes and people outdoors have been doing it for years. the fashion industry has finally taken note. look how beautiful and tailored it is. it s $20. it will help protect you. nothing can take the place of sun screen, but this place you don t have to load up on all of the greasy oils and feel like uv rays are minimized. looks great. thanks so much, rebecca. finally, let s be breezy in the summer and colleen is our example of the model here before. and she s wearing the nice tight fitted skirt. but fitted may not be the best for summertime, right, lori? misconception that short and tight will keep you cool. if you get hot in constricting clothing, it creates an encasement effect. keep everything breezy. a breezy example. it s an a-line skirt with a smocked top. everything should be skimming your body, not sticking to it. everything you saw today was under $50. be very breezy looks to keep cool and beautiful. under $50. on budget. we love it. thank you, ladies. come back out really quickly. take one last shot. give you your due credit. thank you so much for being here and thank you, lori. great, great styles. coming up next, from the farm stands to your table, seasonal cooking in today s kitchen is coming up after this. 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yes. absolutely. ask for fileted and scaled and get it just like this. boom. simple enough. all you re going to do is add a little bit of oil to the pan. medium high heat as soon as it starts to smoke a little bit. we re going to gently drop it in. skin side down. skin side down. and what i ll let you do is i ll let you go ahead and press that down for about ten seconds per fillet. that will make sure that that will ensure that you get it really crispy on the skin there. normally you wouldn t do this like with meat. you wouldn t want the juices coming out. but it s okay. yeah, right. just otherwise the officials tend to curl up a little bit. pushing it down a little bit, it will curl up and all of a sudden relax. okay. so once you have it going. you can see we have it mostly cooked right now. and what i m going to do is i m going add a little bit of butter to the pan. this kind of as the butter melts a little bit, all you re going to do is you re going to then just baste the baste the fish with the butter. is there a point where you re going to flip this over? no, not really. you can what we ll do is we ll flip it over after we baste it. mm-hmm. just like that. and you re pretty much your fish is going to we ll turn it off. then it s pretty much ready to go. in the meantime, you have great farm standing there s a beef and fregula? no. i ve had count chocula but not fregula. similar to israeli couscous, but a little bit more flavorful. they toast it in an oven to dry it out. you roasted the beets? roasted the beets. these baby beets came from a farm. they take about 15, 25 minutes in the oven at about 400. then you skinned them so the skin come right off. they come right off. what else do we have over here? oh. over here what we ve got is different kinds of cucumbers. these are lemon cucumbers, a lot of different baby beats cut up. onions. pickled on nons. it all goes in here. all goes in. dump them in. edible flowers as well. addressing some olive oil. that s right. olive oil, lime juice. a little bit of olive oil. get that in there. here s some water krescrest. we re going to make a vinaigrette. we re going to plate this up in a second. coming up, the no nonsense loud mouth from curb your enthusiasm suzy is here. larry! but first this is today on nbc. just wanted to show the kids a plate. beautiful. beautiful. gorgeous. you re cooking it yourself as i walked in. yeah. what a guy! meanwhile, hoda and kathie lee you can see stopped by. we just smell it. if it smells good, we walk in. you smell food. okay, you know who s on with us? potty mouth woman suzi oh, we love suzy. yeah. and can weight loss rumors that slow down your results. often that happens. you know how it goes. you get derailed a little bit. exactly. starving. this is feetback right after your local news. gorgeous morning here in the nation s capital at 9:56, august 11, 2011. continuing breaking news coverage in loudoun county. firefighter rnz the scene of a possible water heater explosion in sterling. it happened inside an apartment inside ingomar terrace. no one was hurt. a crew s on the scene. go to nbcwashington.com. we ll have more at midday. a ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate the new wounded warrior barracks in bethesda, part of the meg merger that will make up the new walter reed medical center. tom? george out summer day under way. good morning. temperatures in the mid and upper 70s, low humidity and bright sun and blue sky. lots of sun today, low humidity. highs in into upper 80s. more of the same friday. over the one, more humid. could get an isolated storm. showers and storms late saturday through sunday and ending sunday evening. danella, how s late morning traffic? good news. earlier accident on the 14th street bridge is now clear and traffic is flowing. i m going to give you a live look at american legion bridge. outer loop is pretty packed but traveling at a good direction. no accidents on either side. key bridge as well, completely clear. great time to be on the roadways now. barbara, back to you. coming up on news4 midday how frb nbc news, this is today, with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody, we re so glad you re with it s thirst-day thursday, august 11th. hope you re having a good day so far. we have miss suzie essman with us today. i see her and i want to crack up. there she is with her hilarrty & ensues. we recovered from yesterday. if you saw yesterday, you know that our moms were here. they were here on official business. we were heading over to the bowl-more lanes on 44th street with our moms to film a little episode of the four of us having a mother-daughter bonding. that s mine, check it. get it, get it! where was the one before that. there s my mom, jodie. let it go no, no! it was a nightmare. hoda and her mom were the bowling babes and mom and i were the gutter gals, and i hate to admit t, but boy did we live up to our name. this was the whole scene of putting shoes on. the longest part of the shoes were finding bowwing shoes that fit us right. my mother you wouldn t let them be on camera. you would not lettthe toes make it on tv. my poor mom has worked hard all of her life. foot issues are hereditary in our family and it s not her fault that her big toe lives in a different zip code than the rest of her foot. it s not her fault. but it makes it hard to find shoes that aren t as wide as they are long. if you know what i mean. so anyway it s going to be on soon. it was fun. i laughed myself sick. sick. it was pretty funny. our matt lauer, we see him if you were up late last nightt and late for us is 10:00. he was on royal pains. and there was a scene where a doctor wants to come in and get on the today show and he approaches him in a grocery store. you get to see matt do his actingg he s so good. whoa. oh, i m sorry. oh, my you! yeah, it s me. ben affleck. my brother and i were talking on the show on friday, 9:30. he s the former e.r. doctor turned house call physician to the rich and no so rich. wait a minute, did you watch the dvd? can i be honest with you, i don t have a clue of what you re talking about. we don t have a doctor interview. this is baby aaimal week. al got the polar bears. ooh, turtles, that sucks. when i saw him lost in the, whatever movie that was in will ferrell, playing himself, he played himself so brilliantly. he reminds me of greg kinnear, matt could have an acting career. if we could only show what we talked about in the makeup room. because he s neeer funnier than when he steps through that door. we re not at liberty to discuss that. here s a question, are good friends with your husband s friends? there s a new tudy out that shows that if you have a strong relationship with a friend of your husband, it sort of emasculates your husband. he doesn t like it. and it s actually says that they actually suffer froo erectile dysfunction. which is also a theme this week. i have never found that to be the case in my life. thank goodness, or in frank s. but was there ever a time where you were too flirty with frank s friends or too close to, ann he didn t like it. frank thinks i m too flirty and close to everybody, everybody. imagine when we have eduardo in our house. imagine when kevin costner was in our house, what frank was like. frank issa caveman. frank is territorial. my woman. he really is. i remember being at an event with you guys and there was some guy who was talking to you close in your ear. about you, but frank didn t knoo that. whatever, it looked suspicious. well i was there, okay? and frank was upset. he said, what s going on here? frank he was 345 and i was glad. i liked that he was mad. he s a caveman, i m telling you. a very well-groomed, best-dressed, hall of fame caveman. we like guys like that, old-fashioned. now what do you do when you are distressed or shocked? what s the first thing you do? exactly. okay. there aae, most of us they say we put our hands on our face, without even thinking about it. they call it the pacifier effect. sort of like a kid sucking his thumb. but apparently the other day when jay came on and gave you flowers look at the stock market. it s called the face palm. and apparently it s a viral thing. everyone is palming their faces. why aren t you doing that? bbcause i m about to kiss him and i can t do it that way. but we have a whole bunch of pictures that show what people do when they are either shockkd or scared. there are plenty of other pictures. we ve got other pictures. that s yoo when beyonce that s the opposite. they say most people do that. they just look like a freak. like they ve been hit in the back of a head with a 2 x 4. because that day i didn t respond that way. you went craay and i went, oh, isn t that nice? i was really shocked that she walked in. you weren t that suuprised? no, i was happy to see her. you don t go crazy like i knew. and i even knew that jay was coming on that day. i did that just just like the how sweet it was. it was not becauseei was shocked. i was moved by it. like oh, isn t that precious. morning, speaking of frank?this like 4:00 in the morning, i m awake and i know where bambino is. so iiput my hand down there to give bambino a little squeeze. frank is already loving on bambino. going schnush i was a little afraid of what you were going to say. bambino gets a lot of air time and he deserves it. he has a fan club. who is the most hated cellbrity in america. i m so glad we didn t make this list. we ll give you the top five. starting wwth number five. jjn gosselin. why more than kate, would you say? he was unemployed. i don t emember. a lot of people unemployed. there was something, i don t remember what it was. o.j. simpson, number four. the octomom, nadya suleman was number three. number two reality star spencer pratt, the one married to heidi montag? aren t they till? i ddn t know. they re still married, i think, who kkows. and the number one, what do you think? it s casey anthony. 94% say they diilike her. which is putting it mildly. it is putting it ildly. notice there are two mothers up there you re hated for being a bad mother you re going to be oo that list for a long, long time i think. as always, every thursday we go to, i meant thirst-day, we go to okay magazine. the countdown to the kardashian wedding. you re going to give all that yes, i am. here s a question, ask okay to shave off your hair. they asked us that question before i knew what pictures they were showing. so i said, where s the hair. these things can be tricky and itchy when the hair starts to grow out. very time you better think it through. nobody was thinking that but you and a couple of other viewers, for sure. and hoda said, it depends on the shape of your hhadd except, you spelled your right, probably. you could be either sexy oo bowling ball-ish, and the trunl is you don t know unless you know it. are we ready for a little? let s have a little usic, you guys. is anyone in the mood for a little wild cherry? okay. you will be as soon as you and everyone in thhs room will be dancing. and trust me when i tell you,,i ride on this one. are you ready to play that funky music white boy ? there was a boogie singer playing in a rock and roll band i never no problem rolling down the one night stands now everything around me come on, that is a great song. thank you, guys. a big shhut-out to doug and & they actually won an auction. they paid money to ome see us. thanks you guys, thanks for being here, you all. it s thirst-day thursday and we have an anti-oxidant drink from morton s steakhouse. is it called a sahi, and super-fruit pam granite juice, ingredient that shall go e unnamed. coming up, sara s hottest picks for videos. and curb your enthusiasm is in our studio. we re going to hear what she has to say. four eight seasons, susie essman has playee the potty mouth on the hbo hit, curb your enthusiasm, famous for giving larry david a piece of her mind in an avalanche of four-leeter o words. the l.a. times calls her the most lyrical puuveyor of foul mouths on the television. let s take a look..o cf1 o the food is going to be a lot better here than on the plane, i guarantee. what is that? this is what you bring? that s italian bread. yeah. but this doesn t go with my menu. you don t know what i m serving. don t impose your desires on my whole cuisine. you are ridiculous. first of all, welcome, we re so happy to have you. and as i m watching that, i m thinking, now it s supposed to be improvisational. do you just get an outline of what the scene needs to be about, and then you play? yes, for example, in that scene, the bread becomes part of the story line. so i knew he was bringing the bread and then in the outline, it will say, larryç brings sus bread and she s not happy about it. so the lines we improvise, i knew i had to not be happy about the bread. because that becomes part of the story line later. nothing is by accident with him, he knows everything. he gives you enough to give you he was genius in picking his actors to begin with. i think so. how close, i m sure people ask you, your real personality to susie greensberg. let me think. i don t dress like her, number one. i m much nicer and calmer and sweeter than her. however, i think that what we -pshare in commonnis that we bo kind of cut through the crrp. you know, we re both kind of don t, you know, put up with a whole lot of stuff. don t suffer a lot of fools. don t suffer a lot of fools. you put it so much better thanni did, kathie. god only knows why. so this is whht, how many seasons, now? this is eight. you re in new york now? the next fivv episodes, we shot in new york. which was incredible. we shot one episode and the producers in new york, but we shot five episodes in new york which was for me, because you now i live here, it was e you fantastii. were you shooting on the streets? or around people? people were going crazy. people were screaming larry, larry, larry!!o cf1 o what do peeple say to you? they ask me to curse at them. go urrr, myself. do you do it? if i m in the mood. sometimes it s very cathartic. it s sometimes i can scream at you instead of my kids or my husband, it makes my relationshipp better. now.e met your daughter just your daughter/make-up artist. she s beautiful. gorgeous. and i think she does a bang-up job. you should have seen what ii looked like when i woke up this morning. i have four step-kids and we re actually the youngest just graduated from high school. we re going to be empty-nesterss are you an empty-nester? not quite. but the thought of it terrifies me. we live in a big house, with three dogs. and when i m alone with frank what do you say? you know what i say to him and he laughs, because he gets a laugh out of it every time. i never thought you would live this long. that s what i say to him. and we laugh and we re fine. but that s what gets me through. what do you think is going to happen when you guys, just the two of you? we ll be fine. but you know the good thing is that we have a place upstate and we have a place in manhattan. so we have separate time from each other. so that s the key. i think the key is not being together all the time. i really do. we all agree with that. now this, you guys never know if curb is going to be renewed until the very last seccnd. it sounds like larry doesn t tell you straiiht-up what s happening. it s aulsz a matter of renewing by hbo. rear at this point. pain innthe he s really not. sure. he s really easy to deal with. he s the one that has to come up, he s the one thht has to come ut with these outlines. he s the one hat has to do all the work. how long can it take? larry walks in with a piece of breed. ii s more complicated than that, kathie lee. and there s a lot of guest stars. next week, his sunday is ricky gervais is on there, he s hilarious and samantha mathis, who you saw in the clip. michael j. fox. rosie o donnell. she does an hysterical thing with larry, as usual.& mayor bloomberg is on. mayor bloomberg is on. because everybody loves the show, it s just hysterical. it s the most fun i ve ever had in my entire life. except other things. and right now. and right now. you made it through the whole thing without swearing. you made it through the whole thing without swearing. up next, what will a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can stitch together a better deal. that s a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? 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[ carol ] this could turn me into a history buff. series, webtastic. sara haines was hitsing the internet to come up with new things. i brought you two videos todayy but first up, a cool stop-motion video from pd boy. check it out. wow. this is actually his friend you re seeing it in reverse. he had grown that and said, i want to cut it all off. so he said, let s make a video. they did it in four and a half hours. where was the schaeffer, it was on his hands. the what he s doiig is they re shooting. they re shooting it and i don t hang around with the right people. if this is what they come up with. yeah, that s very clever. nice. good for them. and what s the second one for people wwo didn t particularly kathie, that s tough. we ll shave your head this weekend and we llldo it in reverse. okay. the next it s just when it grows back and the next video features a new recreational pursuit perfect foo a summer day. no special effects here. sorry. it s a sofa. this is bro shenanigans, this is a blog, this post got thousands of views it took them two and a half hours to go sofa suufing. i thoroughly enjoyed that one as well. thank you so much. eight loss myths. and other things, too, that are interesting. yes, the hottest celebrity fashions. we ll show you how to steal from them. for a fraction of thh price. all after your local news and weather. the stock market is open and there are small gains this morning. gains have been up and down since the opening bell. coming up on news4 midday a look at what it will take to stabilize the markets. good morning, i m barbara harrison. if your summer girls include toning your upper body and having great looking shoulders and abs, back now on this thirst-day with weight loss myths versus facts is if your weight loss has hit a a wall, it s time to get the skinny on wwat may be sabotaging your diet. we ll take a little quiz to separate fact from fiction and we love that robbie capelo is the executive ditor of prevention magazine. are you ready? it s harder for women to lose weight than for men. fact. yes, fact. it s true. that s a fact. ding ding ding! yes. thank you. it all has to do with the fact that men have a lot more lean muscle mass with women so they have a natural higher metabolism. i hate to tell you this, but it only gets worse as we get older. i know. it s not fairr give us another one. when you get into peri menopause, you re dealing with losing more muscle mass. try post, honey. just get to the gym more. all calories are equal, so it doesnnt matter what you eat. that s a tricky one. thatts a facc. it is. that is a myth. sorry. you know what, we haveepeople on all the time that tell us calories in, calories out. it doesn t matter what kind of calories. i know that in my own life, it s not true. and tte fact of it is that the carrot is a not the same as a creme brulee. it all has to do with how we digest food. and every bodd is different. if you eat good food, you can burn up to 30 more calories a day. so 30? 30%. so it ssa good idea. gain weight. night will make you i just heard that this was a myth. so, in my life, it s true. so i m going to say, it s a myth..o cf1 o no, it s not!!o cf1 o you re exactly right. go with the opposite. it s nnt about when you eat, it s about what you eat. and you know what it s like. you eat dinner and when i eat late, i m hungry when i wake up. and then i m always eating. it continues and continues. actually that s surprising, because if you eat late, most people tend to skip breakfast the next day. but i guess that s not happening for you, hoda. hood is not a normal person. i have to pour cascade on the last two doughnuts or i ll eat them. a good way to end up in the hospital. have you ever thrown anything in the garbage and gone back to eat it. yess but you pour something on top of it and you stay away. cascade. go on. another less dangerous might be to eat dinner a little bit llter, then you re not so hungry. the only way i can lose weight ii not eat dinner. drinking a ton of water will help you lose weight. i m going to say that s a myth. that is true. that is a fact. hoda gets that onee uh-huh, uh-huh. there was a very interesting north carolina that said that people who drink a lot of watero and decide to bypass the coffee and the tea and the sodd actually burned 200 more calorie as day. well you didn t say the whole thing. you just said see? you got to drink a lot of water. it fills you up. you feel full. and you also spend half of your life in the bathroom. and it s good exercise, too. here we go. is this the tiibreaker? if you exercise every day, you can eat whhtever you want. myth. i m going to say that s a myth. i wish it were true. the truth of it is, you can actually out-eat your workout. if you do lot of biking and running, you cannot go hog down a whole pizza. let s do a quick one. becoming a vegetarian will not help you drop a dress size. will not help you? what? would say myth. well, actually it is a fact. because a lot of people don t vegetarians. so hoda wins. oh, my god. what is it, cookies? cookies! i m glad you won that. i don t like any of that coming up, thank you very much. how you can get your favorite celebrity look without a celebrity stylist. but first, these messages. @ back now with today s styye. celebrities pay the big bucks fof hollywood s hottest fashion trends, but believe it or not, you can afford them, too. taos, us weekly contributor and author, jill martin is here to show us how we can steal these high-priced celebrity looks for a whole lot less. we can take them and walk out of tte store. don t they get a lot of these free? they can just walk into a store and buy it, but you can get the looks for less. i ve picked four looks that are relatable. so everybody can wear them. let s start with pippa. let s look at pippa s look. she s a hot dresser, everyone is watching pippa. -p i like a jean s jacket wit anything. her celebrity look. $1,722. this look, $206. american eagle denim jacket. adorable. you don t have to spend so much money on jeans or a jean jacket. and it s great to ave for the summer. and the dress is victoria s secret. that s cute. you d be surprised how their clothing is great. you can get some darling things so inexpensively. for $49.50. so cute. the celebrity look, $1,722. this otal look, $206. good job. all right. mila kunis is a hot ticket lately. isn t she? this is at a premiere, a red carpet premiere, friends with benefits. her designer look, $4,375. and this one, for $88 she s working it. $88? what s the store? pin-uppgirl clothing.com. -pand this is a dress you dot caapet. you could just wear it and the -pshoes, we love h by halston shoes now, available at bakers for $90. the total look. dids 4,375. the same look, $178. you look great. wow. hello. reece witherspoon. people always want to imitate her look. she s wearing shorts. she s wearing shorts. this is very classic. she s wearing short-shorts. iidon t love weaaing short-shorts, but i think shorts are in again, you can wear them. and they rr modest for the most part. so reese s look, $2,987. this total look, $211. a lot of it comes from the bag, it s an hermes bag that reece is carrying and this one is from l.l. bean for $25. and the blue shirt with the white shorts and look at these great sandals. really cute. that whole look is how much, total? $211, as opposed to $2,19. now kim kardashian, we have -pher in stripes, i think, righ? we wanted to throw one kim in. everyone is talking about her now. kim always looks chic. she is aatually wearing her own line for kwqvc. this is from wet seal for $13.99. the fabric alone costs more isn t that great? and you look at the bag, kim is wearing an hermes birkin. and i like the metallics. now do you have to be that thin? my purple toenails? i think it s fun to have fun with color over the summer. i always pick a different collr on the toes. her total is how much? her total $9,578 because of the bag. and $182 for this entire look. awesome! you got everybody? let s get them out. they re adorable. thank you, jill. or should we say, reece and kim? you know, and mila. still to come how mom and dad can get their parenting styles in sync. and we ll meet a cancer survivor who beat theeodds and is inspiring others. but first, these messages. raising children is definitely haad work. it can cause a lot of friction in marriage when mom and dad don t agree on how to parent. here with some survival tips is one of our favorite ladies, susan swimmer, the features editor of more maggzine. good to have you herr. you wants the parents to agree on base ig things, dprins, when and how to discipline a child. when do parents different on that, one is a softie, one is tough? when you first gettmarried, everything is great and the only thing you argue about is the wet towels on the floor. when you have children, it s a whole other game and it can be yoo re not going to agree on everything. the big, big issues you and your husband, you talk about in advance, separately. privately. it s not to say that children can t see parents argue. because a a lot of studies will say that children who see their parents disagree and then negotiate and reach an compromise, is a very healthy thing. the kkock-down drag-out errible language, the fights thaa some parents have should not be done in front of the children. my mother threw a chicken at my father, wunsonce, i thought was hisystericalhysterical. sometimes the discussions can last weeks, months, years. sometimes they last years. what if you reefundamentally different on some things. if one parent things a child should be swatted on the bottom and one says don t ever do that. if you and your husband get to a point where you ve talked about it, and you can ttget there, reach out and get some help.& there are people sit down, sometimes being in an environment with someone who is totally neutral has nothing invested emotionally can help you get over that hump. different faiths, raising their childree? it is a tough one. but it s something, if you re of before you have children. listen, it s an issue that prrbably comes up. when you talk about your marriage ceremony. but you need to talk about these things. the other thing i say to parents, youuhave to communicate constantly. everyone is working, busy, running around, at the end of the dayy you re exhausted. all you re thinking about is your glass of wine. that s not the time to talk about an issue. after a glass of wine. but you need to have your arsenal text, email. call each other. check in through the day. keep the line of communiiation open. i mean, a lot of kids will play their parents against one another. oh, they re mad, they ll say, mom said no, but daa, please. and then the dad says yes. and the whole thing is over. the parents have dove a united front. now listen there are issues that you can say, we agree to disagree. not to the children, though. you can t let them play one against the other. what about the double standards in terms of, it s okay, because he s a boy, he can stay up. it s not okay for cass, because she s a gill or what about that? wrong. i will say that different children require different rules. they re all unique. and they re dealing with it. some kids can have a late curfew, because you know they re totally responsible. it has nothing to do with girl/boy, take that out of it. but think of your children as individuals. we always say to our children, you have our trust until you lose it. that s exactly right. but be firm with your children, be consistent with your children. and love them to pieces. wait until next time. we re capable of it. no chickens flying. up next, never say i can t. a message from man who didn t let cancer or disability hood him back. but first,,this is today on o nbc. recovering from a debilitating illness can be a lifetime challenge. sara has the story of one man who refused to let a disability shockk was a two-time cancer survivor by the time he was 22. since then, he s devoted his life to beating the odds and achieving what so many people thought was impossible. he s the type of guy who will take off his prosthetic leg to make others believe in themselves. the 55-year-old entrepreneur shares his personal story in the hopes of inspiring others. that stuff happens o us in life and we have to, we have to sooehow deal with it. his story is about overcoming setbacks. at 16 he lost a leg to cancer. while ii college three years later, the cancer retuuned. and jockey lost part of his left llng. the confidence that i had slowly built up, was trashed. and the worst thing was, is that i remember thinking, well, wait a minute, what s the next body part in three more years. jockey was determined o live a full life with whatever time he had left. he mastered one-legged skiing first and then moved on to other adventures. there are two roads you take, one, i give up and quit and become bitter and the other, you fight back. how did you make that choice? in the early days, i was kind of a little bit of a risk-taker to bust through those things. when somebody said, i ll bet a guy on one foot can t barefoot waterski. the fact that i did it is just a sign that occasionally my drive and focus and determination overcame intelligence. for three decades, one ph.d. in computer science and several successful businesses later, he is still standing. cancer-free. jockey literally wrote the book on overcoming challenges. it s called who says i can t? the reason i don t like the word can t and the reason i don t like this construction, pretty good, considering, is that it separates you. it says, you re going over here in this category and in this box. anddthat s where you re going to stay. p> with the support of his wife, family and sheer determination. jockey has set out to prove he can do anything as well as, if not better than, someone with two legs and lungs. he s biked hundreds of mile fooce charity and repeateddy swims in the notorious waters around alcatraz island. 17, this will be 18.you done jockey issnow shooting a highlighting the inspirational stories of other disabled athletes. the first is up maureen mckinnon tucker. a paraplolympic gold medal winn. that kind of statement is, please don t decide for us what we can do and can t do. and please don t decide for yourself what you can do and can t do. leave it to someone who doesn t believe in excuses or self-pity. to race an expert sailor. reminding us that even though life isn t always smooth sailing, you should still live it to the fullest. jockey refers to those of us who have all of our limbs as temporarily able-bodied. to remind us it could all gg away in an instant. jockey and his team have started editing their pilot with the plan to shop it around to the networks. we eed more television like that. we sure do. inspiring to people. it s an amazing mmssage. he had so many sound bytes, i havvn t forgotten. not bitter, better. thanks, sara. be sure to tune in on try-day with allison janney is going to drop by. and the ambush makeover team works its magic. tomorrow. try ay. tomorrow. try ay. bye. captions by vitac www.vitac.com