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narrator: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today america remembers, with matt lauer lived a ground zero and ann curry live from studio 1-a lauer lived a ground zero and ann curry live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everybody. welcome to a special edition of today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer in lower manhattan. i m on a balcony overlooking ground zero. ann curry is uptown in studio 1-a. as i say good morning to you i m going to say you may be hearing noise from time to time here from our broadcast site. this is a memorial site now. there is also a lot of construction going on all around us. i think you can say progress continues to be made 24 hours a day. that noise is perfectly understandable, matt. thanks so much. good morning. i know the security has already tight there but now with this new concern about a credible but unconfirmed terror threat, police are ratcheting up their efforts even more throughout new york city and washington, d.c., matt. that s right. officials say intelligence from pakistan points to a plan to explode car or truck bombs here in new york city or in the nation s capital, washington, d.c. authorities are now on the lookout for three possible suspects, although they only have a very general description. we re going to get the latest and, as we said, we ll talk about the threat with the vice president joe biden straight ahead. by the way, take a look at the tower that is rising behind me, one world trade center. it s being called the most complex public works project in american history. and we were given extraordinary access to it. we re going to take you inside that building, that rising building, coming up. looking forward to it. also ahead this morning we re going to reaction from both sides to last no carrierri0 they say they will be towing illegally parked cars. in new york they will be doing more bag inspections on the subways and conducting more checks in tunnels an bridges and all of that may have some impact on traffic. matt? and, pete, you know, i think another reason why they re giving this credibility, connects back to the raid that took the life of osama bin laden, doesn t it? indeed. i think there are three things here. first the fact that the documents they found when bin laden was killed indicated that he wanted to have some kind of an attack on the 9/11 anniversary coming up sunday. secondly, the u.s. has been independently worried that somebody might try to attack the u.s. in retaliation for bin laden s death. and finally officials say this source has been dependable in the past and while they try to confirm this intelligence they believe they have to act as though it is true, matt. all right. nbc s justice correspondent pete williams. thanks very much. with more, here s ann. matt, thank yo we are now joined by joe biden, the vice president of the united states. mr. vice president, good morning. ann, good morning. sir, how concerned are you about this threat to new york city and washington, d.c. this weekend? quite frankly, and i think pete summed it up exactly right. we started the president ordered four months ago when we found information in bin laden s compound after we got him that he wanted an attack on 9/11. we ve been running every single thread to ground. this is the first, the first credible piece of information we ve gotten. we cannot confirm it. we are doing everything within our power. all hands are on deck. but i said your report has it spot on. you once said that the idea of there being a massive attack in the united states like 9/11 is unlikely, end quote. what is most likely at this moment in history in terms of a terror action, mr. vice president? well, ann, the thing we re all most worried about is what they call the lone ranger, a lone actor, not some extremely complicated plan like it took to take down the world trade towers or the plane in shanksfield. it doesn t mean they couldn t happen but it s much, much likely. the lone actor is the more worrisome thing because there are fewer trails to follow, there are fewer leads to move on. but this is this is information from a credible source that indicated this was an intent. we have not been able to confirm, nor was that source confirm who does know who the individuals may be who are trying to find access to the united states. but we re taking it seriously. so what is your advice now to americans who are very concerned to hear this news now leading up to this tenth anniversary? continue your life as normal. be vigilant. be vigilant. continue life as normal. but be vigilant. report. report anything that looks suspicious to you. and you know, we have been through this before in a different circumstance with the car bomb in times square. there are people who are likely to try over the next period of months and years, but the point is that we are using every single asset we can, including local law enforcement, to help thwart the possibility it could happen. mr. vice president, i m going to ask you to please stand by because we want also to talk to you this morning about the jobs plan the president laid out last night but we want to first take a look at a report from nbc s chuck todd about that speech. chuck, good morning. good morning. it was a fiery president that went to the well of the house to plead with congressional republicans to pass his latest idea that jump-start america s flagging economy. you should pass this jobs plan right away. reporter: the president had a message. and to make sure no one missed it, he repeated it 17 times. you should pass it right away. you should pass this bill right away. you should pass it. reporter: the american jobs act which the president formally sends to congress next week calls for tax breaks for companies who hire new workers, who have special incentives for someone who has spent more than six months looking for a job or for hiring veterans. the last thing they should have to do is fight for a job when they come home. reporter: it will extend unemployment benefits for another year. cuts payroll taxes in half for every working american and every small business. the president says that would save the typical family $1500. $1500 that would have been taking out of your pocket, will go into your pocket. reporter: it has programs to build and repair infrastructure. and a plan to modernize 35,000 schools and rehire laid off teachers. there should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. everything in here is the kind of proposal that s been supported by both democrats and republicans. and everything in this bill will be paid for, everything. reporter: republicans responded to the president on two fronts. republican congressional leaders were conciliatory but the republican presidential candidates were more critical. rick perry hit the president for the $450 billion price tag saying he s guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity. mitt romney released a web video for hitting the president for taking so long to focus on jobs, 961, by their count. the president anticipated the campaign rhetoric. the next election is 14 months away. and the people who sent us here, the people who hired us to work for them, they don t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. reporter: the selling of this plan begins today. the president goes to richmond, virginia, home of number two house republican eric cantor, and then next week he begins selling it by going to the home state of speaker john boehner. we want to bring back in now the vice president joe biden. mr. vice president, let s say for a moment that congress comes together and supports the president s plan. when is the earliest that the first job could be created as a result of this plan? well, three to six months this money would be out, ann. you can start rehiring teachers and law enforcement officers immediately. what would happen is your payroll tax would be cut in half. right now everybody collects a pay stub, pays 6.2% into the fica tax. it would be cut by 3.1%. same for businesses. small businessman and you have ten employees, you would save $15,000 a year. immediately if you went out and hired a veteran, on top of that savings you would be able to get a total of $9,000 for hiring a veteran. this is all designed to change the competence level and attitude of people out there because, look, ann, the corporations are flush with money. that s not a criticism. it s good. and the banks have a lot of money to lend. but why aren t they landin lend? why aren t they expanding the corporations? there aren t enough jobs because people aren t spending money. you ve got people like mark of moody s saying if in fact this plan was put in effect it would create 9.1 million jobs, increase the gdp by 2%, et cetera, bring down unemployment by a percent. whether that s precise or not, there s nothing in here, nothing in here that republican presidents in the past and mainstream republicans have not supported, including the unemployment plan the president picked which was the georgia plan, a republican plan. that said, mr. vice president, then, is this plan too late? no, no, the plan is not too late. look, it s never too late. i come from a family when there was a recession sitting around the table, ann, my dad or his brothers or sisters, somebody lost a job. and everybody went to bed at night like a lot of americans are tonight looking at the ceiling wondering, god, am i going to be able to live here next month, am i going to have to pick up the phone and call my daughter sarah at the university and say you can t go back next month. like the president said, presidential politics, we know what that s going to be at the campaign but these people don t have 14 months, they don t have 4 months. we know these things will help them now. mr. vice president joe biden, thank you so much for your time this morning. busy weekend because of 9/11. it is now 7:13. let s go back to matt at ground zero. all right, ann. thanks. appreciate it. now to this eekd s tenth anniversary are 9/11 and the attack on this country. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani was hailed as america s mayor for leading this city s response to the attacks. nice to see you. you, too. i was going to start by saying how is the country and the world different in the ten years after 9/11, and i think maybe the answer is in the question or in the fact that we re sitting here this morning under an increased terror alert. still a target. in many ways it s a very significant reminder that september 11 is not a matter of history. one of the things that could happen with a tenth anniversary is you could start to believe we could put this behind us, but the reality is the same causes, the same threats, the same desire to kill us being fermented in that part of the world is just as great or greater. we have to use splechbth eptembo remind ourselves. do we need to deal with an attack or prevent attack? no question about that. that credit goes to president bush, president obama, our intelligence service, military, actions in iraq, africa yield us a lot more intelligence than we ever got before. intelligence services are better organized. foreign countries cooperate with us more. i m not sure before september 11th gotten information like this. this would have been something that maybe we would have gotten, maybe we wouldn t have gotten. going back now to september 11th, 11, you got out on the streets very quickly. you got on television to reassure the people of this city that the government was functioning and operational. you were walking through the streets telling people put their masks on. you did an awful lot right and you got a lot of credit for it. i m curious over these ten years, has there been one thing that s haunted you? sure, anticipated it. that specific type of attack, the scope of it. our services were, i think, terrific. they were the biggest in the country. probably were half as big as they had to be, particularly in the first day or two. we had to play catch up. placed thereafter the 93 bombings, do you wish you had put that anywhere else? anywhere it was, the command center was going to be in the middle of street. we had a virtual command center in 2,000 for the y2k situation. the 911 call center was half as big as it should be. we lost half of the 911 calls because we had a 911 center that was configured for a model that was not nearly as great as what happened. so all lessons that have now been learned? i think mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly has learned all the lessons and new york city is safer now. god forbid something happens, probably something will go wrong. something like this, you can never be perfectly prepared for. look over your shoulder you see what used to be referred to as freedom tower. now one world trade center. rising about 80 floors. it s going to become another 20 to become the tallest building in this country. if the world trade center buildings were symbolic as a target, do you worry that that s even more symbolic as a target? no. i don t think you can live your life worrying. my option would have been to keep this all memorial. that s what you wanted. and put that building somewhere else, ten blocks away, not because i m afraid to put it there but because i m very emotionally attached to this. when i look down there i look at where i last saw chief gantsy or father judge. i know where spot. i wonder how they died. i saw them 20, 30 minutes before they died. my emotional attachment to this probably doesn t make me a great observer of this. i watched them going up from that building. i had undercover police officer in that building and watched them build the twin towers. this is something that probably affects me more than i even realized. rudy giuliani, thanks for spending time with us this morning. thank you for covering it. our pleasure. once again, here s ann. matt, thank you. seven deaths are now being blamed on the realm namnants of tropical storm lee. led to evacuations and historic flooding. al roker is in the flood zone in pennsylvania. al, good morning. good morning, ann. we re just west of wilkebury, pennsylvania. there s normally no water coming over this spillway. now you can see thousands and thousands of gallons of water pouring into a what is normally a dormant creek. this is rushing in and last night it reached 38.8 feet. the record, 40.9 feet setback in 1972 during hurricane agnes. by later this morning we expect it to drop to 38 feet. and by saturday, be under 29 feet. now, all along this river, from pennsylvania into new york, there have been thousands and thousands of people evacuated. in this area alone, 100,000 people. binghamton, new york, 10,000 people being evacuated. president obama signed emergency declarations for new jersey, new york, and for pennsylvania, as well, making these areas eligible for disaster relief. but again, schools are closed, businesses are closed, roads are closed, all the bridges leading to downtown binghamton have been closed down, as well. so we continue to be effected by this for at least another 24 hours. the good news is while there could be some pockets of heavy rain, about an inch or so, the really heavy rain is just about over. that s what s going on around the country, here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. we do have this rain continuing to advance from the southeast and head ing northwest. and these pockets where you see the darker green and the yellows, those are the zones that are get something of the more moderate rain right now in charles county and southern fairfax into southern southeastern prince william. they are advancing tropics in te next half hour. ann? al, thank you so much. an employee at a power substation is the likely cause of a massive power outage that has effected millions of people in california, arizona, and mexico. an event that led most of san diego powerless. nbc s george lewis is there this morning. george, good morning. good morning, ann. some of the lights are on behind me but not all of them. officials of the local power utility say it will be later today before most of the electricity is restored. as the blackouts spread, fire and police personnel were put on full emergency alert. fire crews had to free some people trapped in elevators. with traffic signals knocked out many southern california streets were grade locked. there were huge lines of a few service stations still able to pump gas. the power outage extending from yuma, arizona, all of the way to the california coast and even into mexico. this is a major system disturban disturbance. and customers will have to be patient and really put safety first. reporter: the nuclear power station shut down automatically as a safety precaution and remains off line this morning. what caused the blackout? apparently a technician replacing some faulty equipment on a high voltage transmission line did something wrong. the initial instance of this looks like an operator error that happened in arizona and that started the series of events. reporter: some southern californians turned the cris into a party. in downtown san diego they fatherdpa gathered in an area known as a gas lamp quarter. you have to pull yourself together and think it could be worse than this. reporter: now, on a serious note this shows how vulnerable the power grid is. much of san diego is getting back to normal. schools will be closed but the airport and most businesses will be open. ann? george lewis this morning. george, thank. coming up, could yale university have done more to protect a graduate student who was murdered by a man she worked with on campus? her family is now suing the school. coming up, the victim s mother speaks out for the first time in a life interview. but first, this is today on nbc. remembers 9/11, a behind the scenes look at the transformation of ground zero. a private tour of the one world trade center after your local news. e ocean spray sparkling juice drinks. they have bubbles. it s real fruit juice; crisp, sparkling water; and no added sugar. and they come in these really cool cans. you want one? i ll wait a bit. all right. mm. refreshing. a private tour of the new 1 world trade center after your local news. this is a news 4 news break. good morning. i m joe krebs on this friday, the 9th day of september. 7:26 is our time. big news. more rain in the forecast for today. but there may be some light at the end of the tunnel or at least some sun at the end of the clouds. meteorologist tom kierein joins us now. we ve had some more showers popping up this morning. they are advancing southeast and heading northwest. you can see this moving on the radar. md these pockets where you see the yellows, that s where it s coming down harder in charles county and prince william and fairfax and northern montgomery county. these will be passing by from time to time this morning. maybe a little sun this afternoon. afternoon. perhaps a passing shower, heavy america s favorite coffee is now available for america s favorite single-serve brewer. try new dunkin k-cup packs and enjoy the freshly brewed signature taste at home. it s a beautiful thing. come in today for all five dunkin k-cup varieties, available only at dunkin donuts stores. america runs on dunkin coffee. a slick road surface out there. reduced visibility with the flooding. beach drive between knowles and stoneybrook, going to find lots of other closed roads out there. thanks, there are over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee that have earned the keurig brewed seal of approval. the keurig brewed seal is our commitment that the coffee inside will deliver a delicious cup of coffee every time. keurig brewed. look for the only mark of genuine keurig quality. 7:30 now on this friday morning, september 9, 2011. you re looking live at ground zero in new york city. the pentagon also just outside of washington, d.c. and shanksville, pennsylvania, places that will forever be a memorial for the fallen and a shrine to the heroes of 9/11 as america remembers the terror attacks that shocked us ten years ago. inside studio 1-a i m ann curry. matt is joining us from ground zero this morning. matt? ann, i am overlooking the site of the memorial. it s really stunning, i have to tell you. it s made up of two massive reflecting pools with 30-foot waterfalls and the names of the victims of the attacks on 9/11 here in new york and pennsylvania and at the pentagon have been etched around the bases of each of those pools. the memorial will be dedicated on sunday. it opens to the general public on monday. the museum, by the way, on this site is still under construction. it s going to be located some 70 feet below ground. the building right there is the visitor center that stands above it. in the museum there will be parts of the towers, including the so-called survivors stairs. there will be gear use bid the firefighters that responded to the tragedy and other artifacts. ultimately the final resting place for the unidentified remains of the fallen. in the background there you can see that crews are also hard at work on one world trade center. once completed, it will be the tallest building in america. coming up, we ll have a private tour of that remarkable structure that is rising out of the ruins here at ground zero, ann. looking forward to that report, matt. thank you. we begin this half hour with the tragic murder of annie le. a medical student at yale university killed by a man who worked with her on campus. in a moment her mother vivian speaks out for the first time in an exclusive live interview. but first, nbc s jeff rossen has the latest on this story. jeff, good morning. good morning. this really was a brutal attack that s that sent shockwaves around yale. ray clark now admits he killed annie le and stuffed her body in the wall of a university research lab. now annie s family is suing yale saying the school didn t do enough to protect her. it began as a bizarre mystery. a young doctor ral student working in the lab simply vanished. soon the story of annie le would morph into one of yale s most tragic times and the timing was just as awful. annie was just one week from her wedding. disappear in the middle of the day with lots of people around. very unsettling. reporter: police and the fbi combed the campus for clues. then on what would have been annie s wedding day, a gruesome discovery. annie s body stuffed behind the wall in the lab s basement, badly beaten and strangled. two years later her mother is opening up for the first time. she s very special to me. and she s very beautiful. and she was like the most important in my family. my only daughter my family. how are you doing? every day i try to tell myself i think she s still with me. when someone asks me, how many children you have? i always say i have two, even though she already pass away. reporter: police moved in on a suspect quick. ray clark. he worked with annie in the yale lab. police say clark sexually assaulted annie before killing her. clark pled guilty, sentenced to 44 years in prison. when i see mr. clark in the court, i think like he didn t want to do that to my daughter because sometimes like an looev gets in the mind. you still don t know why he did it? no. reporter: now annie s family has filed this lawsuit against yale claiming ray clark had a violent propensity against women and the school should have known he posed a potential threat, alleging the university fostered an atmosphere of sexual harassment and sexual assaults that emboldened clark. i want yale to change the lack of observation of students. in the past yale has denied tolerating sexual harassment. in this case school officials told us there is no basis for the civil suit. yale had no information indicating that raymond clark was capable of committing this terrible crime, and no reasonable security measures could have prevented his unforeseeable act. this lawsuit serves neither justice nor annie s memory. yale says after the attack it maiden hansments to security on campus but, ann, it claims students has always been safe. jeff, thank you so much this morning. annie le s mother vivian is joining us exclues sexclusivelyg out for the first time, along with her attorney, joe tacopina. good morning. this is the first time you ve spoken out publicly. what do you want to say to the world about what happened to your little girl? i want to say to the world that i love annie, i miss her a lot. and i want the world to know that she is a smart girl and she studied in the library and she will become a very good scientist and helpful to the country. i m missing her every day. i don t know how to you just said that she would have been a good scientist to help the world, the country. there s a loss not just for you, you re saying, but also to the world. do you blame yale university for what happened to your daughter? i come here for my daughter because i don t want to anybody be killed like my daughter. i want yale to have more protection for the students and they have to change the security system to be better. and yale had let it happened and they have to be responsible for that. you re saying that yale let it happened because it didn t have what you re saying as adequate security to protect your daughter. joe, so what is it that this lawsuit will is alleging? is it what is the basis of saying that this university is responsible given the fact that the man who is now admitting to this crime has never had anything prior on his record? he did not have a criminal record. he didn t have a criminal record, ann, but he had problems within the university. yale longstanding well-documented problem at yale for being there s a cultural tolerance there for allowing sexual harassment on women. there is a federal investigation of yale right now for this very same these are the same offenses. students filed a lawsuit under title ix, equal protection statute, where they re asking the federal authorities and the federal authorities launched an investigation against yale, looking into the allegations of failing to secure and protect women. they had prior notice about him. they had prior notice why do you say that there wassed a quite prior notice? we just saw this statement that we just saw in jeff s report that t. was the university s response. but in this particular case, it is not culpable. how do you argue in this particular case yale university was culpable? the culture tolerance was alive and well because they had other students and employees who made complaints about ray clark. one of the problems was that ray clark supervisor, one of the supervisors was his brother-in-law. so his brother-in-law obviously was someone who was perhaps receiving complaints and didn t act on them. yale is responsible for that. joe, thank you. i know that this is so close to the anniversary of your daughter s death it s difficult for you. i know this is not the last time we ll speak to you. thank you for joining us this morning. i know everyone listening is so sorry for your loss. we ll be right back with much more. but first, let s now get a check of themore. first let s get a check of the weather from al in pennsylvania. announcer: today s weather is brought to you by the u.s. postal service. thank you so much. as we look again, this is back mountain pennsylvania. the hillsdale reservoir. and it is just pouring tons of water into the susquehanna river. let s take a look at the tropics. in fact, the remnants of tropical storm lee caused all these problems. three storms out there. katia is moving away. no problem. nate in the gulf. that s going to move into mexico. we ve got maria that s going to cause some problems for the caribbean islands. but then should kind of follow katia s path and not affect the coastal u.s. that s what we re hoping, keeping our fingers crossed. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. unfortunately, we re get morgue rain this morning. northern neck of virginia getting heavy downpours. areas of red and orange there. closer to washington where you see yellows and darker greens getting moderate showers in prince william, fairfax, charles county. these are advancing from the stouth the north. should be moving into the metro area, inside the beltway or the district over the next few minutes. later today, a little sun breaking out. we could also get more ann, don t forget you can check your weather this weekend any time you need to. go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. coming up next, the transformation of ground zero. matt s private tour of one world trade center, right after this. look at all this stuff for coffee. oh there s tons. french presses, espresso tampers, filters. it can get really complicated. not nearly as complicated as shipping it, though. i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that is easy. best news i ve heard all day! i m soooo amped! i mean not amped. excited. well, sort of amped. really kind of in between. have you ever thought about decaf? 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[ female announcer ] the 10 point safeguard check from walgreens. there s a way to stay well. we welcome you back to ground zero in lower manhattan. the new one world trade center building behind me formally known as freedom tower is still under construction. already reached to 80th floor. we were given a private tour of what will soon be the tallest building in this country. you have a little bit of your life and soul embedded in that building. we are moving on. we re making it bigger, better, and stronger. i feel like i ve accomplished something really big. reporter: the men and women rebuilding ground zero understand their work is much more than a job. every bolt, every beam, every floor supports the weight of history. i begin my tour in the footprint of the ones historic buildings with architect. this forest of trees will grow 70 feet tall. all of them oak, except one. the survivor tree, pulled from the rubble at ground zero. it looks like it was a tree but it was nursed back to health. this try is thriving and surviving. reporter: when he was just 34, he beat out over 5,000 entrants in the design competition for the memorial. his winning vision set were the original towers once stood. 2 30-foot waterfalls into darkness, he calls it, we flekting absence. what do you want them to think as they look down in this? what i wanted to do is really create a place where people could have a moment of silence. emptiness, but emptiness full of meaning. can you show me a glircht of what it s going to look like? reporter: yet to be revealed are the victim s names engraved in panels surrounding the pools. here are some of the ladder companies. reporter: while the pools are meant to honor the dead, it s the building towering beside them, one world trade center that will honor the living. you look at this thing, you have another 30 floors to go but it s going up at a pace about a floor a week. right? incredible. how high are we going? the top, 76. i think it s going to give you a new sense of a new town town. i head up with chris ward, executive director of the port authority in new york and new jersey that oversees construction. what s being done to make it as safe as possible? well, what you re looking at is incredible soaring, beautiful lobby that has inherent in its design safety and security. this is a blast wall that was 18,000 pounds per square inch in concrete, to stop anybody from bringing a truck bomb in. these steel girders are 60 feet tall and ways 70 tons. up we go. i want to say this is truly going to be the exclamation point of a new york city skyline. how tall is it going to be? all of the way up, it s going to be 1776. to the roof it s going to be 1356. it s going to be 3.2 million square feet. it will be the tallest skyscraper in america. reporter: touted as new gold standard in skyscrapers, the top half will be shaped like a perfect octagon, 20 floors of glass, it will also have some of the fastest elevators in the world. but all this comes at a cost. an estimated $3.2 billion and years of delays. they re doing an incredible job, and yet some people are going to say it s been ten years and they re surprised it s not done by now. how do you answer that? we have built the most complex public works project in america s history. this tower that we re going to be on was built on top of a subway train. they re working every single hour of every single day. reporter: and to move forward, they needed to put aside years of in fighting among politicians, designers, and the victim s family. 68, turn right, when you do, look what you see. wow. wow. like an unobstructed view. this could be your corner office. reporter: unlike the old world trade center with a framework of external steel, this building rises to an armored concrete core. if something were to happen to that structure right there, it doesn t jeopardize the integrity of the building. exactly. it was designed to stop that cascading catastrophic failure that everybody saw on 9/11. okay. so we re now going to look at the outer stairways. comfort of home. yes. you have a problem with heights this is probably where the tour ends. yes. it s a workout to reach the top. a dizzying ladder winds upward. from now on we re on ladders? ladders. reporter: if you need a break you can duck into the subway, sandwich shop that is. it rises with the building. i m buying lunch, guys. so come on, belly up, all right? there are over 3500 workers at ground zero. many of whom feel deeply connected to this site. brian lions came down town on 9/11 to find his kid brother michael, a firefighter, who never made it home. you ve been down here basically every day since. why? at that moment i made a commitment to myself i wanted to find my brother, find everybody else, and rebuild this place bigger and better than everybody before. new york city and america can t be defeated. wow. 76. right now. 30 to go. wow. wow. that s a lot to think about. reporter: a soaring testament to our nation s resilience wrapped up in concrete, glass, and seals. the day you turn the key and they open this place, what do you think it s going to mean to not only new york city but america? i think it s going to be just an incredible statement of pride. this is what we do. we build, we recover, rwe creat a place to live. that s who we are. quite a view from up there. the tower will be ready for business in 2013. one world trade center already has two major tenants. they say they will have no problem filling the rest. we re going to be back on a friday morning right after this. 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looking forward to that, as well, matt. and then we re going to lighten things up considerably this morning because we re going to introduce you to mishka, the dog seen by 55 million people on youtube saying i love you, i love you, he says. we re going to talk to her and her owner coming up just ahead. but first, let s get a check of the top story of the morning. savannah guthrie is sitting in fortunately while she s off. in the news today intelligence officials are warning of a credible terror threat to new york and washington where security has already been stepped up. a source told investigator tlees people from pakistan was plotting to set up car and truck bombs around the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack. earl i did on today vice president joe biden told ann authorities are taking the splet seriously. we ve been running every single thread to ground. this is the first the first credible piece of information we ve gotten. we cannot confirm it. we are doing everything within our power. all hands are on deck. the vice president said americans should continue their routines as normal, but remain vigilant. president obama heads to richmond today to rally support for his nearly $450 billion jobs plan. last night the president urged congress to pass this bill immediately. the president says the plan will offer tax cuts to workers and employers, extend unemployment benefits, and fund programs to rebuild infrastructure while, he says, not adds to the deficit. the president has declared a state of emergency in pennsylvania where the susquehanna river poured into the streets late thursday. the remnants of tropical storm lee are being felt from maryland to massachusetts today. bridges, roads, homes and cars are under water. in virginia at least two people died when they were swept away by flood waters. and now here s brian williams with what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. coming up tonight on nightly news as we all approach this grim anniversary the twisted steel from ground zero that has taken new meaning from across our country and around the world. interesting story tonight. we look forward to seeing you then. for a look at what s trending today, quick round-up of what has you talking online. ten years after the 9/11 attack people are flocking to the new york times website for a minute by minute account of that day. recording, some just released for the first time, reveal the conversations between pilot, ground control, norad, and other authorities as the events of that day are unfolding. friends of facebook are expecting their surprise over mel gibson s new project. gibson is reportedly teaming up with warner brothers to make a movie about the actor and filmmaker made controversial antisemitic statements in the past. great scott, nike has unveiled marty mcfly s kicks from back to the future. 1500 pairs will be auctioned on ebay and will benefit the michael j. fox foundation for parkinson s research but they do not lace themselves. it is 8:04. back to al with a check of the weather from wilkebury, pennsylvania. actually, savannah, in back pennsylvania. hey, al. thanks. and we are actually in back mountain, pennsylvania. this is the huntsville reservoir. normally there s nothing coming over this spillway but you see thousands and thousands of gallons of water every second going into the susquehanna river. at one point 100,000 people in this area alone evacuated from the homes. 20,000 in the binghamton, new york, area. the good news is susquehanna river is starting to slowly recede and that s great news. let s check things out. show you what s going on as far as the rest of the country s weather is concerned. pick city today just happens to be the fabulous san jose, california, area. they ve been dealing with all kinds of activity out west. especially those power outages in southern california. we re looking for a beautiful day along the eastern seaboard. you can see the katia spinning offshore. that s great news. it s causing strong rip currents and heavy waves. we re looking at beautiful weather up and down the west coast. the temperatures continue to soar. portland, oregon, getting into the 90s. we ve got some showers. hit or miss thunderstorms down through florida. gulf coast continues to sizzle. along with texas. and we ve got some clouds and showers in the mid-mississippi river valley. and ohio river valleys as well. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. remnants of tropical storm lee still plaguing us with rain this morning. we are getting light to moderate rain around washington. farther to our south, heavy downpours around leonardtown in st. mary s county and northern neck. these pockets of yellow where it s coming down harder now in northern charles county and into southern fairfax county. these are advancing south to north. elsewhere scattered, lighter showers. maybe a little sun breaking ou and that s your latest weather. ann? al, thank you so much. coming up next, the children who lost parents on 9/11. we re going to check in with some of the kids we first met ten years ago, coming up right after this. 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yes. and your dad was one of the heroes, and he was one of the heroes who went to the world trade center that day, wasn t he? yeah. a. a lot for a 10-year-old to have to handle. reporter: so we did what we could to ease the pain. this is joe torre. for seven years you have been wanting to learn how to skate? hi, tara. hi. look. katelyn, jennifer lopez. reporter: wishes were granted. celebrities stepped up. patrick. reporter: broadway star, ballplayers, pop divas, and l p limpia limpians, left these kids with a reason to smile amid their tears. kevin hickey, katelyn, vanessa calderon, jackie bour and kathie hughes are all with us now. ladies, gentlemen, it s great to have you here. thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. such an easy question, may be harder to answer. terrible weekend coming up? is this a date you dread on the calendar every year? yeah. it s like hard because school starts and that s the first thing all teachers tell you, oh, this is the whole thing, you always have to live it wrefr he you go. jackie? you know, i really try not to think about it too much and just go on with my day. you know, he s gone every day, so it s really just another day and i don t try and dawn on it too much. but always remember him and honor him the best i can. vanessa and patrick and kevin, take a look behind you. we re looking at the memorial that s been built after ten years here at ground zero. in many ways this is built for you. i mean, you are perhaps the most important people when it comes to this memorial. what do you think about it, patrick? it s overwhelming to see this. this is an enormous project. got to thank them. got to thank everybody for this. amazing. vanessa? very heartbreaking to know that this happened, but we have a memory now. we can come and see where everything happened. they wanted this to mean something to you guy, kevin. when you look down at it, does it touch a chord with you? does it resonate with you? i don t know. it s really a beautiful thing. i didn t expect it to be this nice, you know, after whatever happened, construction, look at it now. you know? it s beautiful. you guys have all had to find ways to cope with pain over these ten years. anything stand out in your lives that made the difference between you getting through it and not getting through it? i think a lot of it was just thinking about my family and us all coming together and really realizing, like, we did not want to just be complacent, we did not just want to crumble and be sad. of course it was a loss and it was horrible, but to really, you know, in his honor, move on, in his honor, be a better person, in his honor, you know, marvel at things like this and really appreciate it. i think that s kind of that. katelyn, you do something every year on 9/11. yeah. what we always do is have a balloon and we always send it up to my mom every year on 9/11. you say a little prayer and train station memorial and go there and put a little teddy bear. something we do every year. kevin, i watched the video of you the years ago. it still tears me up. i know where there were times that was tough for you, that video. it did. when you look back now and you see that 10-year-old, does he seem a world away? more than a world away. you know, it s unbelievable to see it now because i haven t watched it in probably a good six or seven years, you know? it s crazy. unbelievable. patrick, you re an artist. i know it s very important to you. did you find some solace in art throughout the years? that was my escape. i used that just to get away from it all and stop thinking about it. that was what i did to cope with it. you and kevin have something in common, in that you both designed tattoos. yes. they were dedicated to the memory of 9/11. we ve got some images of those. patrick, tell me about yours. well, i have one on my back that is of the towers. and then i have one on my arm that is more of a memorial to my father, the mountains, just the scenery to it, all sort of relates to what we ve done together. kevin, you have one on your side. and it s a poem. if i can read it, it says, if tears could build a stairway and memorys a lane, i would walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. yes. i mean, i know that was something that you found at your home. yes. had it on the phone right outside the driveway. i looked at it and i knew right away i wanted to get that tattoo. that was the first thing i thought. beautiful. is there something you want people to know about you and it s we can t paint with a broad brush, but, katelyn, is there something that people need to know about you as a group on this tenth anniversary? i just think that like it s hard for us because it s something that we re constantly reminded of. i turn on my tv and it s always there, but we did come through it and, like, i think it s made me a stronger person and made me look at life a different way. i always thought over the ten years, you all lost a parents but there were parents behind who had to endure their grief and be so brave for you as children and really be there for the challenges thats theyed them. and i think we should pay tribute to your other parents as well because they ve done remarkable things. thank you all for joining us this morning. i really appreciate it. we re going to have much more from ground zero in a moment. tonight, be sure to watch tom brokaw s special 9/11 america remembers at 9:00 p.m., 8:00 central hitime. right back right after this. 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well, she s always really talkative and liked to howl. so one time it sounded like i love you so we said i love you back to her. and she started mimicking us. and how many other things can shi she say? well, over time we ve kind of trained her to say hello, how are you kind of and i want dinner. she kind of mimics that. really? and hungry, she says. and hungry. you actually think that she knows what she s saying when she says i love you? i do. i definitely think she s being affectionate towards us when she says it. she gets a lot of affection for saying it. so i do think she grasps the meaning of it. do you think that she would talk to us this morning. oh, yeah. i think so. yeah. what could we get mishka to say this morning? i want you watch you in action to see how you prompt her. she s very relaxed. mishka, feel like talking? mishka, do you want to talk? mishka, i love you. mishka, i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. good girl. i love you. aw. i love you. i love you. good girl. i love you. mishka, hello. mishka i love you. she doesn t want to say anything but i love you this morning. good girl. she gets sometimes she just goes off on a little song. do you want to sing? i love you. i love you, too. i love you. good girl. i love you. sometimes she says i really love you. only you? no. both of us. she will speak to both of us. what else do you get her to say, i really love you? mishka. okay. ready? i know. i love you, too. mishka, hello. okay. she s stuck on i love you. good girl. good girl. okay. when you want to encourage this, do you give her streets treats her do? we re almost out of time. she s taken all the time make her do this or is it just kind of oh, i guess we re almost out of time. she s taken up all the time talking. thank you so much for joining us and mishka. this is a news 4 news break. 8:26 is your time now on this friday, september 9th. good morning. i m eun yang. let s go to meteorologist tom kierein with a look at the forecast. hopefully we ll be drying out soon. we re dealing with more rain this morning. here s the radar over the last hour. we have where you see the areas of red and orange, those were the zones we re getting some heavier rain. in st. mary s county as well as right there in central fairfax county, that s an area from burke up toward fairfax city advancing to the north. that zone got very heavy rain yesterday and unfortunately still creeks and streams out of their banks from yesterday s rain. this is only going to make that worse with more flooding l live look at our cameras out here in virginia. 95 northbound. the accident at the fairfax county parkway blocking the right lane. in maryland, very heavy 12 miles an hour. here s a look at university with those delays. back over to you, eun. more news, weather and traffic for you in just 25 minutes. woman: downloading music can be expensive. so to save money, i trained my dog and this cockatoo to play all the hits of the 80 s woman: hit it, mr. butters. take on me. ..take on me take me on. anncr: there s an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. 8:30 now on a friday morning, it s the 9th day of september, 2011. finally we re enjoying a little bit of sun this morning out here in midtown manhattan. we ve got a great crowd out here in rockefeller plaza. i m ann curry along with savannah guthrie. and matt is at ground zero. matt, what do you have coming up? ladies, well, here at ground zero, the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania, and really in cities and towns across the country, people will spend this weekend honoring the nearly 3,000 lives lost ten years ago. in a moment we ll look back at the images of the day that are forever seared into our minds, and former president george w. bush shares his thoughts on 9/11 and his emotion aal look as we to ground zero three days after the attacks. savannah. and also ahead, something to smile about. nbc parenthood is back and we have lauren graham in studio to talk about the new season. it s a great show about a big family with all the problems that families have. we ll talk to lauren about that and also what she said on her summer vacation. she is an absolute delight. looking forward to hearing from her. but first, let s go to al because he s got the reporting about the flooding in pennsylvania and all around the northeast. al, good morning. well, good morning, guys. and this reservoir feeds into the susquehanna river. the good news is all along the river we the river, we are starting to see the river crest. receding. and that s good news. it fell shy of the record set back in 1972 of 40.9 feet. last night cresting a little bit above 39 feetd and now it is dropping and that s great news. let s look at the weekend ahead and see what s going on. and we ll show you we ve got plenty of sunshine up and down the east coast. maybe hit or miss thunderstorm in the northeast. some showers in the upper ohio river valley. the sizzling weather continues through the southwest into the pacific northwest. then sunday, sunday, we re expecting more wet weather in the mid-atlantic states. the sunshine continues out west with warmer than normal temperatures in the pacific northwest. and no relief in sight for our friends in texas. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. unfortunately we re getting more heavy downpours where you see these reds on the radar. in southern st. mary s county and closer to washington in central fairfax county, right over fairfax city now get something heavy rain there. that is advancing to the north. elsewhere, some scattered, lighter showers. and as we get through the day, we may see some sun midday and during the afternoon. also a chance of additional heavy downpours this afternoon with thunder and lightning. then a smaller chance on saturday and sunday. afternoon highs low to that s y weather. now let s head on down and say hello to big willie scott. those full moons get better looking every day and will continue to do so. happy birthday, my friends at smucker s. ohio s pride and joy. we have floyd thornburgh. 105. loves to hunt and would do better if his eyesight was better. he could hunt in his day. and we have delphine gibson. 108. member of her church. best chicken in the whole common wealth of pennsylvania. and we have beulah, i love that name. beulah christie. remember that tv show? melbourne, florida. 110. enjoys sewing and also dances to rock n roll. and we have vern ann and the lovely gene baxter. two handsome people from cedar rapids, iowa. and they are 75 years married. how about that? still happy, love each other. always have and always will. and we have randolph johnson and eleanor talley. orange, virginia. very pretty country. 106 and 104. how about that? same birthday. and we have i love this name mamie, mamie rearden from edgefield, south carolina. 113. secret to longevity, always treating others as you would like them to treat you. you can t beat that. now back to new york. all right, willard, thank you so much. coming up next, former president george w. bush and his reflections on 9/11. but first, this is today on nbc. america s favorite coffee is now available for america s favorite single-serve brewer. try new dunkin k-cup packs and enjoy the freshly brewed signature taste at home. it s a beautiful thing. come in today for all five dunkin k-cup varieties, available only at dunkin donuts stores. america runs on dunkin coffee. back here at ground zero. as america remembers 9/11, president george were bush was commander in chief on that faithful day ten years ago and the terror attacks shaped his presidency. when i sat down with him last november to talk about his time in office he shared his reflections on that day a-day he says redefined his job. talk about the problems becoming your responsibility. it was a tuesday, september 11th, 2001. yeah. i have a lot of memories that day. it was andy card whispering in my ear. you were in a school in florida. he was. andy said, the second plane hit the world trade center. america is under attack. my first reaction is anger. how dare they do this to america. and then i looked at the kids and their innocence in contrast to the evil of the attackers became apparent to me and i just knew my job was to protect them. you had just been given that news and you sat there and it was seven minutes. that s right. i made the decision not to jump up and create a chaotic scene. then all of a sudden the cell phones are ringing. the noise and press in the back of the room. right. it clarified to me that people were going to be watching my reaction. the reaction of the leader is essential in the first stage of any crisis. you gave an order at some point during that morning. there was still chaos. yeah. nobody knew if there were other planes. you had to give an order that the u.s. military had the authority to shoot downey plane, whether it was a cessna or a commercial airliner that did not respond to commands to land. right. talk to me about that order. it was very intense because to get at it s difficult to getting a rate information. and therefore, the only safe course of action was to say, no airplanes and any airplane that shows up that does not respond to flighter escort would get shot down. can you imagine the pilot in the cockpit of a fighter being told shoot down. that american airliner goes down if they do not do something. i would not imagine that. yet it needed to be done in order to protect the country because we were watching killers use our own assets to destroy american life. and it was a difficult order to give. it was the right order at the time but it was a difficult one to give. you went to new york city and you went to ground zero. i did. and you stood on that rubble and just describe the moment to me. there was not only soot but debris, water, like you were walking into hell. there was a palpable sense of revenge and anger. i m trying to be the comforter and these guys are looking at me like, are you going to go get these guys or not? george. call meg georing me george. not mr. president, george. i was overwhelmed by the anger and emotion. i got on the rubble and standing next to bob beckwitt saying, listen, we appreciate your service and this, that, and the other i can hear you. and it wasn t kind of a soft we can t hear you, i can hear you. i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you and the people and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. it was a spontaneous moment that kind of captured the mood. and we are back in a moment on a friday morning. this is 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? yes. on average, that s $3,300 at closing. 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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 8:43. viewers fell in love with her on the gilmore girls and now she s winning more fans on parenthood. she s playing sarah braverman, one of four siblings struggling with the joy of everyday lives. it kicks off next tuesday with sarah celebrating a big milestone. take a look. you know, everybody, i just want to tell you that i am not afraid of turning 40. in fact, i m really excited about it. i m going to look 40 in the face and say, you know, hi, 40, this is going to be the best decade ever. it s going to be the decade of sarah. it s going to be turning 40? you think? i m not struggling. i understand. it s a brutal transition. it s not brutal. it s my birthday. lauren graham, good morning to you. i love that, hi, 40. we can all relate to that. where do we find the bravermans now? six months fast forward, right? yeah. there s a lot going on. sarah s turning 40. what could be bigger news really. and my tv brother s having a baby. he s out of work. mike went into business with my other tv brother. i ll just say brother and not tell you they re my tv brother, you know what i m talking about. and my sister is trying to adopt a baby. and you know, our show doesn t have any like crimes or car crashes or anything. but most people s lives don t, either, thank god. it s kind of a slice of life. yeah, yeah. we just try to sort of tell these little human stories. it s very fun to do. sarah, after having a little bit of a dark cloud over her the last two years, we heard it from her, it s going to be a big yeah of sarah. she keeps trying. what i like about what s compelling to me about this character when i first read it as opposed to gilmore like in a way someone who is not a hero, who is not making the right choices all the time and who isn t where she wants to be in life. i thought that was all really interesting. but now does something good happen to sarah? i know, it does this year. she s in a relationship. tempt was canceled, they got jason ritter back. let s talk about that, jason ritter was on the event. you re so excited that he s going to play your love interest. i know you were jaeking but you said you were campaigning that it got canceled. i am responsible for it ending. i said who cares about theed of the end of the world, i need a boyfriend. no, he s really such a andful actor and i have a lot of fun with him and john corbett, also wonderful and very charming, is the kids dad. he comes back into the picture and complicates things further. let s talk about you a little bit. i heard you had a pretty fun summer vacation. yes. going all over europe. i went to austria, i went to munich, i went to venice, italy. it really is sinking. it s on the water. i know. shocking. i know. the hotel we were in said they had to close for three months in the winter because they were five inches under water. it s so sad for such a beautiful place to be struggling like it is. but i went there. and then i went to washington, d.c. where i m from and minnesota. so it was like a humidity festival. not good for the hair. no. i suppose you didn t go al e alone. i m being noisy. i went with my boyfriend. i don t like to talk about it because i don t want to freak people out. that s your brother, lauren! oh, my god, wait, what? it s america. my boyfriend is my brother. you can do anything you want. it s kind of funny because you and peter your co-star who plays your brother. you are an item as those pictures demonstrate. it s weird because you don t want people in america think - probably least favorite thing ever, good job, i became an actor because you don t ever have to do that. no, because the show is so important. i just kind of i don t want people to think about it too much. all right. we ll drop it then. and bring up another awkward topic. i hear you are an author. writing a book or half a book. yeah. i m work on a novel. this is another i don t know why my interests continue to be things that people are going to that i m going get reviewed on. like why don t i just pick up skiing or something. but, no. but, yeah, i had written it s like that david letterman game, is this something? like i have written like 100 pages and i wanted to show it to somebody to kind of get a reaction. and one of the people was my agent who is like, what did i think he was going to do with it, he sold it. so now i m very lucky to have a wonderful editor, jennifer smith at random house. it was a proper publishing house and now i have to finish it. we re out of time. okay. i have to work on my novel. lauren graham, thank you so much. great to see you. reminder, you can catch the season premier of parenthood next tuesday, september 13th. still ahead, from your nails to your skin, what your body is trying to tell you about your health. but first, this is today on nbc. we welcome you back to this special edition of today as america remembers 9/11. a special memorial observance will be held here at ground zero on sunday morning along with a dedication of the 9/11 memorial. at 8:46 a.m. a moment of silence will be observed with churches tolling their bells citywide. nbc news will have special coverage including the special memorial ceremonies from the pentagon to shanksville. 9/11 was a day we ll never forget. here are the sites and sounds of that tragic day. nice and comfortable clear sky. brilliant looking tuesday. i want to go live right now and show you a picture of the world trade center. 727 just slammed into the building! i love you. oh, my god! get away. it came down. oh, my god. huge. everything began to rain down. it looked like a nuclear winter. the type of thing you see in the movie. it fell just a few moments ago like there was an explosion of some kind here at the pentagon. you re looking at live pictures of the pentagon where there is billowing smoke. the building shook. the windows rattled. could the attack bs over? the unspeakable deed done. two different planes hit the towers of the world trade center. there was an attack of some kind on the pentagon. we got a united 93 here that has a bomb on board. a bomb onboard. this is your mom. it s 10:54 a.m. the news is that it s been hijacked by terrorists. try to overpower these guy it is you can. when i heard them say that was united flight from new york to san francisco that just went down, i said, that s his flight. we said i love you 1,000 times over and over and over and over again. and it just brought so much peace to us. great harm has been done to us. we have suffered great loss. and in our grief and anger, we found our mission. god bless america my home sweet home he just e-mailed me. he said, i love you. my brother, my best friend. we ve always been together. i got mad for him always hugging me. lit up the room. e-mailed everybody after the first crash saying he s okay. he e-mailed all his friends. 11 people sitting next to each other and nobody has been found yet. he was a great dad. hoping he will still be a great dad. if not, we love you, roland. on september 11th, 2001, new york city, the most diversity in the world was viscously attacked in an unprovoked act of war. what we call ground zero, which i call ground hero. michael judge has always been my friend. usa. usa. usa. usa. the american flag is still flying high and the firefighters and police officers say their spirit is undiminished. this is a day when all americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. none of us will ever forget this day. peace. none of us will ever forget this day. this is a news 4 news break. 8:56 is your time on this friday, september 9th, 2011. good morning. i m eun yang. let s get right to tom kierein for an update on the forecast. good morning. unfortunately, we do have more heavy rain. these reds and oranges on radar. heavy rain northern neck of virginia into st. mary s county as well as across much of northern fairfax county from oakton up to reston. that is advancing to the north. it s produce something torre torrential rain right now. elsewhere, lighter showers. later today, maybe a little sun breaking out. but some other heavy downpours are possible later this afternoon with thunder and [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne s car. oh, man. there goes dwayne s house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm s got you covered. nice landing. it was. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. here we go northbound 395. things cleared out nicely from the beltway toward the pentagon. a little slow traffic heading to and across the 14th street bridge. otherwise, all travel lanes open there. on the outer loop, a look at the things getting past new hampshire avenue. the 14th getting into the city. as we head on through, still pretty heavy on the outer loop toward georgia. we have the accident on the inner loop past new hampshire. stephanie, thanks. more news, weather and traffic for you in just 25 minutes. for now, back to the today show after this short break. we re back now with more of today on a friday morning, september 9th, 2011. you re looking live at ground zero, the world trade center site in lower manhattan where thousand will be gathered this weekend to remember. the transformation of the site is absolutely remarkable. the memorial you re looking at right there will be open next week. one world trade center, the massive building that is rising behind me slated to be the tallest building in the country already stands at about 80 stories high. it s expected to open in the year 2013. enormous progress being made every week around here. i m matt lauer at ground zero. savannah guthrie and tamron hall are back in studio 1-a. ladies, good morning again to you. good morning, matt. so hard to remember but also important. coming up, we re going to talk about what september 11 means to the class of 2020. most were born right after the attacks of 9/11. what do they know about that day and how might it change their future? they ll tell news their own words. i can t wait to hear from them. also ahead, the waterlogged east coast battered by recent tropical storms. president obama has declared a state of emergency in pennsylvania. the susquehanna river overflowed the banks and poured on to the streets. then important health advice. what your body is trying to tell you from cracks in the corner of your mouth to dark lines on your nails. we ll tell you what it could mean regarding more serious health conditions. first, we have a look at the top story. in the news today, unconfirmed al qaeda terror threat has u.s. officials hunting down new information this morning just days after the tenth anniversary of 9/11. officials received intelligence that al qaeda may be planning to blow up bridge or tunnels in new york city and the nation s capital. authorities say the threat is specific and credible. but they emphasize that it is not concerned. earlier on today matt sat down with former new york city major rudy giuliani and asked him about that current terror threat just days ahead of the 9/11 anniversary. in many ways it s a very significant reminder that september 11 is not a matter of history. one of the things that could happen with the tenth anniversary is you could start believe we could put this behind us. but the reality is the same causes, the same threats, the same desire to kill us being per meanted in that part of the world is just as great or greater. so we have to use september 11 to remind ourselves it s a real danger. he also told matt the country is much better prepared now for an attack than we were ten years ago. president obama is urging congress to pass his jobs bill and to, quote, stop the political circus. during his address to congress last night the president pitched a $447 billion jobs plan that relies heavily on payroll tax cuts and new spending. the president did not give an estimate of exactly how many jobs the bill would create but he did add that it will not worse the federal deficit. more flooding may be on the way for parts of the oath coast from maryland to massachusetts. the remnants of tropical storm lee has forced more than 100,000 people from their homes in pennsylvania as rivers swell to near record levels and deluge streets. officials are warning residents flood waters may be filled with toxins and to be avoided. 11 deaths have been blamed on the storm lee since it came ashore last week. it has been a hot dark night for the american southwest and northern mexico when millions were left without power. officials say the outage was likely triggered accidentally by an arizona utility worker. the outage nearly halted san diego freeways and air traffic and desert residents were left without much needed air conditioning in the summer heat. this morning power has been fully restored to the san diego area. and officials say they expect to make significant progress in other areas by this arch. and a terrifying moment of survival caught on cell phone video in northern russia. a polar bear that found itself in a residential area pounced on local woman. the woman did manage to actually walk away from that attack but her clothes were almost ripped off by the bear. it is now 9:04. we re going to head back to al in pennsylvania for a check of the weather. all right, savannah, thanks so much. again, the flooding here, a big deal. 40.9 feet is the record back in 1972. hurricane agnes here in the susquehanna valley area, the wyoming valley, they called it. the good news is the rivers are starting to recede. but those folks who are out of their homes still don t know when they re going to their homes still don t know when they ll be allowed back in yet. let s check your weather and show you what s happening. rainfall amounts basically anywhere from three to five inches of rain yesterday. and today you can see nowhere near the heavy concentrated areas of rain that we see. just scattered showers all around the region. and in fact, we do have flood warnings and flood watches for rivers up stretching from the delmarva peninsula into new england. but the good news is the rainfall amounts are generally going to be relatively light. we could see some local pockets of one to two inches of rain, but for the most part, it s going to be a half inch or less. and that will put a lot less pressure on rivers all throughout the northeast. that s what s going on around the country. here s what s happening in your neck of the woods. unfortunately, we re get morgue heavy rain, northern neck of virginia and st. mary s county this morning where you see the reds on the radar. in fairfax county, that same zone that got a lot of heavy rain yesterday from oakton up through reston and to near great falls and around wolf trap, the area around difficult run is likely right back out of its banks again with heavy downpours there. later today, a little sun may break out this afternoon. but we could get more heavy downpours with thunder and and that s your latest weather. savannah? narrator: today s health is brought to you by yoplait. it s so good. this morning on today s health, what s your body telling you? your body can speak volumes about your health if you listen closely and recognize some important warning signs you may be able to spot serious conditions early. dr. carrie peterson is an internist. good morning. good morning. interesting because sometimes the kind of symptoms that don t seem that serious might point to an underlying medical condition. let s start with the mouth. if you notice the corners of your mouth are cracked, what does that mean? that can mean that you have a vitamin deficiency with the b vitamin. b-2 or b-6. or it can mean that the saliva are pooling in the corners of your mouth. if you have cracked mouth, also can be seen in eating disorders. supplement your diet with b-2 or b-6, green leafy vegetable or almonds. if you notice you are someone who gets saliva in the corners use petroleum jelly to protect the skin. what about a white coating on your tongue? what does that mean? that can be significant for something called thrush. that s a eayeast infection in o mouth. there are certain conditions that can override the bacteria and the yeast thrives and overgrows. these things include antibiotics, diabetes, and if you use an inhaled steroid for treatment of asthma that can trigger it as well. how do you get rid of it? with a prescription anti-fungal to get rid of it. let s move on to the skin. a lot of women have this. brown splotches on the face. that s a pigmentation that you see on the forehead, the cheeks and on the upper lip. it s often triggered by birth control pills as well as pregnancy. it can be very, very upset for patients. that graphic showed us, you re talking about a large spot, not these little spots. right, right. i like to call beauty spots that are really age spots. no, large patches. and it can be quite disfiguring. it can be upsetting. it can be tough the treat. if you stop the birth control or birth your baby it could be better. what about thick dark hair around the bellybutton. some women have complained of this. most often this is genetic but there are times when it can be due to a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome. it s an overproduction of the male hormones that women do make. and it affects one in ten women and can contribute to infertility. so it s something to testify it inially be aware of and bring to the attention of your doctor. next sign, dark cirquecles ur the eyes. if it s not going away, it may not necessarily be because you didn t have a lot of sleep last night. if it s persistent it can be from allergies. when you have allergies, the vessels around the eyes tend to dilate, causes a blue circles. if you treat the allergies with antihistamines or if you avoid the allergen triggers, it will go away. a yellowish bump on the white of your eyes in. this is called a pinguecula. it s a nodula on the white of the eye. it s overexposure of sun, wind, or dust. if you see this developing you need to be more vigilant about taking care of your eyes by using lubricating drops and certainly by wearing sunglasses that have uva/uvb protection. does it go away? doesn t go away but it can get bigger. okay. a scalp, your scalp shedding. is that dandruff? what is that? flaking, yes. this is dandruff. there are several underlying causes. one is the well-known fungus that can be treated with shampoos. and triggers of weather, it s the fall season and may get worse in these scenarios. and also can be triggered by stress which a lot of people aren t aware of. cortisol which is produced when your stressed can dry out your scalp. hair thinning, what can that be a sign of? thyroid disease or iron deficiency. if you notice your hair falling out, get it checked by your doctor. the nails. if you see a dark kind of line on your nailbed, should you be concerned? you should be. this may be a sign of melanoma, which is a type of skin cancer. moles are not the only red flag for skin cancer. you can see in this image a dark stripe down the nail. is that like a mole under the nail? exactly. a mole under the nail. it should be seen. we get women, if you see this, go to your dermatologist. what if your nails are brittle and cracked and splintered. could be a vitamin deficiency like calcium, vitamin c, or zinc or you re washing your hands too much or too many manicures. stop doing the dishes. i was going to recommend the manicure but too many manicures is not a good thing. yes. good to know. thank you. coming up next, want to start your own business? we ve got a start-up guide for what you should know before you quit your day job. and later, head to toe beauty fixes, but no manicure, right? right after these messages. that can of pledge under your sink isn t just a great way to clean wood. pledge is also gentle on leather. safe on stainless. missed a spot. great for shining motorcycles. wood? come on. it s pledge. car seats and dashboards. hey there! it cleans laminate furniture. or whatever that was. even granite. today, pledge shines a whole lot more than just end tables. 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think about all the possibilities. you want to start with something that you are not just passionate about, you need to be passionate about making the business work. take for example we had a woman that we profiled in this october issue who started a pooper scooper business. she s not passionate about a pooper scooper but passionate about making the business work. she now goes and cleans tons of people s yards. 300 clients, 7 people working for her the other part of this equation about imagining it, think about how it fits into your life. for her she had a big job where she traveled, now she has control of her own life, runs her own business, makes her own hours. it really works for her. part of it also imagining is being open to opportunity. that means take your idea and think about it in every way possible. what could it become? could it become a website? could it bb a bricks and mortar? that way when opportunity comes knocking you re ready to answer that door. research, to compare to see what the market is like, competition? research means finding a mentor, number one. great place to get 13 really thousand very professional people are there and resources for you. you want to also start local. so that means go to your local business, the commerce, you know. chamber of commerce. chamber of commerce. you want to go to community colleges. you want to talk to everybody. what if they steal your idea? chances are they won t. one of the other women we profiled, she started a makeup not a makeup, but skin care line for tweens. one of the key people she met in building a business is someone she talked to on an airplane. that is how it gets going. other people have the ideas but you ve got to make it happen. networking is important. that s part of the research. networking, starting local, talk to everybody. you say planning. everybody needs a business plan, especially if you present it to someone. business plans can be daunting. great resources. small business association, you can go online. they is all kinds of stuff but your business plan needs to include what your strategies are, what your sales and marketing plan, day-to-day costs. the other thing is to plan for to pay yourself. factor that into your overall plan because after all, this is a business. but if this is your first time trying, small business, how do you get the know how or the experience even to present or prepare a business plan? again, great organizations that help networking. you can there s national association for women. business owners go to their website. they will definitely help you. really, again, tremendous resources are out there. when you re doing this a lot of it is financial planning. a lot financing. financing. most of these places get money from friends an family. you re not going to have a lot of success going after venture capital money. number one, they expect you to do a turn around in five to seven years, which is really unrealistic and expectations for returns are going to be ten times your you know, what they put in. again, not realistic. but they re going to start small. go after multiple there s lots of microfinancing. especially for women. a lot of different programs that you can go to that will help finance. you really also need to do you need to analyze what your break-even analysis is. that s in the start-up, which is to say when the money you make, your revenues, are going to outpace your costs. okay. great tips. four things that you need to do or need to examine. great advice. good to see you. thank you. thank you. coming up, he s not scooby-doo but this dog has a lot to say. we ll meet him and hear him we re not kidding speak, right after these messages. if you think occasional irregularity is no big deal, think twice. it may be a sign that your digestive system could be working better. listen to this with occasional irregularity, things your body doesn t use could be lingering in your system, causing discomfort. but activia has been shown in clinical studies to help with slow intestinal transit when consumed 3 times per day. 7 out of 10 doctors recommend activia. and the great taste is recommended by me! revlon launches growluscious plumping mascara. with a conditioning formula that helps strengthen and plump lashes up to 200% instantly. for maximum volume. new revlon growluscious plumping mascara. if you have painful, swollen joints, i ve been in your shoes. one day i m on p of the world. the next i m saying. i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i m surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. 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we test it on our staffers. we do a thing called self helper beauty awards. they test them for us. we have some of those winners here today. let s get to the list then. you start with the hair since it s head to toe. what do you have here? salon graphics. it s a heat protector. if you look under a microscope at your hair it looks like a tree bark and it s very, very rough. what you want to do is smooth the cuticle, that rough barky part. and that s what s going to give you shine because you want your hair to be smooth. this locks in shine? yeah. so it s going to protect your hair from all the things like curling irons and flat irons. the stuff we do every day. blow dryers, exactly. and it s going to help keep your hair shiny. what about frizz? this is a cool curl boosting spray from the same company salon graphics. curls, you want to seal the cuticle but you want it to be light and bouncy. you don t want to weigh it down so it can have that bounce. that s what this does. put it on any type of hair? yes, especially curly haired people, to enhance the curls e d then for the straight haired girl who wants a curl. this is intriguing. five-minute facelift from derma silk. we all want to have tighter skin, flawless skin. h is a great boost ever. it s got a lot of amino acids in it and glycolic in it which is going to help exfoliate. it s going to help your skin feel smoother, more radiant. is this a day or night thing? i like the idea of putting it on in the morning before you start your day, making your breakfast. you wipe it off and put on your makeup. or at the end of the day you re getting ready to go out, take off your makeup, put it on for a few minutes and then take it off and put on your makeup again and you re ready. these are spry breath mints. these are breath mints? yes. we really believe in being beautiful from the inside out. why are these great as opposed to anything else? fantastic because they have something found in a lot of fruits and vegetables and has been clinically proven to decrease tooth decay. what i like to tell my 6-year-old daughter is your teeth has to last you your entire life. renews itself, hair grows but your teeth are the same for the rest of your life. it tastes fruity. like that. next, to our body. this is the sexy bar soap. you sold us on the sexy. this is oil of olay. we sent it out to hundreds of women to test. it won because readers loved it. one woman said her skin was so soft her husband noticed it and said how delicious she smelled. with a breath mint and soap, you are set. that s a great bar soap and it takes care of your body. moving on to your nails, manicure. i m hiding mine because mine are jacked today. it s important. nail color is in every color this season. you can go the limit. what s fun about this is they re a bargain, $1.99. fast and quick drying. buy five different shades and fool around and experiment. i love that you put these colors on your hands, experiment on your toes. tie-dye things going on. mix them up. last two items here. this is from lancaster. it s a great self tanner. it s toning and it s hydrating. wow. so it does everything. so it s great for your legs. it s designed for your legs. i like to use it all over my body. do you end up with orange hands? no, you ve got to exfoliate your hands. that s the key. exfoliate your hands and apply. you can get tip on how to do that. last was not least. started with the head. now our toes. our feet are like our teeth, they take a beating. you use them every day. you want them to be soft and not catch on your tights. this is from sally hansen. it s like a pumice in a bottle. you rub this on your feet. it s luxurious. this is the kind of product your husband will steal. exactly. secret weapon. thank you so much. thank you. up next, the class of 2020 now in fourth grade reflects on september 11th. now in fourth grade reflects on september 11th. but first, these messages. 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[people caughing] now to our class of 2020 series, following a group of children from their first day of kindergarten to high school graduation. it s start of the new school year and kids just started fourth grade. along with challenging new subjects they ll be hearing a lot about a day in history that happened before most of them were born. today national correspondent natalie morales talked to the kids about the tenth anniversary of september 11th and what it means to them. i can t believe you guys are going into the fourth grade. reporter: the end of summer is near. one last chance for a play date before school starts. jordan, lauren, and eileen look forward to their first day of school, they will be surrounded by reminders of a past and day too young to remember but old enough to know that it will never be forgotten. pictures are beyond belief. it felt like there was an explosion of some kind here at the pentagon. somerset county airport confirmed the crash of a large plane north of that airport. reporter: on september 11th, 2001, lauren s mom was already 11 months pregnant. makes me think what kind of world am i bringing my world into in. reporter: lauren was born two months after the attacks. i remember cutting out the headlines as you do for their baby book and it was all about al qaeda and i kept thinking i ve got to find a good positive headline to put in her bay be i book and there wasn t one. so i thought, it is what it is. this is, you know, this is the day she ll remember. oh, my god! reporter: as lauren and their classmates grew up they learned more about the day that changed history. and i asked them who osama bin laden was, and they said the guy who planned an attack on the twin towers. they told me that bad people could go into planes and kill the pilot and sort of purposely steer the plane toward the building. and it collapsed were in 2007 lauren s parents took her to the place where the world trade center once towered over manhattan. we went and visited ground zero. and we explained what happened. i think she felt the intensity of it. most of the people were all sad and they were laying flowers down. i think about our class of 20 20 a 20 and the year that a lot of them were born, around 9/11. reporter: while that was not part of the lesson the principal says it has changed the way teachers and students look at the world in the classroom. they re more tuned into the issues that are global and the families are, at least, and it really has even even the school and our community has really turned its eye on how what role do we have in the world. reporter: last may lauren and her classmates were watching television when president obama closed another chapter in this story of 9/11. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. reporter: for the kids what happened next was thrilling and confusing. they celebrated that somebody died, they were like, oh, yay, he died. but to celebrate that somebody died. i was a little bit at the same time i wasn t. welcome to your fout grade year. reporter: today jordan and his classmates are back in school ready to tackle new challenges in english and math and science, but they don t need a history lesson to know that september 11th changed their lives even before they were born. not that it s stuck in my head but i know about it. whenever you see it, you know. it s all around, yeah. what a weekend we are all preparing for. so interesting, ten years have passed but i think for all of us americans, it s still that emotional connection. it still feels raw in a way, particularly when we see these kids who were born around this hard time in our country but also all the stories that kids who have lost parents on 9/11. it s good to remember but it s difficult to remember. uplifting. i spoke with a man who lost his wife in the pentagon. and we are in it together. and around this time you re able to hug, you re able to touch a friend, and it reminds you of the things that are so important. at this time when we have such an environment, it reminds us that we are in it together. my dad was in the army for 30 years. this is our country. we have to stick together. we shouldn t look at tragedy for that to remind us, but it does. and i think that s the most important thing at this point. it does. even if you do shed a tear or you feel that pang, you know, nearly 2,000 people that passed away, they deserve our tears and our remembrance. fourth graders, you know that there are good children out there and that s our future. we re living for them. we ll be back with more memories in a moment. but this is today on nbc. 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[ falcon screeches ] america will spend the entire weekend remembering september 11th 2001 and the past decade that day has changed our world in so many ways. tamron, i know you and i and reporters have met many families along the way who have lost someone. we know we carry their stories in our hearts as all of america does. nbc news will be covering the event this weekend. it will be an emotional journey for all of us. look back at some of the images from that day etched in all of our minds and that we will never forget, nor should we. have a good weekend. we leave you with these images of 9/11. great harm has been done to us. we have suffered great loss. on september 11, 2001, new york city was viscously attacked in an unprovoked act of war. what we have called ground zero, but which i call ground hero. usa, usa, usa, usa. this is the day when all americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. none of us will never forget this day. we are following breaking news now at 9:56 on this friday, september 9th. police are investigating a suspicious package found in northwest washington. it s happening at the calvert street bridge. the bridge is closed until further notice. stephanie, do you know anything about this? we are still looking into all the details on that one, but i guess if you head that way, you ll be expecting some redirection right around that area. let s take a look at a downed tree on the clara barton parkway. that blocks all the lanes there. folks traveling defense highway route 450 at housley road. flooding blocking all the lanes in each direction. in virginia, northbound 95 still a little busy coming out of prince william county. here we are past route 1 with a live look there. hov lanes look a little busier. restrictions were lifted earlier today. we re going to find a little extra volume in those lanes. let s check out the weather with tom kierein. pockets of moderate to heavy rain from virginia s northern neck into st. mary s calvert and prince george s county. right now where you see those pockets of yellow where it s rained hard around temple hills and hillcrest heights and southwest washington as well as in mont gomry washington near from darnstown up to germantown they are getting downpours there. the rest of the day passing heavy downpour, thunder and lightning. better news for the weekend. only a smaller chance of an afternoon thunderstorm on saturday and sunday. otherwise, partly sunny into the mid-80s. tom, thank you. a programming note. today we will air a half hour of news 4 midday at 11:00 [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne s car. oh, man. there goes dwayne s house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. 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why do you do that? well, i mean i i m saying i have said that. you know, i got it, i ll do it. first of all, when you ve been married a long time or you ve been together with somebody for a long time, you know what your strengths are and aren t. so there are certain things i can do better than frank and there are other things he can do better than me, but not much. i told you about the time he was going to go down and fix the fence around our pool? because one of the spokes was like leaning. he said, i ll fix it. he took all of these tools down. an hour later i look down, five of them are gone. he knocked them down. that s one where you say just leave it, i ll do it. i wouldn t try to do it, i would call somebody who knows how to do it. here s another one you should never say when are you going to find a new job? great. here s one, we re skipping that one. okay, do you really think those pants are flattering? here s the thing. there s a way that you can do this. if your husband is wearing baggy or bad-looking pants and you don t, you re about to walk out the door and you re going somewhere. isn t there a nice way to say, i love that shirt but i bet the blue pants would go better than the tan ones you re wearing? now that jay has some favorite things that you re not crazy about? he watches the show on occasion, so i d rather we ll keep this going. yeah, you know, frank, frank puts on a pair of jeans and a white shirt and nobody looks better. but he does have a couple of track suits that drive cassidy and i crazy. and he knows which ones they are. but he s so comfortable in them. they re cozy. i know, but oh, my gosh, they are bad. here s another one, please watch the kids, don t forget that. you re asking them to do something and then you re adding all sorts of but/ifs. really what we re sounding like is their mother, not their lover. and anything that starts off with did you? whatever follows that question is always nothing you want to hear. all right. you are just like your father. i never met frank s father, so he was dead. that s funny. all right, here s a bad one my mother warned me you d do this. oh, no. that s just nasty. that means, if you re saying those things either, that if you have gone way down the wrong road for a long time. any more of those fun things that get us in trouble? no. but there s a new study out there that does say friends hold such a key role in your life. and a lot of women would rather spend time with their girlfriends. it doesn t even matter what is happening. sit around on the couch and talk and have popcorn and stuff with your girlfriends than with their partner? than with their partner. a third, said they had more fun with their girlfriends. the all right. but they say that we, we do, we do need that kind of time, just to hang out with girlfriends. you do need that time. i think one thing especially in a long-term relationship. if you still have fun together, if you still laugh, there s hope for you. you know? i ve been through some tough times in my marriage. the one thing frank and i have always been able to do is laugh. and he thinks i m hysterical and i think he is. and thank god. thank god. because you know, it just heals, it heals a lot of things. you re right. it does say not if you re laughing at the fat rear end, don t laugh at those kinds of things, just laugh in general. you know. and yet another study, out of california, san diego says women who had active sex lives especially in their 60s, 70s and 80s there s still time for me, uh-huh they have a better quality of life. they re happier. what do they mean by active? i don t know what it means. but it says, 70% of women in their 60s say they have some sexual activity in the last s months. okay. with someone? i mean these are the things you have to ask, if it s a real study. you know? come on. so i know what we re dealing with here. in their 70s, the number dropped. 57%. of women in their 70s, 57%. but enough about betty white. and in their 80s, 31%. they say it s about connecting with someone. they just think they are. and if they think they are, then god bless them. you re so ridiculous. i don t know i say nothing. there s another new study out, thank god. enough with these studies. they say eat less, if you want to eat less, use the hand that you re not proficient with. say you re right-handed? eat popcorn with your left hand. you won t be as good at it and you will end up eating less. is that true? uh-huh. should you use the fork in your left hand? not with popcorn. we ve got a guy here today this is usually your time for a friday try-day. mine has been bad the last few weeks, so we re going 0 get somebody to help us. 26-year-old jason schneider from astoria, queens. how are you? fine. if you ve ever been to new york in central park. you might see jason. he has that sign. $1 jokes. laughter guaranteed. do you make a living at this? yes, i do. i do stand-up comedy as well. but yeah. are most people nice or do they raz you pretty bad? most people are nice. they love the idea. let s see if we are. do you have a dollar? yes. we ll see if we use them or not. you re guaranteed to laugh or your money back. we ll give it to you if it s amusing. i really do like to take it first. thank you. okay, i ll tell you a whole bunch. first joke, do you know chewbacca from star wars ? yes. what do you call chewbacca when he s working with clay? what? a harry potter. thank you, thank you. oh, kim kardashian? i m her godmother, be careful. do you see kim kardashian x-rayed her butt to see if it was real? it turns out she s got two more sisters in there. thank you. did you see they asked former president bush what he thought about the situation in libya? what did he say? he said he had no idea the situation left the jersey shore. okay. how about, hey, did you see m.i.t. students invented a robot that can play video games. they did? even their inventions are virgins. thank you, thank you. did you see the difference between north sudan and south sudan. some of my favorite sudan is in a toyota camry. that was hysterical, thank you! i have a custom joke for you guys. last one. it s very stupid, so don t think about it too much. what kind of dance does kathie lee like to go to? a hoda-down. a hoe-down. i was almost right. [ applause ] thank you, jason. as you guys know, it s our cutest baby contest. we need you to send in your pictures. ages zero to two. look at these. those eyes. anyway, we re going to have the winner of the contest. nathan detroit. the guy s a doll. oh. now that s not fair because they re so cute. we ll select a gorgeous baby. a beautiful baby fashion show. it s a cute baby or beautiful baby? i don t know. 13-pounder with cheese. oh! oh, my gosh! please log on to facebook.com, klgandhoda. sunday september 25th, at 9:00 p.m. coming up, primped and pampered, ready for their big debut. the amazing results of our ambush makeovers, right after this. we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road she was waiting up around the bend smile at me and then you take my hand [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, where delicious ingredients like toasted oats, with rich dark chocolate, sweet golden honey, or creamy peanut butter come together in the most perfect combinations. i was thinking that i hope this never ends yeah, i was just thinking i hope this will never end smoky eyes look amazing.g but creating them? that s a whole different story. almay intense i-color smoky-i kit. first, sweep the smoky-i color across your lid. then, add the crease accentuating shade. and a highlight under your brow. only from almay. only for me. maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. i m a film star. well, i m a film, left behind by a floor cleaner i thought was going to take me places. wait! now life is dull. darling! i believe in miracles [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. swiffer wetjet s new upgraded solution loosens and lifts off dirt to help prevent streaks and residue. and reveal more shine than a mop or your money back. you had me at bzzzzz . we re back on this try-day friday and it s time for today s plaza ambush makeovers where we pluck two unsuspecting ladies from the crowd and surprise them with a new, beautiful look. here to show off the makeovers is our crack makeover team, contributor and stylist to the stars, louis licari. louis licari, la la la la la and us weekly contributor and best-selling author, jill martin. it was a little rainy, but we found two ladies who were so excited for style and update and they wanted to look prettier and not politically correct, but they wanted to look younger. who doesn t. pat clark is number one up, 64 years old from san diego, california. she s not changed her hairstyle in more than 15 years. she was so thrilled when we approached her on the plaza, let s take a listen. all right. you ve been married for 37 years. yes. and you tell me your wife z deserves a makeover, tell me why. she was a teacher for 34 years and i love her dearly and i think it s just time for a little change. what kind of a change? best left unsaid. i love it. i think your hubby wants you to look a little sexy, what do you think? yes. we re going to ditch the hat for a sexy dress, are you ready to go? the hat s got to go. i like pat s sense of humor. she s here with her husband, glen, who has his blindfold on. glen, if you wouldn t mind ke keeping your blindfold on until we give you the green light. pet, let s see the new you! oh, my god! get ready, glen, hold glen back. take off your blindfold. wow! oh, oh, you want to see yourself? wow! get the kleenex. doggone it! louis, thank you. look at you! i think it worked. it s a home run. give her the kleenex. the short and sassy, she can do it herself. i gave her hair a little darker and she looks much more beautiful. glen, are you all right? i m speechless, it s the big apple. i love it. you can tell how much they love each other. and that laughter has been part of your marriage, right? and that dress is hot. adriana capel. we wanted to make her glamorous and feel fabulous and the earrings are from roberto ciarella. our second lady is connie 51 from akron, ohio, her daughters are always begging her to update her wardrobe. she was excited to receive the glam new look we re going to give her. let s listen to her tale. without scaring all of nbc, i want you to reenact your reaction when we told you you were getting a makeover. [ screaming ] we were like, okay, i think she wants it. and tell me why you want this for your sister? well, it was on your bucket list to come to new york. this is one of the things that she was really excited about. and she s obviously really excited to be chosen. i think she s clearly excited. why do you want this so badly? i ve wanted this my whole life. i ve never liked my hair. i just and i turned 50 last year and i just want to look, feel beautiful. aw. we re going to make you feel beautiful. i m scared to ask, are you ready to go? i m ready, i m ready! i m so happy for her. she s here with her sister, madelyn. let s take one last look at connie before and let s bring the new connie out. oh! oh, my god. is it madelyn or madeline. madelyn. madelyn, take off that blindfold and see your sister. wow! fantastic. connie, let s not wait any longer, turn around and look at yourself, sweetheart. oh, my gosh! i love it. gorgeous. you want to join us over here, connie? no, no, i m so happy! look at this. number one, i softened connie s color, added highlights. very soft makeup. and her hair was long and just doing nothing, we brought it up and gave her fullness. and the dress is by adriana capel and this fall, it s all about color-blocking. the purple dress with the roberta ciarella accessories. congratulation does everybody. up next, the best places to catch the falling leaves, fall foliage, i ll going to go with foliage, right after this. thank you guys, thank you so much! a cooler, golf balls, and an at&t sharp fx plus. ok, does it itch? oh yeah, we re rashing. what? does he want to chew it? chew it? i don t know, do you want to chew it? no! wait, wrong website, that s a canine condition, sorry. what, did he say? he said you re going to be fine. let s finish this round. 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or did you see it as more of a peaceful time? i see as peaceful. we re reflecting what we ve been through the past ten years. we ve learned to come together more so as a nation and i think it shows how strong we are. and you kept the memory of your husband, and your daddy alive in lovely ways. you had little books made about, from people saying, i knew your dad. uh-huh. that s so lovely. you want to keep them alive in your heart and your memory. jamie, when it first of all, we just need to point out one important note here. you re wearing she has a justin bieber br e bracelet on and she s praying justin is watching your show. when your mom was telling you the anniversary is coming up. what were you thinking about when this was approaching? i was thinking about what really happened. and i was just trying to understand what happened to our country on 9/11. do you feel like you know your dad more from these books? because people are writing their descriptions of him. and uh-huh. sweet. that s really sweet. and kelly, you lost your husband in the flight over shanksberg? flight 99 into the tower. the first flight that hit the tower. that s right, forgive me. you have a joyous time coming up, because it s your daughter s birthday coming up. she was born two days later. we had the death of him and the birth of her. what conflicting emotions. what are you feeling with the anniversary coming up? for me, it kind of brought you know, i kind of moved ahead. i ve been living a good life. and i got remarried. but this anniversary brings it back and it just brings, i see everything is in the papers again. it s reliving the pain. and missing him again. and you both remarried. i know that that s also kind of a, it s a tricky emotion, i think to have. because you re obviously mourning the loss of a man you cared so much about. but you were lucky enough to find love again. yes, tell us about that. absolutely. it s so nice that we have, i have these two children of mine who are the legacies of my late husband. but i ve been able to find love again and that s really special, what i ve been able to have an opportunity and have two more children with my now-husband. i think it would be hard for a new partner, knowing that that, the specter is always there, the memory is always there. you found two men that let you grieve and you can speak about him. that s so important, isn t it? you can t have somebody resenting the memory of another person. well you know, it takes a special person to be able to appreciate that and understand that. how do you tell your daughter about her late father? just so that she doesn t miss out on knowing him? we have a lot of videos, she has an older sister with him and her older sister. she has, he was a drummer and he s a great dancer and i think she got his rhythm. she has his legs and we talk about how she s similar to him. do you talk about this in school? is this one of those things that come up and kids want to know about you and what happened? we had a show and tell once and i brought a snow globe that reminded me of him because he died in new york. so, my mom got a snow globe here and i brought it to school and told them about it. i just think it s interesting to watch, just kind of happiness come out of this. the joy from the ashes. we were so heartbroken when all of this happened. do you sometimes carry guilt with feeling i have a good life now, does that happen, jill? no, i don t think i have guilt. most people have some kind of tragedy at some point in their life or conflict they have to deal with. this is ours and we ve kind of overcome in a way without forgetting. and i have a special gift that i was given. because i was three months pregnant at the time when my husband died. so we all kind of have to make the best of what we have. is there a bond? in people magazine, they showed a spread. is there a bond with the moms and kids through that? absolutely. i found it comforting to have people going through the same thing at the same time. when i thought i was going crazy. because you thought you were the only one? yes. and there is a camp as well called children of 9/11. did either of you girls go do that? no. jenna bush the other day had, on our show, on an earlier hours had a feature on that. maybe you didn t need it. you guys are doing great. there are additional organizations, tuesday s children and boys of september 11th are two organizations that often bring children together and hold events for children to have an opportunity to see each other. we re out in vegas, so we don t have the opportunity. happy birthday to you and we hope that justin bieber is watching. do you want to say anything to him? i love you. thank you, all. thank you so much for coming. we ll be right back after these messages. 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[ male announcer ] of all the things that happen on your shiny surfaces, disinfecting has to be one of them. clorox disinfecting wipes. kills germs. dries clear. the toyota concert series on today brought to you by toyota. with football season already under way, country superstar kenny chesney stopped by and recorded a song he wrote about his passion for the game. here is kenny with his song boys of fall with the song he co-wrote with hemingway whiskey. standing at the heart that s true that s going to play for the balls of fall doesn t that just kings of the pitch the boys of fall the air fall and it s knocking heads and talking trash, and crash they got your back when your back s against the wall you mess with one man, you got us all the boys of fall in a little town like mine that s all they got newspaper clippings fill the coffee shops the old men will always think they know it all young girls will dream about the boys of fall well it s turn and face the stars and stripes it s fighting back them butterflies it s calling in the air ailrighty, yes, sir, we want the ball it s knockin heads and talkin trash it s slinging mud and dirt and grass it s the i got your number, i got your back when your back s against the wall you mess with one man you got us all the boys of fall well it s turn and face the stars and stripes it s fighting back them butterflies it s calling in the air all right yes, sir, we want the ball and it s knockin heads and talkin trash it s slinging mud and dirt and grass it s i got your number i got your back when your back s against the wall you mess with one man coming up next we love him. what a sweet guy. just ask us anything. sara haines is live with questions from our fans across the street. but first, this is today on nbc. we re back with live with sara haines. slees across the street at the msnbc cafe with a crowd full of questions. sara, who is up first? first up, a birthday girl. she s from florida and she has a career question. i was just wondering what your best experience is on the today show. what s your best experience on the today show ? right now. with you and your birthday. any animal segment? any time we re having fun is, nothing stands out to me. certain days we ll say, boy, that was fun. as long as we re laughing, hon. my dad used to say to me when i was a little girl, find out something you love to do and find a way to get paid for it. next up, jay, not that one, hoda, from st. louis. i want to know what the most bizarre moment you had on the show that maybe people haven t seen on the show itself. you mean in the commercial breaks? it could be, yes. we cannot reveal that information to you, jay. we ve had very, very unfortunate instances with animals. let s just leave it at that. and animals have to relieve themselves at times. let s leave it at that. there was this once birds like hoda s head. stop it. jay. she s having fun with that. next up, we ve got gabriel from california. i want to know what advice you have for someone who wants to begin writing a book. hoda s in the middle of writing another one. i think you have to have some really strong good ideas down on paper to start it off before you can present it to somebody. you better have an original idea. when you think about how many books come out. but if you re passionate about it. the best way to start? start. start writing it. and live with it a little bit. take it to somebody you trust and say, what do you think? don t take it to everybody. take it to one person you trust. and get a little feedback. i agree, just put it on paper, that s it. good luck, thank you so much. bye, everybody, bye sara. guess who is coming up on monday? actress soleil moon frye. and she was punky brewster in the house. and fashions by blondie. and fun fall wines, have a great weekend, everyone, i ll see you all in seattle. great weekend, everyone, i ll see you all in seattle. nice talking to you. captions by vitac www.vitac.com that have earned the keurig brewed seal of approval. the keurig brewed seal is our commitment that the coffee inside will deliver a delicious cup of coffee every time. keurig brewed. look for the only mark of genuine keurig quality.