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bystanders rushed in, lifting the two-ton car just high enough to free him. remarkable rescue today, tuesday, september 13, 2011. r captions paid for by nbc-universal television this is matt lauer and ann curry. good morning, welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning. m savannah guthrie, ann is on assignment where overnight she spoke exclusively with iran s president mahmoud ahmadinejad that s making headlines. josh fatale and shane bauer, two americans given eight-year prison sentences for spying and entering iran illegally could be released in days. of course, that s welcome news for their families who have been on an emotional roller coaster. ann will have the latest live from tehran. tapes that offer a rare glimpse into the personal life of jacqueline kennedy. this morning the former first lady opens up about her marriage and one of the most trying events for this country and her husband s presidency and at one point a 3-year-old john f. kennedy, jr., interrupts his mother during those recordings and we ll hear that as well. also, she took some heat after being caught on an open microphone publicly voicing her hate for hydrangeas. we ll show you that coming up. on this tuesday morning we begin with ann s exclusive interview with iran s president mahmoud ahmadinejad and word that the american hikers detained in tehr tehran, in a tehran prison, could be freed very soon. ann is in tehran with the details. i know you spoke with that president about a wide range of subjects, but this is the topic that s making the headlines. talk to me about it. reporter: you re absolutely right, matt. good morning. the president in a 45-minute interview basically told us in response to a question that he personally has organize the release of the two remaining american hikers, talking about josh fattal and shane bauer. he said it will happen, in his word, in a couple of days as a humanitarian gesture. he talked about what he said were a number of iranians that were being held in american prisons and he was clearly talking about the need for the united states to step up and release iranians. we can also tell you the families of these two american hikers have said that they are hopeful upon hearing this news that about the words you are now about to hear from iran s president. many americans want to know how it could be that iran could sentence the two young hikers, josh fattal and shane bauer, to eight years in prison? for spying. what is the evidence against them? translator: they illegally crossed our borders, and they were arrested by the border guards, but we tried last year to free one of the three persons, and we are also trying to make arrangement for their freedom, for the freedom of the other two. i think these two persons will be freed in a couple of days. in a couple of days? translator: yes. in a couple of days. they will be free, but let me ask a question. are they really the problem? you know how many iranians are now in the american jails? there are hundreds. it s not about only two people in iran. these two people are having the very good conditions here in prison. it s like staying in a hotel. i think the problem is in the approach of the american politicians and leaders. why the american leaders are so hostile against us. okay. these two persons will be released. it is going to be over. we do it, for example, in a humanitarian gesture. is it going to solve the problems? i hope so. just on monday the head of the international atomic energy agency announced plans to publish new information that he says shows that iran may be working on a nuclear warhead. he said he is, quote, deeply concerned. is iran working on a nuclear warhead? translator: this is an old and repeated story. first of all, we are against nuclear weapons because it is against our beliefs and ideology. then simply put, is your answer no? translator: we do not need nuclear weapons and we do not accept that. we are against that. so, but to the question is iran building nuclear warheads, is the answer yes or is it no, with all due respect? we do not need it. what is our need to do it? so your answer is no. translator: that s right. certainly. in our interview two years ago you said about president obama i very much hope that the gentleman will move toward fundamental change and we are waiting for those changes to come about. what is your message to president obama today? translator: president obama was in the presidential elections and he had some slogans and we weren t happy about it, but many people were disappointed. i ask you and the people of the united states to what expect they hope about real reforms by him. what has changed the united states? what policies? did they change policies in afghanistan or iraq or in the hostility against iran? what has changed, really? reporter: while criticizing both the united states and also britain, the president ahmadinejad also made it clear he is looking for improved relations with the west. he ll be speaking on the world stage before the u.n. general assembly in 11 days and we ll have more of our interview on nbc nightly news and posted online in it s entirety. we look forward to that, ann. thank you very much. it is now eight minutes after the hour. here s savannah. matt, thanks. presidential hopeful rick perry found himself on the defensive during last night s fiery gop debate. among those who went after him, congresswoman michele bachmann. we ll talk to her in a moment. chuck todd has the latest. good morning, savannah. seven of the republican candidates made it clear who their front-runner is. the tea party debate turned into a texas bashfest. the people who are on social security today need to understand something, slam dunk guaranteed, that program is going to be there in place. reporter: front-runner rick perry began his second-ever presidential debate trying to reassure seniors his ponzi scheme comments about social security were taken out of context. it has been called a ponzi scheme by many people long before me, but no one s had the courage to stand up and say here is how we re going to reform it. the question is do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out? i think we ought to have a conversation we re having that right now, governor. we re running for president. i ll finish this conversation. i think those types of thoughtful conversations with america rather than trying to scare seniors like you re doing and other people, it s time to have a legitimate conversation in this country. governor, the term ponzi scheme is what scared seniors. reporter: unlike last week, romney wasn t alone in going after perry. michele bachmann hammered the texas governor for his support of statewide vaccinations against girls 12 and over against causing cervical cancer. to force 12-year-old little girls to have a government vaccination is flat-out wrong. at the end of the day this is about trying to stop a cancer. you may criticize me about the way i went about it, but at the end of the day i am always going to err on the side of life. reporter: bachmann also questioned whether a campaign contribution from a drug company influenced perry s decision. there s a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate. the company was merck, and it was a $5,000 contribution that i had received from them. if you re saying that i can be bought for 5,000, i m offended. i m offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn t have a choice. that s why i m offend, sir. it didn t get easier for perry when the issue of immigration came up as the crowd let him know that they didn t like the policy to give tuition to mexican immigrants. no matter how you got in, from the standpoint if your parents brought you there or what have you. think the american way is not to give taxpayer subsidized benefits to people who have broken our laws or are here in the united states illegally. that is not the american way. . reporter: it was that kind of night for perry. it wasn t just from romney and bachmann, santorum jumped in. ron paul hit him. even john huntsman tried, though, a couple of his jokes or barbs fell flat including one that was an odd troefrns kurt cobain. other than that, these guy ss gather again next week. thank you very much. gop presidential hopeful and minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann is with us from tampa, florida. congresswoman bachmann, good morning, nice to have you here. good morning, matt. thanks for having me on. it s our pleasure. going into last night s debate, political analysts said you in particular needed to throw some punches and made some waves to get your campaign back on track. we heard some of your questions for governor perry. did you accomplish that? i think that the debate last night showed the distinctions between the candidates and what i was trying to do is let people know also what my positive agenda is for moving the economy forward and job creation, in particular with the jobs plan that president obama just put forward. we ll hear more and more of those distinctions. you will talk about jobs in a second, but do i want to stick on this con frtroversy in texas mandating vaccinations for hpv for girls as young as 12. you not only question the policy, but you questioned the motivation behind it suggesting rather strongly that this could have been an attempt to appease a big drug company, merck, because they contributed to his campaign. so i want you to lay this out for me. is that what you are asserting? well, it s very clear that crony capitalism could have likely been the cause because the governor s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company. this was an issue that could have gone before the legislates you are, but rather than putting it before hearings and before legislature the governor chose by himself, unilaterally, to sign an executive order and put through the requirement that all innocent little 12-year-old girls or 11-year-old girls in the state of texas would be forced by the government to take an injection of what could potentially be a very dangerous drug. do you feel he placed the health and safety of young girls in the state of texas behind or below the need for campaign funds? i will tell you that i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying what she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is a very real concern and people have to draw their own conclusions. do you think that you re going to continue to hammer away on this subject? do you think there s traction to be found here? i think that this was traction with a lot of people and we ll see what people say about this, but again, it s drawing a very real distinction that you can t abuse executive authority with executive orders because there could be very negative consequences that the american people have to pay, and again, there is no second chance for these little girls if there are any dangerous consequences to their bodies or for their parents. on the subject of job creation, part of your solution is to cut corporate taxes, kill certain regulations and repeal wall street reform. on the last two there, was there high unemployment before health care reform and wall street reform were ever voted on. why do you think that s so important? where are the jobs there? well, we know from the nonpartisan congressional budget office, their estimate is that over 800,000 jobs will be lost as a result of the government takeover of health care otherwise known as obamacare. that s a very real number, 800,000 jobs lost, and i can verify that when i m going from business to business to business. job creators tell me that they re holding back on hiring because the cost of obama care are so high. i also talked to a number of people in the financial services industry on the dodd-frank bill and they tell me also they re not hiring because of the dodd-frank bill. in particular banks are telling me they re closing big branch banks and letting people go. these bills aren t without job losses. in just the 15 seconds i have left, when you run for president you promised people a brighter future, so if you were lucky enough to be elected president the unemployment rate right now of 9.1%. what would it stand after a year of a bachmann administration. what can you promise? i can tell you what i would do to bring it down and that, of course, the marketplace would have to prevail, and i would bring in money that s been earned overseas into the united states by having a 0% repatriation tax. there s 1.2 trillion in money that we can wash across the united states tomorrow if we would have the 0% tax rate, and then i want to permanently bring those jobs back to the united states by lowering the tax on job creators. that s the very first step because we need permanent solutions in the private sector, not temporary government fixes. congresswoman michele bachmann. congresswoman bachmann, thanks for your time this morning. i appreciate it. thanks, matt. let s get a check of the rest of the news stories. tamron hall is at the news desk. good morning. nbc news has obtained exclusive information about just how weak al qaeda has become this as the terror network released a 9/11 anniversary video more than a day late. jim miklaszewski has the latest for us. it does seem a little odd that it would release the tape a day and a half after 9/11. nevertheless it includes a video from osama bin laden himself from the grave. a cope was obtained. al qaeda s new number one, ayman al zawahiri who is attempting to rally al qaeda central in the wake of bin laden s death, but a senior u.s. intelligence official tells nbc news that zawahiri now is constantly on the run. that he s just trying to stay alive and he has no hand in any al qaeda operations. nevertheless, the officials warn that al qaeda cells, particularly in yemen still remain a serious threat, but al qaeda central itself is, quote, shattered. what s telling about this tape is that intelligence officials actually had a copy of the tape more than a week before 9/11, but it took al qaeda this long to get it out, tamron. what does this new information mean for the terror alert issued over the weekend and on the 9/11 anniversary? u.s. officials have now questioned 300 individuals. they have found no evidence, hard evidence of an official plot to attack on 9/11. when he thought of an attack it was way too late to launch a sophisticated attack that would induce or result in mass casualties. one more thing. this new violence in kabul. a targeted attack on the u.s. embassy. what are you hearing about that? the attack was aimed at the embassy. there s no word yet that anybody or there was any damage or any injuries inside the embassy, sophisticated attacks, rocket-propelled grenades and it s proof that taliban is far from dead. jim miklaszewski, thank you very much. president obama leads to ohio to drum up support for his $47 billion job creation plan. republicans are already battling the bill after the white house revealed that they plan to pay for the legislation with higher taxes. the family of slain peruvian student stephany flores is pledging to keep her killer behind bars for life. he s willing to confess to a simple homicide charge in the may 2010 killing that would carry a maximum 20-year sentence in prison. the 24-year-old dutch national was considered a prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of american teenager natalee holloway. for years, holloway s case remains unsolved. there s a new reigning miss universe, leila lopes took the crown last night. more than 1 billion people are estimated to have tuned in to watch the beauty pageant hosted by our very own natalie morales who is stunning in that dress there. it is now 7:20, now back to matt, savannah and al. one judge said she captivated the audience. natalie was captivating, too. mr. al roker here with the weather. good morning. good morning. we re we re talking about a b change in the weather, and it s the frontal system that will be causing changes here in the northeast where we will look at a risk of strong storms stretching from upstate new york and new england all the way down into northern pennsylvania. this cold front could cause strong storms with damaging winds and possible hail and locally heavy downpours and looking for decent weather up and down the west coast and the heat continues down in texas through the gulf coast. that s what is going on around the country and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. i am meteorologist, tom kierein, and we have the full moon in the western sky and the harvest moon over the potomac river. and watch out for patchy fog around this morning in the rural areas, especially temperatures in the up 50s to mid-60s. and mid-60s in washington and by the bay with lots of sun. and that s your latest weather. savannah? thanks. still to come, an incredible rescue caught on tape. bystanders lift a burning car to save a man pinned underneath the wreckage, but first this, is save a man pinned underneath the wreckage, but first this, is today on i m drinkin dunkin . i m drinkin a dunkin latte. i can t think without my dunkin iced latte. it s a real latte. i love it. i run on dunkin . get a premium latte without a premium price. america runs on dunkin coffee. coming up, more of those jacqueline kennedy tapes including a cameo from young jfk junior. and madonna versus hydrangeas. the battle goes on a new level after your local news. we re gonna have, we re gonna have we re gonna have a good day [ female announcer ] wouldn t it be nice if we focused less on the number and more on how the fit makes us feel? and all my ladies got pride today [ female announcer ] take the special k challenge. drop a jean size in two weeks and slip into size sassy. so many delicious ways to get started at specialk.com. what will you gain when you lose? 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the strayer experience was i did some online and some in the classroom. thank you so much. by helping me to look at some of the financial decisions that i was making, it paid for itself almost in the first class. i am dr. nathaniel williams, and i earned my mba from strayer university. clear blue sky. watch out for patchy fog around this morning and temperatures in the 50s and 60s and climb into the 80s today later with sun, and could get storms in the afternoon and evening. and possible showers thursday and friday into the weekend and cooler than that. and route 85, you will see a lot of delays on south 270. very slow all the way to the super. back to you. who and 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, 13th day of september, 2011. love that view from top of the rock here at rockefeller center looking south over manhattan island, the empire state building in the foreground. behind that somewhere, one world trade center that will be called ground zero. soon to be the tallest building in america. meanwhile, down at plaza delve, nice people gather on another beautiful morning. temperatures going up to the mid-80s. warm for this time of summer. inside the studio i m matt lauer in for savannah guthrie who is in while ann is on assignment in iran. moments after a bad accident a group of bystanders had to lift the nearly 4,000 pound burning car to free a man who was trapped beneath it. that remarkable story is coming up straight ahead. plus, we ll hear more of those audio recordings made by jacqueline kennedy just months after her husband s death. coming up, her thoughts on their marriage and her personal fear during the cuban missile crisis. we ll also hear what 3-year-old jfk, jr., said whether he wandered into that interview. madonna responds to critics after she was caught insulting a fan who gave her a bouquet of hydrangea. let s just say this their is not actually an apology. we ll get to the fiery crash and the men and women being held as heroes today for their brave actions. it happened in logan, utah, and was captured by a person in a nearby office building on video. here is nbc s miguel almaguer. reporter: the roadside crash erupted in flames after a motorcycle and car collided in utah. a fireball by the time the first bystander could check the victims. soon, he was joined by others including a woman who laid down on the ground and spotted the motorcyclist, a 21-year-old man pinned beneath the burning bmw. we had to we had to help him. reporter: unable to reach the victim, a construction worker tried to move the car and within seconds was joined by a group of five. together, a collective lift, but the car wouldn t budge. the victim was stuck, the bmw still burning. it was very hot. just hot and it can be dangerous. reporter: with time ticking away in the sense of panic setting in, the woman checked again on the victim and suddenly a unified push. a group of roughly a dozen both men and women rushed in. together they lifted the 4,000-pound car. get out, someone grab him. this man pulled out the victim. brandon wright was alive, a miracle he survived. the rescuers, did a great job of getting him the help that he needed. reporter: police say the group of bystanders, a mix of construction workers and students from a nearby college are all heroes, including anvar, seen in the orange shirt. it was very, very hot in there. reporter: strangers who risked their lives to save another. i m impressed that they would risk their safety to lift the car up and get the individual out from underneath it. reporter: monday, the victim was in critical condition, alive because a group of strangers refused to let him die. for today, miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. we use the word hero too often, not in this particular case, though. congratulations to those people. now to florida where jury selection is under way in a high-profile murder case. a millionaire developer accused of killing his own wife. mark potter has the latest on this. hi, mark. reporter: good morning to you, matt. it seems odd, but jury selection here is occurring in the same courtroom where casey anthony was tried. the actual trial in this case will be in a different room and could begin as early as tomorrow and take two weeks. juror number 1136, will you raise your hand? reporter: in a case that s drawn international attention, millionaire businessman bob ward is accused of murdering his wife dianne in their lavish florida mansion. no, i wouldn t do that. reporter: then later in jail hamming it up with their daughter and his late wife s sister. hello. reporter: he and the daughter who just lost their mother making facial gestures that many felt were inappropriate for such a somber occasion. i can only imagine. reporter: a witness at the jail said the daughter was justc tryi g to cheer up her dad. once the jury is selected in ward s second-degree murder trial it will hear two versions of how his wife diane ward died last year. authorities claim ward shot and killed her and then called 911 saying i just shot my wife. she s dead. at the time police said it was cut and dry. it s a very sifrmel case and pretty much in the call said he shot his wife and left her and she could be found in the bedroom and that s pretty much that s what we found when we got on the scene. reporter: the death occurred at this mansion near orlando, an exclusive neighborhood once home to tiger woods and other celebrities. reports at the time said ward was facing bankruptcy and the home was in foreclosure. homicide. reporter: chief medical examiner jan garavaglia, known as dr. g. on her reality show noted the angle of the shot were inconsistent with suicide. that was the most important evidence that will present be in the case. reporter: bob ward said the shooting was not a homicide. it was an accident, and i will tell you more about it later, but, you know, it was a very tragic accident. reporter: in a jailhouse phone call ward said his wife shot herself as he struggled to take away her handgun. diane killed herself tonight. i had nothing to be worried about other than i was trying to get the gun out of her hand. reporter: soon to be announced is what prosecutors believe could be the motive for a murder in a case where bob ward s behavior and that of his family after his arrest raised plenty of eyebrows. reporter: earlier, defense attorneys had asked the judge to rule that those video tarngs those jailhouse videotapes could not be shown in the trial, but the prosecutor said there was no need for such a ruling saying they have no intention of ever showing those videos to the jury in this murder trial, matt? mark potter in orlando this morning. mark, thank you very much. let us now get a check of the weather from al.the weather from al. hey, matt, thank you so much. great walk in the boston telethon. when does that go on? it takes place on sunday, and we expect over 10,000 walkers to raise over $9 million for the da dana farber institute. let s check the weather. wichita falls, their 100th day of triple-digit heat, and 101st day in grand field, oklahoma. we have changes coming. the warm, moist air stays in the south. and you will see by thursday as high pressure builds in, cooler air will start to work its way from the plains all the way to the northeast and parts of texas and also the gulf will see some cooler air as well. that s what is going on around the country, and here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. around the region today we have fog over the potomac river. that s going to be lingering for probably another half hour or so or an hour. temperatures that are now near 60 degrees climb later today in the 80s with sunshine and a glorious day under way. lovely young lady, what s your name? kimberly. kimberly, nice to see you. get your weather any time of the day or night on the weather channel or cable online. we ll go live to the national zoo and meet with what officials believe is one of the smartest elephants in the world. can t judge a book by its cover. we re back right after this. hey buddy, wattaya lookin a-oooh. [ female announcer ] mini™ meets berries. kellogg s® frosted mini-wheats cereal with a touch of fruit in the middle. helloooooo fruit in the middle. while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. back now it s 7:42 with an interesting kwquestion, how sma are elephants? the city university of new york say they witnessed something extraordinary that may change the way we think of these giant beasts. nbc s tom costello is at the smithsonian national zoo. good morning. i guess they re not just beautiful, but smart, too. reporter: hey, savannah. absolutely. good morning. this is candela behind me, he s having breakfast. researchers say the human brain is about the size of a three-pound melon, more or less. the size of an elephant s brain, about the size of these two put together. wean elephants are smart. that they can do problem solving and have complex social skills and they can recognize themselves in a mirror. researchers think candela is using every bit of his brain. it s something anyone who has ever been to the zoo has wondered. how smart are the elephants? almost as smart as this kid here. really? almost as smart as your brother, huh? yeah. my brother s 4. reporter: turns out he s right. researchers think elephants are at least as smart as 4-year-old humans, but at the smithsonian national zoo they witnessed candela do something when he was just 7 that has them convinced he s something of a brainiac. this is problem solving. absolute problem solving by an elephant just like a fourth or fifth grade human would do it. to see if candela could solve a problem, researchers tempted him with bamboo and fruit suspended just out of his reach. he realizes he needs a step and he rolls over a big cube and places it beneath the branches, steps up and grabs the fruit. researchers call it a eureka or aha moment, a problem realization shared by humans, chimps and dolphins. we think that with kandcande it s because he s a younger male elephant and younger animals tend to be more inquisitive and maybe that led him to do this problem-solving behavior. reporter: then the next delae of how smart and wonderful these animals are and make them care about their conservation because these guys are critically endangered. we are back out live as candela enjoys a little bit of breakfast here at the national zoo, and what s important here as well is that the smithsonian folks say that since they found this research with the folks at hunter college in new york, they ve gotten calls from zoos all over the country saying hey, my elephant does that or my elephant does this, but this was a scientific study. so they re now getting more of this data to show how smart these guys are and how much mental stimulation these types of animals really need. back to you. tom costello, thanks so much. unfortunate framing in that shot, but that s an amazing story. i had a talk one time that would pick me up at the bus stop at the same time every day and be waiting for me there. how brilliant. not as good as the elephant realizing he can step up on the box and get hire, but it s a story. no, it s good. that s not the only exciting animal news. from elephants to the wayward penguin. the penguin who washed up on a new zealand beach. they we he wasity inned with a tracking device so the device stopped working. they speculate it fell off in the ocean or that it is in the belly of a predator. or alternate possibility, he s filming a reality show and is in an undisclosed location. we can only hope. they say it s possible it just fell off. they say it s possible we may hear of happy feet again because if he made it to antarctica, they inserted a chip and it can start pinging. madonna fires back after being caught on an open microphone saying she loathes hydrang hydrangeas. she loathes hydrangeas. her bizarre new video after this. in here, pets never get lost. in here, every continent fits in one room. it was fun, we played football outside. why are you sitting in the dark? 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[ beatboxing ] pop icon madonna found herself at the center of controversy when she was caught dissing a gift from a fan on a live microphone. she s released a youtube video poking fun at the situation. dissing, saa van a so very hip of you. this is the least likely of controversies, but one thing is certain. she is no shrinking violet. it was a simple gift from a fan and now she s making fun of the entire episode with a new video and safe to say it does not end well. reporter: for madonna, a pioneer of the music industry, it it had been three years since he last released a music video. her 2008 collaboration with justin timberlake, until now. in her latest video madonna doesn t sing any lyrics, but clearly the material girl had to say. it stemmed from a news conference in venice last week. when a fan handed the pop icon a bouquet of flowers. i loathe hydrangeas. they weren t exactly lyrics we were supposed to hear. madonna s rep released a half-hearted apology saying no disrespect to the hydrangea lovers of the world, but she prefers different types of flowers. the controversy sprouted new life monday when the 53-year-old star posted this video with the godfather music playing underneath on youtube. again, madonna never says a word, but if you read along she apologizes to a handful of hide range yas, saying words cannot express how sorry i am to think i may have caused you pain and then see for yourself. the video ends with the word, it s a free country so you. i like roses. the average person would apologize, but she s going back to her bad girl roots. i m not apologizing. i don t like hydrangeas, who cares? reporter: clearly, madonna doesn t. her racy videos with burning crosses. reporter: to x-rated books. reporter: she s never shied away from stirring the pot. she has a sense of humor about herself and she really knows thou take a scandal and use it to her advantage to get publicity. reporter: madonna wanted that publicity for her new movie, but it s this silent film that has everyone talking. some people say it s entertaining. others say not so much. one online critic even wrote this was never about flowers. it was about disrespect for a fan. for what it s worth, if i ever meet the material girl i promise i ll bring with me chocolate. okay, peter. we appreciate that. thank you very much. matt, do you loathe rangias, matt? no, and i would not disrespect you. coming up, new insight on jacqueline kennedy s life in the white house revealed in audiotapes kept private for the past 47 years. all coming up after your local news and weather. 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it s something not a lot of people can do. jane pauly will introduce us to a man who decided to do just that. he found his calling in the least likely of places. okay. lots to get to. let s go inside. tamron hall is standing by at the news desk while natalie is off on assignment. tamron, good morning to you. good morning. good morning, everyone. in an exclusive interview with ann curry iran s president mahmoud ahmadinejad says two american hikers could be released from an iranian prison within a couple of days. shane bauer and josh fattal were arrested for crossing the iran-iraq border and sentenced to eight years for spying. shourd was released after bail was posted on her behalf. last night s presidential debate, rick perry came under attack for calling social security, quote, a ponzi scheme. rival mitt romney said perry s criticism suggests he thinks the program is unconstitutional and michele bachmann who appeared earlier on today criticized perry for requiring girls to be vaccinated against cancer. bank of america, the nation s largest bank is slashing 30,000 jobs in a bid to save $5 billion a year. cnbc s melissa lee has the story from the new york stock exchange. that s a lot of people out of work. there are, tamron, and news of the deep job cuts came as the president sent his bill to congress yesterday. most of them would happen through attrition. bank of america shares are down 50% so far this year. meantime, the health of european banks continue to plague investors here. this morning one of france s three biggest banks, bnp paribas is denying allegations that it is facing funding problems. lately they ve been trading alongside european banks. tamron? news today in the fight against alzheimer s disease. a study of about 100 people with early signs offal ziemers found inhaling insulin spray through the nose three times a day appeared to slow the memory loss. a quick round-up of what has you talking online. manny ramirez is a hot topic on google and twitter. he was arrested monday, accused of hitting his wife during a domestic dispute. ramirez denies the charge. the slugger retired in april after failing a drug test. the blogosphere s buzz about joan collins who thinks some of today s biggest stars are fashion disasters, commenting on a recent photo of kate winslet, collins spotted that s a distasteful dress, ghastly shoes and hairstyle. this year s men s champion at the u.s. open. novak djokovic defeated rafael nadal in a thrilling four-hour match last night. get this, he still has enough energy to join us live in a few minutes from now. very nice. it is now 8:04. back to matt and savannah, keeping good company, guys, out there. he s had a heck of a year with the australian open and wimbledon and now the u.s. open. not to mention his dancing. mr. roker has a check of the weather. he is a good dancer. yes. we have nice friends here in town for the dedication of the ground zero memorial. what s your name? danny thomas. where are you guys from? san diego. san diego. we re with the san diego fire department to be here for the memorial, and these guys gave their ultimate sacrifice. we ll never forget. we know you spent time down here after our disaster. thank you so much. let s see what is happening today. pick city, seattle, washington. 88 degrees. rest of the country today, we expect to see a slight risk of strong storms in the northeast, and no big problems there. hit and miss showers of showers storms and moisture coming o off and look for the heat to continue in texas as dallas continues to string together a whole bunch of 100-plus-degree days. that s what is going on around the country and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. a beautiful september under way. we have a blue sky and patchy, dense fog right over the potomac river from the live picture. the fog will linger for another couple of hours or so and then will be dissipating. right now temperatures around the region are from the low to mid-60s, and then later will be in the 80s with lots of storm. could and that s your latest weather. matt? 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[ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponso education nation. we re back at 8:09 with more of the never before released audiotapes of jacqueline kennedy. the former first lady spoke candidly about her life, her family and their time in washington. andrea mitchell has the latest. andrea, good morning. good morning, matt. in her once secret history, jacqueline kennedy described the white house years as the happiest time of her life. a wife and mother who at the time called herself victorian in her relationship with her husband. they appeared to be a storybook couple from their marriage 58 years ago this week, to the election campaign and their arrival at the white house with their young family. in the oval office in hyannis, at work and at play. it was that brief, shining moment she once called camelot before the tragedy and scandals, now frozen in time and recaptured and more than eight hours of tape when she sat down with historian arthur schlessinger, jr., in the spring of 1974. daughter caroline said her mother was in extreme grief when she began that oral history. less than four months after the assassination. on march 2, 3-year-old john, jr., wandered into the room and grabbed the microphone. john, what happened to your father? he s gone to heaven. he s gone to heaven? yeah. do you remember him? what do you remember? i remember i don t remember anything! reporter: there are also intimate glimpses of the kennedy marriage. she describes what she calls his childish mannerism of kneeling on the edge of the bed to say his nightly prayers. it was sweet, she said. it amused her. the president wept in his bedroom after the bay of pigs and you can hear the echoes of desperation in her voice her calling the possibility of being evacuated and separated from him during the cuban missile crisis. i said please, don t send me away to camp david. please don t send me anywhere. even if there s no room in the bomb shelter in the white house, please, i just want to be with you. and i want to die with you and the children do, too, and don t want to live without you. reporter: she said she viewed her role as creating a climate of affection and comfort for her husband and that she got all her opinions from him. very different from the jackie kennedy heard elsewhere in the tapes. a woman with strong political opinions of her own. the book and the tape add another chapter to the kennedy legacy and in some ways new mystery. how jacqueline kennedy fits into history based on a time capsule that she left behind. savannah? andrea mitchell, thanks. chris matthews is the host of msnbc s hardball and author of the upcoming book jack kennedy, elicit hero. i know you re a kennedy buff and studied the family extensively. i wonder what strikes you about these tapes and jacqueline kennedy as we hear her all these years later? jackie really loved jack kennedy not just as her husband, but as a man. she could see past the glamour and the amazing sexuality. the guy would walk in the room. she nicknamed him magic because he would walk in the room and the women would swoon and the men would do anything he asked them to, and she could see past that to the kid who had grown up sick, who had been lonely. she did say on the record at one point his mother never loved him. he was very much a lonely guy, a loner and she called him an elusive man and she saw beyond the glamour. we see another side of jacqueline kennedy in the tapes, don t we? she s got the soft voice, but boy, a sharp tongue. i always knew that about her. she could be wicked. if you could ever have gotten tapes of them at bed time when they were listening to the record player at night and talking about the people they dealt with that day. i came across a letter jack wrote to her about a party he d gone to that she wasn t at up in rhode island. it s devastating in the way they discuss these people and she s the same way. these tapes are going to be fun to read. iy think they re a great look at history. jackie could see in the more compartments of jack s life than most people. she could see the glamour guy, the sexy guy. she could also see the dreamer and idealist. they were both there in jack. she comes across as very loyal to her husband. she certainly doesn t describe failings or short comings. right. obviously, she knew that these tapes would not be released until after her death, but i don t know if your eyebrows were raised that she said she got all of her political opinions from jack. michael, the historian, said we should take that with a warehouse of salt. this is 50 years ago, and she was victorian in the sense that after dinner the men would go into another room and smoke cigars and have cognac and the women would go into another room and one of the other tapes that she did with teddy wright right after jack died, that john john would now be lost to the men and they would work their relationships with other women with the wives not knowing about it and she only had caroline. she really lived in the divided world where the men were running the show. you have to remember when this was. it wasn t a time of equal marriages and equal power, if you will, and certainly not equal power. at the same time i know you believe there s no way she wasn t aware of those stories of philandering and some of that bad behavior by her husband. how could she not be? she was a smart person, very smart, as you will see in these tapes and she was aware of jack. right the day she was married, jack s closest friend went to her and said you know, this guy is a 36-year-old bachelor. he s not going change and here she is a 22-year-old woman and she had to get used to him. she was warned about jack from the day of their marriage and of course, her own father was a philanderer. i think this woman was astounding in her love for jack. as i said, she saw him not just as her husband, but as a man. on every level she understood the guy and loved him completely. it is a real romance here and i ll tell you, there s not a guy in the world that wouldn t want to be loved the way jackie loved jack. did you get insights from listening to her about her husband. i was struck by the fact that he took naps in his pjs for 45 minutes every day at the white house. as complicated as his life was, he did go to church every sunday his whole life. he would go into confession and he would sneak into the secret service line and he would sneak in among them so he guild to confession and the priest wouldn t recognize his voice. he was very catholic and i m a catholic and it s very complicated because we know the whole story, but it s all true. this information on the tapes is part of the total truth. you have to put it together. it is very fascinating. jackie called her husband, after ten years together, the unforgettable, elusive man. to the end he was elusive and i think he still is. i m still trying to put all of the parts together. it s a fascinating. the guy is the most fascinating guy of our time, jack kennedy. she gave you a title for your book elusive hero. yes, she did. she didn t know she was doing. good to talk to you. coming up next, the plus size fashionistas looking to shake up the fashion world. we ll meet them right after this. 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[ male announcer ] venza from toyota. well, it s fashion week here in new york city, an event that usually celebrates the size 0 model, but this morning we ll meet five plus sized fashionist as who are looking to change the world of high fashion. they star in a new reality show on tlc called big sexy. take a look. my girls and i are all plus sized women working in the fashion industry in new york city. this is leslie, audrey, a makeup artist who one day wants to be a fashion designer and nick i who is a plus size model like me and heather, a fashion stylist who is about to launch the bikini line with a photo shoot in miami. once you go big, you never go twig. that s catchy. the cast of big sexy, audrey, and tiffany. thank for being here. i know you ve been successful in this industry, the fashion industry which we know does favor usually the twiggies among us, so why pick on this industry? that must be very difficult. i think it needs to be done. i think we need to represent different body shapes and sizes and be examples for younger women that there are curvy models out there and it s okay to be full figured. this show is designed to follow your lives and talk about your struggles and your hopes and you re also, i hope, they re trying to kind of convey a sense of fun. i know in the first episode you all go pole dancing. what s that about? we go pole dancing. it s a workout. it s exercise! but are you trying to change people s minds about how they might view plus size women? definitely. it s important to see that you can t judge people and their size. i think that we all do that and so that we re positive women doing things in the fashion industry running around new york city not just sitting around waiting for things to happen for us. we re making it happen. i know you re wanting to do modeling as well and you re getting into it. have you run into trouble? i think you told our producer that, you know, people think oh, you don t have to lose weight or you don t have to watch your weight if you re a plus size model and that s not true. there s a huge misconception in the plus size modeling, that there s huge restrictions and you have to be certain measurements to fulfill a client s needs. people think it s just, like, you can be big and a model, but there are so many things that people need to pay attention to when you re trying to become a professional plus sized model. just like every other model you have to meet certain standards. just because you re tall doesn t mean you re a model. there are still standards, no matter what. it s a tough industry, no matter what. sometimes it s a tough world. audrey, there are moments in the series where people are quite cruel. someone walks up on the street and calls someone heavy. are you hoping to raise awareness for greater sensitivity? well, i mean, raising awareness for people who are heavy is difficult, but just try to get people who are bigger, and give them a sense of confidence that they can be who they want to be and look how they want to look and they can have the confidence they need to have and you go out every day and be happy with themselves. leslie, was it hard to do a reality show? here, the cameras are on you guys all of the time. are you happy you made the choice to do it? oh, absolutely. it s definitely a challenge, but the responses we ve gotten from people and from women, sending them e-mails and letting me than they re pressed for lives and making them feel better about themselves and feel more empowered and that s what we re all about. whether we re big or small doesn t matter. we re all women. your goal is to launch a bikini line. how is that going and have you run into trouble when you re trying to dig into the fashion industry as a designer? well, i m doing a bikini line called heather feather and it s for d-cups and up. it starts at d-cup and it goes all of the way to j which is hard to find. it s true to size, and i want to fit every body. you can be any size as long as you re d-cup and up. i know you re a shopper and stylist and you work with plus size women. is the hurdle finding cool clothes people want to wear or that people feel confident and want to experiment with fashion. it s actually both. you touched on both points. there aren t options for us to find the clothes and a lot of women are tlnt yet. they feel like they should hide because they don t have a skinny body and it s a therapy session where i have to walk them through self love and say this is okay. don t hide. you re beautiful. which everybody can use a little bit of that. ladies, so great to meet you. nikki gomez, audrey curry and tiffany banks, we ll see you tonight. big sexy on tlc. and just ahead, lady antebellum live in our studio. 8:26 is your time now on this tuesday, september 13th, 2011. good morning. i am eun yang. we do have still a fog bank over the potomac river. a bit of patchy fog in the rural areas and temperatures around the region in the 60s. later today in the 80s. still warm on wednesday, but increasing louds might get an evening or afternoon thunderstorm, and then passing showers on cooler, and then friday and into the weekend, much cooler. a bit warmer on sunday and monday. tom, thank you so morning. traveling 95 in virginia, slow as you head out of dell city and head north making your way towards the beltway. here s a live look. you will see a little relief at lordton. we are back now at 8:30 morning, 13th day of september 2011. great music from lady antebellum, the six-time gram aeshg ward winner will perform for us in just a couple of minutes inside our studio. we look forward to that. meanwhile, outside, i m matt lauer with savannah guthrie. we have al roker and tamron hall. what s coming up? he s written an auto bog ravy and it goes back to his early days, his formative years in his life. he s now, of course, a well-known filmmaker and he s done controversy over the years in particular 2003. how does he feel about that speech now? we ll ask him when he joins us in the studio. he changed his life from going from the ministry to the military. jill martin will be talking fall fashion and what you can wear to work and we ll have fun after work without strong go home and change. great idea. right now can we say good morning to the guy who is the king of the tennis court. djokovic won his first u.s. open here in new york. it s been an amazing year. congratulations. thank you. you have the australian and the wimbledon and the first u.s. open. what does it mean? the best year so far of my career and i m loving every moment of it. you ve had these tough matches, not only yesterday, but saturday, does that make that victory and the trophy all the more sweet? oh, yes. when you re winning against them and it makes your victory, this is what every tennis player dreams of winning and i m thrilled. this is such a remarkable accomplishment, and you still had a good time out there. the video of you dancing. are you surprised it is so popular? i try to use every spare time. look at your moves. i don t exercise with dancing. this is my master. can you show us a few moves while holding your i might get a cramp. i ll hold it for you. you want to show us what you ve got? on a more serious note, you walked out with an fdny hat on. obviously, being in new york on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks resonated with you. this is how i tried and all of us tried to show our compassion for the people that are still suffering, the families of the victims and it was a terrible, terrible event, and i understand because i come from a country that has been through two wars. so i send all my love and support to the families. and we send along our great congratulations to you, novak. it s been an incredible year. the u.s. open champion, novak djokovic. t the u.s. open champion, cham. a spectacular september morning. good morning. i am meteorologist, tom kierein. there s a sky watcher camera. off in the distance is boston, virginia, and arlington off to the left, and in the foreground massachusetts avenue in northwest washington. 68 at reagan national. later today, climb into the 80s, and lots of sun but not very humid. tomorrow, another warm day and might get afternoon or eveningol filmmaker and author michael moore live in our studio. we ll talk to him, but first this is today on nbc. [ female announcer ] have you ever seen a glacier while sunbathing? why not? have you ever climbed a rock wall in the middle of the ocean? or tried something really wild? why not? it s all possible in the n. royal caribbean s floating nation. where you are free to do anything you want. which may be nothing at all. royal caribbean international. why not cruise from baltimore? visit royalcaribbean.com today. back now at 8:36 with the man who is no stranger to controversy. michael moore is oscar-winning director and new york times best-selling author. he s tackled sicko and fahrenheit 9/11 and he s getting personal with his autobiography here comes trouble, stories of my life. michael moore, good to see you. good morning. thank you for having me. let s talk about this book, and you take on a topic that was something of controversy back when you in 2003 with the oscar acceptance speech. i don t have to remind you, you said the president was a fiktitional president who brought us to war for fictitious reasons and in the book you come very close to offering regret for saying that. none at all, actually. if i have any regret is what it put me and my family through as a result of the amount of hatred that was generated on a certain news channel and am hate radio. and they daily encouraged people to essentially commit acts of violence against me. glen beck famously said he was thinking of killing me live on the air. so when you say you weren t sure you d do it over again, it wasn t because of sentiment of what you had expressed. it s the consequences. oh, no. it s the fifth day of the war and i said we re going to war for false reasons and there will not be weapons of mass destruction, and i was booed off the stage for saying that, but obviously as years went on people realized that what i said was accurate and true, but it generated such an enormous amount to where they had to hire security for me. and you still use that security to this day. do you still feel that threat, that danger? yes. it s not really a feeling. in the book i document on half a dozen assaults on me including a very significant one that resulted in a prison term for an individual who was, you know, planning to blow up my house. so, i mean, i didn t understand. you know, i make documentary films. you don t really think that that s the result of, you know, it s it s just a little bit, you know, difficult. let s talk about the book because primarily you re talking about the younger years in these vignettes from your childhood. you say you were a good student and nuns loved you. what happened? i turned out just the way they wanted me to. you actually tell a great story when you were younger you gave a speech to an elks club that you know excluded african-americans and the speech competition was to talk about abraham lincoln and you turned that concept in a different direction. the elks club up until 1971 had a policy that said caucasians only. in the 1970s, and you could still discriminate and i was 17 years old and i know it s ironic, i gave a speech to them at this state convention, and the next day i was getting a call from walter cronkite, the producer wanted me to come on and it created a whole ruckus nationwide why in the 1970s can we still have whites-only clubs in america, and a year or so later it was the end of that. an early michael moore moment. there was another moment you describe being in washington walking around the capital as a young boy, getting lost and running into someone we all would recognize. i got separated from my parents, my sisters and my cousin and i was completely lost. i was 11 years old and i wandered into an elevator and there was a man in the elevator, and i m crying because i think i m completely i ll never see them again or whatever and he s reading a newspaper and puts the paper down and it s bobby kennedy, and he sees me standing there all forlorn and asked me what was wrong, and then he took me and helped me find my parents and waited there with me. i had this incredible conversation with him at 11 years old they describe. wow! interesting. you have lots of stories from your childhood. michael moore, always good to talk to you. thank you so much. the book is to remind everybody, here comes trouble. coming up next, jane paul owe how to find your calling later in life, but first this is we are back now. 8:43 with your life calling today. jane pauley is working with aarp, a sponsor of a special series of reports. good to have you back. good morning. good morning, matt. today we meet a lutheran pastor who went from the ministry to the military. here s rick master with his life calling. i knew from about the age of 10 on that this was my life calling, you know? to be a pastor and to be working with people. reporter: for 15 years rick was senior pastor of a lutheran congregation. i was a good preacher, but i was good at the counseling piece. reporter: he was running a big church. wasn t aware of just how much i was drying out at same time. what did you mean by that? that if we re feeding our soul it has to be green and vibrant and growing. if we re not engaged in the kind of alignment of things, you know, that really give us life we dry out. reporter: the turning point, four years ago, was not a crisis of faith. it was right around christmas time. i ll never forget it. reporter: it was depression. i couldn t concentrate anymore. i couldn t seem to get out of bed, hardly. reporter: but he didn t fight it. i listened to it. you re going to lay down there on that couch and when you get it straight in your head about what it is you want to do and what s going on give you life then you can get up. reporter: he decided to resign. i didn t have a plan. i didn t have a road map, but i was committed to paying attention. reporter: he took a variety of part-time jobs. a former parishioner was surprised to find him tending bar. i could see the gears turning, so this is what it s come to. yes, i ll have a rum and coke. reporter: whose idea was craigslist? my son tyler. there was some advertisement there about being in a spiritual support to young people. reporter: it was the minnesota national guard. about two months later i was a chaplain in the united states army. reporter: and at age 49 he was in iraq. fire! i was right there when they were dying. first responders. yes. part of the job is to comfort the dying and then also to be present for all those other soldiers looking for some normalcy. when things get difficult and you find your mood starting to go down, you do something about it. reporter: captain rickmaster is currently based at fort hood in texas. we pray for the safe return of these fine soldiers. reporter: trauma doesn t always stay on the battlefield. the role of the cham lan is to to be that safe place that someone with this tough exterior can admit how frightened they are. reporter: and the chaplain is often called to deliver the news when a soldier doesn t come home. you re watching as this person s whole world is dissolved. reporter: but that was his calling. to me it was full of god s grace. i got to exercise my gifts and skills in a way that i never could have envisioned it before. rick has basically woven two separate threads of his previous life into one. after college he served seven years in the u.s. air force and three more in the air force reserves. the reality check is that he s a father now, and though his kids are no longer children he knew military service would have a big impact on his family. i hope you will join me today for my live internet radio call-in show at noon eastern. just go to aarp.org/jane. it is a wonderful story. thank you very much. up next, a live performance from grammy-winning band lady antebellum, but first, this is oh, won t you be good to yourself? 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that doesn t sound horrible. it just naturally shows itself. we try to create a good story with the record and balance it out a lot with the different topic, but we re really proud of it. we definitely feel like we re honing in on the sound of our band a little bit more with each record. the second album was so successful and already having a number one hit off the third album. it has to take pressure off of it, right? it does. it does. we put pressure ourselves going into this record and we want to take anything from the last record as an affirmation from the fans. they ve been wonderful, coming out every year and supporting us and we ve been trying to get it out for a while. what will you do? we ll do the first single off the album. ladies and gentlemen, lady antebellum. we ll have more music ahead from lady antebellum, but first a look at your local news and weather. captions by vitac www.vitac.com anabelam, but first a look at your news and weather. this isa news4 news break. 8:56 is your time now. let s go right to meteorologist, tom kierein, with a look at the forecast. a nice way to start the day. dau lightful september morning under way. temperatures right now are approaching 70 in washington and by the bay. and lots of sunshine and later into the 80s. not very humid. tomorrow, increasing clouds and still warm and maybe an afternoon or thunderstorm, and then a greater chance of showers on thursday, and highs in the 70s and then cooler for friday and saturday. morning lows 40s, and afternoon highs only the 60s. and then over the weekend, [ kimberly ] when i was 19, i found myself alone with two children and no way to support them. people told me i wasn t going to do anything. and i just decided i have more to offer than that. i put myself through nursing school, and then i decided to go get a doctorate degree. university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people s lives. my name is dr. kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. i m drinkin dunkin . dunkin iced latte. iced dunkin decaf. estoy tomando café helado. large caramel iced with skim. one shot of hazelnut, iced, cream and sugar. i wouldn t want it any other way. get your iced coffee your way. america runs on dunkin coffee. good morning. still seeing congestion in our area. robinson terminal very slow as you make your ways towards i-66 and the american legion bridge, the outer loop here slow as you make your way across. can you help the national zoo pick a new n lady antebellum on a tuesday morning doing a little music inside our studio. you can hear more from them in just a little while. i like that group. i m matt lauer along with savannah guthrie who is here while ann s on assignment and al joins us as well. nice people joining us outside. thank you for stick wugs. we appreciate it. coming up, we ll talk about rock-bottom interest rates. these are really good if you re looking for a loan. not so great if you re looking to save mono pep so coming up we ll have great advice on how you should handle your financial business during these specific times. also ahead, joy bower is here with her diet s.o.s. today she ll tell us which are the best foods to help you get a good night s sleep. she ll also tell us which past as are the healthiest and how to incorporate flaxseed into your meal. i had some in waffles. really? the kids never know it. not really. i put up grind up iron. this desperate housewife is one of the most people beautiful women in the world. eva longoria will be joining us. she strolled the red carpet over again this weekend. she ll tell us all about it when she teamed up with george lopez for a prestigious award ceremony. natalie s on assignment and she ll be back tomorrow. we ve got tamron hall at the news desk with a look at the headlines. hi, matt, savannah and al. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad told our own ann curry that the american hikers will be released within a couple of days on humanitarian grounds. they were arrested while hiking along the border in iraq. they were sentenced to eight years for spying. sarah shourd was released after bail of $1.5 million was posted on her behalf. nbc news obtained information about how weak al qaeda has become, this as the 9/11 anniversary video more than a day late and the tape contains harsh rhetoric against the u.s. from aman al zawahiri. an official tells nbc news that zawahiri is too busy trying to stay alive to pose a real threat, but from afghanistan the threat from the taliban is far from over. this morning that they launched a sophisticated attack on the u.s. embassy in kabul fighting raids for hours and involves four suicide bombers and rocket fire. it was a showdown in tampa, florida, where republican press debl hopefuls sparred, and the punching bag turned out to be texas governor rick perry. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann stole the show for taking perry to task for supporting a texas law that requires adolescent girls to be vaccinated against a virus linked to cancer. earlier on today she talked about her strategy as the campaign moves forward. i think the debate night showed the distinctions between the candidate and what i was trying to do is letting people know about my positive agenda to move the economy forward and job creation. in particular with the jobs plan that president obama put forward we ll hear more and more of those distinctions. bachmann said she wants to dree eight permanent solutions to bring down the unemployment rate. president obama heads to ohio to drum up support for his job creation plan. the bill faces a fight in a divided congress and the republicans are battling the bill after the white house revealed that they plan to pay for it with higher taxes. the government is beefing up its food safety regulations as it bans testing for e. coli in meat. the government is now mandating testing for six additional strains. those other strains have caused some 110,000 illnesses annually in recent years. the new stiffed 600 men thoughed a man s testosterone level dropped after he becomes a father and drops further as he spends time caring. he makes a commitment to his family and that mothers were meant to have child care help. prince harry broke the record for the largest born currency trade ever. he closed a deal worth $24 million. it was in honor of the victims of the 9/11 attacks and after the u.s., britain lost more citizens than any other country in that tragedy. it is now four past the hour now. now backr country in the tragedy. it s now 4 past the hour. back with al for a check of the weather. as we look outside, we are expecting severe weather, and there may be strong storms in new england. we re expecting heat to continue from texas to the gulf coast, and a number of places in texas will be over 100 degrees, and another front bringing in a few clouds in the pacific north coast, and that s what is going on around the country and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. beautiful september under way. i am meteorologist, tom kierein. right now it s near 70 in washington and by the way and away from the waters ware we re in the 60s throughout the region. and later today we will be climb into the 80s throughout most of the region. lots of sunshine. and then tomorrow again in the low to mid-80s. during the afternoon and evening we might get an isolated shower or thunderstorm, and then might to you by bank of america. this morning on today s money taking advantage of low interest rates. they re already at rock bottom and we re expecting them to stay that way for years to come. today financial editor jean chatzky has tips for bow rowers and savers alike. nice to see you. nice to see you. why are we still hear budget low rates. ben bernanke said these low rates are with us until mid-2013. that means that for borrowers and for savers, you need a new strategy in order to take advantage of these for both sides of the coin. let s make these work for you, starting with folks looking to borrow. we re talking about refinancing mortgages. right. i know we spent an awful lot of time talking about that, if you can do it, the opportunity is there. if you re under water, we re starting to get news out of washington, but they may be revamping the home, affordable refinancing program in order to make this possible for people who have been stuck. so keep your eyes and ears open that that may come down the pike. we always think about mortgages, but there are other loans that you can think about refinancing in. let s talk about car loans. when we go out and shop for a car we get so excited about the car itself we often forget to negotiate on the financing and that s a really big deal. so if you have a car loan that s 6%, 7%, % and you have a good credit score. right now you can refi that down to 4%, 4.5% and it s an easy transaction and it costs next to nothing and it takes under an hour. for a $20,000 car loan over a four-year term from 8% to 4.5%, you could save yourself over $100. that s a good chunk of change. what is heloc. it is a home equity line of credit. you want to think of getting one of those as a back-pocket emergency cushion. if you have e quit ney your home because you need that, it s a second mortgage and you have a decent credit score, you could get a line of credit for 4.5% which may protect you if you lose your job and you need to draw down the cash, but you can also use it to consolidate and refinance other debt. you just have to be careful and what we saw last time around is they used them to refi credit card debt at attractive interest rates and they went out and charged the credit card right back up. you have the credit card debt and you re in double trouble. what about transferring your balance? a good time to do that. balance transfer offers and i went to low card.com and the list has gotten attractive because the tease are rates that wean about which puts you at 0% or something else, that s really, really cheap for the first so long has now been extended. you can eget a teaser rate that lasts 20 months in some cases and that gives you a long period of time to pay down the debt. when you look at credit cards and the interest rate on these cards is still astronomical and yet the interest rates are so low. how can they get away with this? this is the contract that you signed when you got this credit card and they re all set up so that the credit card companies make money, but what this means, these low interest rates is that there s wiggle room. you have to have a good credit score, but if you do call your own credit card company and do one of these balance transfers. let s talk about savers with the low interest rates. you have to work the numbers. the picture is not as pretty if you re a saver because cds, one-year cds are paying under 1% on average. savings accounts are paying way under 1% on average so you need some strategy and the first strategy to look at is an online bank. the rates are not great, but they re better. if you go to an allied bank or something like that you will find more than 1%. sallie mae who has a savings account for 1.3%. you ll find a list for the bank rate for saver if and when interest rates do go up these will rise. what about high-yield checking accounts. i love these. if you re a person who uses a debit card frequently you can earn 2% to 3% on your money. they just require that you make one online payment a month and make ten debit card transactions. they tape the account that you put in it on it, but if it s emergency pushing for and what about flexible cds? cd rates are loudy. we know that. i like looking for an out. it will not penal ease you and so does b of a. coming up next, you don t have to give up pasta to lose weight. we ll tell you which once are best with jill bower s diet s.o.s. going from day to evening with just one outfit, but first, these messages. -i 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[ female announcer ] arm yourself with a flu shot from all walgreens and take care clinics. walgreens. there s a way to stay well. this morning on joy s diet s.o.s. answer to your daily diet dilemmas. joy bower is here to discuss everything from pastas to food that gets you to sleep. let s get straight to what we have via skype. connie in west virginia, good morning, connie. what s your question? hi. hi. lately my husband has been struggling with his sleep. are there foods or diet changes he can make to low pressure him get a better night s rest? definitely. the first thing you want to do is completely avoid anything with caffeine at least eight hours before he hits the sack and also you don t want him eating a heavy, fattening dinner within three hours of going to bed because it will sit in his stomach. he s going feel uncomfortable and it will interfere with his sleep. that s what he needs to avoid, but here s what you want to include starting tonight. about an hour before bed time you want him to have a light bed time snack between 100 and 200 calories and it should be a combination of triptophan found in meat, and turkey. that combination helps promote feelings of drowsiness and calm and has been very effective with helping people fall, sleep more easily. it could be as easy as a glass of skim milk. that will do the trick or a scoop of low-fat vanilla rice cream or frozen yogurt or a rice cake topped with one or two slices of turkey breast, but have him start this strategy today and let s hope, for you and him both. absolutely, connie. thank you. i love that glass of milk. we ve always heard of one glass of milk at night. it really does work. it s the perfect combination. let s go to tammy, she s on the phone in virginia. good morning. what s your question for joy. joy, i recently bought flaxseed for the first time and i ve never used it or tried it, but was told it should not be ground up and should not be eaten whole. can you give some tips on how to use it? absolutely. it is so incredibly healthy. thanks for this question. you should grind your flaxseed because the whole flaxseeds are so darn small that when you eat them they tend to work their way undigested and you re not taking advantage of the super ingredients like the omega-3 fats. either buy ground flaxseed at the grocery store. it s widely available or buy the whole flaxseeds and grind them at home using a coffee or spice grinder and they re very versatile. keep them in the fridge because you don t want them to go rans rancid and put them in oatmeal, yogurt or cottage cheese. put them in smoothies. i mix it with bread crumbs and use it on my chicken cut lls. work it into turkey or burgers. it s very versatile. this is from lisa in new jersey. recently in a grocery store i saw brown rice pasta. is this healthier or nutritional better for you than whole wheat pasta? and the answer is no because whole wheat pasta and brown rice pasta are both whole grains. so they are equally terrific choices and the only caveat is that brown rice pasta is gluten-free. so for people that have celiak or wheat allergies or gluten intolerance, they ll go for the brown rice pasta. but for everyone else, test around and experiment in the kitchen and find and see what your family like the texture best. great to see you. if you have other diet questions for julie, you can chat with her at 11:30 a.m. eastern time at facebook.com. up next, they are two of the biggest names in hollywood. eva longoria, george lopez and they teamed up for a star-studded night live from los angeles right after this. we get double miles every time we use our card. i ll take these two. .no matter what we re buying. .and all of those. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it s hard to beat double miles! whoa dude. 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[ female announcer ] swap one thing a day for a yoplait light at around 100 calories. it will add up to azing. over the weekend stars gathered to honor those who promote fair, accurate and balanced portrayals of latinos in the entertainment industry. the alma awards were co-hosted by eva longoria and george lopez. george, eva, good to see you guys. hi. how are you guys? we re doing great, but tell me, why are the almas so important? well, you know, television, we want to level the playing field, al. you know, and the alma awards is a celebration of our accomplishments with scantily-clad women. yeah! and that s how we level the playing field. eve a i know you two co-hosted. what is it about working together that you like so much? you know, i m e. lo and he s g. lo. we love working together and we ve been working together for many, many years. i did george s sitcom back in the day back in the day, when i was younger. and at the after party she stands on my feet like a 7-year-old. eve a you re the executive producer of the show, some of the names that will be there, pit bull, jessica alba and antonio banderas. an incredible group of people. why is this so important to you? alma means soul and it also means american latino media arts, but it also means soul, the essence of our talent, whether it s music, television, or film comes from who we are as a group and so it s always nice to celebrate and honor all of the accomplishments that are happening and every year it is so different and fun because we we reflect on the past year. so this past year the music was crazy for latinos with shakira and pit bull and christina aguilera and maya rivera. we have so many great people in music and television and in film. and so every year it s an action-packed show. george was saying earlier, it s less of a competition and more of a big party. a big party. and also, you know, latinos vote and any time we can vote even for what cereal you like, it s very important for us. you re voted on by your own people and like we say, when the election comes up in a couple of years or a year from now, we will be the most powerful you ll see not only mayor bloomberg speaking spanish, but politicians all over the united states speaking our lovely language. the show s in english, though. george lopez and eva longoria. you can watch the alma awards this friday night at 8:00, 7:00 central. coming up, the perfect outfit from work to night. on a recent trip to france we discovered the inspiration for a totally new yogurt. activia selects french yogurt. so silky and smooth with lots of juicy fruit. it was a grueling trip! try new activia selects french yogurt. it s a new totino s pizza stuffer. [ male announcer ] give your kids the new totino s pizza stuffers. new, minimum mess, maximum fun! though. 9:26 is your time on this tuesday, september 13, 2011. let s go to our meteorologist, tom kierein, with a look at the forecast. a lovely morning, tom. temperatures are beginning to slime into the 70s, and we have lots of sunshine and a blue sky. just a spectacular september day. later today in the 80s and lots of sun, and then tomorrow maybe some evening or thunder showers, and then thursday cloudy and cooler, and may get passing showers because the front coming through will stall out and take a bit to get through, and then after that, d [ 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. we come back. good morning. traveling 270 in maryland, much better. we were jammed. you are still traveling under the speed limit here on west montgomery avenue. if you are making your way towards the super, you are 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. they shine on the red carpet, but some stars shine brighter than others according to the fashion police. we ll take a look at some of the best and worst dressed in hollywood and beyond with and beyond! to infinity and beyond. the best dressed of the year. speaking of fashion, we ll show you how to transition your day work look to a night on the town, party look without even changing your outfit. it s magic! wow! ready to party at 8:00 a.m. you think about going out after work and you don t want to go home and change, but you want to look appropriate at work. we ll have the answers coming up. in today s kitchen we ll be making pasta and peppers. simple cooking inspired by the chef s grandmother and a little bit later on lady antebellum. they ve been entertaining us all morning. and multiple grammy winners, they ll be p grandmother. later, lady antebellum, they will play one more song. beautiful day here in the northeast, although we have a risk of strong storms later in the afternoon as a front moves in. clouds move into the pacific northwest. for tomorrow we have hit and miss showers in new england, and then look for wet weather into the ohio river valley into the rockies. heat from the southwest all the way into texas. that s what is going on around the country. here s what is happening in your neck of the woods. sunshine, and temperatures into the low and mid-70s. we ll continue to climb into the 80s later this afternoon. and we ll not have a lot of humidity around. could get an afternoon or evening thunderstorm. and then greater chance of showers on thursday, cloudy and cooler. much cooler on friday and saturday. and that is your latest weather. all right, al, thanks. what to wear in the morning that will take you straight to a night on the town. that s coming up. on a recent trip to france we discovered the inspiration for a totally new yogurt. activia selects french yogurt. so silky and smooth with lots of juicy fruit. it was a grueling trip! try new activia selects french yogurt. 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[ male announcer ] venza from toyota. this morning in today s kitchen, what s for dinner in how about an old world italian meal. chef palladino is from harrah s resort in atlantic city. good to see you. thank you for having me. this one brings you back to when you were growing up. the combination of olive oil, caper, anchovies and olives brings me back to my nonna s kitchen. a lot of people aren t crazy about anchovies. anchovies are like salt. they re a seasoning or an enhancement to the dish, without them you would clearly notice the difference. let s get started with peppers. i ll show you a trick and if you want to grab one of these. i peel the peppers. instead of roasting them and peeling them, i peel them prior and you get 60% of the skin off, and that way you don t have to deal with the skin so save yourself a step and time from pre-roasting. and then you cut them up. so we cut them up here and i have the garlic and anchovies going with extra virgin olive oil. you don t want the garlic to brown at this point? it will get a little bit brown and the anchovies will melt. give this a stir and throw marjoram in. it s very aromatic. so for about 40 minutes. put a lid on it, don t add any liquid and it cooks for 40 minutes and it looks like this. it lets out all of its juices. smells terrific. nothing added, no liquid. at this point, take the capers. you want to add some of those? okay. cook it for about another five minutes. yeah. that s perfect. and then i finish it with bread crumbs. this is just an old southern italian tradition. some seasoned bread crumbs or just plain bread crumbs. we seasoned them with extra virgin olive oil ask that s it. let s move on to the pasta. you have three different past as going. we do. we make the past as inhouse and this is from naples and made with semolina flour, eggs, milk, parsley and basil and we re making it with shrimp. these are beautiful. extra virgin olive oil, garlic and chilies that we make. we make our own chili paste here. we take chilies and fry them, salt them and let them ferment overnight. if you re not going do that? chili flakes are great. throw garlic in there. okay. now this you want to get a little bit toasty. let s drop our pasta down there. and this pasta is fresh. it takes two minutes and you can substitute dry rigatoni and ling wi uini. chili or chili flakes if you prefer. whatever you have. all right. that is really aromatic. and this is the soffrito. this is what makes all of the flavor. and we ll throw the shrimp in. this will cook up pretty quickly. yes, it will. you don t want to overcook the shrimp. i use these raw. as we move along because we re almost out of time pop. this is what it looks like after that and we take the shrimp and roast the beautiful heirloom tomato. so you ve already made your own sauce. yes. it s ready to go and this is the deal. and then we add to this arugala, tear some mint into this and basil. very fresh and very aromatic and very much the style of the amalfi coast cooking. and this is the peppers a la nonna. delicious ciabatta. rick palladino, thank you so much. we ll chow down in just a second, but first we have one more song from the country superstars, lady antebellum, but first this is today on nbc. the toyota concert series on today brought to you by toyota. you guys have to get over there and get some of those peppers. a lot of tasting in that segment. coming up hoda and kathie lee cuddle up with a crocodile and we re not talking about crocodile purses either. and they ll have some advice about how to ignite the romance in your life by dating your hubby. but first, multiple grammy winners lady antebellum singing the latest hit i need you now. so, you actually reward people for staying with you? yep. the longer you stay with us, the more you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something. show her, tom. huh? you should see november! oh, yeah? giving you more. now that s progressive. call or click today. without, i just need you now good morning, everybody. i am barbara harrison. it s 9:56, tuesday september 13th. let s go straight on our meteorologist, tom kierein, to look at the forecast. it s a beautiful september morning. right now it s climb into the 70s. 73 at reagan national. we have bright sun and a blue sky. it s going to continue to warm up. we should hit the mid-and upper quiz by midafternoon. and then tomorrow looks like a warm day with afternoon highs in the mid-80s with increasing clouds. maybe a few isolated thunderstorms perhaps late afternoon and into the evening, and the front will move in through wednesday night and into thursday. and cooler weather with the clouds on thursday. sun back on friday, but much cooler. 40s in the morning and upper 60s. monday and sunday should be warmer but cooler than average for this time of year. now, how is late morning traffic. this is in maryland, an accident at route 198 . you are seeing some delays. and i want to give you a look right now. enter loop robinson with a delay. as you continue to i-66 you are slow. slow. barbara, back to you. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello, everybody. it is booze day tuesday, september 13th. we are delighted you re here with us today, aren t we, hoedy? we are glad. madonna is stirring up controversy again. now, yesterday we told you the story about how a fan gave her a hydrangea and she said, i loathe hydrangeas. she has the right to do. before we show this, hold on in response to this, she decided to put out her own video. this is what it is. she doesn t speak. that music is from the godfather. so that s the video. there you have it. i guess the controversy didn t bother her a bit. it didn t seem like an apology. no. i think madonna is an extraordinary woman. she obviously is, she accomplished so much. i think she wants us to think nothing bugs her, but things bug her. she is a human being. i don t know. i think if she didn t care, then why go to the trouble? why go to the expense? i don t get that. it s one of those me thinks thou protests too much moment. everything we see is about tone. how it is when someone gives you something. maybe she didn t thing the mics would pick up what she was saying. at the same time is that i don t know. i think what can happen to so many people. we see them around here. people that have gotten so huge in this world that by necessity, they ve become very insular and very insulated from so much in the real world that regular people are aware of. i think you lose touch with reality. that seemed totally ungracious to people. that s what they didn t like. it s not about liking or disliking. up to her.courage it took for a to hand madonna something, it s a big deal. it s at a news conference. you have to approach. we don t know who he is.anyw. i don t know. i don t want to say anything i ll be sorry to say i think it s never important to lose touch who you are, where you came from and where we re all ending up which is dust to dust, and it won t matter what you accomplished in this world. it s how you treat people. two notes about the u.s. open. first of all, djokovic won. he hurt his back, but he won anyway. he fell down. he s different from all the other players. he likes to cut a rug. we like to see that. so we have a little he s like your doffelganger. he learned that move from you. where s the music? no music. just add your own. imitating him in the stands. he is a cool, funky he s no al roker, but he s good. he can do it. that s what you do. and i love him for that. i was so glad at one of the matches when he won they asked him to cut a rug. they said would you like to dance on the court? he said only if everyone dances with me so everyone got involved. he s an amazing player. terrific. i have a little crush on nadal. he s a hot one. serena williams, we told you yesterday about the fact she was now we know she was fined. she said stuff to the line judge. first she yelled before the girl had a chance to hit the ball. that caused a problem. the line judge gave the point to the opponent and she took issue with that. this is not the first time. and when she is here, i must say, she is a delight. she really is. we re not battling for her. she won $1.4 million during the u.s. open. and was fined $2,000. hats off to our girl natalie morales. i didn t see that last night. i was so jet lagged i missed it. i heard she was amazing. she hosted the miss universe pageant and looked like a million bucks. she was in brazil. that s andy cohen. the winner was miss angola. she speaks five languages. more than that, probably. she is such an accomplished woman. i always think she is prettier than any contestant and she is a lot older than they are, too. those are 17 and 18-year-old girls. yes. natalie is a woman with children of her own. what i m saying is she always looks like she should win the contest. ima he not trying to get new trouble. they re all upset over there. sorry. i think it s a big difference between being 18 and in your 30s. it s a huge difference. we are doing a segment today called cheating on your husband with your husband. this kind of sparked a lot of conversation. i think a lot of people who have been in marriages a long time are trying to get that old spark back. they want to feel like they felt when they were younger. trying to get the feeling again. which was written by david palmerantz. one of the great songs about how to get the feeling back. i didn t know. this sparks the whole thing about, can you really go back to a period in your life? all of us fight it. you fight it with your looks, your skin, you want to look like you did, you don t want to tell your age, you want that loving feeling. what do you think? i think it s understandable because each day we age we realize we are one step closer to not aging any longer, you know what i mean? let s face it. we always long for, first love anyway. what you re going through right now is the hottest, most exciting thing in the world. but there is a song, remember the birds? to everything turn, turn, turn there is a season turn, turn, turn that s from the book of eclisiates. it s wise to embrace right now and enjoy every minute of it. it does nobody any good to say, remember the good old days. i understand wanting to feel that way again, but i think you can find something more beautiful as you grow in a relationship. an intimacy that is not even of a sexual nature but profound in your life. if you re just long iing for wh you used to have, there is probably a really good chance you re not enjoying what you have right now at this very moment. we are talking about that james taylor song, the lyrics are, the secret of life. the secret of life is enjoying a passage of time it s exactly what it is. you have to enjoy right here and now. right her on the set with you. let s freeze the moment. here. cheers. as we cheer. last night. apparently when frank and i were first dating, friends of ours say we were outside at a party in the hamptons and frank allegedly said, look, kathie, there is the moon, to which i basically said, really, frank? i say it never happened. last night huge moon, right? frank called me and said, kath, come out, see the moon. i didn t want to see the moon. i go out and see the moon and we re looking at the moon, he goes, remember, kath? i said, i know. really? he goes it will just never be the same and i said, it s even better. 25 years later, outside looking at the moon. not somebody s moon, the moon. what do you mean not somebody s moon? you ve got to grow in a relationship. guess who just cut their hair and adorable. fix your bangs, baby. sorry. what s going on? we re giving you an update on the cutest babies from age zero to 2. one entry per person is allowed. you and your baby could win a trip to new york to model in a baby fashion show on the today show. follow the instructions to enter. let me explain what you need to do once you log on to your facebook. what do you do? go to the graphic or picture in the upper left hand corner that says cutest babies. click on that. it opens up to a graphic. then in the caption, see this link right here? 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i hope? it s just dried pancake batter. oh. big relief. you saw the premiere last night. i watched a screen of it and you steal the movie. a huge cast in it. every time you showed up on the screen, you got a laugh. at the end it was even before you spoke. must have been a fun show to do. it was so much fun. especially with sara jesse what and pierce. my best moment from last night was watching my mother introduce herself to pierce bronson. hi, remington steel. it was the best. 30 years ago you were great. is your mom here? she s over there. she is? how cute. how cute is she. we ll get on there. we ll take care of you. i have 3 1/2 minutes. go back to me. get the camera off of them. you ve got a new series coming up, a big movie opening up this weekend. yeah. i m excited. no time for a juicy personal life, i hear. no. i live alone. thank you for reminding me. it wasn t that funny. wasn t that funny. like i said before, you make time for the things you love. especially this movie. if you want to have really great passionate things in your life, you wait for those things to come along. i still get to do the daily show with john stewart. i start the steve sodeberg movie in a week. it s magic mike. it s the chippendales dancer. none of the strippers in the movie are women, they re all men. finally. have you carved out time to have a little drink or two? every morning at 10:00 a.m. bring it, baby. it s my day drink. look at that. what is this drink you prepared for us? it s like ladies who lunch, you know? day drink to keep the edge off. it s pine apple juice, tequila and lime. so it s healthy. it is healthy. it s like a juice with a kick. what about your premiere, all-star-studded? that was my first premiere. i was in ironman 2 for a second. if you ate your popcorn, you missed me. this was exciting. my big brother was there, my mom, my step dad and my best friend. it s not your last one. we love you. come any time, doll. take care. you can catch owe life why beginning september 16th. up next, sara takes on there she goes again. nascar. all systems prepare to engage. captain, unidentified object detergent chamber. that s a cascade complete pac. the best of cascade powder and gel combined in one vessel. brilliant. we re gonna need it! lasagna pan lower rack! fire! 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[ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. it s time for sara hits the road the series that takes sara out beyond our studio doors into the world to expand her horizons and job opportunities. this time sara takes her adventures up a notch to atlanta. nascar, to be exact. it s the number one spectator sport in the country. i got a chance to get behind the wheel at the atlanta motor speedway. drivers, start your engines! with speeds up to 200 miles per hour and side-swiping turns, nascar drivers check fear at the door when they get on the track. there is a fear level that i really don t have. there s some things i m scared of but it s more like spiders. 26-year-old kyle bush might look like your average guy, but once you get him behind the wheel, it s like fast and the furious on steroids. i m very competitive and very driven. being able to go out there and get wind. that s what we re all out here for. that s what we want to achieve. what makes you as good as you are is that drive and determination. i have the determination, but i did have the drive? i m not great driving a regular car. what have i gotten myself into? we ll see exactly what you ve got and see if we can t get you into the realm of a professional racer. are you really aiming for professional in this one day? no. i was hoping we could just shift a little. kyle was only 7 years old when he learned to race on a go-cart. after strapping on my uniform. there s a belt? game on. i headed for the cart. she s already going the wrong way. what s that? it doesn t turn. so far, not so good. why? did i take the corners too tight? we turn left. shoot. my bad. after trimming some turns man down, sorry! that s the focus part. you ve got to stay focused. kyle and i battled it out around the track. i was pretty fast out there. you re doing better, certainly. you re getting the hang of it. we switched gears and i got to ride shotgun with the pro. first thing for us to do is get in. you want head first, feet first? okay. maybe should have gone with both feet. ow. i m in. this is the radio. you need to get in touch with us. god, is that you? and then we were off. i feel the need for speed. how fast are you going? this is only about 60. oh [ bleep ]! ah! that s a run around atlanta. next, it was my turn to take the wheel. you ve got the driver walk. i ve got the cocky swagger. i ll let a little professional rub off on you. i m going to let you use my gloves so you don t break a nail. like days of thunder. ? i was triple and kyle was my harry. rubbing, son, is racing. that was awesome. gets up off the corners a little bit. not too high. how s the car? has it got a nice feel to it? everything feels good but the wall. focus. make sure you keep your hands on the wheel. eyes up front. what about the wall? there you go. you re getting comfortable. how fast am i going? i m too scared to look. we re not going to tell you. there s the checker. great job. nice run. woo! the final stop, victory lane. woo! you won the m&m racing with the kyle bush driving experience today. it was the gloves, kyle. it was the gloves. that s all that mattered. high five. i wouldn t have done that. that scares me to pieces. i don t want to brag. matt lauer went 128. i clocked in at 141. mom, i m still here. how to have an affair and get away with it. so, your 2:30 canceled, your 1:30 is confirmed are you forgetting something? my breakfast? get me something delicious. something wholesome. okay. okay, i got some tasty choices: fruit & maple oatmeal, an egg mcmuffin, fruit & yogurt parfait, fruit & walnuts. and they re each 300 calories or less. get out of here. good job! 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[ boy ] slurpably fun and a good source of calcium. dads who get it, get go-gurt. away with it, hoda. that s coming up after this. any wife of redskins owner, daniel snyder is part of the campaign to satisfy fi the female fan. oh baby, baby it s a wild world we are back on this booze day tuesday with call of the wild possibly changing the way you look at your favorite species. some thing the shores to ride the waves, but we forget the ocean is not ours, but sea creatures, some which seaworld ambassador julie scardina brought with her. hi, guys. i adore pelicans. they are awesome. they are one of the most recognizable beach animals we all know. we rescued over 3,000 pelicans from coastal areas. many of those times it s because they are wrapped up in somebody s trash or fishing line they left or something like that. what they do naturally and man gets in the way. that s the case with just about all animals. especially along the coast where they are extremely sensitive to not only what we do around our own neighborhoods, but when we go recreationally to the beach. we often times don t think about it and leave trash out. 60% of the trash they picked up in the intercoastal which, by the way 60% of the trash they pick up on the beaches are actually disposable types of bottles and plastic bags and utensils people just unthinkingly leave. look at the wing span on this guy. whoa, where are you going? about six feet. these guys are found all over our coastal areas. he was the poster child for the oil spill in the gulf. what s wrong with ginger? ginger was wrapped in mo monofilament fishing line. it doesn t decompose for up to 600 years. not only would animals caught in those lines or fishing nets be killed because of it, luckily she was rescued and was able to be rehabilitated, but unfortunately can t be returned. because she can t fly. we ll bring out another total bird. this is actually called a skimmer. look at this. skimmers are so unusual in that their bottom bill is longer than their top bill. that s right. they swim along the surface of the water. they open their bill and at the same time skim right along. i don t think i ve ever seen one. there we go. running around the set. this one was actually rescued as a chick. she may be able to be returned to the wild. she is about 3 months old right now. she is cute. she will be able to fly when she gets her strength up. she s going all over the set. she could be in new jersey pretty soon. she is practicing her flying skills. we hope things go well. very, very unique bird and very vulnerable to oil spills. this is just standing around here. these are american crocodiles. very closely related to the american alligator except for the fact these are much more salt water tolerant. they actually have glands that allow them to expel excess water. this guy is about 2 to 3 months old. how big will he get? about 12 feet. look at this one. don t they blend in really well? out of all the eggs that are laid, only about 1% to 5% are ever going to make it to adulthood? what else do we have? let s bring out the next guy here. i don t like things coming from behind. this is a great one though. this is a terrapin. what is the difference between a terrapin and a regular turtle? this is the only turtle in the world that basically can live in brackish or salty, not clean, freshwater. they need clean brackish water. brackish just means partially salted and partially fresh. these are the ones every year have to cross the jfk runways in order to deposit their eggs. and they stop the planes for them? they do. hopefully they notice when it s i first starting. that s how man has also disturbed a lot of environments. a lot of animals lay their eggs on the beach. when we build or develop, it takes away their opportunity to do that. if people go this saturday and pick up trash along the beach, it will help all the animals out there. we shouldn t call people pigs because pigs don t do what people do, know what i m saying? thank you, guys. up next, how to cheat on your husband. why he s going to like it. we re all out of toilet paper. can you toss me a roll? too rough. we re out of toilet paper. can you toss me a roll? too soft. can you toss me a roll? that s better. angel soft. an ideal balance of softness and strength. new revlon age defying with dna advantage makeup. its powerful skincare ingredients and spf 20 help protect skin s dna and reduce the visible signs of aging. 96% of women saw flawless, younger-looking skin in just 2 weeks. age. defy it! hold on. it s morning in iceland. 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