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today, friday, september 16th, the revealing new interview today, friday, september 16th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this friday morning. i m savannah guthrie. matt has the morning off and is on assignment in iran and she ll have new developments on the efforts to free those two american hikers who were jailed there in just a moment. meanwhile there are a lot of questions this morning surrounding that search in the utah desert that could be connected to missing mother susan powell. cadaver dogs have kicked up a scent but now police say so far no actual body has been found. are they closer to cracking the case or is it yet another setback in the long investigation? we ll be live in utah with the latest straight ahead. plus the motorcyclist who was saved by complete strangers when they lifted a burning, two-ton car off of him speaks out for the first time. we ll hear from him in a moment. all right. a lot of questions parents ask. when is it okay to let your kid have a computer in his or her room? at what age can you let them come home to an empty house? coming up surprising results from our new survey of parents. survey of parents not the teens. the numbers would be different depending who you ask. there were differing opinions there for sure. we begin with the new developments in the search for missing utah mother susan powell as police now say they have yet to find any human bones or body fragments. nbc s miguel almaguer is in utah with the latest. miguel, good morning. reporter: carl, good morning. though investigators have yet to unearth bones they say there is a 50/50 chance they have found the remains of missing mom susan powell. search teams with cadaver dogs and atvs made the discovery in the utah desert a shallow grave that investigators say was recently disturbed. but after a day of digging through the site, investigators say they have found no human bones, no body fragments, no clothing. still, police say two different sets of cadaver dogs have hit on something. they are smelling something. it s human decomposition. it could be coming from blood, could be coming from tissue, could be coming from bones, any variety of different sources, but it is human decomposition, human remains. reporter: this week s discovery comes 30 miles from where susan s husband, josh powell, told police he took their children camping overnight in a snowstorm the night susan vanished. while josh has denied any involvement in his wife s disappearance, police say he won t cooperate with investigators and remains the only person of interest. it s taken them a while to move away from ground zero, which was the house she disappeared from and to move out into the desert now in an area where they know he has traveled. reporter: though detectives say susan s case has never gone cold, there was a lack of known activity for nearly a year. in recent weeks there has been a flurry of new developments. police scoured mine shafts for new clues. then last month susan s father-in-law said she may have run off with another man, claiming the missing mom was promiscuous, even flirted with him. i wasn t going to turn down an opportunity with this beautiful woman even though she was my son s wife. i m sorry. she is just a wonderful person and i enjoyed it. reporter: after those comments, investigators hauled away susan s journal from her father-in-law s home. today susan s father joins detectives at the utah search site. now they re here with a large contention doing the search and i just felt i needed to be closer. reporter: calling this week s discovery, quote, what we ve been looking for, detectives caution there is more work to be done in the utah desert. it s still unclear what cadaver dogs may have found or who may have been at the site not so long ago. they said they can tell there s definitely been a disturbance there in the recent little bit. reporter: a recent disturbance and an unfolding mystery in the utah desert. investigators say they ll be back at the search site later today looking for human remains. meantime susan s husband josh powell has released a statement saying he hopes for his wife s safe return. carl? nbc s miguel almaguer, thank you for that. 7:05. here s savannah. thanks. it s been three days since iran s president mahmoud ahmadinejad told ann two american hikers detained in his country would be released in, quote, a couple days. although their attorney is reportedly making bail arrangements, no release date has been set. ann is in tehran again this morning with the latest. ann, good morning to you. reporter: that s right, savannah, good morning. last night the foreign minister of iran had an extended telephone conversation with the foreign minister of oman as more evidence of the man scramble that s going on behind the scenes ever since president ahmadinejad made those comments about this release. still, secretaries of defense and state expressed optimism last night. our goal here is to try and get these hikers released and we ve been assured steps will be taken to make that happen. we have seen in the past some delays that have occurred after decisions were announced, so that at this point we are not at all concerned because we have received word through a number of sources, publicly and privately, that the decision will be executed on and that we will see their return to their families. reporter: we should point out that shane bauer and josh fattal are now the longest held americans in iranian history. today begins their 777th day behind bars. savannah? ann, it seems this move by ahmadinejad to announce the release of the hikers was timed to coincide with his speech before world leaders at the u.n. next week. how much pressure is he under to deliver before that speech at the convention of world leaders next week, and how much does this turmoil kind of reflect division in the ranks within iran s leadership? reporter: that s right. well, you can tell the judiciary has its own motivation, but certainly the number one priority for president ahmadinejad is to have this release before he speaks before the united nations general assembly, stands on the world stage, and he is scheduled to arrive in new york on monday, savannah, so the clock is ticking. all right. ann curry on the story again in tehran. ann, thank you. let s check on some of the other top stories of the morning. natalie morales is over at the news desk. good morning, natalie. good morning everyone. television evangelist pat robertson is under fire for comments he made about alzheimers disease on his 700 club program. he gave this response to a caller whose friend was dating other women while his wife was ill with alzheimer s. here s the loved one. this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly that person is gone. they re gone. they are gone. if you respect that vow, you say till death do us part, this is the kind of death. robertson went on to say he encourages the spouse to divorce before dating again. the alzheimer s foundation of america responded, saying that his comments feed misconceptions about the disease. federal officials have now pinpointed the source of that deadly listeria outbreak to a single cantaloupe farm in colorado. jensen farms has recalled its entire harvest of melons. authorities say no other farms have been implicated in the deadly bacteria that has killed at least two people and sickened 22 others in seven states. thursday the first lawsuit was filed against jensen farms in connection with the outbreak. a dramatic 11th hour stay of execution for a texas death row inmate came from the u.s. supreme court late last night. dwayne buck was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection thursday evening for a double homicide back in 1995 but the supreme court gave a reprieve after his lawyers argued his death sentence had been racially motivated. defense secretary leon panetta is warning congress pentagon budget cuts could add 1% to the nation s unemployment rate. if lawmakers cannot agree on debt ceiling talks the pentagon will be forced to make an estimated $1 trillion in cuts, triggering widespread layoffs. aruban officials will re-enact the alleged drowning of missing u.s. tourist robyn gardner to test her travel companion s account of her disappearance. authorities will not disclose the exact date of the exercise to prevent curious spectators. maryland businessman gary giordano, meanwhile, is still being held in aruba in connection with gardner s presumed death. he says she drowned while they were out snorkeling. a massive swarm of thousands of bees attacked four people in southern california thursday. some 60,000 bees stung a man in a wheelchair who had apparently disturbed their hive in a storage yard. unable to flee, three bystanders managed to pull him to safety. all four men had to be taken to the hospital after being stung dozens of times. now let s head to wall street where investors are watching europe as banks there get a life line. cnbc s melissa lee is at the new york stock exchange with more. good morning, melissa. good morning, natalie. yesterday the world s top central banks announced they would provide additional dollar loans to european banks to ensure they have enough liquidity to operate through the end of the year. the concern had been that banks weren t lending to banks with possible exposure to greek debt and funding would ultimately dry up. meantime, today, treasury secretary timothy geithner is in poland and joining a meeting of eu finance ministers to discuss possible solutions to this european financial crisis. natalie? melissa lee at the new york stock exchange, thank you. and a very lonely seal has found a new home. take a look. this little red-haired seal pup first spotted all alone in russia abandoned by his sleek, black coated family to fend for himself. but there is a happy ending for the blue-eyed ugly duckling if you can call him that because he is so darned cute. he has actually been taken in by a russian dolphinarium. things that make you go, oh, right? he is so cute. a dolphinarium. don t you have any other seals? a seal anarium. so cute. star quality my producer said. the big blue eyes. yes. we have the weather channel s maria larosa here with a check of the forecast. do you think it felt like fall within an hour yesterday? mother nature turned on a switch and for basically a switch, and for basically the entire country just about, that s the big story, the big chill. you can see watch and freeze warnings and watches posted from the great lakes clear into the northeast. look at the temperatures now. 26 degrees at international falls. we re at 51 in new york city. today we will see high temperatures climbing into the 50s and 60s, and that s it in the northeast. back to you. right now, here our temperatures are around 50 degrees and near the bay, but elsewhere in the low to mid-40s throughout the region. later today, we will climb into the low and mid-60s and partly sunny. partly sunny, saturday, sunday and monday. good weather for the skins game. and next week more clouds around and a front coming through carl, over to you. thanks. now to the motorcyclist pulled from beneath a burning car by a group of good samaritans. he s speaking out for the first time about his remarkable rescue. nbc s george lewis is in murray with details. george, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, carl. brandon wright is still trying to make sense of it all. the fiery crash that could have taken his life, the daring rescue by a group of strangers, and that amazing video. and he says he wants the world to know how grateful he is. he has multiple fractures in his right leg, fractured pelvis, burned left foot, and scrapes all over his body and he is in a lot of pain. but he has something to say. i just wanted to thank all of the heroes that put their lives on the line to save mine. i m forever in debt. i can t thank them enough. reporter: heroes who saved him from this. brandon was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle and was pinned beneath the car as the motorcycle gas tank ruptured and burst into flames. i came to for about five seconds while under the car. i screamed a couple times and threw up some blood. it was lights out again. reporter: some of the rescuers thought brandon was dead, but then this woman got down to look and yelled out, he s breathing. brandon says when he first saw the video of the rescue he couldn t believe what he was watching. everyone swarms in and picks up the car and then i seen my body and i looked dead. that s unreal to see yourself like that. if he had stayed there any significant length of time longer his injuries would have been much more severe and perhaps even lethal. reporter: on tuesday when some of the rescuers met reporters they said they were uncomfortable being called heroes. brandon wright has some advice for them. they should get used to it. they re definitely heroes. reporter: brandon s girlfriend says amen to that. i m sure i don t know them because i m not from that area. but i love them. i would like to meet them and thank them. really grateful. to risk their lives for a complete stranger, that s what makes them so special. reporter: and he wants to meet them and thank them in person as soon as he s able. brandon says after his brush with death the one thing that brought him to tears was the sight of his motorcycle all crushed up. he plans to buy another motor bike and keep on riding. carl? probably not a surprise, george. thank you. george lewis in murray, utah. it s 7:15. here s savannah. thanks. this week the census bureau released disturbing numbers showing poverty in america is at the highest level since 1993. now the group save the children is raising the red flag about the number of poor children in this country. nbc s tom costello is in our washington, d.c. newsroom with the latest. tom, good morning to you. hi, savannah. nearly one in six americans is living in poverty. 60 million are children. that s 3 million more than three years ago. it crosses every state line, every ethnic line. from the deserts of california to the streets of d.c., poverty is rarely far away in america. hey, hey! come on, dwayne. reporter: brenda weaver never thought she d be poor, but after her daughter died from an asthma attack she and her husband were left to raise three grand kids. don t want to be dependent on people because i ve always worked and since i was 15. good job. perfect. reporter: in yucca valley, california, bonnie hughes lost her teaching job just as matthew s hours were cut back. now they re losing their home, their car, their insurance, and struggling to feed their three kids. we got to feed the kids. we got to pay the bills. what is more important? bill collectors were calling. reporter: the hughes and weavers are hardly alone. this week the census bureau reported that 46.2 million americans lived below the poverty line last year. that s $23,314 for a family of four. 22% of children are now living in poverty. 22%. among hispanic kids it s 37%. and 40% of african-american children are living in poverty. our nation has aroused the hopes of the poor. reporter: it was 50 years ago that sergeant shriver led president johnson s war on poverty. today his son, mark, runs save the children in the u.s. it means not having enough food to eat every week. it means going to food pantries, going to the church and begging for food at times. we made $42 too much to get on foodstamps. reporter: for the hughes and the weavers with everything happening, the wash machine broke and the roof needed to be fixed. reporter: and another 46 million americans many with children, it is life on the edge. sometimes you got to do what you got to do. those kids can be raised out of poverty if we had a national commitment to do it. mark shriver fears programs like head start which serve poor children might face cuts in the next round of congressional budget cuts just as me and more families find themselves struggling to put food on the table. savannah? all right. tom costello in washington, thank you. it s now 7:18. here s carl. thanks. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it s a duck. just don t tell that to an actual duck in england that thinks he s a man. here s nbc s michelle kosinski. reporter: in a tiny country village this is usual. reporter: so a duck walks into a bar. what? not a joke. did he just drink? yeah. reporter: let s see if he puts that on his bill. you come here often? he does, actually. star is the duck who struts like a duck but thinks he s a man. very short, feathery, confident man following his breeder, barry heyman, yes, everywhere. we re bilingual. i talk duck. reporter: do people think this is really odd when they see you? yes. reporter: that s right. ever since star was just a ball of fluff with a grin he was upset around his fellow ducklings and they around him. oh, it was heart breaking. so i picked him up and put him in my shirt pocket. reporter: and like that, man s best feathered friend. totally inseparable. reporter: star imprinted on barry as orphan ducks and geese will with the first creature they see. out shopping? guess who s the chick magnet? come on. reporter: back home, yes, inside where it s boots, boots, boots, duck, his favorite meal is worms. okay. there you go. reporter: okay. he ll eat them out of my hand? if you lower your hand. reporter: when it s time to settle in, star snuggles. yeah, i know. reporter: and barry is happy to have been there for the little duck who needed a pal. the last couple years i had a heart attack and i started to get depressed, but that duck rescued me. he saved me as well. reporter: friends can come in unexpected species. all right, young fellow. reporter: certainly birds of a feather. why did i think the last shot would be him driving? i love michelle s reaction when she feeds him. ah, ah, ah! i know. suddenly i don t think we ll see michelle walking around with a duck. probably not. looks really sweet until he pops on your lap as somebody here said. exactly. we don t know if he comes when you call his name star. all right. just ahead charlie sheen opens up about that wild episode earlier this year that cost him the highest paying acting job on television. i don t know. tiger blood, adonis dna stuff like that was just so silly and people took it so seriously. i m thinking, all right. i ll just does he have any regrets? 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[ thinking ] the simple joy of being smart. good morning. it s 7:26 on this friday, the 16th of september. fall leaped in and landed with both feet overnight. meteorologist, tom kierein, has our forecast. tom? quite a chill this morning under a clear sky. right now down in the low to mid-40s in much of the region. near 50 in washington and by the way under a clear sky. clouds rolling in later today. highs reaching mid-and upper 60s. tomorrow, partly sunny and lows upper 40s and highs near 70. milder on sunday and monday, partly sunny both days. we ll get a check good morning. fatal pedestrian accident shuts down eastbound root 50 around courthouse drive. and there s a jam the falls road all the way to the super. and coming up, pauly shore stops by our studio. we ll see you then. now back 7:30 on this friday morning, september 16th, 2007. a shot of one world trade, the view from the top of the rock and clear, crisp, would you say cold? i say cold. we re in cold now. cold morning in midtown manhattan as we head down to street level. a packed plaza with people starting their day with us. inside studio 1a i m carl quintanilla with savannah guthrie, ann is on assignment and matt is off today. coming up we ll have his interview with charlie sheen. a surprising one in a way. the man with tiger blood and winning attitude is talking about that episode earlier this year. we ll hear from charlie exclusively just ahead. plus, your kids may be begging for them but when is it okay to let them have computers in their own rooms or take a cell phone to school? we ll talk about the results of our surprising new survey with parents. do you remember when you first got a computer in your room? i never had a computer in my room or a cell phone, no. we re working on getting you one now. don t get into it. i could only talk on the phone one hour a day and there was a lot of busy signals at my house. anyway, carl, thanks. we ll begin this half hour with redmond o neal son of ryan o neal and the late farrah fawcett back behind bars this morning after he was caught with illegal drugs during his latest court ordered treatment. nbc s kristen dahlgren is in los angeles for us this morning with the details. good morning. reporter: good morning, savannah. redmond o neal is waking up back in jail this morning. the judge seemed to leave the door open for the possibility he could be sent back to rehab leaving his attorneys saying they still have hope. redmond o neal admitted his relapse. you, in fact, did use methamphetamine in violation of a specific, direct court order? i did. reporter: the judge read a letter from the rehab facility detailing how the son of farrah fawcett and ryan o neal snuck out last weekend. redmond was able to access a pay phone and subsequently delivery of methamphetamine to a location just outside our facility. reporter: but three weeks after the same judge warned the troubled 26-year-old he would go to prison if he ever used drugs during probation no second chances. no passing. no nothing. you re gone. reporter: this time the court seemed to have more questions for the rehab facility than for redmond. like you would order a pizza he called somebody that does drugs and said, look. i want you to deliver drugs to me and i m at this location. how did that happen that he had access to a phone? clearly, we fell short on the monitoring. reporter: for o neal, the past few years have been full of struggles. seen here in farrah s story he was already behind bars for drugs during his mother s final days released only long enough to say good-bye. you look better. reporter: by now admitting his relapse o neal took a risk. it was i admit the violation. i accept responsibility. impose the consequences knowing full well that when he did that, right then and there the court could have sentenced him to state prison. reporter: redmond was jailed for now but the judge won t decide whether o neal will go to state prison until sentencing next month when the judge could decide to give o neal another chance at rehab with tighter supervision. is there someone there that can be assigned to him, you know, like his shadow, that will be with him at all times? reporter: psychiatrist dr. carol lieberman saw redmond before his last sentencing and made recommendations to the court. it was very frustrating to me to see redmond relapse because he really was in a good place when he went into the treatment center to begin with. reporter: according to the judge a trust fund set up by o neal s mother could pay for any stricter monitoring if he is sent back to rehab. the court will also decide how much contact redmond s father ryan, his half sister tatum, and the rest of what the judge called a dysfunctional family, can have. there s a whole complex structure in a family of an addict that works towards their continuing to use. oh, neal s attorneys say they are the ones who asked the family not to attend thursday s hearing. they wanted the focus on redmond. they called the family very loving. we ll learn his fate when the judge sentences him on november 7th. thank you. now let s check the weather loving. kristen dahlgren, thank you very much. tell me your name and where you are from, and what is the deal with this. my name is andrea smith, and this is my birthday and i am 30 years old. congratulation. is that helping you keep warm today noo yes. it s a great birthday weekend. as we get you prepared for saturday and sunday it will be cool in the northeast. getting a little bit milder in the great lakes. notice the midsection looking for showers and by sunday temperatures rebound in the northeast and the rain holds tight in the midwest. good morning. i am meteorologist, tom kierein. you will need to find your fleece this morning. a chill in the air under a clear sky. we re into the mid-40s, and near the water it s near 50 degrees. later today climb into the mid-60s this afternoon. and then partly sunny on saturday. 40s in the morning and highs near 70. up around 70 or so o and it is football night in america. let s get you ready for the big games on a sunday. we head to hotlanta by sunday not going to be terribly hot. outdoor weather not really too bad indoor. we have the philadelphia eagles taking on the atlanta falcons as michael vick heads back to where it all started. savannah, back over to you. sounds like football weather, maria. thank you so much. coming up next charlie sheen speaks out about his behavior that cost him his title as tv s highest paid actor. what does he regret the most? 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that s hollywood 101. sheen, considered a hollywood a-lister, was the highest paid actor on television, making nearly $2 million an episode on the sitcom two and a half men. but things started to unravel last year when sheen allegedly went on a drunken rampage against a porn star at new york s famed plaza hotel. there was a stint in rehab and then rehab at home. network executives had enough and fired sheen from two and a half men. i spoke with charlie as it all unfolded in february. you re angry. i m not angry. i m passionate. that s like everybody thinks i should be like begging for my job back and i m just going to forewarn them that it s everybody else that s going to be begging me for their job back. reporter: in the end they offered his job to someone else. ashton kutcher. sheen endured a bitter custody battle over his twin boys. the kids, removed from his mansion on camera. all the while sheen was living with two women he called his goddesses. it s pretty normal. you know? reporter: sheen is no longer with the god edesses but he did coin some strange phrases that live on. duh. winning. they picked a fight with a warlock. tiger blood. adonis dna. tired of being like a total rock star from mars. reporter: today charlie sheen is repairing relationships starting with his ex-wife mother to his twin boys brooke mueller the couple spotted together celebrating his birthday earlier this month. he is 46. i m doing great. i m killing it. it s going to be a blowout you know? sheen is also developing a new sitcom called anger management. still unclear what network will buy it. as we know he likes to make a splash. his comedy central roast airs monday night the same night as the season premiere of two and a half men which reportedly features his character s death. must be a coincidence. jeff rossen, thank you for that. now to matt s exclusive interview with charlie sheen. they sat down earlier this week and began by talking about charlie s current emotional state. how are you? doing really good. yeah? really good. physically? i feel great. how about emotionally? emotionally is a whole different story, matt. tell me about it. got about seven hours? well where are you? no, good emotionally. i got this sense last time we spoke and i was watching you on these other interviews that you were in a bit of a manic and i don t mean that as a diagnosis. sure. i mean it more as an adjective. yeah. a manic period. you were running in a hundred different directions physically and emotionally. sure, yeah. how would you describe your emotional state now? it s really a lot calmer. it s a lot mellower, yeah. no, that was a time when, you know, what what happened i don t really know what happened. it was one of those things where, boy, the planets were either aligned to perfectly or imperfectly but i just said some stuff and then it caught such traction globally and instantly that i couldn t i couldn t really put out the fire, you know, so i had to kind of keep fueling it. all it was was why did you think you could put it out? because you were in control of what you were saying and you were the one granting the interviews and the assurances. sure. why couldn t you manage to put the brakes on it? well, because it took on a life of its own and people grabbed on to these catch phrases, these metaphors as it were. and they just ran with it. it seemed like it caught people at a time when they needed something different to root for, or to get inside of and feel the energy, you know. it s, again, impossible to explain how something like that can happen. i don t think it can ever happen again. what was it like to be in the middle of it? could you even get your arms around how big it became? did you understand no. how many people were talking about you? no, no. it was like being shot out of a cannon into another cannon and then just shot out of that one. yeah. it was like one, from one moment to the next. i didn t know what was going to happen. it was pretty exciting. and then a whole scary or exciting? both. both. yeah. but, you know, i had the whole thing i don t believe in fear and defeat is not an option and i had to live by those mottos regardless of how i felt. but yeah, looking back on it, i mean, i don t think i would trade it but there s portions of it i might have amended a little bit. like? what would you have done differently? just, i don t know, the tiger blood, adonis dna stuff like that is so silly and people took it so seriously and i figured all right. i ll continue to give people what they want. you know? when this began, charlie, you were the highest paid actor on television. since that time you don t work for the show anymore? i don t. did you realize it was going to end that way with you not being on two and a half men anymore or did you think this was a little forest fire that broke out but that would be put out in time to save you and the show? i thought when i was still doing my tour that there was a shot. did you want there to be a shot? did you want to stay with the show? there was a time when i did, absolutely. oh, yeah. regardless of how i felt about some of the people or how it went wrong or why it went wrong, i still wanted to have some measure of closure with the show, you know. that s the part that really hurt the most was not feeling like i could ever really finish it. was there a thought in your mind, though, that they needed you so badly that you could behave pretty much any way you wanted and at some point they would have to come back in the end and mend fences? i thought for sure that ah they can t do this without me. come on. you know. the show is about this guy. which is a little confusing, matt, when you think about it. they create a show about a guy, you know, who s a partier. that guy starts partying then gets fired. it s like, make up your minds, people. you know? one is a role and the other is real life here. yeah, yeah, yeah. but, yeah. i guess those lines can get a little blurred, you know. you, i think it was maybe back in february or something you said you were going to get clean. you were turning your house into a sober valley lodge. right? said that as a joke. well, are you sober? yeah. absolutely. when is the last time you had a drink or something more? i don t really keep track of the time. it s been a while but i don t because i feel like without getting into my whole feelings about aa and all that stuff, i just feel like, you know, if you re walking around hanging on to your time that it s only, you know, a matter of time before it goes. you re no longer with the goddesses? uh-huh. is that correct? yeah. so what is the biggest way your life has changed on a daily basis? my children. seeing my kids a lot more. mending fences with denise and brooke. just trying to move forward and prioritize what matters. you know, just really get back in touch with just more with some more reality and some more it s what i call the moments inside the moments. i think that s where the life is, you know, it s in those quiet moments. it s not the giant tv deal or the big party or the award or whatever. it s the memory of your child s smile at the end of the day that sort of brings that one lonesome tear. you know that tear, right, matt? i ve had those tears, more than one lonesome one. right. but it s those moments that matter. how hard is it to men fences given what you ve been through in the last year? there s always a chance, you know, to fix things or to forgive or to be forgiven. and you just got to be or i have to just be mature enough and focused enough and on point enough to know that at the end of the day it s not just about, you know, wanting solution or wanting harmony. it s about what i can bring to it and how i can lead by example again, you know. you seem like a very different guy. you know, i ll be perfectly sane? i didn t say that. but i ll be perfectly honest. this isn t what i expected. oh, really. thank you. you re much more interr introspective today than you were when we spoke on the phone six months ago. well, i think it s important that people see that i see and that i feel that that was just one crazy chapter, one weird phase, and that i was, you know, this guy before it started so i could be that guy again afterward, you know. so we ve talked about how your life has changed on a daily basis. how much impact do you think this episode, i don t know what else to call it. i don t either. odyssey. how much did that odyssey impact your reputation in your opinion? 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will he watch the show? would he consider making a guest appearance? we ll get charlie s answers to those questions and a whole lot more. plus some of the tough choices facing parents. we talked about it a minute ago. the computer in the room. of course when we were kids they didn t have computers. when is it okay to let a child have access to a computer in his or her room? at what age can you let them come home to an empty house? coming up we ll have surprising new results from our survey of parents. really interesting data from those parents. mortgage rates are at record lows or near them anyway but is it necessarily a good idea to refinance now? we ll talk about what you need to consider before you actually go. first let s check on the news with natalie morales. good morning. in the news this morning what appeared to be a possible break in the search for missing utah mother susan powell may have been premature. just one day after saying cadaver dogs had found human remains in a utah desert police now say they haven t actually recovered any physical evidence. investigators will keep digging today. the senate has passed a bill that averts another partial shutdown of the faa this weekend. it extends the faa s operating authority through january. the measure also extends federal highway programs through next march. some new evidence today that the obama administration was worried about a troubled solar energy company even as it continued to publicly praise the firm. a house committee probing the collapse of solyndra exposed e-mails showing a white house budget official feared the company s bankruptcy could hurt president obama s re-election campaign. solyndra received $500 million in federal stimulus loans. australia s capital city sitting under clouds of potentially toxic smoke this morning after a factory fire forced residents to stay indoors and prompted schools to close there. this morning firefighters say they were able to get the blaze under control despite high winds and explosions in the factory. a florida judge has ordered casey anthony to pay nearly $100,000 for investigating the disappearance of her daughter caylee. prosecutors and police had wanted her to pay $500,000 but the judge would only assess anthony for costs incurred when police thought caylee was still alive. and now here s brian williams with a look at what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. brian? hey, natalie, good morning. coming up tonight, as if we needed this, something new has flown into our country, a new and tiny mosquito bites during the day and is carrying diseases. they re moving on this in california. we ll have an update tonight for you on nightly news. for now, natalie, back to you. thank you, brian. now for a look at what s trending today our quick roundup of what has you talking online, new video of a white house party crasher mikaela salahi kissing a journey guitarist at a labor day weekend concert has people buzzing. the photographer was none other than salahi s clueless husband. tmz reports mcayala has since run off with the journeyman. star wars fans already excited about today s blue ray release have something else to tweet about. the space telescope has discovered the first known planet with two suns that is reminiscent of planet tetween in the first star wars movie. just in time for the fall hunting season this commercial for a california taxidermist is making the rounds on facebook. you probably thought this deer was alive and this coyote was alive and this pheasant was alive. nope. they re not. they re dead. they ve been taxidermiized by chuck tester. whether or not the commercial is dead serious, you might say chuck has the right stuff. that business is booming. it s 8:04 right now. let s go back outside to savannah and carl. i m surprised you made it through. we were about to lose her. i can tell. thank you. now for a check of the very cold and chilly weather does anybody have a jacket savannah can borrow? please, somebody. i guess they know how we feel. now i feel responsible. well, what we love about today show fans, they are dedicated. what is your name? donna tippet. you drove all night to be here? to be here this morning. yes, we did. we re glad to have you. get some rest. you look great. let s head to the pick city, stuberville, ohio. you can see for the rest of the day today a lot of areas will be feeling the chill. we are looking at the highs in the 40s and 50s in the great lakes and on up into the midw t midwest. stoermds are possible today in through the northern rockies, but otherwise quiet across the country. and that s a look around the country, and here s a look at what you can expect. an autumn chill dissented upon us overnight. and right now 40s throughout most of the region, and 52 at reagan national. sunday, partly sunny up into the low 70s and mid-70s on monday. and then a front coming through next carl, back to you. all right, maria, thanks. when we come back much more with matt s exclusive interview with charlie sheen including whether or not he will watch the premiere of two and a half men right after this. -i love this card. -with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, we earn more cash back for the things we buy most. it s 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% on groceries. 3% on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. that s 1% cash back on oscar. .tony. oscar! 2% back on whatever she ll eat. 3% back on filling up this baby. 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no, it was entertainment but i think if you re going to roast a guy like me there can t be any boundaries, there can t be anything that s off limits you know? i was sitting there and i i thought, okay. i volunteered for this. you know? and that was an odd feeling because, who would do that? but then i thought about it some more and it s not a it wasn t an attack or burial. it was a celebration for a life that s presented itself as being very roastable. the roast by the way is airing on the same night that two and a half men. what a coincidence. comes back to the air with ashton kutcher. who would have thought? what are your thoughts about i don t do anything small man. what are your thoughts about two and a half men with ashton? do you wish them well? absolutely. i think he is going to be great, yeah. he has such charisma and great timing and he s such a handsome young man. will you watch it? of course i will. of course i will. with pain? a little bit, yeah. but i m also really curious about what happened to me because i don t look at it, you know, just as what they re doing forward. i look at it as what i left behind for them to continue and how they re going to figure all that out, so really my hat s off to them if they can pull it off. you know? the potential is there for one amazing guest appearance down the road. from your mouth. you know? yeah. absolutely. if they thought it was a good idea, completely onboard for that. you have other projects. i ll be in the final episode. don t you think? i would think. the biggest ratings you would ever imagine. unless i m really dead. there was no body at the funeral. there was no urn. we re talking about the character. yeah, yeah. had me nervous there for a second. i thought we got past that and you re okay. right, yeah. that would be interesting. tell me about your other projects? i know you have one on television and one in the movies. what s exciting you these days? both, actually. yeah. it s a film with roman capola called a glimpse inside the mind of charles swan iii. catchy little title. yeah. it s a character piece. it s about a guy who is stuck and he s stuck because he s lost the love of his life and he s trying to figure out just what went wrong. you know, what was his part? and it s really well written and it s really smart and i think roman is the only copola without an oscar, so i m going to deliver one to him. you need to do something about that. yeah, yeah. in terms of television projects? anger management yeah. loosely based on the movie of the same name? very loosely. we don t know, we don t have the setting yet. we don t have the cast yet. it s very early in it. i ll play the group counselor and i think wherever that group takes place it should be pretty interesting. we re not doing an audience. we re not doing we re doing a different model, so we re going to shoot all the shows consecutively. so as you begin to flex your muscles again and get back into the career and work, what is the one thing you want people out there who were your fans and are your fans to know about charlie sheen today? that i m not going to let them down. i m not going to let them down when they put down money for a ticket or if they turn to the channel that i m on that i m going to continue to deliver the things that have kept them interested in the past three decades. and you re all right. i m doing great, yeah. it s really a pleasure talking to you. i ve been a fan for a long time. thanks. it s kind of a big deal for me. for me, too. oh, really. thank you, man. what a pleasure. thank you. appreciate it. it is so interesting to see how much he has changed from earlier this year and, you know, all the features of his personality that everyone loves, you know, the personality, the humor, the wit, it s all intact but he just seems to be more thoughtful and for lack of a better term sober-minded individual. i think it s interesting, too, the perspective of someone who has been through a media firestorm like that and sort of lived to tell about it has been fascinating to listen to today. you almost get the feeling he may regret he did that roast but in any event it s still airing monday night on comedy central and you can it then. coming up next that age-old question for parents, when is it okay? 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we have three options, age 12, age 14, age 16. most say age 16. rachel? that s right. some of the moms on parenting.com and today mom said the question doesn t go old enough. can i say older? my kid can have a computer when they go to college. really. people feel very protective about this. harriet, technology today, i mean, are we at risk of being a little naive about how quickly they ve warmed to technology? i think so and often because they have smart phones they have a computer wherever they want to be. we have friends who have the computers in a family room for everyone parents and children so they do their work together, the home work together, and whatever else they re doing so that it can be monitored. i think the big issue is it must be monitored whether the computer is in the room or wherever else it is parent have to be vigilant. you have to have maybe multiple user names, a school one, a personal one. right. so a lot of teenagers say the biggest problem for us is trying to balance school with being on facebook and chat so the best thing parents can do is set up a school user and a personal user. on the school user, chat is disabled, no games. and then when they re on personal stuff it s monitored more heavily. second question, when is it okay to let my child talk on the computer with friends at night? evenly age 13, age 15 get about 40%. that s right. people thought it should skew older for this as well. they don t want the younger kids on there but as they get older, parents are okay with it but, again, it s important to set up limits and it s important for your kids to know that you re watching. you don t have to sit over their shoulder but we think that kids should know that their parents have the log in for that account. if they re aware that at some point maybe not now but at some point an adult is going to see what i m doing it can have a real helpful effect. what time of night would you say, harriet? that s the thing. if it s at night it s just like talking on the phone. anything you re doing at night has to have a cut off. i would say by 9:00 for just about anybody on a school night it needs to end and i do think they can come and look over the shoulder and ask, come in and interrupt, you know, because so the parent is present. oh, you re annoying but mommy and daddy need to be annoying sometimes. when is it okay to let my child bring a cell phone to school? most say age 13. i wonder if people want to skew older on this one as well. yeah. the important thing is to check with your school. every school has very different policies. and the biggest thing is remember a lot of the school computers now are being brought home and on average there s 34 text messages that are sent after bed time alone. really. yes. so it s really important that 9:00 mark is good and for school especially to make sure they re keeping that school computer clean. there s the whole safety aspect, rachel. you want your kid to be able to reach you. on the other hand some call it a computer that parents can t see. it s used for every school has an office and in that office there is a phone and they have the emergency contact numbers. when your kid s at school they re probably most able to reach you of any time. and again, a lot of schools have policies against cell phones. some of the moms said why does my kid need a cell phone at school? what is it for? but it s often because it s after school that if your kid is alone, independent of you, that a lot of parents want children to have phones. the thing is you can have lots of limitations placed on those phones so they can t do everything. two more questions, which i ll get to quickly. when is it okay to let your child wait at a bus stop without adult supervision? wow. this one is skewed to age 10. it s hard to imagine an 8-year-old waiting alone. the other question which i want to skip to is when is it okay to let my child come home to an empty house? this is a little more personally think. don t you think? this is very much a judgment call. this is when it comes down to you as the parent knowing your situation, knowing your child s maturity, knowing your neighborhood, knowing what your options are. we ve discussed how there are a lot of good options for kids that are not coming home. i think you shouldn t let your kid come home to an empty house. there are free programs, programs with a cost, but there are things your child can do after school to not be in that house alone. i think the communication aspect is you have to be able to say, i m going to explain this to you but the bottom line is i m the parent. i m making the decisions. and as somebody i think said here, they re not going to thank you until they re 25. that s true. a lot of kids though they roll their eyes at you or are sort of snarky are really listening. thank you. fascinating. here s savannah. thanks. now let s send it down to washington and our good friend mr. willard scott. hey, willard. reporter: birthdays with cake and candles and beautiful ice cream. who could have for more? and beautiful people. from the smucker s lineup take a look if you will at these. the lovely james mcdaniel related to our friend jack. and from arkansas, a hundred years old today, life-long farmer and still lives in the same house where he was born. how about that? likes vegetables and fruit trees and does a good job with those. and we have claude garrett from montgomery, alabama, 100 years old today. lives independently and still drives to church every sunday. may the lord be with you. and robert lachance of clinton township, michigan. 100 years old. proudly served in the u.s. navy, seaman here, and we wish him a very happy 100th birthday. good man. good man. god bless the navy. here is mary chavis, of opelousas, louisiana, 100 years old today, still lives independently and loves to listen to good music on her radio. and i guess she s got a stereo. how old am i? what do they call them? anyway, mary mitchell. bangs, texas, 101 years old. good longevity and attributes it to facing each day with a smile and looking after her friends. can t do better than that. glenn and ann schmidt of champaign, illinois, 75 years they ve been married, still very much in love. ooh. cupid, you did a good job. and they love to have friends over for dinner. that s it. that s all. now back to new york. all right, willard. thanks. just ahead, with mortgage rates at all-time lows should you look to refinance or not? but first, your local news and weather. to refinance or not, but first your local news and weather. 8:26 is your time now on this friday, september 16th, 2011. let s go to meteorologist, tom kierein, for a look at the forecast. what a change in the air, tom? yeah, autumn descendsed overnight. and we have quite a bit of sunshine, but just a few clouds in and out this morning. highs reaching mid-and upper 60s and then partly sunny over the weekend. saturday, sunday and monday. highs reaching near 70. thank you, tom. thank you, tom. we whoa! hey! 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we ll have good information to help you make a good decision there. okay. then also we ll meet an nfl star who s dedicated himself to doing even greater things off the field. jenna bush hagar caught up with him. you ll get to see that coming up. first, even darth vader would agree the fight against cancer requires a powerful force. that s why the folks at stand up to cancer have teamed up with would you guys ? i m sorry. have teamed up to kick off a star wars themed auction called use the force for good. sue schwartz is a cofounder of stand up to cancer. sue, good morning. hi. wow. the force be with you. may the force be with you. light sabres completely distracting us from what we re here to talk about. tell us more. what s the program? so the program is to celebrate the launch of the complete saga of the films on blue ray. we re encouraging fans everywhere to use the force for good and stand up to cancer. you have a lot of items up for auction including this cool custom made star wars bw, which is great. i know you have a free dinner with francis ford copola, george lucas. how do people get in on this? the auction goes live this afternoon. go to ebay.com/star wars and there are incredible things. this is a one of a kind volkswagen 2012 which has scenes from all of the star wars films on it. as you mentioned, we have that incredible dinner with francis ford copola, george lucas, and some other filmmakers. there s one of a kind star wars memorabilia being offered and 100% of the proceeds benefit stand up to cancer. so what better way to use the force for good, get cool stuff, and fund cancer research, which is so needed. these are some big ticket items but if people do want to give to the charity itself what can they do? if you want to give to the charity, no amount is too small. every little bit helps fund research. go to stand up to cancer stand up 2 the number 2 cancer .org and you can donat standup2cancer.org. can you check out the great tea shirts. the yoda thing works for you. thank you, sue schwarz. thank you. maria laroche, these are not what you are looking for? good morning, guys. we want to ep date you on a few big weather stories we re talking about, and one being hurricane maria. maximum winds of 80 miles per hour moving to the north at about 45 miles per hour. we have a concern for the canadian maritimes. and then the high pressure is settling in in the northeast. and highs only in the 40s and 50s and to the south of the boundary, the heat hangs on including south texas, and south florida and the southwest. here is a look at what you can expect. a chill in the air, and it s just near 50 throughout most of the region now. louds over the mountains. we will have the high clouds off and on throughout the afternoon. highs reaching the 60s today. and another chilly night, and starting off saturday morning in the upper 40s. tomorrow up around 70 in the afternoon, partly sunny. partly sunny on sunday. should be good weather for the on a sunday, thousands of people will be lacing up their running shoes and heading over to central park for the susan g. komen race for the cure. joining me now is dr. richardson. thank you so much. you are the ceo of the comben for t for the cure greater new york area. right. the cause is personal to you. you are a breast cancer survivor 14 years now. that s right. why is this race so important? the race gives us an opportunity to celebrate survivorship and also helps us raise significant funds to help find the cure for breast cancer and really celebrate those who have lost their battle with the disease. all right. thank you so much for taking time with us this morning. great cause. looks like great weather forecast too. i hope people come out and support us. www.komennyc.org. love to see you there. thank you so much. back to you, carl. coming up next the best new restaurants in america. we ll tell you where to find them. but first, this is today on nbc. my fashion blog is about my personal style and things that inspire me. i like to think of myself as the voice of real girls. since i post new looks almost every day. i have to shop almost as often. t.j.maxx is great because i can score designer fashion. without spending like there s no tomorrow. that s what it s all about. fashion direct from designers. savings direct to you. i post for fashionistas. but i m a maxxinista. t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you. oh, won t you be good to yourself? and don t you feel like coming home? it ll be like coming home [ male announcer ] some rooms feel like a fish bowl. but in our roomy suites, you can spread out and live a little. with breakfast, dinner, and drinks included, you ll feel right at home. la la-la-la-la la la la every year the folks at bon appetit magazine publish their list of the best new restaurants in america and it might come as a surprise but not one restaurant here in manhattan, the restaurant capital of the world, made the list. adam rappaport is editor-in-chief. good morning to you. good morning, savannah. what gives? actually if some of you did not grow up in new york city i m proud of the rest of the country. you can get great food around the country. exactly. the big guys don t win every year. the yankees don t go to the world series every season. let the rest of the country have some fun. let s round out the top ten. number ten, bondir in cambridge, massachusetts. congress in austin, texas. son of a gun in l.a. back to the east coast, long island city, which is queens. and criteria for making the list? andrew nolton our ace food critic ate out 250 nights last year. someone s got to do it. just like you have to taste all this food. you know, it s his list. the readers love him. he knows what he is talking about. these are his choices and we stick with them. let s get to it and start with number five. we find this restaurant in chicago, illinois. rukshin. named for the chef, his childhood nickname. can i unveil? a bit too early. all right. now teddy is kind of korean fusion cooking, really popular in new york city and at a-frame in l.a. right here we have an awesome salad. rugela plum, cheese, almonds and the sweet, the spicy, the crunchy, peppery. you can make this at home easily. a lot of people think salad, tomato and lettuce. salad can be a lot more. get some crunch and flavor going on. this is korean spice popcorn like a bar snack at the restaurant. very good. i could not eat that delicately. you can make it at home. no problem. what is number four? trevail kitchen and amusements. where is that? this was a surprise one in suburban minneapolis and it just goes to show there are great restaurants everywhere in the country. there are so many good chefs. great ingredients anywhere. this is a restaurant that has a ten-course tasting menu for $60. they make their own foods. this is pan roasted barumundi also known as sustainable sea bass. okay. fish. just checking. popular in australia and becoming much more popular in the states. berries, tomatoes, etcetera. fancy. what it comes out to is fancy food at a great price in suburban minneapolis. okay. how about seattle? the walrus and the carpenter. walrus and the carpenter named for a lewis carroll short story. this is an oyster bar, bustling oyster bar. a good oyster bar, all local. these are all from washington state. you go there and you sit at the bar, great wine. you can go for the oysters and stay for the big plates. this is smoked trout with a lentil creme freche salad. and another one san francisco. mission chinese food. this is a restaurant that originally started as a popup, a sort of a once a week restaurant, old school, no frills chinese restaurant in the mission district. the two chefs, husband and wife team turned it into a full-time restaurant and now it s one of the most popular in the country. this is a lamb cheek noodle super which is basically lamb stew. they call it tingly lamb. that s what they call it. i don t know what that means. why? i m almost afraid to find out. it s amazing. looks great. part of a bigger trenld. chefs aren t putting a lot of money into the day care ecor. it s all about the food. no frills but great eating and that is important right now with this economy. we don t need to spend a million dollars on the decor. focus on the food and keep the prices very fair. number one? i got ting ls. that was good. let s get some drama going? charleston, south carolina amazing food city. our number one restaurant in the country according to andrew nolton our food city, husk in charleston, north carolina. what is so great about husk, the chef there, this is his sort of ode to the food he grew up eating from his grandmother s cooking in the south. every ingredient on the menu is from the south. this is his skillet roasted chicken, a technique that a lot of high end chefs love. you poach the food, get the temperature just right, super moist, crisp it in a cast iron skillet. amazingly moist. crispy at the same time. herb pea soup. it s in there. did you make all this here or order it from there and fly it in? i got here at 3:00 a.m. and did everything myself. incredible. all right. adam rappaport from bon appetit thank you so much. let s dive in. up next should you be looking to refinance with mortgage rates at new record lows? you need to know. first, this is today on nbc. 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[ male announcer ] save 10% on your groceries when you get a flu shot. that should make you feel better already. safeway. ingredients for life. back at 8:45 this morning on today s money is it time to refinance? according to freddie mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates have fallen to yet another record low this week but activity remains muted and home foreclosures are now picking up. sharon epperson is cnbc s personal finance correspondent. good morning to you. good morning, carl. some of these rates are rates people thought they d never see in their lifetime. i mean, ten years ago we were talking about rates at 8%. now we re talking just a hair over 4%. it s a tremendous drop. why are they so low? of course all of these problems in europe, the debt crisis has caused a lot of investors to want to invest in something safer, treasuries, and mortgage rates follow treasury yields. as those have come down so have mortgage rates. if they re so low and supposedly such a good bargain, why aren t people rushing out to do it? a lot of people may not have enough credit to do it or they may not qualify. that is probably the biggest concern. right now a lot of folks are just not qualifying for a refinance. if you re thinking about it or wondering is it right for me, how do you know? who should refinance? well, probably the first consideration is i want to save money every month on my mortgage. that is the first thing you look at. but you have to look at your break even calculation. what i mean is how much of the closing costs are going to be and how long it will take you to recoup those costs in the money you re saving every month. also, remember that you re restarting the loan term so if you re in a 30-year mortgage and you ve already been in that mortgage for ten years you re restarting that clock. do you really want to do that? so think about how long you ve been in the loan and how long you re going to live in this particular house. absolutely. a lot of people may have thought they were going to get out of a house much faster than they are able to so now refinancing if you re going to be there a long time may make sense. when we see numbers that are close to 4%, are people actually going to banks? are they getting that number? well, i tell you, when i saw that i was like let me call my lender and see what i can do. you have to crunch the numbers. what i found is when you look at if you have points or closing costs it may not make sense for you. and a lot of the fees when you attach that or points to these rates, they go up. it s not necessarily the 4%, 4.09% that freddie mac was talking about. we may be talking 4.25% or maybe higher. people always talk about banks being unwilling to lend in this country. how strict are the standards? if your credit has been pretty good your whole life could you walk in and they might say sorry not good enough? you very well could be denied. and it s not just about credit anymore. really the biggest concern is will you qualify in terms of the equity you have in your home. the good rule of thumb is you have to have at least 20% of equity in your home. if we re talking about your home value being $200,000 that means your outstanding low balance cannot be anymore than 160,000. when you are looking at the home value that isn t what you paid for the home but what the value is for the home right now, what the bank says the value is for the home right now. the other big concern is rates may be coming down but home values are also coming down. as those values are coming down you re losing equity in your home and therefore you re unable to qualify. how about some of these, i ve heard people say i just switched into a shorter term loan like a 15-year loan instead of a 30. why is that happening? it makes it a lot more attractive because if you re able to get a 15 year right now the average rate is about 3.33%. if you re able to switch from a 30-year to a 15-year it may make a lot of sense to do that. you ve shortened the loan term, you re not starting the clock again and having another 30 years but reducing that term. it s a good reason to refinance. is it your sense bottom line that these rates will be here for a while or is this like a come now because they re going to be gone tomorrow? we ve seen low rates for a long time. unfortunately, we ve seen home values still depressed for a long time. so it s still going to be difficult for people to refinance but it s definitely worth looking into crunching the numbers. good stuff, sharon. thank you so much. sure. coming up next, jenna bush hagar on the nfl star determined to give kids a brighter future. but first, this is today on nbc. [ male announcer ] combine a pnc cashbuilder visa credit card with a pnc performance select checking account and get up to 1.75% cash back for just about every purchase. learn more and apply today at pnc.com/cashbuilder. pnc bank. for the achiever in you. back now at 8:51 with our special series today s extra yard. the nfl is filled with not only extraordinary athletes but also some players who do a lot to give back to the community. today contributing correspondent jenna bush hagar is here with one of their stories. good morning, savannah. this guy is incredible. after spending eight seasons in oakland, he was unsure what team he d play for this fall due to the nfl lockout. but rather than worry about his own future, he spent the off-season helping high school students figure out theirs. nobody saw this one coming. from an eagles source he was soaring as one of the newest members of the philadelphia eagles. he s been described as fast and furious on the field. and off the field, his teammates call him something else. senator. i came in here and that was the nickname, senator came out. so i have to roll with it now. reporter: it s a nickname he earned serving not just his team but also the communities he s lived in. a lesson he learned growing up in los angeles with parents who came to the u.s. for a better life. any time that other family members from nigeria wanted to come over, they would house them. so there would be times when we d be at home where there would be, you know, ten, 11 people in the house that was meant for service mentality always in the house and helping out. reporter: in his family, education, not athletics, reigned. culturally i think it s a big deal, this education thing in nigeria. it s nonstop. it s the only thing that is discussed. reporter: after graduating with a degree in finance from the university of california berkeley and joining the nfl s oakland raiders, he started the college tour for scholars known as acrs. each year he takes a dozen inner city high school students, some who have never been on a plane before, on a tour of universities across the country. we know that with exposure, you know, you can reach all sorts of new heights. you don t know how your life is going to turn out. but understand that there are possibilities out there. reporter: daisy franco, an l.a. native, was 17 when she visited georgetown university with acrs. i didn t have this school on my radar at first and when i came my junior year with nomdi i fell in love with the school. reporter: she is the first in her family to go to college and now a freshman knows nomdi believes in her. the reason he did this tour was to show us we have to get an education and further ourselves and can t stay in the same place. the experience was the greatest of my life. reporter: amber adams visited washington, d.c. on the same trip as daisy. she now attends howard university, 3,000 miles away from her home in oakland, california. well it kind of motivated me. everyone on the trip was super smart. it made me realize i have to work hard, too, and then maybe i can go to a school like this. reporter: humbled by the kids he serves and inspired by the sport he loves, nomdi jokes his highly educated family still expects more. i have three siblings, and they yale, columbia yeah, michigan, stanford. it s a big deal. so it turns into how many degrees, you know, do you want to get? so everyone looks at me like and i only have one. it s like, what are you waiting on? when is the next one coming? i m like, look. i ve got a job right now. i m a little busy. reporter: what about a super bowl victory? it s still my goal here. you know, do my best no matter what is asked of me. reporter: regardless, he s already a champion to these two college students. i just want to say thank you. he is an unexpected blessing. i didn t expect this to happen in my life and it did and it was all because of him. and one thing nomdi told me, he is trying to get the kids to come to the super bowl if he makes it there himself. he really is an amazingly humble guy for somebody that s so smart. i love how he gives kids this vision for themselves of what they could achieve. jenna bush hagar, thank you very much. thank you. eagles look good too. nfl! you can learn more about the college tour on our website. 8:55 is your time now. good morning. let s go to tom kierein with a look at the forecast. hope you brought your sweater, tom. yeah, it s a cool morning and finally warming up at 9:00, and it s hitting the low 50s throughout most of the reen. we do have the sunshine with a few high clouds coming over. we will have the clouds in and out during the afternoon as we hit the mid and perhaps brief upper 60s. a cloudy night tonight. we ll be in the 50s throughout the evening. good temperatures for the outdoor activities. and for the skins, it looks like good football weather. now back to you. now back to you. tom, thank you so much. i recognized my business, we ve been lucky, and i wanted to go from luck to truly strategy. hurry up, let s go, don t want to miss a thing what was good about 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. 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winning. now sheen says he has some regrets and is a changed man. we ll hear all about that. then, savannah, we all know you are beautiful. you are gorgeous. where is this going? you never told me you double, you moon light as a model. oh, my. yes. she got in on fashion week this week in new york learning how to walk the runway like some of the top runway models. did you have a good time? it was really fun. i mean, there was absolutely no i didn t know what i was doing. all i got to say is, holy hair extension. but anyway, it was really fun. and i am super awkward. it was pretty exciting for me. kind of a girlie dream to get your hair done and makeup and all that stuff. it was really fun not really a manly dream. what s your dream? not that. okay. think about that. in the meantime we ll turn to natalie morales over at the news desk with a check of the news. good morning, savannah and carl. good morning, everyone. what appeared to be a possible break in the search for missing utah mother susan powell may have been premature. nbc s miguel almaguer has the very latest from west valley city, utah. miguel? reporter: natalie, good morning. even though investigators have yet to unearth any bones, they say there is a 50/50 chance they have found the remains of susan powell. search teams with cadaver dogs and atvs made the discovery in the utah desert. the shallow grave that investigators say was recently disturbed. but after a day of digging through the site, investigators say they have found no human bones, no body fragments, no clothing. still, police say two different sets of cadaver dogs have hit on something. they are smelling something and it s human decomposition. reporter: this week s discovery comes 30 miles from where susan s husband josh powell told police he took their children camping overnight in the snowstorm the night susan vanished. while josh has denied any involvement in his wife s disappearance, police say he won t cooperate with investigators and remains the only person of interest. today susan s father joins detectives at the utah search site. now they re here with a large contingent doing the search and i just felt i needed to be closer. reporter: calling this week s discovery, quote, what we ve been looking for, detectives caution there is more work to be done in the utah desert. it s still unclear what cadaver dogs may have found or who may have been at the site not so long ago. they said that they can tell there s definitely been a disturbance there in the recent little bit. reporter: a recent disturbance and an unfolding mystery in the utah desert. investigators say they ll be back at the search site later on today looking for human remains. meantime, josh powell, susan s husband, says he, quote, hopes they find his missing wife. natalie? miguel almaguer in west valley city, utah, thank you. television evangelist pat robertson is under fire for some comments he made about alzheimers disease on his 700 club program, giving this response to a caller whose friend was dating other women while his wife was ill with alzheimer s. here s the loved one. this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years. and suddenly that person is gone. they re gone. they are gone. if you respect that vow, till death do us part, this is a kind of death. robertson went on to say that he encourages the spouse to divorce before dating again. the alzheimer s foundation of america responded saying that his comments feed misconceptions about the disease. federal officials have now pinpointed the source of a deadly listeria outbreak to a single cantaloupe farm in colorado. jensen farms has recalled its entire harvest of melons. authorities say no other farms have been implicated in the deadly bacteria that has killed at least two people and sickened 22 others in seven states. on thursday the first lawsuit was filed against jensen farms in connection with the outbreak. investigators believe an engine room explosion was to blame for thursday s deadly cruise ship fire in norway. two crew members died and eight people were injured. more than 200 passengers had to be evacuated from the ship as black smoke billowed from inside. the first living marine to receive the medal of honor for service in afghanistan praised his fallen comrades at a white house ceremony on thursday. president obama presented the nation s highest military award to 23-year-old retired sergeant dakota meyer of kentucky. meyer ran repeatedly through enemy fire while wounded to help save the lives of 36 fellow troops. on a different note, some animals make great pets, but no matter how cute, some just don t. meet rambo. bill mcdonald found him as a baby near death on his door step so he took him in and he nursed him to health even though veterinarians had warned him not to. but the mcdonalds didn t want to release the little buddy into the wilds just yet. seems even the family dog likes him. just wait until minutes past th hour. let s go back outside to savannah and carl. now, let s get a check of the chilly weather. good morning, guys. it s chilly. we have had a lot of floridians here. how does it feel? chilly. we have a couple more chilly mortgages, and florida, it s going to be toasty over the next day or so. we have a few showers and thunderstorms possible there, and then in the midsection the weather will continue to be unsettled for the next few days. and the high pressure is settling in the great lakes and the northeast. we re talking lows in the 20s and 30s, and highs only in the 50s and 60s today, but plenty of sunshine. a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the rockies. now here is a look at what you can expect. the sun is climbing higher, but the autumn children still in the air on this friday morning. right now around the region, we re in the 50s. at reagan national, 54. we should climb about another ten degrees or so for our high later this afternoon, and clouds coming in and out. mostly cloudy this evening, and mostly 50s in the evening and then 40s tomorrow morning. and then partly cloudy with a high near 70 on satu natalie, back inside to you. thank you, maria. this morning on today s daily dose the importance of early detection. when it comes to our health some conditions are out of our control but there are some warning signs you should know to prevent other conditions from becoming life threatening. dr. nancy snyderman is our chief medical editor. most importantly, you say the rule of thumb is get to your doct every year. yes. i used to not think routine evaluations were important but now i think you need to at least check in for simple things like blood pressure, weight. are you happy? are you doing well? whether it s a nurse or a doctor have someone you can check in with. let s start with oral health. i think a lot of people ignore it or don t think of it as importantly and how it can impact the rest of your overall health. and speaking of gums. this may be one of the best examples of how the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone. everything has something to do with it. exactly. so that your teeth and your gums particularly are important. so this morning i wanted to concentrate on something called gingivitis which is something your dentist checks for every year in children and adults. the classic sign that your gums might not be healthy is if they re red, tender. they may have bleeding when you floss your teeth. right. any of those symptoms should warrant sort of a heads up. sometimes even simple bad breath can be a hint. why is it important? because it can link not only to the idea that you might lose a tooth and if you lose a tooth you end up losing the amount of density of your bone in your jaw or in your cheek. but it can also lead to heart health. so you must, must floss your teeth. and i think at least two times a day. and i m a big believer in the mechanical tooth brushes. and getting to your dentist how often then? at least once a year. and for children, as soon as that first baby tooth starts, get your children accustomed to seeing the dentist. right. for little things. even a wash rag in a baby s mouth is enough to sort of get a child on the right course. a little rubbing the teeth. yes. next is depression. mental health is key to an overall healthy body. recent studies actually find depression starts earlier even in childhood. yes. so what are some of the signs of clinical depression versus, you know, that every day the blues. the reason i think this is important is because we still stigmatize it. i ll say oh, natalie, snap out of it. you have so much to be thankful for. what s wrong? right. but the hallmark for depression versus just having a lousy day is hopelessness. people say it s like being in a steel can where you just can t claw yourself up the sides. if you re irritable, you no longer like to do the things you like to do, and i mean reduced sex drive, like nothing brings you satisfaction anymore, sometimes fatigue, you ll hear women say i just don t want to get out of bed in the morning. or difficulty concentrating. any of those alone may not be enough. but put them together and it s important. and for you and i who have children, you have to really look at transitional times in a child s life. preadolescence can really become depressed and when you see it as a parent you may not notice it. but changing grades, friends at school. hormones. all of that stuff. we even know that inutero we can start to pick up on depressed babies based on how they respond to music and what their overall environment is like. this is not something to be worried about. it s not something to be chastis chastised. it is really something to understand. because there are phenomenal treatments including therapy. and it s usually lower levels of seratonin that triggers depression? the whole neuro transmitters and a lot of times it s medicine. increasingly we believe it s medicine and some kind of therapy. let s move on to cancer. unfortunately very hard to detect some types of cancer so early detection really is the key. it s controversial. so i threw this whole thing together under the big tent. right. because we know some cancers are very curable like childhood leukemia. what i really want people to understand is if you look at this laundry list of stuff, it can change. sometimes people just say i just feel lousy. i feel fatigued. if you find a lump in your neck that is growing and not going away or a lump in your breast, obviously we know that s time to go in. sometimes people interestingly drop weight and they re not on a diet. that can be a problem. any change in bowel and bladder, blood in your urine, blood in your stool, it s a reason to go in. for smokers, increasingly we know for people exposed to second-hand smoke, a cough. so i want people to know it s not about a disease specific laundry list. it s about suddenly, you know what? i m different. it s lasted more than two weeks. nothing is making it go away. at least a reason to go in and be checked. right. and you said any change in your overall health. right. finally arthritis. yes. i think a lot of people think of arthritis as something that you maybe will get later on in life but a lot of younger adults are getting arthritis as well. the number one disability in this country. if you want a great resource the arthritis foundation has a phenomenal website where you can go for help. and this may be one time to really intervene early. for children who get arthritis there are great biologics and a lot of belief that the pain and stiffness and swelling and redness can be different in kids than it is in adults but a lot of arthritis doctors think the earlier you treat this the more you can reduce symptoms. most people at some point will say my fingers or my toes are a little stiff. right. as baby boomers age, this is going to be one of the things they ll complain about. but it affects children and adults and there are phenomenal therapies. all right. well, dr. nancy snyderman, that s all the time we have for today but thank you as always. still to come more of our exclusive interview with charlie sheen after a chaotic start to the year. the actor is opening up again about what he would have done differently. up next, there is a super model in our midst. hum. who could she be? 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[ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. new york city fashion week is wrapping up right now but this year there was one particular model who stole the show. that s right. she put the super in super model. super awkward, yes. we re proud to say that happens to be this lovely lady sitting next to us. well, i don t really know how super i was but put it this way. heidi klum, you have nothing to worry about. savannah. savannah. it s taken years of training, dedication, and concentration all leading up to this moment. i was so excited when they asked me to be in a fashion show. i mean, i can t believe anyone looked at me and said, you know, maybe she could model. it s pretty exciting. well, my colleagues may not have faith in me, but georgina chapman and karen craig do. hello, georgina. karen. you re here. they are the power house founders and designers of markaisa dressing everyone from sandra bullock to jennifer lopez from kate hudson to halle berry. and now they are taking on this amateur model to star in their first new york runway show. no pressure. oh, wow. it looks amazing. you look beautiful. absolutely gorgeous. this is stunning. alas, clearly, my beginner s flag was flying. showing the bra strap? not really high fashion i guess. at least i worked for cheap. i think you look spectacular. i think you ll be great. reporter: but would i be spectacular or a spectacle? on the day of the big show? i love modeling. reporter: i had some sustenance but still needed tips and i was hoping modelinia.com could help. the website is the source of everything and anything super model. who would you say are the big names in modeling right now? carolina is one of the biggest names. what about savannah guthrie? you know, i haven t seen her walk yet, but i m curious to see what she s got. reporter: to be honest, i was curious to see what she s got, too. back stage was a flurry of blowers, brushes, and blackberries. i was fitting right in. and then, there she was. the biggest super model of them all, carolina and she was talking to me. what are we doing to savannah s hair? are we giving her like purple hair? are we changing her hair color? cutting off? i think we re cutting it off, right? no, no. i don t think modeling is going to be for me. well, don t worry. i ll take the job. wow. now i have a super model gunning for my job. i better get with the program quick. luckily, i had not one, not two, but three stylists working on me. hi, savannah. hi. nice to meet you. so nice to meet you. including frederick, king of runway hair. don t forget, hair is an accessory and this is your most powerful accessory. it s all yours. so we were runway ready. now i had to do something about my walk. luckily, she wasn t going to let me down. can you show me that super model walk? that s the one. yes. can i smile? no. i wouldn t smile. not too much expression. serious, but not too mean. not mean. too tough. or happy. happy but sad. happy but sad? no. no sad. graceful? graceful. okay. so i was ready to strut with my serious but not tough, happy but sad, graceful walk. you re laughing. i know. i know you ll do well. make me proud. i hope so. reporter: so first, last-minute preps for me and my fellow models. it s show time. this is my big chance to be a model. walking the runway show. so time to go. and here it was. my big debut. where is everyone? are you kidding? you didn t think they would let me walk in the actual show? it was fun but for me modeling will probably always be just a spectator sport. what? i thought you were going to do the whole thing. oh, please. i m disappointed. don t worry. good news. i have already booked my first official modeling gig. you did? i don t want to brag but apparently i m getting some totally rave reviews. wow! frog fancy magazine. we all know i love frogs. and for carl, i brought you a present. what? my hair extension. ah! this is the actual extension? what is the name? i don t know. sheila. it s been on my kitchen counter for days. my gosh. it s quite tangled now. it s so blonde next to you. i know. wow. they re not really into the natural look. you know? so anyway you did say the dresses are amazing. gorgeous. the dresses are pieces of art. it was absolutely beautiful and to see what the models do, i mean i think some people think oh, modeling, you just are pretty and skinny and they are pretty and skinny but they have a lot that they put into it and they re part of the show. it s really cool. let me see your blue steel again. let s see td the blue steel. no smiling. not too happy. not too sad. graceful but clumsy. okay. keep it alive. keep it alive, natalie. keep the look going. very nice. coming up the healthiest snacks to throw in your child s lunch box after these messages. 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we ll see how they compare. then, prefab. it s the beatles like you ve never seen them before in rare and candid photographs that are now up for auction. it should be interesting. and it is tv s biggest night. we re talking about sunday s emmy awards from what the stars will wear to who has the best chance of winning. we ll have a full preview. all that and so much more when we see you this weekend on today. how s that for a tease? good. nothing else this weekend but watching the new show. thank you. coming up still first we ll check the weather with maria larosa outside. good morning, guys. i ll sell the weekend forecast. of the weather with maria. i will sell the weekend forecast, it will be lovely in the northeast and also the great lakes, and we will hang on as the high pressure continues to build on sunday. and then you see the clouds that will be stretching from the mid-atlantic up into the midwest, and a slight risk of severe weather in the plains. and then the midsection still pretty unsettled. warm weather across the gulf coast and in parts of the southwest. that s a look at weather across the country, and here s a look at what you can expect. a fresh and cool morning. bright sunlight is streaming through the trees, and temperatures are in the mid-50s now throughout most of the region, after we started out in the low 40s a couple hours ago. later today we will hit the 60s and have clouds in and out and a mostly cloudy evening coming up, and we will be in the 50s in the evening and then in the 40s tomorrow morning. great weather for the high school and college games tonight and tomorrow, as well as f it is football night in america and we are keeping a close eye on this next great matchup as we head to hotlanta the eagles taking on the falcons and michael vick coming back to where it all began. the weather, georgia dome climate controlled, but outside for the tailgating mostly cloudy skies, temperatures 65 to 69 degrees. should be a great matchup from what i m hearing. we have super bowl competitors taking to the field. back inside to you. thank you so much. go eagles. coming up next, the best snacks to pack in your child s lunch box right after this. 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today nutritionist joy bauer is here with some items that have been taste tested and family approved. good morning. good morning. you are always on the hunt for good products that taste good and are healthy as well. exactly. what is the criteria you use? it is harsh. all of these items use wholesome ingredients. there s absolutely nothing artificial in the mix. they re low in artery clogging saturated fat. they have reasonable amounts of sugar and sodium depending upon what the product is but most important, natalie, these are kid tested. and mother approved. and approved, yes. and nutritionist approved. let s talk about first snack chips. all kids love to snack on chips. but they are not all the same. right. so i m featuring three different brands that incorporate really interesting ingredients. things like seeds and all sorts of whole grains. and the kids love them. the first is late july, four zesty flavors. one is dude ranch which is very popular. like that. this is it right here. yes. i insist on testing everything. eat your way through this whole segment. all right. okay. so tostitos is a brand everybody knows. this is specifically the artisan line. it zests the chip with flavorful seasonings that gives a zing without a lot of salt and sold yum. very good. and whole grain then. lots of whole grains. i love these. beanitos. the beans jack up the protein and fiber. full disclosure, the kids only liked the barbecue chipolte. and they come in little snack bags for lunch boxes which i love. perfect. next, sodium in these are lower by the way? pretty darned low considering it s a chip, yes. vegetables, fruit pouches? i think it s always hard to think about what you can really pack in a lunch box. right. here are good examples. these are cool and i love the packaging. this is like apple sauce on steroids. they re fruit and vegetable purees. they don t have to be refrigerated. this is revolution foods mashups in a variety of fruit and vegetables. this is go-go squeeze. both of these companies i like a lot. yummy. whatever that flavor was. very good. they re all good. okay. i wanted to be sensitive to the allergy kids. right. this is enjoy life, an allergen-free line, free of dairy and wheat and tree nuts and peanuts and soy. all of the usual suspects. great. these bars have been out a while but they re newly formulated and it has an improved taste. kids seem to like the best the caramel apple, the very berry, and the cocoa loco. this must be the cocoa loco. that s good. chewy. they re totable. good choice. really good. okay. and then over here, this is for this is like the super, super duper snack of all time, right? right. not all kids like hummus but if your kid does, take advantage of it. this is super hummus. they integrate soybeans together with chick peas when they puree, which increases the protein and i love this. it comes in plain and a garlic spinach. parents loved the garlic spinach. sounds delicious. i think if you pack the hummus you need to pack the crackers as well to go with it. gluten free, lentil crackers from the mediterranean snack food company. they have more protein and more fiber and you don t have to be gluten free to love these. they re crunchy, hard, and delicious. seems like more companies are doing that with the legumes. it s great. more nutritious. trisquits i love. simple, wholesome ingredients. low in salt. whole grain. look how cute they are. mini trisquits. greek yogurt has more protein but this is so kid friendly because it has a little pouch with granola you can add in. kids will love that. brings it to the next level. exactly. instead of soda and juice boxes check out lacroix sparkling water. this is the most delicious water, flavored water with no sugar, no artificial sweeteners, that i ve tasted. all right. i didn t quite eat my way through the whole segment. joy bauer, as always, thank you. coming up next, no more tiger blood for charlie sheen. the actor says he has turned over a new leaf. more of our exclusive interview right after this. bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody. would you like 50% more cash? 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[ rob ] i m rob jones, professional race car driver and former fighter pilot. so, you might say i know a thing or two about fast. it takes a lot to keep up with my hectic schedule, but quicken loans has never let me down. they closed my loan fast, their rates and fees were low, and their crew kept me updated through every step of the process. . . . well, who can forget the downward spiral earlier this year of charlie sheen, who until recently was the highest paid actor on television. now sheen is trying to make a comeback not only in his career but as a family man, too. earlier this week he talked about that in an exclusive interview with matt. so how would you describe your emotional state now? it s really a lot calmer. it s a lot mellower. yeah. that was a time when, you know, what happened, i don t really know what happened. it was one of those things where, boy, the planets were either aligned to perfectly or imperfectly, but i just i said some stuff and then it it caught such traction globally and instantly that i couldn t i couldn t really put out the fire, you know, so i had to kind of keep fueling it. all it was was why do you think you could put it out? you were in control of what you were saying and you were the one granting the interviews and appearances. sure, sure. why couldn t you manage to put the brakes on it? because it took on a life of its own and people grabbed on to these catch phrases, these metaphors as it were. and they just ran with it. and it seemed like it caught people at a time when they needed something different to root for, to or to get inside of and feel the energy. you know? it s, again, impossible to explain how something like that can happen. i don t think it can ever happen again. what was it like to be in the middle of it? could you even get your arms around how big it became? did you understand no. how many people were talking about you? no, no. it was like being shot out of a cannon into another cannon. and then just shot out of that one. yeah. it was like one, from one moment to the next. i didn t know what was going to happen. it was pretty exciting. then the whole scary or exciting? both. both. yeah. but, you know, i had that whole thing i don t believe in fear and defeat is not an option and i had to like live by those mottos regardless of how i felt. but, yeah. looking back on it, i mean, i don t think i would trade it, but there s portions of it i might have amend d little bed a. like what would you have done differently? i don t know. the tiger blood, adonis dna, stuff like that. it was so silly and people took it so seriously. all right. i figured i d continue to give the people what they want. i think it was maybe back in february or something you said you were going to get clean. you were turning your house into sober valley lodge, right? we said that as a joke. well, are you sober? yeah, absolutely. when is the last time you had a drink or something more? i don t really keep track of the time. it s been a while. but i don t, because i feel like without getting into my whole feelings about aa and all that stuff, i just feel like if you re walking around hanging on to your time that it s only a, you know, a matter of time before it goes. so what is the biggest way your life has changed on a daily basis? my children, seeing my kids a lot more. mending fences with denise and brooke. just trying to move forward and prioritize what matters. you know, just really get back in touch with just more, with more reality and more it s what i call the moments inside the moments. i think that s where the life is. you know, it s in those quiet moments. it s not the giant tv deal or the big party or the award or whatever. it s the memory of your child s smile at the end of the day that sort of brings that one lonesome tear. you know that tear, right, matt? i ve had those tears. i ve had more than one lonesome one. it s those moments that matter. matt s interview with charlie sheen earlier this week. coming up next, a special treat for seafood lovers. crab puffs three ways. but first, this is today on nbc. this morning in today s kitchen step by step we re feeling crabby. crab puffs three ways. speak for yourself. not crabby. the chef and co-owner within the wild adventure company in alaska, kirsten, good morning. great to be here. good to have you here. your family is in san francisco but you all moved out to alaska. what brought you there? i ve been in alaska for a very long time. yes. i brought you a souvenir. oh. and this is, how much does this thing weigh? about a ten-pound crab. my goodness. that s alaskan king crab. that s right. i imagine that s on your menu a lot. yes. i own with my family three wilderness lodges and also a cooking school and we re going to do a recipe today that our guests love. okay. we re doing crab puffs three ways. yes. this is the hardest part. this is a little intimidating for people. any tips? you usually don t see this in a grocery store but you ll see this. the easiest thing to do is take a pair of scissors and cut up through the softer part of the shell and just pop it open. they re already cooked or steamed? yes. usually already cooked. so then air getting it nice and do you make it in little pieces? let s talk about our recipe. we re going to deep fry a dough. this is a really fun dough. we can prepare it a couple different ways. we ve got butter in there. in here is chicken stock and butter. we ll add in some flour and a little nut meg and stir that up. you want to stir it up for me? sure thing. we actually cook this dough for a couple minutes. we don t have time to cook it completely what s going on over here? this is some hot oil. we ll actually take our dough when it s done. in our dough we add in one egg and at a time. we add four eggs. so the dough is already done and in this particular version we re going to add in some of our alaska king crab. okay. we ll add in a little cheese. we have a minute left. let s make sure we get to all of our recipes. this is the finished product. adding in some cheese. chives. and then we ll just take this dough and drop it into our oil. that s what it looks like. how long do we keep it there? a couple minutes. okay. let me show you. sorry to rush you along. that s okay. live tv. this is the same exact dough baked. take a bite. it looks delicious. this is a gouge, a french term. delicious. we re serving it with salad. a little fall salad. and also the dumplings, right? yes. we made a beautiful dumpling. then we made a dumpling from the same dough. delicious. the dough can work in so many different ways. a lot of different applications. kirsten dixon, thanks so much. good to have you here. thank yo good morning, everybody. i am barbara harrison. it s friday, september 16th. we will go straight to our meteorologist, tom kierein, to look at the fall forecast. nice and chilly this morning, tom. yeah, the air fresh and cool, and we were around the mid-40s around dawn, but since then we warmed up. the temperatures are now in the 50s throughout most of the region. reagan national at 57. later today in the 60s, and we will have clouds in and out and we have them rolling in from the west. mostly cloudy tonight. 50s through the evening. upper 40s by dawn on saturday, and saturday and sunday, both days partly cloudy and sunny, and then next week we should be warming up a bit, and also increasing clouds. looks like a front coming through on late tuesday and drifting through on wednesday, and thursday might have some showers, and then highs in the upper 70s and the morning lows in the low to mid-60s. a great weekend coming up for outdoor recreation and for all the high school and college games and the skins game on sunday. we had a rough commute this morning but the roads cleared. here is a live look right now, 66. no problems on 66 in either direction. and the beltway in virginia, the inner loop and outer loop clear, and same story in maryland. looking so much better. here is the view at river road. barbara, back to you. [ 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. captions paid for by nbc-universal television nice landing. it was. hi, everybody. it is try day friday. i m going to try to get my carcass on another flight out to seattle, washington. you have been back and forth every weekend. please, if i have offended you in any way which is likely. it s jet lag. yes. how are you doing? i m doing great. anyone who is traveling this weekend, this story is going to apply to them. you know those tiny shampoo and conditioner bottles. that people steal. people steal those. some hotels are saying they are not green. they want to make a big vat thing so you can pump out your shampoo, your conditioner and your body lotion. that s grossing out other people. i guess. i do look at the seal, the little bottles, did someone open this one? the mouth wash, i always look at the seal. but the shampoo and conditioner, i usually bring my own anyway. it s hard to travel with all these liquids and things. you go to a spa or something and you get in the shower after a spa. they usually have the big things everybody uses. you feel like they re clean at a spa. you don t know who stayed in that room before you did. in a public bathroom you use pump soap. i don t know. i think we are so spoiled having those little things all these years. i guess so. say good-bye. this is a big one. it happened to a lot of us. breaking up is hard to do. breaking up with your hairdresser. is impossible. almost. you know when you re with someone so long and they re out sick and someone else does your hair and it looks so good and you re like, oh, my god. why can t i go to this person, but you feel terrible. they re in the same salon and they re due back from the turks and caicos tomorrow. what are you going to do? phil gelanos who has helped us out. nice guy. he had someone just in that exact same situation. she wrote in. what was his advice? let s go to his advice. his response is, long-term relationships with our most personal service providers can become extremely loaded. brazilians. we are paying for those services, would they still cut your hair if you stopped bringing your wallet. let me tell what you happened to me. this is bad. i went to get a bikini wax. i hate going so i go to the same person every single time. there is a very aggressive person who does it. you re clean as a whistle for a year or two. stop saying that. la-la-la. so it s worth it. she wasn t there. i went to another person who was much better to me. and not so aggressive and painful. i call back and go is so and so there. i hung up, walk in the salon and there is the aggressive one. i was like, she is like, hello. i walked right and i felt bad, but we didn t have that long of a relationship there. maybe a few months, but i felt terrible. i felt guilty. i walked out with my head down. the walk of shame. i felt bad. now is it okay? no. it s only been twice. now she knows. i think you need to find a new place. jay sisters is supposed to be fantastic on 57th street. not that i know, but i have friends. really? amazing. it s such a painful thing. i don t like it. don t do it. women went through millenia without doing that. people still ended up having babies all the time. somebody found them attractive. who decided to undo what nature does? whose great idea was that? i think somebody that owns a salon. okay. all right. any who. we ve been really excited about our contest. that kept me going, these cute babies. it makes our day. we get to show the cutest babies from a newborn to 2-year-old. it s a contest we are having. we are going to pick a winner. look at bailey. they are precious. oh, oh, oh no. they have double chance. look at madeline. come on. have you ever seen this many cute babies? roll them forever. oh, no. look at jackson. logan. oh, stop it, stop it. that s a dot-com mogul. tyler. looks like keanu reeves. keep entering our contest. let s keep this going on forever. we go from cute to not so cute. we should have thought this through apparently. we are out the other night at this event for sherri hill and her beautiful clothing. donald trump was there. he was having some big con-fab with senator rick perry. he called me yesterday after the show. you never know with donald. he goes your daughter. he went on and on how gorgeous my daughter is. then he says, she looks exactly like frank. she does look great. we love her in this. yes. thank you. hoda and i were there. of course there are lots of video cameras around and everything. people interviewing us. apparently, you gave a spanx. we both showed our spanx. i don t think any harm was done. no text tiles were hurt. everyone has them. a lot of people are wearing them. you have them on right now. it s not just spanx, lots of other companies make those, as well. they seem to be the generic term. like band-aid. right. it is san genero festival time. patron saint of naples, italy. to kick off ours in new york, we ve got canolis here. master chef, come on out. set the party up. we have two locations in staten island, new york. canolis are awesome. would you like a demo? no. we re on our own. is there a timer? what s happening. don t think about going. 30. who is going to fill the most canoli in 30 minutes. you started. i know. someone has to. san gennaro festival we have a canoli-eating contest. here we have the canoli-filling contest. aye, aye, aye. he doesn t like it. i m trying to get them filled. the demo would have helped. we don t have time for demos. who won? oh, hoda. nobody would eat them after that. i think both of you did an excellent job. excellent job. how can you call this excellent? i m not finished. you lost your time. you have some empty ones there. i was trying to do it properly. mine are good, he likes them and they re finished. are you ready for my friday funny? have a little bite. congratulations. if the chef thinks this is funny. get ready. man said to his wife one day, i don t know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. the wife responded, allow me to explain. god made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me. god made me stupid so i would be attracted to you. that s a good one. thank you, chef. thank you so everyone for joining us. you know what it s time for? bobbie s buzz! we had fun the other night, didn t we? that is so good. cassidy was a rock star. thank you for coming, bobbie. speaking of fashion week, not only are there new collections, but there are new products popping up. remington has this cool new iron that if you re like me and you have a flat iron, three different size curling irons, you move this lever that moves the side, pops out and what happens is you have a bigger size curl or you can slide it in for a small curl. $30. if you need a pick-me-up to keep you going, lots of people were popping these sheets, energy strips. they are vitamin b and 100 milligrams of caffeine. a cup of coffee that dissolves on your tongue. last but not least. i was excited to see a glambulance on hand. she has these fantastic designer band-aids so you can get those for 5 bucks online if you want cute designs from cynthia rowley. you have way too much time. let s talk about your skirt which is adorable. it s a pleather. it s great. it s not as bulky. love it. and spanx is coming out with a new, they have it right now, new shorts that flattens your tummy but has booty pops in it. jerry liky. exactly. there is a whole lot more going on in jerry s life than any of us have an idea. one day we are going to interview you. thank you, jerry. thank you, bobbie. we love you. who will win and what will they be wearing? 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definitely. sometimes she ll go bold and vibrant like she did with versace last year. then she ll go conservative. what about leah michelle? she can be sweet, sexy, a little bit of everything. i like that when they mix it up. no one wants to see you in the same thing every time. depends how you feel that night. yeah. it s a mood thing. there are three ladies you think will hit the fashion bull s-eye. sophia vagara. doesn t everything look great on that body? she pays so much attention to fit. everything looks so fabulous and wonderful and so curve-hugging. we did a no make-up show and she came on in full make-up. she said i came out of the womb in full make-up. i was born with full make-up. vavavroom. it s always there. kate winslet. joan collins didn t think so recently. could it have been the polka dots? she didn t like her style. don t mess with joan. and julianna margolis. she is great. let s talk about some of your predictions, miss fancy. best actor in a drama. your pick in this group is john hamm. it s his year. i don t know if you paid attention to mad men last season, his character was so intense. don draper brought it to us this year. the gentleman that has been winning it every year is no longer elible. he s not a contender. breaking bad. that is right. a lot of these shows i don t see because they are on cable. and we are up so early we are going to bed. you ve got to catch up. best actress in a drama. i love kathie baits. kathie bates, connie briton. mireille enos. mariska. jewel anna margulies. that show is so critically acclaimed. she s going to get it this year. good. best actor in comedy? we ve got alec, steve carell, louie c.k. a show called louie that hardly anyone has seen but louie s mother. you say steve carell. he s gone and he was fantastic. alec baldwin with though. he s gotten them already. your attitude. we love alec, but steve. share the wealth. best actress in a comedy. tina fey, edie falco, laura linney. you say laura linney. tell us why. in the big c. laura has won three emmys. she brings it. she is fantastic. she has a lot of fantastic things. she is on. looking forward to it. we ll see you monday morning, missy, and see about your attitude then. have a great weekend. up next, a health plan good enough for you to reach realistic goals easily. do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that s not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce your risk of stroke caused by a clot? you should know about pradaxa. an important study showed that pradaxa 150mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there s no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don t take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you re 75 or older, have kidney problems or a bleeding condition, like stomach ulcers. or if you take aspirin products, nsaids, or blood thinners. tell your doctor about all medicines you take, any planned medical or dental procedures, and don t stop taking pradaxa without your doctors approval, as stopping may increase your stroke risk. other side effects include indigestion,stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem, ask your doctor if pradaxa can reduce your risk of a stroke. for more information or help paying for pradaxa, visit pradaxa.com. we all have busy lives that can make sticking to a strict diet or rigorous exercise routine difficult for us. this is redbook s good enough for you program. we just got honest with ourselves. it s too hard. who has the willpower? let s find out what your body needs to keep humming along at a minimum. and life is too short not to enjoy it along the way. if you like the sweets, you don t have to completely eliminate them. a lot of people feel like you have to. no. if you have a generally healthy diet, you can get 10% of your daily calories from sugar. you can have half a cupcake at the office. that would be it for the day. you can have half of a slightly bigger cupcake. that s all the cupcake we could afford? i thought that was the size we were supposed to have. maybe a little of that on your bagel in the morning. or spread it out around the day. maybe sugar in your coffee, some kisses after lunch, flavored yogurt, a little jam. we want eight hours, but realistically we can t get that. that s not happening for most people. actually, we learned most people don t really need eight hours of sleep. anywhere between six to nine is fine for most people. mind your body clock and see how you re doing. if you are hitting the snooze button eight times in the morning, that is a sign you need more sleep. if you need coffee desperately in the afternoon or energy drink, that is a bad sign. otherwise you might be doing as fine on six. what about four? i don t know about four. a lot of people think you have to get all organic to be healthy. but you can pick and choose. you can. it s a fortune to buy all organic. they identified 12 fruits and vegetables that get sprayed with the most pesticides. those are the ones you want to avoid. you ve got domestic apples, peaches, spinach, bell peppers, blueberries, strawberries. i can t eat cherries any more. they were my favorite fruit. now i have one cherry and my mouth is scratchy. that s an allergy. i never have been allergic. they re spraying them with stuff. stop telling her she is wrong. if you just do these organic, you cut down your load of pesticides 80%. would watching a domestic apple do it for you? you ve got to really scrub it. that s why they say go organic to be safe. and for bananas and things with thick skin you don t need to. fast food, people like that. fast food happens to good people. forgive yourself. if you want to stay ahead of the curve and do what s good enough, get a fruit or vegetable with every meal. that s going to stand you in good stead. it s easy to do. order a side salad, do the apple dippers things, have a baked potato. without the sour cream and butter. we have 20 seconds. people think they have to do a big workout. a little bit of activity throughout the day is all you need. 2 1/2 hours of activity, not strict exercise per week. you can fit that in. thank you so much. still ahead, we ll find out how two lucky ladies did after their ambush makeovers. 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? 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[ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. now on back to school today games, gadgets and gizmos for your kids to have a better school year. you always have the best toys, always, always. what are we starting out with? learning is so much fun. especially when you have great toys and great teachers. i have elmo here. he can teach about letters and numbers. look what happens when i put it in. you put k. k. that is fantastic. that is so cute. these are our find and learn blocks. playing school. kids love to play school. we have our school bus which has real flashing lights. is she playing that down there? right. this is great. kids get to set up the classroom, pretend to be the teacher and student. this wall folds up. and they are little pieces so they have to be kids that age. yes. and art. rosa makes great things. this is make it mine kits. the kits can do their own gear. notebooks, pencil cases, but they color it in. i still love that and i m 26. for our artist on the go, we have our smart easel table top. comes with you. it s got crayons and markers, a dry erase board. it s easy, portable and loads of fun. are you having fun? this is amazing. kids want their parents tablets. this is the leap pad. little kids can have their own tablet. it s made for little hands. it s touch screen and there are all these apps. it s battery operated or do you charge it? both. so many great things on here. you can have an art studio, take pictures, videos. there are over 100 apps. everything you can think of in curriculum, music, math, science and e-books to read to the kids. that is great. imagine what we could have become if we had this stuff. so much smarter. unbelievable. this is the tag solar system. we have two of them out. it s a map of the universe. it s two-sided. you can take your tab which is sold separately. point it on anything and it gives you information. you re hearing the burning sun. there are over 40 different activities and games so kids can just explore the whole universe. tyler, you look adorable. nice job. thanks, tyler. these are remote-control machines. these are great for budding engineers. there s ten vehicles. it s step by step instrucks kids can make, put the motors in. everything works. after the instructions, they can make anything they want. isn t that great? yes, yes. that is very cool. you re going to love this. michael, nice job. this is part of a whole line of brain teasers. this is perplex spufes epic. there is a marble. you have to have glasses. you have to be able to see. you want to get through to the end. great for eye/hand coordination. one more thing to make me feel old. stella i see blood on stella. are you bleeding? no. stella is doing mad science. she is learning what s going on behind the scenes at the movies to make blood and bruises. how fun for halloween. she is measuring and mixing and learning about the human body and how it heals. this is our smart globe. you can pick a country. go to this one. egypt. i want to know the currency. egyptian pound. this can tell me everything. it can play the anthem from every country. is it me singing it for america or whitney houston? you can download news and current events and tons of games for kids to challenge them. laurie, you did it. thank you to all your kids. get ready for a real brouhaha. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can stitch together a better deal. that s a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won t let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. now?! 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[ female announcer ] two hour whitestrips from crest. life opens up when you do. unleash the hidden power of bisquick. this is ridiculous. ridiculous. fall is almost here. i know it looks like st. patrick s, your wrong. if you re german that can only mean one thing, oktoberfest, which starts early this weekend. no hats. the traditional beers and dishes they serve here. food&wine editor in chief dana cowan. it is september but it is oktoberfest. explain. it seemed like the weather was better in september, good drinking weather. they moved the holiday up a little bit and it goes for longer. starts september and goes to mid october. they started in 1810 at the marriage of a german princess. we have been partying ever since. she must have been a heck of a princess. the parties include hats and beer. the beer is created specifically for oktoberfest. there are six beers we can drink. we have three here. we have haufbrau. this is a one liter mug. one party trick is to no. they don t drink the whole thing? they have to lift and hold. it s a stein holding contest. what is fun about lifting and holding? you win a prize. that s good, right? i think the prize is worth it. keep drinking. watch somebody else win a nice prize. that is nice beer. this is lighter. often oktoberfest beer is dense. this one the poleiner is toastier. i like the lighter. me, too. the last is spaten. it s caramely and sweet. that is good. kind of guinnessy. sam adams does an amazing job. that is a really good wine i mean beer. this one is citrusy. that s good. orangey, beautiful in color. after you taste enough of them, they are the same. great lakes brewing, this is more the american style. this is bigger. what are you thinking? you re thinking no. we like the original. okay. these beers are all really good with the german food. it s sort of like this is just a roast chicken. it was roasted on a spit, cut in half and given to you by a big german person. there you have it. it s a german chicken. that makes sense. you can serve it with apples. we had that in aspen. that was delicious. in the animal zone here we have the sausage and then more sort of ballgame food, pretzels with mustard and apple streudel. and you got us some cabbage. if you want to have a party, there are games you can play. first of all, you can do the hold the beer stein. that just sounds so much fun. collect the most beer steins possible. they re heavy. the beer maids have to carry ten at once. that s another party game. there is a last party game i need to tell you about and i want you to help me out. it is a dance. oh, no. it is called the chicken dance. are you going to do that with me? do we have any choice? is it in our contract? let s go. sara will do it. hoda more. come on. okay. is that it? good. that s good. we feel so refreshed. thank you. love you. we ll be back with more of today on nbc. is this show over yet? 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. check in with a certain somebody. today we are going to mix it up a little bit because it is a certain somebody s birthday. it s sara haines birthday on sunday. we want to wish you a happy 21st. again! let s bring out the cake. yes, indeedy. thank you. happy birthday to our girl sara. thank you for everything you do. jerry is not waiting for everybody. he s already having the first one. sara, how does it feel to be celebrating another birthday? i m legally able to drink so this is going to work. we ve been on the show three years? yes. 2 1/2. how s the ride been, baby? so far you guys keep it really lively. and i learned how to do this with the best of them. let s make a toast to miss sara, kath. okay! sara, we love you, you add so much to our show. you bring a youthfulness we appreciate once in a while. and we love your spunk, your spirit, your can-do attitude. you ll go everywhere we don t want to go. and do everything we don t want to do. we love you for it and you do it so well. sara is one of the best. you re lit from within. here s to sara, happy birthday, sara. we would sing happy birthday, but we have to pay for it and it s too expensive. we have a great week next week. harry connick jr, morgan freeman. have an awesome weekend. captions by vitac www.vitac.com