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thing he had absolutely no say in. what the prince is now revealing for the first time today, what the prince is now revealing for the first time today, monday, september 26th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this monday morning. i m ann curry. i m lester holt in for matt this morning. i think it is fair to say the name herman cain was not on a lot of people s radar before this weekend not really considered a viable candidate for president. that s absolutely route riig. but saturday he dominated florida s straw poll with 37% of the vote, more than double any other candidate. is his message starting to connect with voters or was it more of a vote against the republican front-runners? we re going to talk about that to mr. cain straight ahead. also ahead, police are now saying that more charges could eventually be brought against steven powell, the father-in-law of a missing utah mother. this after he was arrested late last week following a search of his home tied to his daughter-in-law s disappearance. he s accused of secretly videotaping the missing mom as well as other females, including children. we ll get the latest and talk to susan powell s parents coming up. plus, if you can believe it, there are actually photographs of marilyn monroe that have never before been seen and we have them this morning. these are remarkable photographs of the hollywood icon before she was famous at her very first modeling shoot. but we begin this morning with presidential politics and herman cain s surprising win in florida s republican straw poll. we ve got chuck todd, nbc s political director an chief white house correspondent joining us now. reporter: good morning, ann. from new jersey to washington, to florida, republicans are wringing their hands over rick perry s poor debate performance last week which led to an apparent protest vote against him at this key florida republican straw poll over the weekend. meanwhi meanwhile, the president wakes up on the west coast this morning after a night of fund-raisers which included a q&a with lady gaga. reporter: it s not technically being called a campaign swing, but president obama certainly is acting like a candidate this week on the west coast for seven fund-raisers. i need you to help finish what we started in 2008. reporter: it is also a chance for him to find his campaign voice with his base. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are going to press on. we ve got work to do! reporter: the president s newfound voice comes as republican front-runner rick perry seems to be losing his. over the weekend former pizza company ceo herman cain pulled off a surprise upset in the florida republican straw poll beating perry by 22 points. mitt romney placed right behind perry in florida but handily defeated the republican front-runner by 34 points in sunday s michigan straw poll. a state romney once called home. rick perry. reporter: perry s loss in florida is being blamed on his poor debate showing last week both in substance and style after his impassioned defense of providing children of illegal immigrants tuition breaks at texas state universities. but if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they ve been brought there by no fault of their own, i don t think you have a heart. reporter: conservatives also worry about his seeming inability to effectively attack romney. was before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe versus wade, before he was against roe versus wade. i think rick perry is not prepared for this pressure of the presidential stage yet. perry s got toer form bet person. these are very weak front-runners. reporter: in a sure sign that his debate performance is being noticed, he was even spoofed on saturday night live. was it he was before he was before? was he was he was before border control. reminder to chris christie, it s wide open, buddy. reporter: well, this morning for folks that want to know, new jersey governor chris christie s office again said he still stands by his decision not to enter the race. i can tell you this rick perry plans a series of fund-raisers this week, next week a series of policy speeches and to go a little bit harder at mitt romney to try to calm the waters there. chuck, just who is not giving up on chris christie? who s actively still pushing him to run for president even though he keeps insistin iing he will ? reporter: look. it is a major of bush donors who have gone to him consistently over the last few months. those calls have been coming in even faster over the last couple of weeks. his office will note that. about a month ago they thought it was maybe governor christy s wife concerned with raising teenagers. i m told first lady barbara bush called governor christie s wife to roux re-assure her. they raised teenagers back in the early 80s. she called to re-assure her it is not as hard as you think. but it is not her, it is governor christie that s the no on this. chuck todd, thanks. herman cain is with us this morning fresh off his win from the florida straw poll. mr. cain, good morning. good morning. thank you. you bet. congratulations. you won wig, 37% to perry s 15% and perry was widely expected to win. but the washington post is reporting that many of the delegates voted for you are saying that they voted for you as a protest vote to express no confidence in the republican field. you want to weigh in on this? i think that is absolutely false. i talked to a lot of delegates when i was in florida all last week. it is not a protest vote. look, the message coming out of that victory was quite simple. first of all, the voice of the people is more powerful than the voice of the media. secondly, message is more powerful than money. rick perry and mitt romney, they both spent a considerable amount of money in order to try to influence that florida straw poll. i rented a bus and went all over the state talking to people, sharing my message. that s what made the difference. and we re very proud of that and it is encouraging to us in terms of the fact that the people are listening to the message and not simply, with all due respect, just to the media. well let s talk about, though, this other factor which is how rick perry did in the presidential debates. you shine in these pros dengs debatde presidential debates. how much do you think his performance hurt him? i think it hurt him a lot. not just in terms of what he said but in terms of how he said it. now that i ve been through five debates, i got to tell you, you become you become a little bit better at it. you understand the rules. you understand how you have to respond very quickly, which means that it s more than being able to come in with some prepared sound bites. you can t come into a debate like this with prepared sound bites especially when you have as many candidates. i simply come in prepared on the facts and then i respond based upon my emotions, my feelings and what my true opinions are about some of the issues. i think it definitely was a negative for him in the last debate. you have been expressing a lot of opinions about the economy. you talked earlier about your message. let s talk about that briefly. are you a business plan. besides reducing what you see as a crushing regulatory and tax burden on business, how would you get corporations to suddenly start investing this $2 trillion in cash that they re sitting on to get this economy moving again, getting people jobs again? unlike all of my competitors in this race, they are trying to tinker around the edges by trying to recommend a fix based upon the current tax code. my plan starts with throw out the tax code. it s bold. because this economy is on life support. and then pass my 999 plan. a 9% business plat tax, a 9% personal tax, and a 9% national sales tax. it will replace the payroll tax, corporate and personal income taxes, the capital gains tax and also replace the death tax. business will get excited about it because it will provide certainty. and they won t be penalized for bringing some of those trillions of dollars back home. certainty is what the american business community is looking for. the business community represents the engine of growth. that s why my 999 plan is appealing to so many business people, as well as many workers across america. meantime, you saw earlier in our report the spoofing that snl gave the republican debates. apparently you were spoofed as well. they made fun of you have you no government experience and you used to run a pizza company. did snl help you write your next campaign slogan, sir? you may hear that last line in my next debate performance. i loved that snl spoof. it didn t offend me at all because it basically was a good spoof about, yes, vote for me and i will deliver. i couldn t have come up with a better one myself so i m going to take that one and run with it. all right, herman cain, thank you so much this morning. it is great talking to you. thanks, ann. my pleasure. it is now 7:10. here s lester. now to an important decision in italy by amanda knox. she plans to address the court hearing her murder conviction appeal as that case winds down this week. nbc s keith miller is in perugia with the latest for us. keith, good morning. reporter: reporter: amanda knox is coping, according to her family. but the prosecution s demand that her prison sentence be increased to life, along with six months of solitary confinement has given her a shock. amanda knox has lost weight. she appeared in court this morning looking tired and tense. almost four years behind bars and the strain of the appeal are taking a toll. she looks like she s working really hard to pay attention. she s taking notes a lot. i m really happy for the way she s handling all the really insane things that are being said. reporter: in court this morning, family and friends offered encouragement as civil lawyers got their chance to try to convince the judge and jury knox and her former boyfriend are remorseless killers. acting as prosecutors, lawyers representing the three civil cases being heard simultaneously with the criminal trial are all seeking damages. knox and her former boyfriend were convicted of the murder and violent sexual assault of knox s roommate meredith kercher. the kercher family complained their daughter has been forgotten because of all the attention focused on the defendants. the prosecution took two days to sum up its case, calling the evidence rock-solid. but a former fbi agent here as an independent observer calls the evidence weak, blaming the prosecutor for mishandling the case. he has never investigated this case. he has simply tried to prove his conclusions correct. and they were wrong in the first place and you can t you can t create a zebra by painting stripes on a horse. reporter: the appeal trial is attracting international interest. with almost 400 journalists covering the final stage of the appeal. once hostile to knox, the italian press is now speculating that a faulty investigation has produced a weak case. in court, the prosecutor blamed what he called a media circus for attempting to undercut his case led by armchair detectives. the defense will sum up its case later this week and then amanda knox will apparently address the court, the judge and jury. once again, proclaiming her innocence. lester? keith miller, thanks. savannah guthrie is today s legal correspondent. savannah, good morning. a lot has been made of the dna evidence in the case used to conviction amanda knox. that was taken off the table by independent experts who said it simply candidate there. if you take it off the table, how strong is the circumstantial evidence in the case against knox? the prosecutors call it rock-solid but i think it is hardly that. there s some suspicious behavior perhaps by amanda knox in the way she acted in the interrogation. she of course said she was coerced when she was talking to police in the moments and days after the murder. but the dna was really the crucial evidence in this case. it s what tied amanda knox and her boyfriend to the murder scene and these independent experts have all but eradicated that. assuming the judges believe it, they ve got a thinner case. there s somebody in prison who s already confessed to the murder. exactly. forensics strongly tied him to the case and he acknowledged being at the scene. he s currently serving a 16-year sentence. the prosecution is doubling down here. the appeals process works both way, the prosecution can appeal and they are actually asking for a life sentence now for amanda knox and that she be kept in isolation up to six months. what s that about? as you say, the thing about an appeal in the italian system is that prosecutors get another bite at the apple as well and that s the risk. apparently it is very standard for prosecutors not only to ask for more time but also to ask for an increase in the severity of the type of time. so they re asking for amanda knox to have six months of solitary confinement. by and large though, i think this is one feature of the italian justice system that favors amanda knox. the appeal is not at all what it would be in this country where the only issue is points of law. they can basically retry the case. they have retried the case and i think ultimately she may benefit from that. another big difference is the defendant s right to speak to the court unchallenged. she will take that right. it s called a declaration. she can stand up at any time and speak and apparently is going to do that. there is not as much downside as doing that in american court, right? absolutely. because if a defendant speaks in the american courtroom that defendant is subject to cross examination. sheer she can just make a statement. think her lawyers will probably tell her less is more, the less said the better. she can declare her innocence, perhaps convey condolences to the kercher family for what they ve been through but once again say to the court, look, i had nothing to do with this. savannah guthrie, thanks very much. let s get a check of the rest of the morning s top stories. good morning to natalie morales at the news desk. good morning, everyone. the two american hikers freed from an iranian prison last week are waking up on u.s. soil for the first time in two years. nbc s ron allen has more. reporter: good morning, natalie. now that they re safe on u.s. soil, shane bauer and josh fattal felt comfortable enough to reveal some terrifying details about their terrifying cap titivity in iran. being physically and mentally abused for 781 days. sarah, josh and i have experienced a taste of the iranian regime s brutality. reporter: the freed americans said they d spent almost all of their time in complete isolation, locked in an 8x13 foot cell. we had to go on hunger strike repeatedly just to receive letters from our loved ones. this was never about crossing the unmarked border between iran and iraq. we were held because of our nationality. reporter: and finally set free last week, re-united in nearby oman with sarah shower s but released a year ago. i ve never felt as free as i feel today. reporter: they were freelance journalists and students lifk in syria. fattal, an environmental activist, was visiting when they were captured. solitary confinement was the worst experience of all of our lives. reporter: the men faced eight years for spying. but suddenly last week they were given street clothes, fingerprinted and taken to see a diplomat from oman. the first thing he said when we got to him, he looked at us and he said, let s go home. reporter: and just like that, the nightmare ended. a $1 million bail had been paid to iran. the americans say they have no idea where the money came from. now they re determined to start life all over again and looking forward to seeing shane and sarah finally get married. that will be one happy celebration. thanks so much, ron allen. another deadly attack on a u.s. facility in kabul, afghanistan sunday as u.s. embassy officials say a lone gunman opened fire on cia offices there. one u.s. citizen was killed, another was wounded. the attacker was an afghan who was employed by the u.s. government to work in that building. police are investigating the violent deaths of five people sunday in laurel, indiana, about 50 miles southeast of indianapolis. officers found a man s body inside one home and four more bodies in another home across the street. the victims had apparently been shot to death. gas prices have taking a tumble over the last two weeks, on average dropping 12 cents per gallon. the average price per gallon for regular is now at $3.54 according to the lundberg survey of fuel prices. it was another brave and historic swim for diana nyad as the 62-year-old was forced to abandon her third attempt at a marathon cuba to florida swim without a shark cage. about half-way through the 103-mile trek, doctors warned her that she d had so many sticks from jellyfish-like creatures that more could kill her. the swollen and disappointed nyad called quitting a bitter pill and cursed those damned jellyfish. still she gave us so much and accomplished so mp so congratulations to her for going 67 miles in 40 hours. that s pretty astonishing at 62 years old. wouldn t be surprised if she tries again. yes, i wouldn t be surprised. she doesn t seem to give up. we ll see. natalie, thank you. let s get a check of the weather from mr. al roker looking especially dapper today. well thank you. dapper today. thank you. let s see what s going on. we ve got two big things happening. this upper level low will not move. we were talking about it last week, talking about it a good portion of this week. you can see tropical moisture off the southeastern atlantic coast, anywhere from one to three inches of rain in the upper great lakes. in the pacific northwest a powerful cold front causing a lot of wind and rain. rainfall amounts in some areas three to five inches of rain in coastal pacific northwest areas. that s what s going on around the country. here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. here another gray morning. we have temperatures right near 70 degrees throughout much of the region. it s meteorologist tom kierein. later today we ll be climbing the the upper 70s, near 80s. might have sun breaking out later this morning into the afternoon. late afternoon, early evening, a small chance of an isolated shower rolling through. tomorrow, cloudy, up near 80 again, still humid, a greater chance of a morning shower or and that s your latest weather. ann? al, thanks. it s been a long time coming but over the weekend boeing delivered its first dreamliner. but will the 787 jet really revolutionize the way we fly? cnbc s phil lebeau is at the boeing plant in everett, washington with more. hey, phil, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. this is the dreamliner. it is three years late, billions of dollars over budget but at long last, boeing has turned over the keys to the first customer the japanese airline afa. now the real test to see if the dreamliner changes how we feel about flying. at any given moment nearly a half million people are flying in a boeing plane, and as much as the company hopes they re enjoying the flight, the reality is a lot of people think flying stinks. the airline don t care nothing about you. they care about making money in their pocket. lost my luggage. no one s helping me. reporter: but boeing hopes the dreamliner will make you feel better about flying from the moment you step aboard. first thing i notice is it is wide open. yeah. i hope so. that s what we want you to notice. reporter: the windows are 65% bigger for a better view and they dim at the touch of a button. there are larger overhead bins, and boeing says you ll be more comfortable because the cabin will have nor oxygen, less dry air and be quieter than any comparable plane. at the end of the day, will they truly appreciate all the little nuances of the dreamliner? most people are going to say i really like the windows and they will. and that will be true. but there s going to be a lot more going on besides the windows that you can t even see that we did on this airplane. and you re just going to feel better and you re not going to know why. reporter: not everyone agrees. aviation consultant michael boyd says you won t enjoy the dreamliner if you re crammed into a seat. at the end of the day when you sit on the airplane, after you re boarded and see the pretty blue on the walls and all that, you still have 17 1/2 inches for your rear end to get to tokyo. reporter: the days when flying was glamorous are long gone. a recent survey of customer service in 47 industries showed airlines ranked dead-last. united s ceo has seen the stats and he admits, the dreamliner won t impress you if you get bad service. if you re not getting good customer service, you won t enjoy the flight. if you do get good customer service, you will enjoy the flight. you and i know the difference between good customer service and bad customer service. reporter: by the way, united airlines will be the first airline to flight the dreamliner here in the u.s. it goes into service late spring next year. ann? phil lebeau, thank you so much. i know you ve got much more on the premier of the dreamliner, inside the world s most anticipated airplane tomorrow night at 9:00, 8:00 central on cnbc. the father-in-law of missing utah mom susan powell pleads not guilty after being accused of secretly recording susan and children and police say more charges could be on the way. we re going to talk to susan s parents this morning. but first, this is today on nbc. coming up, prince william on the queen s big demand on wedding day. that s right. and new photos of marilyn monroe after your local news. good morning. it s 7:26. i m joe krebs. let s check in with meteorologist tom kierein to look at our forecast today. testing our patience. another gray morning here. we really could use some sun. it doesn t look like we ll see a lot until the end of the week. under cloud cover, 70 degrees, a little light sprinkle activity in north central maryland near the pennsylvania border. later today, making a little sun breaking out. quite cloudy and a small chance of an afternoon shower. greater chance tomorrow. greater[ female announcer ] this is trish. trish uses aetna s personal health record to track her kids immunizations, get lab results, see her family medical history, and when she s at the doctor s office, she uses it to remember what to ask before she leaves. it helps trish keep everyone in her clan healthy. even on the go. see for yourself, aetna.com. aetna. know more. get better. good morning. seeing a couple of accidents on the beltway. the first one, inner loop of the beltway. the southbound ramp for route 4, you ll see an accident there. then also on the outer loop of the beltway at i-95, we have an accident there on the right shoulder lane. i m seeing big delays outer loop of the beltway as you make your way from 95 and head towards the spur. you re traveling at 25 miles per hour. and then on 66, traveling east at sudley road. 7:30 now on this monday morning, september 26th, 2011. it is a nice start to a new work week here in midtown manhattan. saying hello now to all the people standing outside our window on the world, saying hello to their family and friends at home. meantime, inside studio 1a, i m ann curry, along side a prince in broadcasting, lester holt. that s my way of saying, for matt this morning. that s my way of seg daying into our discussion about prince william this morning. he opens up in a new book about his grandmother, the queen, how she helped plan his royal wedding and on her one demand on the big day. he ll tell us more about that. also coming up, i just find it incredulous there actually are photographs of marilyn monroe that have never before been seen. these are pictures from her very first modeling shoot. we ll show them all to you coming up. apparently was a surprise to her husband at the time, didn t know about it. not happy about it, either. as parents we love our kids to eat well. according to a new survey, either consciously or unconsciously we show a clear bias towards one child. it makes me incredibly uncomfortable but this writer is really a good one and he s done a lot of research. he says this is actually part of our evolution and it is probably a good idea for us to fess up. the question is what does it do to our other kids? we begin this half-hour with new details on the arrest of the father-in-law in the case of a missing utah mom, susan powell. he s now facing serious charges, including child pornography after a raid on his home tied to his daughter-in-law s disappearance. in a moment we ll talk to susan powell s parents. but first, nbc s miguel almaguer is in tacoma, washington with the latest. reporter: good morning. steven powell spent the weekend in jail unable to make bail. detectives say they ve just begun their investigation and say more charges could follow. in his first court appearance, steven powell pled not guilty to 14 counts of voyeurism and possession of child pornography. behind bars on $200,000 bails, the father-in-law of susan powell is accused of secretly videotaping the missing mother & and an unknown number of other females, including two sisters from his neighborhood just 8 and 10 years old. police say some of the unsuspecting victims including the children were nude. we don t know how many victims there are because we ve only looked at 5% to 10% of the photographs and videos. what s most disturbing to us is the weird creepy factor with this is already high. reporter: police raided powell s home last month. detectives then saying only the search warrant was connected to susan s disappearance. police now say they ve recovered over 1,000 images, some ten years of secret videotapes and pictures. the raid conducted the same day steven powell told nbc news his daughter-in-law had likely run off with another man and often flirted with him. susan and i it just happened. i don t know i think it was more her than me at the beginning but as it progressed, it was both of us. reporter: susan s family has always denied steven powell s allegations, calling them victim blaming. clearly, blatantly, attempt to assassinate my daughter s character. reporter: police say the arrest is not connected to susan s disappearance but susan s sister says steven powell may know something more. just knowing that what he s capable of, i thought i heard it all, seen it all from that family. reporter: susan s husband, josh powell, told police his wife disappeared nearly two years ago after he had taken their young boys camping overnight in a snowstorm in the utah desert. shortly after susan vanished, police named josh a person of interest. but he s always denied any involvement in her disappearance. i could never hurt susan or my sons. reporter: shortly after susan vanished, josh and his children moved back home here to washington state with steven powell. but after steven s arrest, the boys were removed from the home and placed in protective custody. i want them to be with a stable family where they can learn good values and grow up normally. reporter: susan s family is now ready for a custody hearing set for wednesday. a legal battle playing out in the same courthouse where steven powell s been charged with multiple felonies and faces five years in prison. since the arrest, the powell family has denied all of our interview requests and late last week they suffered another setback in court a judge said they could not publish susan s private journals. ann? miguel almaguer, thank you so much. chuck and judy cox are susan powell s parents. good morning to both of you. good morning. morning. possession of child pornography, voyeurism. chuck, let me start with you. what s your reaction to hearing these kinds of charges against your daughter, susan s, father-in-law? very disturbing. i had no idea that this was going on. do you think, given that the police are now treating his case as a separate case you know, i guess i m asking what is your thinking about this? are you more concerned that steven powell could have been involved in your daughter s disappearance? judy, want to weigh in on that? i feel, being his father, i think it is very possible that he knows something. but that s the investigation with the police. chuck, you want to add to that? well, it increases my concern but we let the police do their police work. we are very comfortable that they investigated all aspects of our daughter s disappearance and they re continuing to work hard on it. have they asked you about what susan may have told you regarding steven powell s behavior toward her, whether she reported any instance in which she caught him videotaping her? we discussed all aspects with the police and we have told them that she was uncomfortable with steven. you know, i am just trying to get a sense about how you two are wrapping your minds around all the sort of facts of this case. i mean would you say that you are shock by these charges against steven powell? oh, definitely. definitely shocked by the charges. we had no idea that there would be this that this type of situation was going on. does it change the way you look at josh, judy? it s hard to look at possibly even the whole family. we just are amazed of and shocked and outraged at steven powell. i know that at the end of miguel almaguer s report we heard that your grandsons have been removed now from the home. have you been able to see these children, your grandchildren? do you know that they re okay? we haven t been able to see them. we heard they were in protective custody and we re glad that they re being taken care of. so what is your best hope now as you wait for word about your still-missing daughter, still missing after two years, and your two grandsons now in someone else s care? judy, what is your best hope now? well, we re very pleased that the children are staf aafe and f the home. we still want to focus on finding our daughter and we feel with all the energy and actions that have been going on with the police that they are doing their job and i think they re doing an excellent job. we hope they re getting close to resolution. they re going to arrest the persons responsible and we re going to find out where our daughter is. well, that s what we all wish you the best on that, chuck and judy cox, thank you so much this morning for joining us. our best to you. thank you. thank you. now let s get a check of the weather from al. ann, thanks so much. even though we are now just about a couple of days from the first day of october, it feels more like august outside int fe more like august outside in some places. in the rockies, temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above normal. 87 in denver, 81 in rapid city. in the northeast, temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below normal. 80 in burlington, vermont. rest of the country, looking at rain moving into the pacific northwest, showers along the southeastern atlantic coast. wrap-around showers and thunderstorms around the upper level low in up thor great lakes and the heat continues in the southwest. that s what s going on around the country. here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. gray timber continues on this monday morning. yes, another morning with low gray clouds and temperatures around 70 degrees. it s rather humid. a few sprinkles near the pennsylvania border on the north central maryland border. we have likely temperatures climbing into the upper 70s later today. might have a little sun breaking out later this morning winterly afternoon. small chance of an afternoon or don t forget, can you keep track of your weather 24 hours a day, go to weather channel on cable or weather.com online. al, thanks. coming up, just ahead marilyn monroe like you ve never seen her before. the photos just now coming to light from her very first modeling shoot. but also coming up next, prince william opens up in a new interview about his grandmother, the queen, and her role in planning the royal wedding. coming up after this. 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[ male announcer ] amtrak guest rewards members, earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com. good morning. traveling the outer loop of the beltway in maryland at university boulevard, only the left lane gets you by the accident there. you are jammed starting at new hampshire avenue. delays continue as you pass this accident at university boulevard. back to you, joe. that s rough. thanks very much. 8:00 now on a monday morning! it is the 26th day of september, 2011. as you can see, we ve turned rockefeller plaza into learning plaza for nbc s second education nation summit. once again we are gathering policymakers, educators and parents to focus on the importance of education in america and how we might improve it. meantime, i m ann curry, alongside lester holt and al roker. matt s got morning off. it is an important topic we re all playing a role in this today. it is. unfortunately the state of our education is not good. more than 55 million kids in k through 12th. we re putting education front and center all week long on the platforms of nbc news. what are the biggest problems, where are the solutions coming from? we ll examine the role of teachers, the importance of early childhood education and so much more. tomorrow on today, former first lady laura bush will be here. of course an educator herself. don t forget, all week long we re going to be showing you how you can take part in helping supply our schools that need supplies part of education nation. that s right. we re streaming a lot of this programming that we re doing today and over the next couple days live on our website. pay attention to that. hopefully we ll come up with something in fact, i m talking with lebron james today about his efforts supporting his hometown schools. we ll talk about something else this morning that is, do you play favorites when it comes to your kids? a new survey will raise a lot of eyebrows that asks a lot of parents what do you think. a lot of parents say they actually do play favorites and so the question has been raised by one author, are we actually programmed by biologically to favor one child over another? and if so, why? boy, that s going to be tough stuff. already plenty of conversations around here today. touchy subject. also remarkable photos of marilyn monroe seen for the first time. we ll take a look at images from her first ever professional photo shoot that are now going up for auction. and a little bit later on, giada didelaurentiis will be here. she ll show you house to make a sauce that s why she s crowned the sauce boss! looks like we re going to eat. but first let s get a check of the morning s top stories from natalie at the news desk. good morning, everyone. president obama pitches his $450 billion jobs bill today at a town hall meeting in california s silicon valley. at a fund-raiser sunday, he criticized republicans for having what he called an approach to government that will cripple america. meantime, republican front-runner rick perry lost a florida straw poll saturday to underdog herman cain, a former pizza company executive. and there are fresh calls for new jersey governor chris christie to enter the republican race. american college student amanda knox was back in an italian courtroom today where the appeal of her murder conviction is wrapping up. in their closing arguments, prosecutors dismiss new doubts about dna evidence used to tie knox to the stabbing death of her roommate. knox is expected to address the court later this week. a decision on the appeal could come as early as next month. the new york city police department now has the ability to shoot down a plane if necessary. that revelation sunday from police commissioner ray kelly in an interview on 60 minutes, kelly said after the 9/11 attacks new york decided it could not rely on the federal government alone for its security. new hope today in the fight against breast cancer. researchers in california found that by delivering a combination of drugs through a special antibody, patients lived on average five months longer and had fewer side effects than those given the two drugs an they are currently administered. now here s brian williams with a look at what s coming up tonight on nbc nightly news. good morning. obviously education nation up and running. tonight on our broadcast, the parents taking control of failing schools, firing teachers, firing administrators. it is kind of a parent revolution going on out there. so our education nation report when we see you tonight. for now, natalie, back to you. now for a look at what s trending today, our quick roundup of what has you talking online lady gaga dedicated a song this weekend to a teenage fan who committed suicide last week after being bullied over his sexuality. gaga also met president obama at a facebook fund-raiser last night but it is not clear if she got to talk with him about her crusade to make bullying a federal hate crime. britain s prince william may be a royal air force helicopter pilot but watch out on the road. a royal photographer revealed sunday that william forgot to release the parking brake when he drove his father s beloved s stin martin convertible on his wedding day. that will do some damage to the brakes. hot in cleveland star betty white is on fire with a new track called i m still hot. take a listen. guess what i m still hot i will get you sweaty because i m betty yes, she is still hot at 90 years old. hot and wonderful, as always. 8:05 right now. let s go back to al with a check of the weather. announcer: today s weather from education nation s money plaza is brought to you by microsoft who believes every student has the right to a quality education and that technology can help. we re here at the nbc news education nation experience. a lot to do here. all sorts of videos, interactive quizzes. you can even record a video with a message to share with folks on twitter, e-mail or facebook. in fact it is all very interactive. here s a quiz to find out what kind of learner you are. nothing like i think i m a pretty good listener. you often hum or sing outloud. do i that as well. i ll read anything that s in front of a newspaper, to a cereal box. i certainly do that. and i feel refreshed when i have time alone which i rarely get but, yes. excited about financial goals not so much. you tend to talk with your harn hands i m doing that right now. and you can easily express what you re thinking. this will give you an idea of what your kind of learning is. i m going to keep taking this. let s show you what s going on as far as your weather is concerned. our pick city of the day happens to be temple, d. our pick city of the day happens to be temple, texas, sunny and hot, 97 degrees, nbc 6. early week periods looking at above normal east coast, rain in the pacific northwest. above normal temperatures out west. as we get to the midwest it s going to be really wet in the northeast with above-normal temperatures. it s also going to be warm out west. in the latter part of the week, cools down a little bit on the wet side. wet snowshowers around the great lakes, above normal temperatures out west. that s what s going on around the country. here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. mild and muggy on this monday morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. right now temperatures near 70 in washington and the nearby suburbs cooler farther west. later today we may have sun breaking out later this morning into early afternoon. otherwise a lot of cloudiness, a small chance of an isolated shower u mainly this afternoon and this evening. greater chance of rain tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon. small chance on wednesday and thursday. and that s your latest weather. i m still working on this quiz, lester. good luck with it. al thanks very much. up next do you favor one of your kids over the other? moms and dads come clean in a revealing new study. plus, never-before-seen photos of marilyn monroe s first professional photo shoot. after this. ahh, one. two. three. one. two. and, three. 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[ male announcer ] join the members of aarp and tell washington to stop cuts to our medicare and social security benefits. back now at 8:10, this morning on today s family, the favorite child. parents will tell you they love each child the same but a growing body of study shows this may not be true or natural. mom always liked you best. oh, she did not. reporter: sibling rivalry goes back as far as cain and abell. the favorite child and power play that follows can shape your personalities and define family dynamics. well who s your best friend? i have two. hank has been my closest friend since my first year at ibm. then there s robby. reporter: time magazine reports on this question in this week s cover story. its take parents favor one child over another more often than they admit. you tend to have one that you tend to get along better with, let s just put it that way. reporter: a recent study from the university of california davis found 65% of mothers and 70% of fathers have a preferred son or daughter. the winner is most often the older sibling. research shows first borns are statistically taller, stronger and may have slightly higher iqs. i think your first child is always very special. reporter: favoritism plays out in the wild as well. the crested penguin mother is known to kick the smaller of her two eggs out of of the nest. of course, some experts believe there is no science to favoritism. i don t agree that biologically we are programmed to like one kid more than the other. reporter: and the survival of the fittest doesn t explain why the youngest is sometimes the star. beaver, do you think for one moment that i d make you do anything that would make you unhappy? reporter: one situation remains universal when a certain child is the apple of a parent s eye this is so unfair. reporter: the relationship between siblings almost always grows sour. you broke my heart. you broke my heart. reporter: jeffrey kluger wrote the time magazine article as well as the book the sibling effect. and also joining us this morning, psychiatrist gail saltz, a today contributor. i know you re going to get some push-back on this. it does seem as though there is a lot of new kind of there s a new awakening. more and more parents are at least saying in these studies they re willing to admit to this. they re willing to admit to it and also kids are willing to come forward and acknowledge candidly without too much pain that, yes, it s always been a given in our family that even if it is an unspoken given, it s always been a given that favoritism exists. why do you think it exists? you ve looked at all of this research. what is the reason behind this if in fact it is true? i mean keep in mind, the whole idea of reproduction is a genetically narcissistic act. the whole goal is to get our genes into the next generation and then for that generation to get their genes into the following generation. given that we are hard-wired to tilt in favor of our biggest, strongest, most charismatic child, this child being the one who is the likeliest to get to the next generation. one of the reasons it often becomes the oldest who s the preferred one is an idea corporations understand it is called sunk costs. by the time a child is 2 and the second born comes along, parents have invested two years of time, energy, calorie, love, all matter of resources into this product that s further down the assembly line so we stay invested in it. you say this is not just when a child we don t make this judgment based on sort of the stages our children are going through. for example the terrible 2s, but really you re saying this is a constant preference and but what do you say to people right now listening going heck no, that s not true, i love them both the same. there is this constant insistence that we ve also been sort of i think it is learned behavior. we ve all learned that we have to continue to insist on it. there s a lot that goes on. one of the things, in fairness remember, social science isn t physics, it is no the chemistry so there are never any hard, hard empirical answers. there are degrees of favoritism up to shameless and fragrant. we are genetically driven but it is important to remember that even if there is a broad idea of favoritism in one family, you still favor one child in one domain over another. the dad when he s trying to have a simple conversation so he turns to his daughter for that. do you agree with it sh. biology isn t necessarily destiny. so you can change these things. even if there is some drive, it doesn t happen to everybody and it can be very psychologically motivated which means it can be changed. being aware if you have certain feelings, which may be driven by unconscious things that have to do with your family of origin or other issues that come into play. you can change that if you re very aware. you certainly at least can affect your behavior. your behavior should be that you spend special time with each child, that you work to make sure that you are being fair and even in a sense which might mean that you pay attention to certain strengths in certain others, and their weaknesses. because even a favored child can really suffer from being favored, can feel guilty and cannot have their weaknesses attended to and can be given the idea they re so fantastic and then they get out in the world and actually they have problems. so it is not great shakes to be necessarily favored or unfavored which means as parent you really have to attend to both of those issues which you can only do if you re aware of your own feelings. which is the first thing, we re trying to hear about in jeffrey s work. thanks so much. and now here s lester. ann, thanks. before she became one of the greatest sex symbols of the 20th century, marilyn monroe was known as norma jean dougherty, a young bride who became a model. now heifer-before-seen images from her first ever professional photo shoot are hitting the auction block. martin nolan, executive director of julian s auctions, is here this morning. some of these may have appeared in magazines back in the 1940s but largely they are unseen. why? the photographer kept the archives intact. what we re selling here is the photographs, negatives and copyright. he was the guardian of the copyright. finally it is in bankruptcy court which have now released these images and we can sell them in our auction in december. negatives and copyrights. these are potentially a big investment for someone. this is huge here. you get the rights to the pictures. you can do what you like with the rights. help me understand the period of her life. we know she had a tormented life on many levels, a mother who was mentally unstable, a foster child at one point, as an adult, three marriages, drugs, at what point in her life was this all happening. at age 16 she was married to jim dougherty. it was the choice of another foster home or marriage. three weeks after her 16th birthday she married jim dougherty who was a merchant marine he was in the army really and he was off at war. she was a war bride working in a munitions factory. he had no idea she was doing these photos. no. and she went to this model agency and they took photographs of her. she appeared in a magazine. his buddy was reading the magazine and he saw the photograph of his wife. i understand this tripod, the telescope of that photo is going to be auctioned separately. that has some value as well. absolutely. and the camera she s holding there. we re also selling that in. it looks like in one of these shots she has six toes in one of the photos. did this start the rumor this was the start of the rumor that marilyn had six toes, which of course she had not. it is the illusion of the camera, the way it was taken at that time with the light on the sand. so no, marilyn did not have six toes. you are also auctioning off a contract that she signed stating shoe was over 21. she was not. she was not. in march of 1946 she was 19 years of age. she wouldn t have been 21 until two years later. ky show your favorite one here? i think one that you the favorite one that i like is the one of her in the plaid shirt. she s so natural, she s radiant, she s vibrant and looks like someone who has a really bright future. this is a huge investment. you get the negatives and copyright. what will the opening bids be? our guide price is probably in the region of $2,000 to $4,000. each photograph will be sold individually, then it comes with the negative and the copyright. of course this is huge interest because this is the first time this has ever come to the market. something with a photograph negative and copyright. corporations are going to be looking at this. this is amazing. great stuff. martin nolan, thanks for sharing these great photos with us. frl up next, award winning pasta sauce at home after this. hi, mom. how was school today? 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i do not cover it. then i add two bay leafs. big secret. there s no garlic in here. most of people think there s tons of garlic in this. there is not. because the onion has just been really able to sweat enough correct. garlic tends to overpower everything. so i don t put garlic in it. two bay leaves just to give it an herby flavor to it. i see here the done sauce. you see how reduced it is? first thing you want to do is take out the bay leaf. you don t want to eat it. it is really strong. of course not! but we do want to taste this. you take this out. and then the secret to tomato basil is obviously lots of fresh basil. lots of it. a lot of fresh basil which that sauce has, too. sometimes can you finish it with a little bit of butter. i did not. you re done. it just kind of penetrates. you don t want to use this all at once. so many things we ll tell people in a second. you want to freeze it. i freeze in ice cube trays and i cover it with a little bit of plastic wrap. can you just freeze them like this. this is great for moms, especially like myself. you can take them out, they re like little ice kubs and melt them in a pan. you can melt them in a pan so you can portion out what you need. you ve given us the secret sauce. got the sauce. you can use it as a dipping for your kids. chicken fingers, fish sticks. this is my favorite thing in the world to do. you toast some bread. it is great for breakfast. you rub some fresh garlic on the bread. tiny bit of olive oil right over the top. then you spoon a little bit of sauce. come on in here, lester. here s your sauce. hi! this is a great sunday breakfast, by the way. and then if you can get the egg off, you just kind of do the egg right over the top. you can get do the egg right over the top. breakfast with the sauce boss. coming up after your local news. 8:26 is your time on this monday, september 26, 2011. good morning. i m eun yang. a quick note for parents this morning. fort small wood elementary school in passes dina, maryland, is closed because of a power outage. it is now 71 degrees at 8:26. cloudy skies and heavy gloom in the area. let s check in with meteorologist tom kierein to see when we can see some sunshine today. tom? we might a little later this morning, eun, perhaps through midday. right now it s near 70. right now it s near 70. this afternoon we might get a just got her flu shot, like a champ mom! taking on the master of disaster, the flu! it s the fight of the season! your flu shot s next, champ. let s do this. flu shots. every day. no appointment needed. most insurance accepted. get a $5 cvs gift card if you re not covered. find us at minuteclinic.com. i m jack, and i took the flu down. 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 good morning. the earlier accident outer loop of the beltway at university is now clear. still delays on the outer loop. right now traveling at 26 miles an hour. it will take you 21 minutes to get from i-95 to i-270. more news, weather and traffic in just 25 minutes. for 8:30 now on this monday morning. it s the 26th day of september, 2011. we re very pleased to have jennifer garner and molly shannon helping out with our education nation initiative. right now they re collecting school supplies from people who are on our plaza. it is amazing how many teachers have to use their own pay to buy school supplies for children. the basic things that the kids need to learn. we have a big thanks this morning to both jennifer and molly shannon, and also all our donors this morning. we should also let you know if you can t be here in person, you can also still help, head to our website, today.com. there is even a way to donate to a special school in your community. we ll talk to jennifer coming up and molly will be on later on. also, look who s back. you know how much we love florence. flo around here, florence henderson. back along with joy bauer with some important advice this morning on how to look at feel your best at 50 and beyond, including what you can do to boost your memory. we can all use a little help. that sounds really good. then kathie lee has the morning off so hoda kotb s got a little special guest co-hosting with her. seth rogan is her co-host. got a little bit of summertime with you. that s right. a little summertime still hanging around here. sunshine, temperatures in the upper 70s. look for rain making its way through the ohio river valley. big storm in the pacific northwest bringing heavy rain there into tomorrow. more rain in the northeast, especially late in the day. showers along the great lakes. looking at the heat continuing in texas. no relief from the drought there. that spreads all the way up into central california and the interior sections of the pacific northwest. that s what s going on around the country. here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. yet another gray september morning. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. right now it s mild and muggy, humid, temperatures around 70. a little light mist may be falling along with patchy fog. we may get sun breaking out later this morning and this afternoon. the possibility of a passing shower this afternoon. a small chance as well as early this evening. near 80 tomorrow, but cloudy. a chance of a shower in the morning and a greater chance that is one full wagon. folks are still donating. we will be donating pregnant and in heels and pulling a wagon. i m very busy this morning. all this week you can come donate. we ll tell you how. even if you can t come down, we re going to show you how to donate your school supplies, whether you deposit it back at home or todayshow.com. up next, from the foods to eat to the vitamins to take, florence henderson and joy bauer on feeling your best at 50 and beyond. but first, this is today on nbc. [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation, every solution, comes together for a single purpose to make the world a safer place. that s the value of performance. northrop grumman. announcer: today s lovin is brought to you by zyrtec. love the air. back now at 8:30. this morning on today s woman, feeling good after 50. florence henderson and today nutritionist joy bauer had the hosts of a new show called good food, good deeds, focusing on a positive lifestyle for boomers and beyond. good morning to both of you. first of all, florence, we talked last week and you busted out saying you were 77 years old. yes. people just looking at you are going to see you as a walking billboard for what you should be doing. unbelievable. healthy and beautiful at your age. well, if you want to be healthy at my age which is, as you said, 77, you have to exercise, you have to be aware of nutrition and on good food, good deeds, meals on wheels allowed us to be able to go out and feed some very hungry seniors who are alone. i didn t know if people realize the problem in this country and how many seniors out there aren t getting i didn t realize. i didn t realize. and it is really a celebration of food. we toss out healthy, delicious recipes and smart tips for everybody to feel fit and fabulous, like florence, as they age. what happens as we age. our metabolism slows down. that causes a major loss of muscle. in fact you and joy were talking about some of the questions that should be asked regarding how to speed up your metabolism. metabolism is a big one. unfortunately, starting in your 20s, every decade of life your metabolism naturally slows between 1% and 2%. you can tell from this chart. in your 20s if you burn 2,000 calories, in your 40s you re going to lose about 80 calories. in your 60s, another 80 calories. and in your 70s and 80s it starts to slow down as well. good news is there are two things you can do to boost it back up. exercise! which i do. i think walk being is the go-to exercise for so many people. it s convenient, it s cheap, it s easy on your joints. at least 30 minutes a day. and the other thing to do is incorporate protein at all of your meals. chicken and fish and beans and lentils. because these things also bump up your metabolism. what kind of exercise do you do, florence? i do treadmill. i work out with a trainer three times a week. also it is very important to do some weights. you know, because osteoporosis creeps in and also arthritis. as a matter of fact, i have arthritis in this hand because i sign every piece of fan mail for almost 60 years in this business. but oh, poor florence! it hurts. i know. but at least it s from signing all the fan mail. but there are a lot of things that you can do. these foods in particular in fact can be kind of helpful. you want to think bright orange. any of the produce items like sweet potatoes and pumpkin an the winter squashes are loaded with nutrients that suppress the aches and pains of arthritis. the other things, spices. t tumeric, the main ingredient in curry, and i love these handy food choppers. you can t put this in there. no, no. it is vegetables. what happens is you chop up and down, up and down, and it makes is it hard on arthritis? no, because it makes prepping meals much easier than gripping a knife and it is a big complaint with a lot of people because they can t chop things. also, i take tons of vitamins. i mean i really do. i read up on tons. like? i take the omegas, hyaluronic acid. we take so many different ones. calcium. as you get older, it is very important. it is hard the older you get to get your b-12 out of your food. you need a little augmentation. is that right? it is. because you don t absorb it as efficie efficiently. i think that everybody after 50 should be taking a multi-vitamin that is specifically designed for them. you want at least 100% of the b-12 and ideally 1,000 units of vitamin d. there are a lot of good formulas out there. i take more than that with vitamin d. do you. i think the most thing on good food, good deeds we talk about, as you get older you worry about memory loss. you worry about will you be able to remember things. there are things that we can do. there are things that you can do. and whether it comes to boosting your memory, we already talked about exercise. i mean that is the magic bullet because exercise, believe it or not, can prevent shrinkage that goes on in our brain as we age. and our bodies. we know this through science. but also when it comes to meals like this, this is literally a perfect memory boosting meal. it is the omega-3 fatty fish, leafy greens, and i actually even put this on our website at today.com. it is a memory boosting smoothie. because, ann, it is loaded with frozen berries. which you can get year-round. they re inexpensive and they have something that really helps your brain. what berries? blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, all berries really help your brain and your memory. wait, who are you again? she s kidding! have a sip of this. how fast does this sucker work? like a couple minutes? do you recognize this woman? hey! i m amazing. honey, you re unforgettable. i love you. that will always be the case. enjoy. thanks so much to both of you for being here. the show is called good food good deeds, it debuts this wednesday on retirement living television to help our seniors. coming up next, snl alum molly shannon s in the house on her new children s book. but first, this is today on nbc. i m a curious seeker. i am a chemistry aficionado. diphenhydramine. magnesium hydroxide. atheletes foot. yes. i m a people pleaser. if elected, i promise flu shots for all. i am a walking medical dictionary. congratulations virginia. inflamed uvula. i m virginia. i m a target pharmacist and i m here to answer your questions. it has been ten years since molly shannon walked away from saturday night live but her most popular characters live on from her catholic schoolgirl to sally o malley who wanted everyone to know that she still had it at 50 years old. now molly s first book, tilly the trickster tells the story of a mischievous little girl who loves playing tricks on her parents, brother and classmates. molly shannon, good morning. can i ply you away from saying hi to our crowd in the window. it is great to have you back. you heard you musing, ten years. i cannot believe it. it goes so fast. but it s great being in my old stomping ground. get back to 30 rock. i got to say hi to the old gang. this really came from you. you used to tell stories to your kids, made up stories about an irish family. they were called the the maloneys. there was a trickster amongst them? yeah. i read to them every night. my husband and i both read to them but sometimes they want me to make up stories. so i made up this story about this big irish family with ten kids but their favorite part of the made-up story was when the brothers and sisters would play tricks on one another. i thought that could be good for a kid s book. i also grew up loving the little rascals. i thought it would be fun to create a mischievous girl character. as i read, i think kids are going to try some of this stuff at home. some of it is okay to try but but little kids that age are so innocent that the tricks aren t that sophisticated but i love the idea of them getting together to think of something. your daughter, stella, did any of this come from her? is she a trickster? she does love tricks. she likes dressing up in little outfits and recently we had a little accident on our slide and she broke her little toe. i had to take her to the hospital. and but then when she realized she was going to get crutches she was like this is going to be the best week ever at school. she walk into school, everybody s like where did you get the crutches. and it was funny then when we got home later she was walking around the block with her crutches but she got kind of tired, she said mom moi can you tear me, but then she saw an older couple coming toward her. she like hobbled by them. they were like look at this little girl with crutches. so she loved a little tilly in there. i was thinking about people writing children s books. of course you thought as you write for children, you re also writing for mom and dad. i told you my kids are grown now but the thing i remember most and adored, the bedtime story ritual. i started to have my favorites. i know. you re writing for mom and dad, too. you are writing for mom and dad. i write it to read orally. i like the once that are sparse in the words so you don t get too exhausted or out of breath. was it harder than you thought? it was. i wrote it to perform it. i write it in my head as if i was reading it like as if i would perform it and read it. so yes, it was harder. i think when you see really good ones you think it is easy but it is really difficult because you have to tell the story quick ln and get in a story and resolve it in a very short amount of time. we mentioned in the introduction that people still remember your classic characters from saturday night live. that must be fun. after all these years people still remind you of those. it was so fun. i felt like i really got the right break for me for what i do. i feel so lucky that that happened. and the fact that people still identify with those characters and bring them up to me is such an honor. you know how hard that is. when you watch snl, they had their season remere this weekend, can you watch and enjoy it? are you thinking how difficult this is? sometimes when i see the goodnights, i was like, oh, she had a good show, he wasn t in as much. we kind of go up and down. like if you had a good stech on but sometimes you were some weeks you would never be in the show. so it is really hard. so it is hard because i do know it so i think about more that angle but i still really enjoy it, too. you ve got a knack for writing children s books. thanks, lester. hope to see more from you. love you! thank you, ann! so much. oh, my god. you got a fan club built in. yea! the book is tilly the trickster. thank you, lester. up next, mechanical today gates and tom brokaw on the value of teachers. but first, this is today on nbc. [ cow mooing ] [ female announcer ] there s no need to produce foods yourself to be sure they re 100% natural. now there s open nature foods from safeway. no preservatives, no artificial anything. all within budget. a wide choice of natural foods that meet your high standards. open nature. only at safeway. announcer: da s today s education nation is brought to you by state farm. we are back with education nation today. all this week we are focusing o education in america. this morning, putting more value on the work teachers do day in and day out in the classrooms melinda gates and tom brokaw, we know teachers are on the front line of what is really a battle in our education system. often they re being told to do so much on a salary of just $45,000 on average per year. then on the other hand, do you have teachers who are underperforming, not making the grade but yet remain in the school systems. and i know that the gates foundation has sponsored a fund measured effective teaching. when bill and i started to learn the most important thing in the education system was to have an effective teacher in the front of classroom, we said what makes a great teacher? how do you know if your child has one? we said my gosh, there s not research out there to prove that. we went out to do a piece of research. we videotaped 3,000 teachers across the u.s. school systems, six districts, and we started to learn what great teachers look like so we can spread that practice. we learned three things first of all, if a teacher s good one year, they re typically good the next. second is, students actually know whether they have a good teacher. and third, we learned that you have to have multiple things that you measure type offers on, not just the test at the end of the year but other things like peer and principal observations. it is the broader sense rather than testing your teachers based on the test scores that they re delivering in the classrooms. that has to be one component but definitely there are other things that measure whether a teacher is great or not. as you know there is a lot of backlash when it comes to rating teachers based on test scores so it really comes down to how the kids respond and the overall picture then. that s right. but you do still need to have the test scores say a teacher who gets a student at this level, how much do they advance them at the end of the year. but not just the test. what do they look like in front of the classroom, do they manage the classroom well, do they explain concepts when the student doesn t understand the homework. those things are predictive about whether the student is actually learning the material or not and whether they ll do well on that test. tom, new york times columnist tom friedman wrote recently about education in this country, we aren t going to see change until we start to think about this as a national security issue, not a social issue when it comes to education. tom and i have been talking about this for a long time. we feel very strongly that the under girding of this country sed case. you can t have a successful economy unless you have people who know how to run it, are entrepreneurial. even educated consumers. you can t have a strong military unless you have people who are educated and comfortable in dealing with modern weapons systems and develop strategic plans. it is also our political system that depends on a well educated citizenry. moreover, we are competing with a rising china and india and they are putting an enormous amount of emphasis on education. melinda and i were talking about this earlier. in the eighth grade in china you have to take physics and biology and math. in america, only 18% of our high school students take those. and we all know that science is a key to the future. so what melinda and bill have done it is a great credit to them and it is a great gift to this country is that they have taken the kind of episodic values that we know about teaching, they put them together in a way that everyone can learn from them. so that s a big, big step. what is the biggest problem in our education system today then, tom? people not paying attention. i really believe that we are moving to a different level now because of the gates foundation, every community, they now get it. we ve got to do something. so i think the biggest problem has been, oh, if i have s got the money my kids are going to private school and you just have to worry about something else. now we re getting everyone on deck. do you agree with that? i agree. hopefully people realizing it means you ve got to have a great teacher for every single student. we re finally having that conversation, we re finally talking about the system to change that. we re excited about what s going on here this week and hopefully this will get people talking and make that discussion become law, in effect. so thank you very much, melinda gates, tom brokaw. now back inside to ann, lester and al. nice to hear their perspective. meantime, in the 10:00 hour, kathie lee has the morning off and hoda has lined up a very special co-host. how do you like your lid? i think you re doing okay. pretty good. do i look normal? you look pretty. do i look like kathie lee? i ll poof it up a little bit. i think i look like kathie lee. i m not drunk enough. he s in a new movie called 50-50 and forbes magazine recently named him the hardest working man in hollywood. i actually caught him on the way in the door. you having second thoughts at all? i don t know how she s doing on your hair there. how you doing there, buddy? i m doing okay. it is a little hectic back here. i feel like i ve wandered into a strange situation and i can t leave now because i m on television. i m just going to go with the flow on this one, guys. anybody give you any tips, seth? no, no one has given me any tips. are there any? just strap in and hold on. i know. do you have pepper spray or something? we do have an emergency taser. that would be great. i think she wanted to put her hands in your hair, baby. just run them through it, hoda. just do it. you two are going to be great. thank you. you guys have fun. ahead this morning, separating fact from fiction when it comes to colds and flu. we ll tell you about that and a lot more but first, your local news. lot more. first your local news. 8:56 is your time now on this monday, september 26, 2011. good morning. i m eun yang. we have a quick note for parts this morning. fort smallwood elementary school in pasadena, maryland, is closed because of a power outage. let s check the forecast now with meteorologist tom kierein in the storm center. good morning, tom. good morning, eun. temperatures near 70 now. a low overcast, light mist falling and patchy fog around. we may see sun in the next couple hours. otherwise, a lot of clouds around. small chance of good morning. traveling 395 still seeing delays from et sell. those delays continue past duke to the 14th street bridge. even taking the 14th street bridge into the city, some delays there. traveling 270 at tuckerman lane, no problem on 270. north and south are clear. making excellent time. eun, back to you. more news, weather and back now with more of today on this monday morning, the 26th day of september, 2011. little bit muggy here in rockefeller flplaza. we ve got a great crowd kicking off a great week with us here at rockefeller plaza. also we ve got lester holt joining us this morning in for matt. this hour we ll talk about this last appeal for amanda knox. she was back in court this morning, understandably looking a little tense in the fm days of the appeal trial. the prosecution keeps insisting they have enough evidence to keep her in prison for murder but experts some of whom appointed by the court say some of that key evidence just isn t there. we ll get the latest in a live report. also ahead, tis the season for flu and cold so we re going to ask those key questions does the flu shot actually make you sick? and what s the deal with chicken soup? does it actually help the cold you sound like a stand-up comedian? does it work or does it just make us feel better? we ll separate fact from faction from those old wives tales. in today s s money, soc security 101. how to figure out when the best time to retire, how you can get a larger check and why women actually need to pay closer attention to social security than men do. all right, good information coming up. but first let s check this morning s top stories with natalie at the news desk. good morning, everyone. president obama is dropping his no-drama stens stance as he hits the 2012 campaign trail blasting republican ideas for the country saying they would fundamentally cripple america. the president is on the west coast drumming up support for his re-election campaign. meantime, two republican straw polls showed unexpected results over the weekend. mitt romney won in michigan with rick perry coming second. hermmprman cain won the florida straw poll saturday. earlier this morning he responded i think that is false. i talked to a lot of delegates when i was in florida all last week. it is not a protest vote. look, the message coming out of that victory was quite simple. first of all, the voice of the people is more powerful than the voice of the media. secondly, message is more powerful than money. cain won that florida straw poll with 37% of the vote. rick perry was a distant second with 15%. american college student amanda knox was back in an italian courtroom today where the appeal of her murder conviction is wrapping up. nbc s keith miller s in perugia, italy with the very latest. keith, good morning. reporter: good morning, natalie. today was the turn of the civil lawyers to sum up their cases and they spent the time basically attacking knox as a character. one of them describing her as a she-devil. another saying that she had a life devoted to sex, drugs and alcohol. we re told that knox is holding up but coping barely. also the prosecution, which asked for her prison sentence to be increased to life in prison. along with six months of solitary confinement. her parents say that she s not eating as well, she s certainly not sleeping as well but she will get her day in court. she will be allowed to address the judge and jury where once again we expect her to proclaim her innocence. we are expecting a verdict in this within the week. natalie? keith miller in perugia, italy, watching it for us. thank you. the two american hikers freed from an iranian prison last week are waking up on u.s. soil for the first time in two years. shane bauer and josh fattal arrived in new york sunday and are now speaking out about their ordeal in iran detailing the beatings and periods of solitary confinement that they underwent. both made it clear that they were detained because they were american and not because they crossed the border into iran. the last bullfight in barcelona aroused passions inside and outside the arena. fans lined up sunday for tickets to the farewell fights which ended with the deaths of six bulls. afterward there was scuffles with animal rights activists. it is the second of spain s 17 regions to ban the bullfighting tradition. brad pitt failed to claim the lion s share at the weekend box office. disney s release of the lion king 3-d was number one for the second week in a row. a flying leap of faith this weekend for american dare devil jeb corliss. he jumped from a helicopter and glided across central china through that hole in the mountain and he landed safely on the other side. that is unbelievable video. it is five minutes past the hour right now. let s go back outside to ann, savannah and lester. guys? let s all try it! i want to say a really quick hi. can you wave at america? there you go. big smile. let s get a check of the weather from mr. roker. hey, ann, we got some folks here. hi. my name is matthew. how are you, al? good. what s the group? it s actually curemeso.org. people find out more by goin? curemeso.org. people can find out more by going to that website? that s right. let s check your weather. slow-moving system, upper level low. not gone anywhere since last week, bringing a lot of rain around it. it s going to continue to rain. rainfall amounts anywhere from two to three inches all the way in the upper midwest. and then out west pacific northwest strong front bringing in a lot of heavy rain over the next 72 hours. anywhere from three to five inches of rain in the pacific northwest. these nice folks, bob and betty, married 50 years. you were here 15 years ago. good to see you. that s what s going on around if country. here is what s happening in your neck of the woods. good morning. low cloudiness, patchy fog. some of the roadways are still damp. temperatures around 70. but later this morning and winterly afternoon we may have a few peeks of sunlight. then cloudy the rest of the afternoon. a small chance of a shower as highs climb into the upper 70s. we might have a morning shower or afternoon shower. a greater chance tomorrow. then a small chance on wednesday and thursday. partly sunnys young man s been here you re 6 years old. what s your name? knno with noah. all right. cool. natalie? . announcer: today s health is brought to you by breathe right. don t let a stuffy nose get between you and your sleep. it s your life to breathe right. al, thank you. this morning, it is a good time to test your knowledge about cold and flu symptoms and how to treat them. dr. kerry peterson is an internist and women s health contributor. it is that time of year again, cold and flu season. is there a way to tell how bad it is going to be judging by the number of visits early on into the doctor s office had. no, it is unpredictable. it is going to depend whether the strain that emerges this year matches what s in the vaccine. the virus in the vaccine is typically based on what we saw last year. but usually we start seeing cases in october and it peaks in january and february. all right. so you ve put together some common beliefs about the flu and common cold and you re going to debunk some of those myths that a lot of us have heard. first off is chicken soup helps relieve symptoms of the cold and flu. fact or fiction. that is fact. the chicken soup is really good for you. first the steam breaks up the mucus congested in your chest and the brought will hydrate you, as well as also clear the mucus. and it provides lots of nutrients and antioxidants with all the vegetables in it. so it is good for you. moms, chicken soup works. yes. one thing mom got wrong though i think is the statement that going out in chilly weather with wet hair will give you a cold. turns out that s fiction. that is not true. and so many people still believe this. mom said it all the time. you believe her. right? it s not true! going out in the cold with a wet head does not get you sick. it s only viruses that get you sick. but the reason that people get colds in cold weather more often is that they re indoors more frequently and it is more likely you ll transmit germs to one another. so the germ pool is much bigger that way. yes. another common belief is that antibiotics can treat cold and flu. fact or fiction? this is also fiction. antibiotics only kill bacteria whereas colds and viruses colds and flu are viruses and if you go to your doctor asking for an antibiotic for a cold, you actually will do yourself a disservice because antibiotics can create resistance so that they don t work when you really need them. for women they can create yeast infections. and they can also cause they can kill the good bacteria and then the bad bacteria can overgrow and create problems. all right. antibiotics is a no-no then when you have a cold or the flu. next statement that i think we hear a lot is that you don t need to get the flu vaccine every year. that you somewhat feel like i got it last year, i m going to be protected at least for the next year. not true. that is fiction. absolutely. at women s health we recommend please get your flu shot every year. immunity only lasts for six to seven months and each year the strains in the vaccine changes depending on what we saw the year before. okay. here s another good one. a lot of people believe that you or think some say you can spread a cold or flu even if you don t have any symptoms. is that right? let me read that again. that is true. the reason for this is, 20% to 30% of people can be infected with the flu and have no symptoms at all. and in addition, some people are in this incubation window. it takes a few days to get the flu once you ve been exposed and you can still transmit the virus during that time. so you re still contagious during that period. now here is one that a lot of people believe and that is that you can catch the flu from the flu shot. is this fact or fiction? fiction. this is something so many people still hold on to believing and there s a few reasons for this. you can get side effects from the flu shot. it can create a little soreness, aches and fever, and a few years ago, maybe even a few decades ago, it used to be much worse than it is now, people sort of attributed that to, oh, i got the flu from it. another thing that can happen is it does take time for the flu shot to kick in. it takes about two weeks. if you get exposed to the flu during that time, you re susceptible and you can get the flu during that window. just to clarify, the vaccine is actually dead flu virus it is. it is absolutely. so what s in the flu shot is dead virus. it is not going to infect you. so nothing is going to get to you. no. dr. kerry peterson, thanks so much. coming up next, what you need to know now about social security to make the most of it later. then, cue the romance and the daytime drama. the days of our lives gets a major makeover with your favorite characters coming back. that s after these messages. nose doesn t. it gets stuffed up and that means i stay up all night. good mornings? 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[ male announcer ] ask the doctor about once-daily nonstimulant intuniv. this morning on today s money, social security 101. if you re working, you re paying into it but how much do you know what you ll get when you retire, how you re going to get a bigger check? cnbc s courtney reagan is here with some great answers. first of all, let s fine out, what are the basic guidelines as far as who gets social security and when? so the government defines anyone eligible to get social security as long as you have 40 credits which for most people is about ten years of work. the earliest you can start collecting is at age 62. the latest is at age 70. the government defines your full retirement age as somewhere in between depending on the year you were born but for most folks it is at age 65, 66 or 67. this is important to everybody but this is interesting. you advise women in particular to pay close attention. how come? women in retirement face greater economic challenges than men. there s a couple reasons. number one, it is not that pleasant to talk about but it is the facts. women live longer than men. so right now if you re 65 years old, this year the government expects you to live to be about 85. for a 65-year-old man he s expected to live to be about 61. so right there, there s four more years that a woman needs to have that income stream that a man doesn t. but then you think about we all know that men make more money than women. per paycheck, then of course over the long haul, too. and they work less, they either take time off to be a mom, take that maternity leave, work part-time or don t go back to work. then last, but not least, if a woman has a pension it is likely to be much less than a man would have. their paychecks are going to be smaller. exactly and they ll have less income to draw from. that s something i kind of lived through with my mom after my dad passed away. let s go through some of the guidelines. first of all, we keep hearing that social security is going to go away. they re not going to be able to pay. what s the deal? there s a lot of political debate around this issue but the basics are very nonpartisan. social security says itself it will run out of money if some reform doesn t take place. the timing is a little bit uncertain. they say within a couple decades. but last year for the first time since 1983 the social security paid out more money than it took in. it s likely to do the same thing again this year. that s because? it s because there are simply fewer people and less money being paid in to that fund than are taking out. we ve got baby boomers retiring right now so there s more folks of the retired age collecting that money than those of us that are paying in. how much can you expect to collect? it depends on how old are you? yeah. this is one thing, a lot of folks think the amount of money you put in is the amount of money you ll be able to get out. that s actually not true. it is very dependent on the lower income folks. it is tiered that way because the government believes if you ve made less income you have less sources of retirement when you get to that point. okay. then what about trying to get more money back? how do you do that? right. so like we talked about earlier, there are different ages that you can begin to withdraw those benefits. the later that you wait the more money that you will get. if you wait until age 70, if you can push off past that full retirement until age 70 you could make as much as 8% more per year. the other option i know it is difficult to talk about in an economic environment like we have you could either go back to work if you ve retired before that full retirement age. if you ve retired after 62 but before that full retirement, you can go back and the government recalculates those benefits that you didn t collect during those years that you were eligible. what if you don t apply by the age of 70? what happens? then you can forfeit your benefits. it s really important that you do so. you want to make sure that before you retire at whatever age you decide is appropriate for you, that you talk to a social security advisor or financial planner. you say there are good websites people can check out. the social security administration website is probably the number one place you want to go. it is always going to be updated. we have the information here for you. we also have the congressional budget office because things are changing especially in this political year, there s a lot of talk about what s going on. then you ve got the national academy of social insurance, last, but not least, the national committee to preserve social security and medicare, all good resources. but make sure that you keep up on the news and what s going on because this could constantly change as years go forward. bottom line you really don t want to depend on social security for your entire retirement savings. we ve got all the links to those websites on our website. still to come, delicious seafood recipes from the season three champion of top chef. in today s kitchen. but first these messages. 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[ giggles ] announcer: education nation today is proudly brought to you by university of phoenix. because we believe an educated world is a better world. more now of our special week-long event education nation with a look at the importance of preschool. according to the national institute for early education research, children who attend a quality preschool will have better prereading and math skills than those who do not. but only 60% of kids in this country are enrolled in prekindergarten classes. jennifer garner is the artist ambassador for the non-profit save the children and mark shriver is the senior vice president of save the children programs. jennifer, why does it make such a difference for little kids who have had that prekindergarten experience? well, imagine kids growing up in poverty in this country, which it s the number is 1 in 5 children growing up in the united states are growing up in poverty. by the time they re 4 years old, they are 18 months behind their middle class counterparts. and if you re 18 months behind at 4 years old, manl where you are when you start kindergarten. if no one has helped you until then? then imagine being a kindergarten teacher with 25, 30 kids who are almost two years behind each. can you not catch them up. what incentivizes you at age 5 inform to get caught up? you just turn off from school. so we have to get to these kids earlier. i know you visited a lot of classrooms around this country, even this week in california, you see kids who do not have what other kids have. i know you ve got two little kids yourself. how does that feel? what goes through your mind when you walk through those classrooms and see so much need? i am so encouraged when i see save the children at work. i am so encouraged, because the number one thing that hits me every time and this hit me this week in yucca valley, california is that children want to thrive. they re built to thrive. they may need a little bit of a hand. they may need they need early intervention. but they want to thrive, and parents want to parent. they may need a little bit of they don t have the support systems a lot of parents in this country that i certainly have in los angeles with my baby groups and my girlfriends and a great model as a parent in my mother. and we provide that and i am so encouraged when i see it in action. mark, jennifer put it so well if you don t have that early education then kids coming into kindergarten really start off behind. what are the skills that children are learning in prekindergarten? some people might think, isn t that kind of glorified daycare? absolutely not. what we really need in this country is a commitment to high-quality early childhood education, making sure kids know how to read, they can recognize the alphabet, they know how to turn the pages of a book, they re socially and emoonally ready to enter kin, they know how to play with kids their age, they know how to play games that stimulate their kacognitive and early childhood development. when you get to kindergarten, if you can sit in a circle, if you can follow a direction, if you have held a book before there s one book for every 300 kids in these communities as opposed to 13 books for every kid in middle class. besides that, there are no libraries. books are hard to come by. kids enter kindergarten and are literally handed a book and don t know what to do with it. even if we all agree on the value of pre-k, in this current economy everything comes up against the ability to afford it. so many parents aren t able to afford it. what is save the children doing? parents can get on the phone and talk to their congressmen, senators, make it clear early education makes a big difference. we spend so much dollars in remediation, over $500 billion a year in lost economic stimulus inthis country because we aren t investing in early education. they have to make it clear to their elected leaders that early education makes a big difference. one thing, when i was younger and i would hear people on the today show talking about call your congressmen, call your senators, write letters. it didn t really make sense to me. but having spent time in washington now with senators, congressmen and women, i m amazed at how invested they are and how much they do pay attention and care about what their constituents are asking for and be that constituent, ask for it. you have not exactly dabbled in this issue. you ve testified before congress i think four times in the few seconds we have left, why is this cause so important to you personally? because i grew up in west virginia in a middle class family. i had ballet lessons and i had piano lessons and i knew that i was going to go to college and that my sisters and i would have a chance. but i also knew that the kid sitting next to me in first grade wasn t going to pass first grade and it always bothered me. i didn t understand why it was so unfair. jennifer garner, it is good to see both of you. congratulations on baby number three. thank you very much. our best to you. thank you. and we ll be right back. every day is a new day on weight watchers. i don t see why anyone would want to do anything else. it s a new life for me pointsplus has got my back no matter what. it s a part of who i am now. yes it is i never saw myself here, i didn t, but with weight watchers, i can t see myself anywhere else. i m feeling good you can be here too. go on join for free. weight watchers pointsplus. because it works. 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we are almost open. we open october 1st. now we re doing large trainings every day. you re starting with a scallop recipe. scallops pretty easy. right? very easy. put it heat under it, lemon juice, olive oil, it is delicious that way. we re all going to take our stage. these scallops are going to be seared and we use remaining oil and add brown butter to it. then honey, soy and lemon juice. that s where you get the sweet, salty, sour. how many minutes on each side? 30, 45 seconds. cook medium, medium-rare. they re nice and dry already. they re about 20 second away from being done. what is in the next skillet over here? this is squash with savoy cabbage and bacon. onions. so far butter and bacon. yummy. we let the onion sweat to very tender and sweet. is the squash already cook? no. it is raw. nicely cut. add squash. add that. little bit sea salt. let it cook until it s tender. scallops are done right now. it s that easy. we make the sauce right away. now with the remaining fat this is the good stuff. all this sugar is caramelized. add butter in there. of course. yeah. then we get a little nutty flavor out of this after it s been caramelized. help me stir? okay, sure. please. little more salt. little more salt. well seasoned. yes. while that s cooking, head back there with savannah and natalie. so we re going to do muscles. i guess the first question is you show us how to do this, how do you know a good muscle from a bad muscle. a good muscle will be nice and plump inside and should be very light. if it feels hollow, that mean it s old or if the shell won t close back up when you touch it, that means it is dead already. how have you prepared these? we re going to add some olive oil. lots and lots of olive oil. just a little bit of butter. muscles love fat. i love fat. we can all relate. okay. then how long you get the oil going once the oil s slightly hot, and butter s melting, we toss our garlic. as much garlic as you like. i think you need some muscles. i see they re all nice and closed. we re putting all these spices in there. i say a pinch in the recipe but my pinch is like this big. on. great. let that let the aroma come up. best way toast garlic is get the nice flavor. once you smell garlic cooking, add tomato paste. all these ingredients are very common home ingredients, whip up very, very easily. you add wine in there? i will. let that saute for another ten second. then you add the muscles. we want to get to the dessert. before we move over to natalie, how long do these guys go? these probably go anywhere from three to five minutes depending on the power of your stove. until they open up. i ll watch those. we ve got dessert over here. this is a banana split brew lay. very easy to do. right? just sugar on top? yes. this is the restaurant made by our famous pastry chef. coat it. you re going to torch it. i m going to broil it. you got all these toppings here. whipped cream with chocolate sauce. and cookie dough! all right, chef. th [ agent ] so your policy looks good, is there anything else? why did you buy my husband a falcon? thanks for the falcon. i didn t buy anyone a falcon. sure, you did. you saved us a lot of money on auto insurance. i used that money to buy a falcon. ergo, you bought me a falcon. i should ve got a falcon. most people who switch to state farm save on average about $480. what they do with it, well, that s their business. oh, that explains a lot, actually. 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[ falcon screeches ] 9:57 is your time on this monday, september 26, 2011. good morning. i m eun yang. let s go right meteorologist kierein with a look at your forecast. tom, good morning to you. good morning. another gray morning under way. a little sunshine trying to break out to the west of washington now. and we may have a few areas, a little sun breaking out later this morning and into the early afternoon. then a small chance of a shower this afternoon, a greater chance tomorrow. wednesday and thursday partly sunny, highs near 80. then cooling down with sunshine on friday, saturday and sunday. in fact, only in the 40s on saturday and sunday mornings. now danella, how is traffic? seeing a big delay on the marc right now. marc right now. train 612, your delay is 44 captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. it s fun day monday, september 26, 2011. no, this is not kathie lee sitting behind me. it s hollywood seth rogan in the house. hi, guys. how are you? i m a little confused right now, but in general, i think i m doing very good. i m excited is what i am. you re going to be co-hosting this entire show. we have a whole hour. i m interviewing people. yeah. i m participating in quizzes and games. are you into that? i m very excited about it. yeah. this is going to be a lot of fun. you know this guy from a lot of things. 40-year-old virgin which everyone is crazy about. what are your favorites? knocked up. and pine apple express. your hair evolved. you had a curley, permy thing. i m more coifed these days. i wanted to tweet this morning you were coming. i did one of those searches for all the seth rogan. you re not on twitter. i don t tweet. i don t like to communicate with my fans. i like to create a wall between me and then. how is that going? the most impenetrable wall i can. there are a lot of imposter seth rogans. i know. they do good stuff. i was going to shut them down, but he s promoting my movies and far more engaged than i am. he s really good. you re 29 years old. you re engaged. i am engaged to be married. look at that. she s gorgeous. she is adorable. adorbs. you ve been together a long time? six years. why did you wait so long to tie the knot? i m afraid of commitment. most men it s the most important thing, they think about it their whole lives and men never think about it until it s time to get married. now i m very excited about it. i ve been told i should be and so i am. no. i m just joking. i m thrilled. it s going to be great. i love that laugh. there is a big movie coming out that you re in. can i start waiting to drink me beer? do you wait for a certain time? 10:00 a.m. somewhere. this is your drink and you asked for it. we asked your fans what they thought would be a good what did they say? they said you re a beer guy. nice, i didn t disappoint. you have a great new movie out. is that good? it is good. this is maybe the earliest i ve drinken on television. there is a great movie called 50/50. it opens friday. i got the screener yesterday because i wanted to watch it. i wasn t sure what the whole thing was about. i saw promos and i wasn t sure. in the movie, i fell in love with it. thank you. second of all, i didn t know whether i should be laughing or crying it. almost felt a little bit like in steel magnolias where you re laughing through tears, that whole thing. you take a good friend of yours who has cancer in 50/50. will who is one of my best friend who i ve known for years. six years ago he got a massive tumor in his spine. he was fine, thank god. he got surgery, but yeah, we decided it could be really interesting to write a movie about it. we are comedians so the way we dealt with it was through humor. we would tell jokes to each other. i would try to cheer him up. it was my instinct not to get too bogged down how miserable it was and cheer him up about it. we had never seen a movie that portrayed people dealing with it like that. and will is here. will is your buddy. yeah. where is he? i m in a closet. you ve got him locked away somewhere. they put me back here. how are you? what did you think of the movie, how it came out? i couldn t be more proud of the movie. don t look at us. look at the camera. look at the camera. it s very confusing. i m really proud of the movie. don t look at us. the gentleman who plays you is a terrific actor. did he nail it? did he get it right? yeah. joseph gordon levit is incredible. i couldn t say enough good things about his performance. it s a great movie. it s a terrific cast. i think a lot of people dealing with someone going through cancer, they never know what the right thing to say, but this movie shows you that humor does take you through it. we found there is no right thing to say. it s such a horrible situation, there is no appropriate way to react. i think trying to maintain whatever sense of normalcy you can seems to be the best approach. when will got sick, he still wanted to go out to bars. he still was dating girls. he wanted to joke around. his life didn t stop because of it. that s something we wanted to show in the movie. your character and in real life you were trying to score chicks. you were using him as your bait. yeah. he was my sick fish at the end of a hook. yeah. that s more in the movie. in real life i don t think i was ever as sexually confident as the character i portray in the film. we did use his cancer to skip the line opening weekend of batman begins. through have it. it worked. totally worked. it is a terrific movie. by the way, on saturday night flipped on snl. they get to alec baldwin. who appalachian a cameo? this is alec talking about how he thought he was the longest-running host. people questioned whether that was the case. they wanted to do a urine test. i heard you were breaking my hosting record, and while i m happy for you, i wanted to make sure you were doing it without the use of steroids or performance-enhancing drugs. that s ridiculous. i brought along a medical team and an expert on drug use. you got the biggest laugh. you didn t even have a line. i know. i m a living punchline. it was the easiest gig of my life. explain the joke. the joke is i m an expert on drug use steve martin was like, will this get a laugh? do people know you as someone associated with drugs? i was like this will work. trust me. i ve been setting up this joke for six years now. all right. i know you read redbook. i do obsessively. that s crazy you bring that up. little elf. do you leave the bathroom door open? when i go to the bathroom? number one or two, is it specifying? the answer, one, yes. two, no. they don t break it down like that? they should have broken it down. that s the most definitive qualifying factor. 63% of the people said they keep the door open. 27% keep it closed. 37% said they leave it open. this is not scientific if they didn t ask people what number it was. that negates the study. what s the control? are you still comfortable with your girlfriend that it s okay to keep the door open? no. i don t. some people do the sitdown business in front of their lady friends. i don t do that. i only do stand-up business in front of my lady friend. mostly because i don t want my girlfriend to see how vulnerable i look sitting on the toilet. it s a vulnerable position for a man. what if your girlfriend left the door open when she was just doing number one? that s okay with me. i m used to that. girls sit down for both. i honestly couldn t tell either way. she could have been doing it for years, i just have no idea. we have a lot of people in the studio. friends at the news desk along with your buddy will. rob and sherry. sherry is beautiful. she is a dead-ringer for natalie morales. we ll be at the premiere tonight because i want to see it again. i want a second go at it. favorite things. it s a bad hair day for girls like me because of the humidity. i hear you, sister. this is a kerotin complex. do you know what a kerotin treatment is? it s a way to relax and straighten your hire. this is a shiny balm that makes your hair more manageable. are you wearing it right now? it looks great should i try some. i don t know. here you go. do i spray it on my hands? just a little goes a long way. get it on and let s see. oh, wow. look at that. it s night and day. what is your favorite thing? my favorite thing. i m an avid reader. it s hard to find a book not only do i emotional connect to but i understand. that s why i brought this book out. you found that in your dressing room. i did no i brought this from home. i didn t realize it was the same kathie lee gifford. i thought it was a different one. i was like, it s the same kathie lee. who knew she was so prolific and talented. i was hoping to get it signed, but i guess she s not here. next time. next time i m here. it s amazing. i don t want to ruin the ending. but someone might clean up at the end. not going to tell you. sara, what is your favorite thing? my favorite thing is a make-up cheat. smashbox undereye illuminator. seth, you can try this if you like. i m okay. that was the worse throw ever. it embraces the light. his laugh is like the best laugh ever. thanks, guys. i appreciate it. we also have fan of the week. you ll love this. this is exciting. let s go straight to it. you ve been waiting all morning for this our fan of the week is kristin williams. from broken arrow, oklahoma. she watches on canal 2 and loves starting her day because she connects with kathie lee and hoda. kis-in loves hoda s confidence and life, especially when she jammed along with the boys competition. she credits kathie lee for helping her stay positive every morning. some of her other favorite segments are sara in the city , webtastic and ambush makeover. what does she get? we are sending you to phoenix, arizona. you ll spend three days and two nights at the royal palms resort and spa. the trip includes a private three-course meal hosted by tea cooks restaurant, 90 minutes couples ritual at the spa and round-trip airfare for two. phoenix. stop it. i thought they went to guam and hawaii. you can drive to phoenix in five hours. real quick. a shout out to the library of congress. shout out to the library of congress. my mother works there. those were the first time those words were ever said in a sentence. the book festival. it was a big celebration there. went and spoke. i want to give a big thank you and my niece who happens to be in the middle. big up, loc. up next, elizabeth hurly is here. and then it s time for today s buzz and all the celebrity news you can handle. hi, mom. how was school today? 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[ chef ] fresh tasting restaurant style [ both ] bertolli soup s in the freezer aisle [ male announcer ] new bertolli meal soup. since seth rogen is here to help me out, we are going to bring movie trivia for you. we are going to head-to-head, but don t worry, i m not that competitive. that s not what i heard. take us away. number one, what is the highest worldwide grossing film, a, titanic. b, avatar. c, pirate of the caribbean or d, harry potter and the deadly hallows. b, avatar. that s right. number two. remember to wait until we finish asking the question, hoda. don t get carried away. so that was cheating, technically. there is one in here you ll get. which of the following actors holds the record for most oscar nomination for an actor? a, robert de niro. b, marlon brando. c, tom hanks. d, jack nicholson. d, jack nicholson. tied up, baby, 1-1. most oscar nominations for anybody, meryl streep. finish this classic line from top gun. i feel the need you did it too early. for speed. somebody has to make the call. that was fine. let s move on. invite me on your show, then cheat. that s great. i ll help you out on another one. name one of the two songs ferriss buhler sings in the parade. danka shein. which of the following movies did kathie lee make a cameo in. a, first wives club. b, sex in the city. c, morning glory d, home alone. first wives club. i knew it wasn t the other one. that is my favorite movie, too. there she is. seth this one is for you. true or false. the actors who played ben s friends in knocked up all used their real names. true. that s true. trick question. i don t use my real name. stop changing the score. the score is 3-3. the need for speed, not speed. because you didn t let him finish. so technically, you didn t get it right. tiebreaker right here. let s go. seth is starring in a movie this is so unfair with barbara streisand next year, what is the name of the movie. next year. next year. guilt trip is one they are going by, but my mother s purse is the actual title. you win. thank you! phew! 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[ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. animals animals for 75 years, the national wildlife has been helping introduce people to the world. here is national wildlife s david mizijewski. he ll introduce us to some of his furry, creepy friends. i m happy to have this guy on. the mascot is the raccoon. these guys are super common. these are animals you re going to see in your backyard. store your trash in a tight lid so they don t get into it. otherwise they are great to have around. fantastic, i can see. nibbling on my fingers. let s go to the next animals. they make good pets for kids? they don t make good pets. oh, they don t. that s surprising. this is a wildebeest. exactly. she is only a few weeks old. what is a wildebeest? it s an antelope. they live in africa. if you ve seen any tv show about the african serengeti. she s guys can run minutes after they re born, which is important. when you re on the menu for lions and hyenas and wild dogs, you have to be able to run fast. about 1.5 million of them migrate across the savannah every year. it s one of the biggest mammal migrations in the world. how big will this guy get? she ll get to be 4 1/2 feet tall, 8 feet long, 600 pounds. she is just a baby. does she know how ugly she is as an animal? you lost everyone. thanks for coming. in real life, it s disgusting looking. on tv it might read as cute, but it smells bad. let s go on to our next guy here. wait till you see the next animal. this is actually a reptile. it s a kind of turtle. lives in south america. it lives in the amazon river. if you look at the head there, it s camouflaged to look just like dead leaves. i was going to say his neck looks like bacon. there is a little bit of pink under there. i would be more likely to eat it. that nose, they can stick above the surface to get a breath. really cool. this next animal coming out did you name these animals? they are all wild animals. that didn t work. there we go. you want to step back a little bit. you ve seen the lion king. the monkey with the bright blue and red face? the dominant males of this species will turn, when he gets older, his face will turn totally he s trying to make off with his orange there. this is why i had you step back. he seems more likely to rip my head off. he s totally got his back to the camera. they don t like women? individual animals, some have a preference. sometimes for whatever reason it is, especially with primates. we are primates, too. maybe they recognize something in us. they are individuals. they have individual personalities. he is killing that orange, isn t he? when he gets to be an adult, he ll get much bigger. the males of this seesies, they are much bigger than the females. cool. sexual dimorphism. look, he s going for the wildebeest. and there is the circle of life. not that it would have been good. it might have been the coolest thing of all time. one last animal here. that is beautiful. this is a kinkaju. he s a little skittish here. they don t make good pets. i m talking to paris hilton. she has one of these as a pet. they are wild animals. they are in captivity. i m surprised she makes such a short-sighted decision like that. anyway, they are really cute. they belong in the wild. we need to protect them. that s what national wide life federation is all about, protecting wildlife and connecting people to nature. david, you did great. you brought great animals. thank you. how to get the messy bun and beauty trends. 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[ female announcer ] aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. and for healthy, beautiful hair, try nourish plus haircare. only from aveeno. try i am a face unclogger. i am a nose coach. i am a throat untickler. i am a human cough suppressant. and i am the sniffles worst nightmare. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about cold and flu remedies. it is time for today s beauty and the three hottest trends that will have you looking like you stepped off the pages of a magazine. not just any magazine, elle magazine. the falls found the three hottest beauty looks and how you can get them at home. hi, emily. is this something we can make from the drug store? yes. all drug store, all affordable, super easy. designers were inspired by jewelry boxes. a lot of trends come from elizabeth taylor swimming in her swimming pool with a tiara. christie s got a messy bun going which is all the rage. i love a good messy bun. i m sure you do. it s the perfect saturday morning hairstyle, but you can throw in a pin and goody makes these great rhinestone pins. get a regular old pin and stick it on with a hair pin. it takes it from day to evening. metallica eyes are hot. this is the jewel-toned eye. you can t afford emeralds, but you can wear emerald on your eyes. look for sapphire shades. and a strong blush. usually we blend blush away. it s like the side kick nobody wants to hear. i do. this season it s a stronger blush. we ve seen it on beyonce. don t be afraid of it. let s move down if we can. she s got the slick pony going. this is one of my favorite looks. it gives an instant face lift. it pulls everything up. j. lo loves this look. the key is you do need a flat iron for this because you want your hair as sleek as possible. use a heat-protective serum. pull it up. if you have really thick hair, take a bit of the ponytail to wrap around the hair band. do you like that look? i do. if you re using a flat iron and put it on the shelf, tell your boyfriend. look in your own jewelry box. if you have silver jewelry, look for silver eye shadows. if you have gold, look for gold eye shadows. seth, i imagine you wear gold chains? mostly gold. you would be the gold eye shadow guy. thank you so much. this is a cool updo. this is the toughest look. it s the mad men look. if you get too high, it s a problem. measure your own forehead and don t go higher. tease the top and smooth it into a french twist. lots of hair spray for this to keep it in place. what about the lashes? goopy lash. a tammy fay lash. extra goopy. show your navy nails. this is the color of the season. navy nails. you heard it here first. it s not as severe as black but not as all over the place as red. use a top coat because this chips easily and shows chips quickly. thanks, everybody. next, we are talking about healthy snacks for schools. 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. if you ever had to provide snacks for your child s class or team. dana point, editor in chief of my biggest supporters parents magazine has ideas for you. there is pressure. when you re the one chosen as the snack mom, you want to make sure everybody is happy and healthy. this story sprang out of my own snack stress out of soccer snacks. the first one we have here is frozen apple sauce. that s the way to take something that might be a routine snack and snazz it up a little bit. it will thaw in the time it takes to get to the field. then it s ice creamy. you can freeze juice boxes using 100% juice or yogurt. you ve got healthy alternatives here, too. this is grapes we cut in half if you re feeding a class of kids under 4, you need to cut them for safety. those are sugar snap peas. this is a sweet snack and crunchy snack and putting them together. if if you put them with a familiar food, they may be more likely to eat them. take them in a shirt box you re recycling so you don t have to worry about your container back. this is popped corn and cinnamon. getting your kid involved in helping to pack the bags and seal them. look at that. that would have had me. you had me at stickers. oranges. this is not the same orange the monkey was eating. oh, good. that is. this is a clementine. the kids can peel them themselves. they have less juice and they are less likely to be licking their fingers on the soccer field. here we have a homemade trail mix, it s an o-cereal with peanuts. then some dried fruit and some little mini chocolate chips. just a little bit. what reaction did you get when you wrote this article about the stress of snack moms? we focused more on the solutions, but we often get letters and e-mails saying, thank you, i didn t know what to fix. nothing here is the usual, and i think people welcome a chance to changeup the routine. thank you so much. a big thank you to you, seth. his movie 50/50 starts on friday. it s a great, great movie. it will move you definitely. tomorrow we have gloria estefan and how to win an argument. thank you, seth. bye! captions by vitac www.vitac.com hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i m so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it s funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it s taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? 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