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What hes saying about that conversation this morning. Hostage standoff. Two staffers held captive by inmates at a delaware prison. Negotiators trying desperately to secure their police right now. Well have the latest from the scene. And destinys children. Beyonce and jay z post this photo. They are expecting twins. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. Hoda again here while savannah continues on maternity leave. When is the last time you googled beyonce. By the way, my head did one of those, too. I was radio when it haen a lot of people excited about that news. Well talk more about that later on but we have a very busy morning. Starting with breaking news overnight. Comes from berkeley campus. Demonstrators causing havoc shutting down a planned speech by an editor at a conservative breitbart and internet troll. Miguel almaguer has the latest on this. What can you tell us. Reporter it had been planned for quite some time. Police anticipated the crowd and protest. Before this event could begin it was shut down because of a fiery crash. The protest quickly turned viole violent. Demonstto fires, smashed windows and destroyed property at uk berkeley. Anticipating trouble police and to use flash bangs and pepper spray to clear the crowd of 1500. All of uc berkeley locked down. Students shelter in place as protesters moved downtown. There were brawls in the street. The chaos on campus began before he began to speak. The controversial editor from Breitbart News criticized for racist and mysogynistic views. Many protesters also voicing their opposition to the republican president. Invited by the student republican party, he released this video after the violence. Even if the things they said about me were true, it still wouldnt be the appropriate response to ideas. Then to twitter for tweets. Called leading member of the altright, which he denies hes part of the growing group last week a man was shot as demonstrators gathered outside for his speech. At uc davis a clash for police and protesters for schools there to get another speaking engagement. Now its happened again. This time at the very university where the Free Speech Movement was born. The president saying if you see berkeley does not offer free speech and practices violence on someone with a different view, no federal funds. The Free Speech Movement is dead. The constitutional right to free speech was silenced by criminals and thugs. Back to you. Miguel almaguer, thank you very much. The pren is putting iran on notice. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell had more on that. Andrea, good morning. Good morning. The Trump White House is wuputtg iran on notice and promising to hold accountable. The president tweeting this morning iran has been formally put on notice for firing a Ballistic Missile and should have been thankful for the terrible deal the u. S. Made with them. The policy crisis in iran, a challenge for new secretary of state Rex Tillerson, a caution from his boss, President Trump. Our foundation needs to foster stability in a world too often trapped. Right now its trapped in violence and war. Confirmed by a cluster vote by a top diplomat. Yeas 56, nays security adviser Michael Flynn issuing a strong warning to iran. We are officially putting iran on notice. Promising to hold iran accountable for testing a Ballistic Missile and threatening white house ships at sea. White house Officials Say nothing is off the table, not economic sanctions even military action. President trump tweeting late wednesday, iran is rapidly taking over more and more of iraq, even after the u. S. Has squandered 3 trillion there. Because defense secretary james mattis in south korea this morning filled with north koreas range it has missiles capable of carrying a Nuclear Weapon that would reach continental united states. On still another front, new fighting in ukraine could become an early test of President Trumps relations with vladimir putin. The Washington Post reporting President Trump had a testy call with australian Prime Minister. That country one of the longest military President Trump accusing him of trying to send the u. S. The next boston bomber, referring to an agreement to send 1250 refugees here. Mr. Trump hanging up after just 25 months according to Washington Post and tweeting monday night, do you believe the Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of immigrants from australia. Why. I will study this dumb dill. The Prime Minister tried to downplay the deal. The report the president tweeted out is not correct. The call ended courteously. As far as the nature of the discussion, it was frank and forthright. I stand up for australias interest, i make australias case as powerfully and per subwaysively as i can wherever i am. All this as the president and daughter ivanka went to delaware to see remains of navy s. E. A. L. Killed in yemen, First Service member killed in action on the new president s watch. Just returned from an family. It wasom very sad, very beautiful. Ryan, a great man. A lot of headaches for the new secretary of state as he takes over today. Hoping Rex Tillerson will calm the waters after unprecedented inauguration orders. Andrea mitchell, thank you so much. Nbc National Security analyst, chief of staff at cia and defense department. Jeremy, good morning to you. Good morning, matt. I want to start with this statement by Michael Flynn where he says we are officially putting iran on notice. It sounds like that should be the first sentence in a statement and you go on from there to explain exactly what you mean. Instead it was the last sentence and he leaves it hanging. So what does that mean to you . More importantly, what will it mean to all. This is an open ended threat. Were going to take a tougher line against iranians and probably that means increasing our military force presence there, increasing our naval presence, conducting special operations activities against Iranian Forces and maybe even conducting direct military action when theres a threat between iranian assets in the gulf and our own naval ship. It sounds like the comment was meant to put iran in a box or corner. If they continue bad behavior there will be consequences. By the very statement, dont they put the Trump Administration in a box as well. They have to take some kind of action . Well, thats right. Though this isnt exactly a red line, its sort of a pink dotted line. Its an assertion we are going to act. In question this morning, matt, is whether we talk to any of our european allies. Before we go out there and Start Talking about sanctions, for them to be effective we need other countries with us. We also want other countries with us if we in the region. This will be roller coastered in israels capital, the capital of saudi arabia and the emirates. The question is whakt our other allies in the region and in europe. During the campaign, then candidate trump was very critical of the Iran Nuclear Deal reached with the Obama Administration. Could this also be a first step in the Trump Administration attempts to dismanhattan that will agreement . Both of the president s statements through twitter this morning noted the iran deal was a terrible deal or a bad deal. I think theyre looking for a reason to pull out of that. But keep your eye on yemen, matt, because thats where American Special Operations Forces are operating, and there are iranianback proed proxies there, iranianbacked force, and thats where if were going to get into a scrape or military confrontation, its going to happen in yemen or the waters around yemen. Iermy bash, good to get your perspective. Th over one of the president s cabinet picks this morning, the nomination of betsy devos kwoub in peril with two republicans saying they will vote against her. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is at the white house with this story. Hey, hallie. Reporter hey, there, hoda. Good morning to you. President trump will be at a National Prayer breakfast here in washington before another busy day at the white house and as you mentioned another busy day on capitol hill. That is where political math is becoming increasingly important with razorthin margins on key votes. Now that pair of republicans breaking with their party is complicating for the administration their political calculus. Confirmation in the crosshairs with betsy confirmation in the crosshairs with betsy devoss nomination as secretary of education now in real jeopardy. Two republican, snow Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski say they will vote against her. The mexican billionaire does and doesnt know about public education. I think mrs. Devos has much to learn about our nations public schools. Tomorrow devos faces full senate vote with exactly 50 votes in her favor right now. If it stays that way and no other republicans defect, it sets up something thats never happened before. The Vice President cas a tiebreaking vote on cabinet nomination. Mike pence on capitol hill for a different reason, girding a fight making the runs for new Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. The administration saying if they try to block the nomination, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell should trigger Nuclear Option. In other words, changing senate rules to let republicans of 51 votes instead of the 60 votes theyd normally leave. If we end up with that gridlock, i would say, if you can, mitch, go nuclear, because that would bn if a man of this quality was caught up in the web. Reporter mcconnell, after his first meeting with gorsuch, pointing out the Senate Confirmed him unanimously back in 2006. Not a single one of the democrats who still serve with us opposed him including the Ranking Member of the judiciary committee, senator feinstein, and the democratic leader himself, senator schumer. Reporter senator schumer now blasting gorsuchs record. I have very serious doubts that judge neil gorsuch is up to the job. Reporter hes warning republicans, dont trigger that Nuclear Option. If this nominee cannot meet the same standard that republicans insisted upon for president obamas Supreme Court nominees, 60 votes in the senate, then the problem lies not with the senate but with the nominee. Reporter on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, the president kicking off black History Month at the white house, praised by africanamerican supporters but raising eyebrows 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the present tense. Frederick douglass is an example of somebody whs done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, i notice. Reporter theres a dom though effect on capitol hill to whats happening there with the confirmation votes for Jeff Sessions to become the next attorney general on hold. Why . That is because republicans need sessions vote as senator to help get betsy devos through. Matt, hoda . Hallie jackson, thank you very much. Mark is here with some analysis. Good morning. Rex tillerson was sworn in, so thats the good news. The democrats are holding up some votes and there is some question about betsy devos. Read the tea leaves for us. Do you think she will get confirmed . Well, theyve got no margin of error as hallie said, 50 votes with the Vice President there to break the tie. The white house is cde republican senators. Most president s lose at least one nominee. If President Trump gets her through, hell probably get everybody through. That would be unusual, but she cant afford to lose another republican senator. Lets talk about neil gorsuch. Chuck schumer said do not change the rules in the senate. This guy needs 60 votes one way or another. Is he going to get 60 votes anyway . Are enough democrats going to cross over the make that Nuclear Option a moot point . It hangs in the balance. From berkeley to the beltway, this country is divided, and the intense pressure on every democrat ick senator, even ones up iffer reelection in two years, is going to be do not give him 60 votes, do not let the filibuster be broken. You think were headed to the Nuclear Option. Thats on the razors edge too. If Mitch Mcconnell can avoid changing the senate rules and get 60 points, this games not over yet. Right now i dont think hell get to 60. Can donald trump and other outside groups put pressure on conservative states to vote for him . Mark, it was interesting. With cameras rolling trump said to Mitch Mcconnell, basically, dont hesitate to go nuclear. What does that say for how everyones going to be getting along . It says donald trump is governing as a republican president , not an independent. If he does a scorecard of his first few weeks in office and says am i living up to my goal and my promise to unite the country . Right now he is not. He is in the barricades with Mitch Mcconnell and other republicans on the confirmation fights. Hes got a whole agenda sprt from getting people confirmed trying to appeal to democrats. That will be tougher to do the longer it goes on. Off special coming up friday night. You were coverg this campaign for the last 18 months. What youre doing now i think is fascinating. Youve slowed the pace and you get the benefit of hindsight to look back at the race as a whole. How has it changed your opinion of what happened . It covers the whole campaign and will remind you of familiar events but a lot of stuff people havent seen. The biggest thing is listening to the voters. I went to so many trump rallies. Youll see trump voters talking in this film from all over the country. They knew he was going to win, and more importantly in listening to them, i didnt pick it up at the time, they knew why. They understood his appeal better than the pundits and explain why this is why the people will vote for donald trump. Tomorrow night it airs on show time. Breaking overnight, authorities still negotiating the release of two staffers. After delaware Prison Inmates held workers hostage. Two employees have been released by the inmates. They are upset with Donald Trumps leadership. They are communicating via twoway radio. All prisons placed on lockdown. An usual sight wednesday in frigid isolated city in canada a swiss air flight en route from zurich to los angeles forced to make an Emergency Landing due to technical irregularity. The boeing 777 had only one working engine. Passengers stuck in small arctic city for a few hours so they were given a sightseeing tour on a heated bus. A plane was eventually sent from new york to pick them up. I like how you pronounced that just right. All right. Lets get a check of the weather. Hey, al. Happy groundhogs day. Lets check on festivities live. Punxsutawney, pennsylvania. There he is. Look t oh, my gosh. Just happened. What h were waiting, they have not determined yet. Hold on. They are still debriefing. What do you mean you didnt like it . What do you mean . They are milking it. They know they are live on the today show. Ladies and gentlemen, he has made his prediction. This is where you read the poem. Like wadsworth. Here ye here ye here ye, now this 2nd day of february, 2017, the 131st annual trek of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club before one of the largest crowds in the history of groundhog day. Punxsutawney phil the prognosticator of all prognosticators was awakened by cheers of thousands of faithful followers. In groundhogese he have directed the president and inner circle which reads at gobblers knob on groundhog day we celebrate a worldwide holiday its mighty cold weather youve been braving is it winter or summer youre craving since weve been up all not and starting to total. Function tonight phil will not dawdle my faithful followers i perfectly see a clear shadow of me six more weeks of winter it shall be. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, straight from the groundhogs mouth. He has spoken. Yes, he has. Thats whats going on. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in thet 30 secos good morning, everybody. Dont listen to Punxsutawney Phil, he couldnt have possibly seen his shadow under all those clouds. For us we have mostly cloudy skies, just a sliver of sunshine getting through. P potomac phil might see his. More sunshine as the day goes on. Turning breezy so have your inulated winbrke im excited about that coming up. The reemergence of Hillary Clinton. Her big plans for 2017 in the wake of her president ial race lost. A supersized super bowl profit. How home owners are cashg bigtime for the game. First this is today on. Us just ahead the answer to a very pressing question, is there really a bacon shortage . I hope not. A big surprise based on a fun story we did on trending on wednesday. Well tell you about that. But first your local newsnd weathe ihear me now, but i switched to sprint. Their Network Reliability is now within 1 of verizon. And, get this, with sprints new unlimited plan, you have the freedom to do virtually whatever you want. Is there no worrying about gigabytes, shmigabytes, overages, bill phobia . Thats the dream right there. Well, then mama is gonna text, ping, post, tweet, snap. Can you hear that . vo get unlimited mobile optimized data, talk, and text. Plus, get 800 to spend anyway you want when you switch a family of four to sprint. For people with hearing loss, thats 200 for every line you bring visit sprintrelay. Com. When i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. I just snapped a photo and got an estimate in 24 hours. My Insurance Company liberty stands with you™ Liberty Mutual insurance announcer this is a news 4 today newsbreak. 7 26 is your time now on this thursday february 2nd, 2017. Good morning to you, im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. In the news th morning, we now know the cause of a house fire in Montgomery County. In the last hour the Fire Department said an overloaded fireplace started the flames on martinsburg road. The fire quickly spread into the walls and attic. Crews used water tanker trucks to put out the flames here. One person escaped that house and its okay. Youre looking at live pictures at the washington hilton. The National Prayer breakfast there is just getting under way. Several senators and representatives are attending. President donald trump is expected to speak within the hour. Now lets check with Melissa Mollet and first4traffic. Hi, melissa. Good morning. Lets take a look if we can this morning. A crash in the center lane this morning. Taking a look elsewhere, 295 southbound before the 11th Street Bridge cash, beltway overall looking okay. No major problems 270 southbound. Guys. All right, melissa, thank you. A check on yoorcong ex your path to retirement may not always be clear. But at t. Rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. So wherever your Retirement Journey takes you, we can help you reach your goals. Call us or your advisor t. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. The market. Redict but through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Good morning, everybody. A lot of clouds outside for now. Well get more and more sunshine as the day goes along. Temperatures in the upper 30s to around 40 degrees now. Afternoon highs in the upper 40s to near 50 degrees. It will turn more and more breezy as the afternoon goes along. Mostly cloudy, cooler tomorrow, very cold over the weekend. Saturdays high only 39. That little chance for rain and snow on sunday getting littler all the time. It might not even be much of all right, chuck. Thank you. Another local news update in about 25 minutes. For now back to the today show after this short brea have a grt y. Y299xy ysty z2934z zstz y2934y ysty a all right. 7 30 now on thursday morning. Its the 2nd of february, 2017. Thanks to all the folks who woke up early and joined us out on the plaza this morning. Well get out there in just a little while. Playing beyonce music. Beyonce is everywhere right now, big news. Here is a look at the mornings headlines. Overnight violent protests at the university of california berkeley shut down a planned speech by a polarizing editor of the conservative website breitbart. Officials had to place the campus on lockdown as demonstrators marched with fires and threw barricades. President um people need to be able to express different points of view. National security advis said the u. S. Is putting iran on notice following a Ballistic Missile test over the weekend. He declined to take questions after delivering that statement that the white house says, no option is off the table from economic sanctions to military action. And with mr. Trump looking on last night, Vice President mike pence, former exxonmobil ceo Rex Tillerson secretary of state. He was confirmed by a senate vote of 6643 with democrats voicing concern about tillersons ties to russia. In the meantime after taking eye away from public eye following the election, Hilla Clinton pes ready to return to the spotlight. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander has more on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. After months of staying on the sideline Hillary Clinton isnt launching a comeback but it is a remergence with big plans and a her reaction after the most extended election in modern history. Cheers for Hillary Clinton on broadway. The audience chanting her name on wednesday. Many waiting to catch a glimpse as she left with husband bill clinton, taking selfies with fans. Aside from the inauguration she intended to be her own weve seen very little of clinton. For weeks, only glimpses of her, snapping a photo during a hike in the woods. The hunt for hill. Those chance encounters even inspiring snl sketch. The most elusive catch of all, Hillary Rodham clinton. Now the democratic nominee planning her next chapter, a book of essays, favorite quotes, her stunning defeat. These quotd me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times veras during the hard times and deepen to offer. Shell have a series of speeches on womens rights and gay rights beginning this spring and another that will bring her full circle. Nearly 50 years after the 1969 wellesley commencement speech that catapulted her to National Fame fear is always with us, but we just dont always have time for it. Not now. Reporter slated to address her alma mater at commence lt speaker once again this may. What will this measured return to the spotlight say . A lot of her supporters want to see her yelling and screaming saying the election was stolen from us. I do not expect her to do that. Reporter shes posted a series of critical tweets about President Trump, writing, this is not who we are, after that temporary u. S. Travel ban on seven largely muslim countries. Still clinton hasnt been nearly as fierce as her attacks during the campaign. She wants to be a voice in criticism of the administration but we dont know exactly where and how yet. In fact, Chelsea Clinton has been much more vocal on twitter, posting photos of a march that she joined to protest President Trumps travel ban, also criticizing the white houses statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that failed to mention jews or the Jewish Community in the wake of her moms loss increasingly chelsea taking on the family surrogate role. Matt and hoda . Peter, thank yo time to head over to al for a look at the forecast. Take a look at the temperature, show you whats going on. In fact, for the month of january, its really the tale of two countries, the Pacific Northwest and plains. Temperatures have been below average, normal. But as you look into the southeast, atlantic states, coast, you can see temperatures warm. Lake charles the third warmest january ever, tupelo, mississippi second warmest. Atlanta the seventh warmest. Were going to see that cool air continue in the plains and on into the great lakes for today. The temperatures well below green bay and cleveland. That will continue on into friday. But then new york city below average, same in raleigh, cleveland and chicago. The good news is as we head into the weekend the warmth returns. By monday new york city 46, atlanta 64, st. Louis will get to 53 and 77 in dallas. Thats what going on around t country,erishas hniyo nk t wood and we are not too cold this morning. Temperature right around 41 degrees. In the district. Some areas upper 30s. But later on today its going to get breezy, a west wind. Thats going to start to warm things up. Partly sunny, mostly cloudy day today. Upper 40s for most of the area. But some spots could get in the low 50s with that wind direction. Tomorrow were colder, 43 for a high. Morning lows in the 20s. Colder across the week and very low chance for showers sunday. For analysis of what happened in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, turn to friends at the Weather Channel with jim c. How steph curry got schooled by his own dad. On rossen reports, a super bowl jackpot. Matt, good morning to you. Were live in houston, the site of the super bowl. The stadium a few miles away from where im standing. Dont worry about that. Real action right here in the neighborhood. Home owners are cashing in making 5, even 10,000 a night. 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Right now the in houston, the super bowl, a couple miles away from super bowl. All these rich people with money to spend are flying in from everywhere, they need a place to stay. Hotels are booked up. Home owners are renting out their places and cashing in making thousands and thousands a night. Its the biggest game of the year. The falcons plus the real winners, houston home owners cashing in big time. Renting out their homes to incoming super bowl fans on air bng, vrbo, even craigslist. From tiny apartments, this one bedroom going for 1,000 a night to luxury homes. The people who live here charging 4,000 a night. Ben and laura are charging even more, putting their house on airbnb for more than 5,000 a night. Thats a lot of money. Supply and demand, jeff. Can you show me around the house . Right this way. How many bedrooms. Three bedrooms. Three bedroom house. A beautiful home but not a sprawling estate. A cozy house. Its cozy but youre charging 5500 a night. If you dont mind me asking, whats your mortgage . A lot less than that. Youre going to make your monthly mortgage back in one super bowl weekend. Yes. What are you going to do with the money . Give the house tlc and give some to charity. Where are you staying . Were fortunate to have family in town. Are they charging you rent . Now they are. Its big business. Airbnb releasing exclusive numbers to nbc news. Houston home owners expected to rake in 3. 7 million on that one site this weekend alone. Big events create real enormous opportunities for home owners. Over 5 4,000 will be staying. Demand is so high you dont need a house to cash in, we found apartments, too. Small places with big price tags, many bragging walking distance to nrg stadium. This has a sky high view of the city, listed for 8,000 a night. Thats more than monthly rent, and there are takers. Im inside the apartm rightow it is pr nice. Mel lives here and was nice enough to invite us over. Thank you. I have to tell you, 8,000 a night for an apartment does sound extreme to me. Its an Tropical Storm hermine weekend. Thats true. One of the reasons ive never rented out my place and probably never will and i think a lot of people dont because its a little creepy to have strangers in your place. What if they break stuff . Well, airbnb does offer some paperwork. We should be okay. Im very confident things will work out. Youve got to give people a chance. Are you saying you dont give people a chance . Doesnt sound like youre giving out chances. But you will. This weekend i definitely will. The new way to score before the game even started. Big vacation time. Do you even care who wins the game. I dont do sports. Yodoon. Reporter you do money. My instant new best friend. I checked onlth the game, the place that is havent rented, prices are dropping. There are bargains to be had out there. Also i just got a list of airbnb of the next hot spot. 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Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet with equal uploads and downloads, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Good thursday morning. Not a bad start to the day. 41 right now in the district. Surrounding areas like gaithersburg, dulles, quantico coming in about the mid30s. We will be rebounding as we go through the day today. Freezing conditions for the afternoon hours so temperatures will be climbing in about mid to upper 40s. Some areas will get in the low 50s with that west wind. Tomorrow were colder, saturday, sunday, looking dry for super bowl fans. For now, back to t show. Its 8 00 on today. Coming up, breaking overnight, violent protests arrest at the university of california, berkeley, over a scheduled speech by a controversial conservative editor. The university canceling that event. While back in washington, President Trump faces rising tensions with iran and a surprising test from a close ally. Plus, inspiring moment. What former president george h. W. Bush, just released from the hospital, will be doing at sundays big game that has both fans and players psyched. And stars and sequels. When you left, i swore that i would stop it if thats what it took to get natalie catches up with 50 shades darker star jamie dornan, about his film, family, and facial hair. Oh, and remember, you owe me. You dont want me owing you. Keanu reeves swings by studio 1a to chat about his new actionpacked movie. Today, february 2nd, thursday, 2017. Whooo lake tahoe celebrating my graduation at the today show come and get your love celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. Im on today its 8 00 its the second day of february 2017. Lots of people outside this morning. Got run over by our cameraman. You have to stay out of the way. Hoda is here while savannah continues on maternity leave, so we decided to give hoda the honor of picking a Throwback Thursday song. Come get your love by red bug. You all like this song . Kwhoo no idea. Anyway, coming up, a new round of recipes to get you super bowl ready from sloppy joes to buffalo bites, and its safe to say that our friend peggy lee has you covered this morning. Here on today we are going all out for the big game. And al, tell them about it, because we need their help. Thats right. Patriots fans, im heading up to boston and well be live from cheers in faneuil h for you falcons fans, Sheinelle Jones is heading your way. Shell be in atlanta at hudson grill, midtown. If you are in either neighborhood, get decked out in your best team gear. We are having the ultimate pep rally and were going to pit the mayors against each other. Its going to be big. A little friendly competition between you and Sheinelle Jones on who can draw the biggest crowd . Wont be friendly. Its a death match. Thats tomorrow on today. Atlanta, boston, come on out. Be there. Heres your a news at 8 00. Im Kristen Welker at the white house. President donald trump attending the annual Prayer Breakfast in washington this morning. Its already getting under way. Its an event where democrats and republicans come together, and it may be a brief break from tensions that are mounting here in d. C. And beyond. This morning President Donald Trump now has his top cabinet secretary in place. The new secretary of state, tillerson, sworn in late wednesday. The president praising him. You bring the unique skills and deep, deep insights, and ive got on the see it first hand, into foreign diploma dipl. Our nation needs to foster stability and security. Reporter tillerson takes the reins amid Foreign Policy flareups. At the top of that list, iran. Overnight the president tweeting, iran is rapidly taking over more and more of iraq, even after the u. S. Has squandered 3 trillion there. Obvious long ago. Earlier in the day a surprise visit to the White House Briefing room. National security advisor f Michael Flynn issuing this stern warning. As of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. Reporter at issue a series of provocations including iran test launching a Ballistic Missile sunday. Flynn accusing iran of violating a United Nations resolution even though the u. N. Is still assessing the situation. The white house also stressing te the nuclear resolution. Still administration Officials Say they are considering retaliation and wouldnt rule out economic sanctions or even military action. This morning a report President Trump had a contentious phone call with one of americas closest allies, australia. The Washington Post cites u. S. Officials briefed on the exchange who say President Trump boasted about his electoral victory while blasting australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over an agreement to take in 1,250 refugees, even accusing australia of seeking to export the next boston bombers. The white house not commenting but mr. Trump tweeted overnight, do you believe it . The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of Illegal Immigrants from australia. Why . I will study this dumb deal. And mr. Trump also making time for a somber visit to Dover Air Force base with daughter ivanka, paying tribute to chief petty officer william ryan owens, who died on a mission in against an al qaeda affiliate. Just returned from an amazing visit with a great, great family at dover, and it was something very sad, very beautiful. Reporter and this morning the white house is confirming that call with President Trump and the australian Prime Minister saying it was 25 minutes long and blunt. Meanwhile, President Trump is up this morning with another tweet storm including one about iran, and hes underscoring the words of his National Security advisor. Heres what he tweeted out. Iran has been formally put on notice for firing a Ballistic Missile. Should have been thankful for the terrible deal the u. S. Made with them. The question now, though, what if any action will the white house actually take. Matt . Kristen, thank you very much. Breaking overnight, violence erupted after a political protest on the campus of the university of california, berkel berkeley. The evening began with a peaceful rally against a scheduled speech by provocative Breitbart News editor milo yiannopoos school Officials Say clashes broke out when a Smaller Group of what it called masked agitators came onto campus. A lockdown order was issued. Several people were treated for injuries. This morning President Trump tweeted that if uc, berkeley, does not allow free speech and practices violence against innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds. Celebrity weather watch, Punxsutawney Phil was up early this groundhog day with a message for the winter weary. Phil emerged from his borough in gobblers knob, pennsylvania. He was greeted by thousands of curious admirers, many hoping for an early spring. 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At the game wednesday night, steph tried to pull one over on his dad. So before the game, ep this ball to his dad and then hides. Del is wearing a full suit but unfazed. Puts that ball up. Look what happens. Casual three. A reminder where he comes from. Hes like look at me, babe, i got game. This is where you got it from. A little reminder there. Street clothes. Boom. He says now you go, your turn. And of course steph goes for his 11th threepointer. Impromptu game of horse. Did he call bank . That matters. More than 30 Million People have now seen a video we first showed you here on wednesday. It shows a North Carolina teesmer with famous name, barry white jr. , and now his moves have become just as popular. Mr. Whites come up with a personalized handshake for every single one of his students, Something Like 40 students. And hes inspiring students and teachers all over the country. You like that video . Love it. Thats great. We have a surprise for you. Whats th . Get out of here. And barry white jr. Barry white jr. Is here. Great to see you. What have you got going on . What . No way. Oh, come on. No. Let me in. Oh my goodness. How do you do that . Teacher. We love you. Awesome. What inspired this for you to do this . Really it started with a student last year. She used to wait outside my door in the morning and she would get in trouble for being late. But she said, come on, the bells ringing, mr. White, i have to do the handshake. It was so powerful and simple. I decided you know what, i want to bring that feel to my whole entire grade, fifth grade, all thoo year its been an amazing thing to impact them and the relationships have been awesome. How do you remember all those different handshakes . We do it so much, its every day. Mr. White, lets do a handshake at recess, im trying to sit down and be on my phone. Mr. White, time for the handshake. Can we just get two people can you come here for one second . His mom and dad are here. And you knew that this kid was going to turn out well when you meet these two, your parents. Come on over. We just want to say barry white sr. Your name. Joanne white. Joanne is here too. Can you see where he gets it . We grew up in the same neighborhood. Queens. Thats right. Got to be proud, huh . So proud. My history teacher mr. Simons was so influential in my life. Do you do you understand how important tour these kids . That must make you feel so good. It definitely does. One of the most amazing is parts is you step in go upstairs to fourth grade reading or math, everybody is doing something unique in that classroom. In the hallways. I have my handshakes. Teachers have their songs. Its an amazing feeling all around the building. Just to make sure we settle one point, i heard people say too much of anything is too good for you no good for you. Are you connected, related to the other real barry white . Im junior, this is senior. Thats it. All right, guys. Barry, so great to have you here. Thank you. Thank you so much, guys. Appreciate it. Mr. Daly, popstart. The reason why the coin toss at this years super bowl will be extra special. Days after being released from the hospital, former president bush and mrs. Barbara bush will do the honor in his hometown of houston. On twitter posting this gif of the super bowl coin. The caption, getting fired up for sunday and the super bowl. It wont be president bushs president , past or present, to participate in person during a super bowl coin toss. So glad theyre doing well. Next to la laland. Some reviewers calling the chemistry between emma stone and ryan gosling magic. But emma watson and miles keller of course had great chemistry as well, but the New York Post saying the pair was dropped for being too difficult with miles demanding more money. Miles responding to that report on twitter saying it had alternative facts. And jason mamoa, that is your pop start. Today weve got your super bowl commercial kickoff from tmobile and features one of the biggest singers in the world. Have a look. Hello. Im justin bieber, celebration expert. First, it was the highfive. Then it was this. Gronk. We got the shimmy, we got the shake and shimmy shimmy shake. Then we took it to the next level. That guy has unlimited moves. Today Everyone Wants things unlimited. Nice moves, kid. Im not done yet. Day goodbye to limited. Tmobile everyone loves unlimited. Post your moves now and im going to share my faves. Where did this guy come from . Look at him dance. Unlimited moves. This has shimmy sham sham shimmy shake there. All right. Another super bowl commercial for you tomorrow right here on today. Guys. Raise your hand if you were more nervous about doing your handshake. Mr. Roker, check of the weather. All right. Lets see what weve got going. First of all, a little bit of wet weather through the southeast, shreveport, south of nashville and knoxville. Not too terrible. We are going to see scattered showers and thunderstorms. Behind that front were going to be looking at cooler weather as well. Lets move up to the north where were still seeing more lakeeffect snow, especially around lake ontario. We are talking some areas between now and saturday. 1 to 3 feet of snow. That is crazy. Thats what going on arou country, herishas hag yr of e woo good morning, everybody. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. I have a fair amount of sunshine getting through. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies. Well get more and more sunshine as the day goes along. Temperatures 30s to near 40 right now. As youre planning out the remainder of thursday, well get more and more sunshine. A bit of a gusty northwesterly wind, keep us feeling a little on the chilly side. Then for tomorrow, another very cloudy day and cold, too. Highs tomorrow only near 40. If youre heading out, xm channel 108. All right, al, thanks. All this week we are hearing from the stars of fifty shades darker. We talked to Dakota Johnson wednesday. This morning natalie catches up with christian grey himself, natalie dornan. Good morning. Hello, hoda. I dont know if youve seen it yet but fifty shades series youve seen a lot of jamie dornin. Baring more skin than usual when we caught up with him this week. Jamie, ive got to ask you about the look right awe the bat. Is this a new look, a new do or just youre incognito trying to skate through security . No. Its far job, so its for this robin hood thing im doing. So, yeah, theres a reason for it. Are Christian Gray fans liking it so far . I have absolutely no idea. I would imagine a few people are disappointed. Reporter in 50 shades darker, Christian Gray, now heart broken billionaire with a voracious sexual appetite, tries to lure back the woman he cant get enough of, anastasia steele. Christian gray, what is going on with him and anastasia . Its darker but theres a little more of that love story where you see that she is winning him over. Hes fallen in love with her. At ease. We get to see a different side of christian, a softer side. He smiles a lot more in darker, and he yeah, i think she makes him a much better person. So we get to see you have a little more fun together. Yeah. Exactly. Because especially in the first movie, you know, like dakota, she gets all the laughs. But you did have to do some research. You went to a dungeon. Mmhmm. You saw some s m. I did. What was that like . It was interesting. It was you know, i think there are so many different versions tothat and, you know, theres not just one. Theres a million ways to kick a ball, do you know what i mean . Its like theres nothing you can say that doesnt you know, have sexual connotations. Yeah. Is this what happens anytime you want to talk about the movie and there are so many little holes you can fall down. You its almost impossible to talk about this movie. But overall youre not a fan of christians approach to love. No, man. Im not. Im not. But im very understanding of it. Meanwhile youre a dad to two lovely babies under the age of 3. Mmhmm. Yeah. Arielle just turned 3 so its total madness and carnage at home, but we love it. Youre just a normal dad on your days off when youre not acting . Theres absolutely no choice but to be otherwise. They demand of you that youre dad. Changing diaper, all of that . Constantly. Constantly. At least weve got one out of well, diapers now. A lot of women in america said, oh, he changes nappies. That right there turned them on more than Christian Gray would. Really . Well, whatever floats your boat. Guy, im also going to a masquerade ball with the entire 50 shades darker cast tonight. Ill have that for you on today tomorrow. 50 shades darker from our Sister Company theaters february 10th. How do they compare, the second and the snirs. This one is more of the love story. So there is more of a story to it, whereas the first one, lets be honest, it was all about the sex. Mmhmm. So number two is better. That was unnecessary. Natalie, thanks. A little connection to yesterdays show. Coming up, the star of another highly anticipated movie keanu reeves is here. Well talk to him. The man just turned down bacon. How is that possible . Look at him. Announcer this is a news 4 today newsbreak. Good morning, 8 26 now on this thursday february 2nd. Im aaron gilchrist. Lets start with a check on traffic. Melissa mollet has that. Melissa. Hi, aaron. Right now still have situation Bull Run Post Office road before braddock road, all lanes opened there. Dont have to worry about that any longer. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway okay, earlier problems out of t way. Bw parkway before 97 a crash in the left lane there and live look 20 at tuckerman, no major problems there. Melissa, thank you. Well have a check of your forecast wn ce ck creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Good morning, everybody. In the 30s to around 40 degrees right now. Well get more and more sunshine. A little breezy. Afternoon highs in the upper 40s to near 50. Colder weather moves in for friday and saturday and chance looking tinier all the time. Mild with rain next week. Chuck, thank you. Get the latest news and weather any time, just open nbc washington app. Now t dash. 8 30 on a thursday morning, february 2nd, 2017. Were taking selfies with the crowd. Hi, guys. Go ahead, hoda. Get in there. Okay. Im in. Hey, guys. We made it. All right, you guys. Coming up, keanu reeves is back in action following the success of the first wick wk john wick. Well talk about the chapter and other things hes working on. And joy bauer helping improve our health with five foods to manage our Blood Pressure. Give you one little hint cocoa powder. Cocoa pouder . Good for you. Okay. And katie lee has all the fixing for a super bowl feast you can pig out on without regret. You. Thats right. Thats how we roll. A check of the weather. First of all, over here where . Over here, they said, i said yes. What was the question . What was the question . Will you marry me . Oh, and y lets check your weather and see what weve got going on. All right. Super bowl. Weve got a big pep rally going on. 11 alive in atlanta, Sheinelle Jones, 44 friday morning. Im going to be nbc boston samuel hall. Its going to be 22, sunny and cold. Come on down and show your support. Then the super bowl forecast for the big game in stadium. They have a roof retracted, a chance of showers kick off 5 30 central halftime supposedly lady gaga is up on the roof. 67 and mostly cloudy skies. Thats what going on around th country, heris ws h iyourk t wood well, this morning not too bad to start off your day. Some areas are in the 30s. Mid30s, dulles 36, gaithersburg 37, in the district at 41 degrees and well be climbing in the upper 40s this afternoon. Winds will be increasing a breezy west wind. That the pump temperatures up in some areas could get into the low 50s today. Just about partly sunny skies. Tomorrow were colder, saturday colder and dry. Sunday slight chance of a shower but should be staying mainly dry for superowsuay. Dont forget, get that weather any time you need it, check out our pals at the Weather Channel. Hoda. All right, al roker, an so much. Epic action movies during his career. Were talking about point break trilogy. And 2014s john wick, unlike the new character, a former hitman who comes out of retirement to avenge the death of his daughter. He is back with john wick chapter 2. Take a look. Your descent into hell begins here, wick. Earl will guide you. Do be careful on your way down. Oh, and remember, you owe me. You dont want me owing ow. Fans of matrix, i think their heads explode seeing you and Laurence Fishburne together. Yeah. How are you . Foo good morning. Good morning. Whose idea was that to have that reunion . The directors, chads. Laurence and i became friends after the trilogy so a couple times a year we get together, check in, talk about life. He was saying he really enjoyed the first john wick and i was like, thats cool, would you be interested . And he was like, hmm. Then i told chad. Chad sent laurence a script. Laurence said, i like it. How did he say it . I like it. The way he says things. Yeah. And then it was great to have the chance to work with him again. So john wick was a cult favorite and it kind of exploded into this hit. Did you think that there would ever be a john wick 2 that wed be sitting here talking about this . When i was working on the first i didnt know. I hoped. I really loved the character and so im grateful to have the chance to keep telling that story. There are some insane action scenes we were watching them on the screenplay out right now. Yeah. You do a lot of doing those fishtails in the car. You are so quick on the trigger with the gun. Yeah. There must have been some crazy training i can only imagine because it cant p easy to shoot that quick. No. Practice makes perfect. I had some Great Teachers with the driving, with the gun work. Wer of that. Thats terence butler, a threegun champion. So the director wanted me to do some live fire because theres nothing like live fire to kind of get it into your body. Yeah. When the director yelled action, you had to pop up and just shoot real quick like that . Yeah. Well, ive got a couple things. I mean, john wick is on point, hes on target, ready to go. But he also kind of gets beat up. Theres a lot of people after him. Hes fighting for his life. So, yeah. In the first john wick some thugs who were part of a bigger gang kill your dog and you are clearly judgment set. Yeah. How does the sequel come to be . John is he still wants to retire. He wants to you know, his wife has passed away. He wants to grieve. He wants to heal. He wants to remember. But, you know, someone comes from his past and comes to collect on a debt, and john wick doesnt really want to do that. He doesnt want to kind of, you know, do whatever he has to do, but he dealing with your past and trying to live you know, john is just trying to be free. Yeah. I was reading your Wikipedia Page and reading about how you traveled a lot when you were a little kid and how high school really wasnt for you. Im sitting here sitting across from you and im watching this guy who succeeded wildly. If you were speaking to some High School Kids little ones feel like, you know, maybe how you felt, what would you say to them to encourage them, do you think . Gosh. How would you do that . Thats kind of i mean what did you do . I mean, i didnt have a traditional path. I went to four different high schools. Yeah. I mean, i guess i would say through that, i mean, i was lucky because i knew as a young person what i wanted to do. You knew. I was 15 and i wanted to become an actor and so i started to study and do all of the things that i needed to do to try and achieve that. Yeah. So f know, who i mean, i cant its not just stay in school, right . Its not give up. You were knocked around and kept getting up. Yeah. Yeah. And every kid is different, you know, but there are some kind of ground rules, you know. We wish you great luck with this. Youve got a couple other Great Projects youll come back and talk to us about when they come to fruition. I hope so. Thanks for coming to see us. Really appreciate it. John wick chapter 2 hits theaters next friday. Coming up next, dr. Phil is here to help you keep your kids safe. Well talk to him. But first, this is today on nbc. Back, 8 39 with cautionary advice for every parent from dr. Phil. For todays ep society of the dr. Phil show, he interviews a 15yearold girl who became involved with a man more than twice her age and then disappeared with him. A dr. Phil, good morning. Good to see you. Good morning. This is so scary, all right . Lets give the facts here. 15yearold kayla found unharmed after a week. There was an amber alert issued for her. Find out that she was involved with her friends father, who was 37 years old. How did this relationship start . Well, the mother met this was a friend of her father, and the mother met the father, who came over and said, you know, can she come and spend the night with my daughter. So the parents talked and mom felt like everythings okay. What she didnt know is he was grooming the daughter and very early on seduced her, started having his way with her. She spent six months in a relationship with him, sleeping in his bed when mom thought she was spending the night with this 14, 13yearold daughter. And finally he says, if you dont run away with me, im going to kill to go out the bedroom window in the middle of the night and theyre gone. Did the mom miss signs or was he just so good there was no way to know . Mom is well intentioned but naive about this whole thing. Thats one of the things im going to talk about in the parenting points. Weve got to really know who were exposing our kids to. Weve got to really know, not just pile high on the porch. Who are these people . I have a 15yearold, 13yearold, 10yearold. Strategies for parents. You hear people say this all the time, phil, im best friends with my daughter, best friends with my son. You stress the point youre not best friends. Youre their parents. Exactly. A parent is a noun and a verb. You start to parent and your job is to see around corners that they cant see around. Their brains are not through growing until theyre 25. Its your job to see the problems and keep them out of the ditch. And you cant do that by being their buddy, their pal, their best friend. Were just saying about the porch, you give parent the benefit of the doubt. You say he or she seems nice enough. It sounds cynical but i say its ridiculous to give anybody the benefit of the doubt. Why would you do that . Particularly when its your child. Why would you just give somebody the benefit of the doubt . Neither should you decide theyre bad people. Gather relevant data and until you have enough to entrust your child to this person, i dont care if its a teacher, coach, sunday schoolteacher, parent of a friend, whoever, until you have the data, dont entrust your child to them. You also have to speak to your kids not only about the little insignificant things that happen during their day at school and things, you have to sit down and talk about things that truly matter, even if they sound scary. Thats right. I say you should talk to your children about things that dont matter so you can be prepared to talk to them about things when they do matter. Get the child to be used to talking to you. And you cant judge. The first time they t ed. Grounded for life, theyre not going to tell you things. You have to listen and not judge and then talk about some alternatives. You have to trust your kids, but you offer this surprise them. Oh. What does that mean . Look, you trust your child to be a child. Youre not invading your childs privacy if youre looking in their social media accounts. And when they say theyre spending the night is somewhere, show up and see if theyre there. Find out if theyre doing what theyre saying theyre going to do on a random basis. You just mentioned something in passing. Years ago it used to be if you were to find your kids journal on the bed would you pick it up and read it . Now its all about social media. Its all about digital devices. Youre a fan of saying every once in a while, grab that device and go for a look . You bet. And get yourself in the chat rooms where theyre going. Get a screen name. Get in the chat rooms. See what theyre saying, who theyre talking to. There are predators among us, and they are in those chat there are bullies on line, there are predators online. And its nooefr late. We have to reparent our children. Its not too late. Start right now. Thats why kayla comes on the show today. She really realized she made a bad mistake. This is a cautionary tale. It is chilling. Will you come live at my house . Ive got mine raised. You never finish but ive got gem at least out the door. You can catch the dr. Phil show today. Check your local listings. Up next, five foods to better manage your Blood Pressure. First, this is today on nbc. 8 46. Were back with our special series joys healthy heart, marking american heart month. 75 million americans have high Blood Pressure. There are certain foods you can actually eat to help you manage it. Today nutritionist joy bauer is here with her top five. Joy, good morning. Good morning, matt. Exactly defines high Blood Pressure . Imagine this. Our blood carries oxygen and nutrients throughout our body using a network of these tiny little vessels. Theyre like small tubes. As the blood travels, it exerts pressure on the vessel walls. Thats known as Blood Pressure. If the pressure gets intense, its high Blood Pressure. So im going to show you a quick illustration. This top one is a normal, healthy blood vessel. Smooth sailing. Traffic moving well on the highway. Absolutely. This vessel demonstrates high Blood Pressure, and you can see its clearly distressed. Theres plaque within the walls so, its a narrowed space, and also the walls are having a hard time. Theyre hardened and contracting but exerting a lot of energy. The other thing is if this guy or gal who owns this vessel takes in a lot of salt, salt draws in water, increases the volume which will then increase the Blood Pressure even further. Diet, exercise, all g that actually help you manage your Blood Pressure. The first one people are going to like the sound of. Cocoa powder. So everybody seems to know the virtues of dark chocolate. But the real healing is the cocoa powder thats within the dark chocolate because thats where all of the flavonols are housed, and thats what helps to keep our blood vessels healthy and elastic. What im telling people is to pick up some cocoa powder. You can put it in smoothies or oatmeal. You can put a lit until your morning coffee. Its delicious. Healthy for your blood vessels. I was a weird kid. I loved spinach from another young age. Its a triple threat. It has potassium, magnesium and foe late. Poe as the yum is sort of the antisodium oom oop. I said sodium draws in water. Potassium flushes it out and flushes the sodium out. Instead of lettuce on a sandwich, put spinach leaves. Off simmering pot of soup on the stove or marinara sauce . Dump the s stir it around. Extra yummy. Great idea. Garlic, does it have to be raw garlic . No. It can be powder. It can be minced garlic, roasted garlic. Garlic has the two active ingredie ingredients. One keeps the lining of the cells healthy. Theres an active ingredient that acts like an a. C. E. Inhibitor, a prescription medicati medication, but no side effect. Roasting garlic is delicious and super easy. If ive heard hoda say it once, ive heard her say it a thousand times, beans, beans, good for your heart. That too. All greens are great for your heart because they have protein and they have fiber and they have potassium and magnesium. But i am featuring white beans as the superhero here because they have the added benefit of calcium. And calcium helps our blood vessels to contract and die late. What i do here, this is a little trick, i make a soup and instead of using cream to puree it, and its delicious. Makes a great dip for veggies. And pumpkin, why . Pumpkin is loaded with toe pass y potassium. You can take canned pumpkin puree available year round. Its a great replacement for oil in baked goods and its onetoone ratio. This recipe is on the website. Little brownie with cocoa. Five great ingredients for managing your Blood Pressure. Thank you so much. For these recipes and more, check out our website, today. Com. Up next, recipes for katie lees ultimate super bowl spread. The reverse of what were doing right now. Back with todays crowd. Dishes for sundays big game. Our good friend katie lee has some great recipes. Nice to see you. Good morning. Youre making one of my favorite things this morning. I love sloppy joes. Really . Love them. I didnt think youd be a sloppy joe guy. The more the merrier. Lets talk about the ingredients. Not on the suit. Im staying away from it. This is ground beef, garlic, dijon mustard, green pepper and onion and tomato sauce. Not a lot in terms of ingredients. You brown the on a paper towel to drain. You can do this all in one pan. Do you have to worry about overcooking or by the time you add the sauce it will be moist no matter what . It will be really moist. In the same pan, green peppers and onions. Keep them until they get tender, about five or six minutes. I have some down here. Now were going to build this by putting in talk to me about the spices here. So weve got garlic, brown sugar, chili powder, salt, pepper, and celery seed. The celery seed adds an interesting flavor to it. Put those in. Grab that beef and well put that in here too. Okay. Said i wasnt going to do this. Youve got to work a little bit. There you go. Apple cider vinegar. Worchester sauce. Stir that for me. All right. Then some tomato sauce and dijon mustard. Want to scrape that in there . How long does this cook down . A lot of flavor. Weve got walter to help it stay moist. This cooks for about 20 its really fast. You can do it in a slow cooker. If youre cooking for a crowd, then everybody can kind of serve themselves out of it. Can we have our friends downstairs yeah, what do you think . Fantastic. Come on, katie lee. Do you like it . Adding it to the sunday party. Are you getting messy . Mmhmm. Yeah. We dont care. This is what it looks like after its cooked down. This is what it looks like and you just serve it on a bun. Can you serve it on a baguette or something crunchier . A baguette, yeah. I like something crunchy. I dont know why. I dont know, for a sloppy joe, i like a nice soft bun. Will you taste that . Ill bring it up with me. We have an interesting dip. Guacamole, but youve added an ingredient i never saw coming. Were going to stretch our avocados by using asparagus. This is a way to kind of you can cut down a little on the amount of fat youre eating and also stretch it out since avocados are expensive. Can we pause . One of th thank you. Great. I want it on a baguette. We love it on soft buns. Dont make fun of me. Dont make fun of me. I like crunch. I like textures. Tell me about this. Asparagus, chop it up, put it into a food processor. The key is to puree this first. So you put it in there and pulse it up. And then add to it some avocado. What are the proportions . You doing equal parts . A half a pound of asparagus to one avocado. And lime juice. Ka d avocado is good fat but it adds up when you eat a lot of it, and i eat a lot of it. Put that is all in there, make it nice and pureed. Comes out to this. Add tomatoetomatoes, cilantro a onion. Will you put a little salt in there for me . And just stir it up and you have a great guacamole there. Super yummy. Serving that with chips here. That sloppy joe is good they have that crunch also. The buffalo wing call flouer is fantastic. And blue cheese dip. Its on your website. Sit hard to make . No. A quick little batter and in the oven. You get that flavor. Enjoy the big game. Get these recipes at newsbreak. 8 56 is your time now on this thursday february 2nd, 2017. Good morning to you, im eun yang. A check of the roads with Melissa Mollet and first4traffic. Hey, melissa. Hey norbeck road, a crash in that area slowing things just a bit. Northbound bw parkway after 197 mobile pothole repair. Thats starting in 30 minutes 9 30 this morning. Delays in the northbound lanes. Right now beltway isnt bad, see 295 coming from the south headed north is a little bit slow. Orange line delay is both ways. Eun. Thank you, melissa. Well take a quick break now and check the forecast when we come back. Stay with bp engineers use underwater robots, so they can keep watch over operations below the sea, even from thousands of feet above. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. Well, good morning. Were looking at temperatures in the mid40s right now. Just about partly sunny skies as we go through the day today. For the rest of the area some spots are in the upper 30s. But as we go through this afternoon, these numbers will be rebounding to about the upper 40s. Some areas in the low 50s. For your friday were looking at cooler conditions. Eun. Thank you, sheena. Get the latest news and weather any time at nbc washington app. Well see you in 25 minutes for an nbc update. This morning on todays take, dean cain. Then from snack hacks to never before seen celebrity ads, all your super bowl action is covered. And sheinelle heads to Survival School. What we show you could save your life. Coming up next. From nbc news, this is todays take. Live from studio 1nashgs rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this thursday morning, february 2nd. Were here with our guest cohost dean cain. Good to see you. Good morning. Happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Some of you may have heard our good friend tamron hall has decided to leave nbc news. Personally, tamron has been not just a cohost here on todays take for the past three years and a good friend to not just me but to all of us here, and we want to wish her nothing but the best, much continued success. Cannot wait to see what her next chapter is. Shes going to rock it, no matter what she does. Absolutely. Yes, she will. Speaking of rocking, you were rocking the superman colors. You mean this red and this blue . Yeah. I like it. Not by accident. A little homage today. By design. I like the colors. I do too. They suit me well. Should have my cape on. Or do i . We need a phone booth over here i never use a phone booth. In the history of superman in the comics he only changed in a phone booth twice. Actually. Is that true . I believe that he knows the answer to that. How do you know that . He did it more in the cartoon perpetuated. In the 30s and then a couple this than i do. Seriously. But youre still superman. Yes, you are. You can take that to the bank. Literally. Literally. Literally so super bowl sunday almost here, and i and you yes. We are heading out on the road tomorrow for the ultimate pep rally. Im going to be in boston. Our friends of nbc boston at faneuil hall. Im going to be in atlanta. Can i put in a plug . Yes. If youre in atlanta or know anybody in atlanta, meet me at huston grill in midtown. 6 30 in the morning. Yep. Noontime somewhere. Thats right. Cant promise you anything but a smile, but come on out. Big day. Super bowl sunday. We did not know about this gentleman, you played professional football. Yes, sir. For the bills. Buffalo bills. Which happen to have the exact same colors. Who knew . Buffalo, i was there as a the same year Thurman Thomas was a rookie. We lost the afc championship and the next four years were super bowl years. I would have had a nice run had i stayed healthy and been on the squad. But again, youre superman. Thats right. Its worked out okay. Its worked out all right. I would have liked to have been to a couple super bowls, though. Humongous, humongous football fan. Good luck to both teams this weekend. Im quietly rooting for atlanta, although what was that . Not quiet now. I think the patriots are going to win. You to. What are you doing for the game . Belichick and brady are unbelievable. For the game, family and folks over. And watching the game. You have a warning for my mom . Dont bring other people outside the family, mom. Just family. He never does. You know why . Shes mom. She is mom. Thats true. Gets away with everything. Whatever you want. Sorry, mom. Exactly. What about you . Just the maybe my brother and niece and nephew. Make it sound so exciting. You know, im going to add that katie lee sloppy joe. Im going to do some asianstyle wings. To be honest, i dont care about the game. I just want the commercials and the halftime show. For me we were talking about it this morning and i realized i have to get it back together. We used to have big super bowl parties before the kids and people would come over. Deejay. It was like a thing. Wow. It was like a video. Wow and all of a sudden, you know, kids and its just life and just, you know, things get in the way. You have a kid party and then the the kids want to be at this one. The kid want to go to that one. But then you have to kind of lower the you cant quite do all this. When they were babies they would sleep through it. It was amazing. But now maybe not so much. Now theyre old enough to get up and peek. Im the one who sleeps through it. They can be involved now. Maybe next year ill throw a going to exclusively premiere some super bowl ads including a fantastic one from honda. Heres a little taste. Believe in yourself. You know why . Because none of these people think you are going to amount to anything. And guess what . You might. Thats awesome. Account can not wait to see it. Celebrity year book. Throwback. A great idea. So lets throw back to some of our own yearbook photos since its Throwback Thursday. Okay. High school. Hey nice. Wow, look at you. Look at that little japanese surfer kid. A mullet almost. Dont pick on the mullet. Look at you. Did you know then you wanted to do something amazing . Maybe not superman but look at that. Same guy. Same guy. Yeah. I wanted to be an athlete and go to school. I didnt really know what do when i was shooting superman. But i love that idea of people saying youre not going to be able to do something, looking back at the high school days, thats a wonderful thing. What about you guys . For me, cheerleading was my life. It was one of those things where my school was like grease. You could wear them every day. I had the braces. Hair to the side. About the same. Which school . Wichita high school. Wichita, kansas. What was the cheer . Heights, yes very good. So its a spelling bee and a cheer. Never misspell heights. Interestingly enough, our colors were red and black and we were the falcons so we would go buy Atlanta Falcons stuff and everybody thought we had like the best gear. You did. This is so precious. Its perfect. Okay. Were ready for you. Yes. If you hissed it yesterday. There you go. Wow. Xavier high school, class of here in manhattan. Manhattan. Xavier high school. Junior rotc. Jesuit military school so we were ready for the next crusade. Yeah. Nice. I knew you were okay, mr. Roker. Disciplined. Look at that. Goodlooking young man. Have you heard the news . Who hasnt . Beyonces having twins. Twins. Yes. The internet may never be the same. I think it broke it. She broke the internet. Posting this announcement. Everybody was talking about it. Not only she was pregnant but she was having twins. This is what i thought was interesting. The news came on instagram and quickly broke the record for most liked photo of all time. 8 million on instagram. Which one, the one with the first one with the roses. You know whats funny to me of all time in one day. Youll have hundreds of thousands of comments and everybody is congratulations, beyonce, or give her this those . You could give her some advice because you have twins. Whats the one thing you would tell beyonce . The one thing i would tell beyonce, it goes by so fast, youll be overwhelmed. It doesnt matter if you have nannies or whatever. It doesnt matter. Its still difficult, trying to give eesm child his or her own attention. I wrote a letter dear beyonce yesterday on instagram and i said it goes by so fast, but you wouldnt trade it for world. Congratulations. Were besties. J. Lo, mariah. Elen. Elen. Elen announced. Take a look. There you go. All right. Still ahead, its groundhog day. Its ground hhog day. Dont drive angry. 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Tide, number 1 rated. Hey, pal. What, you got you want tough love, mentholyptus halls with big time cooling flavor. Or soft love. Milder flavored honey halls with real honey. Tough love. Soft love. Get the love you love. Where does it come from . Was it my refusal to accept that an nfl official was a mans job . Was it to show my daughter that she can be anything that she wants to be . If i dont believe in myself who will . It does start on the inside. Your best starts inside. Thats why every cup of activia yogurt is made with billions of our exclusive probiotic to help care for whats inside. Activia. It starts inside. Were back with todays take. Our guest cohost, mr. An cain. February 2nd of course known as groundhog day. Who can forget the classic movie . Just put your little hand in mine theres no mountain we cant climb and were back with todays take with guest cohost mr. Dean cain. Who can forget the classic movie. Take a look. Just put your little hand in mine there aint no hill or mountain we cant climb i got you babe i got you babe welcome back on this thursday morning. Were joined by the great dean cain. Its february 2nd, better known as groundhog day. Take a look. Just put your little hand in mine there aint no hill or mountain babe, i got you babe and welcome okay. Thats all. Our little homage to the great bill murray and Andie Macdowell movie groundhog day. I got to sit with the great Andie Macdowell a few weeks ago at the hallmark channels tca thing where were both announcing some movies. But Punxsutawney Phil did make the yearly prediction. What a surprise. Here is his prediction. At gobblers knob on groundhog day, we celebrate a worldwide holiday. Its mighty cold weather youve been braving. Is it winter or is it summer youre craving . Since weve been up all night and starting to toddle, i, punxsy phil, shall not dawdle. My faithful followers i clearly see a perfect clear shadow of me. Six more weeks of winter shall be again, now, about 3,000 temperature lights. Hes going to see his shadow. You have to. Theres 131 years theyve been doing this. 8 out of every 10 years he sees his shadow. We dont buy this. We want to do our own test. Lets see if dean cain sees his shadow. No, i dont see a shadow. Oh my gosh early spring no shadow. All right. Youre my hero. Yes i live in california. Its always early spring. Now back to your burrow. Exactly. I love this part. You become the ground hog. I was in character. We were talking. Tell everybody who you went to high school with. Oh, yeah. Well, holly robinson. Not even high school. Junior high school. Holly ran the roost, man. She ran the school. She called me hot stuff back in the day. And she was rig who else . Oh, rob lowe, chris penn, charlie sheen, sean penn. All those kids. It was malibu. Totally normal. Totally normal. Back in the day. There was a lot of us back then. Weve all done poorly, very poorly. The best anybody can say at my school is they went to school with me. How depressing is that . Wow. Goodness. Anyway, actually our most famous alum was the late antonin scalia. Oh, wow. I cant come up with anything close. Okay. So i dont know if you saw earlier, theres this unbelievable video on youtube. More than 30 Million People watching this North Carolina teacher, barry white jr. , i love that name, and he came up with a personalized handshake for 60 of his students which is just unbelievable. So cool. Makes the kids feel so special and loved. And so he came by our studio this morning and created a different handshake for matt, so take a look. I was watching this. Yeah. Matt killed it. Look at this. Come on. No way. That could have gone awry. Hodas a little that was a middle of the road. I like it. I like it. Al, what are you doing. I dont know. I have no idea. I dont know what that is. I dont they are. The fact he memorizes. Carson, the robot, thats not happening either. The guys a teaching savant. Well, you know, to make each student feel that special. I have a kid who is a little bit quiet and that would make him feel so special. Its a wonderful thing. I ran down after that to meet the gentleman, him and his parents because theyve raised obvious lay heck of a young man. He gave props to all the teaches in the school. He says every one of them does Something Special from music to history to art to math to make their kids feel really loved. Shoutout t teachers make the world go round. Who were yours . My mom, my grandma. Miss mccullough and paul carey were my favorites. Eleanor friar. Teachers. Happens to be a show you whats happening weather wise. Weekend outlook lakeeffect snow some areas picking up 3 feet of snow, tughill plateau. Heavy rain and snow saturday. We expect more rabe and snow Pacific Northwest, plains, lakeeffect snow in the central great lakes. Sunshine else with. Sunday sunday the big game. Looking at lots of wet weather along the west coast, snow in the great lakes. Again we are talking good times, ladies and gentlemen. Thats what goingn ou uny,erishas hapniyk e woo good morning, everybody. Its indeed still a mostly cloudy sky out there but we are getting enough sunshine through to at least cast a few shadows as we go forward through the day. Shadow. That was 103rd time out of 140 tries. So he almost always sees that shadow. So six more weeks of winter according to the groundhog. For us temperatures not too terribly cold today. Well be upper 40s, later this afternoon, falling back into the chilly 30s by early this evening. Tomorrow will be a coole than da thats your latest weather. Dean, we saw you wow was the magic. Whats the next segment . I love magic, love watching it, not very good at doing it but i could maybe occasionally come up with something ho what is this . Thats my pocket square. 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You are free to go. Tide and downy together. With not food, become food . Thankfully at panera, 100 of our food is 100 clean. No artificial preservatives, sweeteners, flavors, or colors. Panera. Food as it should be. Youre probably wondering why thaive just carvedng a giant wooden tiger. Well, the answer is that a real one would maul me. Ive crafted dr. Whiskers here as a visual aid carmax associates will not pounce like tigers because people dont like that. Come here to buy a car. Dr. Whiskers wont pounce. Nobody will. We are back now with the ultimate illusionist michael carbonaro. Whats up . Thats right. You know him as the host of the carbonaro effect on trutv, shocking up suspecting folks with unbelievable magic tricks. He gave one customer the surprise of her life. Im okay. How are you . Doing great. Good. Get your own bags here. I do. Oh, you have a cabbage here . Cabbage. I get confused between the cabbage and the lettuce. Somebody told me to shake it, right . Wait unt way to tell its a good healthy one. Slam it like wait, wheres my cabbage . I think this was it was brussels sprouts. No thats amazing. Wheres my cabbage . You knew that about cabbages, right . They will do that. Grownup asparagus. I dont trust anything you say. Nothing you say. Wow. Hell do that to you. Dont let him touch anything of yours. Hell turn it into something. What an amazing show. Thank you so much. Did she ever get her cabbage . She didnt. Theres a little lawsuit going on. So what do you have for us today . Today . A Little Something . Yeah. Well, im from new york originally so i grew up in long island, so when im in new york im always looking for fun things to do that i can bring to the show. New yorks got the best stuff over on 14th street. The coolest toys. Sometimes ill use toys in the show that people dont know what they can do but we can make magic out of it. Like these are the best ones too. Ill show you how they work. And you do this with your son ever, just like a little science experiment. I would do it. I havent. You take one droplet of water. These are the fastest ones. Usually you have to wait overnight, wait for them to grow. These are great. A little drop of water in here and then a little tablet goes in the water. Why am i holding my breath . No, dont be scared. Okay. You turn it. And then boop. Isnt that cute . That looks real, doesnt it . It looks really real. Its just so fast the way it pops out. And the kids love that stuff. You cant get stuff like this in california. A frog in a package. Perfect. The best thing one of the things i love is the reactions that the real people give because like what you did right there is not right. Well, i mean, on the tv show we do magic tricks. This of course is just a real thats so real. The battery must be so tiny. You want to hold him . No. Dont be scared. You could do one. You want to try one . Its groundhog day. We should repeat. There arent any more frogs. They pop out of here. Okay. Its the tiny little okay. Do you want to do it . Yes. Okay. Here. A little droplet of water on it. Okay. Now what . Cover up with that and shake it up and you wait till you hear and lift up. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I am so sorry. Im sorry. This is the variety pack. My fault. Thats my bad. Yeah. Multiple ones. I didnt know. I wouldnt have done that. I would not have done that. Im so sorry. Im sorry. Variety pack. Its unbeli theyre harmless. Theyll shake down. Sorry about that. Sorry. So sorry. Are you okay . Its sorry. Im so sorry. Okay. You can watch the carbonaro effect wednesday nights on trutv. Coming up, chocolatecovered potato humpty humpty [moaning] oh, not again. Aww are you alright . Everything hurts im gettin most of ya. [police sirens] ooh. What happened here . He fell off the wall. He was doing his taxes. Is this the fool that was on the wall . Yeah. Reports just in say he was in fact doing his taxes. 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Besides watching football and the commercials the biggest part of super bowl sunday of course the food. Our main man, justin chapel, back with some easy snack hacks. Lets do it. Lets do it. We dont have any frogs here. Frog legs, right . These are frog legs. No. Were doing chicken wings. These are baked chicken wings but t whats the secret ingredient . Baking powder. How come . It dries out the skin of the wings and then it promotes browning. So when you is problem is when you bake chicken wings they dont get super crispy. It doesnt add to the flavor. Just a little bit but you know youre going to dip them in sauce or blue cheese or whatever. You put them on a baking rack, throw them in the oven until theyre crispy and brown and them in the hot sauce. You can serve it on the side. Some people dont like hot wings. Or barbecue sauce. Exactly. Wings. Im making those. These are two ingredients little wieners for super bowl. In our crock pot we have a little barbecue sauce, your favorite one, and add these miniature wieners, give it a whirl. Whirl. Just whirl it up and let it go on high for about an hour until its bubbling. Serve it with little toothpicks here and there you go. Those will be gone in 15 minutes at our house. Every time i serve these theyre gone in like five minutes. Im not kidding. Grilled cheese . Yes. Panned grilled cheese. Pull apart. You can grab these little dinner rolls. You cut the whole sheet in half and fill wit your favorite cheese. I like pemer jack because its almost like a secret ingredient with hot peppers in it. Fill it right in there. But the trick here is youre going to bake it between two preheated sheet pans. Preheat them in the of. For about 10, 15 minutes, put it right in between them and you get its almost like an oven panini. Can i pull these apart now . Pull it apart. Grilled cheese there. Perfect. Great for a party. Put it on the table. You can walk around and eat it. Yum. Thats happening for sure. I like that. The chip station. We have dessert for you. Chocolatecovered chips. Thats all were doing here. Are you sure theres nothing in this bowl . Nothing in the bowl. Im like whats going to happen . I like the ones with the chocolate. Dip it in the melted chocolate, 20 seconds in the microwave. Stir between each interval. It takes about 15, 20 minutes to set. You get these little bowls of chocolatecovered chips. Put salt in your body. Two ingredients, super easy. And im going to go ahead and let these guys have one. Oh, yeah. I like how easy it all is. Super easy. That works for me. This is all doable. Totally doable. Finally, smores nachos. These look incredible. If you want to watch justin make these during our break, go to today food our Facebook Page and watch our live demo. Pretty cool. She survived the frog, so we decided to send sheinelle to Survival School. 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And this year one 30second ad airing during the big game can cost advertisers up to 5 million. 5 million bucks. Here is a preview of some of the best with james cooper, editorial director for ad week. Happy super bowl. It seems like all these advertisers are releasing the commercials now, they started last year, releasing before the big game. Sure. I think thats sort of a strategy to stretch their investment. As you mingesed, 5 million for 30 seconds is a lot of money. So they want to sort of get as much bang for their buck as they can so they sort of tease the ads before, do a lot of social support to sort of stretch that investment so they get sort of pre, during, and even post the big game. Does that work for them . Is it snoif. I think it does. Entire ad and by the time the game airs they were over it. This adds excitement, stokes peoples imagination and they get pumped for the ads. Lets dig in. Hondas super bowl commercial. Ready . Yep. Here we go. Bring it. When you start out, you might not know where youre going or what youre doing or why youre carrying this red rose with you. You just keep going. Keep your focus and avoid the distractions. At times you may fall flat on your face. But technically thats still moving forward. Youve got to pick yourself up. Make the move. And do it all with a smile. Believe in yourself. You think that any of these folks believed that id make it . Definitely not. That was a rhetorical question, darrell. Wow, thats amazing. So this ad, created by hondas advertising out of los story of Humble Beginnings and success. 20 years ago it was a smaller suv, sort of a quirky release and didnt get as much love as they wanted to right out of the gate, but they spent a lot of time with imagination, determination, and faith and brands and it became the bestselling vehicle in america. Spud mckenzie making a comeback. Lets check him out. Spud. To be honest, i dont even have an excuse, man. Im just going to stay in. Hello, brian. Spud mckenzie . What are you doing here . My soul hurts when people dont drink bud light with friends. At this moment your friends are hanging out and youre missing it. I didnt think it was a big deal. Im a man, youre man, take my leash. I need to show you something. This was last w hey sad bacon legs. What does that mean. Its an inside joke. You had to be there. Spuds . My ex. Got to go. Perfect. I love that. That will be talked about. Thats the ultimate super bowl throwback. Spuds. Really quickly, lets look at skittles. Okay. Katie katie katie hmm. Hmm. Katie katie hmm. Katie hmm. Mm. Katie mm. Katie mm. Humor always seems to win. Humor is one of the greatest buttons they can push. I think it does really well because people tend to share humor on social so that ad definite Marshawn Lynch at the end. Thank you for the exclusiveness. My pleasure. Catch the super bowl commercials at today. Com. Just gets better and better. Wait. There we go. One more time. One more time. How tall are you . 411. 411 . Oh. So. Dean, thank you for being here, my announcer this is a news 4 today newsbreak. 9 5 is your time right now on this thursday february 2nd, 2017. Im eun yang. Were following breaking news out of silver springs. Chopper 4 is on the way to a shooting at leisure world. Police tell us a woman was shot. The suspect is on the loose. Be sure to follow news 4 midday at 11 00 for the latest. Now a check on the forecast with sheena partly sunny skies, this afternoon close to 50. Some areas could get into the low 50s possible. Well see wind gusting close to 30 miles an hour. That wind will help temperatures keep rising. Tomorrow we start off with temperatures in the 20s. Cold start to friday, highs topping out 40, by sunday just in time for super bowl, very small chance of a shower. I think well stay mostly dry. Temperatures in the mid40s. Feeling more like football weather seasonable for this time of year. Eun. Sheena, thank you. Coming up midday, the lathe latest on an attempted robbery. See you at 11 00. Announcer from nbc 4 news, this is today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hello, everybody. Sty thursda. Its february 2nd, ground hog day. Which should be a national holiday. Punxsutawney phil saw his shadow, so that means since more week of winter. It will be six more on weeks of winter anyway no matter where you are. It will be six more weeks if youre in miami. Winter is winter. Am i right . You are right. But a colder winter is what they should say