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the record books by riding a wave 90 feet high. today is saturday, november wave 90 feet high. today is saturday, november 12th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a saturday. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm amy robach. >> look who surfed in. welcome back from your where in the world add venture. >> good morning. the good news is it is 8:00 p.m. for me now, so i am wide awake. >> welcome back. we're following the scandal sweeping penn state. we first heard about the allegations one week ago. in that short amount of time, the story has exploded and with each day, we are learning new revelations. they are disturbing, tragic and for many, difficult to comprehend. also, our exclusive interview with dr. can rad murray. he did not take the stand in the trial thaended with a guilty verdict, but michael jackson's former physician did talk to our savannah guthrie in a very revealing interview. he explained why he was trying to wean jackson from propofol and if he bears any responsibility in the pop singer's death. then the mystery of a missing toddler from washington state. his mother says she left her 2 yoerld son in the car when she went to look for gas. when she returned, he was gone. authorities are searching for the little boy, but at the same time, they're taking a closer look at the mother's statement and is she telling the truth? we're going to get more on that ahead. it's been 50 years since the release of the "westside story." the dancing, the snapping. everyone about it was so fortunate. he talked to some of the actors. i promise you, the songs will get stuck in your head, too, as they've been in mine for the last several weeks. >> lots to get to. let's begin, though, with the scandal that continues to rock penn state. the allegations of a cover-up have cost coach joe paterno his job. now the man who first reported the shocking charges of child sex abuse is reportedly receiving death threats and won't participate in today's home game, a game that have many concerned about security. ron mott is live in state college, pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning to you. for all new practical purposes, penn state university is under new management. there is a new president, a new athletic director and a new head football coach for the first time in 40 years. yesterday, the new president said he hopes to re-orient the campus culture here so that going forward, no one on penn state's campus will ever again feel afraid about stepping forward and doing the right thing. yesterday, the board announced the formation of a special committee that is going to be charged with a special investigation here on this campus to determine exactly what went wrong, what changes need to be made and that include more staff changes to those we've already seen. ken frazier, the president and the ceo of -- timetable on when that report is going to be ready for infection, lester. >> ron, a big home game obviously there today for the football team. any increase in security you're seeing? >> reporter: yes, indeed. you drive into the complex this morning, you can see the security has been beefed up. it's quite evident. nebraska officials expressed concern with security after what we saw wednesday night with the explosion on campus after the announcement of joe paterno's firing and mike mcqueary received threats and will no longer take place in today's game. he's been placed on indefinite leave. there is a big presence of security here on the campus today, lester. >> ron mott in state college, pennsylvania. thank you. the man at the center of this scandal, jerry sandusky founded a children's chairpersonty, called the second mile, and one former member is speaking out about what happened to him when he was part of the group. >> reporter: sandusky founded the second mile in 1977 to help disadvantaged kids. sandusky was the charity's biggest booster, helping to raise millions of dollars from wealthy donors and major corporations and recruiting high profile honorary board members when he spokes to whvl's penn state tailgate show in 2007, he was enthusiastic about what second mile is doing for kids. >> opportunity to see some special young people overcome some challenges in their life and go on to lead a life of excellence. >> but years before any reports of sexual abuse reached authorities, sandusky's conduct made some second mile children uncomfortable. >> anytime we were in the car, driving anywhere, his hand, it was a given, that his hand would be on my thigh. and, you know, i just knew that that was not the way any other adult man in my life touched me. >> troy craig attended second mile summer camps more than 20 years ago. from ages 11 to 14. he says sandusky lavished him with attention, taking him to penn state football games and introducing him to players in the locker room. he wasn't sexually abused, but after a while, he says, there were too many hugs and too much touching. >> i remember him coming up behind me and, you know, trying to make a joke of it, but all the same just feeling kind of -- no, stop it, stop that. >> according to the grand jury reports, sandusky met every one of his victims through second mile programs. now there are questions about whether top charity executives here may have protected him for years, just like penn state officials are alleged to have done. the grand jury report discloses there was an investigation in 1998 into allegations that sandusky was showering and groping young boys in the penn state locker room. no charges were filed and it's not clear if charity officials were ever informed. in 2002, jack rakovich was told about a new allegation, again, involving sandusky and a young boy in the locker room shower. the charity took no action and sandusky continued to participate in second mile programs. nfl hall of famer frank o'haris, a second mile board member, is furious about that. >> and i don't understand it. and those are the answers that we need to find. >> pennsylvania governor tom corbin also wants answers. >> i need to know what charity of the board members knew. i think that's a determination that people will be looking into. >> reporter: the charity has declined to answer any questions this week. in a statement posted on its website, it says it first learned of an investigation into sandusky in 2002, but that penn state officials informed second mile there was no finding of wrongdoing. second mile severed all ties with sandusky in 2008. we immediately made the decision to separate him from all of our activities involving children. the statement continued, we have done everything in our power to cooperate with law enforcement officials and we will continue to do so. so charity officials are vowing to continue forward. they say they have important and valuable programs and they're going to forge ahead. but that may not be good enough. there are a lot of angry parents and school officials here and reports just in the last couple of days that school officials -- local school officials have stopped referring students to second mile programs. >> and, mike, we were told yesterday that joe paterno hired a high profile attorney. my understanding is he testified to the grand jury, he was not charged. what legal concerns or legal jeopardy could he be looking at? >> oh, there are multi.legal proceedings in which joe paterno is going to need legal counsel. obviously, you for one, the investigation is continuing. there could be more charges brought. there are the obvious prospect of trials in which joe paterno would be a witness. but more importantly than that, there is a real possibility of a flood of major civil lawsuits from the victims and their families here in which all the principles could -- including joe paterno, could well find themselves as defendants. >> mike isikoff, thanks very much. president obama is now on his way to asia for a nine-day trip, stopping first in his home state of hawaii. that's why nbc's correspondent chuck todd joins us now. chuck, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. before we got here to hawaii, we stopped in san diego. there was a special college basketball game held on the aircraft carrier "the uss carl vinson" which is the last place osama bin laden was on this earth. he did an interview on espn and made his first comments yet about the penn state scandal. here is what he said. >> i think it's a good time for us to do some soul searching, every institution, not just penn state, about what our priorities are and making sure that we understand that our first priority is protecting our kids. >> reporter: so, amy, it was talking about not only the victims, but maybe how a lot of universities need to get a grip on what's going on between the relationships of the academic parts of the institution and the athletic parts of the institution. and, chuck, with the president in hawaii today, can we anticipate he's going to shift focus and start talking about the economy? >> reporter: he is. the president here in hawaii, the united states is the post 06 the apec, asian pacific economic conference. it's all of the asian economic powers. frankly, every country other than the united states that's involved in this conference is growing economically. so you're going to hear the president talk about opening up more and more trade opportunities for u.s. exports. but he's got some side meetings with the heads of china and russia. and in those meetings, you're going to hear the president talk about the new report about iran's nuclear capabilitiecapab getting china and russia's cooperation on heavier sanctions against iran is a must if the united states wants to proceed that way, amy. >> chuck todd, traveling with the president, thank you. for more on president obama, politics and the race for '012, we're joined by john harwood. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. >> as we just heard from chuck todd, the president speaking out about the penn state scandal, what do you make about the president to make a comment publicly? >> reporter: pretty hard to ig northbound something that outraged many americans. i think the president making a statement that's we need to focus on oush priorities, college sports is a huge industry. if it's the case that this huge industry ended up protecting our shielding someone from allegations of the kind that have emerged, the president of the united states has a job to speak out to that. >> let us turn to politics. you cohosted the debate where rick perry did his latest stumble. >> i would do away with education, commerce and -- let's see. i can't. the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. >> chuck, i know you and i both know what it's like to have a brain freeze, and i think that's how governor perry described what happened to him. but he's had a series of bad debates. is this the beginning of the end of the perry campaign? >> reporter: he's got an awfully big hole to dig out of, amy. he came into this debate with the burden of trying to jump start his xaven after poor debate performances. and his poll numbers have gotten very low in iowa, in south carolina, which is a state that thought to be a home base of strength for him. he has a lot of money in the bank, so you can't write off somebody who has rdz 15 million. but the ridicule that he's attracted is so widespread, the doubts among donors and ordinary americans are pretty great. so he's got a major challenge ahead of him. i think it's very much an uphill fight. and even tonight, there will be another sgop debagop debate. how much attention will be on rick perry and herman cain, whose strength is not foreign policy? exactly. both of these guys are going to be under the microscope on an issue that is not their comfort zone. everybody will be watching. how does rick perry handle those moments? it's one thing to go on to all the morning shows and make fun of your gaffe. but when i've got to talk about what to do about iran, what to do about the challenges from china and other countries in asia, that is not easy material for rick perry and herman cain. we tried to press him on that in our debate. every answer came back to 9-9-9. that may not go over well. >> thanks, john. >> you bet. >> tom, good morning. good morning, everyone. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is set to resign today after new austerity measures are approved in parliament. richard is live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, tom. italy's lower house of parliament today is widely expected to pass these economic reform measures. then, later today, sivlio berlusconi, the long time prime minister here, is expected to step down. the reaction so far has been positive. italy's economy last week was in something of a free fall, in part because of political instability. now that the political situation is clearer, the markets are recovering. and culturally, italians are happy to be putting mind them all of silvio berlusconi's sex scandals, his corruption scandal and put a new face on italian politics. that face is expected to be mario monti. one analyst told me he is the kind of person who will be up early in his office in the morning and not up partying all night. >> thank you. mf global, which collapsed after losing $600 million on a disastrous gamble on european debt has fired its entire workforce. more than 1,000 people were told friday, some by e-mail, some by tv news, that they will no longer have a job. oakland police are handing out eviction noticeses at an anti-wall street camp. two men died in shootings and two others found dead inside their tents this week. the police in a number of cities say the protests are pulling them away from crime. baby lisa irwin turned 1 on friday. investigators are still on the case, but they have no suspects. the national cathedral in washington, d.c. is ready to open. the cathedral was badly damaged last august. restoration work continues and it's expected to cost more than $20 million. and out west, there is powder. the breckenridge ski area in colorado opened friday on its 50th anniversary. ain honor of veterans day, veterans got to take the first lift up. that's the news now back to lester, amy and bill. >> as richard said, it's good to have you filling in, tom. >> he stole our thunder. we were going to do that, tom. thank you. bill karins has our first check of the forecast. good morning, bill. >> good morning. we have two weak storms to talk about, one moving through southern california. when it does it rain, it's a big deal. it's mostly on interstate 5 down through san diego. it will be out of the most of that region as we go throughout the evening. the second storm is moving through the northern plains up in montana. that has a lot of winds with it and some cold air. there will be snow in the area of high terrain, colorado. if you're anywhere east of the rockies, it's a cold start to your day, but a beautiful here is a look at what is left to the showers, the south bay, hollister and gilroy you lingering showers, clouds spilling in from the north, mainly high clouds, not the type that will toss rain our way. the morning, mostly cloudy to start. as we wrap up the day, we will see partly cloudy skies, some clearing, cool temp.churs, upper 50s, low 60s. end of the weekend looks dry, chilly mornings, the rain rolls in like this week, come next thursday and friday. up this weekend, 56 today and 50s tomorrow. that's a look at your forecast. he resigned his presidency, and this morning, new tapes of richard nixon are giving us unprecedented glimpses into nixon's time in office. mike va kiera has more. >> reporter: good morning. those transcripts released this week show more about than just a troubled president. the secret service was petrified. the young students over odd. that account from president nixon himself. that described his surprise predawn appearance among anti-war protesters in may 1970. >> i said i know you and probably most ow you think of an s.o.b. but i want you to know that i understand just how you feel. >> the unusual visit came in the midst of upheefl. less than a week earlier, four students were shot dead at kent state and hours before in a press conference, nixon had explained his decision to extent the vietnam war into cambodia. >> i got dressed and at approximately 4:35, we left the white house and drove to the lincoln memorial. i have never seen the secret service quite to pedestrianry phied with apprehension. i insisted, however, that no press be informed and nobody in our office be informed. >> nixon tried to win over a growing, but respectful crowd of activists. also released, secret transcripts of nixon's testimony to a watergate grand jury. already granted immunity, nixon told of his reaction when he learned a white house tape of a critical watergate meeting had a game of 1830. the only sound, a buzz. >> i practically blew my stack, nixon testified, adding i don't know how it happened. scholars say the new release revealed a part of nixon that contributed to his down fall. >> this is a man who could be erratic, terribly ee moernl and quite unpredictable. >> and, lester, grand jury transcripts like that one at the end of the stop normally kept secret forever and historians are hoping that the release will help them investigate american history to a greater degree, make it much easier for them in the future the. >> mike, thanks very much. still to come here on "today," a 2-year-old boy missing after being left alone in a car. the latest on the mystery, ahead. plus, shopping for hopes and finding the best mortgage lender. we'll offer some tips. but first, these messages. good morning to you. looking live at san francisco and the clouds that are here now will be gone, perhaps a little bit later today. thanks so much to for joining us on this had saturday morning. i'm kris sanchez along with meteorologist rob mayeda. you think clearing? >> slow clearing, eventually, taking the optimist view today. clouds this morning and lingering showers here and there not the too cold out there, 40s to low 50s now you can see out here on the radar and satellite scam, you have cloudsin dpprog if from the north, but the good news in terms of the rain, most of the activity moved off toward central and southern california, the area san josepp south towar hollister, the next couple of hours, probably still seeing lingering showers. for knew cloudy start to the morning. see high clouds out there, 40s and 50s to 8:00. around lunch time, we will see the clouds break up a bit, mainly mid and high level clouds, we head toward 4:00 today. you will see those temperaturess in the upper 50s to low 60s. so the showers shuttinging down, certainly by the afternoon, as we head into tomorrow, we will probably have some patchy morning fog, dry fin had nish to the weekend and just like we saw this week it is going to be nice and dry through wednesday, thursday and friday. chilly rain coming back to the bay area toward the end of next week. >> thank you very much, rob. this morning, santa clara county sheriff deputies are searching for a man who robbed a liquor store it. it happened at 830 last night at back and flask in unincorporated santa clara county. sheriff deputies say the suspects fired a shot during that robbery but no one was hurt. police say the man was armed with a handgun. anyone with information is asked to call the santa clara county sheriff's department. also this morning, time is running out for a filipino man facing deportation. 31-year-old jose librojo and his family moved to the bay area in 1995 after they were granted political asylum visas but his family's reese sas were not renewed in 2005 and they received deportation orders, his parents and sister voluntarily left the u.s. in 2006 but jose and his brother are set to be deported today. protesters will be at san francisco international at 5:30 wearing green, not carrying signs or banners. this morning, pg&e will retest a pipeline that ruptured along a busy freeway on the peninsula. the result are was a failure of the cascading blast water which caused a mudslide. the mess shutdown part of interstate 280 for a while. the incident marked the third time the pipeline has failed during water pressure tests, which state regulators ordered following last year's deadly san bruno explosion. starting today, you have one more place to enjoy the great outdoors here in the bay area. flood mark in menlo park will reopen at noon with a ribbon cutting and fun activities for the family includes live music, face painting and scavenger hunt, the 21-acre park was closed in the fall of 2010 in order to replace water supply pipelines. coming up this morning on today in the bay, back up, clean out. oakland police serve occupy protesters eviction notices but are they listening? that story and more coming up for you 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we'll have his answer, coming pup. then, ride ago monster wave. it's an astonishing 90-foot wall of water and an american has made the record books by surfing it. he survived and he'll join us with an exclusive interview, coming up. >> i'm afraid looking at that. i can't imagine what he was feeling while riding that wave. we begin this morning with the mystery of a 2-year-old missing boy in washington state. his mother said she left him alone, sleeping in the car to get some gas. authorities are searching for the toddler, but they have questions about her story. amon mohidini has the story. >> for investigators, a race against time has a search for a missing toddler. >> somebody knows why sky is. >> reporter: but the search is raising more questions than answers. >> we're very frustrated. >> reporter: sky's mother told police her son was ill when she decided to drive him to a hospital. >> she ran out of gas, got out of the car, left sky, who was sleeping in the car at the time. >> and she told police when she returned an hour later, her son was gone. an extensive search of the area found no signs of her little boy. police suze seized julia's car. they now usa say her story doesn't add up. >> we test drove it. the vehicle operated just fine. >> add to go police frustration, she has yet to take a polygraph test. >> the police department is baffled by julia's story. we're frustrated with the lack of information we're getting from her. >> reporter: calls to attorneys representing sky's parents were not returned. but she is giving access to her phone, computer and home. police say julia is not a suspect or a person of interest at this time. but that she can help solve the mystery. >> our priority is to find sky, find out what happened to him, whether he's okay or not. we believe julia holds the key to that. >> while she could face charges for leaving her son alone in the car, for now, the focus of the investigation remains on finding her boy and returning her home safely. >> my home is that he is coming back. and that's where i find my strength, that he's going to come back. >> reporter: but bracing for the worst. >> the reality of this is that sky may have, you know, fallen into some very unfortunate circumstances. >> more than 150 federal, state and local authorities have joined the search. police are reaching out to the public hoping for that one tip that could bring sky home. for "today," nbc news, los angeles. bill karins joins us now with a check of the weather this morning. >> good morning to you, amy. a wonderful crowd and a happy birthday here. we also have a happy 50th birthday here. good morning, everyone. let's talk about a look at your forecast for today. nothing too dramatic out there, but in the pacific northwest, it's rainey and cool. that rain will kick in europe of the rockies it's beautiful. tallahassee, it w and here is a couple of game forecasts around the bay area today, 3:30, oregon state taking on cal at at&t park. mixed clouds, temperature near 60. the big game, oregon in town taking on on own stanford cardinals, temperatures in the upper 50s at 5:00, cool and breezy but dry, as you can see now, showers started to clear out of the bay area, even though we still have clouds nearby. see high clouds thought to the north, highs, 50s to 60s today, tomorrow, cool start but dry finish to the weekend. that storm is gone, but now winter has set in and it is very, very cold. you come all the way center st. louis to join us this morning. what is your name? abby. >> if you want your hour to hour forecast, you can get on the sxurt and check weather.com. this morning, the family of a major league baseball player is overjoyed that he was rescued last night in venezuela. charles hadlock is in miami to tell us more. charles, good morning. >> good morning, lester. 24-year-old wilson ramos is safe, back home with his family in venezuela. he is the first major league u.s. baseball player to ever be kidnapped, the latest victim in a growing hostage for ransom. the rescue took place in a mountainous area 40 miles from where ramos was kidnapped on wednesday. >> a three-run walk-off homer for wilson ramos. >> reporter: wilson had just finished his rookie season with the nationals and was back in his hometown of valencia, venezuela, for the winter baseball season. but he was grabbed from gun point from the front porch of his parents' modest home. the getaway vehicle was found burned in a neighboring town. as the hours passed, a family friend spoke via skype to nbc news from the ramos home. >> you looked like a hero here in the community. he was always sharing with kids. he's a really nice guy. he's a special guy here in the community, you know? >> reporter: his hero status may have made him a target. his u.s. baseball salary is $415,000 a year, a fortune in venezuela, where crime as soared under president hugo chavez. >> this is one of almost a thousand kidnappings that's going to happen this year. and na ithat is only a small pat of it. there are car jackings every day. there are all kinds of criminal events. basically, the citizen security situation is completely out of control in venezuela right now. >> the venezuelan government hayes hugo chavez authorized friday's rescue. ra moez called his tearful mother after he was freed to tell her he was coming home. >> during the rescue, there was heavy gunfire between police and the kidnappers. in the end, five of the alleged kidnappers were captured. lester. >> remarkable story, charles hadlock. coming up here on "today," home health. if you're looking to get a mortgage, the question and information you need to know to find a best lender. plus, moonlighting, the jobs actors take on for extra cash. but first, these messages. ital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50 percent annual bonus. so you earn 50 percent more cash. if you're not satisfied with 50% more cash, send it back! i'll be right here, waiting for it. who wouldn't want more cash? 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today's real estate contributor barbara corcoran has the answer. >> good morning, lester. >> if we had done this segment in 2007, great, because banks are competing for your business and you want to check them out. now people are grateful if a bank says, here's the money. >> you're right. it's because you're grateful. it's almost like you're there at the close, a tin cup and hoping you get a few tin coins thrown into it. banks particularly minutia charges that add up and you have to have the confidence to sit there and ask a few questions. >> let's start from the very beginning. you want to buy a home or refinance, do you get to your bank or is it better to go to a mortgage broker and get a choice? >> people lack time and bank lobes have goattten so complicated, i feel like you need a specialist to explain every detail to you. yet you could still go to your corner bank where you do your checking and sit down with your loan officer and ask for a loan there, as well. but i believe mortgage brokers earn their keep. >> let's say f you're in a position where your credit is not the best or you don't have a lot of a down payment. how would you find a mortgage broker that in this day and age or a lender that would still work with you. >> one way, of course, is through a recommendation, but a lot of people don't know someone else who had credit problems or will admit they had credit problems. so you could simply google mortgage broker, bad credit. the most important thing, though, is to ask the mortgage broker have they dealt with people with bad credit? what have they done to resolve it and is it their experiment inspect but there are specialists in each firm. >> anyone who has sat at a closing knows you're signing all kinds of fees and everything like that. how do you get a good idea what the true cost of this loan is going to be? >> the most important thing there is the timing, lester. you should be asked for a good faith estimate right after you make your loan application. the reason for that is they must spell out every little detail from the points, the interest rate and all the closing charges. so a good faith estimate is like a report card of every little detail on the loan. you're entitled to it early, but you have to ask for it. >> you mentioned points. how much typically should you be paying points on a loan? >> today, if you're paying more than 1.5 points, you're crazy because that is the going rate. you're paying them up front. unlike the interest rate over time, that you might move out and settle the mortgage early. the points are essential and you shouldn't be paying more than 1.5 points. >> a lot of folks are under water but a lot of folks are in a position to refinance. what should they be looking for when they're shopping around to refinance? >> you should, again, be getting a good faith estimate so you can compare the details. but very importantly, for most people who want to refinance, they are not getting the loan simply because their house is simply worth less than the mortgage. there is a new program called h.a.r.p., and it doesn't appraise your house which allows people to refinance the high interest they have on their loans. >> are there independent websites you can go to to get a better idea what your options are? >> yes. if you're a patient individual and you want to do the research and feel like you have a working knowledge of what you're about to get into, i think the best websites are the security and exchange commission website because it's chock-full of useful information. still, believe me, it's complicated. >> what's the price of getting a bad lender? you've been on the real estate side of it. have you had a lot of deals go south because someone got the wrong lender? >> let me tell you, so many people lose the financing because they have the wrong le lender. and most of them are z looking it because they haven't asked the questions up front. i think it's good advise to bring a pushy friend with you the minute you get to a mortgage broker or a lender who is going to ask the important questions that you yourself might not ask. that avoids a lot of later heartac heartache. >> as always, you bring a lot of good, useful information. >> up next, after the show, second jobs for soap opera stars. we'll show you what they do when they're not on the set. coming up after these messages. ♪ [ gasp ] [ mom ] my husband -- he thinks it's a 3-sheeter. i say 1-sheeter. bounty can clean the mess with less. 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>> not seen the musical. i have to get out more. tom yumm is standing by inside. he has the latest news headlines for us. >> good morning, everyone. the had penn state football team plays its first football game in 46 years this afternoon without famed head coach joe paterno. but the university's more focused on the child sex abuse scandal that ended paterno's legendary career this week. thousands of students held a candlelight vigil friday night to support the alleged victims. more coming up in this half hour on "today." and the republican presidential candidates hold their second debate in three days today in spartanburg, south carolina. mike va viqueira is live in washington. >> it's supposed to be about foreign policy, the debate in spartansburg, south carolina. but with so many questions going in it, with so much attention frankly on the policy side focused on the economy, all eyes are going to be on these candidates. it is an unsettled field, tom. we do not have a clear front-runner at this point. some of the questions, can rick perry start to recover from what some are calling a historic campaign gap in recent campaign history, we haven't seen anything quite like it like we saw that stumble in that cnbc debate last week. has herman cain weathered the controversy very surrounding 2 sexual harassment claims against him? and can conservatives get behind mitt romney for some of his conservative stances? he's been hit for some of his flip-flops. many candidates think mitt romney would make the best candidate against president obama. but the republican electorate doesn't degree. add to all of that newt gingerich tied for second place in the polls. >> mike viqueira, thank you. venezuela police say they've rescued washington nationals catcher wilson ramos two days after he was kidnapped. the abduction is the first known kidnapping of a major league baseball player and it brings a renewed focus on worsening violent crime in venezuela. a ceremony today marks the 10th anniversary of a crash of flight 597. it crashed into a neighborhood in queens, new york, killing 580 people. it happened right after september 11th, but the crash was blamed on pilot error. the media is being allowed into japan's nuclear damaged power plant for the first time since the disaster last ma. reporters, wearing full body gear, say there were still walls piled in rubble from where the building's walls crumbled. >> let's get another check of the weather from bill karins. >> it's cold out there. i have to ask mom, where is your flannel pajamas? >> i don't have them. >> you don't even wear them? whose idea was it? >> all of ours. >> you figured you would get on tv if you wore the flannel pajamas? now, what we need to know, do they have the feet? >> yes. >> excellent. come on. now it was worth it. good morning, everyone. let's talk about this weather around the country. we are looking out. northern rockies, we've got know, blizzard warningings. and it's not just there. down in the deep south, it is a cold morning. can you believe it was 23 degrees in tallahassee this morning. right now, it's a little warmer. we're starting to get better. temperatures were colder in florida this morning and many areas of canada on those rare occasions. in the southeast, once that sun comes out, it will warm up. we will get temperatures up into the 70s. northern rockies, we have showers out there today.or here is a look at the decreasing showers south of san jose, see toward hollister and gilroy. most of the moisture is moving into central and southern california, though we will start the day off with some high-level clouds spilling in from the north, the showers shutting down by 8:00. by noon, should see those mid and high level clouds breaking up, mixed clouds and sunshine, high today eventually in the 50s to low 60s this afternoon, yes, a dry finish to the weekend and start to the workweek. then come next thursday and friday, another cool down with more rain late in the 7-day forecast. gol goldsboro loves the "today" show. we love you, too. back to you, lester. >> thanks very much, big. in just a few hours, thousands of people will be in the stands at the penn state knitly lions take on number nebraska. security will be increased at the game and emotions on the campus and beyond are expected to be running very high. nbc's ron mott is at penn state and is joins us live with more. ron, good morning again. >> reporter: hey, lester. good morning to you. there was another mass demonstration on campus, but unlike the one we saw a few nights ago, this gathering was intended to help put back together what's been torn apart. ♪ imagine there's no heaven last night, thousands of penn state students and alums sought to make amends. >> we are sorry. but the only thing that matters right now is that we are here for you. >> reporter: it was a chance another forgiveness and unity, through music -- ♪ and the tears come streaming down your face ♪ -- through silence, through painful words. >> i relate to it because i was sexually abused when i was little. >> all in hopes of shining a more positive light on their -- after a week that saw some of them react violently towards legendary coach joe paterno. >> let's make tonight the greatest story ever told, ever, out of something as horrible as this. >> reporter: earlier, these two students said they organized the candlelight prayer vigil to help focus the energy on the victims of child abuse. >> that's going to be the overall message. >> we can show that we care for them, we honor them, we respect them and at the same time that we can unite as a penn state student body. >> complexities of that issue that -- >> friday, the school's new president sought to re-orient the campus culture with a five-point promise centered around what he called a moral imperative. >> i will reinforce to the entire penn state community the moral imperative of doing the right thing. the first time, every time. never again should anyone at penn state, regardless of their position, feel scared to do the right thing. >> president ericsson announced that embattled current assistant coach mike mcqueary who told a grand jury he saw sandusky sexually assault a young boy in a campus shower nine years ago is on indefinite paid leave citing security threats. >> security for the game has been beefed up so it is a fun environment for the hundred thousand or so fans expected to fill the stands. >> ron mott, thanks so much. according to the grand jury report, jerry sandusky gained access to his victims through an organization called the second mile, which he helped found. troy was a student at that camp. >> good morning. >> you do not alleged abuse at the hands of sandusky, but you got to know him over three or four summers. what do you know about him? >> obviously, in light of what's happened recently, what stands out the most was a lot of physical contact. i remember riding in a car, you know, anytime we would be in a car together, riding alone, a hand on the left thigh and there were a lot of things that the victims had testified to as a clingy, needy kind of constant desire to be in physical contact that i recall, as well. but never anything that -- >> obviously, you're remembering this now through the lens of what we've seen play out now over the last week and a half. but at the time, did it feel strange? did it feel wrong to you? >> it felt uncomfortable. i didn't recognize it as being anything perverted or indicative of anything that could potentially be criminal. to me, it was just like a friend of mine that had a -- had a behavior i wasn't crazy about, you know? he allowed me access and privileges that any boy growing up in this area would dream of. so i looked past being uncomfortable sometimes in his presence so that i could attend those events, so that i could do those things. but -- >> did your relationship change? did you become resentful of him at any point along the way? >> yeah, i think towards the end. i can't -- in fact, i had said before, i couldn't remember exactly how the relationship came to an end. and somebody in my family reminded me the other day that i came back from some event that we had gone to, and i don't remember what it was exactly, but they said i came in the door and said, that's it, that's the last time i'm going anywhere with him and that was, in fact, the last time i did. i don't recall a specific event that entrantranspired, but i do towards the end, maybe the last dozen or so times i went with him, you know, it had kind of become too much, just uncomfortable. >> did you share any of your feelings of discomfort with adults or anyone else? >> i would have really played down just how uncomfortable i was. i might have said, you know, i don't -- i don't like being alone with the guy, he kind of creeps me out. but i wouldn't have given details just because i didn't want to ruin the access that i had. you felt kind of special. you felt like here was somebody very important in the community, a pillar that saw something in you and then rewarded that. so, you know, why would i end that? why would i voluntarily end those privileges. >> troy, later on in the broadcast, we're going to have a discussion about what to tell kids about this sort of things. we tell kids about stranger danger and evil people. trying to put yourself back where you were in camp at the time, what things would you want to tell your kids to look out for? >> anytime an adult makes you feel uncomfortable, for whatever reason, you know, that's something that needs to be brought to the attention immediately to anybody that you can drn any adult you can give that message to. in hindsight, obviously, i would have done more to let it be known just how -- but i think, too, you -- you know, back then, you didn't know. i didn't see that behavior as being a precursors to, you know -- i didn't think that it was possible for a grown man to have that kind of a relationship with a child. i didn't know that. >> and you hit upon the difficult point of that question. again, that's a discussion we're going to have a little bit later in the program. but troy craig, thanks so much for coming on and sharing your thoughts and memories. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> we're going to take a break and be back with more right after these messages. 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>> that is a chapter that i have not thought about. because i do not have any plans. for any such activity. >> reporter: murray was the last person ever to see or talk to michael jackson before he died, and says the singer was desperate for rest. >> how much pressure did you feel to get him to sleep? >> tremendous. tremendous. it was nothing that i have ever encountered. >> reporter: jackson hired murray in march 2009 to be his full time doctor. and in april, murray began stockpiling the powerful anesthetic propofol, a drug normally only administered in a hospital setting with constant monitoring. but murray stands by his actions. >> to you, there's still nothing wrong with giving propofol in a home setting? >> i think propofol is not recommended to be given in a home setting. but it is not contraindicated. >> reporter: was it wrong for you to give it in the conditions in which you gave it to michael jackson? >> i look at my condition with michael not as i -- not about giving it, but trying to find a method to take away something from him that he should not have been doing. >> reporter: murray claims he was trying to wean jackson off the drug in those final days. >> reporter: how could you say you were trying to take it away from him when you yourself have acknowledged giving it to him nearly every night for almost two months. those are your words. >> absolutely. >> how is that consistent with weaning him off of propofol? >> well, weaning takes time, if you think about what weaning means. are a bankrupt discontinuation, on the other hand, is totally different. >> reporter: murray contends he gave just a small amount of propofol to jackson that monday morning, but acknowledged after a time he left the room. murray insists the drug would have been out of jackson's system by the time he left. >> reporter: are you the cause of michael jackson's death? >> no, i am not. >> reporter: whose fault is it? >> i don't want to blame anyone. and if your question means that i should by pointing fingers at michael,ite not set to do than. >> reporter: your defense lawyers say it's michael jackson that administered this to himself. >> i do not deny that. but on camera today and ek intoing with you, i don't want to point fingers. but i am saying -- >> reporter: but that's what i believe happened. >> i believe that happened. that's different, yes. >> reporter: murray's defense argued jackson gave himself the fatal dose when the doctor was out of the room, a theory prosecution experts rejected as absurd. >> let's say he did take this propofol himself. don't you bare some responsibility? the propofol is in that room because you prescribed it to him. you brat it into that room. don't you bare this responsibility? >> this is the situation. it's difficult. the thing that i met michael was a situation where he was absolutely having use of that substance long before i got there. >> reporter: but own your portion of it. in terms of your own actions, seth aside whether what he did was wright or wrong, whether or not he was an addict, judge your actions alone. were you right to leave him in a situation where he had the opportunity to inject himself? >> well, i'm going to say that was not a foreseeable situation. >> reporter: murray accuses jackson of lying to him by hiding his use of other drugs, including the pain killer demerol. >> reporter: did you really not know he had an addiction problem? >> absolutely not. did not. >> but wait a minute, you knew he was seeing other doctors. on the bedside, there are all these prescriptions with other doctors' names on it. >> i cannot prevent michael from seeing another doctor for any reason. >> reporter: but you can't see you didn't know. >> i did not know he was receiving demerol. whether it was enough to make his dependent, to have high tolerance. >> reporter: didn't you say when you loot at his veins, his veins looked like he was a drug addict? >> it is not -- i asked him and what did he is to me? he denied. >> reporter: do you feel guilty that he died? >> i do want feel guilty because i did not do anything wrong. i am very, very sorry for the loss of michael. michael is a personal friend. it's heartfelt. it's been painful. and that's a great loss for me. i was never, until the day i die, ever be able to forget it. >> reporter: conrad murray will find out his fate at sentencing on november 29th. and still ahead, it was the trip of a lifetime. what it was like to be a part of "where in the world is matt lauer." but first, this is "today" on nbc. 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that story and the rest of the day's news coming up for you here in 30 minutes. you want a warm, super-delicious strawberry toaster strudel yeah but now i have nothing to eat sure you do. hey! you can have the pop tart! pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat [ female announcer ] pillsbury chocolate chip cookies with hershey's chocolate chips. for a moment of warm, gooey, togetherness. chocolate chip cookies... from pillsbury. we're back on this saturday morning, november 12th, 2011. 12 days until thanksgiving. it doesn't seem possible. >> you have to go out and buy a turkey. >> you have to unfreeze it, you have to thaw it. rockefeller plaza tree is right there. it's arrived. we always look forward to the tree being lit the week after thanksgiving. it's an electrifying time here on the plaza. a lot of people coming from all around the world. it's the most famous thing out here on the plaza. i'm amy robach along with lefrt holt. i want to thank everyone from coming out and enjoying this day with us. coming up, we're going to have more on the penn state scandal and tell you what you can tell your children about it. >> it is, it is so horrible, we find ourselves trying to talk around the allegeses here. imagine trying to talk about this with your children. but there's some important things that this is a conversation that has to be had. we're going to talk to a psychologist about how you can do with this with your children, what you can warn them of. we're going to give you some practical information about these kinds of things. very often, they are people you know and people you trust to perpetrate them. also coming up on a much lighter note, we're going to be talking about the movie musical that won ten academy awards. we're talking about westside story, the music, the sing egging, the dancing and 50 years later, it remains a classic. i recently had a chance to sit down with a few of the movie's stars and sit down and find out what it was like to be a part of this film. i don't know if you've ever had the inclination to hang ten, but how about hanging ten on a 90-foot wave. we're going to show you the picture of the american who hung on that wul of water. at some oibt, doesn't that water end up on top of you? >> yes, it does. and we'll ask him exactly what that moment felt like. >> we're going to find out a lot more about that. >> whoa. oh, my gosh. >> oh, my goodness. >> can you imagine what that sounded like, let alone felt like? >> yeah. >> and we are searching for the best thanksgiving stuffing recipes for you. ow vurs for the showdown, we've received some tasty recipes. ahe head to our website, submit your video along with a recipe or dish. >> let's get our final check of the bl now. bill karins is standing by with the forecast. >> that's crazy. 12 days before thanksgiving. that's insane. here at the today show, would he have always had a lot of interesting people. i have never had a sign before or seen one that said come to our spaghetti dinner. our sa getty dinner is from 4:00 to 7:00 tonight. this is to save what? >> it's for our drama club. they cut our funding for the spring musical. >> spaghetti, meatballs and throw a little extra money in the kettle. yes. >> good for you. in the northern plains, we're going to have rainey and windy conditions. it's a big rainmaker in the middle of the country. kansas city, st. louis, oklahoma city, tulsa, it will be windy out there this weekend. a little showers in the northern portions of the great lakes on sunday. it's a pretty nice weekend. not a lot of dramatic weather out there. the people that complain the most will be in the pacific northwes and here is a look at our morning temperatures, upper 40s, low 50s outside, patchy fog, the shower views moved on. we are going to be seeing partly cloudy skies for oregon state at cal at at&t park near 3:30 this afternoon, close to 60. 50 toward 5:00 as oregon takes on stanford. see high clouds out there now you can the rain really has moved into southern california. so, today, we will eventually see some clearing skies. kind of a cool afternoon. dry finish to the weekend. and a dry start to the workweek. is it hit 60s tomorrow. well, of course, we have to talk about sunday night. i'm going to try to be as polite as i possibly can to the new england patriots fans. but this is the game and the chance for the sxwrets to knock them off the top of the afc. temperatures, 51 to 55 degrees. i will be staying up well past my bedtime and you probably will be, too, lester. back to you the. >> bill, thanks. for the past week, the air waves have been bombarded with issues about the penn state sex abuse scandal. for parents, it bridges up real concerns. how do we talk to our kids about this story and the issue of sex abuse? here to help us with these questions is dr. janet taylor, a psychiatrist. so difficult. the details in this case, if the true, are not unusual in that most sexual cases involves someone that the child knows, a coach, a teacher wab baby-sitter. when do we start to have this conversation with your children? >> you start early and often. by age and 4, we should talk to our children about healthy sexuality. teaching the right words in terms of penis and va gina, who can touch you, who can't touch you, mommy, daddy, pediatrician, but always set the tone that you can always talk to me as the parent. >> we have hopefully talked to our kids about stranger danger, people you don't know and don't talk to them for obvious reasons. but it's a lot easier to have ta conversation, i would say, than you have to worry about people that you know and that mommy and daddy mae trust. exactly. most sexual abuse happens that by people either within the family, it could be a parent, or someone who is known to the family. so we have to lose that connotation that some stranger is going to hurt you. and say, listen, talk to me if you feel anything uncomfortable, if it's going to happen. and that sense of trust starts in a family household where there is trust. so families that have a lot of conflict, there's a lot of aggression, are not necessarily the ones that kids feel the most open to talk. so we create that sense of trust within our own houses. >> we also have to teach them how to report these things, as well, don't we? >> absolutely. we think about sexual abuse happening to young kids, but sexual abuse is any unwanted, forceful touching or exposure to sexual content. that can happen to kids 5 or high school kids. so the point is, talk to me. if you feel uncomfortable, learn to say no and that's the message that we have to send. >> we pose the question on facebook, how do we talk to our kids about penn state? one viewer wrote and said you need to be honest and use this as a learning post. in a different post, david wrote tell them to be honest. they need to do what to do if they're in na situation. it's easy to do to say this is important to talk about, but we don't always feelee equipped in that sort of conversation. how do we learn the right words? >> it's hard to say, but it's necessary. and use what if situations. what if you saw someone who was hurting a friend or hurting your sister? what would you do? because we teach our kids the words so they have them. we teach them to come one a plan. as a parent, we're thinking about the why and the what. the why is because we want to keep our kids safe. the why is using the facts to talk about what happened and the how is having a plan so they feel comfortable enough to talk to us. >> this story raises so many issues, reporting something that you witnessed, something that doesn't look right. that can be difficult because we've seen in this story already, making, even doing the right thing can have serious consequences. >> unfortunately, the heartbreaking part of this is we have adults who did not, in my opinion, do the right thing. so teaching our children, it is important that if you see something, do something. i mean, you know, someone window pointed out, we talk about it for suitcases. we need to talk about it for other people. if something makes you feel uncomfortable, if you see something that's happening, especially to a child, speak up. as parents, we have to say, i will always listen to you. i will not make you feel guilty, but together we can get through this. >> very important conversation. hopefully it will continue in a lot of living rooms around the country. and we're back in a moment, but first, these messages. i couldn't sleep right. next day it took forever to get going. night after night, i sat up. sprayed up. took a shower... or took a pill. then i tried drug-free breathe right advanced. and instantly, i breathed better! i slept better. it felt...better. thank you, breathe right! 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