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Groups of all time today, thursday, january 30th, 2014. Stayin alive announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im matt lauer. And im tamron hall with the dancing kings and queens, i guess we are this morning. Al roker and Natalie Morales. I am tweeting out sound tracks of a generation. I think the best sound track of all time, saturday night fever. Is that yours . The year was 1977. My suit was white, white flare on the legs and i stood against the wall because i still couldnt dance back then. A lot of hits came off that album. I wake up to the sound track every morning for the past 13 years. Its my wakeup. Thats my alarm. And their sound still today carrying into the music that were hearing and listening to. Well talk to barry gibb later on. Also more on those overnight terror arrests seven days away from the Olympic Games. But let us start with our top story today. Belowfreezing temperatures ushering in another i da of potential problems across the south. This as officials in georgia face a lot of criticism over their handling of that storm. Nbcs tom costellos in atlanta. Tom, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. 19 degrees here in atlanta. Ive been on the highways and the byways, if you will, the other roads, and were still seeing very slick, treacherous conditions. Black ice. I didnt see a single salt truck out there. Weve still got hundreds, even thousands of cars abandoned. All of this because of a sheet of ice and one to three inches of snow. Gridlock in atlanta. Thousands of people stranded in their cars for hours. I was in the car for 20 hours. 18, almost 20 hours. Reporter now the aftermath. Im not going to get into that blame game. Reporter why did things get so bad here . The error, and we have shared responsibility for the error, was everybody letting out at once. Which caused a massive traffic jam. The National Weather service had continually had their mojdsimojds i mojdsing showing that the city of atlanta would not be the primary area where the storm would hit. Reporter it was tuesday when crews began treating the roads around atlanta, but by afternoon rush hour, the city was paralyzed. Its been pretty, pretty rough. A total nightmare out here. Reporter by wednesday morning, the National Guard was mobilized to help. The greatest need has really been water and making sure that theyve been fed and keeping warm. Reporter 11,000 kids at a school had to spend tuesday night away from mom and dad, many on the floor in the school gym. The roads too dangerous for buss to take kids home or parents to pick them up. I was waiting for her. And she got on a bus like at 6 00 last night. And were just now getting here to get them. Reporter with abandoned cars and trucks littering the highways, home depots across the area stayed open, giving stranded commuters an unlikely place to crash overnight. I slept in the Hallmark Card aisle by some birthday cards, unfortunately. Reporter some slept on the floor of other retailers. Their stories shared on social media. Among the frustration came hope, strangers helping strangers. And a baby girl, Grace Elizabeth anderson, born on the side of the highway after her parents car got trapped in the congestion. Were hoping and praying that we were going to make it to the hospital on time, but, you know, its all good. Things didnt quite go as planned. Reporter in all, less than three inches of snow brought the city to a standstill. And the recovery is still under way. Theyve still declared a Civil Emergency here in atlanta. That will go till about noon or so eastern time, 9 00 a. M. On the pacific coast. They hope people will stay off the roads, kids are out of school and they want to give the city time to recover. Matt, back to you. Tom costello, thanks very much. Lets bring in kassim reed, the mayor of atlanta. Mr. Mayor, good morning to you. Good morning. How are you . Fine, thank you. There seems to be great debate over the answer of this one. Mr. Mayor, you have did the information you needed . Did you have the forecast you needed to make the right calls before this snow arrived . The answer is yes, but its not solely about my call. In the city of atlanta, we have the state, we have myself, and we have the School System which are all separate. And in the city of atlanta, we started our snow treatment at 9 00 a. M. After getting our weathercast between 4 00 and 5 00. And almost every photo that you just showed is not in the city of atlanta. In fact, within 24 hours, the roads in the city of atlanta were more than 80 passable. So i just reviewed your report, and it focused almost exclusively on our citys highways. Which the city does not have jurisdiction for, and most of those simply were not in the city of atlanta. And im trying not to play the blame game here. Sure. Im not pointing fingers at anyone, but then let me make it more general. Did officials of one level or another fail to make proper calls based on accurate forecasting that was coming from the National Weather service . Matt, heres what happened. We made an error in the way that we released our citizens. So the state made a judgment to release state employees, private businesses made that judgment, and i made the call, and aps made the call. If i had where was the coordination between those Different Levels . And i think you were at lunch with the governor as it started to snow. Did anyone talk to each other and say lets not release everybody at the same time . Ive already acknowledged that i think that that was a mistake. And i was at lunch, but i had already ordered our streets to start being pretreated by 9 00 a. M. , which is why on yesterday if the cameras had focused on the city limits, they would have seen that 80 of our streets are passable. And if you were in atlanta right now, you would see that the streets in the city of atlanta are clear. Weve had zero fatalities. Weve handled more than 797 accidents. And we reunited all of the children in the city of atlanta with their families. And mr. Mayor and the photos youre showing right now arent even photos of the city of atlanta. All right. Theyre obviously in the area surrounding atlanta. Let me ask you well, then yall should say that, matt. Okay. And im saying it right now. This is the surrounding area. Its easy for people in the northeast, i think, mr. Mayor to sit up here because were kind of used to snowstorms and maybe even snicker a little bit and say this was the result of inexperience. Did a lack of experience with this kind of weather on a regular basis play a role here . I think that it certainly plays a role. We dont have a Severe Weather events of this kind often in the city of atlanta or in georgia. And so i think its fair to say that it definitely played a role. But the city of atlanta invested 2. 5 million in snow equipment. And that was the reason that is the reason that right now our streets are passable. And real quickly, nobody loves monday morning quarterback, im sure you dont like it right now, but the only thing useful from a monday morning quarterback is lessons. Whats learned from this . Matt, what is learned from this is that the state, the city, the school board and our private businesses need to stagger releasing our citizens to go home during Severe Weather events. I think it would have made a major difference if we had released our school and parents first, if private business had had been left second, and then if government had left last sending home nonessential employees and retaining the employees we needed to keep our city safe. Which we did. Atlanta mayor kassim reed, i appreciate your time. I know youre busy. Zmoo thank you, matt. I appreciate the time to speak with you. Thanks. The key there, you said lessons learned, how to prevent this from happening again. Thats the bottom line. That first warn, what, 3 30 a. M. 3 30 a. M. Enough time to cancel school. Hopefully will not happen again. Meanwhile, natalie is here with breaking news. New arrests on terror investigations overnight. Thats right. Good morning. We have breaking news in russia this morning with a week to go until the winter olympics, officials have identified two suicide bomber responsible for the attacks that killed 34 people last month and arrested two suspected accomplices. Nbcs Richard Engel is in sochi, russia, with the latest. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. As athletes, their families and fans are starting to make their way to sochi, today russia trying to reassure them and reassure the world that these games will be successful, and most of all will be safe. Russia today identified the two suicide bombers who carried out those twin suicide attacks over the new year in the city of volgograd and also said forces had had arrested two suspects accomplices. Two brothers from the republic of dagestan that according to russian officials helped transport the bombers to their attackers. A senior Russian Security official said that he had no intelligence of any suicide bombers on the loose, no reports of any suicide bombers having made their way into sochi. And he said most of all, there is no intelligence whatsoever according to russias view of any Credible Threats against the games. So what were seeing are two very different messages. One in media reports and coming from u. S. Officials, that there is a threat and that its real and that today russia stressing it has everything under control. A new Study Suggests Childhood Obesity starts at an early age. Researchers say if a child is overweight in kindergarten, he or she is four times more likely than normal weight children to become obese by eighth grade and likely remain obese into adulthood. Children who were large at birth and overweight by kindergarten were found to be at the highest risk of becoming obese by age 14. And one researcher says schools should focus on kids who are overweight and try to encourage exercise and healthy eating. Well, new hope for children with peanut allergies. An experimental therapy that slowly introduced small amounts of peanut flour into an allergic childs diet has shown promising results in britain. After six months of treatment, more than 80 of the children who ate a handful or could eat rather a handful of peanuts while experts are encouraged, they warn this is not something, though, that parents should try at home. Peanut allergies do affect about 1 in 50 children worldwide. And well never be royals but that doesnt mean we cant be served a beer by one. Prince charles and camilla visited a pub in england on wednesday. They rubbed elbows with the locals, even got behind the bar to pour a few beers for a while. Id like an ale. Time he flex that elbow. Practice. Just the right pour. Theyre sipping. If you get the right foam, is that a head of state . Nice. Okay. Thats the first time ive heard that story, but there you go. Anyway. All right. Well, while you coif a nice cold one, well show you what weve got going on. Two different areas of the country still dealing with winterlike weather. Minneapolis, you can see snow right now. Its going to be snowing this morning. Winter storm warnings in effect for minneapolisst. Paul. In fact, you can see there and Winter Weather advisories all the way into michigan as well. In fact, were looking for another three to six inches of snow from the dakotas all the way into the u. P. Of michigan. Lets head south and you can see weve got right now some rain falling in pensacola. In fact, the ramp there to i10 closed. 110 miles of that highway because of freezing rain right now. It will eventually clear this morning. But look at this. Were looking at a lot of rain down south. Up to two inches from captiva all the way to the east coast of florida in west palm beach. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Al forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. [ male announcer ] build anything with the new toyota tundra. Toyota. Lets go places. Good morning to you. So happy to show you this radar. Look at this. Were actually getting pretty steady rainfall, mostly in the south bay at this point. I want to show you the peninsula where we are getting more bands of moisture and these bands will stream on shore. Throughout the next couple hour, so grab that umbrella, so far we accumulated about an inch of rain near ukiah, more like a quarter inch in the Higher Elevation but there is more rain on the day so keep that umbrella by your side. Spotty activity. And thats your latest weather. All right, sir. Thanks so much. Theres more fallout this morning from an ugly scene following the president s state of the union address. A congressman threatening a reporter with physical violence on live tv. Kelly odonnell is at capitol hill correspondent for nbc and shes there. Good morning, kelly. Kelly. Good morning. Democratic critics say the congressman is a hot head who should play a political price for his behavior. The congressman tells me this is emotion that got the better of him after an emotional day. Whatever the anger manageme mem issues were, hes trying to defend himself now. I lost my cool. It shouldnt have happened. Reporter one day after his own grimm tale had gone viral. That menacing outburst from republican Michael Grimm. Unleashed tuesday night on new york one reporter Michael Scotto. I caught up with him wednesday when he blamed his demotion on his day. Theres no excuse for it and Michael Scotto enough was gracious enough to accept my apologi apologies. Reporter grimm has been under pressure. Its suspected some questionable donations to his campaign. Hes not the classiest guy in the world. I wouldnt vote for him or against him in that particular issue. Reporter and that report ser willing to move on, too. Im going to let the tape speak for itself and i think people can decide what they think of the apology. Reporter the reporter tells me when the congressman called with that apology, he said lets go to lunch. The reporter said well see if that happens. The House Republicans are away on a retreat so things have schooled down. Speaker boehner said it was right for grimm to apologize. That may be the end of it for any sort of official action after that outburst. Thank you very much. Meanwhile pop star Justin Bieber is in trouble again, this time for an incident in toronto last month where he allegedly assaulted a limo driver. And it was a chaotic scene last night as bieber turned himself in. Reporter good morning, matt. Justin bieber has three criminal investigations going on stretching from california to florida and now canada. The most recent one, assault. Many are starting to wonder whether the pop star is spinning out of control. A crush of cameras, screaming fans and the cops met Justin Bieber as he arrived at a Toronto Police station late wednesday. Inside bieber faced an assault charge from december when he was in charge for a maple leafs game. The limo driver claims he was repeatedly hit in the back of the head by one of the passengers. Its uncleared if it was bieber or a member of his entourage. Something has happened in the last six months where he seems to be going off the rail. Reporter he was also taughting his new music video on instagram. But lately hes drawing more attention for his brushes with the law than his music. Earlier this month police in l. A. Raided the singers house after he was accused of egging a neighbors home. No charges yet. And more than 166,000 people have signed a petition asking that he be deported. Hes due in court march 10th. His lawyers say hes innocent. As for the deportation, its unlikely. Some are joking it sounds a lot more like breaking bieber. Thank you very much. Still talking about the weather and we found a great story that popped up online. One woman gets home and realizes she sees people offering help and those asking for help and they werent connected. She creates a Facebook Group snowed out, atlanta. It has 50,000 members and people are getting help, all due to this Facebook Group. We all know things were a mess. Heres a family. Jean posted she and her family walked two miles on ice just to pass out snacks. Adam moore writes hes got my phone in hand, my bag, ill be on foot passing out whoever is in need. This group got so big they had to split it out into atlanta east side to help that it can part. Heres a post my sister has been stuck in her car since 4 p. M. Yesterday, nothing to eat, out of gas, is diabetic, can somebody please help. Sure enough moments later, you found her, someone gave her gas, thanks to the food and juice, good people still left in this world. Its a great some good news finally coming out of that area thanks to social media. Thank you. Coming up, a verdict expected in just hours in the latest amanda knox murder trial. What happens if shes convicted given . Were live at the courthouse in italy. And then take a deep breath. A true legend is in our studio in a couple of minutes. Barry bee gee on his life, legacy coming [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting advil. With an ultrathin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology, it stops pain before it gets worse. Nothing works faster. New fast acting advil. Look for it in the white box. Of fast is good and faster is better. Good thing walgreens gets you in and out in no time. So you get the relief you need with new fast acting advil. At the corner of happy and healthy. Heres another. Try charmin ultra strong. It cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading bargain brand. 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The teenager says the man reached out toward her and said, quote, hey beautiful. He never touched her and the girl ran into a restaurant where she was able to call police. They are calling the incident suspicious, not an attempted kidnapping. First Lady Michelle obama will be in the bay area today. Mrs. Obama will attend at least one Democratic National Committee Fundraiser in San Francisco but officials wont say exactly where. Tomorrow she will be at a fundraising luncheon. Some snow in the sierra, several inches of fresh powder in the last few hours, really beautiful. The second snow survey of the year will happen later today. Still want wipe out the word drought, can we. No. You know i can tell you as we head throughout the day were going to see a fair amount of shower activity. Especially along the south bay and look at all of the snowfall still coming down along the sierra nevada. So as you can see here, definitely getting the steady snowfall in the bay area, tracking these showers and as we head throughout the next couple hours were going to see the situation improve so thanks for waking up with us. I love being able to show this to you. A band of rain headed to San Francisco as we head through the next half hour, slick conditions already and reinforcing shot. The next two hours were going to keep the showers in the south bay. But the good news is more on the way as we head throughout the second half of the day well see spotty activity, by tomorrow morning showers turn isolated, but still fair game all the way through 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Lets check your drive. The band of showers has already left its mark on the roadways so you see slick conditions at the bay bridge toll plaza, a lighter backup but slow off of the berkeley curve. Approaching the curve down the east shore freeway slow into the city as well. On the peninsula, southbound 101 a crash, northbound slows coming up to millbrae, there is your east bay slowing and then the south bay slow northbound. Back to you. Thanks so much. Whether you admit it or not, whether you did it in public or not, whether did you it in your living room, we all danced like that at one point or another. Well, maybe not like that. Courtesy of the music of that man and his extremely talented brothers. Were going to talk to barry gibb in just a little while. Bow down, yes. Very cool. A great morning. Lets take a look at whats making headlines. Officials in georgia are taking heat for the traffic for that powerful storm. Hundreds of abandoned cars still litter the streets. And president obama wraps up a twoday tour today. The president has stops scheduled in wisconsin and nashville, tennessee. And Justin Bieber turned himself in to police, accused of assault being a limo driver. His attorney said hes innocent. Coming up, we have Great Healing advice for your body and soul. Dr. Oz will be here with ways to treat the common cold and dr. Phil with what yelling at your skids doing to them and how to repair the damage. And coming up, this celebrity couple is taking a major stand against paparazzi who take photos of children. Very interesting. A verdict expected today at the retrial of amanda knox and her former boyfriend in the 2007 murder of knoxs roommate. Keith miller is at the courthouse in florence, italy. Keith, good morning. Reporter good morning, tamron. Were expecting a verdict in this case within hours. And the speculation is that amanda knox along with her former boyfriend will be found guilty. It was the last chance for amanda knoxs defense. In closing arguments before the two judges and section jurors, the lawyers argued that probability was not sufficient to convict. Both knox and her codefendant maintain their innocence in the murder and brutal Sexual Assault seven years ago of knoxs roommate. Rudy, a drifter and lowlevel drug dealer, is serving a 16year sentence for the murder. Knoxs verdict was later overturned. Then Italys Supreme Court rejected that decision, ruling that more than one person participated in the crime. Knoxs decision to boycott the appeal and follow the case from her hometown seattle may have hurt her standing with the judges. Its strictly not required to attend by law. Reporter the alleged murder wep weapon was subjected to another round of investigation. Again, no dna from the victim. The prosecution is now suggesting the motive for murder was a heated argument over bathroom hygiene or stolen money. Defense lawyers today called the prosecutions conclusion shocking. The victims family is expected to be in court for the verdict, waiting like the press and the public in florence for the italian courts to deliver justice for the third time. If found guilty, knoxs lawyers say they will appeal and this case could go back to the supreme court, resulting in yet another appeal trial. All right, keith miller, thank you very much. This has been going on for a long, long time. Lets get a forecast from mr. Roker. Yes. Check the airport before you go, 3,000 delays and cancellations. Winter storm watches and advisories from weather into the pacific northwest. This is part of a storm system coming in. You can see on the radar, were already seeing snow and rain where we desperately need it, especially into the rockies and the cascades. Were looking live radar right now. You can see along the california nevada border, the muchneeded snow into parts of utah and colorado. Were looking at more snow coming in. Thats good news. This is going to continue to make its way west. Early this morning we have california rain and snow. During the afternoon, heavy snow in the rockies where they need it. Early friday morning storm stalls out. This thing makes its way to the west. From dodge city all the way into the midwest to detroit, were looking at a decent amount of snow. Heavy snow and icing out of this thing, 3 to 6 inches 7 35. Its something we have not seen in quite some time, a big front draped over the south end of the bay area, and look at all of this snowfall coming in to tahoe. We could accumulate up to three feet of powder above 7,000 feet which is great news for skiers and snow borders. I want to show you ha were working now in terms of showers. Most of the activity starting to let up. Were fair game for spotty shower, throughout tonight everything starts to subside. Thats your latest weather. Make sure you get whatever you need on the weather channel. Com. 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You turn on the radio last summer you hear blurred lines, you hear get lucky. Youre hearing the sound of the 70s and in some sense the bee gees. Morris died too early from complications of intestinal surgery, robin died too early from cancer two years ago and now barry carries the torch, and their enduring legacy more than four decades later. Barry gibb, good morning. Good morning, matt. Have you ever been able to get your arms around the fact that your music makes so many people happy and moved . Of course i love it, but we went through a long period of time where we didnt have no knowledge what people thought of us. I doubt that we ever did. We were always just lets keep making records. For me i hear the bee gees and i just think of the music, i can reel of songs. But i was reminded that while there were fantastic times for your you and brothers, there were tough times, too. There were issues with health and addiction and estrangement. There were times you say you were not friends. Thats true. Was it life at a celebrity or it was life in a tin can. Ive always thought the odds were always against us. Why . Dont know. Maybe because we were brothers and we were kids on Australian Television so there was maybe some people thought we were precocious, but we were just kids. When we came to england, they told us dont bother to leave australia, youll never make it. Youre the oldest brother and youre the last surviving brother. Thats right. Did you ever imagine that could be possible . No, no. Its been quite a shock to my whole family, yvonne and dorina, their wives and my mother. And for her, she blames herself. You really cant blame yourself. Was there a time after the death of robin and morris that you couldnt bear to hear the music of your band . No, thats not true. Thats a myth. I always loved playings musous music, i always love the music and i always got a kick out of someone else singing our song. Lets get in the shower together. Okay. What are you singing . A proposal like that what one of your songs is going to come flying out of those famous the only time i sing is in the shower. Which one is your goto shower song . Theres so many i love. I love and now the purple dust of Twilight Time always flows across the meadow of my mind i love all the old songs. You know whats amazing, i heard you on snl not long ago, you still have the ability im not going to say your age you did it there, to go into that falsetto, they sound like they swallowed sand paper. And i do, too. Thats part of the sound, staying alive. I love people who do that, frankie valley. Ive never felt uncomfortable doing that. Youve done solo things in the past. Yes. Go ahead. You were going to say something. I always do a show for Diabetes Research institute every couple of years. It keeps my chops up, the people are wonderful and it raises money. You want to pay tribute to your brothers on tour but you made the decision not to sending songs that robin sang lead on. I dont. Wouldnt that be a tribute to him . You have to see the show. The show resolves around all of us. I have my oldest son steven on lead guitar, i have morriss daughter, sally, who feels so emotionally connected to it because of her dad and she sings great. Thinking about your family as i was reading some of these notes last night, was trying to see if there was some sort of advice you could offer to a young Justin Bieber. Saturday night bieber. Just because hes going through what seems to be a tough time. You guys were young when this all started for you in the 60s and 70s. Whats the lesson . Things dont change much. If youre a teenage idol, you can lose it pretty quick. Lose perspective . Perspective and you can lose them in the long run if youre not a role model. Theres a lot of intelligent young ladies out there and they need to go out with somebody intelligent. Well, im sure he is and hopefully what he does on stage and the way he dances and the way he sings, he will apply that to his real life. Theres a discipline to what hes doing and apply that discipline to how he ought to behave. I think the best way to end this is just to say thanks. Thanks and sorry. Because if you saw some of the dances i did to your music, i would need to apologize. I never could dance. Mythology, the tour, kicks off in boston on may 16th. Coming up, the greatest Super Bowl Ads of all time. Bracket after bracket. Im going no people dont have to think about where their electricity comes from. They flip the switch and the light comes on. Its our job to make sure that it does. Using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. Generating electricity thats cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions it matters. I think febreze fresheners just mask the odor. Bring us the smelliest thing you can find in your home. Yes. 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It comes down to the budweiser clydesdale respect commercial and its going up against the famous Michael Jordan larry bird ad in 1993. Tamron, you and i had the vw force commercial. Shocked it didnt make it. Why . Whats going on . I think it was a victim of overplay. And maybe too recent. But the bird and jordan, thats a good one. You didnt pick mean joe green . No, i didnt. Go to today. Com and vote. I think clydesdales will win. Kids and animals. Are you pushing away friends and families by posting your latest and greatest vacation photos online . And coming up, well break down the skating competition. And who its great on strawberries, apples. Bananas. Rice cakes. Raspberries. Toast [ kelly ] jif hazelnut spread makes anything your new favorite thing. Spoons which is why this choosy mom chooses jif. You may have heard theres a new rinse that talks about protecting, even after eating and drinking. Crest prohealth has always done that. And addresses all these other areas as well. 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Ron carrillo is a veteran correctional officer sits in the same jail he once secured. The Sheriffs Office says carrillo was allowing several convicted criminals to live in his san jose home in exchange for illegal drugs. He is on leave and his bail set at 121,000. The search is on for an arsonist accused of setting a massive fire at a recycling plant. Investigators say a fire at Sims Metal Management in redwood city in december was deliberately set. Right now they wont go into detail but are reviewing Surveillance Video from the plant. Lets get a look at our Rainy Weather with christina. Good morning to you, scott, good morning to you at home. Almost an inch of rain in the valley surrounding ukiah. Thats great news. San jose almost. 2 inch. San martin. 15 and west portal, San Francisco about. 1. Were getting very light activity on the south bay. You want to keep that in mind. The sevenday forecast shows you were going to stay cool for about a week. Still watch out for spotty cells. We head through the next half hour. Lets check your drive. The thing that looked like a death star thats the radar there for the system. Here were looking at the san mateo bridge. In the middle of the road you see wet pavement. We have slick spots from earlier rain. Christina talked about some coming through. The map will show you slow southbound 880, northbound slow in the green area where we have wet roads. Southbound through fremont slow for 880 and the peninsula, 101 bogs down through palo alto, your northbound routes again wet roads for the south bay. Slow 17 north recovering after a crash cleared. Its 8 00 on today. Stranded and struggling, residents crippled across the region. Plus dr. Oz and dr. Phil stop by studio 1a. And the ladies lace up their skates. Sara hughes features the ladies figure skating team as they head off to sochi on today january 14th. Celebrate good time team usa go for greatness good morning, mile high city go broncos go hawks were back at 8 00 on this thursday morning, 30th date of january, 2014. Its blasphemy, i tell you. Al, we have barry gibb in the studio and on Throwback Thursday you went with a cool and the gang song . No, i did not. Its a bee gee day. I like to mix it up a little bit. 197 0s. I put a picture of barry gibb on instagram and i got more feedback than anybody i posted. People absolutely love it. I posted about the best sound track ever. So far its between saturday night fever and purple rain. Thats good, too. Lets check in with natalie. In the news this morning, atlanta is trying to thaw itself out after a storm that led to days of frustration. Gabe gutierrez is there for us this morning. Reporter good morning. Things are improving slightly. The major interstates are clear but outlying areas are not. Atlanta as a city, still partially paralyzed. Its terrible. Looks like everybody dropped the ball. Reporter the interstate is littered with hundreds of abandoned cars after tuesdays storm. Those stranded students are finally back home. Its been tough but as long as the kids are safe, im fine. Reporter politicians and meteorologists hey debate who missed the warning sign but if government steps up i walked to mcdonalds, got look 200 biscuits, manned them out. Reporter volunteers organized on facebook. Chip are jones rescued Freddie Freeman on his a. T. V. And retailers opened their doors to trapped commuters who slept on their floors, yet while the rest of atlanta was on a stand still, tiny Grace Elizabeth was on the move, even if her parents were stuck in traffic. We were waiting to wake up and say to each other, did that really happen . Did we just have a baby in the front seat of my car on the highway . Reporter many throughout the south will not look back so fondly on this ice storm, city Officials Say their response was time was better than the last ice storm in 2011 but many residents think thats not saying a lot. Gabe gutierrez, thank you. Tragedy in western kentucky. Officials say as many as nine people were killed when fire swept through their house in the middle of the night. At least two patients have been thrown to nashville, tennessee for medical treatment. 26yearold chantilla dennis was selling happy meals with heroin inside. People pulled up to the window, ordered a happy meal and then said id like to order a toy. Unbelievable. And michael schumakers coma is being reduced to allow the wakeup process begin. With sochi olympics just days away, people in japan are placing their hope in a faith in a rare good luck fish. The gold flounder was caught off the sea of japan. Flounders are typically a brownish color and in just nine days japan will find out if the fish can really bring the gold to its athletes. Its kind of an ugly looking thing but hopefully its lucky. Its 8 05 right now. Lets get another check of the weather with al and. O and everyone out there o the plaza. What are you guys doing . Were here from spokane, washington honoring steve. With als. Go to www. Superservice. Com. Seattle washington looking at rain. By saturday youre looking at sunshine, 47 degrees. Afternoon temperatures, its going to be cold again up into the northern plains. Warming up, though, west texas, southern florida and the southwest. For today we have plenty of sunshine through the northeast. A clipper bringing 3 to 6 inches of snow from minneapolis just to the north of chicago. Wet weather back through the west. Good yeah, it is dumping snow in the sierras right now. Were going to have a live report, just stick around. Nbc bay area has you covered through this active weather. Were starting to see a blue sky breaking through. Gold glory getting a pick up there. The storm system will continue to head out of the area. As you see right now, steady rainfall. Travel cautiously. A little spotty activity that will lighten up. And your name, young man . Aidan. Where are you from, aidan . Philly. I like that, what a guy. Good looking young man. Aidan tells me he does likes cheese steak. The super bowl is upon us. Im going to take a stand. [ cheers ] hold on. Hold on. Boom broncos who would it better . You know what, im going to go for it also. Up next in trending, cue the controversy, not the super bowl. Miley goes unplugged with madonna. And the winter olympic just a week away. And dr. Oz is in the house with ways to fight the cold and dr. Phil with bullying and more. You have no idea, i wore that het [ male announcer ] its a new year. 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The last time the team had a shot at the super bowl, she had to miss the celebrations because she was pregnant with him. Now 30 days later, mike has found a great way to make it up to her. Take a look. What . What are you talking about . Those of super bowl tickets. No. Yeah. No, theyre not. Theyre row 10, theyre the end zone and were staying two and a half miles in the stadium in a home with no, no were going to the super bowl, mom. And then to disneyland. Mike says as soon as he learned ticket prices had dropped a little bit, he knew he could make his moms dreams come true. How cute was that . Imagine if the dog ate those tickets . Stop it, stop it going to the dark side. Now to the other story. When you go to the museum, youre a parent, youre supposed to teach your kid to appreciate artwork, right . And you tell them not to touch, right . Sure. Apparently not all kids do that. This photo shows two toddlers crawling all over a pricey sculpture. You can see the childs feet sticking out at the end as the two adults stand there and watch. They grew up sleeping in drawers. A brooklyn gallery donor tweeted us saying the kids were using a 10 million piece of artwork as a toy. Unless its a childrens museum. They didnt have a very familyfriendly policy. I would say you report it to the guard. Thats a Beverly Hills cop moment. Thats 10 million . Get outta here. What happens when you cross a wrecking ball with the Material Girl . Viewers had the pleasure of finding out last night when madonna and miley cyrus teamed up for a special western performance of mtvs unplugged. Watch. Please dont tell me stop and we cant stop and we wont stop this is one of the tamer parts of the performance, we should point out. As you might expect with these two singers, it gets pretty raunchy as it goes on. Miley a huge fan of madonna saying she has always viewed her as a role model because shes not afraid of being, you know, sexual and showing her sexuality. Halloween next year, natalie, you want to take on the costumes . You can be miley, i will be madon madonna. I was thinking you and me. Why do you always go there . Once is funny, twice, three times, its the lifestyle. Jess and jane visited florida, peru, San Francisco and they get this anonymous letter in part reading its a little upsetting seeing and hearing about someones vacation all year while we cant afford one. And jess response, please feel free to unfriend us as were not friends. Why would you get upset about someones vacation pictures . Is that me . Oh, thats me in south africa. Look at me, look at me and thats me in a swim suit. Can you jump that high . Thats me. I got hops. Dont be mad, dont be mad. That was me in africa. Lets switch gears, guys. When you were growing up, did your parents ever yell at you . Oh, yeah. Did you in turn start yelling at your kids . Sometimes. Yeah. A recent wall street journal article says kids are yebeing w yelled at more. It raises the question what is behind the increase. Experts say it could be because parents have become conditioned to avoid spanking and so they result to yelling. Lets bring in dr. Phil who knows a little about this. The upside and downside to yelling. I thought my kids were deaf until they were five. It stops communication. Once you start yelling, you know, they just go into shut down. If a child is having a tantrum, the best thing you can do is whisper because its so different from what theyre used to. They have to be quiet to hear you. Yelling is not effective. Is it going to scar the child . I dont know. When he was disappointed, that is when it really hurt. Thats what i mean. What you have to do is reflect back. Are the kids having a tantrum at 2 or 16, what you they want to hear you say is what is upsetting you, you cant hear the tv while youre yelling. I feel bad if i yell. Yeah, and then youre parenting from guilt and you should. Which means then youre a guest on an entire episode of dr. Phil. Yeah, all yell all week on dr. Phil. Youll be back in our next half hour. Well see you. Now lets turning to our county down to sochi. The countdown beginning in seven days. Stars, stripes, and skates. Headlining the u. S. s ski team is gracie gold who stole the show at the nationals. Now he is looking for an olympic medal. Also ashley wagner, who despite a shaky performance at nationals has the experience to compete with the worlds best. Then there is the frozen fe nom polina edmonds. She is fresh off of a name making performance at the u. S. Championship. She is hoping to follow that up by surprising the world in sochi. Sarah hughes joined the nbc olympic team. Sarah, good to see you, good morning. We want to talk about the team in a second. Take me to an athletes mind, a week before the Olympic Games, how big are the nerves right now . I think it is different for the entire team. We have girls like e have girls like polina ed munmundsed this is her first competition for her and then you have the ice dancers who are coming off an olympic silver medal. So this stage is unlike anything, even with National Championships and world championships, the olympics a notch up . The olympics is a completely different competition than any other. The eithathletes are always tal about it. When you Start Talking about it as a little kid, its all about the olympics. Gracie gold, can she take her experience at the nationals and move on to the olympics with success . Shes fabulous. Im rooting for her. Shes such an exciting skater, especially when she skates well, like at nationals, and she does these phenomenal jumps and tripletriples and she sparkles. I hope so. Wagner is 22. Shes the older member of this team. How much do those few extra years help her when she gets into the Pressure Cooker of sochi . This is also her first Olympic Games so shes never had this experience before. But shes had a steady stream of International Success over the past few years, and i think shes considered the veteran of the ladies. I mentioned that womens figure skating is the glamour event of any any winter olympics. How important is it for team usa to get off to a quick start . We have the team event, which is the first time the olympics have had a team skating event. Hopefully well get off to a good start there because theres an additional chance to win a medal as well. Its important to get off to a good start because we want to do all the team events. This time out from an olympic competition, i was thinking last night id wrap myself in bubble wrap and id be speaking through one of those surgical masks, i wouldnt want to get hurt or sick. Did that run through your mind . I was a junior in high school and a bunch of my friends were going bowling and i was thinking i really want to go bowling but im not going to leave my house unless its for training or certainly i have to do for olympics. Drop a bowling ball on your foot. You become paranoid. This saturday its the american legends. I skate a number with my 9 years niece. She is so cute. That looks fantastic. Nice to have you on our team. Im excited to join. You can catch the p g walmart trib use to american legends of the ice this saturday on nbc. And the opening ceremonies begin the next night. Theres nothing worse than a cold that just wont go away, and sometimes chicken soup just went cut it. Dr. Mehmet oz is here. Good morning. Good morning to you. Spice and herbs from around the country. They actually stimulate our systems. This is tumeric tea. Youll notice honey in a lot of these as well. Honey is the on sweetener that has nutritional benefits thats significant. Tumeric, honey and milk. Thats tasty. Next up spain. Garlic is in this one. Garlic does two things. Within, if youre going to go out on a date, doesnt have this. One thing about garlic is to keep people away from you so you dont get sick as often. It doesnt prevent a cold but it shortens the duration, from the best we can tell. Honey has been used for many centuries and is popular. This is served warm, i assume . Most of it is served warm. It opens up the air ways a little bit. Delicious. A deep breath comes in. This is delicious. My breath will be terrible after. This is called astragalis tea from china. These allow to us weather the storms of adversity. If youre living in siberia and northern steps of china, you can try this root. All these are easily found all over this country. It usually comes in a tea form. It doesnt taste like the others. Are you warning me . Its called a warning, tamron. It taste as little bit medicinal. I love china but im not drinking that. Moving on. I need something to cleanse my palate. France. France, this is a grog tea. Is it because it will leave you groggy . It will leave you groggy. Think of alcohol, you dont want to have too much because it will dehydra dehydrate you. My dad was give us a hot todi. This will get you through it. Is this fau . Fau. I love coriander and anise. The extra spice opens you up a little bit. Tell me about the magazine the good life. I love the title. A lot of people think of the good life as luxurious cars and cash. Thats not what its about. Your life is defined by the people in it. A good life is whether youre feeling at your best. Its really about lifestyle. Not the bent a very good morning to you, 8 26, im laura garciacannon. This Morning Police are looking for a man that looks like this. They say he approached a 15yearold girl as she was walking home on saturday afternoon. The teenager says the man reached out towards her and said hay beautiful. He never touched her and the girl ran away where she was able to kal police. Theyre calling it suspicious, not an attempted kidnapping. Also an eye out there on the traffic this morning. This is southbound 880 through fremont towards mission boulevard. Still wet roads. On the map you see a smooth drive down from hayward. The green means wet roads in many spots here. Recovery for north 17 off of the santa cruz, there was slick roadways and a crash with debris, but that has all cleared. Lets hope that remains the case. Well be back with another local news update for you in half an hour. Have a great morning. Nbc universals coverage of the 2012 london games was the most watched Television Event ever. So, whats next . The upcoming winter games from sochi. Where every second of nbc universals coverage will be available on every device. On tv, online or streaming on the nbc sports live extra app. Beginning february 6th, experience the winter games everywhere. Welcome to whats next. Comcast nbcuniversal its 8 30 on a thursday morning, 30th date of january, 2014. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall who is fitting in while savannah is on assignment today, along here with natalie, al and carson. We have a touching story about a dad who writes special messages on napkins and leaves them in his daughters lunch bag. Now that hes battling cancer, hes written enough to last him through high school. Dr. Phil is going to be joining us again, weighing in on big topics from legalizing marijuana to keeping secrets on yourself. And we have a little message from my friend chucky from colombia. Her video will be day bug tonig debuting today on the voice. This is shakirah. This is our video debut. We worked really hard on this. Ill never forget you that will warm things up, rihanna and shakirah. They have to fix that leak. When does that voice premiere . February 24th. So when we get back from sochi. Lets show you what we have. Starting tomorrow, icy conditions in the mid section of the plains. Cold weather through the plains as well and saturday were looking at icy conditions up into southern wisconsin. Were going to be looking at wet weather there. Ground hog day sunday morning. Hey, phil, what are you going to see . I dont think youre going to see that shadow. And then super bowl sunday, cloudy, windy with winds out of the west at 10 miles per hour. Look at this, temperatures inched up a bit. 40 degrees. And, by the way, did you ever wonder how we get all these high shots . We always use the barry jib to shoot that. Anyway, thats whats going on around the coun 8 33, good morning to you, im christina loren. Ro look at these totals, loving it. Were still adding to these running totals, san jose almost 0. 2 of an inch. A little more spotty activity along the golden gate bridge. The main front will head out of here and the winds will pick up. And thats your latest weather. Guys . Al, thank you very much. The buildup to the super bowl is in full swing. While the game is being played just across the hudson river in jersey, the pregame festivities are attracting big crowds here in new york city. Jenna is in times square. Good morning, jenna. Good morning. Two cities are sharing the super bowl spotlight, yes, denver and seattle. But also either rutherford, new jersey, and right here, new york, new york. The call of the game before the game. Take a look at midtown manhattan, not the home of this years super bowl, but you wouldnt know it. Did you know you guys are playing in new jersey . Yeah. Did you know that . Im not too familiar with the geographical layout of the area. The map tells us the games in new jersey but the hype says new york, new york. Players and fans all descending on famed times square this week, super bowl boulevard, super bowl mania stretching 13 blocks, all the way down broadway. Ah, the ups and downs of the toboggan, much like holding the super bowl outdoors for the first time. But the players dont seem to care. Weather has nothing to do with football. Reporter the players came out for the media day gathering. Peyton manning, age 37, playing in little brother elis home stadium, hes looking to join the elite group of players winning super bowls with two games. Just dont expect to get too close to him. What do you think about the weather . Did i get it . Cool. Questions of mine actually answered, male grooming. Reporter how has do the it again on that helmet . I like it because it tightens it as the chin strap goes down. Reporter but the jokes will stay on the sidelines as denver and seattle go head to head, trying to show the world just how the west was won. There are a number of players who have won two super bowl titles with two different teams. If peyton does it on sunday, hell be the first starting quarterback to do that, which would secure his legacy in the nfl and it wouldnt be a bad line to add to the end of his resume if, say, football doesnt work out for him. Im just saying, i dont know. Prove everyone wrong. We have something scheduled for the big game tomorrow on today, a Cross Country pep rally. If youre in new york, put on your team gear and head to our plaza. Well have our cheerleaders to get you in the mood and to get al in the mood. Youll be wearing outfits, right . Thats right. Cheerleaders will be here tomorrow. Broncos fans, head to the tavern a at 1949 market street. And seattle fans head to f. X. Mcrorys the 419 occidental avenue south. 7 00 a. M. Eastern, 4 00 a. M. Pacific. You are fans. We expect a bunch of people will be there. Up next, an ailing dads gesture to his daughter thats going to melt your heart. But first, this is today on nbc. Were back now at 8 39 with a story that has touched a lot of us here. Every day, art has written notes on napkins and put them in his daughters lunch. You are off to do great things, today is your day, your mountain is waiting, get on your way, which i think is dr. Suess. Those messages became more meaningful as garth battled Kidney Cancer twice and is now battling prostate cancer. Well, he has written enough notes so that his daughter will have enough to get her through high school. This started small, didnt it . A week ago i was just a dad writing notes. And years ago you were just a dad writing notes, thinking ill put them in her lunch box as she was heading off to elementary school. You didnt know if they meant anythi anything. I truly didnt know if they were making it out of the lunch box or if she was using them as her sleeve. When you were diagnosed the first time with Kidney Cancer, i think, emma, you were in sext gra sixth grade, is that about right . You noticed she was tearing out the napkin and putting them in a notebook. I found out she was tearing them out and dating them. I found out later that the reason she was doing that was she was trying to keep a piece of me. What did those notes to you when you heard that diagnosis, emma . I guess they meant i would have a part of my dad with me, no matter what happened, this were always there. You kept writing the note and now youre diagnosed with cancer a second time. And in some way they go from being inspirational to in some way a father keeping a promise to a daughter. Absolutely. Last fall theres always been an implied promise in our household that she would have a note in her lunch, a hand packed lunch and a note from me. Last year i read about this great guy alex sheen and he started this movement called promise cards and because i said i would. I was so touched by that, i decided to instead of making it an implied promise, make it a true promise, a true commitment. So you said im going to write 826 more of these so she has one every day until the graduation from high school. They arent mind boggling. Just read me a couple of simple ones. You know all those things you wand to do, you should go do them. This one you just read, it was a dr. Suess one. I like dr. Suess, so do i. Emma, read me a couple of your favorites. Remember that guy who quit . Neither does anybody else. And risk something or forever sit with your dreams. Herb brooks. I have a 12yearold and a 7yearold. Youre 14 now. And what were talking about here and the reason your dad has written the notes in advance is very difficult. Are you okay talking about that part and have you two had this discussion . We really hadnt had this discussion until this exploded last week. Up until then emma didnt know i had written 826 notes out and that i had promised to do that. Emma, what does that mean to you . It means a lot to me that he would think of that, even though he is going to be there, that he would make sure that i would always have them. You know what, we heard about this story last week i think it was and really wanted to get you in here because we just think this is an amazing thing. It makes me look at my role as a parent a little bit differently. Garth, thank you for sharing your story. Its very brave and i know its something very personal. And, emma, i really appreciate you coming on to talk about these as well. Thanks. Up next, dr. Phil on parenting. And the latest facing some young pop stars. But first, this is today on nbc. Back now at 8 46. Dr. Phil is now in his 12th season in dishing out advice on everything from parenting to weight loss. Today dr. Phil sits down with 16yearold twins, heiress to the doris duke fortune and they open up about abuse from care givers and their late father. Where was your dad . My dad was never home. If he was, he was always locked up in his bedroom smoking meth and whatever. So he had no idea . If he did, he was too high to understand it. I watched my dad overdose for six times. He was helpless. He couldnt help us even if his life depended on it. Dr. Phil mcgraw is here with us. Good morning, dr. Phil. Good morning. This is a tough one because i think a lot of people believe wealth cures all problems but there are some things people never recover from. You have no idea. These children are living isolated and hiding in the mountains of utah, i mean way back in the mountains of utah. These are kids that are taking a handful of diamonds to school for show and tell in the third and fourth grade. Theyre vacationing on the beaches of fiji and living in these mass of mansions, but behind those gates, this American Royalty family, the duke foundation, these kids are billionaire, theyre getting beaten, abused, locked in rooms, neglected. How do they get to this point . Its been wildly reported they stand to inherit a billion dollar fortune. Their mother regained custody in 2010. How did all this abuse take place . Were talking drugs here. Theyre saying their father died of a Drug Overdose in 2010 and they say they never saw him when he was not high. They say he had two passions, blowing things up, so there were explosives are pipe bombs, dynamite, everything around them all the time and drugs. So they were always dealing with that and went through 57 nannies and care givers in these kids lives coming and going. None of this many screened. Some of them tried to help. Some of them were part of the brutality. You followed their journey. I know georgia wants to do some advocacy work so there hopefully is an up side to their story and their lives. She said their inheritance is blood money. And she said she would have traded places with anybody at any time, and so does the son. I want to get your thoughts. Justin bieber, making headlines the last couple weeks, the egging incident, the drag racing, speeding and now he may have assaulted a limo driver. What advice would you give this kid . You worry about it because theres nobody in the loop who has the authority or the power to grab this kid by the scruff of the neck and say, come on, dont do this to yourself. Hes on selfdestruct. I dont think everything hes accused of is as bad as hes saying but hes under a spotlight. And i dont see one person of responsibility and maturity talking in this kids ear saying, hey, calm down before you blow it all. Let me tell you, hes had a big 15 minutes but it can sure be over. In texas, a High School Student bullied. Her family said shes going to sue. Is that the right way to handle the situations . The schools always get involved. The schools say if it doesnt help on campus, we cant help. Wrong. Theyre your students. You need to help. And parents, dont run to the school with your hair on fire. You need to address this. Coming up, fran is on back at 8 52. You probably know Fran Drescher best as the woman with big hair, big dreams and an unforgettable voice on the hit show the nanny. Now shes making her debut playing the evil stepmother in rogers and hammerstein cinderella. Welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. Who had the nerve to have you play the evil stepmother . It took me a while to accept to play the role you love to heat. We know you with the huge personality. I know, i have the heart of gold. Do you get to bring some of that typical Fran Drescher penalty to the character . Im trying to bring more comedy to the role and also a lot of glamour. I want her to be a little more of cruella or devil loves prada. Is there any chance she has an incredible sinister laugh . I know, i do have a special laugh. Its an amazing journey for me. I mean, its flying without a net. You know, when youre used to doing something and the public is used to seeing you do something, to have an opportunity to pass beyond your comfort zone, push your boundaries out a little, i think thats what life is all about. How much singing do you do . Its a musical so how much sing doing you do . I actually have the largest speaking part and probably the smallest singing part, which is fine. But do i have a wonderful number with cinderella and the two evil step daughters. The book was rewritten by Douglas Carter bean and the music is rogers and hammerstein. The wonderful part is that cinderella play as character that knows herself a little more and the prince is a little more befuddled, a little more lost, in need of a woman to help him realize his true self. Cinderella is on broadway right now with a different cast, youre working and rehearsing with another cast yeah, we open february 4th, this tuesday. One night they close with one cast and, boom, you guys take over. Sunday night is the end of one week and then tuesday night we open. Youve done theater before but this is your first time on broadway. Your nervousness level right now is what . Im exhilarated and anxious right now and im sure on tuesday ill have major butterflies. Because you know, theres no second take. Its flying without a net. But im always rehearsing. I just want to bring people up to date in your life, too. We were sitting here in the commercial break. I said, fran, how are you doing . You said im in love, im in love with a new guy. His name is dr. Shiva adadoora. And he meets the five ses . Sexy, successful, smart, single and straight i put that out to the universe and he came back to me, so im delighted and so happy. Life is such a wonderful adventure. You just, you know, chapters close and new chapters get written. And this one opens. Cinderella on broadway with Fran Drescher, february 4th through april 18th. Please come, its good morning, everyone. 8 56. An abandoned puppy pulled out of the trash is getting a new home today. So many peoplemented to adopt the new dog and who wouldnt. They nicknamed him gem. His original owner has not been found, but she was abandoned in the trash if you can even imagine. Lets check in with christina. Yeah, great news here. A great day shaping up. Rain still coming down on the east end of San Francisco. Were still game for spotty showers. Were climbing to the upper 50s by the end of the day. I want you to know stuff i want you to be kind. I want you to be smart. Super smart. I want one thing in a doctor. To speak my language. I dont want you to look at the chart before you say hi. David. Quiero que me hagas sentir segura. I want you to be awesome. Thats the doctor i want. At kaiser permanente, we want you to choose the doctor thats right for you. Find your Perfect Match at kp. Org and thrive. From nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, Natalie Morales and willie geist, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Im willie geist along with al roker and Natalie Morales. Yes, the story remains the cold outside, especially through the south, al. And more fallout from that scene not just in the city of atlanta but the suburbs around. Well, 2. 6 inches of snow hit Metro Atlanta itself and i think theres still this blame game and people pointing fingers. Thousands and thousands of people along the interstates that run through the city of atlanta. And, look, as the mayor had pointed out on our show earlier, he is not responsible for the interstates. But he also said within 24 hours 80 of the roads were cleared. But in between that, they were a mess. Right. Complete mess. And they had forewarning. They say they didnt. The governor said we did not have warning. Weve got a timeline for that area. Heres the warning. Just south of atlanta, they are not within the winter storm watch. As we move this and put this into motion, theres this winter storm watch sunday afternoon for areas south of atlanta. Now we move ahead to early monday morning, almost 5 a. M. , Metro Atlanta is added to the storm watch, which included amounts of snow. Then by monday evening, it was upgraded to a Winter Weather advisory for hazardous condition, early tuesday morning, Winter Weather advisory upgraded to a warning, eight hours later the snow starts and thats when all hell broke loose. There it is. The warning is there. You cant claim you didnt know it was coming. Some of the scenes, people sleeping at home depot, sleeping in their cars and giving birth on the interstate. There have been a lot of Great Stories of people going out and buying food and water, walking the highway. Teachers improving in these classrooms. So many kids had to shelter in place in their schools, principals and teachers did such an incredible job. The mayor was on earlier, and matt was asking if officials made errors in preparation. Did officials of one level or another fail to make proper calls based on accurate forecasting that was coming from the National Weather service . Matt, heres what happened. We made an error in the way that we released our citizens. So the state made a judgment to release state employees, private businesses made that judgment and i made the call and aps made the call. And where was the coordination between those Different Levels . I think you were at lunch with the governor as it started to snow. Did anyone talk to each other and say lets not release everybody at the same time . Ive already acknowledged that i think that that was a mistake and i was at lunch, but i had already ordered our streets to start being pretreated by 9 00 a. M. That was too late. That was too late. The mistake the mayor made and it went down the line, the mayor, the governor, other mayors and state and school officials, there is no coordination. They should have a plan. This happened in 2011. They said this is not going to happen again and, boom, it did. And all people want from their elected officials is that, you know what, you have a plan. And a coordinated plan between all agencies that need to react. They didnt have one and the people of that area paid the price. Its not just the mayor of atlanta. Other mayors and municipalities. The governor. The governor had to take responsibility. Look, im a weather guy, trust me, i admit when weve blown it because i get a lot of practice admitting i blew it. Then i explain why. If nothing else comes out of this, and they should be very transparent with their folks, heres our plan for the next time this happens. Could be a heavy rain storm, tornado, anything like that. The main function of government is helping keep their citizens safe. Yup. Al is very adamant about it. We talked to the mayor a few minutes ago across the street and it was a very similar interview. I think everybody was taken aback that it was everybody elses fault. The highways are not his fault, hes right about that but 80 cut right through the heart of downtown atlanta. Theres got to be some plan. Its got to be a coordinated plan where theres rolling dismissals. These kids should have never been allowed to go to school. Thats another issue. Why did they go in the first place . We hope to get through that today. Moving on, here is somebody who is apologizing and taking the blame. This is congressman Michael Grimm, republican from staten island. He has now apologized to the reporter he threatened after an interview after the state of the union on tuesday night. We showed you this clip yesterday. He threatened a new york one reporter saying i will throw you off this balcony, i will break you in half like a boy. Like a boy youre not a man, ill break you like a boy the reporter asked something off topic, which is the job of a reporter. Nevertheless, Michael Grimm did yom out and apologize. He has called scotto to say hes sorry temperatu sorry. He did apologize on camera as well. I was wrong, it shouldnt have happened. I called Michael Scotto and he accepted my apology and were going to lunch. When youre wrong, you should admit it. He apologized and thats it. Its done. You think so . I dont think theyre going to lunch any time soon. I bet you they do. And i bet there may be a camera crew or two along for the lunch. Why do you have to add the lunch . I dont want to go to lunch with you. What are we going to talk about . You got an hour and a half. Maybe theres someplace you really want to go and you do it on this guys dime. Hey, shake shack, bam now youre talking. Ill going with anybody to shake shack. And that apology times ten, you go to shake shack, done. Oh, the shakes, come on. Heres the scariest story of the day. You ready for this one . I dont think you want to hear this. Nearly 50 , 50, say they consult wickipedia. Serious illnesses are among the less frequently searched topics. You know wikipedia is not an official no what . On my wikipedia for the longest time had that im a master jam maker. Im waiting for your jam. I dont make jam where did that come from . Apparently its all edited and put together by anyone who wants to put stuff on wikipedia. I dont think doctors are using that as the primary source. Webmd or something more reliable. As a parent i use webmd. What the hell is that . And do you do it just like that . What, are you bridges meredith for a second . Oh, the home typewriter works very well. What, do you have a brother typewriter at home . Remember that . We made a mistake with the whiteout. Oh, yeah. We used those in college to write the papers all the time. So were kind of a selfie, sort of instagram happy society. A passenger on a united flight tweeted the moment he put on an oxygen mask as his plane was making an Emergency Landing. There was smoke in the cabin. Smoke in the cabin in a flight from d. C. To washington, it was diverted to delaware after there was smoke in the cabin. Time for an Emergency Landing selfie, professor in georgetown university, the man on the left. He tweeted new philosophy, when the pilot announces Emergency Landing, smile and take a selfie. No, not really. New philosophy no. I wonder if hes a philosophy professor. Hes a professor, georgetown. We love jimmy fallon all nights but especially last night, he brought the gang of full house back together. Stamos was there. Were the olson twins there . No, just the fellas. They appeared to come for a comfort a pajamawearing jimmy fallon. Jimmy, whats wrong . Nothing. Im just scared. Scared . About what, jimmy . About leaving late night. Hey. [ cheers and applause ] just like uncle jesse said, youre going to be the host of the tonight show on nbc. [ cheers and applause ] honey, no one can ever take that away from you. Well, maybe jay leno. Here we are, one, two, three roll. Baby, let me be your loving teddy bear wrap your chain around my neck and let me be a teddy bear, teddy bear i just want to be your teddy bear very cool. They may actually have a reunion, full house reunion. They have a super bowl commercial, too. The guns on stamos. He still looks the same, ugly sweaters and all. Al, lets take a look at the rest of the weather out there. I got a lot going on still today to talk about. As we head to minneapolis, theres a quick clipper coming across. It is bringing snow from minnesota on into wisconsin. Look at this. You cant see this is the minneapolis tower cam. You cant see anything. It is whiteout conditions. Theyre getting snow 1 to 2 inches per hour at this rate. Were keeping an eye on that. Winter storm warnings, winter storm advisories on into michigan. Generally 1 to 3 inches but some areas picking up 3 to 6 over the next 24 hours. As we check atlanta, show you whats going on, take a look. Much different picture from about 24 hours ago. And the good news is, look, by 3 00 temperatures are above freezing. So that will help everything going on. And we got a lot of rain down south where in florida we are looking at some heavier rain, a half an inch to 2 inches of rain from central 9 12, good thursday morning to you. Were talking about pretty decent totals right here in the bay area as well. We picked up a quarter inch in sunol. San jose is almost. 20 of an inch. And thats your latest weather. Al, thanks. Coming up next, what does the number 25 mean when it comes to your health . I would hope anywmy age . Your health . Itrying to stay fit age . But miss real pleasure . The pleasure you crave just got real. Light fit greek nonfat yogurt. 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It gives doctors some sense about whether youre prone to illnesses such as diabetes and high Blood Pressure. If youre above 25, youre overweight, over 30 youre obese. How do i find bmi . Because its a ratio and high squared, its easier to go online and do a weight calculator. Men and women are calculated identically. But men are more muscular so their numbers are a little higher. The ill Health Effects are equivalent for both sexes above 25. Next one is 16. And this has to do this is for men and women, has to do with respiration rate. This is the number of breaths a minute you take. The average is 10 to 18, around 16. If you exercise, of course its going to go up naturally. This is whether youre at rest. If its elevated when youre at rest, it could be a sign youre stressed or anxious or that you have a fever and are dehydrated, you have an infection or lung disease. If its too low, could mean youre having some alcohol or some pain killers. How do you get an accurate measurement . Its so hard to do it on yourself. When you try to, you breathe faster. So nurses in the hospital pretend theyre taking their pulse and they instead look at their chest rise and fall. 40 and 35. This is about waist circumference. For men it should be under 40, for men it should be under 35. You want to do it above your hipbone above your belly button. Its another reliable indicator of your fat levels. Its in particular regarding your visceral fat, abdominal fat. It leads to diabetes and high Blood Pressure. It produces inflammatory chemicals and prevents you from responding to appetite suppressing hormones, leptin. This number, 6, its applies to the added grams of sugar a day. Fruit and milk have innate sugar in it. This is whats added during processing. Females should not have more than 6 teaspoons a day, about 100 calories and for men no more than 9 teaspoons a day, about 150 calories. Use fresh fruit and use spices like cinnamon or allspice to flavor your food. How do i find it . Look at the grams of sugar. 39 grams of sugar . You should limit women to 25 grams, men to 27. Milligrams of salt here. It should be under 1,500 for people over 51, africanamericans, people with diabetes, hype Blood Pressure or kidney disease. For everyone else, it can be under 2,300. But ideally if we can do it, we should all go under 1,500. If this country all dropped their salt intake to under 1,500, the number of people that have high Blood Pressure would drop by 26 . And 1,500 milligrams to put it in laymans terms for people who arent good at figuring it out, what are we talking about . Youd have to look at the back of the label. It varies so much. Even from one brand of chicken soup to another can carry from 200 milligrams to 800 milligr s milligrams. The average person takes in 3,400 a day. We have to do a better job of this. Use spices instead, fresh herbs. Maybe super bowl sunday is not the day to start. Its going to be sugar overload and sodium overload. 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You want to keep that jacket handy, but this evening more showers are set to arrive. You know how if is out there, anthony, because you were just there. Oakland is smooth, a slower drive. Moving better at high street. We have a slower drive and the red shows you where its just north of the warn freeway. A smooth drive, earlier crash around the 24. The westbound side still has a community. And i have travel speeds, thats what i have. Live speeds and thats a slower drive still for your northbound run to the southbound. Especially around 280, back to you. Do you think its because of the rain out there . Some folks are just being extra careful. Thank you, mike. Well have another local news update for you in half an hour. See you then. Welcome back to today. Its thursday morning, january the 30th, 2014. Hardy folks out on the plaza, broncos, seahawks, getting ready for the game on sunday. Im willie along with natalie and al. We have a cheat for you. Who doesnt love shakirah. 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Punxsutawney, p. A. , what happens . Snow showers . Get back in there 32 degrees. And if john elway sees his shadow, its going to be even worse. Good morning, 9 32 time. We had showers rolling through earlier this morning and theyre pushing out of san jose right now. Were going to continue to see sunshine for the second half of the day. Youll notice that as we look outside right now. Beautiful in San Francisco, later today showers are expected to roll back into the picture. So as you head home from work, expect to keep umbrellas and jackets with you. It will be chilly with highs today around 60 degrees. And thats your latest weather. They say cash is king but if you do use credit when you shop, there are some cards better than others. Maybe you want rewards, maybe youre trying transfer a balance, build credit. If youre not careful, they can be bad but if youre looking for a credit card, what options do you need to really consider . 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Now, if you dont have a credit card, which a lot of people do want to live debt free, but at the same time you do need to somewhat establish credit. So what should you look for, what card should you start out with . Its important to have credit if you want to get credit, if you want to get a mortgage and things like that in the future. Platinum o capital one Platinum Credit card. You have to be careful because the Interest Rate is high so use it and pay it off. What about bad credit . Bad credit theres a card called the Credit One Bank card with gas rewards. They will charge you an annual fee of 35 to 75 but its the only card that i have seen thats not a secured card, which means you dont have to make a deposit. Again, put something automatic on it, pay it off every single month and your credit score will start to go up and you can get these other cars. What about the store cards at the cashier . Say no, say no. They ding your credit score and most people dont need them anyway. 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If youre having friends over on sunday to watch the super bowl or maybe just commercials wow, good play on the ball. Chris has some good food ideas. Im keeping my distance from you because you went beast mode on me in the tease. I was ready, i was ready. You want to get everybodys competitive juices going. I feel like when they come, you get them to predict the score. And then the closest person to win, you get a nice little gift set aside for them. Pseudo gambling, thats good. For those who arent drinking alcohol, you have a good suggestion here. We have some great options here. I love these diy sodas. You have different flavored syrups. If you have a bunch of different people, the last thing you want to do is go to the store and buy 500 kinds of soda. So you buy soda water makes you feel like youre drinking a cocktail. Thats right. And theyve got different flavors of syrup. Will, are you really that terrified of me . Im in. Whats your favorite flavor . Right here ive got the water mellon one. I bet kids probably like this, too. Its great. A bunch of different drink options. And speaking of drink options, we have to have duelling drinks, right . Right. The one thing the teams have in common besides wanting to win the game is both drinks are made with coffee. Here we have the denver bulldog, espresso, cream, a little bit of cola. That sounds good. Ki kind of a twist on a float. And seattle . Ive taken these coffee stirrers and placed donuts on th them. And what i think is really important, i like to serve handheld items. The last thing you want is your guests running back and forth between the kitchen. This is chilli. This is a healthier take on the chilli. You want to try this . I do. I love chilli. Again, in these handheld containers we can throw away. We had duelling drinks so we need duelling food. Denver, we have these mile high nachos here. Any kind of toppings you want to add, salsa, sour cream and then we had to have the smoked salmon club for seattle. Thats a pretty fancy Super Bowl Party, right . Thats how i roll. And then what i love to focus on more are the snacks. You can have Different Things laid out. Everybody has like these bowls around. Like if you want to do candy bowls. And this is just paper tape. Everybody has these kind of bowls and things laying around their house and you kind of pull that all into the decor. Ive got the table here is done with astro turf, but you could very easily do that with a green tablecloth and white tape. I love the football brownies. All do you is cut them out with cookie cutters and line them with the white icing. What ive also done here, you can actually dye popcorn and you just make a syrup with sugar, butter, water and a little bit of food coloring and then you just top that. Can you taste it . Of course you can. I guess theyre just more sugary. And you can actually bake cupcakes in these little plant are pots. Fabulous. Will you come help us with the party . I will. Whats your favorite adult beverage, if had you to have one drink at your Super Bowl Party snp. Were doing fancy, its got to be champagne, right . I couldnt play dirty with you earlier and not have a fancy Super Bowl Party. Shell take you down, watch out. For any of these recipe and ideas, go to today. Com. Coming up, we never know whats ideas, go to today. Com. Coming up, we never know whats goinmom. Yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . Youre not doing anything as fast as you used to, which is funny, cause i still do it better than her. You know, i dont think i was meant to sweep. Its a little frustrating. Look. [ zach ] i cant help out as much as i used to. Do you need help . [ doorbell rings ] lets open it up. Its a swiffer sweeper. Its a swiffer dusters. It can extend so i dont have to get on the step stool. I dont know how it stays on there. Its like a dirt magnet just like my kids. [ afi ] this is a danger zone. That is crazy. Ahhaha [ zach ] yeah. No, this definitely beats hanging out on a step ladder. Whats up, baby . On a step ladder. [ girl ] roses are red. Violets are blue. Splenda® is sweet. And so are you. [ female announcer ] just about anywhere you use sugar, you can use splenda® no calorie sweetener. Splenda® lets you experience the joy of sugar without all the calories. Its a very good reason to enjoy Something Sweet with the ones you love. Think sugar, say splenda™ a commercial for women only. This is levian chocolate diamond jewelry. Levian, masters of jewelry design for centuries is the only company on earth to make jewelry with chocolate diamonds. And jared is the only place where youll find such an amazing levian selection. 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This has three different temperatures. It has a bonus led light on it. Theres a light in there. Yeah. Try this out. Its really comfy. Why would you want to see in there . Try it out. Sit down. It is warm. Heres an image that we dont need to see. How much time are you spending on the toilet . Get in, get out. Thats a personal question. This is for female friends. Its a thermal kitty mat. Cats will love it. 32. A good deal. Now, these are inexpensive little gadgets. These are nordic grips. You can put them over your shoes, can you use these little ones. No more slips and falls on that black ice. These are usb heated marshmallow slippers. They get pretty toasty. 15foot cord. Put those on to go to the toilet. Absolutely. Only 25. And a blanket, too . This has two usbs, one for high temp, one for low temps. Only 20. You can put it in your computer port . Yeah. I love this site. Candy with a twist. Com. Forget the edible arrangement. Kick it up a notch with your very own custom smores kit and you can upload any photo you want. Its a nice little option for gifting. Thats neat. I like that. Ooh, the hot sauce is ready. Wow, this is the second hot can youve got. Its all about the hot cans this morning. You might be looking at this and saying this is probably going to taste like garbage. This is amazing. Ive never chugged more soup. That is hot. You push down on the bottom. Youre going to hear a crunching sound. You shake it for 30 seconds, within two minutes, this baby stays hot for like hours. That would be great at like football games, things like that. Camping, the apocalypse. We have to be ready. If its the apocalypse, are we really worried about soup . Oh, good, hot soup. This is the ultimate gadget. A little bun warmer down below. Wow third thing, keeping your buns warm. This segments reached an alltime low. Whats the deal . Whats different about this . Its a convenient allinone gadget. 8 to 10 minutes, you got some hot dogs ready to go. Goes good with hot saoup. I wonder if we have anyplace to sit and eat this. The toilet for sure three additional gadgets we did not show you on turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing good for me around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around, barbara forever ive been praying for a snack in my life and now i have a brownie ending all of my strife i finally found the right snack kathie lee and hoda are here. This woman makes the worlds greatest baklava. I am in love hodas mom. Tomorrow she and my mom are going to cook on the show. Baklava is a ten. And, mom, i have willies here. Shes serious. She said did you get your baklava . She said wheres hodi wheres hodi shes serious. And we have what to serve for the big game on sunday and weather and all kinds of things. Whats that . Thats a little sangria, thank you for after. All that and good morning, everyone. 9 56, im scott mcgrew. An after School Counsellor is under arrest for selling marijuana to children. The two middle School Students who bought the marijuana have been suspended. Well have reaction from parents next in our newscast at 11 00. A sheriffs Deputy Arrested on drug charges could be in court today. He sits in the very same jail that he once secured. He was allowing several convicted criminals to live in his san jose home in exchange for drugs. His bail is 121,000. Lets check in with anthony. We saw showers earlier this morning. A lot of the activity is pushed out of the region. There is still a few areas of linerring drizzle. Were not done just yet. More showers are set to arrive later this afternoon. You can see in San Francisco the sky already beginning to clear and that blue sky turned more blue when we get that rain because it clears out the atmosphere. Were going to look at more showers later on this evening. Lets toss it to mic and talk about the rush hour now. We have a smooth drive across the san mateo bridge. I saw a break in traffic, but known declared by chp. Clear since then. The arrows show you where there was a good slow down but that has cleared up. Now north 101 slammed from sjc into Mountain View. Back to you. Do you know how much a bra costs . We found this was done by our friends at buzzfeed. They handed a group of men various female products and asked them if they knew what they cost. Lets take a look. This is a bra. It bends and twists. I dont know if thats a normal feature. I should know. Probably have to buy about two of these a month. I dont know how often these are destroyed. Never thought about how much a bra costs before. An everyday bra costs 10. 10. I was wondering if bras get more expensive the bigger they get, but the medium and extra large shirts are generally the same size, right . 30 seems thats very inexpensive compared to the ones we yeah, yeah, yeah. We have exclusive video to share with you. Yeah . We like to break news on our show. All right. If you havent heard, shakira and usher are going back to the voice. They are replacing christina and cee lo. Seems like theyre doing it back and forth. And a single coming out with rihanna. I hope you like this as much as i do and as much as rihanna does and hope to see you soon. I cant remember to forget you when you look at me the only memory i cant remember to forget you. I cant remember to forget you very sensual video. Yes. The way i feel about you on weekends, hodi, when i dont see you anymore. Im going to gyrate like that and put on that 27. 90 bra and just i cant remember to forget you it debuts tonight in a 30minute shakira special on e. Love her, though. She is precious. Season six of the voice. This is by pharrell, if you didnt know, you know now. The hat. There is a song that instantly puts you in a good mood. Not everybody. I bet it does. It is called happy because it makes you happy. I just did the chorus so it doesnt bore you. Because im happy come along if you feel because im happy come along if you feel that happiness is the truth sounds like a little earth, wind and fireish, which i like. Because hes actually singing. I like that. You like the what what . I dont like the what what. This is an actual song. I give it a b. A b . Okay. It will make you happy, download it. Is it okay or not okay to drop the f bomb. Oh, dear. Here is what we had to say. You know, hoda, i prefer what the because mushrooms dont hurt anybody, you know . It seems to be happening so often, it is almost a yawn. But i say much, much better to avoid obviously. Really . You use it all the time. Only every now and then. All righty then. All action will be on the field this sunday. Billy bush has the big game buzz and Fran Drescher, shes getting us invited to a different kind of a ball. Shes in our studios and she coming to broadway. And the world is made of energy [ female announcer ] theres an energy crisis, alright. A human one. Quakers good energy is just what you want. Quaker up. Quakers good energy is just what you want. For better color. Ip new colorsensational™ the buffs from maybelline, new york. Only the truest flesh tone pigments for our most honest, naked look. Precious oils for that sensuous feel. Naked or nothing. New colorsensational™ the buffs maybe its maybelline. You discover an exciting combination of tastes. Rich, dark chocolate covering soft centers flavored with exotic fruit juices like pomegranate, goji with raspberry, and acai with blueberry. Its chocolate like youve never experienced it before. Discover brookside. Is still fresh on day 30, we installed an aged clip in this taxi. 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She turned that famous funny laugh into an evil one in her broadway debut playing cinderellas stepmother in send ry cinderella. Thank you. Im thrilled to be here. You look beautiful. Thank you. You do. So do you. I appreciate that. The hard work isnt taking a toll on you. These hours must be crazy for this broadway show. Were in rehearsal now. I open on tuesday along with carly rae jepsen, february 4th. That will be exciting. It is eight shows a week. But, oh, look, yeah. That was at a rehearsal. They have me in a, like a just a rehearsal skirt so i get used to walking in a big hoop skirt around the set. And costumes are spectacular. And i have to wear the shoes im wearing and theyre designing new ones for me because im reinterpreting my character to be, you know, kind of like the woman that you love to hate, very glamorous, and very wicked. Like cruella deville. Exactly. I think even if youve seen it, you havent seen me do it. You should come back. Havent seen carly rae jepsen. And her debut as well. A big pop princess. And does a wonderful job. Im really excited that were going to be premiering together and making our broadway debut together. Fantastic. You said it takes you a little out of your comfort zone being on stage. Right. Well, you know, first of all, there is no take two. And so also, you know, i mean, singing and dancing, thats not really what im known for. And so i feel like, you know, i was very lucky when they offered me this part. I did not have a shooting schedule, which is rare in what has really kept me from doing more theater. Im usually shooting. So i thought this is a wonderful opportunity to kind of push the envelope a little and move into territory that is not what everyone is used to seeing me do, and that i can do, you know, walking backwards and forwards. I really have to think about this. I have to walk and talk and move and sing and dance and work the lyrics . Exactly. Is the singing difficult for you . You know the score, though. We grew up with it. In the corner in our own little room i can be whatever i want to be thats not even my song. My big number is a lovely night. But, you know, which i do with cinderella and the my two daughters, cinderellas stepsisters. Do you have nerves when Opening Night happens . Im going to be very, you know, butterflies in the stomach and stuff. Once we do it once thats true with all theater. Ive done quite a bit of theater in new york, but always been off broadway. But even then, you know, until i get out there, i just want to make if i could just get through the first speech, then i know im okay, im in it. You know who is helping her, we got to go, it is so fascinating, her exhusband is her biggest supporter. Yes, peter. Her exhusband, loves theater and has been helping you every step along the way. Yes. A happy divorce. Do we have time for the game . No. We were going to play a game and win slippers. Ill come back. Okay. All the best. 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Billy, we miss you. You have access, get it . I do. Im going to the game. You are . Im going to the game. Im excited about the game. Are you excited about the game . Are you watching the game . Very excited. Im going to kathies house. And regis. You watch the game or go and have a cocktail and chitchat and all that. I like to watch. I get in. What are you feeling about this game . Are you feeling anything . A gravitation toward Peyton Manning because of the great career. She is. I do love peyton. I do love peyton. Hes a new orleanian. What do you think about the quarterback matchup. You tell us because we dont know. I love that guy. That guy can be anything. He can be a head coach when hes done. Hes 38 now. To win, to rock the mike and walk off and retire would be a huge thing. He may come back as one of those guys i dont think that can stop, the other guy russell wilson. People love him. Hes got great charisma, that guy. Major difference, hes 511 and peyton is 65. He makes up for it with the wheels. Everybody says it is going to be freezing, freezing, freezing and al roker announces it is not going to be freezing. Balmy. After the winter we had, it is going to be balmy. It is going to be fantastic. No rain, no snow, nothing. No rain, no snow. I went to the rangers hockey game last night, outside at yankee stadium. Rangers and islanders outdoors, yankees stadium, freezing. But everybody there, right . Packed stadium. Everybody there. And yet the brotherly love, the warmth of men huddling together. Is that what it was . Yes. You could feel it over beers and just in the elements. Then i realized green bay packer fans are looking at us like, just stop whining. Are you going to be out in the elements watching the game or cozied up somewhere . Dont put me on the spot. I know where a box is if i need to get in. Right now im sitting outside, 40 degrees, thats nothing. By game night, yeah. Are you moving around this weekend or frank and i learned many, many years ago if he wasnt calling the game and i wasnt performing at it, stay home. Might be better off. So what about now the halftime show. People are talking about bruno mars, right . And the red hot chili pepper people. They added the red hot what do you think about that, the addition . I think it is a great addition. I think bruno is popular with women and guys like him too, but not he doesnt have a great he hasnt been around a long time. Newcomer. Add a little red hot chili pepper and get some classic rock, some guy over 30 action there. The guy from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is threatening a wardrobe malfunction. Has he been outside recently . Tweeting something to the audience. Would you like to see something . A revelation. Offering people because it is ten years, the ten Year Anniversary of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. Maybe hes trying to honor it that way. Hopefully not. Not to the people who do the misbehaving, it is the network. Exactly. That has to pay. Youll be out and about doing things. There are a lot of bands performing around. Are you checking some of them snout. Hoda, im very excited. You love music. Im a zach brown fan. You like zach brown . Yes. Hoda, this is when you leave kathies house. You go or you show up sunday, but saturday night, there is a bud light ship, the intrepid, pier 88, zac brown and gave grohl with the foo fighters, together on it is going to be amazing. Youre going. Doris day there . Doris is the opening. If doris day is there, im there. Were proud to have the president of the seahawks wife is here in our studio with presents. Thank you very much. You know what thats for . Wait a minute, youre denver, you cant both wear that. You know what, kelly brought it for us, so were going to you know what, kelly brought it for us, so were going to ha[ indistinct conversations ] honey . 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Mrs. Obama will attend at least one democrat National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco. Tomorrow she will be at the fairmont in San Francisco for a fundraiser. Welcome back. 10 28. Skies have cleared out very nicely. We dont have any rain to talk about for at least the morning hours. Were tracking showers as we head toward the evening hours. San francisco and the north bay p had here is the time on those showers, noon, everybody is still virtually dry, but as we head through the afternoon showers you see a few random cells that start o pop up for the rush hour. We have a few more showers to get through. Good snow pack at tahoe. This looks like sun, but its not. Wet roads continue in some patches because of the overnight rain. The bottom of your screen, north 17, is a little slow. Here and northbound 101 is slow. No incidents up towards Mountain View in is clear at the bay bridge toll plaza. Thank you, more news at 11 00. Oh were back with more of today on this thirsty thursday. If you would do anything to get a good nights sleep, get comfortable. Well tell you how to make that happen. Robert oexman is the director of the sleep to Live Institute in joplin, missouri, and here to answer your questions. All the ones you sent to us for a perfect nights sleep. Hello. Lets get cozy. Were supposed to feel all the fabrics and stuff. Yes. It feels like the fabric of our life. Yes. So one of the things i think people think of, when you dont get enough sleep during the week, you think on the weekends i can make up for it. Is that part of the deal . You know what . Actually you do. Youre going to be tired on the weekends, youll probably sleep more, but the problem is that dont take into consequences of what happens the next day. If you get one hour of sleep less in one night, you can show signs of aging. We see increases levels of inflammation and increased level of heart attack by losing i should be dead. Many of us never get that kind of sleep and havent for years and years and years, why are we functioning at least at half level . Your function may be at half level, if you were sleeping more, that seven, eight, nine hours of sleep, you would be fufrnsi in functioning at a higher level. Research after Research Shows that. Some people take an aid that helps them sleep. I heard it is better to take the sleep aid and sleep than to not take it and not sleep. The research at nih showed we get 11 extra minutes of sleep when we take a lot of those sleep aids, especially prescription sleep aids. There is consequences associated with that. Shortterm use, theyre wonderful to do. Longterm, not such a great idea. There is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia that works better than sleep medications. You say avoid any kind of stimulant or depressant after 7 00 at night. Actually, yes. A lot of people 8 30. A lot of people do use alcohol in order to help them fall asleep. It will make you fall asleep quicker, but unfortunately there is a rebound effect with alcohol and you wake up a lot more at night, even if you dont remember awakenings, you have fragmented sleep. What about tv, a lot of people have the tv on while crashing. A lot of men like to use television and their partner, if it is a female, has to suffer through that as well. It decreases the amount of melatonin we produce. For women, we have a decreased melatonin, decreased amount of sleep, we have a higher risk of breast cancer. For men, it is a higher risk of prostate cancer. Shut the television off and get that out of the bedroom. Youre a lovely man, but unbelievably depressed. What kind of mattress, pillows and stuff are the best for a good nights sleep . It is all about support. Whether it is a foam mattress, memory foam, latex or inner spring mattress, that really isnt what matters. That is prifrnieferential. Small levels of support change are going to impact how you sleep and the pain you have the next day. All kinds of beds now that are one partner can have it one way and the other person can have it the other way. Thats great. That never existed before. Exactly. That is a good idea. If you can do that and have a different surface, you get the support you need. Thats a wonderful idea. Real quick, we have a couple of questions. One short one, corrine says she has trouble sleeping because her mind is too busy to rest. I think a lot of people have that. We do. Were actually kind of working all the way up until the time we go to bed, were watching television, on the computer, were on facebook, were doing a lot of technology. Right up until the time to go to bed. We shut it off and expect our mind to shut off. It doesnt work that way. Prepare for bed. Get in a dark environment, do stretching, meditation and thats going to help you fall asleep. Get down on your knees like this, hodi. My knees hurt. I cant do this. And say a little good night prayer. I cant get down on my knees. Good night, everybody. God bless you. And it does work, youre welcome. Thanks, you guys. Okay. When it comes to your diet, dont drop the ball this sunday. Madelyn is here. Shell challenge people from our plaza to make good choices. And time for the big reveal, two gorgeous [ woman ] i could see it in their faces. They werent looking at me. I cant believe i still have acne at my age. I feel like its my acne they see. Not me. [ female announcer ] acne is a medical condition that can happen at any age. Fortunately, a dermatologist can prescribe aczone® dapsone gel. Fda approved for the topical treatment of acne, and proven in clinical studies with people 12 years and older. Talk to your doctor about any medical conditions you have, including g6pd deficiency, and any medications you are using. 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I think theyre for everyone. I need a clean alley, every time. Nothing leaves you feeling cleaner and fresher than the cottonelle care routine. So lets talk about your bum on facebook. Thats the Bowling Alley cleaned up. Where will we end up next . And you said no phones. The vacation youve been looking for is here. Come and take it, universal orlando. Time to reveal our plaza ambush makeovers. Two lucky ladies were plucked from our crowd and given a head to toe new look. As always, today contributor and stylist to the stars, louis licari and today contributor and contributing editor for people style watch and author yes, miss jill martin have spun their magic. You match. We woke up today and said, what are we wearing . First thing, jill, come on, lets get it together. What was it like out there . It is still cold, a little bit milder. So we got to see people without their hoods on. These two we picked the two of them. Ellen is the first lucky one. Shes 52 from new york. She told us shes never trusted a stylist to find what works for her so shes nervous, but shes excited to put herself in louis hands. Lets take a listen. I love this. We have college roomies. So you say that ellen looks the same as she did in college. Oh, yes. Still frumpy, we met in 79 and we have been friends ever since but we dont see each other. Im in florida. Shes up here in new york. Still frumpy as ever. What do you think about that . Surprising but probably true. Okay. So were going to give her a whole new look. Yes. That is going to be great. Can i do it too . Yeah, youre next. All right we got a twofer. They had fun through the years, you can tell. Yes, they have. So here is ellens before picture. All right. Again her friend suzanne will react. Lets see the new you. Wow. Ellen, are you ready to see yourself . Yes. Okay, spin right around, right here. Oh, wow. Wow. Youre a red head. I love it. You look great. I bet your friend is going to freak out, dont you think . Look right there at that camera, tell us about the hair. Okay, ellens hair was strawberry before. I said why not go push it a little bit. Still wanted to keep it in the golden undertone family to keep it looking natural. Ellen asked me an important question. Is it is age appropriate hear, is my hair too long . You can wear your hair any length, as long as it is shaped around your face so it doesnt drag your face down. Haircut by igor. Igor. Isnt it great . They werent wearing jackets so anything was a step up with all those layers on. This is and sweatshirts. Nue. So pretty. Undergarment thing that just really like it. Ellen, stand there and face the wall because we dont want you it see your friend. And your friend, is, as you know, suzanne, 52 from florida. Shes too busy taking care of others to focus on herself. So her friend ellen wanted someone to take care of her for a change. Lets listen to her story. Well, ellen, now it is your turn to throw her under the bus. Why do you want this for suzanne . She worked really hard and has two children, just started a brandnew job and it is great time for us to have a new look. Now you feel bad calling her frumpy, huh . Yeah, kind of. Thats okay. Shes still frumpy. All right. Here we go. Her friend is waiting to see and were going to take one last look at stuzanne before and brig out the new suzanne. Okay. Are you ready to see . Okay. Ellen, turn around, baby. You want to see yourself, i bet, suzanne . I would. Turn around, sweetheart. I look different. You two better not go out on the town, if you know when im saying. Not safe out there for women like you. Stand with your friend. All right, louis, tell us about it. With suzanne, she except making her hair lighter and lighter. We wanted to contrast her skin. I made this very soft brown. And what i did is i gave her the option to could wear it back to blonde by using a semipermanent color. This was featured i did a story in the new vogue talking about monochromatic color, right on trend. Igor again did the haircut, took it off, made it more appropriate for her texture and she looks fabulous. Looks fantastic. Jill, what about the outfit . Shes wearing leather. She didnt have a jacket so we brought that. Isnt it great . Like butter. And the jeans are nydj because you need a great pair of jeans. Great job, both of you. Thank you. Thank you, jill. These ladies werent the only ones brought in from the cold. Two fans compete in madelyns game day food challenge. Then delicious cocktails to wash it all down. First, these messages. Kiss today goodbye the sweetness and the sorrow we did what we had to do wont forget, cant regret what i did [ horn blares ] for looooove [ sirens wail ] [ male announcer ] kraft macaroni cheese. You know you love it. So through february 15th, buy a box of cheerios and well give you one free to share with family. Only 1 million coupons available. 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Madelyn, what are we doing . The rules for this game, game day food, ill read a question and provide three answers. You buzz in and pick which one you think is right. If you get it wrong, the other team can buzz in to get their points. Were ready. Can we do not buzz until you read all three no. Okay, whenever. The rules. Play fair. All right, so first, one of these dips has the lowest calories for the same serving size. Humus, light ranch dip or guacamole. Adam says humus. Adam would be right. Next, deep dishes. Which of these beef dishes has the fewest calories per serving. Lasagna, chili or nachos. Beef chili. You would be right. 350 calories. Others have twice as many. Were ready. Youre ready. Okay. How far would you need to walk to burn off two bottles of beer. Here is a mihint, one mile is 5 calories. 3, 4 or 5. B. You would be wrong. A. A. A . That would be right. Three miles. Good for you. Next, if you happen to be in a restaurant, look at these three appetizers. Which has the fewest calories and fat per serving. The loaded baked potato skins, bloomin onion or fried mozzarella sticks. Bloomin onion. No. You would be wrong. C, mozzarella sticks. Right, thats correct. Not on the calorie bargain i dont believe that. Thats personal. Okay. Now, lets get to some pizza. If youre going to swap the pepperoni and put on mushrooms on a slice of pizza, how many calories would you save . 30, 60 or 90 . C, 90. You would be wrong. B, 60. No. Only 30. 30 for double dipping. I dont know. It is 30. Theyre really skinny slices, hardly any of them. If you enjoy it, have a little bit. Okay, next. Which of these little snacks has the lowest number of calories per handful, potato chips, Tortilla Chips or almonds. You know it. Almonds. We knew that. We knew that. Now we have our bonus question. Double or nothing. How many doughnut holes equal the fat in four fried whole chicken wings . How many doughnut holes . 5, 10 or 15. 15. No. You would be wrong. 10 . B. B would be right. Theyre disgusting and full of fat. But they both are 32 grams of fat and no chicken wings. What does adam win . An nbc tshirt . Oh. Im going to give her kaethi lees cd, shes much better off. I would love that. Thank you, sweetie. Were shaking things up more with the seahawks shuffle. And cocktails for your big bash. Are you going to shave this . I am. Go hawks or how to find big savingsdeals on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Youll find huge club card deals perfect for the big game. Pizzas a football favorite. Digiorno pizza is 3. 99. Get your snack on. Wheat thins and other nabisco crackers are just 1. 50 a box. And dreyers ice cream is only 2. 88. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. If youre inviting friends over to watch the big game on sunday, beer and wine dont have to be the only beverages on your menu. Thats right. Mix things up a little bit with delicious ideas, even the most devoted beer fanatic will love. The cocktail guru Jonathan Pogash is here, just the guy to do it for us. Hello, jonathan. How are you . Good. Youre making special drinks. Just for you all. Something call the seahawk shuffle. Thats right. Right in front of you there. This is an espresso based drink. Espresso and coconut milk. Sip on that one. Can you have that . Thats delicious. Oh, my god. Get the aromatics in the nose. Why for seattle . Coffee. Seattle coffee, right . Right, kelly. Come on over. Mile high mojito. Mile high mojito, for denver, right . This is different than a regular mojito. I have white rum, okay. Im adding the white rum to my mixing glass here. Im going to give it a little muddle. Muddle. Muddle, muddle, muddle. Way too kind. Muddle. I have some simple syrup here. Okay. Doesnt look simple to me. This is clementine juice. This is what make the drink a little different than your average mojito. I love mojitos, by the way. Yes, you do. Careful. A splash of fresh squeezed juice. A little shimmy shake. Okay. Look how he does it. He puts the my biceps are insane. A lot of passion. Im going to just pour that right into my glass here. I like you get a lot of garnishes you like to stick in there. This is prosecco, this is martini prosecco. Nice. You love your wine. Mmhmm. And were going to top that off and put a bunch of herbs in here. Rosemary, sage, mint. Kathie cant have rosemary. But all the rest. Ill give that one to you. And you can have that one and ill have this one. Kelly, you can drink this. It is a bronco drink. Just take one sip. How is that . Very nice. Okay. You can like it. It is okay. Why are you and i wearing the same dress. Pretty much. This is a beerbased cocktail, which is hot nowadays. This is called maybe next year. It is my ode to the patriots. Maybe next year something will happen. And the giants. And the giants. Everybody. Everybody that did not win. This has some pom pomegranate juice in here. Ill just pour a little bit. This is super easy to do at home. Freshly squeezed lemonade. When you salem nay lemonade mean you sweetened it. I did. This is cold snap beer. And garnish, tears and hope. Tears and hope. Oh. Have a great game. Cheers. Thank you so much. May everybody come out of it safe and sound, actually, you know . All right, everybody. Coming up tomorrow, modern family sarah highland is with us. And our moms are going to cook for us. Theyre in the makeup room, prepping as we speak, a day early. Well look at sundays best ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] but finally, it happened. Perfection. At progresso, weve got a passion for quality, because youve got a passion for taste. 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