Stackable, hes going to tell us what we should and shouldnt be watching. We love our stackable. And the kids are back in school so well help make the learning more fun with new gadgets. Whos hear what that . Steve greenberg. All right. And if you want to be happy, well get advice for striking the right Work Life Balance in all kinds of situations from a mother of eight. She knows best. Look at her shes juggling. Shes on something. Thats a joke and a poor one. Tripadvisor. Com says most of us are traveling this holiday sunday and monday. Sometimes people take the extra day and return home on tuesday. Oh, hoe the wants it. How could you not . Only 16 of people are taking another day. So the traffic will be bad tonight, get an early start if you can. Hoda, are you a Party Thrower or goer . Ill tell you what that is, youre a goer. Im an attend queee im n good at throwing parties. No one wants to come to my apartment. My mom and i when we were in rehoboth, i think for the first time we invited people over. I was stunned. We all were. And you had a ball. We made steaks well, joel did. Well, my mom did. But we had the woman who runs the fish shop and the coffee guy. Everybody came from the grocery store. It was nice, right . But you throw not a good party you throw a great party. I love to host parties. Frank and i through the years hosted hundreds of them. Towards the end of his life we hosted less and less because he just wanted peace and quiet. It was so sweet. Hed sit in our backyard and watch the planes go by. There are three different airports that are were sort of the many t middle of and he would go with such contentment on his face, hed go theres another one im not on. Hed spend his whole life being on planes for football or the olympics or wide world of sports and hed say for every one of those theres a hotel on either end and another flight back. The older you get, you just you want to just sort of be wherure . Well, if you are throwing a get together at your house there is an etiquette expert nameed William Hanson who has some notes. Lets see if you agree. They say dont some people ask everybody whats a good date for you, this friday, the next friday, the friday after. They say pick a date, throw the party and who courtmartialan come. People will be like i can come on tuesday but i cant come top 4 00. Dont be vague about when the party starts. It starts at noon now when you say the party starts at noon, do you like people to show up at noon or are you okay with people showing up 1259 30 or 1 00 . Close. Ive been in Live Television in my entire life. Theres no such thing as late. Vegas or whatever you have to be ready. You have to understand people if its a picnic youre throwing you say well have picnic noon to five. But dont come more than 15 minutes late. Its really rude. Dont ask guests to take off their shoes when they come to your house. You know, i dont that but a lot of people do do it. Im used to that because of boats. People ask you to take your shoes off when youre on a boat. What about in someones home . If someone asks know do it im happy to oblige. It seems strange when youre dressed up in black tie and they say be barefoot in our evening gown. What if you have a bad pedicure or you dont the right socks. Should have thought about that sooner, hoda. Well, whatever. Unless your house is very unique, do not offer a tour. I think if people ask you sometimes ill say to a host your house so pretty, this room im looking at, can i see some of it. But dont offer it. Thats weird. Have you ever been to someones house where they offered . Yes. Im trying to think. Im sure you have. But i love design and i love homes and i love to see the way people put things together so i would probably say oh, could any because im just interested in that. I dont throw it in my house anymore because it got so big through. The 21 years we lived in that house so many additions and a tour like that smithsonian now. So many nooks and crannies. I have rooms i dont remember. This is a good one. When you get to a party and theres a big table they say that the host should assign seats so that when you say sit wherever you want. Everyones like it feels weird, right . That i dont agree with. Why . Because people get crazy. I want to be seated next to so and so. And they feel like theres a better place to be and i wont be a part of that so i very rarely do it. Ill just say whoever get there is first, sit where you sit. Frank sits here, i sit here, everybody else fill in. Otherwise theyre manipulating the evening and i dont like that. Sometimes when people do sit you, they sit you next to someone who you dont know. They separate from your date or boyfriend or husband. Is joel like that . Joel can talk to anybody. I know he can. So could frank but frank hated it when we were separated. He goes why would they do that . Because you come to a party together. A lot of married people want to be separated. He hated it. I know im going home well, not anymore but i knew i was going home with him. If you are throwing a party and we are and you have wine glasses and you see people drink their wine and you dont want to keep replacing their glasses with fresh glasses youll be washing dishes all night long they give you these little pens. Wine glass writer so you can write your name. Washable nontoxic markers that write on the glass and bottles, too, so you can do this and nobody will pick up your glass of wine. Kind of cool, right . Yeah. And then you can also keep track of how many glasses youve had. By writing numbers, one, two, three, four. Its around 10 for a pack of three, wineglasswriter. Com. Very smart. If you drink red wine and i enjoy red and youre worried about staining your teeth because red does that, we might have the solution. You have them over there, too. So what happens . You put in the the drink i love how joanne and amanda are like put it in the drink. Because were stupid. [ laughter ] put in the and suck it. So it bypasses your teeth . Yes. It goes right down your throat. You ged a red esophagus. Your tongue is red but teeth arent. They say it works for hot coffee. It looks like a specimen thing. Its a straw. But it looks like one of those spach lum things. I dont like the word spatulum . Oh, speculum. Whatever. [ laughter ] suddenly my wine started not tasting so nice. They say its good for hot drinks, too, i could never drink a hot drink out of i like iced tea. And a hot drink im always anticipating the burn thats coming. You know what people do wrong with a wine stem . Do you know why the stem is here . Thats where youre supposed to hold it. Your hands are warm, if you held it like this in no time the heat from your hand goes to the wine so youre supposed to hold it here. Okay, but a straw does not look classy. No, it doesnt. A case is for 39. 95 at t tcsstraw. Com. Were going to give it away. Five lucky viewers win a special prize. But you have to enter once a week. By the way, we thing that we put the donna dorable is getting a workout now. Its like over 12,000 people are signing up now. The prizes are great. For complete rules and regulations go to klgandhoda. Com and hit the connect button. We have to say that by law. Dont miss our favorite things. They are coming up later in the show. And today may be the unofficial end of summer but we have something to look forward to. Your favorite tv shows are coming back plus new series premiers and movies. Tim stackable. He just came from childrens camp. So cute. Live in a pick and choose world. Choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number. 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Season premiers, concert tours, new book releases, the next events are jam packed with things that will keep you busy. And here is Entertainment WeeklySenior Writer tim stack whom we very lovely call stackable. Hi, stackable, did you have a good summer . I did. Its over. Agrew i grew a beard for the fall. Lumbersexual. To keep your cheeks warm. Thats right. No one else is keeping them warm. Lets talk tv shows, shall we . No, id rather talk about his sex life, personally. By the way, you look good in a beard. Thank you. Old age. No, because you look is boyish with your little high waters and your shirt buttoned to the top. So theres a show on nbc called blind spot. Yes, blind spot. Jamie alexander plays a woman she wakes up in times square in a duffel bag. I hate it when that happens. Right . Been there, done that. Shes naked and covered in tattoos and basically the government finds out that these tattoos lead them to certain cases and sort of terrorists and all kinds of stuff. So they have to solve it by her tattoos . Yes, so she has to be naked. Is this nbc . This is nbc. She cant be that naked. Shes pretty naked in the pilot. Its really fun. Its a thriller. Kind of blacklisty. But she has like super skills. You find out she has abilities. Its fun. So somebody took her and had their way and something going on. Exactly. And her memory has been erased. A great concept. Empire is back and people are pumped about that. I was just on the set. Of course you were im name dropping but of course its back and lucious is in jail, terence howards character. What did he do . He was arrested for the murder of his cousin cookies cousin bunky. But, yeah, its back in season two. Empire was the biggest story of the year. Ma ris a thome is joining the series, chris rock, ludicrous is on. Everyone is clamoring to get on that show, right . It as a huge hit, its a great show. Taraji is back. Any other tv shows we should be looking out for . The muppets is coming. Postbreakup. How will they cope . Well, shell be sleeping around, you just know it. I cant wait to see. Casting couch. And thats good. And then lady gaga is joining American Horror story hotel. How is she at acting . Really good. She is . Im not surprised by that at all. She was a theater kid. She wanted to be an actress but she was terrible at auditioning, she told me. Thats not unusual. Buck a terrific actor or actress but you lose in the auditions. Shes very good. Full throttle, so engaged so it will be exciting. Lets go to the movies. Johnny depp playing Whitey Bulger. In this movie called black mass. Hes unrecognizable who looks just like Whitey Bulger who was a boston gangster and fbi informant. Its a movie about him. Joel edgedgerton, benedict cumberbatch. Scott cooper directed the movie. It has great awards buzz. Its like johnny depp going back to a donnie brasco. So its him acting again. Hes almost unrecognizable. When you glance at him you dont realize. Jessica chastain, matt damon. What is that . The martian. Its ridley scott, a space movie, ridley scott directed at alien. Matt may don is an astronaut who gets separated from his team of astronauts and they think hes dead but hes abandoned on a planet. Its a little like castaway meets gravity but its based on a book. Matt damon is alone for most of it but its a big budget thrill ride uhuh. Jessica which is a stain, krist kristin wig. Lets talk music. One direction . Are they still around . Yes, this is on my ipod because im a teenage girl. The fact theyre without zane, their single out now. I dont know which one is zane. Zane is not there. There were five before, now theres four. What about janet . Janet jackson is coming back, she has an album. Its been ages. She released a single called no sleep and she looks incredible. The woman does not age. Yes, its a big deal shes coming back. We havent seen her in ages so everyone is excited . Stackable, we love you. Thank you, love you, too. My beard loves you. 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They say it could be until this afternoon before they reopen the interchange. Antioch police are investigating the citys third homicide of the year. They say, last night police found a man who had been shot off carvallo road. That man later died at the hospital. No word on any motive or suspects. And investigators will be at a school in sausalito today, in hopes of figuring out what sparked this overnight fire in an Administration Building there. The fire started around 7 30 last night at a School District building on the Willow Creek Academy campus. No classrooms were damaged. Investigators now looking into whether the fire was set on purpose. And were going to take a look at your Weather Forecast coming up right after the break. Its going to be really hot today inland, so if youre heading to pacifica, it will be 77 degrees while redwood city sees a high of 90 degrees. 97 in los gatos. The embarcadero, up to 86 degrees. Napa, 94. Pittsburgh, 97 degrees. San ramon, 95. And pleasanton seeing a high of 98 degrees. And we have a quick programming note. We have pga tour golf, the Deutsche Bank championship starting at 1 30 right here on nbc bay area. That means no 11 00 news for us. Stay up to date by visiting our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Our next newscast is tonight after golf, coming up at 5 00. Have a great labor day and well see you tomorrow. Announcer the following is a presentation of nbc sports. Its shaping up into another final round manic monday at the Deutsche Bank championship just outside boston. In the second leg of the fedexcup playoffs. The final group arriving at tpc boston, a bit differently today. Rickie fowler hoping to take a giant leap up the points standings while Henrik Stenson shoulders his own load in High Expectations holding a