Infected by zika with their male partners here in the United States. The growing outbreak to be addressed at a hearing on capitol hill this morning. And too accommodating . A dramatic opening to the trial of aaron andrews. Why did they let her man who was her stalker book the room next to hers . This is anger, this is a red flag. You dont go back. Why the hotel claims it did nothing wrong today, wednesday, february 24th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Its willy again for matt. Day through of the flu for mr. Lawyer. Lauer. Feel better, my friend. Were talking politics this morning. Donald trump with a massive win a commanding win. Lets get right to these results. It was a landslide for trump who dominated every key voting block giving him even more momentum heading into super tuesday next week. The race for second place, another nail biter. Senator marco rubio edging out senator ted cruz with a few more votes to be counted mirroring the results of saturdays primary in South Carolina. Were going to be talking to both donald trump and senator rubio a moment from now. Lets start with breaking news overnight, the weather. Powerful storm systems spawning tornadoes from louisiana to florida. More is expected to be. Lets go to nbcs jacob rascon. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Behind me is whats left of sugar hill mobile home park. More than 150 of these homes now just piles of debris. Two people died here alone. More than 30 were hospitalized. Seven of those critical. The rubble. A desperate search for survivors. Hope nearly lost. Some 150 mobile homes ripped to shreds. Trucks twisted like toys. A neighborhood wiped off the map. Louisiana governor John Bell Edwards stunned. This was probably the worst area that that tornado could have hit. Its just the destructive power of this tornado is awesome. Reporter ever seen anything like it . I have not. Reporter dozens were injured, many of them pulled from the rubble barely alive. We are asking for calm for this area. We are asking for prayers. We need that. This Community Needs that. Reporter some 19 Million People were at risk during round one of the massive winter storm. From golf ball sized hail in texas to blinding rain in more than a dozen twisters in several states. All the way to pensacola, florida, where this neighborhood took a direct hit. We just held on to each other i mean, it was very, very scary, very. Reporter there were overturned semi trucks, a gutted golds jim and thomas hower watched a tornado blow past him. Whew. Reporter back in convent, louisiana, nobody is giving up yet. In the air and on the ground wondering if this is survivable. Some of these mobile homes were washed away from where they were originally. Seven people are still fighting for their lives this morning and the search will resume for the three people missing later this morning. Savannah . All right, jacob rascon, now al is here with what you can expect. The storms have covered a wide swath of territory. Yeah. This is what we were worried about. You cant see them to verify them. You have to go by radar. This is the second time this storm and Severe Weather. It is all fueled by el nino, the much stronger subtropical jet making for a stronger storm. Live radar scans. You can see from georgia and South Carolina all the way down to florida weve got tornado watches in effect. For today we are under the gun for central north carolina. Tornadoes very likely here. Possible wind gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour. This is going to be pushing to the east so this morning the southeast is under it. Theyre going to see the heavy thunderstorms. Then later this morning the midatlantic gets into the act. Were going to see the winds and the rain as well. The highest threats from the coastal areas of the midatlantic and northeast. Rainfall amounts anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of rain. We have flood watches for 12 Million People at risk from georgia all the way into new england, guys. In a little bit were going to talk about the winter side of this. We have blizzard warnings in effect. Going to be a tough day on the travel as well. Al, thank you. Stories, donald trump storming to victory in the nevada caucusesen enon the heels of his win. Super tuesday, all important, just six days away now. Were going to talk to mr. Trump live in a moment. Lets begin this mornings 2016 coverage with nbcs national correspond debt peter alexander. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump delivering another decisive victory fueled by another good turnout. Voters said they want another political outsider who tells it like it is. Just as striking as what happened overnight, after the numbers came in, the cruz, rubio campaigns blasted each other and not a single one hitting trump. We love nevada. Thank you. Reporter here in vegas donald trump hit another jackpot. The billionaire cashing in his Third Straight win. If you listen to the win too much. Now were winning, winning, winning the country. Reporter boasting victories in key demographics. We won with young, we won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. Reporter duelling to be the trump second place runner the only campaign that has beaten donald trump and the only campaign that can beat donald trump is this campaign. Reporter across nevada the wild west lived up to its name. The caucuses came under criticism before the voting was complete with complaints on social media. One man calling it a disaster, another reporting yelling and screaming and in multiple sites caucus voters wearing pro trump swag that Party Officials say is allowed. The trump cruz feud is intensifying. They poubsed on cruz for his decision to fire a top aide. Some of the people i deal with. He is like a little baby, soft, sweet little baby. Reporter cruz sarcastically praising him. Rubios trying to blunt trumps trajectory. We cant just elect someone thats angry, we have to elect someone that will make a difference and someone that will win. Reporter but for the establishment time is running out. Beginning march 15th gop contests become winner take all which is a strong second is more of the same. Its going to be an amazing two months. We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest, all right . Reporter now the republican race for the nomination accelerates. Next up, super tuesday. 11 states voting, most of them southern, including ted cruzs home of texas. The freshman no longer downplaying it. Simply trying to stay alive. Telling voters it will be the campaign. Peter, thank you so much. Marco rubio is here with us from michigan. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning. There have now been these four republican contests. Donald trump has won three of them. Weve seen the race the field of candidates narrow and yet this dynamic seems to be the same. Youve got you and ted cruz and some of the other candidates fighting each other and trump sailing to victory. A lot of republicans asking this morning why not take on trump directly . Whats your answer to that . Yeah. I think you need to take everything weve applied to the lessons of every other campaign before and throw them out the window. This is an unusual year and unusual campaign. Nevada is different. Heres the bottom line fact, the vast and overwhelming majority of republicans do not want donald trump to be our nominee. Thats evidenced by the fact that your own poll last night me and donald trump id beat him by 16 points. What we have now is a dynamic where as long as there are four people voting dividing up the nontrump vote youll get results like last night. The sooner we can get the race narrowed down in point of fact, the candidates have dropped out. Some candidates have dropped out and actually what weve seen is donald trump grow his numbers. I know youre saying nevada is an outlier but he got 46 of the vote last night. Yeah. Mitt romney got over 50 in the last caucus in nevada with the same number of candidates in the race so as i said, its a state thats always delivered Something Like that or along those linings. Look. I love nevada. We did well. We picked up delegates but we move on. One candidate has dropped out between saturday and today and thats governor bush. I think youll see more of that happening over the next few days and weeks. If that happens, i think were only going to get stronger. Youve already seen a growing number of people joining our effort. Were the only one in this race that can unite the republican were going to win this election in november. Senator rubio, im channelling a lot of republicans who like you but are growing increasingly frustrated that youre not going after donald trump but you seem focused on ted cruz. Their concern is by the time you get rid of ted cruz it will be too late. Why not go at donald trump right now . Well, first of all, i havent heard that and i talk to people all day. I go to rallies all the time. I dont have any voters begging me to attack anyone. Second, i understand, thats a media wish. That makes for good television. Im not in the race to attack anyone. Forgive the interruption. Im happy to show differences. Im responding to ted kruds. If im attacked im going to respond and set the record straight. In the case of ted cruz hes repeatedly made things up on me. Weve had to clear the air. Debate, donald trump said george w. Bush is responsible for 9 11. I corrected him in a very firm way in front of the entire nation. So when instances like that arise, i will not hesitate to point out our differences or things that i disagree with. But im not i didnt run for office to tear up other republicans. Im going to tell people who i am and why im running. Im going to give them a choice. If they elect me theyre going to have someone unify this party, grows this party, governs responsibly and deals with our challenges. I will be a president for all americans, even the people who dont agree with us. I will try to bring this country together as best i can. Senator marco rubio, always good to get your time. Thank you. Thanks, senator. Thank you. Now we have donald trump on the phone. He, of course, won the nevada caucuses last night. Good morning. Congratulations on your win, sir. Thank you very much. You came kind of close to declaring victory to the whole nomination last night. You said its going to be an amazing two months, it might not even take two months. Is this nomination yours to lose at this point . I dont know. I cant answer that question. I can only say were doing really well. We have tremendous numbers out of the states were going to this week if you look at georgia, if you look at texas where we have a good shot. If you look at some of them down the line, i think we have amazing numbers. I think were going to do very well in ohio, tennessee, arkansas. Were looking at just really great numbers so i hope we do well. Mr. Trump, we just talked to senator rubio. Hes being criticized for not going after you more directly. It strikes me hes the one guy you havent gone after. Youve gone after many of them in the field. When its time and when you decide it is time to go after senator rubio, what will be your line of criticism of him . Well, i wouldnt want to tell you. I wouldnt want to go that far but so far hes been very nice. Ive been very nice to him. We havent been in that mode. Probably it will happen. If it doesnt happen, that will be a wonderful thing. There is a possibility that that will happen. The things that hes done as a United States senator, what are your impressions . Well, hes somewhat inexperienced. Hes young. And, you know, nice guy. Very nice guy but well be talking about it at the right time if it comes up. So far it really hasnt come up. Ive been accusing senator cruz of doing some pretty bad things, namely lying. He talks ive never seen anybody like this. Ive dealt with much, much tougher people over my lifetime, but i have never dealt with anybody that will lie like he lies, and thats a pretty bad statement. Why go after cruz if rubios the one who seems to be doing better in the polls and getting closer to you, granted, not close if you look at nevadas results last night. Well, that actually only happened last night. Really cruz was second and it looks like rubios looking like hes going to be second based on last night. Why do you think senator rubio hasnt gone after you . Many republicans think somebody has to take you on. It has to become a oneonone race. He hasnt done that. Why do you think . Do you think he fears taking you on . Maybe because 14 people went after me and 14 people officially gone so i dont know, i seem to have a very good track record when they do go after me. But he hes been very nice and i think ive been respectful to him and well see what happens. But that can always change. Its changed on a number of occasions. Other people have been that way and we go at it and so far ive got a very unblemished track record. Maybe he looks at that. Im not sure. Youll have to ask him that question. We just heard you in a tease a few minutes ago calling ted cruz a little baby. You talked also this week about wanting to punch a protestor misbehaving at one of youre vents. You said when you become the nominee and president , youll change your tone and temperament. Im watching howell youre doing and im watching how your life has gone with the tone and temperament. Why would you change that if its working so well . Well, i have to tell you, maybe i shouldnt be changing that protester was out of line, he was hitting people. He was screaming during the speech and everybody wanted to hear what i had to say. He was screaming horribly. The cops were so gentle when they took him out. When they took him out big smile on his face, waiving to the people like he was having a good time. In the old days he would have been taken out on the stretcher. Today were not allowed to touch him but thats disgraceful. That style, mr. Trump, has worked well for you in your life. Why change it when you become president . Well, i think i might tone it down a little bit. We had a total of 17 people and now were down to 6 and, you know, i may i may very well change it, but right now it seems to be working pretty well. All right. Donald trump, thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. While Republican Voters caucused across nevada, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were taking part in a town hall in South Carolina ahead much saturdays democratic primary there. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in good morning. Reporter willie, good morning for you. Senator sanders is trying to blunt secretary clintons record. One of the heated moments came when clinton was again asked for transcripts on those speeches she gave to wall street. Why is there one standard for me and not for everybody else . Reporter tough questions tuesday night. Hillary clinton again asked about releasing transcripts of her paid Goldman Sachs speeches. If people are going to ask for things, everybody should been a level playing field. Reporter clinton vowing to release her transcripts following suit. An issue giving sanders an opening. I am very happy to release all of my paid speeches to wall street. Here it is, chris, there aint none. Reporter clinton also on defense on a ruling by a judge that her top aide should be questioned about her private emp mail server. It is not something that is going to have any lasting effect and i am not at all worried reporter for his part sanders challenged about controversial comments he made in 1974 saying he wanted to abolish the cia. Cia plays an important role, but have they done things which they should not have done on behalf of the United States government . Absolutely. Reporter both candidates used the night to court critical africanamerican voters. Clinton asked about beyonces super bowl halftime show which angered some Police Departments by paying tribute to the black lives matter movement. We have to figure out how were going to lift up the good practices, reform policing, provide more support. Reporter sanders slammed the Birther Movement against the president including donald trump. My dad, as i mentioned, came from poland. Guess what, nobody has asked nor my birth certificate. Maybe its the color of my skin, i dont know. Reporter and clinton brushing off a question about i dont believe i ever have, i dont believe i ever will. Just say no. Just say no. Is that a question youd like another shot at answering . Ill just say no. Reporter now both candidates also expressed their support for president obamas plan to close guantanamo. As for today, clinton will campaign in South Carolina while sanders will host a News Conference here and then stump in super tuesday states where he may have a stronger shot at winning. Willie, savannah . Kristen welker, thanks so much. Now in washington there are new developments in the ongoing battle over the u. S. Supreme court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said his party will not support a vote on any Supreme Court nominee. Mcconnell acknowledged the president s right to nominate a replacement but he said the senate has rights. Al is back now with the rest of the forecast. Thats right. Coming up after your forecast in the next 30 seconds. Fruit. Nuts. Silky smooth dark chocolate. A look at the winter side of this storm coming up in the next 15 minutes. Thank you very much. Just ahead this morning, the emotional start to erin andrews 75 million lawsuit after she was secretly recorded behind closed doors. And more signs the zika virus is spreading in the u. S. What they all have in coming up, carsons after your local news. Chobani simply 100. Its the only light greek yogurt with zero preservatives. To love this life is to live it. Naturally. The citi double cash card comes in very handy with cash back twice on purchases. Earn once when you buy, and again as you pay. 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Well hear more about the storms coming up. Lets take a look at the headlines. Make it three in a row for donald trump, cruising to victory picking up half of nearly all the votes cast. Of course, if you listen to the pundits, we werent expected to win very much. Now were winning, winning, winning the country. Soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. Senator marco rubio way back, it is going to be another day of Severe Weather across the south as mentioned. Overnight, at least three people were killed, more than 30 others injured when tornadoes touched down in louisiana and mississippi and more were reported in florida. Wreckage of a small passenger plane that went down in nepal has been found. Officials say it was still burning when it was located. All 24 on board were killed. Sports reporter erin andrews is back in court today after the opening to her 75 million lawsuit against a hotel and the man convicted of secretly filming her in her room. Reporter you can see it on erin andrews face, sitting in court, reliving when she got the call. You were on the internet without any clothes on, did you know that . She just totally comes apart. Reporter eight years later shes suing michael barrett, the video a long with the National Marriott and its local management at the time for 75 million. Claiming the hotel was negligent and could have prevented it from happening. Andrews lawyer told a jury barrett called the hotel to ask if she would be staying there. Yes, hes told. First red flag. Reporter then the lawyer says barrett calls the reservation center, which abbreviates a note. Guest request to room next to erin andrews. Why is a person making a request like that . This is dangerous. Its a red flag. You dont just go, fine. Reporter but he got the room next door. According to the complaint, barrett removed and altered the peep hole of Andrews Hotel room door and recorded video of her changing and or getting dressed without her consent or knowledge. Counsel is trying to tie my clients, who were simply trying to provide a hotel, to a guest to a criminal stalker. And theyre not. Reporter the lawyer for the happened to andrews is terrible, but not the hotels fault. Barrett, he said, manipulated the system to get the room next to andrews and he is responsible. These people did not just take a phone call from some stranger, wanting to be in a room next to erin andrews and put him there. He deceived, he connived, he stalked. Thats what mr. Barrett did. Reporter barrett pleaded guilty to stalking and shooting the nude videos and served 30 months in prison. Now free, he will testify in this civil case by video. And andrews is expected to take the stand to tell her side of the story. For today, morgan radford, nbc news. Al is busy tracking some strong storms this morning. Thats right. Were going to talk about the winter side of this thing. I mean, weve got winter storm warnings advisories and blizzard warning from Northern Arkansas 20 Million People at riveng. Wind gusts of 50 miles an hour. Snowfall of 1 to 2 inches per hour. The sdakt it is just now getting into chicago, st. Louis, all the way back into almost arkansas. What well look for as far as snowfall amounts, upwards of a foot or more around detroit, saginaw, south bend, and parts of illinois will be looking at this as well. St. Louis, 2 to 4. Flint, 8 to 14. South bend, 10 to 16 inches of snow. Again, one way or the other on this track, chicago could even well. And thats your latest weather. Thanks a lot. This morning the cdc is investigating 14 new reports of zika here in the United States. Thats leading to a new warning for anyone whos traveled to hot zones for the virus. Nbcs tom costello has more on this. Good morning. Good morning. Only two definitive cases have been confirmed but the cdc says 14 suspected cases involve men who had traveled to zika areas and spread the virus through sexual contact once they came home. Reporter the cdcs announcement, now raising level of concern whether the zika rye virus might find new victims in the United States. New cases possibly transmitted through sexual contact. In each of the episodes a man was traveling to a zikaeffected area, developed symptoms consistent with zeke kashgs and within two weeks of the mans symptom, the female partner had symptoms consistent with zika virus. Reporter the cdc is working to determine how long the virus can be in a persons system and transmitted to a Sexual Partner. More than 30 countries are on the cdcs list of zika regions. They warn pregnant women or women who may become pregnant to avoid the areas. Up until now doctors believed only a small number of patients transmission. Now they are warning all men to abstain from sex or use condoms, especially if their partner might be pregnant. Take the appropriate precautions so they dont get zika infection and they might be that would be tragic. Reporter as nbc saw firsthand in brazil, families are caring for their children with microcephaly, with abnormally small heads and brains thought to be linked to the virus. Its causing anxiety for athletes preparing for olympics in rio this summer. Some athletes have indicated they may avoid the games all together. Latin america and caribbean in a race to stop the zika virus, while no vaccine leaves more people at a potential risk. If you have traveled to a country on the zika warning list or your Sexual Partner has, the stakes could be very high up. Or health care provider. Back to you. Are the ones we know about. Is the cdc at all worried this iceberg . Absolutely, thats certainly the case. Thousands of people travel to every day. 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For months, weve been hearing rumors that a big change is coming to facebooks like button. Ladies and gentlemen, that day is finally here. This morning, we are proud to announce exclusively the right now worldwide. Over the next few days, theyll roll out to all facebook users. Ill show you what this means here. You can like a post. Well, now you can love, ha ha, wow, sad or angry. Thats right. Make sure your app is up to date. Heres a video that shows you how easy it is. Gently touch the like button and the other reaction buttons pop up. Select the one you want. By the way, this reminds me, al, i was on your page and loved these photos of you at the san diego zoo. Ill show you how it works. Ill go to like, over here to ha ha, boom. Boom ought to do your page here, carson. Im on your page. What did you like . You have a little crockpot action. Chili. Im going to go with wow. Well, thank you. Chili was hot. I love it. How they dance and move around. I like that, yeah. Its animated. 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Com. 3 im samantha boatman 3 samantha we now know the identity of one of the men involved in a high speed car chase monday night. That chase began around five monday night. After a report of an apparent larceny involving 23year old Dominic Gonzalez and another suspect. It all sierra resort. Where gonzalez was taken into custody by troopers. However, authorities are still trying to find the second suspect who ran from the car. 3 samantha nhp Officials Say he got away in a maroon Passenger Car with silver rims. Which picked him up at the gsr. He is reported as a white male adult, last seen wearing a black shirt or zipper pullover and blue 3 tim youre hot and youre cold yes then youre no in then youre out 8 00 on today. Coming up secrets to successful sleep. How the temperature of your bedroom could be costing you a good nights rest. Well have the dos and donts to catching the best zs. Plus, ready for takeoff. Im ready. Youre ready . Lets do it. Inside carsons internship at the airport. Going to the lounge and maybe have a cocktail . No, youre not. Will his new career get off the ground . Kevin spacey in the house. We had a future until you started destroying it. Back at it as the commander in chief that Everybody Loves to hate in the highly anticipated today, wednesday, february 24th, 2016. Hey, yall hey first time in new york city. From ft. Worth, texas. With our friends from 35 years. Waking up to the today show. Weve been fans for 50 years. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to today. A little bit of a drizzling morning out here on our plaza. A rainy one all across the northeast today. Willie is here for matt. He has the flu pretty darn bad. Has he ever called in sick in 20 years . Not like this. Ago. I was in bed for four days. I hope he gets better. Hopefully he can come back tomorrow. Dont come back until youre ready, pal. Exactly. Take a hot, hot shower before you do. Coming up in honor of this gentleman, wrangler, well help you pick the right pet for your family. First, a check of the top stories with natalie. Good morning. The battle for second place providing the only drama overnight after tuesdays Nevada Republican caucuses. Donald trump easily claims victory. Hallie jackson is in las vegas for us. Good morning. Good morning, natalie. Right now, its marco rubio leading ted cruz for second in a race we now know had record turnout, giving donald trump the momentum. Reporter its yet another trump triumph. Were winning, winning, winning. Reporter and a sweeping one. Donald trump taking the top spot with men and women, with every age group, with evangelicals. We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. Reporter a threepeat for trump. Time running out for his rivals to stop him. You look at some of them down the line, and they have amazing numbers. Reporter at ted cruzs campaign, the alarm going off. Literally. Not lost on them, hes under pressure to perform on super tuesday when 11 states cast ballots. Cruz doing nothing to down play the day. One week from today will be the most important night of this campaign. One week from today is super tuesday. Reporter thats when cruz needs a victory in texas to add to his firstplace finish in iowa. His argument . Hes the only one who has beaten donald trump, as his Campaign Hits marco rubio hard for not doing the same. Rubio speaking out this morning on today on the state of the race and how to beat the front runner. This is an unusual year and a the sooner we can get the race narrowed down, the easier itll be to stop donald trump. Reporter the florida senator hoping his home state gives him the win he needs but hasnt had on the campaign trail. Often looking past his republican rivals to hit democrats locked in their own fight, sparring over Hillary Clintons speeches. Why is there one standard for me and not for everybody else . Reporter clinton promising to release transcripts of her past remarks to big banks when others do, too. Sanders taking her up on it. I am happy to release all of my paid speeches to wall street. Here it is, chris. There aint none. I dont do that. And the republicans could get heated tomorrow night, too, at their debate in texas. With donald trump previewing one potential line of attack against marco rubio, calling him this morning, very nice, natalie, but young and inexperienced. Hallie jackson in las vegas for us, thank you. Exclusive interview on msnbc, Melania Trump, wife of the republican front runner, defended her husbands controversial statements about immigration. What about people who feel he is, lets go down the list because the campaign started and many felt he insulted mexicans. No, i dont feel he insulted the mexicans. He said illegal immigrants. He didnt talk about everybody. He talked about illegal immigrants. And after few weeks, like after two weeks, giving him hard time and bashing him in the media, they turn around and said, you know what . Hes right. Hes right, what hes talking about. And he opened conversation that nobody did. But youre an immigrant. Yes. Do you ever think hes gone too far . I follow the law. I follow a law the way its supposed to be. Without papers. And you can watch that full exclusive interview with Melania Trump on msnbcs morning joe. No secret that Airline Passengers have gotten larger over the years. While the seats on the planes seem to be shrinking. Air bus might have a solution. Bench seating. The manufacturer filed a patent for a an Adjustable Bench seat. It can accommodate obese passengers as well as small children. No word on if or when we might see the benches on a plane. Back over to willie now. Thanks a lot. If youre pouring yourself another cup of coffee to wake up, it could be your thermostat thats costing you precious hours of sleep. It caught our attention, as well as that of the wall street journal. Dr. Natalie azar is here with more. Good to see you. Good morning, willie. Cooler is better . Yeah. Ever learned about rhythms and light, because thats important, too. Research has been indicating that the temperature youre sleeping in at night is very, very important. Naturally, what happens to us during the 24hour period is our core body temperature does drop a couple degrees at night and it helps to initiate sleep. Whats the magic number . Around 65 degrees. Whoa. Thats cold. Normally, people keep their ambient temperature in the home higher during the day. Its recommended to keep it lower in the nighttime. We talked on this show a lot about the battle of the thermostat. Yes. Some like it hot and some like it cold. Yeah. Whats the middle ground . Probably to keep it cooler and layer up with blankets. Well talk about socks. Want to hear about socks . Yeah. Apparently a lot of people want to hear about socks. My mom said to let me feet breathe at night. I dont know what that means. In any event, if your feet are it causes the blood vessels in the feet to open up and let the core body temperature drop. The warm blood circulation is going to the feet. That, in turn, initiates sleep. Wearing socks at night if your feet are cold are okay. Donts. Do keep your sleep schedule consistent. Try seven days a week, wake up at the same time, go to bed at the same time. Its mainly for the sunday night syndrome. Youve been sleeping in all weekend and try to go to sleep on sunday night and you cant. You wake up monday morning feeling hungover. Dont toss and turn. If you cant go to sleep, get up . If youre not asleep after 20 to 30 minutes, dont lie in bed and stare at the clock. Get up, read, do something soothing, listen to music. When you feel tired again, go back into bed. This one, were all guilty of, dont check your phone right before you go to sleep. Hugely important. This primarily has to do with it basically goes into your rhett ka, retina, the back of your brain and impedes the secretion of mel toenne melatonin. According to the National Sleep foundation, you need 7 to 9 hours. Too little or too much can have Adverse Health effects. At 65 degrees. Sounds like a recipe for something. Ill try it tonight. First, a stroll through the snow. Next, global domination. The groundbreaking robot thats remarkable and, lets be honest, a little frightening. Plus, on pop start, ellen times two. The surprise appearance that will have you seeing double. If your bag does not arrive, blame carson. Carson interning at jfk airport in new york, discovering what it hi dad. Uh huh. Yeah. Sorry about that. Think about it there must be higher love what do you think . And in the stars above hi ted, glad you could join us, we think youre going to like these numbers. 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An article in the New York Times says eating cereal is nostalgic but sales have plummeted 30 . Heres the line getting all the attention. Quote, almost 40 ostomy lennials s millenials surveyed said it was an convenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it. Come on. Washing the bowl takes time. Apparently, theyd rather have a yogurt or sandwich, energy bar you can throw out, or dont eat breakfast. Its not to go, necessarily. You all want to judge. Lets judge. Doesnt seem that hard. They wake up, sit down, read the paper, pour themselves wheaties and take the time. The world moves fast now so you have to get something on the go and make it more convenient. Im generally against being millenials. We love a lotostomy of thelot of the millenials. Theres our resident millennial, cleaning out her bowl. How was the cereal . They make those cereal to go things in a plastic bowl. Toss it away. Back when i was in my 20s or whatever, im often eat cereal for dinner because i was too lazy to make actual dinner. Somebody was probably saying that about my generation. Fullblown breakfast now. We just did cereal. What about the boxes of cereal you stole out of the dining hall . A lot of the millenials are cooking at night. To. If we had the Convenient Options like they did, the burritos, we would have done it, too. Let go my ego. Captain crunch. We know robots can do incredible things. What happens when a robot is bullied by a human . Look at this video released by boston dynamics. An engineer takes a long pole. More than bullying. Beating him up with a pole. Uses it to shove this humanoid robot to the ground, atlas. How does he respond in hes back for more. He uses the sensors in his bodies and legs to come back up for more. Wait till he learns to punch back. Wait till seehe sees iron man. Rise of the machines. Matrix. We have kate doing ellens impression to her face. Well start with celine dion returning to her stage for the the crowd giving her a standing ovation when she appeared on stage. She said she still feels his presence. He is the only man that i have known all my life. He always made me feel that we were on our first date. We were one. And nothing has changed. We will always be one. Celine joked that hed tell her to zip it and start singing. Thats what she did. She belted out her hit where does my heart beat now. Elizabeth taylor and never before seen photos. Her hidden life, based on a new book called my elizabeth written by photographer and her close friend. He said taylor loved to cook and hitchhike. She once again unnoticed after that hits ss news stands this friday. Kate mckinnon is known for her impressions of Hillary Clinton and justin bieber. Dont forget about her take on ellen. On ellens show this week, they come facetoface. She exaggerates, saying, im ellen. Im ellen. I dont know what that is. I dont say, im ellen. [ applause ] feels nice. Im ellen. Thats how you say it. Im ellen. No, im ellen. I got this, blondie. So good. No impression would be complete without the dancing. Wow. You can see more of kates impression on todays episode of ellen. Im sure itll be awesome. Shes so good. Shes a chameleon. Huge talent. Carson, thanks a lot. Al, check of the weather . First of all, we still have this Severe Weather going on. Good portion of florida. Also on into southern georgia as the thunderstorms race across. Weve also got the risk of Severe Weather today, especially in raleigh. A few tornadoes possible. Well be watching that. Other side is, we have wet weather pushing to the east with some icy conditions up in the Northern New York and parts of northern new jersey. Mixed precipitation in new england. Expect delays from boston to washington. Rain and thunder. Wind gusts of 45 to 55 Miles Per Hour as it pushes on today and into tonight. Rainfall amounts, 1 to 3 inches of rain. 26 Million People under some sort of flood watch, stretching thats your latest weather. Savannah . Al, thanks. We have more of our special series, up for the job. We all started our careers with internships and decided, lets do it again. Carson, you chose a good one. It was a lot of fun. We all fly a lot. Thought itd be cool to see what the process is and what it takes to get the planes off the ground and into the air. Not from the bar in the airport. I became an intern at jfk airport here in new york. Reporter every time you fly, there are hundreds of men and women working hard on the ground. These below the wing employee rss are the backbone of the chris nunez was my supervisor for the day. Top priority is safety at delta, so we have safety gear. Knee pads. Im wearing a cup already. Safety is important to me, as well. Safety is important. Ready to go . Im ready. Were going to load this plane right here. This is going to vegas. You like vegas . Love vegas. Can you load me . Well take the customers bags, put them on a conveyer belt. Nice and gentle. What if that was my bag . That one is heavy. Might be a body in there. How do you feel about stacking the bags in the aircraft holder . Im ready. Lets do it. What are people packing . Theyre going to vegas, for the love of god. Carson, how does it feel . Its a lot of work. A lot of work . It is. It reminds me of packing my car with my family in the trunk. You have to pack it artfully. What are you doing . What . You cant use a cell phone out here. Im on a break. You called a five. No, i did not. You always have to be aware of everything. All right. Im sorry. No photos, okay . Its for my mom. Well take the baggage over. Where is the radio . Listen to some music. Theres no radios out here. Get a little drake, j. Cole, little hip hop, little something. Ready . Im ready. Youll have enrique teach you the loading stuff. First, the platform is controlled by this joystick. Like a video game. Just like a video game. Fit it perfectly to the aircraft. There. The first was 3500 pounds. This is 3,000. Almost 7,000 pounds in cargo alone . Yeah. Whats next . Going to the lounge to maybe have a cocktail . No, youre not. No drinking. Youll be moving an airport. Really . Yes. Like the tow . Youll tow an airplane, the all right. Ready . Lets do it. Youll drive. Driving, driving . Oh, boy. Greatest day of my life. Ready for pushback. Dont tell chris. I promise. We have a plane to move, man. Ready to roll . Okay. 1605 pad 88 requesting pushback. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your intern speaking, carson daly, hope you enjoyed your brief move to pad 88. Chris, i took 243 selfies and you cant do anything about it. Finally, the moment i had been preparing for all day long. Luke, i am your father. I had to do it. Carson, lets go we have to park an airplane. Okay. Nice job. Perfect. Thank you so much. Nicely done. We had a lot of fun in the piece. Really, you dont realize or i didnt realize and feel guilty for it, hundreds of men and women, not just delta, everywhere, who work hard to get its more than just the pilots. It was a great experience and eye opening. When its cold and rainy. The weather, freezing there, it was like 40 in the spring and we had a nice day. Huge thanks to Delta Airlines and the below the wing employees, especially chris nunez, my supervisor that day. And henry, he was awesome, made the internship possible. Delta hires student interns and there are opportunities to work seasonally part time and in the winter and summer as ready reserves in the gate or the ramp area. Go to delta. Com to apply. I would. I premdrecommend it. Great experience. You towed the plane out. It was amazeing. The plane i brought in was coming in from montego bay, it was amazing. This is your captain speaking routine. You were there all day. It was sunset. I would have stayed longer. I dont know how i can beat this. I go tomorrow, but i have to say, that was awesome. Great. I got to be on her sh3 good morning im samantha boatman 3 bill new this morning. Sparks police, sparks fire and remsa were on the scene last night. Of a crash that sent one person to the hospital. It happened around 10 pm. At the intersection of sparks boulevard ane the i80 eastbound off ramp. An a minivan was going southbound on sparks boulevard. When a car on the offramp. Ran a red light. And hit the minivan. Sparks fire had to extricate the driver of the small car. She was then taken to renown for treatment. Right now. We do not know her condition. Nor the names of the people involved. It is also not known if alcohol was a factor in the crash. 3 3 tim wx 3 today [ cheers and applause ] 8 30 now. It is wednesday morning, february 24th, 2016. Starting to come down. Starting to get a little bit drizzly here on our plaza. And its a sign of things to come, right, al . Oh, yeah. Were going to see some windier weather, wetter weather, snowier weather, Stormy Weather up and down the east coast. Oh, man. On a nasty day like this, weve got to thank all these good people for coming and plaza. It is not pretty out there. The president is here. President underwood. Kevin spacey. Well see what secrets we can get him to spill about the highly anticipated new season of house of cards. Your chance at a great trip over the long leap day weekend. Just be here on our plaza on friday, have your bags packed, and a poster telling us how you would like to spend the extra 24 hours. Were going to send you and a friend to l. A. Youre going to stay at the line hotel, dinner at phillipe. If you plan to be here friday, dont forget to rsvp. You can head to today. Com visit for that. L. A. Sounds pretty good about right now. As we said, we do have the risk of strong storps a s risk of strong storps a storms along the southeas and midatlantic coast. Air travel is going to be a nightmare. Wet weather in the pacific northwest. Sunshine texas into southern california. 83 in l. A. Today. Tomorrow warming up to 81 in l. A. Nice and warm up and down the west coast. But again, windy, snowy through the great lakes into the ohio river valley. Wet and windy in the northeast. Sunshine returns to the gulf coast with a lit thats your latest and thats your latest weather. Got some nice friends here from savannah. What are you guys doing here . We went to tour the memorial. The new museum for 9 11. Thats terrific. You want to savannah to come visit savannah . Sounds like a good idea. What do you think . I love the idea. Just sitting here kicking kevin spacey with my good foot, actually. The president ial race is in full swing, both in real life and in the brandnew season of netflixs house of cards. Which brings us to kevin spacey. His Frank Underwood character finds himself fighting for his political life while locking horns with his greatest opponent yet, his wife, the first lady. I saw a future. Our future. We had a future until you started destroying it. Well, you wouldnt have listened otherwise. Well, all right, claire. Im listening now. What is it you so desperately needed to say. Mr. President , good morning good morning. Nice to see you both. I was supposed to be with matt, but i guess it takes two of you to replace one. He insists on two people replacing him. Im really half a person because i have this boot on my leg. Youre at odds right now, thats where we find you with the first lady. This cannot last in season four, can it . They have to be a force together. You know, its so exciting to be able to not talk about this show. Come on i love being able to come on. Because i cant be the spoiler in chief. I can say this. That, you know, when we left them in season three, they were in the middle of an argument. And that argument picks up when we come back to season four. Shes always been, quite literally, an accessory to the crimes of the president and his allies. A very lovely accessory, by the way. No question about that. How do they work as adversary adversaries . The thing we explored in season three and i think to some degree continues in season four is these two figures who have had such success in working in who suddenly find themselves in the hot white spotlight of the oval office. And how does that change them . How does that change the way they try to achieve what they are setting out to achieve politically as well as personally, and those are some of the things that well explore. But you wont talk about right now. Ive gotten so good at dodging questions. You should run. Got a knack for this. I was looking back at the first interview we did with you and robin. Over there. Yes, exactly. And it was season one. And it was hilarious, because the transcript was all about what is this thing called binge watching. This concept that you could watch all the episodes a a once. And it was so foreign then, which by the way wasnt that long ago. I know. All of those ancient years of 2013, so long ago. But you brought it to the culture. You mainstreamed it. We might have made it a little bit more prevalent, but the truth is people were bingwatching before that. Box sets proved to us it was one of the reasons why the entire series at once was made, was because we could see the evidence that people were staying at home on the weekends watching, you know, five seasons of a show and three seasons of a show. And so it seems that the public was saying they want to be in control, they want to be able to watch it when they want to watch it. You spent the first part of our show this morning talking about another donald trump victory. He won nevada by more than 20 points. Is he the kind of guy who president underwood would get behind . Would he endorse donald trump . Get behind him just to shove him. Really . He would not endorse donald trump . I dont think so, no. You think he could take him . Frank underwood . You know, its been interesting, because were in the middle of a president ial election on our show, and obviously in the middle of a real president ial election. Im going to try to not blend fact and fiction. Ill just avoid that question. You really are getting good at politics. Its really rubbed off on you. I have to ask about the smithsonian. They unveiled a portrait of president underwood the other day. This is the first fictional portrait. Yes. So i was thinking that mean no, sir west wing, no martin sheen. No Harrison Ford in air force one. What does it say that theyve chosen Frank Underwood to represent . That i have something on all the trustees. It was actually an incredible night. And we did it as if it was a real genuine president ial unveiling of a portrait. So i came, i showed up as Frank Underwood, gave a speech of the executive director, a wonderful woman also gave a speech, and everybody thought oh, whos that actress playing the executive director . It was actually her. It was a remarkable thing. This wonderful artist who had done me before in a portrait when i played richard iii did a remarkable portrait. Theres a shot of it. And it will hang in the smithsonian in the entryway as people walk in, and it will be there for six or seven months, and then they hope to get someone to buy the painting and then donate it to the in the collection. Before we let you go, youre really nobody until you have a good luck hoodie. The Florida Panthers of the nhl i think we have one. This is their good luck charm. I dont even know how to explain it. Its the spacey in space hoodie. Theyre in first place in their division and they owe it all to you. They give this out at every game. To the most valuable player. And its spacey in space. Theres one of the players there. And yes, ive become their sort of good luck charm and im very pleased theyve been doing incredibly well. Youre disembodied. Its just your floating head. Spacey in space. And im very excited for them. Im glad theyre doing really well and i hope we can help them continue to win. Thank you so much. The full season of house of cards will be available on netflix march 4th and he will not speak of it until now. Up next, how to choose the first, this is today on nbc. Announcer wrangler wednesday is brought to you by petsmart. Everybody, its wrangler wednesday around here, and in honor of our pup with a purpose, who brings us so much joy, were doing something different. If youre looking for a pet companion, well help you choose the right one for your family. We have animal planets pet expert, andrea. Great to see you. Good morning. I drew, i think, the good straw and got the puppies here. A lot of people want a dog. Kids ask their parents for a dog. Whats the first thing to think about when you go in to buy one . I think the most important thing when youre choosing to adopt a dog is consider that you really want to look for personality, not so much looks. Like choosing a mate. Right. Its the most important thing. Unfortunately, people see a cute puppy and go, its adorable. Ill take it home. They dont think about the future and what the dogs personality might be like, whether or not itll fit with their family. Also how big the dog will get right . Its not always true a large dog cant fit into a smaller home or a smaller apartment. Sometimes, the small or medium sized dogs have the highest energy. Its about taking the time to essentially test drive a dog, family. Do research. Ill hand you off to natalie. Kittens. One of the biggest misconceptions i have a cat, lexi, and one of the biggest misconceptions and people think you dont have to give them a lot of attention. Not true, right . Not true. You dont need to walk your cat like you do your dog. For some people, it makes them a more appropriate pet. Theyre social creatures. They thrive on social interaction. People need to understand, you cant get a cat or kitten from a shelter and bring it home and leave it. You need to spend time getting them adjusted to your family. One of the most important things with cats in order to avoid behavioral problems is thoroughly clean their litter box multiple times a week. If not, it can result in marking in the house. Yeah. Over to the parrots now. We dont have pets at home, but sophie will turn her head and is eyeing me. I think shes about to attack my throat. Dangerous at all . They can bite, like all animals. Certainly, make sure youre careful with any animal and respectful of their space. I respect you for respecting sophie. Understand a bird like sophie stink eye. Sophie, what did i do . She does talk. Im not sure shes in the mood to talk now. Ill speak to her. Hello. Hello. Shes not feeling it. Whats going on in your neck of the woods . With parrots, there are different species and they all have different needs and nutritional requirements. One of the important things to remember is often times theyre willing pets. They live such a long time, that you need to make plans for them no kidding. Sophie is nine years old but whatd she say . Yeah. You need to make sure you understand, this is an animal that requires a long commitment. And like the talking thing. Right. I used to have guinea pigs when i was a kid and they were easy to take care of. One of the easiest to take care of. They do best when bonded with another guinea pig. The one thing about guinea pigs is you do want to be careful with them with children. Theyre not as fragile as hamsters and gerbils but theyre small. Kids need to handle them carefully. And they can bite. All animals can, yeah. Last but not least, fish. I had many fish growing up. Many, many, many. What does that mean . Many goldfish. By the way, theyre not that easy to take care of, fish. They can be. I dont think theyre quite as easy as people think. Unfortunately, people sometimes think they can go to a store and get a goldfish or some other fish and put it in a bowl and just itll thrive. Its not the case. You need to give them an make sure you test the water to make sure that it has the right levels of salt in it. Not too much ammonia. If you have a saltwater tank, obviously. Id say some of the easiest fish for beginnings are swordtails and gum byppies. Even those, talk to somebody to get more details. Figure out how much to feed them. Its more complicated as you go up from goldfish. Yeah. Thanks so much. Thanks for bringing our friends over. We appreciate it. You dont like the guinea pigs. Im a little scared. Im embarrassed to say that. Just a little bit. Coming up, junk food to joy food, joy bauer gives you first, this is today on nbc. Back at 8 47. Imagine eating enchiladas, they help you lose weight. It cant be true. But joy bauer says it is possible. In her new cook book, from junk food to joy food, she transforms hundreds of dishes. Todays menu, buffalo wings and mack mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is the ult mall ultimate comfort food. One bowl can be 1,000 calories. We can do better than that. Check it out. Mac and cheese. Skim milk, soy sauce, onion powder, paprika, black pepper and hot sauce. Mix skim milk with cornstarch. Bring to a boil. Add reduced fat cheddar with butter. Remove bay leaf. Stir in macaroni. Cover for ten minutes to let it firm. Calories is out. The joy food version at 419 calories is in. Thats a savings of 891 calories. Next up, fiery buffalo wings. A typical order with the blue cheese dip costs you 1,200 calories and more fat than you want to know about. Instead, enjoy the same, yummy flavor for less. Buffalo wings with blue cheese dip. Chicken tenders, hot sauce, paprika paprika. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Blue cheese dip. Add nonfat greek yogurt, blue cheese crumbles, onion powder and garlic powder. Mix. Junk food version at 1,190 calories is out. The joy food version at just 170 calories is most definitely in. 1,000 calories. Joy, you are a miracle worker. You like everything . Delicious. I love the buffalo chicken. It is amazing. Did you see how simple it was to make . Tastes like wings. I have to say this, this is our book because all of the recipes within the book have pretty much come from our viewers. They challenged me to make things over. Barbecue ribs, pizza, cheese burgers, chocolate milk shakes. I have a chocolate Peanut Butter cup in there. Whats on the cauliflower . This is a bonus recipe. Its on the website, if people go to today. Com. All i do is take cauliflower and dip it in flour. I roast it, douse it in hot sauce and roast it a couple more minutes. So good. Mac and cheese, tell me about that. Really good. Isnt it . You dont notice a difference. I didnt want to mess with mac and cheese but throwing vegetables in. I had a lot of out of the box, flavorful ingredients. Like the soy sauce, onion powder powder. It augments the flavor. Even the bay leaf brings it to life. My ultimate compliment was my daughter, who is a mac and cheese addict, and she gave it a two thumbs up. Thats when i knew it was okay to bring it on the show. All these things in their junk form, brought it to the healthy form. The idea is people can indulge in their favorite goodies any night of the week and still lose weight, lower blood pressure, up their energy. We love you. We love you the truth. When we dont like it, you hear it. This is delicious. Oh, yeah. So happy for you. Congrats on the book. From junk food to joy food. Get these recipes at the web exclusive for cauliflower and first, this is today o were back at 8 53. Still freaking out about how good this is. We have birthdays. Many reasons to celebrate. Well celebrate all the folks across the country. Starting off, 100th birthday to jean from new york. I love that shes known to her secret to long jettyevitylongevity, eating junk food and dancing. 102 years old, served as an auto mechanic during world war ii. Thank you for your service, mcwaters. 100th birthday to miller from florida. She loves collecting porcelain birds. Marry from minnesota. 105 years old. She says the secret to living longer, just dont think about it. Well said. Happy 100th birthday to fred randall from new york. The vet played the drums for 88 years. Want to be in a band with him. Mary hastings from south bend, indiana, loves notre dame football. Happy anniversary to the schultze. The secret to a long marriage, discuss any problems and work it out. 75 years later, it is working for them. If you want to honor someone on their milestone birthday or anniversary, 75 years or more, head to today. Com celebrate. Send a photo, as well. Coming up, whats next hour . Viola dayvis is in the house. Big deal for us. Also, Live Performance from locash. Love it. Going back in for more. 3 im samantha boatman 3 samantha we now know the identity of one of the men involved in a high speed car chase monday night. That chase began around five monday night. After a report of an apparent larceny involving 23year old Dominic Gonzalez and another suspect. It all came to an end at the grand gonzalez was taken into custody by troopers. However, authorities are still trying to find the second suspect who ran from the car. 3 samantha nhp Officials Say he got away in a maroon Passenger Car with silver rims. Which picked him up at the gsr. He is reported as a white male adult, last seen wearing a black shirt or zipper pullover and blue 3 tim this morning on todays take, donald trump scores his Third Straight win. Is there any stopping the republican front runner . Then from the hit show how to get away with murder, viola davis. Youll be loving life with a performance from country duo locash. All that and more coming up now. Announcer from nbc news, this is todays eestodays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning, february 24th, 2016. One of those days we can admit, its miserable out there. Happy inside staud owe 1 studio 1a. Im willie and theres natalie and al. Be inside and im playing stressed out. Great song. It is. As im driving my kids to soccer in the traffic, im like, im stressed out. Its the theme song for marco rubio and ted cruz. Donald trump, we wake up another morning after a primary or caucus to another big win by him. Great victor speech. Third straight victory. Hes rolling through new hampshire, South Carolina and nevada. Won by more than 20 points. Donald trump at 46 of the vote. Marco rubio, 24 . Ted cruz at 21 . With momentum on his side firmly, mr. Trump celebrated his winning streak at a rally in nevada. If you listen to the pundits, we werent expected to win too much and now were winning, winning, winning the country. [ applause ] and soon, the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. We won the evangelicals. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. There it is. Funny sound bite, but his point is taken. He won almost every category last night. He did. Highly educated, latino, incredible what hes doing now. Interesting given the comments hes made in the past given immigrants and, specifically, mexicans. Super tuesday now six days away. Thats next tuesday on march the 1st. He just keeps rolling through. Marco rubio, ted cruz or john kasich has to do something quickly to stop the train. Other than kidnapping, i dont see it. Itll be tough. You know what, tuesday nights at my house, ive been observed with lasagna night . Well, taco tuesday. Ive been obsessed with this fx series the people versus o. J. Unbelievable. Ratings. 12 million. The thing is, Everybody Knows how it turns out, but its interesting to go back in time. Those of us who kind of lived through that and were fascinated by the trial then. To sort of rewatch and see all the evidence and everything come together during the trial. The series, of course, features all the main players in real life. Cuba gooding jr. Plays o. J. Simpson. David schwimmer is his friend and lawyer, robert kardashian. Kim, and the other kids are featured. You also have john travolta. The series has a lot of people talking. Some brought up the fact you see somewhat, maybe more prominently than a lot of people were expecting, especially the children in there. Khloe apparently setting the record straight on some of the take a look. Oh, my god. Its daddy. Daddy daddy thats daddy. Can you please spell that . Kardasianhian. Not all the facts were ak accurate accurate. Theyre sensationalizing the kardashian name in it. There was a scene of the kids chanting, kardashian when my dad was reading the potential suicide note. I called kim. I was like, did that happen . I dont remember any of this happening. She goes, absolutely not, did that happen. I mean, it would have been weird if that did happen. Youre getting a little bit of the hollywood sort of version of it. Its not a documentary, right . No, its not. I mean, its American Crime they built it as, you know, the making of. But its fascinating to watch. It is sort of like watching a dateline, but youre getting a little more of the hollywood, fictionalized version, as well. Without keith morrison. Or did he . Yes, no, it is. Really good. You have to start watching it. Check it out. Go back and rewatch. If you havent been watching, i encourage you to watch. House of cards season three, its behind that. I have a lot to binge watch. Have you intervened when it comes to having your kids, having their friends over, maybe theyre misbehaving a little bit . How do you talk to a strangers child . Do you have any problem disciplining . No. I dont either. Theres a nice way of doing it. Especially if the child is in danger. Right, exactly. Risky. In a situation where a young boy was apparently poking at his little sister while his mom went into the cafe to get a cup of coffee. Poking to the point where he was sister. The boy the woman saw this all playing out and she was like, i have to i cant let this kid hurt his sister. So she stopped it and said, you know, i wouldnt do that. You could hurt your little sister. She said though, like a couple of the other ladies next to her were like, im glad you did something about it. They didnt know what to do. One lady said, theyre not your kids. You shouldnt be i dont know the argument against stepping in that. Somebody is hurting another child, you stop it, regardless. There are situations sometimes i did have a parent or somebody on a plane once say to me, my kid was being wellbehaved, but the woman said, are you going to tell your child to be quiet or should i . I was like, hes just talking. Then i take issue with that. If somebody is telling me to parent my child when im sitting theyre doing anything terribly wrong. I think if its in your house, its your rules and you have no problem telling your kid what to do. In that case if the parent isnt there and the kid is about to hurt another one. Absolutely. The mom stepped away from her children. Thats sort of youre negligent leaving your children out there. Things happen. Lets not judge. If you like the Facebook Like button, youll love this. Theyve added new reaction buttons. In addition to liking a post, youre now able to show love, ha ha, wow, sad add the sound effects . Angry. Thats right. Like inside out. Buttons will roll out to all users over the next few days. Facebook also launching birthday video cam. Feature lets you record 15 seconds of videos for your friends. All that stuff is out. I love theyre animated. The happy one is really happy. You put your finger on them they make that sound . Yeah. Speaking of facebook, we want to check our facebook button. Day 21 of our 25 days of give aways. Weve got a great one today. A facebook surface, Microsoft Surface pro 3, worth almost 500. You want to register to win, go to facebook. Com todays take. Like us. Yesterday, we said we wanted to get 300,000 or more. Lets see where we are. Booyah 300,000. Please go to facebook. 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Youre always shocked on this show. It should be how to get away with shock, you know . Pete really pushes the buttons on this, which i said, thats why i signed up. I dont want to be just warm and fuzz ly and likable. I want to push the button. Some times, im like, hold up, hold up, pete. You also never know whats around the next corner. I imagine this is one of the shows where you get the script and look to make sure youre still around at the end of it. Seriously. You get a script a day in advance. When youre number one on the call sheet, you get less than that. Wow. Something in there makiouses you uncomfortable, guess what . You have to dive in there. Especially some of the sexual scenes, you know. Oh. Is that kind of fun, that part of it . No, its not, you know. Another day at the office. And that emmy win of yours, not just the win but the speech, was really an amazing moment. Weve got a clip of it. Take a look. Let me tell you something. The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. [ applause ] you cannot win an emmy for roles that are simply not there. Which was really what echoes the oscars this year. I mean, the call for more diversity debe hindbehind and in front of the camera. One of the things that people misunderstand is you have to separate opportunity from talent. People feel like if the roles arent there, that means there is no talent out there. Thats not true. Whats true is that if you create those narratives, then people who are waiting in line. Listen, i always say that meryl streep would not be meryl streep without sophies choice, without devil wears prada. You cant be A Meryl Streep if youre the third girl from the left in a narrative with two scenes. You write it, and we will come. Well show up. Was that a message to the studios . Who needs to do better in hollywood right now . Thats it, the people in positions of power. People who have the green light vote. People who can say nay or nay. Thats it. Theyre out there. They have the imagination. The thing that stops us a lot of times is fear. Fear of doing anything different. But i have to tell you, i think that when you put talent out there and narratives that are dynamic, people lean in. They want to see it. They want to be moved. They want to feel less alone. Thats why im an actor. Viola, this is a conversation weve had two years in a row now. Next year, according to some articles ive been reading, that doesnt look like a lot of the roles out there will have much more diversity, or the scripts out there now. Do you think hollywood is conscious of that and are they really trying to change . I dont know about that. But i do know this, i do know that especially women out there, ill just say that theyre not comfortable with just sitting back anymore. They want to play a more active role. I know taraji p. Henson, kerry washington, halle berry, theyre walking and stepping into their power as producers. Theyre putting the narratives out there they want to do. That they want to see other women of color in. My whole thing is, step up to the plate. When you are in the position of power, do something with it. You have that one dash, that moment in time, just put it out there. Listen, its like my husband true. Speaking of your husband, well talk about him. You just renewed your vows coming up and you have a passion project. We have more with viola davis right when we come back, after this. Fruit. Nuts. Silky smooth dark chocolate. Revel in the pleasure of new dove fruit and nut. We stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Tylenol 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol. 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Im hot. You know. But with it reminds me of i think that thats worth it. And the mango juice and tequila, which i recommend, that was at our ceremony. I want some of that. Your other passion is the vaseline Healing Project. Tell us how you got involved with that and why it matters. Well, i got involved in it because it was just presented to me, like many things are presented to me lately. Its the vaseline Healing Project has partnered with direct relief, which is an International Medical aid corporation. What they do, what they have done, is they have contributed 500 million to put together medical supply kits, medical care and helping people in syria, even the u. S. , flooding areas and with people who are suffering from poverty. The whole idea is 84 of Health Care Workers in areas of crisis and disasters say the Biggest Issue is skin infections. If they just had petroleum jelly, how much that would help. People going back to work or going to school. 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From the airplane to the automobile now. Volvo wants to replace car keys with smartphones. According to the auto maker, bluetooth enabled smartphones can become digital keys, actual key. It could start the car and also unlock the doors and trunk. A limited number of cars will be equipped with the technology in 2017. Doing well after being delivered by a caesarean section. At a zoo in england, the gorilla was born early, weighing in at 2 pounds, 10 ounces. Doctors performed a caction after her mother showed signs of the potentially dangerous condition preclampsia. Doctors are cautiously optimistic for mother and baby. So tiny. So cute. Al, take over with the weather. Thank you very much. I like the handoff. For today, we have a slight risk, strong risk along the tornadoes. Were watching that down to florida. Back to the west, windy conditions, snowy conditions, some places, blizzard watches. West, gorgeous. 69 in san francisco. For tomorrow, were looking for 62 and sunshine in seattle. Again, here in the northeast, rainy, windy that is your latest weather. Thank you, al. Did you know that tax season, also the busiest time of year for the debt collectors . The collectors are federally mandated to uphold certain standards. Complaints are piling up. What a surprise. Today National Investigative correspondent snef rossjeff rossen did some digging and has tips on receiving end of the aggressive calls. You dont pay your bills, theyre allowed to come after you and try to get you to pay the bills. Thats fine. The law is clear about what debt collectors can and cannot do. The law is incredibly clear. Today, i brought you guys three reallife examples of phone calls. To play them out, well play the calls. Youll hear them and well give you tips about what they can and cannot do. Okay. Cue the phone ring. I think thats for you, al. Hello. I want to play the first call. This is a recording that experts say you dont even make a payment or even get this debt taken care of. Wow. Theyre threatening if you dont make the payment its a threatening call. Heres the tip, debt collectors cannot harass you or threaten you. Even if a debt collector calls you, they are not allowed to threaten you. If they do, tell them to stop. Get their name. Get their company. You can report them later. Whats the line of harassment . What constitutes harassment . Thats the problem with it. You know. Experts say that would be a threatening call. Okay. The next call i want to play for you talks about police activity. The phone is ringing again, natalie. Its for you. About threatening police action. We need to get some type of payment in right now. As soon as we can get it. Or else i will have to send local authorities to your address to see about locking you up. Can i just hang up the phone . You shouldnt hang up the phone. That debt collector is going to call again. Theyve gone over the line. They are not allowed to say youre going to be arrested if you dont pay your debts. They cant threaten legal action unless they actually intend to sue you. I brought one more call. This one could be embarrassing. Al gets these all the times, theyre at work. They call the nbc switchboard, like this. She either comes to the phone or shell have someone bring her were trying to do it by the phone. Shes in a classroom now and i cant really . How would the principal feel if somebody from the parish came out there and pulled her up because shes under investigation for committing fraud, in front of the students. Wow. Threatening and nasty. And illegal. The person who got the call is a teacher at a school. Obviously, theyre telling the secretary, the person at the front office, were going to pull her out of class. They cannot call you at work if your employer forbids it. If your employer doesnt allow calls, send the debt collector a certified letter informing them of that. Tell them on the phone, you are not allowed to call me at work. What happens . You get the aggressive calls. What do you do . Number one, ask for written notice about your debt. Send me a letter in the mail. Let tell me exactly what i owe. I want the exact details about that. Number two, you want to send them a certified letter saying, im being harassed, threatened and i want it to stop. Or threatened, report it to the federal trade commission. Great advice. All on the website. And Jeffs Facebook page. Up next, theyve written songs for the biggest names in country music. Now the boys of locash have a megahit song of their own. We brought you here today to get your honest opinion about this new car. To keep things unbiased, we removed all the logos. Feels like a bmw. Reminds me a little bit of like an audi. So, this car supports apple carplay. She gets me. Wow. It also has teen driver technology. It even mutes the radio until the seat belts are buckled. Im very curious what it is. This is the 2016 chevy malibu. And it sells for . It starts at twentytwo five. 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I love a small town world jury trial i love a country girl reporter chris and prestons journey started more than ten years ago when they met in nashville and performed under the name locash cowboys. Lets go reporter it wasnt until 2013 they released their first fulllength album. During that time, the boys also cowrote charttopping hits for other country artists. You could be a blackbird reporter including keith urbans youre gonna fly. Their name and released a new ep last year. Their single i love this life continues to climb the charts, hitting the top five for billboards hot country songs. And making Rolling Stone best country songs of 2015. With all their recent success, the boys of locash really are loving this life. As they rock the nation on tour. Preston and chris are with us good to see you. Good morning. Thanks for having us. Well continue our discussion of nashville social life after you perform. Off. The social life. Not so much the its a vibrant scene. People who followed you a long time, you were locash cowboys and dropped cowboys. What was the decision . We didnt make the decision. I wish we had a better story. Preston is a graffiti artist. We wanted to do something with an 80s vibe. He drew it on a napkin and i said, its amazing. He was like, it didnt say cowboys. He said, i love it like that. When we turned it in, the label was like, this is a great idea. Well change the change. After 11 years, it worked. You havent changed who you are. What i love is hearing your story, youve written songs for tim mcgraw, some of the great country stars. What makes you decide when the song is yours though . I think when tim mcgraw calls, you pick up the phone. When he says he wants to record the song, you say, okay. Its a big deal. And keith urban. I mean, we couldnt have been more blessed with such class acts to record our songs. Kind of give us a lot of nashville. Its a song town. 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Youve met the locash guys. Now its time for the duo to show us what theyve got. Love this life, locash. I love my boots broke in, i love my camo hat dont mind a little paint on my jeans, yeah, i roll like that i love driving my truck across the Railroad Tracks if you hit them too quick, theyll hit you right back i love a fresh cut field with a first frost on how it shines like gold when the sun turns on i love the sound of them wheels, my baby singing along when the boys of summer comes on i love my small town world i love a country girl i love a friday night man i love this life rolling through my mind man, i love, man, i love, man, i love this life i love that county line bar where they all know my drink the way she throws her hands up when that cover band plays i love the taste of her lips when shes been sipping that wine i still get drunk on her every time i love my small town world i love a country girl i love a friday night man i love this life the sound of an old dirt road rolling through my mind man, i love, man, i love, man, i love this life man, i love this life ohoooh man, i love this life yeah, i love this life man, i love this life i love that ragged old barn that my grandpa made it was my whole world back in my innocent days i love that little white church, out on 109 its where i hit my knees and i thank the lord for this life of mine i love my small town world i love a country girl i love a friday night man, i love this life the sound of an old dirt road rolling through my mind man, i love, man, i love, man, oh of h ofoooh man, i love this life ohoooh man, i love this life ohoooh man, i love this life ohoooh man, i love this life [ applause ] awesome they are locash, guys. Thanks so much. Amazing performance. Thank you. This is today on nbc. Hello, ladies. Hi. Nice guys, too. We have one of the most talented people on the planet with us today. Who . Wayne brady. He does it all. Yes. We also are going to do who knew . Were also talking about luxe for less. And we have the guy from younger, has all the ladies drooling. Nico. There are pictures of him downstairs that youll enjoy. Its all im going to say. Where did you find them . They were down in the studio. I said, who was that . Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hello, everybody. Welcome to winesday wednesday. Were so happy youre here. Its february 24th. That is bad man by pit bull featuring robin thicke. You cant beat that. Oh, yeah you can. Wayne brady was singing. Wayne brady is our triple threat. Hes a guy who does everything. And is fearless. Completely fearless. 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