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Day three of their siege in oregon vowing to stay put until their needs are met. Were here to defend the people. End to the standoff. Boiling point. Saudi arabia severs ties with iran, giving its diplomats just hours to leave the country as tensions rise over the saudis execution of an iranian cleric. And deepwater discovery, the first images of the cargo ship that sank after the captain sailed it right into a category 4 hurricane it was built to survive. No sign of the 33 crew on board or the black box that could solve the months old mystery today,mond monday, january 4th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning. Weve advanced a year, and, i mean that literally. Happy birthday belatedly. Thank you, to you as well. Yeah. Do you believe it . Were so much older. Did you celebrate . I did. Thats why im on a tensecond delay. My new years is extending to monday, january 4th. Well catch up in a while. Well start with our top story. New fireworks in the president ial race to begin the new year, including Donald Trumps very First Television ad. We have it all covered beginning with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Reporter matt, happy new year to you. Year with what is in effect his campaigns closing argument. This long awaited first tv ad is provocative, a lot like his candidacy, focusing on illegal immigration and the threat from face of his critics. This message. Reporter overnight donald trump released his first tv ad of the campaign, a move hes hinted at for months. Airing in iowa and New Hampshire, the ad reinforces his stance on isis and immigration. Thats why hes calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Hell quickly cut the head off of isis and take their oil. Reporter the new ad comes on the heels of a new recruitment video from al qaeda affiliate al shabab in africa, highlighting trumps proposed muslim ban, they use other people. What am i going to do . Say. Isis video. Fornicators. Reporter that attacks former president bill clinton for his past sexual transgressions. I think its an isis, and degenerate. Reporter frontrunner now targeting both clintons. With obama. President gets set to hit the trail today on his wifes behalf tweeting the worst thing hillary could do is have her Husband Campaign for her, just watch, and hammering bill clinton for his alleged misconduct. It hasnt been a very pretty because im the only one thats willing to talk about his problems. I mean what he did and what he has gone through i think is, frankly, terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card. Reporter clinton is even hearing about it on the road. In New Hampshire she dismissed a republican state lawmaker who heckled her about her husbands alleged extramarital affairs. You are very rude, and im not going to ever call on you. Reporter across the board the candidates are now in the final sprint. Listen to this. This week alone theyre going to hold 44 events in iowa. In fact, the majority of them have about 28 from the freshman senator ted cruz. Shows you just how important the caucuses are to his candidacy, and there in New Hampshire 58 events overall, all in the first week of what is certain to be a historymaking year. Matt, savannah, back to you. All right. Peter alexander. Peter, thank you very much. What can we expect to hear from former president bill clinton as he hits the campaign trail for his wife . Nbcs Kristen Welker is in New Hampshire with that side of the story this morning. Kristen, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Former president bill clinton will try to seal the deal when will try to seal the deal when he campaigns here in New Hampshire. Campaign aides tell me expect him to be a frequent presence on the trail. Of course, this first stop does come amidst a barrage of criticism from donald trump as peter just talked about. Clinton Campaign Officials really brushing that aside. They say, look, hes one of the most popular politicians in the country. They believe the benefits far outweigh the costs. In terms of strategy, they tell me dont expect secretary Hillary Clinton to engage in some type of verbal tit for tat with donald trump over the issue. Of course, its the last thing about. Instead youll see her do what she has been doing consistently, which is to criticize donald trump over his controversial comments, including his call to ban all muslims from entering from a political perspective, New Hampshire is really anyones clinton and Bernie Sanders locked in a close race. Her to lock up the nomination early, but for Bernie Sanders this is really do or die. Polls show he has a lead here. Hes from neighboring vermont, but, of course, Hillary Clinton has a close relationship with New Hampshire as well. She won here in 2008. By the way, she could explain a loss in New Hampshire, but a loss in iowa would be devastating, and that is where she will be campaigning later today. Savannah. All right, Kristen Welker, thanks. Lets bring in chuck todd, nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press, and nicolle wallace, msnbc analyst and former White House Communications director under former president george w. Bush. Good morning, happy new year. Happy new year. Were going to meet here often over the next month or so. Theres an election this way, have you heard that. People are going to start covering it. Lets talk about Donald Trumps First Campaign ad of this president ial election. It pushes all the buttons. You hear him push as a campaign stop. These are his applause lines. Right. Anything surprise you about it . No. Thats necessary. The thing with Donald Trumps candidacy is that it is blaring out of every speaker you come across, so im not sure what a paid ad gets you that his campaign isnt already achieving. They saturate the airwaves. Everyone has heard these messages either from donald trump himself or in the coverage of it. Money. Spending the money on is organization, organization, thats what im trying to figure out. You know, his folks are not frequent voters. They show up in general elections, but theyre not frequent primary voters. He needs to be coming up with ways to make sure these folks come, particularly in those caucuses but also as well as New Hampshire. This doesnt feel like a get out the vote message. Lets talk about Hillary Clinton. Shes deploying bill clinton who, of course, democrats consider to be one of their best surrogates, a great campaigner. Meanwhile, donald trump is pulling up all this stuff from the past. The clinton side wants to blow it off, nothing to see here, but hes putting things back out into the ether that we havent really heard about in ten years. Smart politics for trump . Last week, if youre a normal person you were not watching every into this campaign, congratulations, i was not among last week donald trump had some voices from the Mainstream Media really say that these were legitimate attacks, both on the race questions for 2008, some of bill clintons rather questionable moves against then senator obama, and then on the fidelity question. So i dont think that its surprising that donald trump is going after the clintons. I think the clintons can look to jeb bush and others to say the perils of ignoring an attack from donald trump. Look, i think its smart on trump because theres been all this speculation, isnt he really actually secretly wanting to help the clintons. Now, number one, hes not trying to help the clintons. Hes attacking them. Two, it gives this idea of inevitability. Hey, im already looking to the general election, i dont need to be dealing with the whole primary mess. I think it will be interesting to see if the clintons take the bait. I hear you. You dont want to ignore it, but if you get into the mud then the story keeps going. And look whats happening. Weve done an entire interview only talking about donald trump and Hillary Clinton. So its wildcard football weekend coming up. Each give me your wild card. Who should we be looking at . Its possible the true frontrunners lose one or both of the first two votes. I think rubio and christies camps feel very strongly they are peaking at exactly the right time, rubio making a speech this morning in national security. They feel like that gives them an edge and christie making some stealth moves in iowa. The one thing that could happen thats not out of the realm, ted cruz could win iowa and New Hampshire. Why . So many people trying to make New Hampshire make or break. They will split up the moderate vote, and nobody is competing for cruzs vote in New Hampshire. Trump may ask himself why he ads as opposed to what we see right now. K nicolle, thank you. Thank you, guys. President obama will meet with attorney general loretta they will discuss options on the steps he could take to help the president expected to use executive action to strengthen background checks for those who want to buy firearms at gun republicans strongly oppose any moves the president may make, and legal fights seem likely. Actions an assault on the second amendment. In other news, a tense this morning. Armed protesters are occupying refuge. Nbcs joe fryer is near the scene of the standoff which is now entering its third day. Joe, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Authorities are urging the public to stay away from this refuge. There is no visible Police Presence here, but the fbi says it wants a peaceful resolution. Protesters here want local control of this federal land and say if necessary, theyre prepared to stay here for years. National wildlife refuge has been turned into a compound for an armed occupation. Inside, they are making soup and stocking up. We are setting ourselves up to help the citizens here in Harney County to reclaim their reporter throughout this remote community, theres growing frustration over the occupation. The county canceled school all week out of a concern for safety. I dont like the militias message. Its sort of frightening when theres people making threats and people touting guns. Reporter over the weekend activists took over the refuge which was empty at the time. Its unclear how many are here. In a statement the sheriff says the group wants to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a Movement Across the United States. Protesters say they wont get violent unless the government does. We are here to defend the people, and we will not take aggression. Reporter ammon bundy is the groups leader. Hes the son of cliven bundy, the nevada rancher who in 2014 had his own standoff with the government over grazing rights. This latest protest centers around oregon ranchers Dwight Hammond jr. And his son stephen. Both are supposed to report to prison today, convicted of lighting firings on public land near their ranch. The hammonds already served time, but a judge ruled it wasnt enough. Seems like a bit of an overkill. Reporter dozens rallied peacefully saturday in support of the ranchers. Thats when a small group splintered off, driving to the refuge and taking it over with no plans to leave any time soon. The attorney for the hammonds have said they do plan to report to prison today. In the past that attorney has said that this group thats here right now does not speak on behalf of the hammonds. Matt and savannah. All right. Joe fryer, thank you. Now to a diplomatic crisis overseas. Its being closely watched by the obama administration. Saudi arabia severing ties with iran amid escalating tension over the saudis execution of a prominent cleric. Nbcs chief global correspondent bill neely has more on this. Bill, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. This is a war of words, and it is dangerous. Saudi arabia now expelling irans diplomats, the two nations trading warnings and insults. Of course, they both claim to lead the muslim world across which there are being riots and protests over an extraordinary execution. Tensions are growing with mass demonstrations above all in iran at the killing of a shia cleric by its main sunni rival, saudi arabia. Protests from india where bahrain, where shia crowds called for the death of the a protest reported on iranian tv. We pray to god that things are calmed down. Reporter the diplomatic spat is growing too. Saudi diplomats have left iran after crowds burned the saudi embassy. Their spokesman giving iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave saudi. The cleric killed was buried quietly, but the execution of 47 men has echoed around the muslim internationally known shia scholar, harshly critical of the saudi regime who was harshly executed for its shia minority. Irans Supreme Court leader warned saudi arabia would face divine revenge for a crime. The execution has inflamed tensions. The two countries war of words now worse than ever. And the u. S. Is now very concerned, not just at diplomatic ties have been cuts, but effect that a could have on the war in syria and planned peace talks. Iran and saudi arabia, of course, back different sides in that war. Theres no sign this will boil over into conflict between the two, not yet anyway, but, matt and savannah, this is serious. Bill neely in london on this story. Bill, thank you very much. This morning were getting the illfated cargo ship el faro that sank after sailing into the path of a category 4 hurricane this morning. Nat is following this story. Good morning. Good morning. Its being called the worst u. S. Maritime disaster in 35 years. 33 people died when this ship went down. Now the ntsb is releasing an underwater look at whats been found so far. New overnight, the first underwater images of the wreckage of el faro, the container ship that was carrying 33 crew members when it sank near the bahamas during a powerful hurricane last october. The eerie images show the stern of el faro, the navigation bridge which detached from the main vessel and a badly damaged deck sitting 15,000 feet below sea level. On october 1st the el faro was sailing from jacksonville, florida, to puerto rico when it lost engine power and got caught in the category 4 storm. Investigators have yet to discover the 35foot mast where the ships data recorder was located. That socalled black box could contain clues about the last minutes of the doomed voyage which remain a mystery. Were looking, of course, for the bridge and the voyage data recorder, and we got up to that level to see just openness was extremely moving and difficult. It was a very big surprise to us to see that. Also missing were any remains all 33 people on board are presumed dead, but none of their been found. The ntsb is considering launching a second investigation to locate additional wreckage and uncover more clues as to what happened. I think it was a series of unfortunate events, and without any other information i truly blame it on hurricane joaquin. The ntsb doesnt know if and when a second search for the wreckage could occur, but either way it could take as long as a year before more details about the accident are uncovered, guys. All right, natalie. Thank you. Let us start the new year with a little powerball fever. Its heating up now that the jackpot has reached a whopping 400 million. That, by the way, the sixth no one matched all six numbers on saturdays drawing. If you are wondering, mr. Roker, about your odds of winning, try 1 in 292 million. Wow. Feeling lucky . Yes, i am. After all, were all together. I know. Reunited. Happy new year. Good to see you guys. Lets take a look at some of the weather weve been seeing over in missouri. That flooding has been just horrible. The good news is were starting to see a little bit of a break. The weather has cooperated. But we still have to worry about folks downstream. Right now the river flood gauges have been. Over the weekend it was 400 and locations in major flooding. Memphis, tennessee, they are around friday at 40. 5. Stage. Well continue to watch this. Other big thing were watching, the cold air. It was back to normal. Winter is here. Right now it feels like 2 below in buffalo. 21 in new york city, boston 18, washington feels like 26. Today the temperatures will feel anywhere from 13 below to 14 above, 10 to 40 degrees below average. And after a record december, it feels even worse. But look at this. Heres the good news. This is short p lived. By wednesday were above average from chicago, buffalo, washington, new york city and portland. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Well give it a 6 for composition. Scary. Wow, what about just putting a fair, no haggle price on the window . Not zany enough . Sometimes the best deals and thats your latest weather. All right, al. Thanks so much. Coming up, the push to extradite the socalled affluenza teen from mexico. Plus, well hear for the first time from the family of one of the victims he killed in a drunk driving crash. And then on a new rossen reports, the crash test you need to see before you take your pet just ahead, she has had a note. One little girls attempt to get break. I tried that. And Jennifer Lopez opens up about her new the cold truth is, if a cold keeps you up at night. You cant work from home the next day. [ coughing ] thats why you need alka seltzer plus day night liquid gels. Its tough cold symptom fighters provide powerful relief. Relief that helps you sleep at night and gets you back out there during the day. [ deep breath ] [ truck horn ] alkaseltzer plus day night liquid gels. Also available, in stores alkaseltzer plus night come on duck puppy barks you can do it duck. Hurry up duck you can do it duck. Iams. Helps keep your dog healthy at every stage. 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Were looking at high clouds through the day and will get a little more son later in the day. Snow moves into extreme Southwestern Colorado with an inch or two by the early part of the day. Temperatures in the 40s around here over the northeastern planes, and i have your complete planning forecast. We will have snow moving into its 7 30. Its monday morning. Its the 4th of january, 2016. Back to work for a lot of people. A lot of folks out on our plaza extending the holidays a little longer. The tree, by the way, out there. Thursday. I still want to see it come down before thursday. Thats when it goes down. Amazing how quickly we become scrooge right after the holidays. Havent watered it in days. Back inside studio 1a, a look at stories making news right now. Overnight donald trump released his first tv ad of the campaign. Hes calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Taking aim at the democratic frontrunner. Hillary clinton created isis with obama. Just as the former president gets set to hit the trail today on his wifes behalf. President obama taking aim at gun control. Tens of thousands of our fellow americans have been mowed down by gun violence, tens of thousands. He plans to bypass congress to do it. I directed my team at the white house to look into any new actions i can take to help antigovernment activists are occupying a Federal Office Building in a wildlife refuge. They are protesting the prison sentences of two local ranchers. Its sort of frightening when theres people making threats and people touting guns. We are here to defend the people, and we will not take days of flood left a mess behind. People have been able to get into their homes to save what what they have lost. Come on in. Whoo. This is the worst. This is about as bad as it gets. The Powerball Jackpot has exploded to over 400 million. The next drawing is wednesday night. So lots going on on a monday morning. We turn now to the latest on the case of the socalled affluenza teen. Weve been covering this for several years now. While ethan couchs deportation from mexico is on hold, for the first time the family of one of the four people he killed while driving drunk is now speaking out. That. Gabe, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. While ethan couch remains in detention in mexico, his mother tonya is in custody here in l. A. Awaiting extradition back to texas. And as this drama plays out, the family of ethan couchs victims call justice. This morning two and a half years after a drunk ethan couch killed youth pastor Brian Jennings and three others in a horrific crash jennings devastated family is speaking i dont understand all this. Reporter in their First Television interview, jennings mother and sister Kristi Mccarty say watching the socalled affluenza teen trying to evade the law again is painful. You find out he flees to mexico with his mom and its just devastating really. You keep waiting and waiting and thinking that some day this person is going to feel something, and you still dont see it. Reporter this morning ethan couch is waking up in this detention facility in mexico city, his surroundings anything but affluent. A mexican immigration official tells nbc news that couch lives in a sparse room, sleeps on a bunk bed, and likely has three or four roommates. During certain hours he can watch tv in a common room and has access to a patio where we can play basketball or soccer. Couch is still in mexico because his highpowered attorney to block deportation, and the two will meet to discuss his next steps. Benitez telling nbc news my job is to oversee that his ultimate delivery to the u. S. Authorities is done by the letter of the law hand in accordance with my clients wishes. Couchs mother tonya did not fight deportation. Her lawyer says she did not violate any texas laws but she is being held on 1 million bail, charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon. Another one of pastor jennings sisters amy peete says the couch family needs to be held accountable. Im angry that ethan still doesnt get why his actions are wrong and has no remorse, and im also angry that his mother keeps enabling him and that she continues to set no boundaries with him. Reporter tonya couch is expected to appear in court here in l. A. Tomorrow and could be back in texas by midweek. Guys, as for ethan couch, his case could drag on in mexico for weeks or even months. Gabe gutierrez. Gabe, thanks very much. We turn to al now. What should we expect from this whether . Talking about el nino and how its been affecting the Pacific Northwest and sierra. Its finally starting to make its way into Southern California as well bringing much needed rain. Weve got a couple of storms backed up. Storm number one is bringing rain from san diego all the way to eureka, california. Storm number two, this is the one that were really watching tuesday in wednesday, its going to be a potent one, so were going to be looking at maybe an inch of rain today for much of california. More mountain snows for the sierra and rockies, but this second one, the highest peaks could see two feet or more, but also the threat of flooding, debris floes and burn areas and looking at some places 2 to 3 to maybe 5 inches of rain in Southern California, upwards for the valleys in the foothills, urban roadway flooding possible. But the good news is more snow pack for the sierra. They need that, and they are going to continue to get it. We do have watches for the l. A. County mountains and winter sierra. Get your latest Weather Channel on cable and weather. Com online. Matt . Thank you very much, al. 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Hopped in a car and brought them along. No straps, no harness. Its cute after all. The dog is climbing around and whizzing by their face but it turns out its dangerous. People are now getting into accidents so companies are making products to keep your pets safe, making big promises. You can find them at almost every pet store, but experts say many of the products dont work, putting your pet in danger, so how is this allowed . This morning the crash test you need to see. Reporter this doggy dummy is strapped in with a popular harness sold in pet stores today. Its supposed to keep him secure in a crash. So why is he going flying . Same with this harness and this crate. The dog smashing right through, all failing miserably. The harnesses paid for people like lauren lynn out for a drive with her dog buddy. He isnt strapped in, jumping all over here and distracting him all over the road. I dont see a problem with him getting wind in his ears and fur. Reporter but experts say its dangerous. Dashcam video showing dogs flying out of cars. Nearly hit by oncoming traffic. The dog is okay. This dog even falling out of a window and amazingly survives, but its not just dogs in danger its you too. In the event of a crash, a pet can be a projectile. They can hurt everyone, including themselves, so keep your pet restrained on every trip. So you come to the pet store to buy a harness, buy a carrier to keep your pet safe, some of the Companies Making bold promises on the packaging. Check out this official looking seal, crash tested. Others say certified certified safety and locks into place, but experts say many of them are deceptive. They dont work in a crash, and believe it or not, pet products like this are not regulated by anyone, not even the federal government. Firing. Reporter so the Watchdog Group center for pet safety decided to check them out with official crash testing, and what they found was alarming. All this damage at just 30 miles per hour. So this is our pet product graveyard, and many of these products did not do well in testing, and most of them reporter these are products on the market right now. These are products on the market right now, and the manufacturers are still making those claims. Reporter in fact, 25 of 29 products tested failed. Harnesses snapping right off. Dogs center airborne, and watch this doggy dummy breaking through the crate, shattering it to pieces. That could be your pet. Pet products are not defined as Consumer Products by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, so they bypass any kind of oversight and regulation. Thats really scary. Reporter the Consumer Product Safety Commission telling nbc news based on our mandate from congress, cpsc does not have jurisdictions over these products. The American Pet Products association declined our request for an interview, adding they cant comment on the testing, but they back car safety restraints. Pet owners should be screaming about this. If you get into an accident and one of these products fails, it puts you, your family members, and other drivers on the road at risk. Its hard to watch some of that. When we reached out to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, they told us to check with the national highway Traffic Safety administration, so we did that. They told us to check back with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, so a bit of washington fingerpointing going on here. The good news, while the majority of products did not hold up a few of them did and we have a list of the products that passed the pet centers crash test on my Facebook Page right now, facebook. Com rosin senreport. You should really check it out. All right. A lot of people at home with things they shouldnt be putting their dogs and cats in. People driving around with the pickup drug with the dog in the back. Thats tied down. Anything not tied down in a slow speed accident will go flying. 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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg always seems to come up with ambitious new years resolution. Cars op, what do you think of this one . Happy new year, guys. Good to see you. This one is interesting. Zuckerbergs past resolutions have been interesting, too, ranging from everything learning mandarin to meeting a new person every day to only eating meat from animals that hes hunted. Well, heres what hes going with this year, shared it on his Facebook Page. Lets bring it forward and youll see it. My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple ai to run my home and help me with my work. I guess like jarvis in iron man. This ai will control music, light and temperatures in the house. Will let friends in the door using a facial Recognition Program and monitor his new daughter maxs room, those sorts of thifnlgs the resolution received a lot of attention but one of zuckerbergs responses in the Comment Section starting with darlene writing in i keep telling my grand doubters to date the nerd in school. He may turn out to be Mark Zuckerberg. Mark writes back this. Even better would be to encourage them to be the nerd in their school so they be the next successful inventor. Hey, carson. Hey, im 58. Could you explain what ai is. Artificial intelligence. Thank you very much. Should have mentioned that. Whole move beit. I know. I think a lot of people might not know. I should have said that, apologize, artificial intelligence, like jarvis in iron man that helped Robert Downey jr. Do a lot of things including making coffee. Is zuckerberg going to become iron man. This response by Mark Zuckerberg is so good, it brings tears to my eyes. As a father of a young doubt you are, yes. A nice inspiration as we kick off the new year. Zuckerberg makes me feel bad about my resolution like dont drink so much. Like learns mandarin, awesome. By the way, carson, my first day back, congratulations to you. Thank you, appreciate t. Welcome back. Just ahead, a candid new interview on family, friendship and fatherhood with Prince William and prince harry. And one of the biggest stars on the planet. Jennifer lopez sits down with natalie, but first your local news. Hey dad. Hey sweetie, how was your first week . Long. Itll get better. Im at the edward jones office, like sue suggested. Thanks for doing this, dad. So i thought it might be time to talk about a financial strategy. laughing you mean pay him back . Knowing your future is about more than just you. So lets Start Talking about your longterm goals. Multiplied by 13,000 financial advisors. And its how edward jones makes sense of investing. To the used car buyer taken for a ride. Dont worry. Taken on at carmax but just in case that absolutely 100 percent perfect choice. Turns out to be. Less than perfect. We give you five days to change your mind. Sorry. I sure had a lot on my mind when i got out of the hospital after a dvt blood clot. What about my family . My lil buddy . And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital but i wondered if this was the right treatment for me. Then my doctor told me about eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and and reduces the risk of them happening again. Pnot only does eliquis treat dvt but eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding v than the standard treatment. Knowing eliquis turned around my thinking. Pdont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. Peliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Pdont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. Pif you had a spinal injection while on eliquis pcall your doctor right away if you have tingling, numbness, or muscle weakness. Pwhile taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily. Pand it may take longer than usual for bleeding to stop. Pseek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. Peliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. Ptell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. V eliquis treats dvt pe blood clots. V plus had less major bleeding. Both made switching to eliquis right for me. Ask your doctor if its right for you. What about this guy . This guys. Been through a lot. Dogs bring out the good in us. Pedigree brings out the good in them. You are looking at video of victim to a series of smash and grab burglaries. There have been two in sheridan this morning and police are looking at whether they have a connection. Today people will be able to access their original birth certificates. This is especially important for those who are adopted so they can trace where they came from. They may be small, maybe a big goal but i doubt anyone is in for something as extravagant as mark sacra burke mark zuckerburg. I wish the driver is mild. The drive here is mild. My first day back i thought it would be easy. 225 and parker road are still troublesome. Starting to set out across parker road southbound as the crash near yosemite and dtc one n. And westbound at vasquez on i70, and now a brandnew crash at brighton making its way all the way up from the i25 exit. We thin clouds out during the day, start to bring rain and snow into extreme Southwestern Colorado, late tonight as far as snow amounts will be pretty modest. If you trace amounts mostly in the san juan mountains. 20s30s in the mountains, low40s in the Southwest Corner of the state. Will make 40s around here. Mid40s in denver, the clouds will thin out and you will get more sun today. Still warm, mid40s on wednesday and very light snow, we slide into the 30s. Its 8 00 on today. Coming up, the princes get personal. Will i am and harry speak candidly about the future, their family and fatherhood like never before. You get affected by some things that happen a lot more as a father, just because you yeah. It puts it all in perfective. And got a minute. Well show you 60second screenings you can do at home that can help you keep healthy all year long. And your screen is about to sizzle as we talk with the one and only Jennifer Lopez. Do you ever see yourself getting married again . Maybe. I love getting married. And the newly engaged eva longoria. Oh. Hey, guys. Today, monday, january 4th, 2016. Were here in new york city for the first time. Hi, mom spending the last day of winter break with the today show. Im celebrating my sweet 16 from oceanside, california. Thanks, mom, for the surprise trip. All the way from houston to see al were back now. This is the fourth day of january, 2016, and say hi to some people who just cant let the party end. Nice to have you guys. I love it. Nice brisk air. Starting to feel like winter. Like. Coming up, eva longoria is in the house. Well chat with her about her new show, and did we mention shes newly engaged. So much to talk to her. Thats great. Lets first go inside. Natalies check out the top stories of the morning. Natalie. Hey, guys, good morning once again. This morning donald trump has released the first tv ad of his campaign. It reinforces his call to temporarily bar muslims from entering the United States showing the suspects in the San Bernardino terror attacks. It vows to, quote, cut the head off isis and take their oil, and it repeats trumps proposal to build a wall along the u. S. Border with mexico. Hampshire. Former president bill clinton is making two solo appearances in New Hampshire today campaigning for his wife. Both are brushing aside personal and political attacks by drufrm. Hillary clinton is in a tight race in New Hampshire with Bernie Sanders who is leading in some polls. A win for clinton could help her lock up the nomination early. The public is being warned to stay away from a federal wildlife refuge in oregon where an occupation by armed protesters has entered its third day. They claim the federal government is abusing its power by unfairly prosecuting ranchers who refuse to sell their land. This morning i asked the groups leader ammon bundy if he renounsd violence. The only violence if it comes our way will be government is wanting their Building Back being and thats what it will be. Were putting nobody in harms way. We are we are not threatening anybody. Were 30 miles out of the closest town. Meanwhile, the schools in the county have been closed because of the armed occupation. Ammon bund set son of cliven bundy, the nevada rancher who back in 2014 had his own standoff with the government over grazing rights. Britains Prince William and harry speak openly about family tonight in the uk. The occasion is the 40th anniversary of a charity started by their father prince charles, and the brothers share the kind of personal insights that were not used to hearing. Do his duety. Speaking candidly in a new documentary, the men of britains royal family are opening up. A lot more im a lot more emotional than i used to be. Weirdly. Getting personal about their friendship and family with 33yearold william sharing his thoughts on fatherhood. I never used to really kind of sort of get to worry about things and right now the smallest Little Things i can more. The documentary celebrates 40 years of the princes trust, a charity founded by prince charles. The 90minute special focuses on the prince of wales and the work to help struggling young people succeed. But its his sons candor that is most striking. The advice that he can give us based on the contacts that hes made over the year, incredible. Yeah. Prince harry openly discussing his relationship with their father. You can you can actually ring him up and say im in a bit of a pickle or even better you can off load stuff. Yeah. William describing how 2yearold Prince George and 8monthold Princess Charlotte have changed him. You get affected by sort of things that happen around the world or whatever a lot more i think as a father, just because is. Right, yeah. Perspective. Some of the worlds most prominent men known for their privacy now speaking out about their relationship and hopes for the future. And prince harry also says that his father is driven by a sense of duty that was instilled in him at a very young age. Well, frustration came to a kicker Dan Carpenter after he flubbed an extra point for the sixth time this season. Carpenter slammed his helmet down, take a look what happens next and ricocheted off the tougher and hit him right in the face. Just like that hes an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons. The bills though still ended up beating the jets, sorry jets fans, 2217. I wore my green in sympathy. Well send it back over to matt. Knocked us out of the playoffs, too, natalie. Thank you very much. What if we told you that to stay healthy this year all you need is 60 seconds. Nbc news medical contributor dr. Natalie azar is here with Important Health screenings you can do at home, and they only take a minute. Doc, good morning. Happy new year. Hi, matt, happy new year. This seems to come from the journal too good to be true. This is called the crosslegged squat test and how do you perform it, first of all. Start off with ten points. Thats fantastic. Cross your legs and squat all the way, do it at home. Sit down on the floor and get back up. If you dont use your hand, you dont use your feet or dont wobble at all you keep your ten points. Any part of the body that touches down you lose a point. What is it telling me . How could doing a squat predict longevity. Well, according to researchers a couple years ago, it did so with alarming accuracy. The lower the number, the greater likelihood it is that youre going to die in the next six years so the take home from this is not so much that its basically look at them. They are not doing very well here. They are body surfing. Nothing about your longevity there but this is good. Course. Its not that easy. My 8yearold had trouble with it. Could it be a surrogate for Underlying Health and stamina, flexibility and all that. All right. Breath. You look at the tongue. Not only is it not fun to be around, it can be a signal of a serious medical issue. It can. Basically what you do with the test is scrape the tongue with a spoon and stick it in a plastic bag and stick it under a bright light for about a minute and then you smell it. The issue here, that odor why would anybody want to do this . The vast majority of cases will be related to gum disease and tonsils and things like that but a really ominous odor, fruity odor could be a sign of diabetes, ammonia a sign of kidney disease. You can try it at home. Moving right along. Okay. This is called the clock test and its really for dementia. This is actually really a validated test. Actually somebody performed it on my dad a couple years ago. Base chi what you do is have a patient and ask them to draw a clock. They need to do all the numbers in the correct order and get all twelve and show with the hands what time is 3 40. What does it mean if you have trouble doing this . Right. A lot of it is cognitive function such as memory, problem solving, something called executive function like planning so basically the ability to do all those four things gets you four points. Its a good Screening Test for early dementia. If you have someone that doesnt do well on this one, get them to a doctor. Yes and checked for dementia. This is for the eyes. Macular degeneration, one of the most common causes of visual loss. Over the age 50 look at a window frame, preferably like a french door or something with a lot of frames where you can see vertical and horizontal lines, cover one eye for 30 seconds and the other eye for 30 seconds, any distortions, bowing out, waving, moving parts could be a sign of early visual loss. Get that evaluated. Good idea. This is called the wobble test, but this has to do with the thyroid. This has to do with the thyroid. In this test youre basically holding your hands straight out and you place a people on it and you want to see whether or not you see any trembling or shaking. The paper on there actually helps to bring that out. Could be a sign of something called hypothyroidism where your thyroid is revved up. Anxiety, asthma medications, too much caffeine can also cause this, also something called benign essential tremor. Not specific or sensitive for this diagnosis but a lot of and finally Artery Health that will take 60 seconds as well. Something to screen for something called peripheral arterial disease, vascular disease in the legs. Lie superine, lie into the on a bed with your legs elevated 45 degrees on a cushion and keep them there for about a mincht and then you hang them over the edge of the bed. If your legs get very pale when elevated and take a long time to to get their color back, it could be a sign disease, risk factors, diabetes. Great information. One of the crew guys can help savannah and natalie get up. Back in the chairs. Good. Coming up next, the way that one little girl tried her best to extend her christmas vacation. Plus, a new weekend, a new record. The history made by star wars and Jennifer Lopez on the role thats bringing her back to tv and how kids changed her perspective on life. Of my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Ordinary objects often seemed. Intimidating. Doing something simple. Meant enduring a lot of pain. If ra is changing your view of everyday things orencia may help. Orencia works differently by targeting a source of ra early in the inflammation process. For many, orencia provides longterm relief of ra symptoms. Its helped new ra patients and those not helped enough by other treatments. Do not take orencia with another biologic medicine for ra due to an increased risk of serious infection. Serious side effects can occur including fatal infections. Cases of lymphoma and lung cancer have been reported. Tell your doctor if youre prone to or have any infection like an open sore, the flu, or a history of copd, a chronic lung disease. Orencia may worsen your copd. If youre not getting the relief you need. Ask your doctor about orencia. Orencia. See your ra in a different way. Mmmm mmmmm mmmm, mmm, mmm mmmm, mmm mmm, mmm mmmm, mmmm mmmm, yoplait trap door opening rootmetrics in the nations largest independent study tested wireless performance across the country. Verizon, won big with 153 state wins. At t got 38, sprint got 2, and tmobile got zero. Verizon also won first in the us and reliability. At t got. Text. Stuck on an average network . Join verizon and well cover your costs to switch. 8 13. Were back now with the First Official trending of the year. Exciting. Ruining new york city. If you are new to bagel scooping matt will demonstrate. You say youve been known to do this. You use your finger and get the bready part out. Less carb thing. Exactly. Scoop it out. You get less bread. Thats not the reason i do it. Why . Its a vessel for the cream cheese and the butter. Calories i think. You put more butter and cream cheese. Because its like completely to what a bagel should be. If you have a bagel be all in. The article says you might as well eat your pizza with a fork. I eat pizza with a fork. Order the flat stanley. A flagle. I like it the part i like is that part. I like the doughy inside. By the way, if you are pro is here with her diet cleanse of the new year. There you go. Next up the secret to getting on dads good side. A survey uncovered the top things that make dads grumpy. Some of the things that made the list. Being treated like an atm, bad manners, and always getting socks for presents. Coming in at number 2, traffic jams. Not just a dad thing. But the number one thing that gets dads grumpy, people in their houses who leave the lights on. Yes. By the way, this list could have been like 50 years ago or today. Doesnt matter. With the thermostat. Keep jacking the thermostat up. I walk through my house and every light in every room is on. You have a pool you might keep the heat on and that costs you. But we worry about the light in the bathroom. Can we come over . We dont care about. You pour all of that avion in the pool. What about the valet . You cannot be wasteful. These make croutons. There you go. Chicken feed. Toast them on the pool heater. Do that too. How many times have we heard beauty is only skin deep. Inside counts. That is true but not if you are try to get seated at a restaurant. A documentary in london tested the theory, female models hit up three restaurants, all seated, guess where, at the front. Prime seating. Unbelievable. Im shocked. Then, some what they call not so attractive men were september in nt in, in the back or not given tables at all. Not shocking at all. Especially in new york. That happens. Yes. The big thing is have the line outside to make it appear like its crowded at a restaurant or club. There could be few people inside. Its the beautiful cars out front too. Same thing. I think we can all agree that the first monday after the holiday break can be rough. Check out one little girl and what she did. Her name is cara. And in an adorable attempt to prolong her winter break cara gave her parents a letter she said she found in the mail box. It reads, the School Company is taking a brake so the kids will get one more week of school off and we will need your child to sign their name here. Official stamp . Absolutely. Aplus for creativity. This is caras report card. A, a. On to the latest Box Office Record for star wars and a crime show that has fans speaking out. Lets do it, first star wars, starting off with another Box Office Record. The force awakens raised 88. 3 million in the third million. Its domestic total 740. 3 million. It beat titanic. It is now the second highest grossing movie ever. Million. Star wars expected to overtake it in the next couple days. Have you seen it . I saw it this weekend. Great. Coming up next, watching this yet . I havent seen it. Talking about making a murderer. If you dont know about it the latest craze. Following the case of steven avery released after being exonerated only to be arrested and convicted of murder. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole and now fans have spoken. Tens of thousands signing online petitions in his favor. More than 156,000 signing a free steven avery petition. And more than 19,000 petitioning the white house for a president ial pardon. The white house i think 100,000 signatures by january 16, then the white house has to respond at least publicly. Thats going to be interesting. Ricky gervais, returning for his fourth awards show, and already apologizing in advance for his actions that he hasnt done saying because i can see the future id like to apologize now for the things i said at next weeks golden globes. I was drunk and didnt give live at 8 00 eastern, 5 00 pacific here on nbc. Good teaser. Were going to hear more on today. And savannah, natalie, willie and i on the red carpet hosting the preshow and have a wrap of the winners and the fashions and much more next monday morning. You love the fashions. Als got a check of the weather. I like your fashion, the thin corduroy. We have got some lakeeffect snow to talk about. Cold air coming in. Look at this, were going to be watching generally this these bands of snow showers coming across the great lakes from michigan all the way into western new york, basically about 4 to 6 inches of snow. But this is something we dont see a lot, ocean effect snow. Thats right. Especially right there in eastern new england. From boston, providence town, on into nantucket. We could be looking at about 2 too 4, some areas 6 inches of which is kind of cool to and thats your latest weather. Thank you. Jennifer lopez of course one of the busiest stars on the planet. Adding more to her schedule. Natalie recently caught up with her. She is joining the family, starring in shades of blue, a new police drama here on nbc. Its the latest endeavor for one of the most successful well known brands in entertainment. Jennifer lopez is a power house from music to film to fashion. Television in the new nbc drama shades of blue. You play a detective, tough as nails. Very tough, single mom. Lopez play as single mother and resource detective who becomes an fbi informant against her own unit. I loved about this story and this piece mostly that it was very human, you know, that people at the core are good but we do things that are questionable all the time. We make bad decisions, then we have to live with them. Opposite her ray leota. Every betrayal begins with trust. Did you train with the nypd . I played so many cops so i know a lot about it, but its about the world and about human nature. From the small screen to a recent block buster at the American Music awards the 46yearold continues to wow audiences. Dancing for seven minutes to a medley of the years hits. You killed it. It was intense. What does that mean to be an inspiration to many of us in our 40plus years . Its important since i was in my early 20s that there was a moment they were going to try to write you off. Dont write us off at a certain point. We have so much to offer. I feel like i knew nothing in my 20s but i thought i knew everything. In my 30s i knew nothing. Like i didnt know anything. Then in my 40s now i feel like im starting to accept myself for who i am. As if she isnt busy enough lopez will headline in las vegas later this month. Your name in the marquee. Awesome. I know. It doesnt seem like its the it is the right name. Are you ready or rehearsing . Were not ready. Getting there. What is the show going to look like . I think vegas gives you aee neek opportunity to have a more intimate experience with your audience. I want them to know me as a person and artist and as an entertainer when they leave there. There. I really feel that embodies who i am as an artist and person. That i really give all i have to everything that i do. Including her most important role, mom to 7yearold twins max and emmy. It made my life better, one, but i think they just change your perspective on the entire world, you know, how you look at life. That was a big kind of epiphany for me. They helped me grow as a human being. Gorgeous family. We should mention shades of blue thursday here on nbc. Features a starstudded kags cast. More in the next hour as well. We love jennifer. Isnt she amazing. We love her. Coming up al is going to get personal with his wife debra, they have a new book, well get advice when it comes to marriage, kids and more. Well get personal with eva longoria as well. You have a preference . I said no, i dont have a good side. Then one time sen a ma for coming up. Heres a look at whats coming up for 9news 8 a. M. Englewood and sheridan, businesses are victims of smash and grab burglaries. We will have the latest on this investigation to see if they are all connected. A scary and tense situation, an armed man showed up at a church. Find out what the pastor did that has people talking this morning. Look at this reaction as patent takes the field. A triumphant return to the field and the crowd loves it, they are led to another title for the fifth year straight. We are checking traffic now. Things are starting to loosen up as we take a live look outside to travel times, c 470 to i 25 back into the 60s. Than a live look, a bright live look. The one crash you are to 70 and vasquez. Im so happy to see that son because im anticipating the increase throughout the day for most of us, we have some high clouds out there. We will start to see it cloud up in Southwestern Colorado with some rain and snow south of the san juans and an inch of new snow tonight and early tomorrow morning. Temperatures today are ahead of the snow in the 30s, colder in gunnison, 30s and 40s over northeastern colorado mild in the southeast part of the state. High clouds today and tomorrow, weve topped 50. Sliding back down to the tail end of the week with some very light snow possible thursday friday and good morning. Nice to see you. Hi. 8 30 now on this monday morning. Its the 4th of january, 2016. Here we are in the new year. Beautiful. Is that what this is . I honestly i didnt even recognize them. Snow flurries are here. Festive. I like. Coming up. Starting off the new year right when it comes to the food you consume. Joy bauer will be here to tell but a few things. If you eliminate these from your diet youll have a much healthier new year. Plus the lovely eva longoria is here to open up about her new the aisle. Logged into your computer. All right. I forgot to clear history. Im in trouble. And a very special guest shares his familys wisdom, our own mr. Al roker. I dont know about wisdom, but my wife deborah and i teamed up for a new book called been there, done that sharing some of the life lessons weve learned from our friends including some of the folks here on the today show and families as well. All right. Look forward to that. First, lets get the forecast. All righty. Here we go. A look into the week ahead. Going to be a wet one out west especially in the northwest and snow showers around the great lakes. By the time we get to the midweek period we are looking for more snow showers in the upper great lakes. Out west a lot of snow. Latter part of the week icy conditions in the upper midwest and snow through the plains, wet weather midatlantic states. Look at temperatures, below normal early week and midweek it warms up again in the northeast and upper midwest and below normal out west and look late week much above to above normal temperatures even half of the country. And that is your latest savannah. Al, thank you so much. Here we go. We are launching our special series start today to healthy. Begin 2016 on the right foot. All month long well get helpful finance. Here to tart it off is nutritionist joy bauer. Im ready for detox. Tell me what were doing. Tell me about the cleanse. The rules of the game. This is the overview. The foods to lose. Theres four main food groups so lets go through them. We have white starch, fatty meat, sugary drinks, salty foods, fried anything, candy, milk chocolate and sweetened dairy, things like sugary yogurts and chocolate milk but dont worry because the foods to choose is even longer, so the foods to choose now include produce, fruits and vegetables, grain bread and pasta and brown rice. Leaner meat, fish and sea foods, nuts, seed, dark chocolate and unsweetened plain dairy. I know theres some sweetened yogurts that you see. If everybody goes to the website today. Com i have all the results of the game and sample menus, you name it. You do great with the meal plans to make it easy. Yeah. Now well do a little experiment with our friend chloe cleanse. This is chloe cleanse. Hi, clowy. Started 2016 feeling really out of shape but she is inspired and shes motivated to make major changes, so im going to walk through three tips, simple everyday things that everybody can do, and you are going to watch and marvel at how chloe is going to completely transform. Okay. So the first tip is i want everybody to ditch the white bread and rolls and sub the whole grain counterparts. Automatically be fueling your body with better stuff. Okay. Lets take it one step grains, i want you to pick out, scoop some of the inside out because every time you do this, savannah, youll save yourself about 100 calories. If you did this just five times a week throughout the month of january, youll save yourself more than 2,100 calories and the equivalent of this. Tada. Chloe is going to continue to do this throughout the shes now going to drop 7. 5 pounds. Although its a subtle change ill tell you shes thinned out her hips and trimmed a couple inches off her belly. Thats the dangerous fat. She reduced her risk. Scoop it out. Not all of it. Just some of it. What is chloes next . Every day to lose a sugary beverage. Were talking sodas and sweetened teas and even fruit juice and fruit drinks, instead have a refreshing glass of water. This is pretty huge. Refreshing glass of wait for it water. The payback is phenomenal. If you do this for the month of january, you save yourself the equivalent of 8. 5 cups of straight sugar which is 550 jelly beans. And, chloes going to continue to do this throughout the year and she will now drop another 23 pounds. So look at the total. Now she is markedly thinner. She is. I barely recognized her. Wait until the third tip. Good, breakfast is served. Three is swap out the fatty cuts of beef for leaner versions. Instead of prime rib, i want people to choose leaner. Instead of wings, skinless poultry. Instead of fatty pork chops, lean pork tenderloin. If you are able to do this for week, at the end of the month or the end of january youre going to save yourself more than 10,000 calories and more than 1,000 grams of fat. That is equivalent of 12 sticks of butter. Wow. Thats impressive. What is lean beef . Sirloin, fillet, you can get you have to look in the store. If you dont see a lot of marbling you know its lean. Are all pork chops fatty . Most are very fatty. The majority of the sfat around the bone. Chloe has been doing this throughout the entire year. She saved more than 123,000 calories and dropped another 35 pounds. So to put this into perspective lets look at her before the journey and then well look at her after. Look at that. Wow. That is a marked change. She went from unhealthy out of i would say she is too thin. Cholesterol is down, boosted energy. So my start for everybody is to ditch the white starch, sugary beverages, the fatty meat and youll lose weight, boost your energy and feel better in 2016. I promise. Thank you so much, joy. Well see you a lot. If you want to go on our website joy has the plan, the whole thing. Check it out. Tomorrow, Jenna Bush Hager and exercise excuses. Been there, done that, al and his wife, marriage, family and more. But, were back now at 8 30. Weve got something new from al who teamed up with his wife of 20 years deborah. Its a clerk of stories told from each others perspectives on everything from raising kids to keeping the spark alive and like most couples al and deborah dont always agree. We have a lot of conflict over these trips that we have to take for work. Boast us travel a lot with our jobs. I think its okay if youre not there every minute. I feel guilty about it all the time. I will take the very last flight that i can take to get to where i need to be and take that first flight back and get home because somehow i feel like im a better mother if i do it. I try to tell deborah, look, take an extra day, get a massage, you know, see some friends. Able, on the other hand, well, hell leave sunday before he needs to be there on monday because he wants to have a nice dinner. It just sort of grates on mow he doesnt feel the get i feel. Were in the same business and do different things. Deborah is hard news. Im weather and goofy stuff. Im going through research about, you know, somebody, some expert im interviewing the next day and im underlining and making notes. Make notes. Im going out to interview the cast of black list. We do the same things but we dont do the same things. When we with leila it became a difficult point in our marriage because i was already working mornings, and abc came to her and said wed like you to do the news persons job on good morning america. An opportunity that i had dreamed about, prayed about. We have a brand new baby. Somebody needed to be home with her in the morning. I was really, really surprised about how conflicted i felt inside. So deborah decided to step back. You know, her career suffered some for it, and, you know, you always feel guilty about that. I admit deep down in my hearts hearts i felt that ive sacrificed more but i think hes also listened to me, too, and try to feel a little bit of my pain. I love my husband dearly. He is the most wonderful man i know, but he calls me too much on the phone. I drive my family crazy because i call all the time, and i may not actually have anything of any great import to say. How did it go this morning . How are you can the santa ana winds a okay. Everybody get off okay. Dog good . Yeah. Why are you calling . I just like touching base. Which is beautiful and sweet and romantic, but i say to al all the time it would be so much more meaningful if we had the conversation later in the day. Then i can actually be relaxed and hear it. Ill find it actually funny. Even leila, my 17yearold, dad . Voice. Bye. You know. Its like i guess thats not good enough. Okay. Sorry. I still dont know everything al put in the book. Im kind of nervous. I guess i should probably read it. I dont think that you want to necessarily admit. Thats true. On camera that you havent read the book. I didnt say i havent read the book, havent read all the chapters. So consumed with my chapters. Thats half the book. Wait a minute, im half the book. You only read your half. And i read some of yours, by didnt Read Everything so im kind of worried. I dont know whats in there. I love the fact that he tries to take things in stride in a very warm and funny way. Youre a very compassionate person and i think shes instilled that in our kids and a lot of it has rubbed off on me. Oh, thank you. Way to end there, al. Sweet. I know. Have you read the book . I have read both. I actually have, and theres one chapter where we talk about my driving because i im not a very aggressive driver and deborah is. Shes like Mario Andretti at the brickyard, and thats when we fight so i just decided i dont drive anymore when were together, and the kids she does the driving. She does the driving, and the kids even talk about it in the book. Being in the car with the two of us. Im glad you got to do this today before you leave tomorrow for the golden globes. Wants to have a nice dinner so he leaves early. Im team deborah on that one. So am i. But you should be more team al. You should take an extra day. Im team deborah. The book is been there, done that. Up next, eva longoria on the big new projects in her life, a new show and an upcoming wedding, but, first, this is today on nbc. Were back now. Its 8. 47. Here we have eva longoria, star of the new nobodies comedy telenovella playing a spanish soap star who doesnt speak spanish and to top it off she has to work alongside her ex. Ah. Take that. I won. Okay. But you know what . It will be easier. Hold hon. We can do it. Yeah, yeah, hold on. Here we go. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That would have been a lot easier. Eva, good morning. Good to see you. Good morning, good to see you. So great to have you back on nbc. Oh, thank you. And this is getting some great reviews. Amazing. People are really excited about it. Yeah. What made you want to do this show . Oh, my gosh, developing it in my production slate, and when the first draft came in, it was so funny. The part of anna so yeah, shes vulnerable and crazy and its justified. But you werent originally supposed to star in it. No. With anna. I fell in love with anna sophia, plays a spanish soap star who does not speak spanish. I love that. That was my life growing up. Im latina but i didnt speak spanish, ive learned it since, but it was like i was always a fish out of water in my own culture and she is that, and shes very funny, and, you know, i knew would i go back to tv one day but the bar was set so high from desperate housewives that i was like i dont know, i dont know. I was a little gun shy and i loved the time off. I was going to say. Thats not too bad either. Yeah, yeah. Youve got great costars in the show. Yeah, yes. I have amazing costars, dine far mar ya ia plays my best friend, like the lucy and ettel. Im getting in travel and shes pulling me out of it. We have a big pop star, big musician from the latin world and now hes kind of crossing over and just a dream to work with. You worked in soaps, right . Didnt you work on the young and the restless . You bring any of this . A lot. Mark cherry said the different between daytime soaps and primetime, in daytime soaps the men are the divas, in daytime the men are the ones who are like the jerks. And then you go to primetime and then it becomes the women. In this show your exhusband, not only do you not speak spanish which i guess is kind of an obstacle when youre in a Spanish Speaking telenovela. My exhusband comes on the show and chaos ensues. All of these characters could be in a dentists office, like how do you work with somebody you hate. How do you work, you know, a younger person anything at your heels, trying to take your spot . You guys know that here at today, right . Theres no drama in television. What are you talking about. No way. Carsons vying for everybodys spot, i know it. He is. He is. Diva, biggest diva here. All right. Time to get all up in your business. Congratulations. Thank you. You recently got engaged. You recently got engaged. Tell us about your man. Hes amazing. Hes gorgeous and really the kindest human being ive ever met, and and hes really private so i never talk about him because hes like dont talk about me. Oh, no. Yeah. We dont want to be the source of your first fight. Are you planning like a big wedding or are you doing something low key . We havent even discussed it. Im still in the glow of the engagement. It was such a surprise. It was in dubai in the desert so were still like absorbing that, that moment. Im still applauding him for how beautiful and amazing it was. Oh. Then well talk about, you know, the big fat mexican wedding. Ever notice that youre dating someone and the question is when are you going to get engaged and the question is as soon as you get engaged when are you going to get married . And then when are you going to get divorced . Let life happen. They put you together before youre together and break you up before youre broken up. Its a lot of fun. Happy for the show and, of course, your personal life. Thank you so much. Eva, good to see you and telenovela premiers at 8 30, 7 30 central time right here hon nbc. Back in a moment. All right. Still to come on a monday morning, more with Jennifer Lopez. More with Jennifer Lopez, a also, more about als book and deborahs book. And America Ferrera. Will be with us as well. Breaking, deborah has read the book. She has now read the book. Yes, she has. I think thats funny that she just read her part. Her chanters. As far as shes concerned thats the best part of the book, her part, and shes not wrong. Got a lot more coming on a monday morning, but, first, your this is 9news. Good morning, another smash and grab burglary investigation this morning this time in sheridan. Two of the burglaries happened before 5 00 in the sheridan shopping complex. They come in the wake of nine similar crimes in inglewood and a dozen others englewood and a dozen others in the corridor last week. Some days are pretty warm coming up. Double thumbsup. It gets a little cooler but not as cold as it was heading into the new year. High clouds are scooting off to the east as we speak, we will get light snow moving into mainly after sunset so look for one or 2 inches of snow mainly from the Elk Mountains into the san juans. A dry day for most mountain locations, 30s40s and we will very easily make it into the 40s around here similar to where we were yesterday, just not quite as sunny as it was yesterday. Very little wind and it will be extremely windy east of limon. There is our step down, its a nice little even stairstep into the 30s later this week. A very light snow and some areas, crested butte, aston aspen, of fresh powder by the end of the week. 50 20 feel like a dream compared to last week. 50 will feel like a dream. We have more weather and this morning on todays take superstar Jennifer Lopez on her new tv show and the two people who have changed her life. Then, al and his wife deborah get personal opening up about their 20year marriage. And from the new comedy superstore emmy winner America Ferrera is here. All that and more coming up now. From nbc news, this is toyss take with al roker, natalie morales, al roker and tamron hall live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Monday morning, january 4th, 2016, the first monday of this year. Ill willie along with al, natalie and tamron. Good to see you. Good crowd out there. Back together on friday, on new years day, but we were a little groggy, lets be honest. I feel like this is the day here. Back for the new year. And ready, boom. People on social media had a time with our new years day show. Because i was whatever we did. I was in new york, and then very quickly thereafter i was in pasadena for the rose parade with hoda. You teleported. Youre avatar and even after i said the new years show was on tape they still didnt quite they were still confused. You were brave. And my favorite float was the one from the university of iowa. I dont know how you feel about that. Yes. I i mistakenly said iowa state. Oh, boy. You would have thought and then they lost their game, right . That was the best part. So i was the subject of two waves of tweets. The first tweet, group of tweeting, was that i was an idiot because i mis i said iowa state instead of iowa. Honest mistake. I corrected it, okay. Get it, okay, done. Thank you. Then after they got blown out i got all these tweets its al rokers fault. He cursed us by calling us iowa oh. So it was like wow. I think theres a way to remedy this. Take a trip up to the campus. Lets have a huge pep rally. Okay. Sure. They love me. They love me there. On. There you go. That i have the power to take a school and crush it. So youre the kingmaker. At rose parade. You and Carly Fiorina who was also blamed for that because she tweet that had she was not going to road for her alma mater stanford, rooting for iowa that day, they shade she was pandering and when iowa lost they blamed her. Not a great stanford thing. I am announcing im going to be her running mate. The there you go. You heard it here. Start it now, twitter. You heard it. Just withdrew from the race. Dropped out because of roker. Eve. Yeah, yeah. We just had a little home soiree with the kids. Tony bennett there. With lots of kids. Kids sucking down some apple cider. They all stayed up. They all made it. I didnt, on the other hand. I made it actually. No, i did. Surprisingly. We had a little party, Little Dinner Party with neighbors and friends. It a good time. Mr. Roquer . I was at parade, hoda and i at the parade. Cute. Great pic. Great smile. And took the kids, thank you, and my nose and nephew went to disneyland and had fun. How was the wet they are in. The weather was terrific, lovely, lovely. Nice for the parade. Thats right. You were. Making moves i was skiing. On the slopes. Thats what they call them. I dont know. Ive never been. On the hill. And you get the sticks on your feet. I said ive never been so i live through you and your ski trips if its not in a prompter i dont often know. Is that in the prompter, i just saw willie ski. Hit the slopes. Put some wood on your feet and you go down as fast as can you. Wow. Actually hey maizing. Sunrise. Morning i saw that. In utah. Deer vale, just absolutely beautiful. So pretty and as i was skiing one day i came up on a trail and had to take a picture, appropriate for this election year. There was the trump trashlgs it was the most beautiful and built a wall. And the arrow pointing up, up. Nice beautiful. What were you saying, competitive, natalie, an easy trail. I wasnt saying lets go skiing but if you want to. Green trails you were on. I was with the kids. So i was with this white stuff and you were where the sun was in a warm place. I walked in. Chocolatey. I was in a beach in antigua in a place called tamron hill. Goes to places named after her. Limits me to one place. Christmas wearing our pjs, allegedly pjs, my niece and nephew gave me cowboy sgloots liquor. Rum, maybe . And then this is the favorite picture of my holidays. Stop laughing at my life. It says you cant scare me. Im from texas. That is cute. I think shes afraid of you in the pajamas. Those were from my cousin and i took my 19yearold nephew did, a vacay for the first time together and i thought about the three of you a lot. We have children and i dont and here i am with isaiah this, 19yearold, we talk every single sunday, and i really got to know this kid in a different way. He was so outgoing. We went to a party that was like arabian nights themed Holiday Party and this woman came up to dance with him and i thought hes never going to do it and he craze. Okay, little isaiah. I still remember the 3yearold, not the 62 19yearold. A handsome young man. Such a sweet kid and hes going back to college soon. Thats pretty cool. The fireworks on the beach. And every person who approached him, yes, sir, no, maam, yes, maam. Your parents did well in my corrupting you. So it was a fun family vacay. Excellent. Some of your pictures to show us what you did, too. Todaystake. And sometimes people make very Mark Zuckerberg. Always set out to do the impossible such as learn mandarin in the span of a year. He resolved last year to read two books a month and also to meet a new person every day, so this year, what do you do if youre Mark Zuckerberg, whats your new years resolution . Well, he wants to create an ai, artificial intelligence, that will control everything in his home just by his voice. Like varris in iron man. I want this, but what i love, not just jarvis which would be amazing, but in response to that people on facebook were saying want to use a road. I keep telling my grand daughters to date the nerd in school because he may turn out to be the next Mark Zuckerberg and thanks to family and friends ive reconnected to classmates and family. And even better would be to encourage them to be the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor. Nice. And firing all of us. Be the nerd, right, and hes they are raising their beautiful prcilla chating this pictur as well wishing everybody a happy new year. Look how gorgeous she looks in the little dress. Going back to the ai. Well, they are Mark Zuckerberg sets his mind to it, something will come of it. They have some very hal on space odyssey. Or the matrix, any number of movies. We want one in control, a Mark Zuckerberg would be cool. Something that sheds the temperature zone in your house. They have some like that, okay, you know, you could watch your daughter which you can do on camera. Like bb8 rolling in. I want bb8. Thats what i want. Google the selfdriving characters thats ai. Thats where everything is going. Keeps sort of publicly saying the beginning of the machine. Im sure its going to happen. Like we have our own will smith to save the day here. You know, or keanu reeves, im telling you, you know. Morpheus. Hey, so if youre the matrix. I love that you went there, amazing. If youre a jets fan, really not much to be happy about yesterday. No. Except for this moment. Second quarter bills kicker dan carp per going for the extra point misses it, doesnt take it so well. No. So heres what he does. He takes throws the helmet down and boom ow. Thats tougher. It bounces. Oh. That was their only bad moment, and hes okay, so thats all right. And they ended up winning, the bills won 2217. I smell len berman. Nobody got hurt. Just cried. And looping it. At home now it went viral. Im a giants fan so my heartbreak for the jets. Needed to score, didnt happen. Didnt turn out too well for the giants. No, no, that was a long season. Had a couple of super bowls recently so its good. How recent successfully. Its been a couple of years. When was it last . Five years. I mean, im a cowboys fans, i cant say anything. Come on. Mr. Roker. Okay. So it is freezing out. You know what. Its actually below normal. The kind of adding insult to injury. Its been so warm, december recordsetting month. Tomorrow morning. Going to feel like 3 in new york, 9 in columbus and 18 below in caribou. It will feel like on tuesday afternoon Single Digits to below zero, but good news is things bounce back on wednesday on into thursday. The other thing were watching, el nino. Its been affecting Northern California and Pacific Northwest. One storm, weak to us, not a big deal. San diego up into eureka, maybe an inch of rain, but this number two storm tuesday into wednesday is going to be pretty power. If its going to bring in heavy showers, thunderstorms, a lot of the good news, a lot of snow up into the cascades and the sierra. Upwards of 2 feet or more in the highest peaks, but the rain will bring the threat of flooding debris floes into the burn areas into Southern California. Look at the rainfall, anywhere from 2 to 3 inches and some areas as much as 5. And that is your latest weather. Al, thank you very much, sir. Coming up next, oneonone with Jennifer Lopez. Natalie sits down with jen every to talk about her latest drama shades of blue, weve streamlined shipping and improved our ecommerce with the tools on fedex Small Business center. Its really helped us become more efficient. Sweet. Unlike this new open floor plan. What do you mean . Well theres no privacy anymore. And how many times a day do i apply the ointment . Nowhere to have a meeting. And its just. chaotic Office Sounds too loud to concentrate. Well, good job using fedex. At least were all in this together, right . Make your ecommerce more efficient with fedex. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Pepper discovers a wholesome breakfast with jimmy dean delights, made with real egg whites, lean cut meats, and whole grains. Its a delicious way to fuel up on energy to help power through her morning run. 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Not the ones who are trying to corruption is corruption, detective. I loved about this story. Yeah. And this piece mostly that it was very human, you know, that were people at the core are good. Mmhmm. But that we do things that are questionable all the time. We make bad decisions and then have to live with them. Lopez is a powerhouse from music to film to fashion. She has created an empire worth a reported 300 million. What does that mean to you to be an esoperation to so many of us in our 40plus years . Its important to me being in this business since i was in my early 20s there was always a moment where they would try to write you off. Like dont write us off at a certain point in our lives. We have so much to offer. I feel like i knew nothing in my 20s but i thought i knew everything and in high 30s i realized i knew nothing, like i actually didnt know anything and now in my 40s i feel like im starting to accept myself for who i am. And she delivers. I try to tell myself good things about myself. Were constantly like beating ourselves up. Like if you really stop for a serbs im going to tell myself nice things. Like youre youthful and timeless at every age. Youre amazing. You are doing really good. You have a lot going on. Im going to start wake up in the morning and give myself a little Jennifer Lopez mantra. A little pep talk. Youre the smartest girl in the room. You say crazy things to yourself, and all of a sudden it works. And then somebody says youre the smartest girl in the room. And as if she wasnt busy enough lopez will also headline in las vegas later this month. All i have is the title. I named it all i have because i have a song called all i have because i really feel that that embodies who i am as an artist and as a person, that i really give all i have to everything that i do. Including her most important role, mom to 7yearold twins max and emme. They just made my life better, number one, but i think they just change your perspective on the whole entire world, you know, and how you look at life and that was a big kind of epiphany for me, having children. They help me grow as a human being. And shades of blue premiers this thursday at 10 00, 9 00 central right here on nbc. Coming up next, another latina superstar. We have America Ferrera. Shes back on tv on nbc with a new comedy called superstar. Hey. How are you . Youre going to love this one. Its such a funny show. Were going to catch up with do you know the secret to a happy home in these modern times . Its a housewife whos in control of the finances. Actually, any wife, husband, or human person can use progressives name your price tool to take control of their budget. And while the men do the hard work of making money, she can get all the Car Insurance options her little heart desires. Or the women might do the hard work of making money. [ chuckling ] women dont have jobs. 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Good morning. This looks like so much fun. Tell us about your character amy. It is so much fun. We have a fabulous cast. Amy has been working at cloud nine, we hope you have a heavenly day, for ten years. I got this script and i thought this is an environment ive never seen before. Weve never seen this place on television with these characters people. Cast. And everyone is funny and we all come from different walks of life. And amy is a tenyear veteran of the super store of cloud nine. Shes just getting by. I grew up watching shows about everyday working class people. So thats one of the things that drew me to the show. Its so much fun. I had the opportunity to interview a while back. You guys really go there, you push a envelope with subjects and issues. Its true. Thats one of the special things about comedy. You entertain and laugh but you conversations through humor. Where the show goes is surprising and deep. Im super proud of the show. We had a great time making it. We heard that the hardest part was keeping a straight face while taping. Absolutely. I waste a lot of film and a lot of time. Our cast is oh so funny. We have mark mckinney. Hes so funny. We spend our time laughing. Is it true you guys shot the pilot for this show in an actual super store, in a kmart and people started to think you were an employee at the store. Try it. Put on a name tag and a vest and stand anywhere and people will come up and ask you questions. We were shooting in a real kmart that was open and functioning. Oh theres a dog in the studio. Looks like my puppy almost. Sorry, i got very distracted. I love you, wrangler. You really distracted me from super store. Super store at 8 00 7 00 right here on nbc. Earn once when you buy, and again as you pay. Thats cash back now, and cash back again later. Its cash back d\j vu. The citi double cash card. 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So lets look at your weather lottery for the early part of the week. Snow around the great lakes, also out west. Looking at wet weather as well. Sunny and cooler in the east. And snow around the upper mississippi valley, more wet look how much rain and snow were looking at out west. In the latter part of the week icy and snow conditions through the plains. We start colder than normal in the east. Switch. Much of above normal temperatures from the upper midwest through new england. By the latter part of the week, eastern half of the country way warm. And that is your latest weather. Thank weather. Thank you very much. Our man al has reported from every corner of the world. His rokerthons have broken world records. Now hes also an author. Hes written a book with his wife about lessons theyve learned. Family wisdom for modern times. Theyre sharing the wisdom on a sensitive topic, driving. When she moved to this city, she was definitely afraid of getting behind the wheel of a vehicle. Now, our biggest fights are because im not aggressive enough behind the wheel. I really captain nt stand it when al drives. It makes me crazy. Hes too tentative. What are you doing . Come on. Step on it hes driving like a little old lady heading to church. Ive come up with a fantastic solution. I dont drive in the car with her. When we get ready to go, i hand her the keys. Congratulations on this. Thank you. Its phenomenal, the candor, the humor, everything. We need to go to a master class taught by the two of you. No. Read this book and do the complete opposite. I like that you give debra the keys. E deborah the keys. Theres some points where you argue and others where you just well han Chapter Chapter in the book. The kids also talk about it. Theres my oldest girl courtney in the middle. I think its a jedi mind strik trick by you. This is not the worst thing in the world. Youve written a lot of books personal. No. Theres a moment where you about this. I didnt even want to write this book. She really wanted to share. Again, its the difference between men and women. Guys are like, okay, weve been through this. And women want to share. And women want to share, so i i said yes, dear, and and the only way we survived this we did not write it together. The only way we survived this is we did not write it together. I wrote my part. She wrote her part. And you get to rehearse. Ive read all of hers. Study the mannium here and talk about the goal though. Open up about the family, the marriage. Whats the goal and what what do you want people at home to get out of it . No matter what youre doing we all have the same issues pretty much. No matter what you do especially that at the end of the day the mom is going to bear more of the responsibility and the guy is going to do what he does. But get to the place in the middle where you kind of accept what the other does and does well. And dont criticize the other. You talk about some of the tough times as well. There was a time that she was going after an interview and you ended up getting it. Yes. In our work we rarely compete. I do the goofy stuff and the weather and she does hard news. This nexus happened that unbeknownst to me that i had to go for this interview and she didnt get it and it was a very, very difficult time. I mean, we had to do some couples therapy. Did you address it head on . We did. It was a very difficult issue that we had never had to address before. The sacrifices that debra has made over the course of her career. She gets her dream job and decides to turn it down in favor of being a mom. She suffered. She took a bit of a hit in her career. She didnt let that stop her. Shes an amazing mom and continued pushing through and shes one of the stalwarts up there at abc news. Youre an amazing couple. Two people who truly belong together. Yeah. Sometimes it doesnt feel like that. But i think every marriage goes through that. 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You want to make sure that every single thing the sales person tells you about is in the contract because these guys, they are commissionedbased, love them all but they are commissionedbased and may say things to you that actually arent true to get sale. Make sure its in the contract. So you dont have to just you. You can amend that deal. Also know whats in the deal to decide whether to sign or not. The other question a lot of people say can i pause my gym membership. Im going away for a month, have a sabbatical or going on vacation or if i get an injury. You want to make sure that thats in the contract as well. That is something that not all gyms offer so you want to check on that. Okay. You also say you want to go and yes. To know if theres going to be a place that youll be equipment. A lot of people will go visit the gym during their lunch hour really there. I can get a bike or peeves equipment whenever i want. Go visit the gym at the time that you actually plan on going during the day. If you plan on going there after work at 6 00 or 7 00 at night are night. And check out the cleanliness, do they have Hand Sanitizer stations and all of those things matter. Make sure the gyms are working, out of order and make sure the sanitizer machines work and towels there as well. What if its not working out for you and what if you dont like the fit. Breaking the contract. Its infamous. People have credit things contract. Youre in a legal contract, and so what you want to do is ask if theres a cancellation period, right, because some states like missouri, for example, one of the at least one state makes it a law that you have a few days to get out of a c. A lot of gyms will give you 24 hours or a couple of days. Right. Thats number one. Check on the cancellation period so if you go home and say i shouldnt be doing that, you can get out of it. Also, pay with a credit card. We always give this advice. Dont pay with a debit card, credit card so that way you can dispute the charges and say its not working out and here are the reasons and your Credit Card Company can back you up. Last resort is to Call Consumer Affairs if youre promised something youre not getting. Whats interesting, you have the Old School Gym contracts that we got to know and now you have a lot of gyms that do packages where you buy ten sessions but you have to use them in x amount of days and people dont realize that as well. Thats the thing, goes back to the first tip, read the contract because nothing else matters. Doesnt matter if the sales person told me, dont worry about it, its fine, ill take care of you. Doesnt matter if jim said ill take care of. Cookie clubs, cupcake class. While youre on a spin bike, no, thank you. Thank you so much. Up next, all nexter size, as i mentioned, work up an appetite. 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Its not only dinner, its breakfast and lunch. I took a challenge, feed four for under 15. What well do here is make some meat balls, pork meat balls and well cut it with a little bread, our chef in vegas, geno, grandmother nanas restaurant. Putting milksoaked bread into the meat balls and a little bit of garlic. You get your meat and potatoes for under 15. Were going to start with a couple of nice meat balls. Ideal size of the meat balls, does it matter . If its an appetizer small, entre bigger, ice cream scoops you can use also. Take these and transfer them into the oven here and cook them until they are done. Pork, cooked all the way through and then those are beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Couple here and the idea is, so well take these out right here. Well use the same pan. In the kitchen industry its greatest thing in the world. Dont want to do a lot of dishes so we try to utilize the same pan. Hit it with a little bit of onion, a little bit of parsnip, carrots and potatoes, a little make hash here. Meat ball. Keep billing the flavor and keep going right over here. We transfer over here and now well add a little kale because not saying goodbye to kale yet. Stir that in a little bit right there, and the idea, is you know, my wife and i, we shop and shop and so much food gets thrown away. 40 of our groceries in the u. S. Get thrown away so the idea was, you know, take these meat balls and do a little egg hash in the morning and have a meat ball sub the next day with the baguette. This is the secret weapon, the brown butter. The brown butter. Dont need to be making sauce, brown birth, cook it down here, a nice nuttiness, do a little bit of rosematter, a little rosemary and garlic, all you need, a little herbs right there. Everybody thinks youve been doing all day. Smells great. Its a lot of fun to its a nutritious stake and potatoes on a budget, and and you can transfer it to more and more meals so when you shop, think about what am i going to do with the leftovers. Soups are cool and different ingredients and, of course, its all about this. Turn it into a great bolognese. Really good. Got our dinner, theres our breakfast with the egg and the lunch is the meat ball sub absolutely incredible. Make it out of beef, portion anything you want, veggie if you want. Brian, happy new year. Brate to see you. All good. Amazing recipes under 15 this week. Head to today. Com food. Were back in a moment. Look who weve got here. Looky here. Happy new year. Two headlines. Number one, well, three, jenna is hosting, eva longoria and you know who is here with a brand new book out. Al roker oh, my gosh. With deborah, his wife who wrote book