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>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and ann curry, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome today on this monday morning. i'm ann curry. >> i'm david gregory in this monday for matt who has the morning off. a lot of buildup surrounding the greek elections particularly the import for our own economy back here. in the end a party that supports a bailout for the country's troubled economy pulled off a narrow victory. >> and the results caused the world market to rally. this morning there's already growing concern over similar debt crisis in other parts of europe the u.s. has even closer ties with, david. a live report from athens straight ahead this morning. also this morning a california family that's lucky to be alive. we were just talking about this. it's an amazing story. they survived a plane crash but left them stranded on a remote snow covered mountain in idaho and they were dressed for much warmer weather. it took rescuers 15 hours to reach them. they will share their story in an exclusive interview. >> they said actually more than one miracle was involved in their survival. also this morning ozzy osbourne and sharon's son jack has just revealed he has multiple sclerosis. the 22-year-old received the news two weeks after the birth of his daughter and can only think why now. coming up the latest on his prognosis and how his family is reacting to the news. we begin with the impact in greece and the impact on the global economy. stef goes in athens with this story. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. another bullet dodged by greece and the eurozone. people faced a difficult choice in this election, not between good or bad but bad and worse. in the end by the slimmest of margins, greece sent a message to the world that it wants to stay in the euro. greece is not a big country but at the ballot box on sunday it had the weight of the world on its shoulders. the state of the currency and the entire global economy. when announced his new democracy party eked out a victory, there was relief among some in@answer and many around the world. >> we hope the eurozone will see us in a different way and trust us more. >> he supports the multi-billion bailout by europe even though the austerity measures force add deep depression here. the opposition vowed to rip up the agreement with bankruptcy. many greeks went to the ballot box with uncertainty. he with drew savings from the bank and worries about an increase in cream. >> have to go to bed and make sure you lock. >> reporter: the hope is a new government will begin getting this country back on its feet. there is perhaps no greater symbol of how much work needs to be done than the pole vaulter. money for athletes dried up. her coach rarely gets paid. the training society is a met, old mats, broken weights, old poles. an athlete struggling to train in the birth place of the olympics. i asked her what she needs the most. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: it's not just one thing. basically i would blow this place up and start from scratch if i could. there are many who believe that's exactly what this new government will have to do to the greek economy. tomorrow still has to form a coalition government. he's expected to ask for more time took reach those budget cut goals. ann and gregory. >> i'll take it from here. stephanie gosk in athens. a big topic of the g-20 summit in mexico. chuck todd, white house correspondent and political director is there. chuck, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, david. that greek vote is top of mind here. it's the 20 richest countries controlling 80% of the world's economy all here pleading with leaders for stability. this is the final international trip for the president before the election. it's no respite, what could happen here has a big impact. he landed amid head winds for the economy. >> we're not going to send checks to europe. we're not doing to p bail out the european banks. >> reporter: the president's trip south of the border comes right on the heels of his call not to deport young people brought to the u.s. illegally. >> it is the right thing to do. >> reporter: a policy mitt romney refused yesterday to reverse. >> kids brought in through no fault of their own, there needs to be a long-term solution so they know what their status is. >> he called it politics. >> the timing is clear. if he wanted a solution that dealt with these kids or illegal immigration in america, this is something he would have taken up in the first three years. >> reporter: meanwhile the obama campaign has not been shy about doing well with fans. >> there's no doubt latino voters -- >> this is courage, you guys wearing garbage bucks. >> reporter: romney barnstormed the buckeye state on his bus tour. >> the sun is coming out. three and a half years of dark clouds about to part. >> reporter: joining speaker boehner romney at stop after stop hammered obama on the economy. >> this president has not succeeded. he's failed. he deserves to go home and give someone a chance. >> joined on father's day by two of his sons. >> wish a happy father's day to my dad. >> romney found he will have a more personal interest in the olympics. >> not me, my wife. not her personally but she, along with two other people, purchased a horse. i joke i'll have to send her to betty ford for addiction to horses. >> reporter: besides the economy the other big issue on the plate here is syria. this morning he holds his first one-on-one with russian president vladimir putin, every since he moved from being prime minister to president. no one expects anything other than awkward tension here. it's not clear how cooperative he intends to be on syria or other issues the united states cares about. >> chuck, thanks a lot. 7:07. here is ann. thank you. now to the trial of jerry sandusky and new insight to what might be the central strategy for the defense. michael isikoff at the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania, this morning. michael, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. jerry sandusky's lawyers are expected to start presenting their case today. they have gotten a green light for a surprise defense. when jerry sandusky returns to court today, his lawyers plan to argue a novel defense. they will say he suffers from a rare psychiatric disorder that results in inappropriate emotional behavior. on sunday sandusky arrived at the prosecutor's office to be evaluated by a state psychiatrist. the visit was required by judge john clelland so his lawyers can present evidence that he has histrionic personality disorder. experts say it's characterized by pervasive personality and attention seeking. >> it may explain someone acting overall familiar "in a relationship. but as far as crossing a line into sexual behavior, it says nothing about that. >> reporter: sandusky's lawyers whatnot to explain why he wrote affection ate and sometimes needy letters to the victims. >> the contract between the defendant and one of the victims was just so strange that it's really hard to explain that away. they are looking for anything to explain away that very damming evidence. >> meanwhile prosecutors may have more evidence to present. last friday they asked nbc news to reauthenticate an unedited transcript of the bob costas interview with sandusky for rock center with brian williams last november. because that transcript had already been published, nbc agreed. it includes this unaired exchange about sandusky's work with young people. >> so it's entirely possible you could have helped young boy a in some way that was not objectionable while horribly taking advantage of young boy b, c, d, and e. isn't that possible? >> you might think that. i don't know. in terms of my relationship with so many, many young people, i would guess there are many young people who will come forward, more young people who will come forward and say my methods and what i had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. i didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that i've helped. there are many that i didn't have -- i hardly had any contact with who i have helped in many, many ways. >> reporter: now, prosecutors haven't said with what they plan to do with the transcript of that interview. they could use it to grill sandusky about those words if he takes the stand in his own difference. >> michael isikoff, thank you very much. savannah guthrie, good morning. >> good morning. >> i want to get to this in a mom. let's start with the prospect of sandusky on the stand. based on what we've soon up to date, the costas interview alone, he would be horrible, wouldn't he? >> that would be exhibit a in the argument not to put him on the witness stand. if he testifies he's going to have to do a lot better than what he did in the bob costas interview where he stamered on seemingly easy questions like are you attracted to young boys. he a hard time, repeating the question. he has to do better than that. >> part is to sell a story that mitt gates all these horrible facts against him that he sexually abused boy after boy after boy over a long period of time. that's what he's facing in the prosecution's case. help me understand how they look at the risk assessment of his mental health condition in the defense. >> it's an odd strategy to put mental health at issue as a defense. they are not saying he's got a mental disorder and that caused him to sexually abuse. they are not acknowledging that. what they are saying is this explain some of the weirder behavior we've seen in the case. why is he writing letters, what amount to love letters, to these alleged victims. it is a risky strategy. it's a tacit acknowledgement there is something wrong with jerry sandusky. >> all right. if on the other hand, if you're a juror who sees more humanity in sandusky than others might and you hear this kind of defense, process it for me in a way that somehow refutes some of the terrible facts. >> why would the defense put this on? they are looking for one juror, one juror alone who could hang up this jury, find some reasonable doubt. maybe this explains the behavior. they are trying to give something a potential juror could hang onto in terms of evidence. >> what about sandusky's wife. >> she could be a key witness on a multitude of levels. she's a fact witness. apparently she did not see or hear anything over these many periods of years. a lot of jurors would find that to be hard to believe. if she's compelling, maybe that's a good argument for defense. also, she would ab powerful witness in the courtroom. she's a credibility witness. she could portray her husband in a good light. >> lean prosecution case, devastating against sandusky, we'll see how they respond to it. savannah, thank you very much. 7:13. david, thank you. an autopsy expected to be performed on rodney king. the 47-year-old whose videotape beating in 1991 led to citywide riots was found dead in his pool. miguel almaguer has the latest on this story. miguel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. rodney king described as an avid singer. police are investigating his death as a drowning. detectives still don't know what happened here. the man who became the face for police brutality some 20 years ago found dead in his home in the early morning hours. rodney king lived a life haunted by demons. he also said he was a victim but also no angel. on sunday king's fiancee found his body at the bottom of their swimming pool and called 911. >> it appears this is a drowning. there are no obvious signs of foul play. there were no obvious signs of trauma. >> reporter: for the last decade king lived in rialto, california, an hour outside of los angeles where some 20 years ago his infamous arrested beating forever charged-of- changed the city. >> i was screaming to my death. i could hear my bones -- every time they swung the baton, i could hear them cracking. >> the four officers involved in the beating who claimed he was guilty of resisting arrest. >> not guilty. >> reporter: for 50 days race riots, 53 people died in the violence, $1 billion in damage was done. it was king who famously pled for peace. >> i just want to say, you know, can we all get along? can we get along? >> reporter: king sued the city settling for $3.8 million but his run-ins with police weren't over. king was arrested multiple time in years that followed and was sentenced to jail and struggled with rehab, a battle that played out on reality tv. >> if i can have a beer, i'm living the good life. >> reporter: earlier this year king released his memoir. >> i think he should be remembered as every man who was thrust into extraordinary circumstances and tried to deal with them while he was not in his finest form. >> reporter: king did try to move on with his wife. >> i'm only human. who am i not to forgive someone. >> reporter: he forgave the officers who beat him 20 years ago. but in the end, rodney king struggled to overcome his own troubled past. early sunday morning neighbors said they heard a commotion in king's backyard, what sounded like someone sobbing. his autopsy will take a few days to return. rodney king dead at the age of 47. ann. >> all right. miguel almaguer, thank you so much. >> excuse me, we want to get a check of the rest of the morning news. natalie is on assignment. savannah guthrie made her way over to the news desk. she's working hard. >> good morning david and ann. muslim brotherhood claimed victory in egypt's presidential election but the military holding on tight to power. nbc's correspondent richard engel with more. richard, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. television says nearly all the votes have been counted, still unofficial results show muslim brotherhood candidate will become president. he's not pro american, many egyptian christians and women worry about the sweeping changes in this country if the muslim brotherhood, as it promised, implements islamic law. starting now egypt will begin its first experiment in modern history in islamic democracy. the military delivered a preemptive strike. military worried about muslim brotherhood. as votes were counted last night in egypt, the military issued a sweeping decree to curtail the powers of the new president saying the president does not have the power to declare war against any foreign country and that the military will be responsible for appointing and removing any members of the senior ranks a power struggle is under way for several months between the muslim brotherhood and the military which wants to retain as much power as it can. savannah. >> richard engel in cairo for us. thank you. back here out west wildfires have forced evacuations of some 150 homes. in northern california a highly destructive fire has consumed at least 181 homes. that's the most in state history. a ten-hour stand overturned a suburb of philadelphia into a battlefield after a new jersey police officer barricaded himself into his ex-wife's home with some 2,000 rounds of ammunition. neighbors were evacuated as he reportedly opened fire on police injuring one officer. he surrendered overnight and is now in police custody. london police investigating an assault against a player during the queens club final kicking a plywood box surrounding the judge's chair. he apologized but the kick disqualified him causing him a sh at the title and leaving the judge's leg bleeding. this is not the first time he's had an outburst. he was found $8,000 in january for throwing water at an employee at the australian open. webb simpson clinched his first major title winning the open in san francisco. the 26-year-old's victory fired a strange moment during his interview with nbc's bob costas. >> that was kind of the difference. i got off to a slow start but i knew that -- i knew -- >> always something to spice matters up. >> enjoy the jail cell, pal. >> most of the activity played on the green wen graeme mcdowell missed a 35-foot birdie putt. >> could you keep a straight face? >> ridiculous. that's a pretty funny way to do ridiculous. >> bob costas -- >> didn't make it back in time. >> without the hat, it could be matt. >> matt wouldn't wear a hat like that. >> never ever. meantime a check of the weather. >> let's see what we've got. some severe weather to talk about along the northern tiered states, a risk of strong storms, rochester, traverse city, damaging winds locally, heavy downpours. you can see activity is already firing up of there's going tab second round later today. we're talking anywhere from one to three inches of rain betweenn >> that's your latest weather. >> all right, al. thank you. coming up a young man fighting to clear his named after being convicted of murder based in part on a friend's dream. he could learn his fate as early as today. we'll have the latest. but first this is "today" on nbc. u ve family stranded for 1 a snowy mountain after surviving a plane crash. we'll speak to them live. what rielle hunter is revealing now after your local news. for a whole new level of radiance. it's clinically proven to visibly reduce blotchiness, brown spots, and other past damage, while broad spectrum spf 30 helps prevent future damage. healthier, more radiant skin. it's in your future now. 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tell us about his movie and unlikely co-star. take a look at this, a rough talking, beer drinking teddy bear. he'll explain coming up. >> i'm a big mark wahlberg fan. i'm looking forward to talking to him. we'll begin this half whour with a young man in a missouri prison convicted of a murder based on a friend who said he had dream-like memories of the crime. now the friend is changing the story. keith morrison is here. over to you. >> a fascinating case. finally after years, and a series of stunning revelations, the case is in the hands of a judge. every since he was arrested at the age of 19, ryan ferguson said he was innocent of murder. today seven years after a jury found him guilty, he's waiting to hear whether a judge will throw out his conviction and possibly release him from prison. for the first time since he was convicted, ryan ferguson came face-to-face with the young man who convinced a jury they were both killers. only this time ryan's old friend wasn't in court testifying against him, now he was trying in the strangest turn of events to help ryan go free. >> i don't want to die knowing that i did the wrong thing. >> ryan had waited most of his adult life in prison to hear chuck erickson tell a far different version of what happened after they left the halloween party in 2001. >> what he said about being at the crime scene, me being at the crime scene was all false. he's a troubled man who had no idea what he did that night. >> that was the night after 2:00 a.m. when an editor of the columbia, missouri daily tribune was brutally assaulted and strangled in a newspaper parking lot. the crime went unsolved for two years until chuck confessed to police that he had a dream-like memory of committing the crime and said ryan was, in fact, the main instigator. >> i've got to go to prison for the rest of my life. i've got to tell them what that man did. >> chuck's testimony was the centerpiece of the case accepted by the jury as true. after all, why would someone confess to a murder he didn't commit, even though there was no blood, no fingerprints and no dna, nothing matching ryan or chuck at the crime scene, a major factor in the case. his parents talked about it when they and on "today." >> there's no one shred of evidence out there that proves ryan was even anywhere near there. >> now chuck says he was intoxicated to the point of blacking out that night and has no memory at all of what happened. >> i lied and said i remembered things i didn't remember and said he did stuff that i don't remember him doing or me doing. >> it wasn't just chuck who changed his story, an eyewitness did, too. the night custodian who once identified ryan in court said his testimony was plain false. >> i'd like to have forgiveness from ryan and his family. >> the custodian said he identified ryan after encouragement from the prosecutor, who showed him photos and a newspaper article. a claim the prosecutor strongly denied. >> i may have gone to prison myself. >> the state stands by ryan's conviction and says he believes chuck's first story, not the one he's telling now. the question is, is ryan's case strong enough for the judge to set him free. >> i want to make my life great when i get out. i'm going to be ready for it. i feel like i've been preparing for eight years. >> a caution, it's very rare to see convictions thrown out, even when the evidence seems quite strong. ryan's attorneys and his parents are aware of that. they say they are confident no matter what the state said, they have the truth on their side. the judge said he will rule swiftly. a very important point. >> thank you so much this morning. we want to get a check now of the weather from al. >> thank you, mr. gregory. we've got a nice group here. the birthday girl. happy birthday. >> thank you. alexa. >> happy birthday. do you want to tell us which one? >> sixty. >> it says on the sign there. duh. happy birthday. let's see what we've got for your weather today. the heat 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[ male announcer ] watch the adventure at freshpedition.com back now at 7:39 with the california family rescued on a steep and snowy mountainside in idaho after walking away from a small plane crash. we'll talk with them exclusively in just a moment. but first savannah has their story. savannah. >> when california captain and his family set off on a memorial day weekend, he never imagined their plane would crash into an idaho forest. thanks to some modern technology and a dedicated group of rescuers, they all survived. >> definitely ready to get back in the seat. >> reporter: brian brown is preparing to head back to work at this firehouse in california, a rescue worker who was grateful for a daring rescue that saved his life and the lives of his wife and daughter. it was memorial day weekend, brown, his wife jay ann and daughter had been flying to idaho to see their other daughter heather when they hit bad weather. >> i could still see the mountain terrain and all the clouds. my overall visibility was just very poor. >> their plane a cessna 182 stalled. brown said he had mere moments to prepare his family for the worst case scenario. >> i had really just about enough time to tell the girls on the plane, i'm sorry, i don't think we're going to make it. i love you. >> seconds later the plane crashed. >> i very vividly remember the entire impact and i guess you could say waking up first. >> stranded for hours, injured, the browns huddled together in the darkness and freezing cold until the silence was broken by a familiar sound, a cell phone ringtone. ♪ dancing queen >> a call came through from tabit tabitha, which meant a miracle. they had cell phone service. >> i think i reacted like a mother, what does tabitha want? what does tabitha want? i don't care. call 911. >> i'm on an airplane and i crashed. i'm in the mountains. >> where are you at,00? >> i'm at 29 miles east or west of mountain home, idaho. i need you to send a search party please. >> rescuers with the national guard fought against whiteout conditions, six-foot snowdrift and 60 degree slopes. it took almost 15 hours to reach the crash site. brown says divine intervention gave his family a second chance at life. >> we did have an opportunity to stay on this world longer and we have to make good with it. >> well, that cell phone came in handy in another way. the browns used an app for strobe light to help rescuers rescue them from overhead. >> thank you. the brown family is joining us exclusively, brown, jay ann and heather on the plane heading to visit their sister and daughter tabitha howell. good morning to all of you. watching that story and reliving all of this brought up a lot of emotion for all of you. are you here in part because you want to heal a bit? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i've told you before that just the opportunity to be able to get the story, you know, off our chest, out of our minds has been a big part of the healing process for us. >> what are the most touching moments hearing that you told your family you loved them. you weren't going to make it, right before this happened. you had time to do that. how did you know you weren't going to make it. >> i recognized the stall characteristics coming on the airplane, the feel of the controls and even on the instrumentation. and just knew what the amount of altitude we had that i wasn't going to be able to clear the next ridge line. and so again, the stall just happened. i reacted to it to try and bring the nose up. >> and crashed belly first, which may have been a move that helped save your life. jay ann, when you awake from being unconscious, describe what you were seeing and feeling. >> well, it was dark. i was surprised. i didn't really react to anything. it was all very unreal to me, but i was glad to see that my husband and my daughter were okay and just changed god we were still -- okay, god, we're still here. >> your goal number one, to survive. then you had to face the freezing cold, incredible temperatures, incredible cold. you're dressed for summer. heather, i understand you gave up the blanket. why did you make sure your parents had the blanket. you had one blanket. >> we did. we had one blanket for the whole trip that i happened to just bring because i was cold that morning. because both of my parents had suffered head injuries, i had kind of known just from natural instinct, hey, head injuries, they need to stay warm more. it's more important for them to stay warm than it is for me to stay warm because i didn't have any injuries, visual injuries at that point. >> at that point, you didn't think a cell phone would work. why? why wasn't a cell phone supposed to work, ryan? >> we were in the mountain areas pretty deep. i've never had luck with a cell phone working in the mountain areas at all. >> it was tabitha's call that gave you hope. you processed that, that your call told them the cell phone would work. what do you think about that? >> it's -- you know, you mentioned before, the first miracle. it's just -- to think that set off their chain of hope, that's not what i was trying to do. i was just worried where my family was. they were very late. i was waiting to pick them up, ready for a visit. you know, just so thankful that i didn't hesitate any longer to find out what's going on. >> heather, why "dancing queen." >> it's actually not my phone. it's kind of been misinterpreted it was my phone. it was actually my mom's cell phone that i found. that just happened to be what -- it's one of those silly songs from her college days that -- just one of those fun songs. >> did you pick the "dancing queen" song? >> i picked the "dancing queen" song when tabitha was in college. the girls would get together on saturday morning and start cleaning the whole dorm room. everybody would put the song "dancing queen" on because it was motivational and upbeat. it's just silly. >> just what you needed to hear at that moment. >> there's really no reason other than that. >> well, it worked. >> yes. >> a couple of miracles. thank you so much for joining us. i hope in some ways it will make you feel a little better to get this off your chest. >> thank you. >> coming up next, a new tell-all from rielle hunter, what she's revealing about her affair with john edwards and what the relationship is like now that's coming up right after this. 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west side at baltimore national pie, you can see the inner and outer loop looking quite sluggish. tony has a check of the forecast. >> good morning. indeed, some scattered showers right now. not steady rain but widespread but hit and miss showers at the present time. you can see steady rain out of the mountains and drifting toward -- a pretty good chance you will run into a rain shower at one point or another during the day and it should last off and on all the way through the early afternoon. it is dry at the airport. 52 degrees, southeast wind at two or 3 miles an hour. showers off and on, not a steady rain, often on showers but maybe a peek at the sun late this afternoon. best chance will be during late morning and early afternoon. high-temperature only 76 degrees. if you like the summer heat, just around the corner, up to 87 tomorrow, 92 on wednesday at 94 on thursday with a heat index in the upper 90's. up 8:00 now on monday morning, the 18th of june, 2012. a cool start to the workday in manhattan, just 60 degrees at this hour on the plaza. al says you could go to record high temperatures later in the week. meantime i'm ann curry along song david gregory in for matt this morning and the aforementioned mr. roker. just ahead we'll get the news from the 26-year-old son of sharon and ozzy osbourne. >> he just became a father but was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. we'll find out what they are saying about the diagnoses. >> then lighten things up a bit, talk with oscar nominated actor mark wahlberg. he's here starring opposite a foul mouthed teddy bear in the new movie ted. you know when the create are of "family guy" is involved things will probably go horribly wrong. >> all right. that looks like a lot of fun. also want to mention a programming note. thursday on "today," matt will have an exclusive interview with madonna badger. she's the mother who lost her three children and parents in a house fire last christmas. she's going to talk about why she's coping and why the story we've all been hearing about how the fire started is being questioned. we'll share that thursday on "today" and much more thursday night on rock center with brian williams. >> all right. we want to head inside now to savannah guthrie in for natalie. good morning. >> reporter: morning. the defense today presents its side in the sexual abuse trial of former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. on sunday sandusky was evaluated by a state psychiatrist after defense lawyers revealed they plan to reveal he suffers from a rare psychiatric disorder, that disorder describes some of sandusky's odd behavior. they insist he never sexually abused a child. sandusky is charged with abusing ten boys over a 15-year period. the prime suspect in the disappearance of american robyn gardner in aruba is on the offensive. jeff rossen with the latest on that story. >> reporter: good morning. robin has been missing almost a year now an presumed dead. police still believe he was involved. his possible motive, they say, an insurance policy he took out on her. now he wants the insurance money suing american express for $3.5 million. it's the latest twist in this mystery in paradise, what happened to robyn gardner who vanished in aruba. her traveling cam uponion said they went snorkeling together. the water got rough and she never made it out but nothing went wrong. police never bought his story and found it suspicious he took out travel insurance on robin's life. but still aruban authorities didn't have enough to charge him. he was released and went home to maryland. now he filed a lawsuit against american express to collect on the insurance policy demanding $3.5 million saying robyn lynn gardener is presumed to be released and amex has a duty to pay the full death benefit. robyn's friends are furious. >> it infuriates me gary would have the nerve to do that. >> amex hasn't paid him telling nbc news it's too soon. when someone is presumed dead, the claim would not be evaluated until 365 days after the incident. it's only been 10 months since robyn disappeared. but he says they owe him millions and defends the policy to "dateline" in november. >> if you take out insurance and something happens to your loved ones, you're a murderer to the rest of the world? i think that's ridiculous. >> i spoke to him by phone over the weekend. he told me the lawsuit speaks for itself but would not comment beyond that. police in aruba says he remains the prime suspect and they are working with fbi analyzing his laptop and cell phone. savannah. >> jeff rossen, thank you. a spectacular crash in sunday's 24 hour race sent the car somersaulting through the air and into a barricades. doctors say anthony suffered shock and back injuries, too. now for a look at what's trending today. a quick roundup of what has you talking online. epersonality giuliana rancic says the baby she and her husband bill are having through a surrogate is a boy. they kept friends and followers guessing with the invite for the baby shower saying blue or pink, what do you think? it's blue. lindsay lohan back to work after a health scares that sent paramedics to her penthouse. producers of the movie called after lohan failed to come out of her room as scheduled a sleepy but otherwise okay lindsay tweeted, note to receive after working 85 hours over four days and up all night shooting, be very aware you might pass out from exhaustion. american greeting struck gold with this viral father's day rap that proves dad can be cool despite their wardrobe. >> i'm rocking my dockers with a cuff and crease. st. john's bay. i look nice. i've got dozen of dollars. that's right. go straits to my daughters and my wife ♪ i'm a miracle dad making magic ♪ >> jokes about other paternal perks like minivans, riding mowers and being king of the backyard grill. it is now 8:06 and back to our king of the grill, al, with a check of the weather. >> i have three out of the four, just don't have 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[ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil®. and if pain keeps you up, sleep better with advil pm®. son of ozzy and sharon osbourne going public with a very personal health crisis. tamron has the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. 26-year-old osbourne has been a fixture on reality question and just became a father. now he's opening up about his battle with multiple sclerosis. jack osbourne is used to being in the spotlight, growing up in one of hollywood's most eccentric and beloved families. but now the son of legendary rocker ozzy osbourne and nbc's "america's got talent" sharon osbourne tells "people" magazine he's been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. in an exclusive interview he tells people, "i was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking why now?" he also said, "i've got a family. and that's what's supposed to be the most important thing." the news of the illness reportedly came only two weeks after he and his fiancee became the proud parents of their daughter born in april, seen here on the cover of british malsewn hello! with proud grandmother sharon osbourne. sharon recently and on "today" and spoke about the new edition to their family. >> it's been just an amazing time in my life. it's something i didn't think was going to happen so soon. it's just been a blessing. it's fantastic. >> on sunday jack tweeted, this the best father's day i've ever had. recently the proud father tweeted pictures of his newborn when he brought his daughter to work. multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system and can impair one's ability to do things like walk and see clearly. >> it's a very treatable disease. generally it's felt the sooner you start treatment the better. >> jack, are you losing weight? >> since his reality tv days osbourne has sported a slimmer physique. despite his admitted struggle with substance abuse in the past, more recently the birth of his daughter has seemingly brought new meaning to his life. experts say there will be challenges that lie ahead. >> typically there's going to be a need for medication as well as potentially the need for physical therapy, particularly those where motor function is affected. >> there's no known cure for multiple sclerosis but there are therapies that may help slow the disease. ann. >> all right. tamron, thank you. kate coin a senior editor at "people" magazine. dr. nancy snyder man is nbc's chief medical editor. good morning to you. interviewed both jack and his mother after the diagnosis, what did they tell you? >> obviously they are devastated and still coming to terms with what this all means. obviously it's been said quite a bit that multiple sclerosis is very treatable. it is not, however, curable. in jack's case he's already had some very severe symptoms. this is not something that's been easy on the family at all. >> describe the symptoms. >> the most notable and prominent recently, he's lost 60% of his vision in one eye, which is profound and terrifying and really was the crisis that spurred him to get a diagnosis. he had had the tingling in the extremities, a known symptom, but dismissed that. it was when he suddenly woke up and could not see out of one eye that he realized something was very wrong. >> 26 years old, doctor, how rare is it for a young man of this age to be diagnosed. >> it's unusual for a young man to be diagnosed. we usually think this is a female disease between the ages of 20 and 40. he he saw something very important, no matter who is hit it's a diagnosis of exclusion. a lot of times young men will go in and say they lost muscle mass or numbness and tingling. then through mris and analysis of spinal fluids, doctors have to figure out what it isn't then the diagnosis of ms is made. >> how is jack treating his disease? >> he's working with a team of physicians. he's exploring medication options. he's obviously doing everything he can to return to a very active, very functioning state. but it has its challenges. >> what kind of treatment options are there? you say it is not a genetic disease. >> it's not genetic. we don't really know what the triggers are. a lot of people are trying to figure out is there something in the immune system that goes haywire, a virus that turns an on and off switch. the medications out there are immune modulators. they are medications that make the immune system more responsible. it's likely with a good team of doctors he's going to have a robust and wonderful life. but he's going to have to keep really good diaries of possible triggers that make episodes come and go. hopefully he'll have a couple of episodes, the vision problems and numbness and then go long periods with nothing, then some episodes down the line. >> when you say episodes -- >> another episode of numbness and tingling, stumbling, not feeling well. any organ system in the body can be affected by ms. every nerve has insulation around it. ms attacks that insulation so that the electrical impulses from the brain to the tips of your fingers and toes don't work as well. he's going to have to be really in tune with his body. >> recently a lot has been made about ann romney having ms and using horse back riding as a therapy. can horse back riding be used as a therapy. >> ann romney uses mind -- body. meditation, massage, all those things that make the mind and body stronger can be an integral part of ms. >> great information. thank you. kate, thank you so much, "people" magazine. coming up next, mark wahlberg is going back to high school in his outrageous new comedy right after this. with being fed on. we demand k9 advantix ii. it not only kills fleas and ticks, it repels most ticks before they can attach and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn't repel. and a tick that isn't repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. so let's put our paws down in protest and raise our barks to rally till we all get k9 advantix ii. join us at poochprotest.com. 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[ male announcer ] watch the adventure at freshpedition.com [ female announcer ] real fruit... means real fruit smoothies from mccafé. real delicious and made just for you. ♪ back now at 8:21. if you're looking for a sweet coming of age film about a young boy and his best friend, ted may not be for you. mark wahlberg plays jonbenet etta grown man who deals with his cherished teddy bear who came to life after a childhood dream. >> i'm going to rattle off names. brandy, seren, a dakota, samantha, autumn, tammy, shantelli krista, cassandra, nikki, shawn, chloe, becky. >> no. >> was it any one of those names with a lynn after it? >> yes. >> i got you. >> brandy lynn, heather lynn -- >> brandy lynn. >> mark wahlberg. >> take some of the curses out of there. you had a little bit of a boston accent when you said john. >> being around you. i have watched the departed so many times. >> a lot in the departed. we could have used you. i thought george clooney was lazy when we did "the perfect storm" because he didn't do a boston accent but he's smart. >> if it's not right. talk about "ted." you've got to go on a journey with this movie. you're a grown man, a teddy bear, foul mouth, beer drinking, frat boy -- >> he does a lot more than drink beer. that's put it mildly. >> when i first heard the content, i wasn't really that excited about it. i said, this is not for me. i read the script. thirty pages into it i forgot about the bear. it was a great relationship movie about a solemn, a, a best friend to spend time with and girlfriend he needs to grow up and be an adult for. the craziness that goes on in this movie is out of control. >> you like to have a few laughs. think about "the fighter," "the departed," "the italian job" contraband. what is it about something like this that throws you a little curve that's appealing. >> i play a very different character in this. he's not a physical guy at all. there's actually one physical altercation in the movie but it's with me and a 12-year-old boy. you know, i punch this kid in the face in the movie. he's a big disney star. he's on one of these disney shows my kids watch. i'm watching the show and said oh, my god, i punched him in the face. she was like, you better not. it was not in my movie. it's so different. the man that wrote and directed the movie, voices ted is such a talented guys. everyone is saying it's one of the funniest comedies they have seen in a long time. >> you're not a guy growing up in boston hanging out with your teddy bear. do you relate with the character. >> you always find something you can identify with. the thing i identify most with is the dilemma he was facing in the movie. when i met my wife i was living with five or six friends, my small entourage. my wife was like, i love you, i like your friends. if this is how you're going to live, this is not going to work for us. >> i know how involved a dad you are. we were talking about kids. with father's day, one of the things you're doing as a great example for your kids is going back and getting your diploma. >> i have wanted to do it for a long time. it became available to do it online, with a tutor, not necessarily spending time in a classroom. i don't want my kids saying, dad, you didn't finish school, i look at my kids science and i don't know what it is. it's another language. to be able to help her, something i wanted to do, it's important. >> you have a great father's day. >> i had a great father's day. i only enjoyed half of it, the other half i spent on a plane coming to new york. father's day only one day a year, mother's day went on for three our four days. >> we could work to expand this. >> my wife is such an amazing mother and wife. she has a far more important job and responsibility. look how lucky i am. she's so gorgeous. >> absolutely. two quick ones. are you going to bring entourage to the big screen. >> doug allen is writing the script now. >> also i remember reading about the whitey bulger story, whether you'd want to pursue that. how is that going? >> i have no involvement in it. "the departed" was kind of a telling of that story to a certain extent. now there's 50 people clamoring to tell the real story. >> we've got to go. mark wahlberg, thanks so much. back after your local news. >> good morning. i'm mindy basara. let's get a final check on your morning commute with traffic pulse 11 and kim dacey. >> a lot to talk about. a pair of accidents west side beltway not helping things. in a move approaching 70, multi- deal will crash and another on the outer loop approach in liberty, usually congested already. timonium and green spring crash. harford county, -- franklinville road. monument and madison at charles street. harbor tunnel, crash reported as well. another one northbound 95 right at 100 in howard county. a light look at some of the delays. beltway at northwest corner of old court road. the wet roads and not helping things. the inner and outer loop backing down in both areas. outer loop so all the way down the west side and a number of all the way to the jfk. further south of baltimore national pie, you can see still very sluggish in both directions on the south corner. tony, over to you. >> obviously a little rain to contend with and it will be with us all the and on and looks like least through the middle of the day and this wave of showers coming out of the mountains. it is not raining at your house yet it probably will be in the next half-hour or 45 minutes. 62 of the airport, drive their but the rain getting ready to move into northern part of anne arundel county. temperatures only making it into the mid 70's this afternoon with on an offering showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. if you like summer weather, at 87 on tuesday and ended 90's wednesday and thursday. >> thank you for joining us. an update at 8:56. here you go little man. 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[ giggles ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios ♪ she thinks my tractor's sexy >> 8:30 on monday morning, june 18th, 2012. a pretty day. it's 61 degrees. always nice to have people here. i'm ann curry with david gregory in for matt. he's having a week's vacation. coming up this morning we'll be talking about a lot of things, including have you ever had a great idea, vision, something you really wanted to create. we have some advice. meet a woman who created a wonderful business, who is a mom, created a business, very successful. weighing in on the kinds of things you need to be thinking about so you, too, can be successful as a business person. >> cool. i have lots of those ideas but they don't get past the first person i talk to. >> how about a show in d.c. where you get together and talk about things day to day. >> you need a reporter. also coming up, is weight loss surgery for teens actually a decent idea, safe and effective in the long run? take a look at some new research and hear from one teenager who has been through it. >> jenna bush hager is here. she has a great interview with one of the biggest names in country music, loretta lynn, the original coal miner's daughter. she's still performing at 80 years old. she has a new book out about her remarkable life, her songs, jenna will share that coming up. speaking of country music, this friday on our plaza, the one and only kenny chesney will be here. he wants you to pick one of eight songs. just head to our website, details on today.com, as opposed to our camera guy kenny. >> there's a certain resemblance. >> no relation. >> he doesn't sing but kenny can't run a camera so that works out well. >> i think dave is blushing. >> let's get a check of the weather why don't we. >> we'll look ahead. a risk of strong storms around the upper great lakes. wet weather in the upper northwest. windy conditions northern california, sunshine along eastern seaboard. central minnesota, showers in the pacific northwest. sizzling from the southwest texas hot into the gulf coast. nice and mild here in the northeast. however, that heat will be building later this week into the northeast and new england and atlantic s don't forget, ge weather any time you need it, go to weather channel on cable, weather.com. >> did you make that -- al, thank you very much. up next here, how moms can turn a good idea into a moneymaking business. this is "today" on nbc. and that's our quarterly wrap-up -- any thoughts? 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that's a focus group. that's what advertising geniuses do, focus group. >> be honest. >> an nda, nondisclosure agreement. one page. before you show me the idea, please take a look at this page. >> surround yourself in the focus group with people you love. the other thing, some people are thinking, i'm in this job, i love this job, i need the time, this time to focus on the business. would you recommend somebody leaving a job? >> you don't have to. set an hour, two hours aside, the same way you do if you want to work out, meet friends. it forces you to be more efficient. here is another thing, get your kids involved. a great way to bond with your kids. when i had my show 'n' the big idea" i can't tell you the amount of women talking about businesses with women, about their children, great way. >> people say you can't do it. no, no, no. that's stupid. spend too much money. >> no. the thing is you feel so alive. beyond making money. there's so many women i say, if you have a business, it's like having another child. it's a passion, makes you feel alive. there's so many moms that dedicated their lives to raising their families. they go, but what's mine? this can be yours. it's not your husband's, your kids, it's yours. do it. if you met the amount of millionaires not that smart, you would be empowered. >> fundamentally at the core of this you're saying that mothers, stay at home moms have a lot of wisdom about things of value that the rest of us need. >> they are the ceos of every day life. basically when you're managing a home, the key word is managing. you're running lives, running the business of your home. now translate that into the passion of money. >> i love your excitement. i think you've inspired people this morning. much more coming up this morning including country music legend loretta lynn, still going strong at the age of 80. jenna bush hager catches up with her this morning. first this is ni that's now at 8:44. when you think of country music royalty, loretta lynn's name is at the top of the list. she's still going strong at the age of 80. correspondent jenna bush hager recently got to catch up with her. good morning. >> good morning. there's nothing fake or forced about loretta lynn. she's as real as the kentucky mountain she was raised in where she began writing the songs that now define her. ♪ >> loretta lynn's life has always been a song. >> i'd be out here singing and swinging and rocking the babies. daddy would open the door and say loretta, hush your mouth, people all over this holler can hear you. i'd say, daddy, they are all our cousins, who cares. >> reporter: as a child, she was painfully shy and had to be pushed to perform on stage. now 50 years later. >> going on stage is like coming home because i've been there so long. >> her life was made famous by the book and the movie coal miner's daughter. her hits and grammys she says all come from her country roots. >> i was born the coal miner's daughter in a cabin on the hill in butcher holler. >> her songs are simply the stories of her life. >> there's a story behind every day. don't come home drinkin' with loving on your mind. i had to put myself into a home or i couldn't write it. in the new book, honky tonk girl, it gives insight into her life. she talks about when she wrote songs and how she wrote songs that became legends. she says her beloved husband, she calls dew, who passed away in 1996 would complain every time she wrote a new song, because he knew most of the time the song was about his cheating. ♪ sometimes a man caught looking at things he don't need ♪ >> can't a man doing nothing. >> was it kind of a way to say, there, you think you got by with it. you're crazy. i knew all about it. >> outspoken and headstrong, she took on the social issues of the time. birth control. >> i got the pill. >> divorce. >> when you're a has been or a woman -- >> and became an unexpected pure country voice for millions of women. it was as if she was reading their minds. >> i think all women go through the same thing in their minds if not in their actions. >> she looks back fondly remembering her childhood home. >> there's the table. >> which is now replicated in her tennessee visitor's ranch and museum. >> that was her first million selling album. >> she smiles at the handmade cloth dresses of her youth and grins at her now signature sequinned gowns. >> one of my favorite is the green. >> the green one. >> truly looking forward is what she does best. >> how do you think you've stayed so current. >> try to write what people are living today. you don't want to let your mind go i'm too old to do this. i'm not. i think i can go out and do exactly what i want to. >> she sure does. at 80, she still brings in the crowds at her live concerts. >> when you're sitting there hearing the audience clapping for you, what goes through your mind? >> you love them and they love you back. >> she even performed with a broken rib. and she shows the youngsters a thing or two. ♪ >> she recorded an album with a musician some 50 years her junior, jack white, which won two grammys. garth brooks recently called her sexy and cool. >> does that make you blush? >> not really. i kind of like it. >> i don't blame you. >> i want to look sexy as long as i'm out here. >> always sexy and cool, loretta lynn is still working hard and living her life and lyrics. so it's pretty amazing a broken rib didn't keep her from performing. when she came on stage, she said she had a new dress and she was going to wear it. she really is an incredibly hard worker of she plans to keep filling her own song book with the story she's living. including a new broadway show coming out, "coal miner's daughter." >> amazing life. >> and she makes great chicken and dumplings. >> on top of that. jenna bush hager. you had some. >> i had some. delicious. >> thank you so much. coming up next, an interesting new look at president obama's early years. "today" on nbc. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey t cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. coming up on 8:52 now with a new look at the early years of president barack obama. the author is out with a biography how the president struggles with identity that put him on a path to the white house house, "the story of barack obama." we met yesterday and here we are again. a lot of this book is about what barack obama as a young man had to resolve about his own life. a lot of dysfunction in his life. >> pretty much so. he never knew his father. his mother loved him but wasn't around that often. here he is growing up in honolulu further than any land mass in the world. half black, half white. dysfunction in the family, alcoholism. all these problems he had to resolve. from the time he started college until the time he left chicago as a community organizer to get to harvard law school, 10 years of his life, i found he spent an extraordinary amount of time trying to resolve those contraics dids, emotionally, spiritually, racially, and he really worked it out to a degree that helped him get to the white house. in some ways it hurt him as president of the united states. >> talk about that piece, where it's hurt him. >> well, it's a sense if he can resolve all of these contradictions, why can't congress, the country, why so much polarization. he came in -- became famous because of his speech in 2004 at the democratic convention where he said there's no blue states or red states but the united states. sort of an attempt on his part to transcend all that. the politics of the country, not his forte. president clinton a much better survivor dealing with congress and people in a way barack obama is not comfortable with. >> you write about the difference between those two presidents. when it comes to ambition, where did the ambition to become the leader of the free world come from in a young barack obama. >> i think it came from his mother. she didn't have the same type of ambition but inculcated the idea he had to do good, great things with his life, expected great things from him. it was diffuse ambition. it wasn't until he got to chicago and he understood what power meant that he started the ambition to become president. >> you spoke to the president for a period of time. it's interesting. here in the book you take on his auto bag rafe, "dreams of my father." you talk about inconsistencies, talk in greater detail about pot smoking as a young person. letters from former loves. how did he react to all that? >> he's a writer himself. when i first interviewed him, he said, david, your introduction i let him read, it's interesting he called my book fiction. i said, no, mr. president, it's literature. it wasn't i was trying to fact check everything in his bag rafe but i wanted to get the story right. he didn't quite with me about it but it was an interesting conversation. >> was he forthcoming about these additional details? >> in most cases he said, you're probably right. a lot of the mythology was passed to him that he didn't check. his stepgrandfather in indonesia he thought died fighting the dutch in the anti-colonial war. in fact, the man died of a heart attack following off an otto man changing the drapes in the living room. he didn't check that. when i told him the reality of many of those things, he said you're probably right. >> twenty seconds. the president is the leader he is. how do we understand that based on where he's come from? >> i think everything about him is his desire to avoid traps. he had the trap of coming out of hawaii, of being biracial, of being in chicago politics. every step along the way he's tried to figure out what the trap is and how he can get around it. now he's in the biggest trap of his life, running for re-election. >> barack obama, the book. back after your local news. >> good morning. i'm mindy basara. here is a look at one of our top stories. 20 point -- 22-year-old charged and second-degree murder in the back of his girlfriend's 1-year old daughter. charging documents say thomas shook the child so violently she reportedly suffered a seizure. he died at th>> the morning, ev. little rain in the picture today after a beautiful weekend. often on rain showers, especially in the middle of the day. high-temperature on the 76. if you like the summer heat, just around the corner. 92 on wednesday. >> thank you for joining us. we will of another weather we will of another weather update

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