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From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to today on a thursday morning. We got a breaking story at this hour. That deadly terrorist attack at a university in kenya. It is still going on right now. Nbc has the latest. Kelly, good morning to you. Reporter savannah good morning the students who escaped are describing a terrifying morning, awaking to gunfire in their college dormtories one telling the Associated Press the masked gunmen asked the students that they were christian or muslims, then shot christian students on the spot. All of this started at 5 00 a. M. Local time. Its still ongoing and there are reports, unconfirmed reports of hostages. Ambulances rushed out with the injured. More than 60 so far, while Police Rushed in. There were gunshots all around us. And they started jumping up and down running for their life. Reporter at least 52 sought out according to kenyan red cross. But an unknown number are still there, caught in a gun battle between militants and police. Garissa university in the northeast, a hundred miles from somalia. Local to al shabaab. Kenyan troops have made inroads against the terrorist group sense the attack on a mall in nairobi two years ago. Across africa the Terror Threat appears to be threat militants fighting in the north, boka haram in the west swearing allegiance to isis. In somalia, the Al Qaedalinked al shabaab. This morning they are in lockdown. Police say the militants are cornered. And just in the past few minutes, the official twitter accounts of the interior ministry for kenya, there are reports that one suspected terrorist was arrested trying to flee that college campus. Government officials are still trying to account for about 500 students and, savannah as i mentioned, this is still ongoing. Kelly, i know you will be watching. Thank you very much. Other news recovering overnight what could be progress that those ongoing talks of Irans Nuclear program. Leaders back at it this morning in switzerland after pulling an allnighter. Nbc chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell is there. Andrea good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you and here in switzerland, they went until 6 105 this morning, matt you know those hours, then took a couple hours off for sleep, they were back at it afterwards. The Iranian Foreign minster says there have been substantial progress still issues to be involved. He indicated there could be an official statement today. Officials at the white house and state house are saying thats possible. John kerry then went into meetings with all the other allies now they are deciding if its good enough. The other night, late tuesday night our time tuesday night, the president by Video Conference told kerry to blow past the march 31st self imposed american deadline if necessary and if necessary walk away from the deal if iran wont compromise. Matt. Andrea we have already gone past one deadline now working into today. What if by the end of today they decide theres still too much of a divide bridge. What are the ramifications of what you just said walking away completely . Reporter there are a lot. First of all, what they announced today, if they announced it its going to be less than they originally had hoped for, matt. There are now some constraints on the nuclear program, but they have a lot to do to hope for in the next couple of months to resolve the real details before an iron clad agreement. Now it appears that may not even happen that it might not be good enough and then listen to a lot of criticism, either way, critics in congress are poised to impose sanctions and to try to say this is a bad strategy, iran hasnt compromised enough and the u. S. Should walk away from this deal. So its going to be a real challenge. The president and kerry are being criticized for wanting it too much. Matt. All right, thanks, for the headline some progress still a lot to be done. Theres a lot riding on it for the administration. Meanwhile, back here at home whats happening in the midwest al . Thats right. It will be the second day of a threeday outbreak. We are just now entering the severe time of the year especially by tornadoes. This past march, we only had about ten tornadoes, thats the lowest since 19 skievenlt but as you can see, april, we by average jump up to 227 nation wide. May the peak at 270. So heres whats happening right now. Chicago is seeing severe storms. We are looking at heavy thunderstorms now from nebraska into parts of iowa. We got all this moist air funneling up colder air back behind it. So that convergence zone weve got a risk of Severe Weather right now, stretching anywhere from springfield, little rock memphis, but an enhanced risk from evansville into southern missouri. This is where we could be looking at Severe Weather, especially tornadoes. It lasts on into tomorrow the risk of severe stretching from eastern texas all the way up into nashville, huntsville again, this is the area we will be most concerned. Its thursday night into friday overnight is where we could see some of the strongest storms. Thats one of the postdangerous times. We will be watching this. There is a lot of rain as well flash flooding will be a real concern. Thank you very much. Some big news out of indiana when it comes to that states uproar or the uproar over that states controversial religious freedom law. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is at the state house in indianapolis. Gabe what can you tell us . Matt good morning, state republican lawmakers have called a joint Youth Conference with Business Leaders outlying what they call a legislative fix to this controversial law. Now and they want to make it clear that it does not discriminate and now with arkansass governor resigning that states version of the bill this is quickly becoming a political hot potato as its headed to 2016. This morning, the battle between religious liberty and gay rights is already shaping up. The 2016 president ial race. Wednesday, just before Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson decided not to sign his states current version of the religious freedom bill. First lady of arkansas and likely white house hopeful Hillary Clinton encouraged him to veto pleading it would be unfair discrimination against americans. In 1993 it was her husband, president bill clinton who signed a federal version of the state law currently under fire. But as hutchinson noted, times have changed. And there is clearly a generational debt on this issue. My son, seth signed the petition asking me dad, the governor to veto this bill. Reporter the issue now putting two wings of the gop at odds. Social conservatives versus Business Leaders. Senator ted cruz as of now the only official candidate to announce saying today we are facing a concerted assault on the first amendment. Other potential contenders weighing in carefully. This is simply allowing people of con people of faith, ah space to be able to express their beliefs. I dont think americans want to discriminate against anyone. I understand the laws not unlike the one that president obama voted for. Many republican candidates have been trying to find a way to not sound like theyre antigay rights without alienated christians. A recent wall street journal poll found 59 of americans now support gay marriage up from 30 in 2004 but a pugh poll last year found americans slid on businesses denying services to same sex couples. If there is any good news for republicans on this issue right now is that its happening in 2015 and not 2016. Reporter ahead of the final four lawmakers here want to get it done quickly. Arkansas lawmakers want to do the same. Both could come as early as today, matt. Gabe thank you very much. In politics one of the most influential democrats in swaug gearing washington is gearing up for a fight. New jersey senator Robert Menendez says she outraged by thesing a sakess. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah new jersey senator bob menendez will be in federal court today. Hes at a rare kind of trouble when you think that only 12 times in our countrys long history has a u. S. Senator been indicted. Menendez faces 14 counts. Hes preparing a friendship defense. Calling himself angry and toured fight. This is not how my career is going to end. Reporter new jersey senator Robert Menendez denied federal corruption charges. His take no questions statement invokes english and spanish. He was off camera dressing a course of shouting supporters. The 61yearold democrat says federal prosecutors got it wrong. Im angry because prosecutors at the Justice Department dont know the difference between friendship and corruption. Reporter menendez pay call it corruption prosecutors say the senator crossed the line doing political favors in return for gifts from his longtime friends, wealthy florida eye doctor melgen. They say he sought and accepted from melgen lavish trouble, flights and nights in a luxury paris home use of the caribbean villa, expensive meals and golf outings. But melgen do nalted hundreds of nows to his campaign funds. In exchange the indictment claims he went to bat for melgen interviewing in a dispute over how much he was paid by medicare pressuring the state department over his multimillion dollar cargo contract in the Dominican Republic and influences immigration officials to grant visas to melgens quote foreign girlfriendss. They have to prove whatever the senator did, he did because of the money. Not because of the friendship. And the senators friend dr. Melgen was also charged in the same die. He had previously denied any wrongdoing. Menendez says he will not resign his seat but he has temporarily given up his high profile post on the Senate Foreign relations committee. Kelly odonnell, thank you very much. Now a landmark verdict in 21 of the largest cheating scandals if u. S. History. Nearly a dozen et indicators in atlanta accused of altering grades and test scores. Heres our education correspondent rehema ellis. We the jury find the defendant guilty. Reporter 11 out of 12 defendants convicted monday concluding a trial that lasted more than six months has featured over 160 witnesses, including some teachers. It was pressure thats unnecessary. Reporter nearly a dozen former teachers and administrators found guilty of manipulating test scores and grades of the Young Students they taught. In some cases, receiving bonuses and additional funding for the inflated high scores at the expense of the childrens education. We have been fighting for the children in our community, particularly those children who were implied by these teams. Reporter testimony from students themselves helped clinch the verdict, like this teenager whose test scores were altered. Im not in high school reading. Im still in middle school reading, i think its the 6th grade reading level. Reporter it was a culture of collusion so coordinated that some teachers even spoke of having socalled cheating parties. We met. Is that what you met with your colleagues . Reporter the conviction of racketeering typically applies to mobsters and organized crime, now identified with former educators, facing up to 20 years in prison. They have made their bed, theyre going to have to lie in it. It starts today. Reporter rehema ellis, nbc news new york. Thats discouraging. Think about teachers cheating. Meanwhile, lets turn to natalie. We have news on the overnight plane crash in the alps. They have interviewed the parents of the doomed flight that crashed in the alps. Katie is in cologne with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, there was a News Conference from the traffic minister here saying they will look into the cockpit locking mechanism and decide whether or not they went a little too far with the safety precautions after 9 11. They will look into psychological testing, see where they can improve on that. As you say, german prosecutors say they have interviewed Andreas Lubitzs parents. They are not sure if they have enough information before the Easter Holiday break t. Ceo of lufthansa went to the incredible state of mourning up there. They say they feel angry they cannot go back to their every day life. Meanwhile, in the alps recovery workers are trying to gather what they can of personal effects to give them back to family members, but, obviously, that is very slow going up there. As for Andreas Lubitz they are reporting the leading theory has to do with his fear of losing his eyesight and 16tally his pilots license. Not very many details here now. Not confirmed by prosecutors as everybody is wrapping up for the easter break. Natalie, back to you. Katy tur in cologne, thank you. The first ever water restriction is issued in california by the governor. The one on the left was taken in july 2011 t. One on the right was taken in august of 2014. You see the difference there. Mountain snow is crucial to californias water supply have reached record lows. On wednesday, governor jerry brown ordered residents and commercial users to cut their water use by 25 . Four people were killed when a huge ball of flames engulfed in the oil platform in the gulf of mexico. The fire sent some 300 terrified workers fleeing into the sea. Mexico run oil company says 16 workers were injured. Two seriously. They say the cause of the fire is still being investigate. And you just never know when you might need to take a call make a text take a selfie. Itis even good in the middle of a boxing match. Look carefully, you can see a cell phone there fall out of marvin jones shorts. The referee had to stop the fight to get the phone and hand it to jones corner t. Fight went on to resume. Jones went on to lose but by a knockout. He will probably not post that on instagram. Fogout. How about that style. That would be so uncomfortable. A cartoon character. Natalie, thank you. Where was he keeping that exactly . In the pocket. Right. There you go. Either way, lets look at whats going on around the rest of the country. We got a nice day in the pacific northwest. A few showers inland. We got gorgeous weather, down in the gulf coast, temperatures in the 80s there. Windy conditions down through the southwest on into southern california. We will g and do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband . To have and to hold. For better or worse, in sickness and in health. I cant what . Lisa wait ahh god taxes are your year, only much simpler. You can handle simpler. Intuit turbotax. Its amazing what youre pable of. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright nine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow. 70 after morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. And a few showers still around saturday morning. Then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday. But sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Thank you, al. That video we showed you on wednesday of a new York Police Officer berating an uber driver. Willie has been following this story for us. It sounds like the troubles may be just beginning for that officer. Yes, savannah new yorks Police Commissioner is calling the actions of that officer unacceptable. He is now losing his position in one of the departments most elite units. Do you understand me . I dont know what [ bleep ] planet you think you are on right now. Reporter a new york detective assigned to the joint Terrorism Task force with top secret security clearance has been placed on modified duty and transferred after an incident with an uber driver on monday captured on video. Who do you think you are talking to . Reporter the threeminute video was posted by one of the passengers in the uber car. He honked at the detective. He says the officer was trying to park without using blinkers or hazard lights. Stop interrupting me. Reporter the detective tells the driver he has committed three traffic and law violations and then becomes irate using exletives towards the drive. New york Police Commissioner William Bratton on wednesday said the detective was on duty at the time and issued an apology to the driver and passengers. It was with caution that the officer made his job a little bit harder. And that kind of anger like that is unacceptable. That officers behavior reflected poorly on everyone who wears a uniform. Reporter the president of the Detective Union issued a statement saying he should not be judged by one isolated incident. Im not trying to minimize the significance of what occurred. Cops are just like everyone else. They have family friends, other things going on in their lives too, that may affect their behavior at times. Rereached out to the officer and the driver they declined to comment. Uber said the behavior in the video is wrong and unacceptable and we appreciate the nypd investigating the incident. We are in touch with our driverpartner who was subjected to this terrible incident. Guys, another case where social media and an iphone shined a light on something. Has this officer apologized for the driver yet . Not that weve heard of on a personal level, he has not. Coming up, robert durst heads back to court. And an exclusive look inside the hotel room where he spent the last days before his arrest. The dispute that has one family headed to a very different court. Carson. Also coming up the photos of chris rock being stopped by Police Posted online by the comedian himself, that are raising eyebrows. First, this is who is ordering the pope to cut back on the pasta neighborhood and on rossen reports, deal or no deal the startling truth about with walmarts low prices you can trust every day, theres even more to celebrate this easter. Walmart. 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Flames erupting from a tractor trailer carrying cars this morning. Sky force 10 over the scene along i95. This is in delaware county. Just within the past hour. Crews did put out that fire. There are no reports of anyone being hurt. But it did slow down traffic during the morning commute. Lets get a check on that situation and all the traffic from the area. Christine maddelas here with that. Heres a live look right now of that car carrier. Its off to the side here. The situation much improved. Cars are getting by but there still is a delay out there. Just be on the lookout. 420 and 95 northbound. Also on the lincoln highway, an overturned car is off the road there right at the exit on the northbound side. Something to be aware of also. So we are seeing some slowdowns throughout our area due to some accidents. Take a look at your drive times. 26 minutes from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Lets get a check on the first alert forecast from meteorologist bill henley. Vai, its cold outside but weve got bright sunshine. It will warm us from the 20s and 30s into the 60s this afternoon. Right now its 39 degrees in philadelphia. A look at the sun coming off the buildings in center city. Pottstown, 28. Trenton is 31 degrees. And a cold start but we are going to see a big warmup from the 40s in south philadelphia in the middle to upper 60s this afternoon. Gusty winds later today. Thank you, bill. Im vai sikahema. Another update in 25 minutes. Of course get the latest news and weather with the nbc 10 app. Now back to the today show. Well see you in a half hour. Jim kenney. Son of a firefighter. First in his family to go to college. Hes been councilman atlarge, representing the whole city. A progressive voice wholl be a mayor for our neighborhoods. Bringing philadelphia together. Expanding prekindergarten improving our schools. And partnering with businesses, Community Colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. Come out come out back now 7 30 on a thursday morning the 2nd day of april, 2015 a. Pretty view from the top of the Empire State Building to one World Trade Center now to grounds level here in Rockefeller Plaza on a nice morning. Back inside lets take a look at some of the headlines today. Funmen from the Terror Group Al Shabaab have attacked a college in kenya. Theyve killed at least 15 people injuring dozens more and this morning 535 students are still unaccounted for. Some of them we know are being held hostage. Forbe the first time the parents of the copilot of that doomed german flight have been questioned by investigators and Officials Say depending on what this investigation reveals, the parents could be interviewed again. And unprecedented steps are now being taken to deal with the historic drought in california. The governor there jerry brown issuing an executive order to cut water use by 25 state wide. You cant overstate what theyre dealing with right now. Theyre saying its between 500 and a thousand years sense theyve had a drought like this. Incredibly bad situation there. Coming up tomorrow on today, we have an exclusive interview with the father of american sniper chris kyle. What upsets him about the movie american sniper and what he says to people who question whether his son chris kyle was a hero. In the meantime accused murder robert durst is headed back to new orleans. We are learning more about the days and leading up to his arrest. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has exclusive information. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt, robert durst is back in court facing two weapons charges, Authorities Say they found a gun in his hotel room here. They are arresting him for the murder of his friends susan berman. They also say he was on the run. He had started raising ibrows long before his hbo documentary put durst back in the headlines. Robert durst was the kind of celebrity in the then years he lived in houston, hitting autographs and curious neighbors. Not guilty. Reporter in 2003 durst was acquitted of murdering morris black in nearby galveston, a case dubbed texas trial of the century. Its a weird eerie celebrity. Reporter this investigator followedle for years, hired by blacks family. You will find people who want to be photographed with him, want to be around him. Almost like billy the kid. Reporter it drew attention, urinateing in public dressing in womens clothes. We kind of nicknamed her Dorothy Durst after the pseudonym he used in galveston. Reporter the actual pseudonyn he used. They were already tracking dursts movements. After the march 8th episode that appears to living him to the 2000 murder of close friend susan berman in los angeles, Authorities Say durst stopping using his cell phone. Two days later, Authorities Say he packed five suitcases in a car fought renls terd in his name and headed east on interstate 10. They lost his cell phone signal. On wednesday they scrambled to issue an arrest warrant. He made his way undetected in new orleans. It claims he checked in under the alias everette ward. They say he had maps money and a new untraceable cell phone, possibly to flee the country. If that was actually the case he made a mistake. A big one. The bill shows durst used the hotel phone twice to check his voicemail. Thats when police say they tracked him. As authorities were closing in friday night, durst was wandering the streets of the french quarter, when he walked up to the mo hogny jazz hall. He came over in a weird voice and said you know id like to come if right now and pulled back his jacket and looked leak he had a semi automatic, blah black canvass holster. Reporter his gun, he showed you his gun . Yes. Reporter by friday afternoon, fbi agents spotted him near the elevator staking out the hotel. The manhunt was over. In addition to gun and cash Authorities Say they found a fresh colored mask and we go in his hotel room. They argue that search was unlawful. While his client continues to deny any involvement in the murder of susan berman. Now the l. A. Prosecutors office is now telling nbc news they expect this process in new orleans to take a while. All right, Stephanie Gosk thanks very much. Now to a legal dispute that will get people talking. A family suing after a volleyball coach benched the young player and the league wouldnt let her succeed. Heres National Correspondent peter alexander. Reporter in Northern Virginia High School Senior Audrey Dimitri earned a place on the team. Six weeks later she was asked to leave the team. I kass devastated heart broken. Reporter when she requested a move to another leak officials told her. Frustrated she was being stripped of any chance to showcase her skills for varsity and college recuters. The family took the complaint from one place to another and sued. The suit says the coaches made the subjective determination that audrey did not have the requisite skills and undertakeing arbitrary, capricious and overly tyrannical actions. I feel they took something away from me that they didnt need to take away from me. Reporter because the case is in litigation League Officials declined nbc news requests for comments. They insisted making an exception would set a bad precedent. Should the league allow the players the ability to move teams when they are unhappy with the amount of play time they are receiving, we would overwhelmed. Audreys family is unalone. In 2013, a pennsylvania father sued a High School Track coach for 40 million claiming he was cut and badly damaged his sons college that case was dismissed. The rules from preventing coaches from stacking teams. Not everybody wins. Sometimes you will win. Sometimes you will lose. But we have to learn how to do that with grace and we need to model that as parents. Reporter in the meantime to audrey an off the court battle continues over whether justice was served. For today, peter alexander, nbc news walk. Shington. This is complicated, the fact is coaches every sing him day make subjective decisions about the ability to play. She writes she is affected to go to a court of law is kind of depressing. Other things you could be doing in courts of law, probably. All right. How about a check of the weather . All right. Guys. We are talking about fire danger right now. This is the time of year you dont think about this but right now is one of the worst times, because there is a lot of dead vegetation out there from after the winter. There has been a lot of greening up of stuff. From the dakotas into minnesota, we got red flag warnings fire weather watches. We got very dry air. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s, plus we got strong winds, 20 to 30 miles per hour. These arent gusts. These are actually sustained winds, so that creates the fire danger that were watching. We also have a fire potential outlook for the month of april for a wide swath from the plains all the way into the upper midwest because of all of the lack of rain that theyve have been seeing. So we will be watching that very closely. We have a risk of storms from oklahoma into parts of southern ohio. Wendy conditions in the Northern Plains as we mentioned, plenty of sunshine along the gulf. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright sunshine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow. 70 after morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. And a few showers still around saturday morning. Then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday. But sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. Ened thats your latest weather. All right. Thank you very much. Coming up on trend, come on down how bob barker gave price is right fans the biggest thrill of their lives. Next, a new rossen reports investigation. Hi im jeff rossen. You are on a vacation of a lifetime what does that mean . You want the deem of a lifetime on preciousel stones and diamonds. Guess what we went under cover and bought all that jewelry, so what is it worth . Boy, did we get a surprise . You will want to see this before you get any cash on your next vacation all coming up. Started my camry. Remembered the choices ive made. To be bold where others are scared. To show her right from wrong. And realized my little girl had become an amazing human being who will make choices of her own. Toyota lets go places. Hey nice game today. Thanks. Juicy fruit . Sure ill try a piec. Juicy fruit. 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Ruby caught our eye asking us to look into Jewelry Stores in the caribbean on vacation. He felt he got ripped off. That got us thinking. So many of us go on vehicles you see them come in we have a great deal for you. These diamonds are different than in the states. This morning, we are going shopping for you. Are you really getting the sparkly deal they promised . We are on vacation welcome to cozumel, mexico. And i brought my producer jovanna, shopping for diemsd and precious stones. This is the main cozumel shopping district. All around me these are americans looking to buy everything from little knickknacks to fine jewelry. At one store we see these rings. They tell us theyre real sapphires. Great. Heres what the store done know. We brought a mystery shopper along, too, karen dehaas, a certified gemologist of 41 years. They tell us this ring would cost 750 in the u. S. We got a deal at 350. Karen does a full inspection. This isnt sapphire is there what is it . Blue colored glass. Reporter we had it identified by another gemologist. Who agreed. What is it worth . The whole thing is 25. I wouldnt put it in my fish tank. Reporter karen says we overpaid by 325 t. Store later apologized and offered us a refund. But were just getting going. Now, were off to key west another vacation hot spot. At another store, jovanna buys this stud earrings. They say the rea tail price is 4400. They gave us a deal for 3200. Theyre not even the color or clarity they said they were. Theyre much worse. Reporter our expert says we overpaid by 800 and, once again this store air polleyesing and offer apologizeing and offering a refund t. Overcharm was yet to come. At a third store, we buy a pair of diamond studs telling us we got a great deal another 1,900. These are enhanced diamonds, theyre worth less than half of what you paid for them. Reporter less than half . Less than half. Reporter our expert said we overpaid by 1050. When which reached out, they offered to have them sent for an independent appraise am, willing to refund our money if the value is lower than we paid. The best advice even when you are on vacation mode be a savvy shopper just like at home. Oh boy, do i miss vacation mode. Heres Something Else to keep in mind. You may have to pay taxes on those stones. Back in the states we paid 300 through customs. Thats not something you think about when you hand out the cash there. You keep saying the stores apologized. Did they admit they ripped you off . They didnt say we ripped you off. One of the stores called it a misunderstanding and they apologized. They said we have many satisfied customers. We understand there is a big Consumer Problem in europe. Yeah. A big investigation. Coming up next why is chris rock sharing pictures of his selfie pulled over by liss . Carson is in the orange room. Hes got that story right after this. Once we were dreamers. Adventurers set out to discover new lands. 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Chris rock has been pulled over three times in just the last seven weeks. Each time do you meaning it and then choosing to share it on social media. Heres the first one in fed, he write, just got pulled over by the cops. Wish me luck. Then a short two weeks later, posts this one not even driving, sopd by the cops again. On tuesday, stopped by the cops again, conversation on social media, see what this is all about. Even chris rock is charged with driving while black. Yielded to that is karen, i this i everyone subbed to racial profiling should do that chris rock is doing so show the reality in black. This one am i the only one to wonder if he blew a red light . Chris rock on social profiling, its interesting to see him take this beyond comedy and people on social media have a lot to say about it. It doesnt seem like what is he given a summons for something . What was the reason for being pulled over . We dont know if they came up to the car, recognized him, let him go. It will be interesting to see if he chooses to talk about this. He wasnt even driving but was pulled over. I dont know. A lot of questions. Carson, thank you. Coming up on trending why the most popular man, today you brighten the room. Glidden high endurance paint. Check. Drop cloths. Check. Painters tape. Check. Rollers and trays. Check aaaand check. Woooow. Looks nice its caribbean blue you mean caribbean pronounced cahrahbeean . Caribbean. the way dad pronounced it. agreeing on a color . Done. With everything you need for a makeover at walmarts low prices you can trust every day, what project will you take on . If your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin®. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Zyrtec®. Muddle no more™. People love their hellmanns. Keith told us its one of the greatest things ever created woah keith does that make the rich creamy taste of hellmanns greater than. The light bulb . Or rollercoaster faces . Is our delicious mayo greater than eighties dance moves . Can hellmanns be greater, even, than the internet . Well keith, if you say so. Were just working hard to. Bring out the best. Good morning. Im vai sikahema. Its cool out but at least the suns out. Lets get our first alert forecast with bill henley. Vai, got a beautiful spring day ahead. Yesterday we saw lots of sunshine. Today well be warmer. And one of the reasons, the wind. Look at the flags on top of boathouse row. After very calm conditions this morning, the winds have started to pick up. And have been getting stronger. Still calm for much of the year. A ninemileanhour breeze in wilmington and up to six miles an hour in philadelphia. During the afternoon, winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. Its that wind that will warm us into the 60s. Thank you, bill. Lets get a check on traffic with Christine Maddela. It is a busy morning out there. Take a look. This is the same stretch of road, 95 at 420 where we saw that earlier truck fire. That was on the northbound side. Now on the southbound side theres an accident here blocking a lane. So be on the lookout for that. And this lincoln highway near rock hill road. Thats an overturned vehicle off to the side. And this just happened. Take a look here. This is the blue route right at the on ramp from mcdade. You can see a multivehicle accident there. Watch for slowdowns in that area, vai. Thank you, christine. Hundreds of workers at Philadelphia International airport are on strike. Baggage handlers, airplane cleaners and other nonunion employees hit the picket line this morning. They say they make as little as 7. 25 per hour and do not have access to Health Benefits or sick days. The workers are not employees of the airport. They are contracted and provided services for certain airlines. There are no reports of the strike affecting flights or airport operations today. Im vai sikahema. Well have another update in 25 minutes. Of course, you can always get the latest news and weather with the nbc 10 app. Well send you back to the today show. Have a great day and well see you in another half hour. Its 8 00 on today, coming up does religion unite us or divide us . We will introduce you to one family with two faiths. We need to start listening to one another. We join voices on spirituality. Plus a friend indeed. It exhibits a confidence that i never saw before. Guide dogs like wrangler serving another purpose. Taking the lives of children with autism. And our lips are moving an epic lip sync battle with Chrissy Teigen today, april 22nd 2015. Im 30 here at today. Its my first time in new york. We came to see al we are putting a shout out to philadelphia. Hello, new york were from louisiana it is 8 00 on today. Good morning, everyone its thursday april 2nd. Its 2015. How do you like this song . American girl by tom petty. Way to throw it back. Your favorite . Yes, its a good song. A good one to lip sync actually. As we said, we are throwing down a lip sync battle coming up. Right now, some folks from our crowd are putting it as you see there, their lip sync battle to you in our recording booth. So theyre having fun with that. Have you guys been practicing . No. Not really not too much. Natalie is taking this seriously. What a surprise. All right. If you were watching on wenls, you saw a little april fools day prank on an unsuspected family. Yes, who can forget this we gave amy a makeover there. There she is she is darling, instead of looking glamorous, we transformed her into a monster because of a scifi show we were talking about. Needless to say her family was shocked, especially barbara, amys mom. She did not look pleased. Lets be honest. So we decided its only fair to give amy a proper makeover and that is where hoda comes in who is with barbara this morning. Fine. By the way, barbara was still shaking from yesterday, shelves freaked out from amys makeover. So we decided to do something, barbara, we will give amy a real life ambush makeover. Do you trust us in. Do you believe we are all right. We arent going back there again, are we . In there seriously, her hand is still shakeing from yesterday. She is trying to get away from you. Are you ready for it in. Im ready. I hope. Tough stuff. We will take good care of her. It is already happening right now. You will sigh the results in just a little while, barbara, trust us. We have a bridge for you, too. Lets head inside natalie has a check of the mornings top stories. Natalie. All right. Good morning to you all, once again, we begin with breaking news once aagain from kenya. The masked gunmen claiming to be the somali militant Group Al Shabaab stormed the university overnight killing after the least between people and wounding 60 more. Eyewitnesses say the gunmen were asking people whether they were muslims or christians and shooting christians on the spot. Irans foreign minister says significant progress has been made after marathon Nuclear Talks overnight. Two days after the deadline secretary of state john kerry is staying in switzerland. Hes hoping to hammer out a deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. Iran reportedly wants a deal that will quickly lift economic sanctions, crippleing its economy. Now, to a Dramatic School bus crash in oklahoma its all caught on tape dashcam video from inside that school bus shows a speeding suv slamming head on into the bus this week. You can hear the children therestream screaming in the backgrounds, thankfully there were no serious injuries. Police say the suv driver may have had a seizure. Fast food giant mcdonalds is serving up pay raises for thousands of its employees. Its a move the company will move to a happier work force and some say could help the overall economy. Nbcs Kevin Tibbles has the story. Reporter faced with sagging sales and protests over higher wages, mcdonalds says it wants to mcmotivate its fast food workers. The first time on a National Scale we are making an announcement of this size and magnitude. Reporter the fast food giant plans pay raises for 90,000 employees at corporateowned restaurants. Wages will go up by at least 1 over the minimum wage to an average of 9. 90 an hour. We can make a significant difference not only in our employees lives, but the economy as well. Reporter the pay hike beefedup benefits package will not affect the 750,000 employees who work for mcdonalds franchisees. They may be pressured. Mcdonalds and target have boosted tear minimum wages since the beginning of the 84. Fast food workers from several chains have rallied, demanding a minimum wage of 15 an hour. Organizers are calling for a nation wide strike 200 cities on april 15th. A mcdonalds worker plans to strike even though shes among those already getting a pay hike. Its not going to help me pay my rent or get off food stamps. Reporter Kevin Tibbles, bc news chicago. Imagine stumbling to work and stumbling on a slew of cash in the middle of the road. It happened to dan kennedy in utah on his morning compute. A big back of cash bounced off the armored truck. He quickly pulled over and called police before going to work. Not before taking a few photos no reward has been offered, dan is getting kudos from police from being such an honest abe. Whax you ask the question what would you do . Now, lets check the weather with al. Im out here with autism speech. Were here to light blue as well as monuments all over the world. Thats terrific for more information go to Autism Speaks. Autism speaks. Org. For today, we have been talking about a massive drought they have been having out in california. Look right now, milwaukee, you got some heavier showers and thunderstorms to talk about. But, boy, this drought has been just horrible. And part of the problem has been the snow pack. The snow that they get in the sierra. Back in 2005 they got 137 of what they should get. You get to 2011 they got 171 of the snow they need to get. But look at this year theyve had 15 the amount of snow they need and that is brutal. That does not allow them to get what they need. In fact look at the satellite image. This was 2013. Look at this year almost nothing. And thats why we have the worst drought in over good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright sunshine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow 70 after a morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers, possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. A few showers still around saturday morning, then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday, but sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. And that is your latest weather. Al thank you. Coming up next. Its day three of our easter week series do you believe in this morning a provocative question does religion unite us or divide us . Matt. We are getting ready for this lip syncing battle. I have Chrissy Teigen the color commentator for the lip sync battle. We are in the booth. We get to choose the song girls want to have fun or sexual healing. Healing. Whats the words up on the screen in three, oh were out of time. War going to have our lip sync battle right after this. At chilis, fresh is now. Now chicken smoked inhouse, and no more waiting for the check. New smoked chicken quesadillas on chilis lunch combo menu, starting at 6 bucks. Fresh is happening now. 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Remember a couple weeks ago, a guy hand delivered a pizza to the pope from a local pizza parlor . Well we dont know if he ate that pizza. Now the pontiff has been asked to cut back on another italian favorite. Pasta . What . An italian news report says pope francis gained a little weight since being elected two years ago. Doctors at the vatican want to put him on a pasta di e. They want him to eat it no more than twice a week. They also want him to exercise more. This is itly. It should if against the law. You cant have pasta two times a week. How do you do that . You would have to have some very high ranking catholic deliver that news dont you think . Because as a matter of fact we have a very high rank catholic. We have Timothy Cardinal do lan in the kitchen. Good morning. Happy passover. Happy easter. I, listen holy father you said you always listen to your cardinals. Listen to me get a new doctor. And secondly heres what i do holy father. This really helps cut down the calories. Take these basil leaves out of the pasta. Then you can add the whole bowl. It cuts down on calories. All i know next time im in rome it better be one of those two days you are eating pasta. Mentioning Cardinal Dolan will be in a segment for us. Thats funny. He will be appearing in the catskills. Hes here until thursday. Its a deal. In the meantime our friend katy tur with a guest a. Live shot with Cardinal Dolan standing in the side of rome covering the pope he was eating a whole sandwich during my entire live show. Remember that . We had dinner. Lets do it again. Yes, absolutely. Come on. We got a lot of work to do. You should see Cardinal Dolan hosting snl. Very good. I would say katie couric was a guest on the late late show last night. She made quite the entrance. Take a look. Give it for katie couric. Oh my gosh oh well. Are you okay . Wait is something wrong . Up here up here james. James, its april fools oh. April fools. That was good. It was a really good. He got him. She got him big time. You might want to consult him for your ellen thing. He said he nearly had a heart attack. Carson you have a special guest in the orthopedic room . Yes. Come on in everybody, Chrissy Teigen is here. We will have a tall lip seeveng battle. Your new show. Whats up brother. Good morning. Just playing with the dopg. Worry united. Is it weird im on the floor . No wrangler is here. You wrote, what did you write, you wrote us on twitter, today show can john and i babysit wrangler today . We will document it for you. That was a big request as well. He was either come work out with me or go to the studio . John. Write a song with me. That will be good. I dont know if we can do that you know you guys are in l. A. Maybe well set up a play date or something. Im trying to get out of this. How have you been . Really good. How are you, johnny in. I dont have a mick on. Talk loud. You mentioned an app you wanted to see wrangler do. My talking pets. So wrangler. Do you have it . We have it here. What do you think of the color orange . It kills me every time. Yes, we did a couple of those. Chrissy and john what do you think of the color orange . We love it obviously, we spend way too much time in here. Wrangler is a good dog. Why dont you get a dog . We have le. Why dont you get another one . After two i feel like its all the sime same right . The same with kids . Yeah. Youre asking the right guy. Crawls on the lip sync battle. We will have fun in the plaza with that. John always a pleasure. Guys back to you. Carson, thanks very much. That is whats trending today. All this week we have been exploring Big Questions when it comes to religion and spirituality. A special question do you believe. This morning, we ask a tough question does religion unite or divide us . Good morning again, savannah. Do you believe survey americans are relatively split on that question. 46 think religion youitis, 54 say it dwoisd us. What if you have different beliefs from members in your own family or your own children . Is it difficult to have an interfaith relationship with your own son or daughter . I sat down with a christian mother and muslim daughter to hearn about their paths to personal peace. How do you describe your faith . Its my life. Its my core. I was really searching for god and a connection with god. Hallelujah reporter patricia raybonne was rayes raised in the christian church. 15 years ago, when ala na was in college, she decided to convert to islam. Your daughter calls you, says, i have an announcement to make. What did she tell you . She says i was becoming a or to docks muslim. It was probably the quietest phone call we had. Then we hung up. Reporter she mulligan practicing her faith not long before september 11th 2011. I was terrified. I think that must have been the day when i recognized without a doubt, we got a situation here. We have a situation in the world and we have a situation in our household. Every conversation about faith became one of confrontation and animosity and ugliness. Reporter for ten years, mother and daughter did not speak about their difference in faith. I think it was when we both decided that arguing and debating was not working. Reporter eventually they realized tear relationship could not bear the weight of the elephant in the room. For me it was when i realized that my mother is hurting and i need to care. I mulligan to hear in my spirit what if im wrong about how im living out my faith . What if the lord is saying to me let go. Watch what i do. Thats when we started to turn the corner. Reporter patricia and ala na decided to write a book together undivided is a conversation between them about faith, love and understanding. Have you come to accept that your daughter is muslim . I have come to respect that she made a choice. Shes on her own faith journey, willie. And god will decide how that ends. That was a liberating moment for me when she told me that she had not accepted my faith choice but my right to choose. Reporter ala nas husband and children also practice islam. Im wondering if you said in ten or 15 years, one of your children called you and said mom, ive decided to become contradiction or ive decided to become a bud buddhist not to follow our familys faith. I know how important it is for a person to really fell leak they can choose their own faith and their own belief. Reporter patricia and ala na hope others will be inspeared by their story. Religion should be the course. And we need to start listening to one another and we need to Start Talking to one another and that is really the only true way to solve conflicts. Accept each other as christ accepted you. Accept each other. What if everybody did that . Thats not complicated but it really works. I really enjoyed speaking with the two of them their book undivided comes out at the end of the month. You can read an excerpt and get advice for other families going through this same struggle we are lidgegion at our website today. Com. Willie thank you very much. We are joined by Timothy Cardinal doll an from new york and good morning to both of you. Glad to have you. Good to see you, matt. Anything jump out at you . Did something just out in that piece ill mention in a second . What did you take away from it . I think its significant that the mother never fully accepted but she could say, i accept that you can choose and that you are on your own spiritual path. Very powerful. I respect your ability to choose but i dont accept fully your choice what did you make of that . Very honest. It seemed rabbi, a beautiful balance of the two values that juice and christians have truth and love. All right. So shes saying the truth is this is a do you have decision to accept but do i ever love her and respect her right to make it . You know it brings up the larger question. What we are asking today is does religion united or divide us . You and i talked about this personally in the past. If i put a map of the world up in parts of the world on fire figuratively and where those contickets are, in many cases those conflicts are started by conflicts are, in many cases fueled by religion. How do you explain that . The person i rely on pope francis who is not only good for eating pasta but for eternal truths. He reminds us that anybody who says religion is anything less than a cause of love and unity and friendship and reconciliation is perverting rereligion. Hes honest says tragically we have some of that. Those people are fought faithful to their religion if theyre doing it. I agree completely. When we talk about not taking the lords name in vain people do violence and hate in the name of religion. That to me is taking gods name in vain. Good unites us. People hide behind religion as a way to work out tear contheir conflicts. I believe we are on the eve of passover and easter. How can these two holidays very different holidays, inspire people no use religion as a uniting force as opposed to a dividing force. Ill take a shot at it rabbi, what is both passover and easter remind us that god has the last word t. Truth always conquers falsehood, love always conquers faith. Love conquers death. That gives inspiration to those trying legitimately to use religion as god intended it. Absolutely. I think there is a theme and redemption at the end, we come out of dark places and there is a possibility for all people to come to freedom. Thats what religion needs to work towards, freedom for all. What a nice way to end. I got to get that book. Its powerful stuff. Thank you, both. Thank you matt. My ver good morning, im vai sikahema. Just about 8 30 this thursday april 2nd. Lets get our first alert forecast with meteorologist bill henley. Dont want to rewind the weather. Yesterday was nice and sunny but chilly. Today will be warmer bright sunshine at the shore. Look at that great view. Already in the 40s for philadelphia wilmington Atlantic City dover and mt. Pocono is at 40 degrees and climbing. The numbers into the 60s this afternoon with winds picking up and plenty of sunshine. Thank you, bill. Boy, a number of traffic messes. Lets get a check of the roads with Christine Maddela this morning. I want to update you on mcdade boulevard, the westbound side right at 476. There are several cars involved here and this is near the camp. If youre heading west on mcdade boulevard and trying to get on the blue route northbound you cant because this accident is blocking that ramp. I want to get you updated on your travel times. 30 minutes 95 southbound from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. A little slow on the schuylkill from the blue route to the vine thats going to take you 23 minutes out there, vai. Happening today, new jersey senator Robert Menendez is expected in federal court in newark. A grand jury indicted menendez on bribery and corruption charges. Prosecutors allege the senator accepted nearly a Million Dollars in gifts and Campaign Donations from a longtime friend, an eye doctor. Well have another update in 25 minutes. Of course you can get the latest news and weather on the nbc 10 app. Well see you in a half hour. All right 8 30 on a thursday morning. Its the 2nd day of april, 2015. Were back in our plaza. We are up on stage here because we are getting ready for a lip sync battle. We got some people in our lip sync battle booth having a little fun there in just a couple of machine, this team up here actually two teams up here will be seeing how well they can do. Oh my gosh. Well we just practiced for the first time. If nothing else at home is going to get excited for this challenge . Maybe not. And embarrass for us. Thats for sure. Were going to have fun. Absolutely. Also ahead, we all know wrangler is on the path to being a service dog. Wait until you see the incredible work they can do for remarkable kids. You may love wrangler even more if thats possible. The best and worst supermarket, including the ones offering organic food for less. First, lets get a check of the weather from this guy right here. All righty. Lets show you what we have for your weekend. A risk of strong storms in the Lower Mississippi valley. Into the midohio river valley. Rain in the pacific northwest. Plenty of sunshine in the southwest. Look ahead to saturday wet weather on the atlantic coast. Texas will see showers. Also in the pacific northwest. Windy in the great lakes with some snow. Sunday sunday Easter Sunday lots of eggs lots of bunnies, lots of wet weather in the pacific northwest. Rain in the Lower Mississippi river valley. Seasonal temperatures and sunshi good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright sunshine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow, 70 after a morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers, possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. A few showers still around saturday morning, then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday, but sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. 6r7b89s and that is your latest weather. Dont forget get your weather any time you need it. Go to Weather Channel or cable online. Mr. Roker, thank you very much. Jimmy fallon has had big lip syncs on their show and spawned viral hit after viral hit. Now that spinoff sketch is getting a spinoff on spike. Two of our members got in on the action. Here is an exclusive first look. When im alone in my room in the back of my mind i hear my conscious call telling me for the first time in my life i see i feed love dont believe me just watch dont believe me just watch hey hey hey. How did they do . I have the color commentator for the show with me right now Chrissy Teigen. Good to see you, good morning. I love to see you, good morning. Howd they do . They did a willingly shocking good job. Hoda gave it her all. Oh my goodness she went crazy. Willie surprised l. L. He was mortified. He was criminal himing. The whole idea of the show you cant go half in. You got to go out there buy into it and sell it. Yes. We will have a little competition of our own here in a second. Are you someone who doesnt hold back on your opinions. Never. You will be brutally honest. Brutally honest. I do love them though so it might be tough. You both have been brutally. Dont give it. Hang on here. Every time i look over its something new. I know you have been brutally honest when john was doing a little lip sync. I was too hard on him. I tend to go the opposite direction. Are we ready to try something here . We have a lip sync challenge we will do here on the plaza. So we have asked for some volunteers in our crowd. We have young kids in the front row. Kids come up here. Kids come on up. Come on over here. Howd you get out of this . Because im with you. First of all, can you tell me your names . Claude carson from california. Andy. Im natalie. Willie from cross river jersey. Whew al looks remarkably like something actually im cousin it. All right. We will separate you guys into teams. Lets make the dividing line right here. So carson and savannah are a team and they have chosen, chrissy, the song Summer Nights. All right, lets listen. All right so ladies and gentlemen, give it up for savannah and carson. [ cheers ] holding my hand well she got friendly down in the sand she was sweet just 16 cftc he was just what i snead summer heat in the heat oh those Summer Nights whoa whoa tell me more tell me more did she give you her age savannah and carson. Still worried, were never show that tape again. Dont worry about it. All right. Our next team natalie, willie and al. Come on center stage and they owe owe [ cheers ] look at this. And they have chosen chandelier by seal. I got to see this one. All right. Are you guys ready . Here they are with chandelier. Im flipping are my chandelier i want to swing on your shand wleer chandelier i want to swing on your chandelier [ cheers ] [ applause ] could we have all of our kids come over here please . All right. Im the humiliated for you. So the way we want to do this is and by the way, chrissy is going to make the final decision. Oh god. But we need some help from our audience. So if you think the best song was Summer Nights clap right now. [ cheers ] [ applause ] if you think the best performance was of chandelier clap right now [ cheers ] [ applause ] [ applause ] fairly close. It was very close. We have the belt. One second. This is my only job, hold on. This is all we have. Okay. Ready. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the firstage and perhaps lastage today show lip sync battle is. I think i have to agree with the time going team seal. Congratulations team cia. This is so fantastic. I know jimmy fallon is rethinking this whole idea. Although i have to say, give it up also for team Summer Nights. Chrissy teigen chrissy, thank you very much. Lip sync battle premiers tonight, 10 00 9 00 central on spike. Up next, a supermarket showdown. The results of a Consumer Report new survey of our nations Grocery Stores. First, this is today on nbc. How do you decide what nation i makes the Grocery Store great . The ability to get through the checkout in a quick amount of time. People are looking for meat produce, baked goods and increasingly storemade meals, they are really becoming the determine nants to satisfaction. We will talk about that first in a moment. First, lets talk about what made this the top of the list. I understand their overall satisfaction here show us what we saw. We will said redmans publix and trader joes. The top three chains in our survey over 63,000 people. The interesting thing is wegmans is hands down the best grocer. They are doing a magnificent job meeting examiners needs. I saw costc sixth on the list. It does etching for appliances mattresses or a pharmacy they rank highly because they have fantastic prices and good quality. We have supermarkets that didnt fare well as well. Walmart supercenter, interestingly, americas largest grocer is one of the lowest rated. Its been that way quite a while now. I want to read a statement from walmart, every store has a room to improve. There are a list of things that we can do better. We didnt hear back from other stores. Lots of freshness in this survey. One of the key determines to satisfaction is how fresh is your store . What are the quality of the perishables . Since in the last couple of years, consumers are rejecting processed and packaged foods more and more and in products with unpronounceable ingredients. Yeah. I think, when were talking fresh, people and especially millennials are looking for products that meet that parameters of freshness, great tasting. No added things publix and raleys are the best in that. Over here organic really big. A lot of people dont like the price tag what did you find . Amazing, organics are growing double digit and have been since the recession 35 billion a 84. Trader joes a 68 chance already, hands down the cheapest organics. We did our own price study at Consumer Reports and found the price of going organic is a premium versus the organic and conventional. Its always good to read this survey check it out in Consumer Reports. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Coming up next how to 125i injuryfree, whether you are a season pro or starting out . First this is today on nbc. We have a serious run as we get ready for this Half Marathon in new york last week. You recall they introduced you to yvonne schmidt, a blind competitive runner who has taken part in over 14 marathons with the help of volunteers like dr. Jordan metzls and the author of running strong the sports doctors guide to staying healthy and injuryfree for life. Good morning yvonnes story. You are here to help inspire, programs new runners or help us with more advanced runners. I want everybody to run, natalie, around the country or the world. Its a great way to make them healthy or keep them out of my office. Lets talk about beginner enter immediate or advanced. The beginner is someone getting started, they want to walk or run. They want to do more. The intermediate is somebody who is kind of doing a 5k. They want to do a 10k. They are looking to do more. The advanced is what you are doing, a Half Marathon in april. Maybe a full marathon. That is somebody who is well into it. For somebody getting ready to start. Talk about the beginners. What are the common problems they may encounter. You see behind us the achilles tendon a common overuse injury. I get them all the time in my office. What happens is it gets worse and worse. If it changes the way you run, you definitely need to see your doctor. You dont want it to get worse. If it changes the way you run, you are overcompensating go to the doc . Yes. What about overuse injuries . This is actually a running graphic from our hospital for surgery. We have people come in and run and sometimes walk. If theyre overstrideing their foot is lending out in front of them too far. They put more load enforcement on the knees and hips. I get asked this all the time is there a right or wrong way to run . There is not a worse way. Quickening your cadence makes it quicker. What about foot strike . Im not a believer in short strike. I think landing in the right place. Moving over to the intermediate athletes. What w are the biggest issues . The biggest this inc. Is shin splints. Theyre an achy shin. If it tend to hurt right here on the inside part of the bone. Interestingly the most common reason natalie, is if your feet are falling too much in the middle. Megan will demonstrate pro nachlgs when that starts to happen you get this achiness runners can fix that by getting an arch support for their shoe or the shoe cha corrects the rolling. That helps a lot. Another problem you see as well is dehide drakes. People experience cramps. Muscle cramping is with intermediate runners. Interestingly, were recognizing that sometimes its dehydration. Sometimes its lack of strength or flexibility. Its oftentimes electrolytes or the salts. The sports drinks are increasingly no one has done this on national tv. We will the take a shot of pickle juice. After i we are . I saw you dance, we need it. Bottoms up. Whew. Ive actually done that after a marathon. Not bad. I did more than you did, wow, what does that say about me . Okay. So that cures muscle cramps. For the advanced athletes talk about stress fractures. Thats a common injury. Its a won one we see in the office they know something is hurt him. Here we have an achy bone. If a part on your body like your foot starts to hurt a little more and more that can be a suppress fracture. You have to make sure you talk to your doctor like i talked about in the beginning, if its changing the way you move get it checked out. Dr. Jordan metzl. If you have questions, he is sticking around. He will answer your facebook questions. He will be back tomorrow teaching you how to perfect your running technique. Coming up next how dogs like wrangler can be a big help for kids with autism. First, this is today on nbc. Road to becoming a guide dog for guiding eyes of the blind. Dogs like him can help in a lot of ways. On in world autism day, we wanted to share another important job they can do. Morning in the fontana household have always been hectic four children to get out the door and a baby at home. Bye, guys i love you. All right. All right. But for 6yearold mark fontana, this time of day is typically difficult. Mark was diagnosed right after he turned 3. He had regressive form of autism. Reporter he is almost completely nonverbal transitioning to school has been a challenge. He mulligan to laugh campusively. He would scream. But that was far from the greatest hurdle they faced. He would campusively run away run outside, into the street. He would run and try to jump in any pool that he saw, 18 if he couldnt swim. It was absolutely terrifying. Reporter marks zeblt was isolated. Marks not getting invited for play dates. He doesnt use speech to communicate. So that creates a barrier. A barrier felt by the entire family one that impacted an important part of their identity. We stopped going to church as a family. We felt like we were disrupting the service. We felt like we were a burden on our community. That was really tough. But they found hope in an unlikely place and the most unlikely space, the fontanas learned about a new program for guiding eyes for the blind. It utilizes dogs meant to use their skills in the biggest way. Dogs will make the biggest impact. Caroline sandler and her team have now trained and placed over 60 dogs with families like the fontanas. Its a 100 success. It really s. I watched children held by parents so stressed i watched them dance next to their dogs. They are happy to feel free. Contact between children and their dogs has a calming effect. Outside, they are tethered to their dogs to prevent them from running away. For mark fontana, working with echo has been life changing. Mark exhibits a confidence that i never saw before. And a sense of acceptance he so desperately needed. When echo came into the school to be with mark 20 30 40 kids hi mark hi mark. If you could see the smile on his face. Teachers an therapists have noticed improvements too. Nice looking, high five. Good job. With echo by their side the fontanas have gotten back some of the family life they were missing. Hi how are you . I will never forget the day we were in church the priest actually asked mark and echo to join him on the altar t. Priest asked him, and whats your name young man . And i said this is mark. He said who is your friend. I said this is service dog echo. And the whole congregation clapped. It was hard for me to put into words what that meant. Yay, were home. I think mark will surprise us all. You wait. Is that a these way to end this hour . How about that story . So special. It really is. Guiding eyes healing Autism Program is one example and the services are free supported by donations. You can learn more at today. Com. I know what we are were live over breaking news in West Philadelphia right now. Sky force 10 giving us this view of a house fire at 49th and ogden. A lot of heavy, dark smoke coming out of those upper floors there. Were told the fire is on two floors. You can see firefighters getting some ladders up on scene. So far no reports of any injuries. Well continue to monitor that situation and bring you any developments throughout the morning. Now lets check your forecast. Its shaping up to be a very nice thursday. Heres meteorologist bill henly. Bill. Chris, weve got lots of sunshine and the wimd isnd is really starting to pick up. The wind will be gusting to 30 miles an hour this afternoon. Right now its a 12mileanhour breeze in wilmington and northeast philadelphia. Its still calm in reading and allentown. Bright sunshine 60s this afternoon. Happening right now, hundreds of workers at Philadelphia International airport are on strike. Baggage handlers airplane cleaners and other nonunion employees hit the picket line this morning. They want better pay and access to Health Benefits and sick days. These workers are not employees of the airport, they are contracted and provide services for certain airlines. At this point there are no reports of it affecting airport operation. A man faces sentencing in an alleged scheme when miranda was a state representative he hired a man to be on his staff but not to show up for work and give some of his salary to mirandas sister. A plea agreement dropped the more serious charges. Well have another update in about 25 minutes. Until then back to the today show. Have a great morning. Ake, katy perry in the doghouse after posting on social media. Plus this unbelievable jockey fall, how it ended. What we found out about the number 45 that shocked us. All that and more coming up next. From nbc news this is today another requests take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today. Its april 2nd 2015. A big crowd in the plaza gathered for the lip sync battle. Im with natalie, willie tamron. If you didnt see it, there is a show that premiers tonight called lip sync battle jimmy fallon is one of the executive producers of the show. Chrissy teigen was here divided us into two teams. She does color commentary. Shes a host of the show that airs tonight. Savannah al roker, natalie and myself. It was epic. Did you see how it went down . It was epic. Lets start with savannah and carsons Summer Nights. Carson looks very disturbing. Yeah yeah. John legend looks surprised Summer Nights oh the Summer Nights a little video. A cameo. Well done. Nice. Very nice. A nice headliner. Opener. Then the headlineers came out. After much deliberation we decided to go with a contemporary jam. See you, chandelier. [ laughter ] chandelier chandelier on my chandelier ive not laughed this much since yesterdays prank. When he hit the note you just saw it. You got to go big. You got to go big. So if you dont have any context with that performance. Heres the video and natalies dancing. Oh there it is i want to swing on the chandelier actually. Oh i saw that. There you go. Just like natalie. It was off camera, you didnt see her flip. I was practicing a little last night. I can tell. I can tell. Im competitive. Im sending these guys emace, okay steady up. You didnt get any from me. Okay. Okay. We were practicing at night. Luke was playing a videogame, mom, thats disturbing. Then the dog must have been disturbed because she comes, im on the floor, im doing the whole thing. Oh my gosh. I head butted. I didnt know she was behind me. I chipped my teeth. The top and bottom. It was her k9incisor. You lost the belt. You were at home practicing . You didnt practice . It looked i didnt even know the song until this morning. I looked at the video this morning and said okay. This is great. You were so involved all impromptu . No. The weirder the better. Weird al. Weird al yanukovych. Now we can tell vh1 behind the music, natalie wanted all three of us in those flesh tone leotards. She was shocked when we said no. No. Why . No one wants to see that. No they dont. Hashtag todays take should they redo it in the nude leotard . Hashtag yes, nude hashtag no nude. Lets look at how this is supposed to be done willie is going to be a guest on the show july 30th. Check this out. I havent seen this sometimes i start to wonder in the back of my mind i have a conscience call look at him. Oh come on i see how you love look at him. Oh yeah. Okay. Something told me you were doing me. Its like looking in the mirror. That was good. Howd you work up the nerve to do l. L. In front of l. L. . Its hard to come on with the song. I knew he was the host. I talked to the producers. They said i dont know if he will go for i. We dont want to give away how it went exactly. But it was fun. I looked over a few times, was he okay with this . He was going. Who were you up against . Me against andy cohen, a formidable opponent with backup dancer. That show is incredible. Its so good huge names, me not withstanding. Its a good show. Hes on in april. Jimmy fallon john kriz zin ski, john legend common all these guys it premiers tonight on spike. All of us lip sync. Come on. Exactly. In our car. You know new shows can i think create buzz. We keep saying its all reality, its a good show. Its a good family show. Good stuff. Yesterday was a fun day here around the program. I think we had a good time on april fools day. Were recovering. Lets start it off. The shows, willies schiffalry. Look at this. Then the snake inside there. A snake. Then we finish it off with the spider. And natalie almost goes through our big monitor. My nerves were so on end the rest of the day. Anything juchs out at me i will jump through the roof. As we should. I had nightmares all night. I didnt sleep. Oh. Any time we do these things it affect. S you greatly. Remember when we did the haunted house. You almost went to the mortgages room. I went to the emergency raleigh. She broke a tooth rehearsing. Come on. We get into our craft, im sorry to say. Craft . Maybe were just in other words nerds. It doesnt please me you, wait a minute. You shunned natalie in front of you. I broke her fall if you look at the tape. Broke her paul . I said natalie, im here to support you. One more time please. One more time. If we can get it. Slow motion. There it is. Lets see the fall. No no. Wait, look. He grabs natalie. There you go. Oh. I mean, a human shield natalie the human shield to you. Thats a guy providing support to her colleague in time of need. It was really sad. Really. Time of need. It was sad, any time you feed me dont worry. Lets focus on the cia, i think that is better. You almost picked her up and started beating her. Whack a mole. Exactly. A bad barbaric cartoon. There were other april fools pranks around the world that caught our eyes. The Huffington Post put a list together of other moments. At the university of cam bridge a sign on the door the Door Access System in this building has been upgraded to include voice recognition. Speak your name towards the card to render and gain entry. They said people it wasnt working, so everyone started screaming their names at the wall. Hey all day. People were yelling at the wall. There was a postit note car. Wow thats a lot of work. That is good. The next is i dont know if i can take this donuts stuffed with sarocha. Oh thats am. Have you had sarocha . Thats in a plastic container. I like this next one. A hole punch paper in a cars air vent. So when you turn the fan to the max. Blizzard. It comes out at you. Its like ellen and matt when he put the golf balls in there. They ran an april fools special in new zealand, people who came in with the ad with tom could swap it for a new bmw. Get this it was not a prank. One woman got a bmw. Oh my goodness. Isnt that amazing . Wow what do you think . Thats pretty impressive. Isnt that so sweet . Now thats the kind of prapg we of prank we need around here. Jimmy kimmel i was watching the show this woman. Why dont we do it . We dont have the video. So this mom, shes ray do wanted five special needs children. She valet parked her car. Well they kept delivering the wrong car to her saying heres your vehicle. So they brought this beat up car, thats not my car a. Mail truck, thats not my car. Take a look at what happened. 12k3w4r no this is not your car . There is not my car. This is the ticket you gave me maam. Its not my car, trust me. Hopefully you didnt lose my car now. [ laughter ]. Its a mail truck. This is it right . You have been waiting patiently, lets give her, her car. That it . Thats not my car hi im the manager here. They told me about the inconvenience you guys went through today and to make it up to you, id like to present you with the new 2015 chevy traverse. No way . No way. Are you serious . Yes. This is your car isnt that beautiful . She did. When they drove the mail truck. Then he put her in can you just move it down there . She moved the mail truck. I liked that. So sweet. I think it would have been better if it was an ice cream truck. Heres a question is this an april fools joke or not . We dont know. Katy perry maybe accidentally gave out her number to twitter folly followers. So he posted a picture of her dog butters. The tag apparently displayed the phone number. She later delete the video. The question is was it an april fools prank . Therefore, maybe her number was out there. We tried to get ahold of her people. Changed the number. You saw that kris jenner we apparently we dont know if she cut her hair or if its an pral fools prank. It didnt look so bad to me. I love it. Lets show you what we got going on right now t. Big problem the government of california announcing 25 water reduction cuts across the state to fight the drought. The biggest problem has been the snow pack. 130 of average back in 05. You get up to 2011. They had 171 . But this year 5 of snow pack and that is a big problem. So in fact look at this this was what it looked like in 2013. Who it look like good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright sunshine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow, 70 after a morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers, possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. A few showers still around saturday morning, then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday, but sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Al thank you very much. Hello. Hi, marilyn . Yes. You got the job. In april when you buy a tracfone handset at Walmart Tracfone will donate 20 percent of the sales to dress for success. I will see you next week. To help give women the skills they need to get that allimportant job. I got it. So you buy a new phone and someone else gets the call that can change her life completely. Success is calling™. And you can help make a difference. How do they make starburst taste so juicy . They import intense juiciness from the land of intensity. Get this intense juiciness to starburst you know i will have a pleasant day thank you get back to work [ female announcer ] starburst. Unexplainably juicy. Many wrinkle creams come with high hopes, but hope. Doesnt work on wrinkles. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula. 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Theres a lot you need to know when it comes to your finances. Here is sharon eperson, good morning. Lets start with the first one, classes will soon be graduating. Kids going home from college, they will be entering the real world,. 25 to. 5 in Interest Rates. Yes, we are talking Interest Rates on students loans, if you are a borrower you want to know this number. If you are able to set your loan payments on auto debit, then you can reduce your rate likely by a quarter to a half of a percent and that is going to be key over the life of your loan. This is a key number to known t. Great thing is you are more likely to pay on time if its automatically taken out of your bank account. Set it up for auto debit. Start tip. Our next number is 3. It has to do with saving for our retirement in our 40s. I dont want to scare you, three times your salary is how much you should have saved by the time you are 45yearsold. Thats a lot. Some people think thats not realistic. If you are 35 one times your salary. If you are 55 five times your salary. How can i possibly do this . Start at 10 , save 10 of your salary. Work up to 15 . Thats a way that should help you be able retear by 67 or so. Okay st lets move on over to people are doing taxes now, a good time to think about wour w4s. A w4 is a form you need thing in out your withholding. You dont want too much withheld too little withheld. You want to make sure you dont get a huge refund actually and you want to make sure you dont get a huge tax bill. Look at what you paid or owed see if there is an adjustment the form you need to do it on is a w4. What if you are claiming at zero . Is there a way to withhold more money . The more tax as possible if you put zero there. You can actually write in a dollar figure and add that to it. Okay. Next number is for vacationers, the number 245. What does this mean . This is the number. This is a cost of travel insurance policy for a couple and the reason why you might want to get this is a very expensive trip you are taking. Or if you are not sure you will be covered for medical cover annual by your health plan in the country or the places you are traveling. Some plans dont have the network you may need or some plans dont cover you outside the u. S. You might want to get travel insurance to make sure you get trip cancellation as well as medical coverage. The last income is 740. Spring is a great time to buy a home and think about what your Interest Rate might be. Think about your credit score. Will you get the best rate if you have a 740 or higher. You may be able to get a good rate if you have a 1700 score, but below that even just a couple points below that can make a dig difference in your Interest Rate. That means a big difference in the amount you are paying in interest over the life of the loan. Keep that 740 in mind for your credit score. Thank you so much. 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Say night owls get poor quality sleep and tend to eat late at night. Starbucks is offering something new in its smoothies. Kale. Its offering three flavors strawberry mango carrot and sweet greens. They can be customized by adding protein powder or kale. People love their hellmanns. Keith told us its one of the greatest things ever created woah keith does that make the rich creamy taste of hellmanns greater than. The light bulb . Or rollercoaster faces . Is our delicious mayo greater than eighties dance moves . Can hellmanns be greater, even, than the internet . Well keith, if you say so. Were just working hard to. Bring out the best. Just one lemon left. Lemon skittles are my favorite. Theyre my favorite. Lets settle it the usual way settle it lets settle it the usual way wooooo woowee settle the rainbow taste the rainbow good morning, im chris cato. It is 9 26. Time to check your first alert forecast with meteorologist bill henley. Warming up any out there . Plenty of sunshine and the temperatures are climbing nicely even in the pocono mountains. Right now mt. Pocono is at 43 degrees. Its 49 in northeast philadelphia and Atlantic City at the airport, wilmington is now 47 degrees. These temperatures climbing into the 60s this afternoon. Bright sunshine and the wind is picking up. Well see gusts to 30 miles an hour this afternoon. Were still following this breaking news out of West Philadelphia where minutes ago sky force 10 brought us these images over a house fire. This is video we just cut in the newsroom here. Right now firefighters are still trying to get control of the flames burning at the home at 49th and ogden. At this point there are no reports of injuries. Well keep an eye on it for you. Happening today, new jersey senator Robert Menendez is expected in federal court in newark. Yesterday a grand jury indicted menendez on bribery and corruption charges. They allege the senator accepted nearly a Million Dollars in gifts and Campaign Donations from a florida eye doctor his friend and in return used his elected office to make decisions that benefited that doctor. From our jersey shore bureau, today this man is scheduled to be sentenced for five sexual assaults in Atlantic City. In some cases, he posed as a Police Officer and carried a fake gun to assault the women. Now, this all happened in the summer of 2012. Last year a jury convicted patel on nearly two dozen counts. He faces up to 200 years in prison. Well be back with another update in about 25 minutes. Im chris cato. Now we go back to the today show. Have a great thursday. We are back with more on today on a thursday morning. You may have noticed we are all wearing blue or a pin to bring attention to Autism Awareness today. If you know somebody in your family or you know a next door neighbor or a kid in your school it feels like this is something thats touched everybody. We want to bring attention to it and raise awareness and money. Okay. So there is this piece of video we wanted to show you from the bbc. I cant believe this guy got up and walked away. This is a jockey surviving a spectacular fall from a horse. Oh my gosh. This is southwest england yesterday, Louis Ferguson is his name. Oh. He walks away. He gets up. You will see it in a second he gets up walks away. Fought just falls. Someer salts. He hits the jump. The horse is not injured. Its galloping away there. Its incredible. Nobody got hurt. You know that. Speaking of lynn berman le will be here with lenny b. Al have a look at the weather. Okay. Lets go spanning the country. Starting with your weekend, lets show what you we got. We have a risk of strong storms firing up in the midsection of the country today. Tomorrow they make their move into west texas, on into virginia and part of the ohio river valley. We are watching that. Warm through the southeast and gulf coast. Then for saturday some snow just before you have your easteric hunt through upstate new york northern new england, wet weather to the gulf coast. Beautiful weather out west. Sunday sunday look at that lots of bunnies, peeps and easterics. More wet weather down through the gulf coast, texas into the midmississippi river valley pacific northwest. A little on the damp side snow and icy con good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Dont forget your sunglasses. Bright sunshine and gusty winds will combine to warm things up nicely today. Well be in the 60s this afternoon. And a milder day tomorrow, 70 after a morning low of 56. But we will see occasional showers, possibly even a thunderstorm on friday. A few showers still around saturday morning, then gusty winds saturday afternoon. A cold Easter Egg Hunt on sunday, but sunny skies and 60 degrees. Turning warmer next week. Have a great day. Dont forget get your weather any time you need it. Go to weather cable. Com. How excited are we . We have ernie hudson with us, hes one of the greatest stars of all time ghost butters you may remember sandra bullocks fbi superior in the 2001 comedy miss congeniality. These days he stars in a tv movie to hell and back. Take a look. Standing all tough like you dont care. Ableing like my pain doesnt matter. Well, it matters, kj. My son, he mattered. Wereny hudson it is so good to see you. Thank you. So good to see you, too. Tell us about this roam. Its something you were a little skeptical about doing at first. Yes, when i first heard about it. I wasnt that excited about it. After i read the script. My grandmother raised me. She was very religious. I knew about her. I knew this was something she would want to see and something she would really want me to do. It was very challenging. So me as an actor, finding roles that really called everything i have to offer. This is a great role, a great story and a great easter story as well. How do you describe the character to people who will come and watch it . Well its based on the bible story of job and about a man who is a righteous man who does all the right stuff and then the devil makes a deal with god, which is kind of od and all of his success and his family and his health he loses that he still remains faithful. Its really about rebirth and redemption ability going through all those things when you know it doesnt make sense but my grandmother would say you are thinking in terms of time there are a lot of things we dont understand good thinks in terms of eternity. So this is about a man, a good man who is very successful and a great part. One of the things we understand about you, you are just a solid actor. 40 years in this business. Thank you. Have you impressed us across the board, this one whose hearts racing because of one film ghost busters. Is it just amazing to have people come up and say, this is 21 of the greatest movies of all time . This as i was tauk walking out the door someone said hey ernie, who you going to call . So im honored and humbled that 30plus years later people would still be wearing the jumpsuits and the backpack and turning their cars into automobiles. Sleep income jumpsuits. Every night. Every night. I get slime poured on me every night. I understand this was a role when it came to you kind of had to fight for. You did an interview with entertainment weekly, is that right . I have been very blessed. I worked for a long time but every role i had to fight for. This was no exception. I went through seven or eight auditions. Any role there is probably 100 people up for it. You got to convince them you should be the guy who should be playing this. We will play a little game. Al is obsessed with ghost busters. We will take ghost busters trivia. Can you take one of those bells and ring in if you think you know the answer. First question what did rick morantz character tull i turn into . A dog. Whats his name . The role. Ernie . Key master. Thats it. Hey, al. Here we go number two. Redemption. What was the exact name of the marshmallow name . Stay puff marshmallow man. Ghost busters backpacks called . Oh thats a tie. Backback. Fantastic. Where was the ghost busters headquarters old police station, old library . Old fire station. Al roker. You said old. He was right there. Who saening the title song . Go ahead. You got me. Greg paerker herbs jr. Ernies character delivers the last line of ghost busters. What are they . I love this town. Yeah. Oh all right. Thats good. A prize . For ernie 12k3w4r oh my oh my goodness. Are you sure you dont have any of this stuff . Ernie, thank you so much. Im not in there, though what is that about . We dont have the ernie. I had nothing to do with it. To hell and back premiers saturday. We will work on that doll thing there. Up next moviegoers will be headed to the thee fer q. Fast and furiou grandma, this is the kids table. 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Lets launch in a movie we talked a lot about here furious 7 from our Sister Company universal. Have you seen it . Ive seen it. It dlivs everything you want. In a big summer movie, were only in april. This is kind of the long jump summer movie season a little bit early. Are we seeing this more and more . The big summer movie starts in april . Its great. Its a great kickoff to the season. Its got everything youd want in a summer blockbuster. Dwayne johnson delivers amazing oneleaners. Cars like in out of buildings. Out of planes. Its the whole ensemble back again for the die hard fans of the franchise will love this. The poignancy of paul walker. They handle it very well. Talk about a counterprogram. Not your ideal double feature. If you are not into furious 7, woman in gold. Helen mirren plays a holocaust survivor trying to recover this classic painting. Its very good. A lot going on there, the least of which is the requested matmen Season Opener season finale. This is huge eight years ago, it mulligan. This is truly the end of an era. This is the first of the last seven episodes of the series. Truly nobody knows how this will end, don draper peggy. We want to know how it will all end. The thing im thinking of math true weiner the last thing he worked on is sopranos. Im happy to see how he ends this one. Here at nbc, Michael Keaton making a much personal return. Im a die hard Michael Keaton lover, of course came back in a big way last year with birdman. Lets not forget he started as a standup comic. Boatle juice. He will kill it this weekend. He has not hosted snl in 23 years a. Lot of birdman and batman jokes. A huge sports weekend. If you have a huge sports fan in your household, do not bother them the final four is being decided. Michigan state is trying to upset them. Kentucky this is the one to watch. Kentucky is the favorite. They would go undefeated the first team in over 30 years to go undoofted if they won. Al is winning our bracket poll. A big weekend for you sports fan. I love this movie. Every year since 1973. The ten commandments. For everybody. I remember watching this over and over again. There is something comforting. Great overacting by yule brennan. The effects are cool in their own way. They really are. Theyre retro. Ceci li b. Demille. I cant ever watch it the second half. Shai. On sunday ill hear al in my head moving on to music, ringo starr out with a new album postcard from paradise. Ringo starrhas had 18 solo albums since doing that thing with the beetles. He cowrote all the songs. Ludicis is out with hundred. A smart guy. The comes out, his first album in five years, taking some time off. This one has the best name of the week universe am. There you go. Its a subsidiary of our sister nbc universal. Josh good luck with the hosting gig this weekend. Thanks. Sunday you will hear that voice in your head. Anyway lynn berman is here. 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Our moves of the month, the best catch by a gymnastics coach in montreal. Oh and she did a great routine, one more time. Thats the second call. Oh my. The best group moves. All the fans at the maryland basketball game participate in a flashmob. The entire students. Thats very cool. Our oops of the month. Oops of the month, the best blindfolded dunk in the philipines. Then theres the soccer team from mozambique. They scored the goal. But the celebration is on and while theyre celebrating, the team from zambia scores the tying goal. Love it. Out in new york your job is to hold the tape. Oh, no there you go. Our golfers of the month. This is scott pearson, this is a way to gen your tournament. This is the opening hole at riviera. Oops. Hes a pro. But he does get a second chance. Sure. Much better this time st all right. Up with more time. So you know i can do this. What . No way and i have many times. Oh well. Even the pros have trouble. Even the pros, right. Now you want blame parecy if he blames rory mcilroy. First he throws the ball in the water, what you know what happens next . The golf club. Our race of the month. In the rally of mexico the estoneia selfaddressed stamped envelope dunk and nobody got drowned. And our athlete of the month, also members colorado a spectacular dumplth i didnt say it went in spectacular dunk. I didnt say it went in. Oh my gosh. Thats what happens when you put him in the bad seats. You give me a front row seat ill give you a much happier story. Absolutely. Al. Your prize . Wow. Oh. Its a food fight on the today show. Remember i have a bat. Oh its getting ugly. She is from we have Chrissy Teigen talking about the lip syncing. That song united. Who can see. Good morning im chris cato its 9 56 and were looking for a nice warmup today. Lets get your first alert forecast with meteorologist bill henley now. Were seeing temperatures climb. Bright sunny skies and a pretty goodn breeze blowing too. The wind and the sunshine both combining to help with the warmup today. There are we are seeing temperatures in the 50s. Now 52 degrees in philadelphia. Northeast philadelphia at the airport is 55. Just updated to 53 degrees in Atlantic City. So plenty of sunshine. At 11 00 its 56 and into the 60s this afternoon. A man accused of murdering his stepdaughter and abusing her corpse faces an arrangement. Gregory graf is charged in the death of jessica padgett. Investigators say graf shot padgett to death, then hid her body on his property. In the meantime there was a massive search going on for the missing woman. Graf also videotaped himself abusing her body. In the Atlantic City casino crisis a judge could rule on the sale of the bankrupt revel casino. Wells fargo wants a judge to approve the sale to developer glen straub. Wells fargo says it has already spent 60 million on revels bankruptcy proceedings and cannot wait any longer. Im chris cato. Well be back with another update in 25 minutes. For now well go back to the today show. Have a great thursday. From nbc news this is today. With Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hello, everybody were proud of you. You made it to thirstday thursday april 2nd 2015. We are just right into spring baby. We have a fun, fun show. Chrissy teigen is here. Shes going to talk to us about this show. Its called the lip sync battle. This is something jimmy fallon created. Like he needs more success. They spun the whole thing off. Yeah. So i had a chance to play in that arena. Its going to be fun. Well show that later. Then the band that sold out concerts around the world, theyre called hillside united. Its going to be awesome. We have a special ambush makeover. Yesterday, this young lady was picked for an april fools prank. Look at her mom on the left. We were so concerned about her mother. We thought she was going to have a heart attack. We did. We were a little concerned. Anyway we decided that wasnt very nice. So we are going to ambush her. And well see what other surprises are in store. All righty. Today is Autism Awareness day. We are wearing blue to show support. And the way you can give back. Now through easter, they will donate ten cents to Autism Speaks for every Chocolate Bunny purchased. In the past theyve raised a lot of money. Good good good. There were a couple of april fools jokes that happened late yesterday. People should expect them. Well, jimmy kimmel got pranked big time. He was asleep in his own home. His wife was in kawith rihanna. She came into his bedroom while he was sleeping to surprise him with a Funky Dance Party. Lets take a look at his reaction. [ laughter ] oh, my god. Whats he say . He said a ufo has landed. Thanks for not killing us. Yeah, could have freaked out. Wow. He said he had his mouth guard in. You think usually when you go to bed after april fools day that you got through the day without getting pranked. 1 00 in the morning. What would you do if someone tiptoed into your bedroom while you were sleeping and broke out in a Funky Dance Party like that . I would freak. I would probably love it. Okay. So theres a new, you know survey of course. Many americans in fact a majority of americans are embarrassed by their homes. Yeah. Basically i mean this made sense to me. Your embarrassed because your home is messy. So you dont want someone to come into your home unannounced or even just hey, a dropby. Right now, ive been dating joel for two years. Still, when were going to stop at my apartment, ill ask him sweetly to wait in the lobby. Hes so sweet. So ill come up. No no. I get embarrassed. Doesnt he know by now . Even the guys fixing something, i go into a quick panic. Its not a good time. I did the worst thing a mother could do this morning. What . Early bambino likes to go in and go back to bed with frank. So i was carrying bambino upstairs with a cup of hot coffee. I slipped on the carpet. All over his little head. Be careful when youre carrying around your little he was completely fine. But hes ashamed. He went into the mud room to hide. I scrubbed him as much as i could. The hot coffee on him dont carry anything else if youre carrying hot coffee around. Can we talk about what we did . Is it time . Were going to talk about it. So yesterday oh, we have the john legend one. Oh, yeah. Chrissy teigen as we said is here. John we told you couple weeks ago, his latest project, he wants to perform at your private occasion. Like a wedding or whatever. He wants to come and do it and its all for charity. Thats whats awesome. Called the show me campaign. All this is going to help somehow break the cycle of poverty by supporting programs that help kids. He wanted to give you an idea of what the special occasion would look like. So take a look. What would we do without love . What would we do without friendship . Whats going on in that Beautiful Mind cause all of me loves all of you love your curves and all your edges you give me all of you oh [ bleep ]. Im going to get dressed. So cute. Theyre so cute. Those are the real dogs if you were wondering. Donate 10 for a chance to win the private concert. Im going to key this up because i think its important. We were in sharknado yesterday. Its going to be big. Were trying to pull the tape together right now. Unfortunately we have time for your play list . Yes we do. But this is one youre going to love. Its by darius rucker. Love darius. Its another southern style one. Listen to the words. Theyre awesome. Lets go. Already like it. A little steel guitar. Yeah. Puts you in a good mood already. I was up in new york city just the other week he sure was. Should have seen the face when i ordered sweet tea she said we dont have that here and i apologized i said please forgive me im in a Southern State of mind isnt that cute . Those girls out in california they dont understand okay. Thats terrific. We have time. No we dont. Go to sharknado. Takes too long to get to some of these things. That was 40 seconds of heaven. Heaven all right. Here we go. Weve been waiting patiently for this. We went straight from the studio to film a little of this yesterday. Weve been begging to be on it. This was called oh no. Drink for courage okay. One, two, three ahhh [ laughter ] okay. The sharks are coming at us. Wait until you see the cgi. Its going to be on scifi in july. Its called sharknado oh, hell no. Hoda woman every monday and wednesday at two on sirius. She played a prank on her unsuspecting family. But moms going to love what luis and jill did to her daughter today. Coming up right after this. Other antiaging creams say theyre fast. 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Her mom and her sisters her mother was still looking like that a half an hour later. She was so upset. So we wanted to make it up to amy and her family by giving her a whole new look. You know them and you love them. And today contributor and author and many other things. Jill martin. All righty. So you knew you had to do it. Right, right. But it was fun. Certainly she was going to look better than she did yesterday, right. We took her downstairs and she got fresh makeup. Were going to talk about amy hardy. Shes 43 years old from new york. Amy has four kids. She works full time as a librarian. So she doesnt have a lot of time to keep up the beauty routine. Her family was so excited yesterday to get a makeover but it didnt turn out that way. Take a listen. Our heart was breaking for you yesterday. Have you recovered . Briefly. Hopefully this will be a better day. It was a shock, theres no doubt. You told me you were having nightmares last night. Every time i close my eyes i saw the wolf mans daughter coming at me. I hope today is a little bit different, maybe . I promise. Amy that did not go as planned for mom. No it didnt go as well as we expected. Hopefully today is going to be better and well make her happy. Thank you. Barbara seems happier. Shes here with her kids. I was afraid of barbara. Her niece and nephew ryan and brandon. All right, guys please keep on your blindfolds. Heres amy arrestiy hardy before. Lets bring out the new amy hardy. I kind of miss the facial hair. We kind of do. Before everyone takes off their blindfolds. Theres your family. I think somebodys missing. Mom. Where is barbara . So were going to do it that way . This is how they asked us to do it. So where is barbara . Come here, barbara. Come here. Come here. Shes happier. Kids, take off blindfolds and take a look. Now look at yourselves. You havent had a chance to see have you seen yourselves . No check right there. Oh, thank you. Much better. Wow. Oh, my gosh. Dont ruin your makeup. Dont ruin one more for mom. First of all gorgeous gorgeous. What a surprise. Walk out the door and go poof shes going to look like a wolf. You look fantastic. Tell us about what you did with the hair. Oh, my gosh thank you. She was nervous about her hair color because she wants her gray to show. I use add totally clear lightener and made her base a little lighter. Gave it a sunnier look. That cut is by vanessa. She just made her bob very chic. What do you think of your mom . She doesnt look like a wolf. I love their outfits. We had to keep them separate the entire time. That must have been weird, right . Both outfits and the statement necklace. Darling. Darling. What did you do with her hair . Craig made her hair darker. Notice its very gold. Her highlights are still there theyre on the ends. And again more layers. We were lucky enough to have vanessa today. 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So its perfect for all the pigpens out there. Thanks, mom waawaawaawaa. Give us your worst well give it our all®. Now to our series do you believe. Imagine this an auditorium packed to the rafters with fans rocking out to a live band. Its no ordinary concert. Its a weekly spiritual experience. That band is called hill song united with locations in more than a dozen countries. I think you probably know this name. Carl lentz and joe houston are the colead pastors of hill song new york. Welcome. Thanks for having us. If you guys were walking down the street i dont think that i would imagine that both of you were pastors. I would think Something Else. You dont dress the part. Police officers. You dont dress this way to be different. This is you guys. This is naturally you. I think what weve always loved about our church is you can come as you are. If thats in a suit a blue dress, wear your blue dress. You can see Justin Bieber there. Why do you think your message is appealing to people that socalled have everything . I think the message of jesus, it appeals to everybody. I think for us its about getting out of the way for long enough. The Message Church has turned people off over the centuries, but not jesus. I think thats true. I think sometimes people cant get through the church to hear about jesus. Whats fascinating to me is the young people. Its one of those things that you sort of picture church and it feels its like a little bit more old fashioned. You seem to somehow have reignited this in young people. And older too. Hoda you snuck in. Older people were in the back. So yeah, explain that. I think jesus reaches everybody. If were really preaching what he preached and trying to live how we should be it relates to everybody. He didnt preach condemnation and judgment like so many faiths do. Its all about love and forgiveness. Yeah. Easter for me everything is about it is about love. Everybody in the world, regardless of what you believe, you can relate to Everyone Needs love and desires love. Thats what jesus is all about. One of the keys too is music. Its contagious. Atheists go like this. Rocking out a little. Its okay to dance. How does that change the room . Its a weapon for us. Some people are coming in looking to have to endure church. Weve all sat in services please god, let this end. Yes. Even if it was just about excellence excellence, what our church has always been about is doing the best we can. I think the music is reflecting that. Youre the son of the original hillsong band from sydney. My parents thought of the church 30odd years ago. I spent most of my life trying to run away from it. I got a revelation of gods love and here we are. Have an awesome easter. Youre going to be back though. Theyre going to sing for it. Performs their new single. Its called touch the sky. And super model Chrissy Teigen is going to be with us too. 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Temperatures warming up nicely. Headed for the 60s this afternoon in philadelphia and in the 50s in the pocono mountains. Back almost there now. 47 degrees in mount pocono. 51 in trenton. Wilmington, 53 degrees. Numbers are climbing and the wind is picking up too. Winds gusting to 30 miles an hour today. Happening now, hundreds of workers at Philadelphia International airport are on strike. Baggage handlers airplane cleaners and other nonunion employees hitting the picket line this morning. They want better pay and access to Health Benefits and sick days. The worker are not employees of the airport. They are contracted and provide services for certain airlines. There are no reports of the strike affecting flights or airport operations. Meanwhile, happening today, new jersey senator Robert Menendez is expected in federal court in newark yesterday a grand jury indicted menendez on bribery and corruption charges. Federal prosecutors alleged the senator accepted nearly a Million Dollars in gifts and Campaign Donations from a friend, a florida eye doctor and in return used his elected office to influence decisions that directly benefited the doctor. A teen accused of knocking out a man at a station in philadelphia expected to return himself into police. Authorities say this Surveillance Video from the 15th street station on monday shows the teen punching the man. The blow broke the mans jaw and gave him a concussion. Chrissy teigen is shes because im molting again from baby foot. Yes, everybody wants to look at my feet. Heres one of the most beautiful women in the world. Chrissy teigen. Sports illustrated swim suit model married to one of our favorite singers. Even hoda woman got into the action. Take a look. Dont believe me just watch dont believe me just watch stop wait a minute. I love that song. You did awesome. Oh, my god. I love that song. Wow. Chrissy, this show is so much fun. So much fun. You killed it. The woman can move. She can move. Everyone keeps asking me who really prized you. Im like hoda i had no idea. You did it. Shes fearless. Got to be fearless. You do. You have some great people on this show. Michael strahan is on with you. Always team up celebrities. Justin bieber was on. J. Lo came out. Jimmy fallon. The rock is tonight. Tell your role. Youre unique. Youre the host right . Youre like the color commentary. What are you doing back there . I literally just get this amazing view of their performance. I get to say whatever i want. Its a dream job. You say whatever you want anyway. I know. Either in bed or here. What do you say . I cant hate anything they do. Anyone that puts it all out there is pretty fantastic. Youre on social media a lot. Yeah, so much. When you started following me i was worried. I was like she has no idea what shes in for. Its not mean spirited. I was very brutal when i first started. I think it was yesterday. I guess al was out in the plaza and that weird bunny was there. I think he tweet add picture of it. You were like that bunny is gross. No now i really feel like hes here. We wouldnt do that to you. Are we going to play the game . Oh, yeah. Dont look behind you. No [ laughter ] he looks happier there, though. He looked a little freaky. The guy in the suit is creepier than that. Al sorry. Wheres the swear jar. Youve got to let her go were going to do a little lip sync battle of our own. You each picked two songs for each other. You can pass on your first song. But the second song you must take on. I dont know any of the new songs i dont. The words will be up doesnt matter if you dont know the melody. Who cares. Whats the first . All about that bass. You can take it or you can pass. I dont know the other part of it. How about the lyrics . Do you want to take on the next one . Oh, good. Lets go. Oklahoma. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen. Oklahoma where the wind and smells sweet [ laughter ] thats it. Yes oh, yeah. You dont know what its a state. She knows that. I know i know. Great musicals ever ever ever. You dont know what it is either. Of course i do that was a film. All right. What are my choices . Your choices i know im not going to like either one. What is it . Everyone has a story. Is the next one worse . You got to say yes or a pass. When she sees whats up there whats it going to be . Im going to pick the next one. Its a kathie lee original song. I didnt like this one. Its called love never fails. Together well get there love never fails thats the way that pros do it. That is a please download that song love never fails. Theres a video and i will never look like that again. I think the wibnner here is both of you. Its going to be your song and hoda wins. There you go. Lip sync battle premiers tonight on spike tv. Oh, you get the show airs april 23rd. Is it really . 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Okay if you are celebrating passover tonight, were taking you into todays kitchen to celebrate the holiday that requires four glasses of wine. We love it. You got to love a holiday that commands you to drink. You can quickly run out of ideas. So here with passover treats. Jamie gellar and joy of kosher. Com jamie gellar. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you so much. Were going to show you lots of things to do with matzo. I ive have kids and one on the way. Were making pizza. Of course you could do marinara. Thats great. We roasted these in the oven. You could do sun dried tomatoes. I love that. I love to come here for inspiration. You roast them first, thats the key, isnt it . Exactly. This just goes in for four minutes at 400 degrees. Then finish it up. A little bit of fresh pepper. Love that. Want to be healthy. Hoda we could make one for you without the cheese. Yes, you could, but nobody cares. Im teasing. How do you cut it . This is almost as good as this one, right . Is it easy to cut even after its been cooked. Matzo is never easy. The pizza wheel can be used on matzo as well. Fun just to pick it up and eat. For sure. When you do bitesize, you feel better about yourself. Yes, you do. Thats great. Is there less calories . I dont know that theres less. Theres glutenfree and whole wheat. Nachos . Matchos. Very clever. Look at that. Thats cute. Just cut into try angles. Matzo bites. We had in here layers of matzo. Peaches, bananas. Brown sugar. Cinnamon. Im going to make a custard. Cheese on the bottom. Oh, it is . People love it. Its okay. That looks delicious. Make a layer here. Put that on top for me. Okay. Your peaches and bananas and brown sugar. Layer it, layer it. Yeah baby come on. Exactly. The whole matzo. Then i dump 375 degrees. Overnight in the fridge. At least three hours. I had 30 people at my house. Pull it out in the morning. You dont cook it . You cook it. You want it to soak up all the flavor. 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Love is on. All right. Theyve sold more than 16 million albums worldwide and billboard has named them the top christian artist of 2014. We told you about them earlier. Theyre called hillsong united and theyve become a worldwide phenomenon. Before the band performs we want to welcome back the pastors from hillsong new york. You have a little announcement to make. A little movie. Apparently yeah, we do. Its crazy. So its coming out in september. Kind of follows our journey a little bit. We hope people understand were not all that special, but maybe someone else is. How do you stay humble . Sgli. I think the movie shows you can never forget where you came from. Just trying to do stuff we couldnt do on our own. Another good way to reach people. You have no choice in a movie theater. Its very powerful. You come back with us in the fall when it comes out. Absolutely. Youre going to sing your big new single. Its called touch the sky. I did hear the lyric, touch the sky when your knees hit the ground . I love that. I like this song too. Here they are. Thanks guys. In your sky, this gift of freedom i fought the world and show my heart you traded heaven to have me again my heartbeating my soul breathing i found my life when i laid it down i touch the sky when my knees hit the ground im here at your feet again everything i am reaching out in your love again im here at your feet again everything i am reaching out come sweep me up in your love again again, i will reach out forever my heart beating, my shoul breathing i touch the sky when my knees hit the ground my heart beating, my soul breathing, i found my life when i laid it down i touch the sky when my knees hit the find me here at your feet again, everything i am reaching out come sweep me up in your love again again, ill reach out forever i touch the sky when my knees hit the ground yes love that oh my gosh. Thanks you guys. Will you tell us your name right here . My names taya. You are all so amazing. Taya taya. Thanks you guys so much. Were going to be back. First, this is today on nbc. Awesome. All right. Is it okay or not okay. By the way theyre in the house. Is it okay toby friend much younger celebrities. They announced taylor swift will be the god mother. Friends with 22yearold miley cyrus. And Justin Bieber is friends with floyd mayweather. Heres what we had to say brilliantly about that. Hoda, friends come in all sizes and all ages. Be grateful for every one youve got. I kind of agree. I say, yes its okay if its a real friendship, who cares if youre 18 or 80. Exactly. Its sort of like me and frank. Maybe five. Almost. I have no idea what we were doing. Anyway tomorrow we have lilry duff. And bobby has one shirt you can wear 24 different ways. Lots of great stuff. Have a great thirstday nbc 10 news starts now. Right now at 11 00, airport workers hit the picket lines in philadelphia. They are demanding change. Good morning. Im vai sikahema. Those workers are calling for better pay and benefits. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live at the airport for us. Monique, is the strike affecting those traveling today at all . Reporter no so far the airport tells us they have not been affected at all. But i can tell you, vai, for several hours this morning the contract workers walked the picket lines as the passengers were arriving for flights. What do we want