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Ron allen is on white house duty this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter the white house is expected to announce the president s trip to cuba sometime later today. It has been just over a year since mr. Obama said he would begin normalizing relations. Many critics are saying it is much too soon to reward the castro regime. A Senior Administration official telling nbc news that president obama will visit cuba in march marking the first time in 88 years a sitting president will visit cuba. These 50 years have shown isolation has not worked. It is time for a new approach. Reporter warming relations began after facetoface meetings. The pair announcing in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties. Over time it is possible for a new relationship between our countries. Reporter last august the American Embassy was open. Since then secretary of state john kerry travelled to the island and this week signed a deal to resume air traffic. Still there are hurdles. Tourists cannot visit the island and trade cannot resume until an embargo is lifted. Ted cruz and marco rubio were quick to pounce on the announcement. Rubio saying he would not go if he were president. The problem is they are not just communist dictatorship but antiamerican. I am saddened to hear i wasnt surprised. Reporter mr. Obama said he wouldnt go to cuba unless there was progress on human rights. Unclear whether that will happen but the number of dissidents regime is increasing. Thank you. You heard some republican candidates talking about cuba. Our new poll shows ted cruz leading nationally. We have the complete coverage of that race beginning with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Reporter donald trump is holding on to a commanding lead here in North Carolina. Nationally the race reached a new turning point. The wall street journal poll shows ted cruz leading donald trump. Here in South Carolina ted cruz is favoring. The sounds you are hearing is the sound of screams coming from washington, d. C. Reporter with the gop lineup shrinking after the New Hampshire primary the wall dramatic shift from last month. Trump dropping seven. I think somebody at wall street journal doesnt like me. And yet he tells fibs, lies. Reporter the trump cruz feud escalating. I am pro choice. We cannot trust donald trump with these serious decisions. Reporter trumps lawyers call it defamatory insisting he opposes abortion. I have had Great Success in business, Great Success with lawsuits, Great Success in things we do. I dont know if we will have a lawsuit but we want to keep somebody honest. Reporter trump still dominates with cruz behind. Marco rubio is picking up speed from governor nikki haley. We say that every day is a gate great day in South Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, if we elect marco rubio every day will be a great day in america. Reporter not a great day for jeb bush who 24 hours earlier told nbc news haleys endorsement would be the most powerful in the state. Its all been decided apparently. The pundits have made it all decided. We dont have to vote it is all finished. I should stop campaigning maybe. Its all done. Thats not how democracy works. Reporter here is something you dont see every day. Jeb bush chest bumping his brother back stage after w. s endorsement part of a new campaign video. I dont think the president was ready for that chest bump. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders working overtime to Court Minority voters ahead of saturdays nevada caucus. Tonight they faceoff in las vegas at a town hall event. Andrea mitchell is already in position. Good morning. Reporter with reports that clintons top donors have complained about a grass roots effort Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders facing off in nevada, a state she needs to win after losing to sanders in New Hampshire. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders will be appealing to nevada voters during a democratic town hall on msnbc. With just two days before the caucuses clintons lead has disappeared. A new poll has her just one point over sanders. Nationally things could be getting worse. Among women clintons favorability is shrinking just six points ahead compared to her double digit lead a couple weeks ago. Both candidates are reaching out to africanamerican and latino voters. Clinton on the south side of chicago focussing on racial barriers and the problem of Police Violence against minorities. She also accused sanders of wavering support for president obama in 2012. Even tried to have someone run against him. Reporter sanders looking ahead to South Carolina. We have a real good shot in nevada and i believe we are going to do a lot, lot better in South Carolina. Reporter hoping to pull off an upset and show he can win in states with more minorities than predominantly white New Hampshire. I think on election day people will be surprised about how well we do. Heading to the south and west clinton is releasing a new ad aimed at nevadas hispanic voters taking on the issue of deportation. And just a few hours ago clinton stopped along the strip to greet workers on the overnight shift at her hotel. Whoever wins saturday in nevada will have a lot of momentum Going Forward in South Carolina and beyond to super tuesday, what is clearly a prolonged primary battle. Andrea mitchell in las vegas. Lets turn to mark halpern. Lets talk polls. Here is what we see, 36 donald trump far and away the leader and this tight race for second or third. Field . Donald trump is way ahead in our poll and other poll. The real match between marco rubio and jeb bush. The former protege. The two of them before i thought maybe both make it out. Whoever is ahead here in South Carolina on saturday is probably going to get to go on into the finals. Whoever is behind can get out quite quickly. We have the new nbc wall street journal poll showing donald trump not leading two points behind ted cruz with marco rubio at 17. We talk about difference that showed trump with a lead from 15 to 20 points. What do you read into the number in terms of ted cruz at least . Reporter the nbc wall street journal poll is a good poll it doesnt reflect the fact that trump does have the lead. Ted cruz being hit by donald trump and marco rubio has moved up. He has consolidated a lot of support in the conservative wing of the party. I think no doubt ted cruz while still behind trump probably. Lets talk about the democrats saturday a caucus in nevada. We have seen polling suggesting it is a dead heat there. How do you think Hillary Clinton has changed her message in the hampshire . She has honed in on the message that andrea talked about that Bernie Sanders is not practical. He didnt support president obama and people shouldnt vote for him because his idea cant be made into law and reality. That is a very practical message. Does it appeal to peoples hopes and dreams . Andrea is quite right that saturdays caucuses are very important for momentum into South Carolina and into march we see a very long protracted clintb sanersclint Clinton Clinton sanders battle. Thank you. Now to a desperate hunt for dangerous Radioactive Material missing in iraq. Officials fearing it could be used as a weapon by terrorists. Reporter Iraqi Security forces have been searching day and night for months for this case the size of a laptop holding potentially deadly Radioactive Material. Exposure can cause death in a matter of hours. The iraqis are worried it could fall into the wrong hands. Making a socalled dirty bomb. An Iraqi Government document confirms a highly dangerous Radioactive Material was stolen from a Storage Facility linked to Weatherford Oil company in november. Weatherford oil said we do not own, operate or control sources or the bunker and that a Different Company held the material. Nbc has not been able to reach them for comment. We have not seen indication of material been acquired by any terrorist groups in the region. Obviously, we continue to take these reports very seriously. Reporter the state Department Said there was no the theft. At this point the iraqis dont know who did. Security sources told reuters it looked like an inside job. Apple is getting support in its industry in a fight against a court order to hack into a phone used by a San Bernardino shooter, a request that apple opposes and is fighting. Miguel almaguer has the latest. An iphone like this one that locks after a set period of time and requires a four digit code to open it. This is what the fbi cant get past. Apple says if it helps investigators do that it could create a dangerous precedent for everyone who owns one of these. Two months after the terror attack that left 14 dead in bernankeburnsan off a debate over privacy and security. I see the fbis point, but you can see apples point of view. Reporter with fbi investigators unable to unlock the federal judge ordered apple to create new software to unlock the iphone so it can be scoured for evidence. Justice has to be served. Peoples lives were lost y. Feel that is the moral thing to do. Reporter apple says they have been assisting the fbi with plans to fight the judges order. In an open letter tim cook says creating a back door to by pass encryption is something he says they donot have and something we consider too dangerous to create. Privacy advocates say building the master key to by Pass Security will be exploited and google ceo also weighed in on the issue wednesday tweeting we give Law Enforcement access to database on valid legal orders but that is different from enabling hacking to devices and data. The fbi believes they will lose the phone data permanently after ten failed attempts to open it. For family members of the victims there is no debate. When you are dealing with National Security that should come first. Peoples lives matter. While the debate rages on and apple prepares for appeal in court legislators say law can be produced to prevent phone companies from protecting data in cases like this. Should apple help fbi unlock the shooters iphone . A big debate on that. A strange story out of los angeles where a hospital paid ransom to hackers that apparently were holding Computer Network hostage. It paid about 17,000 when it fell victim to ransom wear. Bit coin is online currency that is very hard to trade. Hospital ceo called it the most efficient way to end the problem. Neither Law Enforcement nor hospital gave indication of who might be behind the attack. A little strange. Lets turn to al roker. We have warmth coming up in the next several days. Right now record warm weather today stretching from the plains average. Stretching into el paso. Amarillo. And well see records in charleston, tallahassee, tampa, memphis and houston and that warmth spreading towards the east coast towards the end of the week. Temperatures climbing into the 80s throughout the southwest. As we head towards nashville, atlanta, jacksonville. Charlotte 66 and look at the northeast upwards of 40 to 50 degrees and 60s down into washington, d. C. By the end of were going to gethighs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Wednesday. Rain likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Thats your latest weather. Coming up a new controversy over the people versus o. 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Rain likely with a chance of thuerstorms in the rning. Tnowers likely the afternoon. Highs in the lower s a eldridged atlkins blvd. Up next on the today show. The florida powerball winners are finally coming forward to claim their part of the recordbreaking jackpot. Then were back with another finally coming forward to claim their part of the recordbreaking jackpot. Then were back with another the time is 7 56. Im ben thompson. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with Social Security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. To keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise 7 30. Thursday morning, february 18, 2016. That is the view from the top of the rock. Ted cruz has inched ahead of donald trump nationally in our new nbc news wall street journal poll. Cruz first choice of 28 . Many candidates took part in town halls in South Carolina last night ahead of saturdays primary. One topic of discussion, apples fight against court order by fbi to help unlock the iphone. Anytime you are dealing with issues of security and Civil Liberties you have to balance them both. I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time, protect ourselves from terrorists. Apples argument is that the order sets dangerous precedent. Another sign of the Foreign Relations between u. S. And cuba. President obama plans to travel there next month. This will be the first visit to the island by sitting president since 1928. Fresh controversy tied to the people versus o. J. Simpson as a member of the brown family speaks out about the show. The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson is furious about the o. J. Mini series and wishathize producers and cast would have reached out to her family before putting the show together and at one star in particular. The people versus o. J. Simpson is drawing huge ratings and critical praise but not everyone is a fan. Tonya brown is upset with David Schwimmer who plays robert kardashian. Being a good person and a loyal friend is more important than being famous. It Means Nothing at all without a virtuous heart. Reporter schwimmer reportedly consulted with kris jenner saying i will say people should have included family members, not just friends. Just tired of disrespect in our both fx and schwimmer had no comment. Some real life players see the show differently. Im looking at it with anticipation. Reporter carl dougilous is one of simpsons attorneys and had lunch with the actor playing him. He told me with rare exception they were directed to not have any direct contact with the people who they were portraying until after the filming. Reporter according to new York Magazine filming wound down after sarah polson reached out to marsha clark. Saying she delivered feelings so beautifully with so much nuance in the courtroom. Tonya brown tells us she is not watching any of it. She says she keeps forgetting that it is even on. I imagine it tears open the wound again 20 years later. A lot of people are talking about the show. Meantime, other news now, the second winners of last months 1. 67 billion jackpot have come forward. Now they have rather modest plans for the moment. Took a little more than a month for Maureen Smith to get their bucks in a row. We just kept quiet. Reporter maybe not absolutely normal. After winning more than 528 million in the big powerball lottery. Lost a lot of sleep and over ten pounds. The worry of what is going to happen. What are you going to do with the money . 1. 6 billion. Reporter we knew the jackpot would be divided among three Winning Tickets but who won has been a mystery. The powerball numbers were chosen in this building a month ago. The couple has been keeping it a secret ever since even from family. Were you looking forward to today or dread tg . Dreading it. They want to make their announcement right here immediately. What does this feel like to you . Reporter the couple returned to mumford, tennessee and out of the public eye. The third Winning Ticket was sold in california where the crowd gathered hoping to get a glimpse of the winner. A month later the world is still waiting to find out. January to come forward. Back in florida. He wants to get a new car. I want to get a massage. As many as she wants. For today, janet shamlian, nbc news, tallahassee. I won the lottery. Im the third winner. I was just driving through. She can get a lot of massages. And he wants a car. We have a lot of dangerous weather into the west. Take a look what winds have brought in southern california, transformers coming down. Sadly, one person killed when a car was crushed by a fallen transformer. The other side of the winds going to be a big fire danger. Right now we are looking at wind advisories, high Wind Warnings the warning areas could see 65 Miles Per Hour gusts. 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The fda spelled it out, your Parmesan Cheese products do not contain any Parmesan Cheese. Market pantry 100 Parmesan Cheese included Cheddar Cheese and cellulose. They are looking to cheat somehow. They are trying to deceive us and trying to do things that we dont notice. Reporter the fda does allow fillers like cellulose in cheese but can only make up 4 of total ingredients. He says hard cheese is on the list of foods with documented mislabelling issues. Also on the list certain brands of extra version olive oil. Some more expensive sea food like lobsteres or scallops and some orange juices. We reached out to the involved food industries. They say they are committed to comply wg food standards and mislabelling is unacceptable. People can find mislabelled products. Most people arent focussed on it so they go to a great Italian Restaurant and Say Something about the food is really great. The products are real. That is what we are missing out on. Reporter the food and Drug Administration says its job stoot make sure food doesnt hurt you. No doubt that the highest priority is to keep us safe. Reporter what can you do if you are concerned about the food in your fridge and panry he says buy products with the name you trust. There is no easy solution to food mislabelling. The fda is working on increasing regulation but they are overwhelmed. The onus is on the consumer to remain vigilant. We reached out to the company for comment but never heard back. Natalie said it was fiber. Pulp. The wood just makes it good. Willie wanted to know what wine to pair with it when it has wood in it. Certain nuttiness. Stuck on the fact that americans eat 25 pounds of cheese a year. Just ahead kanye west takes to twitter to say he is wrong but what is he wrong about. Do you think apple should help hack into phones of one of the San Bernardino crowd cheering abdominal pain. Urgent diarrhea. It could be ibsd. 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If apple is forced to break encryption for the u. S. All will demand the same. 100 agree with apple. Also if our intelligence relies on weakening of americas security then we already lost. If apple refuses to hack shooters phone i will join in boycotting them. Murderous enemies in the usa dont deserve our protection. The fbi create ag world where citizens relying on apples rights. Interesting to see what our viewers are saying. Apples argument is we are protecting the people who have the iphone. It is not an easy issue. Fascinating to hear how people think. Coming up, loyalty doesnt pay. Your i think when people hear about memory care theyre scared, they think that its sad. I think its important for everyone to know that there is so much more to memory support than the stigmas you hearabout. That these residents still have lives and their lives still matter and that they are still living their lives. 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Millions of americans have never changed their credit card potentially costing them big bucks every month. Should you switch . And inside oprahs closet. How this sneak peek is sure to give you wardrobe envy today, thursday, february 18, 2016. Hello from buffalo howdy yall from texas. Good morning to all our students. You make everything fun welcome back to today. Its 8 00, thursday, february 18, 2016. We have a great crowd out here. A lot of people have winter break this week and coming out to plaza just saying hello. Willie, your Throwback Thursday song. Today is my wife, christinas birthday. We dated in high school. Speaking of romance, dont engaged couples if you loved my big fat greek wedding we want you to come get married on our plaza. We coupled with my big fat greek wedding 2 to give you the wedding of your dreams. Be sure to include your family. We want to meet them and we might choose you for our big fat today show wedding. Dont forget to apply before february 26. Willie will sernade with nothing but a g thing. Lets head inside. Good morning. News this morning the white house is announcing another big step forward in cuban american relations. President obama will pay an historic visit to cuba in the middle of march during a trip to latin america. It will be the first time in almost nine decades that a sitting u. S. President has gone not everyone supports the trip. Republican president ial candidates marco rubio and ted cruz criticized president obamas plan. The next political show downs are two days away in nevada. South carolina for the republicans for both parties the races are tight. Peter alexander has more now from columbia, South Carolina. Reporter good morning to you. Here donald trump is still dominating but our new National Poll numbers show what might be a changing race nationwide. A dramatic flip. Our latest wall street journal poll shows ted cruz leading donald trump nationally by a hair. The sounds you are hearing is the sound of screams coming from washington, d. C. Reporter cruz challenges trump to sue him. Reporter the fight over the cruz ad, highlighting trumps past support of abortion rights. Cannot trust donald trump making serious decisions. Reporter trumps lawyers arguing trump is now antiabortion and backing down a bit. I dont know that we will have a lawsuit but we want to keep somebody honest. Reporter marco rubio with a big assist from nikki haley. If we elect marco rubio every day will be a great day in america. Reporter haleys endorsement a burn to jeb bush. She is a great person. Reporter for the democrats the battle is equally fierce. I will build on the progress that president obama has made. Reporter Hillary Clinton returning to her hometown of we need to face the reality of systemic racism. If we are going to be able to break down the barriers in our economy, our society and our political system. Reporter two days until nevadas caucuses Bernie Sanders is looking ahead to the next stop in South Carolina, as well. If there is a large voter turnout i think we have a shot to win this. Reporter the democrats will square off later tonight in las vegas, nevada. Moderated by our friends. Natalie, back to you. Thanks so much. 15 students are safe this morning in mobile, alabama after a frightening trip home from school. On wednesday their school bus burst into flames after students and driver smelled smoke. One of the stars of mob wives has died. Angela raiola died this morning after stage four cancer. She thought she was cancer free. She found out months later the disease spread to her brain and lungs. She was 55 years old. People in southeast australia are dealing with a huge mess. One town down under is buried under a massive amount of tumble weed. Hot dry conditions sent tumble weed into yards. One complained she spent all day to clean it up to find her home buried again. I will never complain about a snow storm again. You are following this wild such an incredible story. A teenager accused of pretending to be a doctor. This morning he is opening up in a new interview about his arrest. Its a living nightmare. Reporter the teenager accused of posing as a doctor does not feel he lied to the community splmpt dw i think everything was overplayed. Reporter he is out on bail after under cover sting tuesday. He is facing charges of grand theft larsagy, check forgery and practicing without a license. Prosecutors say the practice was run out of this medical office building. The practice billed him a doctor and with a phd. The teenager says he wasnt trying to be a medical doctor. As far as md board exam im not trying to be one so no cht. Has listed valid credentials. I have gone to the steps to become where i am now. Some people may say those steps were not the traditional route y. Have never been a traditional guy. Reporter an investigation was launched in january after an elderly patient claims he stole checks from her later forging them for cash. The teenager would not comment on the accusation in detail. Insists the business was never officially open and the people who came to see him were not technically patients. It is pretty much like a friend to friend conversation. There really is no treatment involved. Reporter he insists he was simply trying to help his community. The goal of the business was to operate as a normal business. Its just to include alternative medicine. Reporter his grand father that same community for support. He has slipped and did something wrong y. Just ask that everybody pray for him. The teen accused of posing as a doctor last year, as well, wandering the halls of a nearby hospital. He was never charged back then with a crime. He says he has hired attorneys now but they are not ready to announce how they proceed with these charges against him. They are not really attorneys. [ laughter ] they didnt follow a traditional path. Taking medical school. He had a history of doing this. He did this last year at a hospital. And he was caught then. He was at this hospital for an entire month before they were like how old is this kid . So he had a history. The fact he was able to set up a whole office. He did study by watching houser. You know the talk shows will have a field day with this. Air quotes are amazing. Do your kids give you that dreaded eye roll . Yeah. It probably means more than you think. You are about to get a chance to raid oprahs closet. And is it time to switch your Credit Card Company . Why most of us have never done and the benefits you might be missing out on. toilet flush if you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain, you may be sooo constipated it feels like everyone can go. Except you. Opioidinduced constipation, oic, is a different type of constipation, which may need a different approach. 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Eye roll standoff. I have a teenage daughter. I would rather see the eyes roll than try to see her articulate frustration. A lot of times teens dont feel they can communicate so they give you the roll. I had one and i have one right now. You want to go stop it, but you being the recipient of an eye roll makes you crazy. I have the 8yearold daughter i get this and then the walk away. I have boys so i get a lot of sarcasm. There is a hot new toy allowing kids to enjoy the thrill of the mail. Remember snail mail. They call it turtle mail. You use a web app. Parents send notes to the toy but the turtle mailbox prints out the messages. They hope it creates a fun alternative to screens kids have in front of them right now. I like that. You get it instantly. Little love notes. Your phone and leave a message and it goes to the living room. Ikea shoppers . You get the lumber and you get to put it together. We know it can be a tough place for couples. Comedians dressing up as a couples therapist and Walking Around giving out advice whether people want to hear it or not. 4,000 people break up. And then that happens. It is like a relationship. That is new york comedian tyler fisher dispensing that couples wisdom. The grammy performance. Adele getting first interview since performance at grammys plagued by audio issues. Adele claims a microphone fell on to the piano. Today she says she knew there was a problem immediately. I knew where the mic was and i froze. I felt like it went well im always a bit picky. Its emotion. Im embarrassed. We still love you. Dont worry. I cried pretty much all day yesterday. You cry to your own song. I would have cried if it went really well, as well. So funny. I love her. Next time she will just stop and start all over again. That does air today. Oprah and how can you own a piece of her wardrobe . Oprah is selling designer fashions on ebay with over 250 gently used items. Dresses, shoes, jewelry, coats. Bidding starts at 99 cents. Are proceeds will benefit the oprah leadership academy. The items come from her studio in chicago which is closing after 25 years. Kanye west. From the premiere of his new album and fashion line, reportedly melting down back stage at snl and getting burned by taylor swift. In a swing of tweets. A wise man should be humble enough to admit when he is wrong and later added my number one enemy has been my ego. There is only one throne and thats gods. Looks like reflection. For now. He was talking about being the throne as claiming to be the king of rap. Jennifer lopez joined jimmy fallon and in a sketch called ew. My talent is i can dance. Lets put some music on oh, my gosh. She really can dance. Little twerking skills going on there. That was good. I was done. Al, you still watching it . I dont have to do the weather. We can keep running it. Work, work, work. Lets look at what is going on out west, heavy rain and snow making its way into the Pacific Northwest, northern california. We will watch this system move on shore today inland with showers. You can get about 12 inches of snow which would be great for them. Tomorrow another storm into the northwest pushing rain into the rainfall amounts especially in the Pacific Northwest one to three inches of rain through saturday. Snowfall again. Looking anywhere from six to today. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Wednesday. Rain likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. Are you too loyal when it comes to your credit card . A new survey finds 25 million goto card in at least ten years. 20 million have never changed thar car. Is that loyalty good or does it hurt you . Guilty as charged, so to speak. I never change my credit card. Is that a mistake . There are a lot of rewards. You are only able to capitalize on them if you change your card. Loyalty is a small portion of your credit score. You probably dont want to get rid of the card you had the longest. How many should you have . Theres no magic number but you want to have enough so that you are not using more than 30 of your credit limit on any of them at any one time. So for most people that is about four. If you have a problem with credit no more than two. According to the survey 44 of people didnt want to sign up for new credit cards because they thought it would hurt credit card. One can take the score down a little bit. If you do it like every six months and not before you apply for a mortgage or car loan you will be fine. A lot of different offers. You can get miles, rewards, cash back, 0 interest. What is good . You have to look at how you use the credit card . What rewards are you able to earn based on your spending pattern . And that will give you the guideline. What about travel miles . There has been a change in policy. If you are not a frequent traveler, if you are a regular joe kind of traveler it is harder to earn the free Airline Seats you are better off just going for cash back. A lot of them do offer real cash back. So you want to look at an actual cash back card. Pick is the citi double cash card. It gives you 1 when you pay for it and when you buy. No annual fee and no cap on rewards you can earn. That is flat 2 back on spending. What if you dont have great credit can you get offers like these . This is new. You used to not be able to capitalize on the rewards at all. Now we are starting to see secure cards roll out for people with not great credit from discover. Capital one has the cash rewards card. How did you remember that . That one i practiced. 1. 5 back on everything you spend. 39 annual fee. 0 Interest Rate through november. This is not a card where you want to carry a balance because the Interest Rate of november is 24 . If you have a debt or balance to pay should you be looking for rewards are not for you if you carry a balance. You will save more money just by transferring balance to 0 card. The one we like is the chase slate card and it offers 0 interest for the first 15 months. No Balance Transfer fee. Most have 3 Balance Transfer fee. You have to transfer the balance within the first two months to capitalize on that. Dont wait until you had the card for six months. You keep all those numbers and names in your head. What is your name again . Thank you so much. If you want more credit card tips go to today. Com. Just ahead we get together with togetherness star amanda pete who is here and not moving. First your local news and 6thompson. Right now, North Carolina legislators are returning to raleigh for a special session to redraw the Congressional District map ahead of tomorrows deadline. New boundaries released by republican lawmakers wednesday would restrict representative alma adams 12th district to just mecklenburg county. Representative robert pittengers ninth district would expand of mecklenburg, iredell, and union counties. The General Assembly will reconvene at 10 00. Today. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rainghs in the wer0s. Wednesday. Rain kely witaance of understorms the rning. Howers likely in the afternoon. G in thew s. Rioucsh onver hwy at mccrary rd. Use i40 70 or 73 as alternates. Crash on sharon amity at independence causing some moderate delays. Coming up on the today show future fans rejoice the delorean is making a comeback. Find out how you might be able to get behind the wheel of one. Then were back with another update in thirty. Bright clear day out on our plaza. Bright shiny faces on the plaza. A little chill in the air. Theres wrangler. Things to do to live a longer, healthier life. With that in mind you have to protect your finances, what you can do to help your parents better handle their money. Multi talented amanda pete is here talking about her hbo series, her family and much more. Lets get a check of the weather. Im like that shaken up a little bit. Can they meet . Is it okay . Here we go. Looking at you. We need love music. And we go for the sniff right away. That worked out well. Hey, now. Okay. Nobody got hurt. Everything is all right. Lets show you what is going on around the country right now. Look at the weekend outlook friday snow in northern new england. Wet weather in the Pacific Northwest. Conditions in texas and in the plains. Icy mix in northern new england. Sunday we have wet weather continuing in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of sunshine. Look for wet weather for the great lakes into texas. East coast looking pretty darn good. That istoday. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Wednesday. Rain likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. And thats your latest weather. Better today. One of the worlds leading physicians and a pioneer in bio medical research. Treated high profile patients. This morning he is revealing things you can do today to live longer in his new book. Good morning. Good to see you. Lets start with the title. Its now. Remarkable technology where things are happening every week and we often benefit from them. You have five tips for us. You say take the two week challenge. I want you to get to know yourself. When you list a bunch of things whether checking Blood Pressure every day if you sit on the floor and you can get up with no hand or one hand it puts you in the top 20 of strength and means you will live longer. I have heard that so i tried it. Do it . Work on your core. Your next tip is you say get moving. It means Different Things for different people. A body was designed to move. If you go to hours at the gym and work out and sit for hours in the day is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarette. Every hour get up and walk for five minutes. The richer you are you dont have to walk to go to the bathroom. Go for long walks. Is there a magic number for you in terms of movement every day . 20 minutes . 30 minutes . If you can do 30 minute walk every day you live longer. That adds years at the end of life. Put five minutes in there to walk around and move. Dont be sedentary for long periods of time. Drugs which are sex, sleep and touch. If you take them out and it gets better half the time. We were designed to be touched whether it be touched, having sex or things like sleep is not optional but mandatory. That is how we get optimal output. I heard this before. Take a baby aspirin every day. What does that do for an adult . 2,000 years ago, an aspirin a day Heart Disease by 22 and stroke by 17 . Its not for everybody. It can upset the stomach but in the long run the benefits are dramatic. Talk to your doctor about it. Reduces hard disease and stroke, as well . And cancer. Those are three biggies for taking a pill a day that doesnt cost very much. We are in charge of ourselves. In todays world you can find everything. The key is go to well vetted sites. Watch the today show. Watch other news shows. Look at newspapers. Get good information and write down everything about yourself. You are in charge of you. The old doctor they drew your blood and called you up two days later. The new doctor you go in with your own data. In todays world you are in charge. I will take a baby aspirin and work on that cross legged stand up thing. Thanks so much. The book is the lucky years. Coming up next we are catching up with amanda peet. First this is today on nbc. In 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, back at 8 38. Amanda peet has it all together in real life but in hbos togetherness that is a different story. Its just a bunch of stuff. Its so complicated. What is it, though . Just some entrepreneurial stuff. Thats cool. Hard to explain. I love that you are so in it at your age. That is awesome. Yes, i am. At your age. You should have punched her in the nose in that scene. Well, i dont behave well after that. Your character is in the wholesale bouncy house business. That is something. Did you love that . I love pd it so much. No better metaphor. Its not as prestigious as it sounds perhaps . Tell us those who arent familiar with the show it is about to have season two. Catch us up. What is the situation . My that character is interesting sort of when harry met sally relationship. And he gets a girlfriend. So this is about what happens when he gets a little bit of success and also has a girlfriend. Its about my abysmal behavior. I kind of love your character. She seems like a hot mess but someone i would want to be friends with. I started watching it and was like she is cool. She is nuts. You guys are all under one roof, living with your sister, your sisters husband and this other character who you may or may not have feelings for. We needed a place to stay so our more together friend and sibling you are living on the sisters couch. And all hell breaks loose. Tell me if you think this describes your character. Free spirit . Yes. Yes. Free loader . Yes. Fashion icon . No. She has real interesting get ups. You get to be creatively involved in that process . It is like i have an alter ego where i wear really tight white jeans and cleavage showing. Tell me about things at home. You are married to the creator of game of thrones are people like asking what is going to hap snn. I hope i stay married to him after the season begins. If i dont see john snow living, breathing and talking people are not happy. Im not either. You have three kids, 8, 5 and 1. Is that right in. Yes. Look at those cutis. Are they impressed with mom and dad . They are not impressed. Its kind of sad. They dont really care. We live right on sunset. There was a huge togetherness poster last year when my show came out and molly was like mommy, is that you . I said yes like trying to be confident because you never know how to act about being an actress. She was like id be so embarrassed if that were me. Perspective. The alternative is really scary. Its better that they are not impressed. Can i go to the opening or whatever. I dont know what it would be but it wouldnt be good. I really enjoy the show. I want to be friends with your character even though she is a diz, short for disaster. Its just valley girl talk. I love it. Thank you so much for being here. You can catch togetherness back in business why the delorean is about to make a first this is today on nbc. Blast from the past on the verge of a mamger comeback. The delorean is going back into production. Gabe gutierrez went to the one of a kind factory that is reviving it. Reporter it was ahead of its time. Are you telling me you built a time machine . Out of a delorean. Reporter when marty mcfly asked the timeless question in back to the future the Delorean Delorean is not only a thing of the past but a thing of the present and a thing of the future. Reporter that future is unfolding in humble, texas. When do you expect to be back in production in. This time next year. Reporter the ceo and says for the first time in three decades the company will build about 300 new deloreans under a manufacturing bill approved by the federal government. What is most unique . Everything. Reporter the doors, the feel, the history. Everybody has a delorean story. Reporter that began in the mid 70s. In 1992 the original manufacturer went bankrupt. Refurbishing old deloreans ever since. Can i help you . Reporter demand is hotter the new replicas are expected to cost close to 10 100,000. Now it is time for the delorean to shine. The only car that i know that is like a hapness machine. Reporter he is a writer in austin who has driven his classic across the country. One of the first times i took it out for a drive i pulled up to a stop light and a guy crossing and he turned and started bowing to the car which has never happened in my prius. Reporter a time machine that already had a wild ride. That was fun. Reporter a blast from the past. Its a dream come true. Reporter going back to the future. For today, gabe gutierrez, nbc, humble, texas. All about the doors. Love it. Whyi was in one. How did it feel . We can work around it. Its so cool. The lamborghini. Thats right. Coming up next, is it time to have the money talk with your parents . What you should be doing to make sure mom and dads finances are first this is today on nbc. As we heard all week slief spans are longer than ever. Senior personal finance correspondent. This is a tough conversation to have for any parent with a child. It is a very tough conversation because a lot of seniors are embarrassed. They dont want to admit that they may need help. You need to have this conversation because statistics show when there is fraud involved it could mean up to 30,000 out of pocket. Lets start to have the conversation. It starts with just having the money talk. Having the money talk is very important. Open communication is very important in terms of preventing fraud. You want to ask them solutions to help them to review their finances with them. Sometimes it is difficult to you need a third party to step in maybe talk to a financial adviser. Some ways that is toughest. Once you have gotten going help set them up for safety. You need to know where the documents are. Where do they keep financial documents and tax returns. Know people involved in handling documents. I love online bill pay as much as that they can do for themselves. You want to get rid of junk mail. Contact direct marketing. Get rid of catalogs and things. Get on the do not call registry. Simplify it a little bit. Watch out for signs of trouble. There are a lot of signs of trouble. If you see piles of mail, credit notices that could be a sign that something is going on with them and also that they are being bombarded by things, be a sign that memory is lapsing. Also, look for suspicious financial activity. If you see a lot of atm withdrawals you know that your mother has been actually bedridden that is not possible. Find out if that is happening. Unpaid bills and unusual purchases. You know they wouldnt buy these things. The next one is really important. Watch out for scams. The aarp bulletin did a huge bulletin about seniors being targeted. All of them say medicare is one of the top ones to watch out for. Your medicare number needs to be protected. You want to make sure it doesnt fault into the wrong hands. You want to make sure payments you may have to make are yours. Telemarketing another very important one. We get telemarketing calls. You want to make sure the business is legitimate before you buy anything or respond in any way. Is there a website or something in. Just go to the better is a legitimate business. In terms of tech support here is one that the aarp found. If they are asking you to download a particular website that could be a virus or something for them to get access to your personal information on your computer. The biggest one is irs scam. That is a voice mail or call saying you owe back taxes, asking to pay for that. Irs never calls you. The irs only contacts through u. S. Postal service. You should know that so you can be aware of scams. When all else fails you might have to step in for your parents splmpt dw thats a big step for a lot of people to take. Offer to take over and have the conversation before you do it. You can handle a lot of things remotely and then consult with someone if you need to and see if you can hire someone to help. Great points. Thank you so much. Thanks. Star of nbcs comedy. Good morning. Big Season Finale. We are funny and we get out. Has she grown . Learned any spanish . No. Zero for her. We have had so much fun. The Season Finale is a cliff hanger. There will be a huge cliff hanger so everybody gets to watch monday. She seems so put together but she is clumsy and goofy. Art imitating life splmpt dw exactdw. We wont know for a while. Its really great. Its fun. We had a great time with being paired up with superstar and america. We are happy about our comedies. We hope to get picked up. Lots of talk about it. I cant breathe in this dress. You look lovely. You can breathe next hour. I will do this standing up. Monday night 8 30 eastern we are back with more after youbruck. Parents are in on an discussion about education. An independent nonprofit dedicated to c ms education is about student the talk is focusing on the upcoming students get schools. Few minutes at center. Today. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Wednesday. Rain likely with aance of undersrms thernin. Then showsikely the afternoon. Ghs in th wer s. Coming up later on nbc charlotte, the reason why a crowd will be gathering at West Charlotte High School in about an hour. Then were back with another update in thirty minutes. The time is 9 26. Music thunder clatter by wild cub most weekends only last a couple of days. Some last a lifetime. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, in 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, good morning. The hottest ticket in town. Hamilton and we have one of the stars. Stars. From nbc news this is todays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall. Welcome to today on thursday, february 18, 2016. Im willie along side natalie, al and tamron out on assignment. Alron. This is your jam. This is if you need a little pick me up and need to dance in your underwear in the morning this is the song. Is that what you do to get ready . Inside scoop on how you prepare for a morning like today. Underwear dancing. I love it. Youre a strange man. That is why we love you. Powerball. Remember the big pot 1. 58 billion. Three groups won. Now we have another group in florida, a couple who won onethird of the giant Powerball Jackpot. Maureen smith and david took the 327 million lump sum and kept i lost like ten pounds. A lot of pacing at night. Im afraid it will make me less because i will be worried. Everyone was saying you are from beach do you know who won . No. When i arrived late for work. Really dont know yet. I want to get a massage. Thats a good start. Every day of their life sdprmpt. She is a homemaker who sells avon. She says she very rarely the lottery. Keeping that secret all these weeks. Your family, your friends they know you live in the area and asking you. I wouldnt be able to sit on that. I would be bursting at the scenes. I would just be screaming. No sleep. He lost ten pounds. Thats a good diet. Get all that money, lose ten pounds. All it takes. We know the two winners. There is one more in california that has not come forward. Chino hills, california. We need new friends. The first thing i saw when ryan walked in was this stylish jacket. Its vintage from San Francisco . So this is a good topic for you. The wall street journal has an article today. Shoes and belt always match . As a lady we sort of i dont wear a lot of belts but when i do i think i tend to match them to my shoes. I dont think you have to. Do whatever you want. Do what feels good. I usually do. In my civilian life i dont really care. You dont wear pants. I never wear belts. Are belts outdated . I think so. A lot of costume designers why are you looking at my belt . Pants are very slim and really fits you. Thats the thing. Its not like you have the big shirt. You will see that a lot of guys with a good fitted pant and not a belt. I think we are moving towards nudity as a society. To answer the question the wall street journal people polled say 70 say you should match your shoes to belt. 30 say no. Fashion experts say as long as they are in the same family tone wise as well as same sensibility. You wouldnt wear a western belt necessarily with tennis shoes. Im on your plan. Throw the pants away. Wow. This is really spiraling out of control. Lets launch our hashtag battle. We are going deep on the topic. For yes tweet us with matchymatchy. Belt to the shoes. Sharp. Very nice. I approve. Well done. For no rulebreaker. I do have matching belt and shoes. I dont think it is a requirement. Live your life. You have major drama tonight. What episode are we in . I want to say 16. Just made that up. Pulled that one out of thin air. So toms life apparently hanging in the balance for tonights episode. Take a look. White male, approximately 30 years old. What did he do . You know this guy . Not really. Your friends friend is in a police are send degree tecting detectives. I missed that. Thats hard to do. I was in bed all day. It was terrific. With a bag over your face. Couldnt tell what i was doing. Can you give context to that . Trying to be a father and wants to get married but unskilled in the ways of being a man and human being. So it falls back on his sort of past, what he does best to get money together to try thoowork it out and it doesnt really work out well for him. Gets shot. His heart is in the right place but he has a lot to learn. Keeps escalating. Cliff hanger . Its great. Im excited. Black list airs tonight 9 00 8 00 central. Pick your time zone. 15th episode. 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I was on the young and the restless. So we were like what a great comedy. It would be funny even if we were in a dentist office. The fact that we are trying to make it within this show is probably what is really unique and special about it. I remember seeing the first promos for the show. You talk about the wind machine. This show is going to be good. When i was murdering somebody on young and the restless there was a wind machine on me. Myself. I went to columbia. I got a little clip because it is all about i want you to judge my acting talents. Here we go. Thats how it is done. The slap and the whole thing and hair pulling. The young lady who taught me that. I like the cut away of the she taught me how to soap opera fight. I was amazed. You know this they work like 14 hour days. You work long days here in hollywood. They do an episode a day. We take like five days. You think you would have me on . Yes. We talked about the lip sync. Look at this. I was so sore after learning this. My love letter to nicki minaj. I loved it. Wait. You didnt show when i was like humping the ground. Christina aguilera comes out because this is all about the guest stars coming out and when hayden was singing and there comes christina aguilera. I was like i lost but i danced my butt off. My butt had fallen off. You got the belt. I did get the belt. She is sticking around. We have one mor life as spokesbox is great. People love me for saving them over half a grand when they switch to progressive. So im dabbling in new ventures. It was boardgame night with the dalai lama. Great guy. Terrible player. Go paperless dont stress, girl i got the discounts that you need its a balancing act, but i got to give the people what they want more box. Any words for the critics . What can i say . Critties gonna neg. [ applause ] the what . wish your skin could bounce back like it used to . Neutrogena hydro boost water gel. 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Power to your mouth we are back with eva longoria. We are dividing into teams of two for friendly competition. The losing team against me. Pingpong balls to the other one with only a spoon in our mouths. Im not sure how this will work. When you play a ball game but not this one. We do all of these sill a games minute to win it games. And no talent needed. You ready . Im so ready. Well you guys no hands. No hands. No cheating. All right. On your mark, get set, go. Shes good. Go, willie, go come on. Make up for that. You guys suck. This is bogus. Dont make me laugh. Delicate. Delicate. Im exhausted already. I got this. I got this. That was my bad. There we go. Be gentle. Are we done . Yes you get a lot of practice at home. Comments . Congratulations. Thanks to the great eva we brought you here today to get your honest opinion about this new car. To keep things unbiased, we removed all the logos. Feels like a bmw. Reminds me a little bit of like an audi. 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Light showers from texas through ohio valley and still warm in the northeast. Temperatures wtoday. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Friday. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Monday. Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Mainly in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday. Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Wednesday. Rain likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Then showers likely in the afternoon. And thats your weekend forecast. If only the Founding Fathers had explained through hip hop in your High School History class . That is what they are doing in hamilton. Since the next available tickets are sometime in the next millennium we brought out a star today. Went on to start the first private orphanage here in new york city. So incredible. I was reading about you and to learn that this is your broadway debut. You basically graduated in 2012 and next thing you know you are in the best show that is most impossible to get into. It is insane y. Would have never dreamed this. It is quite the dream. Talk about the character. We know about hamilton and jefferson. She had a remarkable life after she lived to be 97 years old and established the first private orphanage in new york city which is an Ongoing Foundation social service program. They do a lot of good. Extraordinary woman. How do i get tickets . Ill get you a ticket. What is the most fun part about doing this show . It varys. I have been with it for almost two years now. You try to find new ways in every night. I think for me it is like those little back stage moments where you just have a little fun back stage before you have to rush on. It is a great spot. Speaking of back stage moments you guys just had a back stage moment at the grammys. Getting the award. What was that like for you to be a part of that . You guys did your performance is being broadcast on the grammys. It was nice that we were in our own theater and felt like our hometown version of the grammys. It was great because we had a Live Audience there of friends and family. And they would radio in what was happening in l. A. We couldnt see what was happening. We could hear what was going on. Right before they announced that we won we were like doing the set and jamming back stage. It was great. Are you guys aware . You are working so hard, are you aware of what is happening with the show outside of the theater in terms of how excited people are, the phenomenon happening . Yes. Its crazy. I think i dont see a lot of it because im in the theater for so many days a week. But just thinking about peoples amgs like 5 to 10. They are totally into it. The album willies kids are king along. They do the rap battle 6 and 8 years old. They have hamilton and jefferson rapping about states rights. By the time they are 12 they are more well versed in history than i was by 19. Asking questions about the guys and going online and talking about history. Its amazing. Sglits rr really encouraged people to take a look back and learn the facts in history that we may have forgotten sblmpt. We remember these people are real people. They are not status. They are not painting, people with feelings and made choices and made mistakes and had success. Its a Pilot Program right now but its Teaching Artist Program where cast are acting as we are working with some of the kids in the community. So the master classes creating their own work. Its a lot of fun. Good for you. We are so happy for you and for the success of the show. Everything people say about it is true and accolades are well deserved. Congratulations. Hamilton is on broadway. 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Who is coming with me . Whos coming with me besides flipper here . One person. Not everybody can say flipper and move on without issue. The author of decide. Great to see you. Thanks for having me. We know why you are an expert how do you define this . Burnout is a word we seem to use when we get the feeling that we have been working too much for the things we have to do in life and are not spending time with things we want to do in life. When i say have to my definition is you dont do the activity it will find you. It will be brought to your attention like paying the bills. You dont have to pay your bills but if you didnt it would find you. Taking out the trash, doing laundry. Too much time with those things creates the feeling that we seem to call burnout. Then we have the want tos in life. That is different for everybody things like learning a new language, getting a masters degree or degree or going for a run, going to a movie, things we want to do in life. 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