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Immigrants. Will that new strategy help win back minority voters or is it too late . Wild weather. Damaging tornadoes in the midwest. A new round of devastating flooding in the south while in california a raging Wildfire Forces new evacuations and now threatens the historic first castle. And expanding the family. Were getting a new puppy with a purpose raising a service dog our new friend is in that litter and youre about to meet him, today, monday, august 22nd, 2016. Announcer 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 monday morning. Our first day back all of us in to that new puppy smell. Wait, what . I hug you and you get new puppy smell. Were so happy to have you guys back. Its boring around here without you. I brought you a little puppy. I had to give you a welcome. I cannot wait to meet this little critter. It will be fun. Meanwhile, we have a lot of olympic news to talk about. Its kind of the closing ceremony. After all the headlines that led up to this game potential problems, the people of rio pulled it off. It was a spectacular ending. Nbcs Peter Alexander in rio. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Where did everybody go . You guys leave and the storm clouds move in here in rio. Over the course of these games coming in, there were serious worries about the citys preparedness, about the zika virus, about toxic water, the games went off with only a few minor hiccups and after these exhilarating last couple weeks, the games concluding with an epic carnivallike party. Christ the redeemer arms outstretched. Reporter the closing ceremony as colorful as the games themselves. Simone biles, americas 49 gymnastics giant. The most stunning athlete i have ever seen. Reporter leading the way for team usa. With four gold medals in rio, she was given the honor of carrying the american flag. The final celebration a domination by american athletes here in rio. The u. S. Mens Basketball Team reigning supreme earning its third consecutive gold medal. The United States has won the gold. Reporter blowing out serbia, a 30point win. Nba star Carmelo Anthony overcome by emotion. Announcing his olympic retirement. Going on right now in our country, we got to be united. And im glad i did what i did. I stepped up to the challenge. Reporter so did brazil earning the gold medal this soccer crazed country so badly wanted. Brazil strikes olympic gold. Reporter captain namar filled with joy and relief after knocking home the game winning goal against germany in dramatic shootout. This weekend the u. S. Kept adding to its medal count commanding in the ring. She knows shes closing in on the gold. Reporter clarissa shields punching her way to the podium. Her second straight boxing gold. The First American ever to do it. Kyle snyder becoming the youngest olympic champion in u. S. History. Champion. Reporter the winners of the mens marathon got their medals including the american that took home bronze. Steeling the show, japans Prime Minister paying homage to super mario. With the extingui extinguished, the rio games have come to a close. Here is the medal count one final time. Team usa crushing the competition. Dominant in these games. 121 total medals. 46 golds way ahead of china, Great Britain and russia. The most medals for the u. S. In more than three decades and the most medals ever in a nonboycotted olympic games. I didnt have the heart to tell them everyone took off. Probably still having a good time. Thanks very much. There were other stories that came out of these games like the embarrassing incident that involved four american swimmers including ryan lochte that became a blemish on the games. He said he and his teammates were robbed at gun point but Surveillance Video paints a different picture. Over the weekend we sat down with lochte exclusive to get his side of the story. You guys go to the in the bushes. The way its been described to me is a metal framed poster of some kind or advertisement of some kind. And you just ripped it off the wall . Yeah. And i have no idea i mean, i was very intoxicated. I have no idea why. It was immature. It was childish. It made a big noise. It made a big noise. And we continued to walk out and get in the taxi. Damage or destroy or vandalize anything in that gas station that night . Im not speaking for them. You were with them. Do you know if they also did things like that . No. You dont know or they didnt . No. It was me. Im taking full responsibility for everything. I mean, it was childish and immature. I want to make sure about the bathroom side of this. You heard the police. The police say there was door was damaged. I think they said a mirror was damaged and soap dispenser was damaged. At any point did you enter the bathroom and damage those things . No. You never went in the bathroom . We never went in the bathroom. Did you kick the door of the bathroom . I like i said, i was very intoxicated. I dont remember. Is it possible that you damaged the door to the bathroom, perhaps even kicked it bathroom outside in the bushes. International Olympic Committee set up a Disciplinary Commission to investigate that incident. U. S. Olympic officials promise further action. Well have more with our exclusive interview with ryan lochte in our next half hour including his description of that confrontation with the Security Guard at the gas station. We move now to politics and the president ial race and indication this morning that donald trump may be looking to change his tone on one of his most controversial proposals. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is at trump r good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. Those new indications on immigration arent coming from the candidate himself but from his new Campaign Manager who insists even after a tumultuous seven days that donald trump is having his best week. A new week and a new tone for Donald Trumps team. Seeming to soften his stance supporting a socalled Deportation Force to remove the estimated 11 million force . To be determined. Reporter the candidate himself silent about it. His immigration policy Still Standing online with trump still struggling to win over minority voters. Not just latinos but africanamericans from whom he has about 1 support. Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58 of your youth what the hell do you have to lose . Reporter that argument to black voters delivered to mostly white communities. His comments are for all americans, and i live in a white community. Im white. I was very moved by his comment. In other words, he is trying to tell americans that we can do better. Reporter now as trump tries to stay on message for another week and on attack against Hillary Clinton, one of his top surrogates is raising eyebrows raising questions about Hillary Clinton illness and take a look at the videos for yourself. Reporter clintons team has shutdown what they call deranged conspiracy theories about her physical fitness. She is facing questions now about why the Clinton Foundation will stop accepting corporate and foreign donations if shes elected but didnt do so while she was secretary of state. What the foundation is saying is that they dont want to become a distraction. Possibly can to make sure theres no possible conflict of interest. Reporter and this morning clintons email controversy is again in the headlines as colin powell pushes back against a report clinton told the fbi he advised her on the use of private email. The former secretary of state is telling People Magazine that clintons people have been trying to pin it on him. His office acknowledged to nbc that powell did send a memo email but only after clinton started using hers. Lets bring in james carville, the mastermind behind bill clintons run to the white house. U hes out with a new book. Were still right, theyre still wrong. Still blunt. Lets pick up where hallie left off. Collin powell magazine that clinton people are trying to pin this on him. Lets pretend youre in your old job working for Hillary Clinton. What should she do about this email issue that continues to dog her . Maybe documentary evidence. A memo. If they have that, they should get that out and show that. I would stop there. Well see what it is. It was a memo so after theres a this issue well . You can go back to anything in politics and say could you have done this better at this time and done that but right now theyre up in the polls and theyre ahead and anything that you do in politics you could say that we handled this well. Theres always something you could have, would have, should have. Theyre ahead but a reboot on the trump side of things. A softer side of him. Hes walking back some of his most controversial policy issues including this mass how worried should the Clinton Campaign be that this is going to actually help him . We dont exactly know if hes apologizing but not sure for what. I read a story this morning and his Campaign Manager says that hes going to redo this. Its not trump himself saying that. I think that everything that i read indicates to me theyre not doing things that a campaign some people doubt that hes trying to win. I dont know. Reince priebus said by labor day this will be an even race. Would you like to take that bet . I would like to take that bet but its not labor day that counts. Its election day that counts and i think shell be way ahead by then. On friday donald trump went to louisiana. You have family in baton rouge. Its a mess down there. He goes down there and looks at the damage firsthand and talks to people before president that Hillary Clinton picked up the phone and called the governor there. Did he appear more president ial in the wake of that tragedy than Hillary Clinton . I think the time line is that she and the governor spoke. The governor had said he would prefer that people come later because they have particularly the president come. Im congratulagrateful that he. Im sure the president is going to come on tuesday. Down there is federal response has been really good. Thats the total agreement. I want to ask you a question about the book. You say elections are lost by the base. If people dont understand that theres been a clear performance differential between the two parties, they will think theres not a stake in there. I think democrats have a large stake in there. Weve had two democratic presidency with a disastrous republican president in the middle. As democrats we have to remind our own people of that. Thats part of this book is more for converted than anything. Worried about overconfidence and democrats say why bother show up . We never get overconfident about anything. Knowing mrs. Clinton and knowing theyre not going to suffer from little confidence. The book is called, were still right, theyre still wrong. Available on amazon and bookstores tomorrow. Texas and louisiana could be the next state where zika will spread. A doctor from the National Institutes of health says flooding in those states expanded mosquito breeding he said zika will hang around in the u. S. For up to two years. Infections traced to local mosquitos have been found in two parts of south florida including in miami beach. Now to the Severe Weather impacting millions across the country. There were at least 16 reports of tornadoes over the weekend. Most of them in ohio, indiana and michigan. Emergency crews spent much of the day on sunday clearing trees and power lines that came down on roads there. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses had power knocked california, firefighters are struggling to keep a raging wildfire there away from historic castle. The chimney fire burned more than 27,000 acres and at one point was two miles from the castle. Farther south evacuation orders have been lifted after a massive fire destroyed more than 100 homes in San Bernardino county. People in texas are cleaning up after a weekend of flash flooding in hard hit louisiana expecting more r again, president obama will head there tomorrow. Mr. Roker, theres a lot going on. That rain youre talking about is going to come down in parts of texas and louisiana looking at more heavy rain and then it moves to the north. You can see heavy showers and thunderstorms firing up between Corpus Christi and san antonio. Activity also firing up along the stationary front into louisiana and arkansas so lower we look for flooding possible later on in the next several days as we move further up into the Mississippi River valley from des moines, quincy, we could look at severe storms and anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain. Were going to get to your local hey, youre clarce yes, sir. You know, at the model year end clarence event, you can get a great deal on this 2016 passat. Steve. Yeah . Clarence is on a roll. Yeah. I wish theyd name an event after me. Same here. But the model year end becky event . Stevent thats just vandalism. Whatever you want to call it, dont miss the volkswagen model year end event. Hurry in for a onethousand dollar volkswagen reward card and 0 apr on a and thats your latest weather. Coming up, more of our exclusive interview with ryan lochte. What he now says happened during that conon Security Guard at that rio gas station and his message to the people of brazil. 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Its monday morning, august 22nd, 2016. Gang is all back together. So happy to have a crowd out on our plaza. Two awesome weeks in rio or so i hear. Look at todays headlines as the games came to an end with last nights closing ceremony celebrating the beauty of brazil. Simone biles won five medals including four gold. Team usa by the way took only 121 medals in all. Thats the most in a nonboycotted olympics in 112 years. In other news, at least eight people were injured last outdoor dance party. It happened near cleveland. The driver hit the gas by mistake instead of the brakes. Police are investigating and say charges could be filed. President obama arrived back to the white house late last night after a vacation in marthas vineyard. Tomorrow the president travels to louisiana to view the devastation from that states historic flooding. We want to begin this morning with more on our exclusive interview with ryan lochte now taking behavior in rio nearly a week after he and his three teammates claimed they were robbed at g gunpoint. We asked lochte about that and what happened when he was confronted by Security Guards. What was your tone . The police said in their press conference that you were angry, that you were belligerent and that the Security Guard was not me getting aggressive. Thats not me is getting mad and angry and wanting to fight or anything like that. I was upset that we got pulled out of the taxi for i thought something that theres no reason for a gun to be pulled out for us for doing nothing. For gunnar in his statement to police said you got into a heated argument and discussion with that Security Guard. I was sitting down with a gun pointed to us for nothing that we did. At any time during that exchange, ryan, when you were that upset and terrified as you just said, do you think you posed a threat to that Security Guard that would have made him believe he needed to continue to have that gun out of its holster . I think when i got up and i using some words this is bs. We shouldnt be treated like this. Theres no way. We want to get back in the car. We want to go back. Thats why it got heated. And the guy could probably draw his gun from that. And then once he did, you can definitely see me go like this and thats when we sat down. I guess what im trying to story you told, ryan, was much more about the mean streets of rio and the version were hearing now is much more about a negotiated settlement to cover up some dumb behavior. And thats why im taking full responsibility for it is because i overexaggerated that story and if i never done that, we wouldnt be in this mess. How about the people of rio. And violence and crime and here comes this story with one of the highest profile u. S. Athletes saying i got held up at gunpoint on the streets of rio. What would you say to them now . How sorry i am. My deepest apologies. They put on a great games. They did everything. The people of authorities, everyone there put on a great games. And my immature, intoxicated behavior tarnished that a little. When you saw the News Conference of gunnar and jack being taken off that plane at the airport and you just said to me they didnt damage anything in that gas station and youre sitting at home in the united hurt. I mean, i let my team down. And, you know, i wanted to be there. I dont want them to think that i left and left them to dry because theyre my teammates, i definitely wanted to be there. I wanted to help out any way i could. I just wanted to make sure that came out and talked and im just really sorry about im embarrassed for myself, my family, especially those guys. Usa swimming. The whole olympic games. Everyone watching. I was immature and i made a stupid mistake. Im human. I made a mistake. We mentioned before the ioc still investigating this. The chief executive of the usoc said were going to have further action on this and not exactly sure what he means by that. You can never look inside someones heart but he sure does seem like he gets it now and is really sorry. No question about that. Take a turn now and get a check of the weather, mr. Roker. The southwest dealing with some Severe Weather as well. Dust storms and well see more of those. Those haboobs working their way through. We do look for showers and thunderstorms firing up during the day today. The risk of especially by the afternoon enhanced storms. Heavy rain, gusty winds. Gully washers. Flash floods could occur. Were not talking a lot of rain. Quarter inch to half inch. Some locally heavier amounts about an inch and then you can see gorgeous day warmer through the plains. 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Competing today, this cheap deli coffee price 1 a cup versus this fancy Gourmet Coffee coming in at 3. 25 a cup. Come on up. Youre the next contestant. Some tasters choos expensive brew. Its bold. You like fancy stuff. Unfortunately. Youre going to have to come to terms with it. There are support groups. Ill go to one. Many saying it packs more of a punch. This one is stronger. I like it. I like the taste of it. It has a better taste to it. Listen to what these tasters say about the cheap deli coffee. That one has a smoother flavor. Ill take this one. This is really good. I chose the cheap one. Are you taking it with you . He took the cheap stuff with him and left me are the expensive tough to throw out. We taste test for hours dozens of people and the results are in. I like this one. I like this one better. An overwhelming majority, 67 chose the cheap deli coffee. Wow. Go figure. I guess i have cheap tastes. What do you make of that . Im dumbfounded. Maintenance girl. I guess im not. 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A bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. Be sure to talk to your doctor . . . Coming up at the top of the hour, looking at sunshine out there. Not a bad start on the beach. Clearwater beach, 84 degrees of sunshine coming our way. And by the afternoon, we will see building showers and even some thunderstorms start to develop here by later in the afternoon. Your temperatures will climb into the low 90s today. We will get warmer over the next few days as well. Up to 93 by tomorrow. And expecting the rain chances to start coming up as well. Back up to that seasonable level. We will get to that eightday forecast, 93 for tuesday. 40 rain chance. And then 92 for wednesday, thursday and staying with warm mornings in the 70s. Rain chances back up by the end of the week to 40 . High temperatures 90 to 91, seasonal into the latter portion of the week. A look at the roadways. Its slow on the Howard Frankland bridge. Coming into tampa. Typical, hitting the brakes around the hump. And leads you through kennedy. All right, lets take a look at travel times for you. Yeah, were in the red. Rush hour, southbound 75, bruce south 275 from bearss avenue to i4. As people head into hillsborough county. And meanwhile, i4 same situation, westbound moving into the junction, into downtown tampa through ybor city, 301 to 275, that will take 17 minutes. And over half an hour on the veterans expressway, just between ehrlich to 275, of course that is southbound. In florida, it used to be that if a child, a senior or one of our four legged friends was trapped in a hot car you and i were not allowed to save them unless we were willing to be sued. Has government lost its mind . Can do. After all the love they give. Dana young for the florida senate. Its 8 00 on today. Coming up, closing the games in style. . Simone biles leads the way for team japan who stole the show. Thats pretty great. As tokyo takes the torch and looks ahead to 2020. Plus, a roker burger. Al gets behind the grill to create his perfect cheeseburger all for a good cause. Your 2016 shake shack rocker burger. Come get yours. And ready, set, puppy. The newest member of the today team is about to be revealed as we get set to introduce you to our new puppy with a purpose, today, monday, august 22nd, 2016. Sending our love to louisiana all of the way from its her birthday . Hi to our daughter back in indiana. Good morning, virginia its our first time in new york were back on a monday city. Savannah has been holding down the fort and al and i have rejoined on this 22nd day of august. We missed you guys so much. We missed you. We just came out here every day to the plaza crowd and said where is matt and al . Olympics are over. We put a contest together. If you came out dressed in your olympic clothing you are eligible to win money today. Well find out the contestant that won. Only eligible if you came out in olympic garb. If that person finds that gold ball, they win 25,000. Thats right. Theres one gold ball in that pile. You have 30 seconds to look. You . Grant, come on over. There you go. Well watch grant go for the gold. Wow. Look at you. Youre the olympic mascot. Did we take a picture together . Yeah, i have it. I was there in the rain. All right, grant. Have you seen the size of that pit of im a little more nervous. A tiny gold ball in there. 30 seconds though. Anybody could do it. I feel good about you. Well do it later. Get ready. Get psyched up. Lets head down to rio. Nbcs Peter Alexander is there putting a wrap on the games for us. Peter, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Copacabana beach this morning you can see pretty much feels like a ghost town. Almost everybody has taken off. What a thrilling games. Final celebration that in many ways felt like the culmination of the domination here by team usa. Here in brazil they say ciao but back at home its goodbye, ryo. A carnival themed closing ceremonies with simone biles capping off her historic run in rio with one last honor. Gymnast to carry the flag for team usa. Adding to that total, the mens Basketball Team who won its Third Straight gold medal. A 30point blowout against serbia. Can he hang on just a little longer . He will. Kyle snyder contributing to the gold rush becoming the youngest wrestling championship in u. S. History and from the mat to the ring. Claressa shields successfully but now a different kind of game as torch is passed to tokyo. Japans Prime Minister paying homage to one of his countrys best known contributions. A super surprise appearance from his last night in rio where its now game over. So one final time here is your medal count. Team usa as we said dominating. 46 of them gold. This is the most medals for team usa in more than three decades. The most ever in a nonboycotted olympic games. Now just 18 months away until more medals are handed o ed out just a couple weeks away from Paralympic Games here that begin september 7th. Back to you. Peter, before you come home, i lost a ball on the beach there. Im going to bring out my metal deal. Come home, peter. Great job. Coming up next, the new version of katy perrys version of firework will take you back to the 80s. One of those puppies about to join our family. Well reveal which is going to be our puppy with a purpose right after this. Ffer. Why seven days . Science. Join me as we walk through the seven stages of decisioning. 1. Consideration. 2. Questioning. 3. Deciding. 4. Queso. 5. Nap. 6. Sudoku. 7. Tambourine practice. I think i made my point. Theyll give you an offer for your car, you take seven days to think about it. . How can this have been washed 12 weeks ago and still smell unstopables inwash scent boosters. The more you pour, the more scent youll savor. Toss it in before your clothes for luxurious scent up to 12 weeks. Unstopables by downy. The ultimate in long lasting scent. Hi, im the honorary real trix rabbit. Cereals tasty. And these guys for awesome colors. That means no artificial flavors or colors. Nice. And thats my personal guarantee. I love this new guy hes amazing so convincing. Big improvement. Awkward. . You must be the new teacher, huh . Yeah. Youll never forget. Youre going to do great. Thanks. Kleenex, someone needs one. We offered women a mystery beauty treatment. What made their skin more radiant . What . wait only dove has 1 4 moisturizing cream. Smooth dewy skin. Dove, your daily beauty 8 09. Good time for whats trending. If the shoe fits wear. Heres what happened. Team usa English Gardner misplaced her shoes ahead of the 4x100 relay. Didnt realize until ten minutes before the race that she couldnt find her shoes so she borrowed a pair from teammate alis Allyson Felix which were too big and she won gold anyway. She said it was nothing that an extra pair of socks couldnt most important thing. A perfect fitting pair of shoes. Its like putting bad tires on a different race car. For mere mortals it would be a terrible thing. Lets talk about another olympic runner and his moment crossing the finish line. His marathon. Hes so excited. Overjoyed reaction. It wasnt viral. Why . Because actually he came in second to last place but as you can see from his face completing a marathon is a feat in itself. Hes 41 years old. He did it in under three hours. Hes beaming with pride and, yes, just another image of the olympic spirit. Thats the way it should be. I love that. Lets change gears. Well go back to a subject we things in bathrooms. From the wall street journal. Admit it, you dont always wash your hands after you use the bathroom. Who would be willing to raise their hand and say they dont always wash their hands . Always, always, always. Okay. A behavioral Economist Says people dont admit to a lot of things or will admit to reckless things like texting and driving but people will never fess up to not washing their hands he says its human nature. You want people to know that you are clean. His solution for the people who dont wash their hands even though they say they do, you put the sink outside of the bathroom in the hallway and being in the public eye people will see you come out of the bathroom and if you dont come to the sink, its shaming. I have seen it. You get to know someone. Sing a song. Happy birthday twice. I thought it was abcs. Either one. Put it right in the middle of the restaurant. Tamron, lets do pop start. Lets bring with frank ocean. Releasing his latest album saturday. His first in four years. The album debuted on apple music one day after he dropped a visual bu overjoyed. Excitement pouring in on social media. His first album earned him two Grammy Awards and six nominations. If you want to be entertained, watch the frank ocean memes. Fans happy about the album dropping. To Something Else super cute. Miranda lambert got engaged over the weekend. Did you hear . No. Its adorable. She was performing at a concert his name sebastian. He had a pink ring in hand. He got on one knee and popped the question. Miranda shared the photo on instagram saying i said yes but he has to wait 25 years. I love how he brought the ring. Class act he is. Finally, raise your hand if you love and miss the music of the 80s. Savannah guthrie. Love it. Do i have a treat for you today. One youtuber came up with a brilliant idea of pairing todays hits with 80s beats. So lets check out katy perrys firework the remix. . Baby youre a firework . . Come and show them why you work . The question is what dance do you do to this song . I dont remember my dance in the 80s. My dance in the 80s is the same as my dance in the 70s. This is Justin Biebers what do you mean . One more here. A little madonna. I miss the 80s. You miss authentic version and not remix version. Thats your pop start. Head to todays facebookag today. No question. Until we get the puppy. Mr. Roker, a check of the weather. Lets see whats going on. This time of year this is when we start to really see the atlantic start firing up and so were going to watch. Were watching some development. We have Tropical Storm fiona out here. We also have another tropical wave that will probably become a depression later on today and investigation area 90l will probably become a tropical system. Were watching this 199l. Look at this over the next several days brings it about around the bahamas with a lot of models bringing it out there. Well continue to track this as we watch it. Now, week ahead, we are looking at all this wet weather down through the gulf continuing monday on into tuesday and wednesday and finally dries out. Heavier showers and thunderstorms by the end of the week. Middle of the week from great lakes down into thef High Pressure will keep rain chances slim. Only a 20 chance back towards the coast everyone else warm, 92 degrees. And that is your latest weather. Guys . Announcer todays puppy with a purpose is created with our sponsor, petsmart. Mr. Roker, get over here quickly. Our big reveal of the newest and by far the could yutest member today show family. We had t wrangler after he spent 16 months calling our studio home while he prepared to be a guide dog. Well update you on how wrangler is doing later in the week. This morning its all about our new puppy with a purpose. This time we are partnering with an organization that has helped hundreds of our nations heroes find freedom again. Look. Good girl. Good girl. For mans best friend serving a veteran is more than just a shes my pal. Shes my battle buddy. She is my best friend on a dark day. She is my hearing. Reporter ten years ago Gretchen Evans world suddenly went silent. You dont realize how devastating it is to be a hearing person for most of your life and then not be. The army has been in her blood for 27 years. She worked her way up to command sergeant major, the highest enlisted rank but it all evans was hit by a rocket blast in afghanistan leaving her with a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss. I looked down to see if i had arms and legs. I had an incredible headache. I couldnt hear but i didnt realize i was deaf yet. The doctor came in and said youre going to be deaf for the rest of your life. Meet ora, evans hearing dog helping her navigate through the day alerting her to sounds like thank you. The doorbell. What . Who is it . And other cars. Peeling out or slamming on brakes shell turn her head quickly. I look the direction shes looking so that gives me a headsup that something is going on. Evans and ora met through americans vet dogs. Giving veterans of all ages a new sense of independence. They provided a Tremendous Service to our country. We need to give back to allow a veteran to live a life without boundaries. The dogs uniform, a vest. The mission to help veterans suffering from vision, hearing loss, ptsd. They can be this for you when your stress level is going on. Since 2003, theyve placed connection immediate. It was a friendship. He became so much a part of my Family Support system so quickly. Joe has been with his dog benjamin for eight years. I was afraid that if i fell, i would hurt myself bad or i would fall. He was a medical specialist serving with the marine corps when a bomb hit a truck in his convoy. He ran to help and stepped on an ied. I went up in the air. I remember coming dn and ended up really i assume i was going to die. After a dozen surgeries, he learned to walk again but it wasnt easy. Benjamin gave him the confidence to get back on his feet helping him with retrieval. People see the shiny leg. Its something to stare at. He takes that away from me. People are staring at him and dont recognize my injury. Men and women who have done so much in the name of Service Serving them. I wish i could express to people how much it means to have that constant nonjudgmental companion that you can talk to thats always there. I knew that my country was going to take care of me. She gave back to me what was taken away. Now we know our awesome purpose. Lets meet our puppy. First, a special military tribute from none other than the west point band. Take it away. . Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. We have set the mood thanks to the west point band and now it is time for the big reveal. All right. Its time to meet our puppy. Lets have a drum roll, please. , hi. There you go i cant. I cant. Look at him. Hi, sweetie. Hi. Welcome. This is olivia. She comes from american vet dogs. Shell be with us every morning. Hes so cute. Can we bring in joe as well and his dog, benjamin. Great to see you. Good morning. Joe, good to see you. Thanks for having me. We saw you in the piece before we get to our new addition talk about benji and what hes done for you. I got benjamin in 2008 from americas vet dogs. It became apparent how necessary it was for veterans to have. Hes and mitigated the disability that i have. Im not afraid of dropping things out of my lap. He can bring everything i need to me. Walking and stability. Hes one of the reasons why i dont spend 100 of my day in the wheelchair anymore. Its incredible what these dogs are able to do and this training is so much a part of it. Olivia, what will this doggy well name him in a moment. What will he learn being around here . So as a puppy raiser, i have three main objectives. Lay the foundation for good social and Health Behaviors to make sure hes a welcome presence both out in public and in the home. Im going to nurture his confidence so like people, dogs think and perform best when they feel comfortable and secure and lastly and most excitedly will training him to do tasks like retrieving, pushing and tugging and then we can combine those tasks and expand on them to do up to 150 behaviors. Isnt it true that we dont know what kind of service dog hes going to be. Youre going to wait to see how he develops and what his strengths are. Yes. Around 14 months well be excited to share his temperament test with you all. During the test hell be able to show us what his strengths are and he could end up being a ptsd service dog, hearing dog, seizure response dog, guide dog for veterans that are blind or does. We learned so much about what the dog does and how he helps but also the emotion of it. The connection is really evident. I think that animals are just good at that. Dogs, i think, head and shoulders above the rest. Its something that people live longer when they have animals. Theres a good reason for that. You actually brought benji to the office a while back. Theres something interesting. When benji has his vest on, is all work. If you take that vest off, he knows its the signal that he can have fun. Yes. At that point hes a dog on a leash. Thats what were going to have with our little friend as well, right . Absolutely. Hell have work time and play time but honestly they love their job so much, work is not much of work. When you saw him come out of that curtain and paused, do you get a sense he didnt get scared or anything with all of the applause. These people werent here he took it owl in and immediately recovered and came straight to us. He is definitely a puppy. Hes playing and enjoying life. The first few weeks are just normal puppy stuff. Olivia, were excited to announce we teamed up with petsmart. They are showing support for americas vet dogs. 25,000 donation to you look at that. Lick it. Thats so great. We cant wait to work with you and him. Were excited. Thank you. Joe, thank you so much for giving us a sense of what this is all going to be like. Thanks for giving me food this morning. You got it. Youre welcome. Of course, our new puppy needs a name and were asking you folks at home to help with that. Multiple choice. Three military inspired names for you to choose from. Head to today. Com and cast your votes. Well reveal the name you chose tomorrow morning. All the love for this little critter. Eds got a lock at look at the weather. 48 degrees, clouds a couple 84 degrees clouds a couple showers way offshore, crystal river, just hanging out just sort of raining itself out rain chances slim, 92 degrees for your high, that best rain chance will start to shift inland as we go through the course of the afternoon. 93 tomorrow better rain chance 40 . Thank you traffic wise we got slow traffic Howard Frankland bridge. It has been tricky all day, i 75 through new tampa, commute a half hour, i4 westbound i4 slow due to a crash. Tampa mayor taking on zika. Today the mayor set to reveal plans to keep the mosquito born virus at bay days after Health Officials classified miami addition to the win wood neighbourhood we will be at the mayors presentation and have . Were back now. 7 30 on this monday morning. Its the 22nd day of august, 2016. More patriotic music from the west point band. Theyre on the plaza as we celebrate our new puppy with a purpose. Is he not just adorable . We love having the west point band here and of course this is our new puppy. Hes going to be eventually used by americas vet dogs. We want you to go to today. Com and vote for his name. Those are the three choices. Please vote early and often. We have a really exciting announcement to make around here. Our family is really growing. Lexy rudolph and her husband, scott, welcomed twins overnight. Meet Brock Asher Rudolph and sasha brin. Absolutely adorable. The only question is how are we going to survive around here without lexy. Shes our senior booking producer. We have two new young bookers in lexy scott, congratulations. Thats great news. Were so happy for you. Meanwhile, just ahead, grant will be going for the gold. Hell jump into that gigantic ball pit in search of one gold ball worth 25,000. The crowd is hyped up for him. Well see what happens. Hes got 30 seconds. And were going to be kicking off our new series todays original where we market a new delicious burger youll ever taste. Its the roker burger. We have an oscar winner in the house. Robert de niro is here with edgar ramirez. Well catch up with them in a couple minutes. Something big coming up on friday. Our next Concert Series well live stream that performance in virtual reality. It will be just like yourer on our plaza. You can check out how to join in on the action at today. Com. Can we say hi to someone we love around here . Henry wri Henry Winkler is here. New nbc Comedy Series better late than never the goal an International Excursion with no assistance, no limos, in search of a life changing experience. I see what it is. I know what this is. It is roulette using sushi. Go wasabi. Henry winkler joins us on the plaza. How are you . Good morning. I want to say i go for the name ace. Its the i like ace too. You didnt know those guys before you went on this excursion. I knew bill shatner a little bit. When they said will you go to asia . Ill go anywhere im considered tall. This is a real adventure. It doesnt sound like it was incredibly scripted. You guys are just going out there and trying all kinds of new things. Its true. We had five cameras. We had five guys. We had six cities. It was like an adventure that fell in my lap out of the sky. Would you do it again . I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was we had pork vagina which i spit out of my mouth. That was one of the adventures. We could have taken the cue a little earlier. Ill stick with chicken. The closest i came was brea. Tomorrow with kathie lee and hoda. Thank you, henry. Love seeing you. Lets get a check of the weather from mr. Roker. Announcer today weather brought to you by dove hair. Perfectly nourished hair plus more. We have great folks here. Where are you from . New york city. You have perfect weather lets show you what we have as far as your weather for today. Fresh breezes in the northeast getting warmer out west. Scattered showers and thunderstorms through the gulf coast. Tomorrow the weather continues. Gorgeous in the eastern half of the country with showers down through the south. Monsoon storms in the southwest. Thats what that is your latest weather. Were ready to go for the gold this morning. Our plaza. We picked our contestant who gets to jump into this ball pit. This is grant. The good news is there is 25,000 on the line. The bad news is you are looking for a gold ball like this. Looks just like that. Are you limber . Are you ready . Get ready. Were going to put 30 seconds on the cloc to go. Three, two, one, go dont know if he has a strategy. Its like a jigsaw puzzle. How many balls do you think are in this pit . Thousands . Hes looking for a gold ball. Close. Three, two, one. Time is up, grant. Wow. Fun experience though. Youre a great contestant. By the way, we have a consolation prize, dont we . A rio gift basket. We dont have here but well give it to you. Its spectacular. It was right behind you. Kidding. You did a great job. You know what this means, well roll it over for tomorrow. Somebody else. So come down to the plaza. Show your olympic spirit and you could have a chance like grant did. Up next, were each picking designing and bringing something new to the market for a very good cause starting with the roker burger. Were back now. 8 39. A brand new series called todays original. Savannah, al and i teamed up with a company to come up with our original product. Well get into this later. I should mention part of the proceeds are going to go to charity. This is why were doing it. You get started first. Tell us about it. Im excited about this. I love food. Surprise there. I love to gril my today original. My today original creating the roker burger at shake shack. One of the first meals i remember ever cooking was on our Backyard Grill with my dad. Who doesnt love a good burger . With the help of shake shakes culinary director, i created my today original. Its based on your creativity and your passion. I know youre a barbecue fanatic. If we can harness that into a shake shack burger, that would be exciting for everyone. Do people get nervous when any see aburger on the menu . Theyre excited. We take care to find something our fans will lo around with here. Sauces. A couple different ones for you to try here. What is that . Does that have coffee in it . A little bit, yeah. Its a take on a redeye gravy. Were a morning show. Everybody drinks coffee. This is fantastic. Now toppings. We have pulled pork. This pulled pork has more more. Definitely the pulled pork. Toppings. I would go with dill pickles. We have to talk about a bun here. Classic bun right here which is super soft and squishy and pillowy. Honey, ive been spending my day around soft, squishy buns. This is the way to go. Its the shake shack, baby. Lets make just thinking, al, the barbecue is rich. We have sweet elements here. Pickle bringing acidity. I dont know if one slice of cheese is enough. Youre crazy. Lets go big here. Two slices. Breaking the bank on this one. Shut the front door. This is fantastic. Your 2016 shake shack roker burger. Come get yours. Its time to taste test your burger. Lets do it. Double cheese. Pulled pork. Give that a try . Sure. To get an honest response, i did not reveal that its my burger. My god. So good. This is really good. Dont hold on a second. Wait a minute. Now try it. Really good. Were vegetarians. My gosh. This is the wrong burger for you. Yikes. Would you love to see that on the menu every day . I would actually. I totally would. And shake shack is banking my burger is a winner. Donated to no kid hungry. A nonprofit fighting child hunger. Whats happening, justin . What up . Awesome. We are going to take a field trip. Were going to shake shack and were going to test my burger. Here we go. What do you think . Really good. All right. When it comes to the roker burger, thumbs up or thumbs down. Thats a big thumbs up. My goodness. So good. I hate half of this thing already. Its really good. Im so excited about this. Not only because its an amazing burger but we want you to head to your nearest shake shack. Help us raise money for great cause. Snap a selfie or photo while you enjoy it and use rokerburger. The money goes to no kid hungry in that area. One for the baby. Its great. This is so good. Next time bring milkshakes. Its shake shack. Up next, Robert De Niro and edgar ramirez. Well talk to them next. First, on a monday morning, this were back now 8 47 with edgar ramirez. De niro plays a trainer schooling duran on the psychological side of the sweet science. I have a question for you. Why you always brushed my hair when we were in the corner. Fighter punches you and feels proud. Bell sounds. Next round. Goes out like you came out of the shower. Drives him nuts like he cant hurt you. Strategy. Strategy. You shmuck. Now youre speaking yiddish. Nice to see you both. Good morning. Huge boxing fan. Especially during this time. Duran and tommy and sugar ray leonard. Are you a big fan . I am. I dont follow much these days unless its a great fight. I knew duran at that time. Any time he fights, i would like to see him. He was ending his career in the early 1980s. Youre 39 years old. Were you aware of him at all . Not at the time. Of course im from latin america. Im from venezuela. And hanson stone was always a name that was always in the air and of course my father was a huge fan of duran. American fighter. He was physically imposing. He was dominating. He just kind of willed his way to victory. And yet the whole story here is this relationship between these two characters. The fighter and the trainer and your job was to teach him a different side of the boxing game. To civilize him in a way to get him he was like a street could train him to think. To use his head. And at the same time he knew i feel, he knew that he had it in him. He says it in movie too. He had it in him and guide him and give him instruction and be a father figure at the same time. Whats extraordinary here is roberto did you get to spend time and talk to him . He trained me for the movie and his sons. I moved to panama for what was that like to be with him . Hes a force of nature. You know, he really he was very open and very generous and he shared a lot of his skills and a lot of his techniques with me. However, there was always something that he kept for himself as any other good fighter would. They keep tricks and secrets somewhere protected. That was something to me that was very revealing. And really helped me to play the character. You talk about tips and secrets. Youve had success playing a boxer. A fighter. You play jack back in 1980 in raging bull. Split screen pictures up here. Edgar playing roberto duran. What would vegas odds have been on this fight right here. Who would have won that they did great job. They both work the way i work. Youre ducking the question. They would tell great jokes. Both of them. Good sense of humor. Great sense of humor. Very charismatic. They do well on stage. I cant wait to see this. Im a huge boxing fan. I just got back from rio. This is the period i fell in love with boxing and muhammad ali before that. A pleasure. Hands of stone hits theaters on friday. Were back in a moment. Look who we have here. More of the gang. This is kind of an unofficial official welcoming party. Welcome. Thank you. Billy bush, ladies and gentlemen. If a new dog wasnt enough. I came to meet the new dog and try als burger. If i can mention, its available today through friday. This friday at shake shack near you. A passing of the baton here. You all know and viewers know, ive been wearing a lot of hats lately. Ive been doing our third our of the today show with al and tamron. I do jmorning joe every day. I have to take one of the hats off. I have a big hat. Not big enough for all those hats. Ill step away from the third hour of the today show. Its hard to do that because of the love i have for you guys because of the love i have for all of our producers and our viewers who have been so good to all of us but i pass the hat to the hat is yours. You mean that in the nicest way. Physically a large melon. Well see you all the time. Ill be here tomorrow morning working with you on early hours of today show and sunday today and morning joe. Tips for billy . Things he needs to know about myself and al . Tamron gets hangry every time. Well feed her. Billy bush is a good and friend. Great guy we feel is part of the family. Youve been shopping in matts closet. Lauer looked at the jacket. Where did you get that . We just spent 2 1 2 weeks in rio with this guy and we survived. By the way, barely. Thats the tshirt you came back with . Yes. Theyre all back after this. F0 good monday morning. Time now 78 59. Ed has a look at the weather for us. Yeah, sunshine but we are tracking one loan shower. You can look from the loews don cesar. See that billing cloud way off . Thats a shower sitting over the key. Its 48 at st. Pete beach. And we will show you the shower. There it is, just popped up within the last five te so. Rain chances around 20 to 30 . Best chances inland for today. That looked like a baby shower. Didnt it . All right, a look at the bridges. Weve got a slowandgo drive across the Howard Frankland bridge into tampa. Nothing out of the ordinary there. And 275 bearss to i4, about 30 minutes southbound. Back to you, gene. Thank you. Breaking news overnight, a condo fire in paul harbor. The flames broke out at a unit on coral landings boulevard. Damage. Investigators trying to figure out what started the fire. For more, wfla. Com. This morning on todays take, ryan lochte speaks out and puppy love. Meet the newest member of the today show family and i have one word for you. All of that and more coming up now. Announcer from nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, tamron hall, and billy bush live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this monday morning. August 22nd, 2016. Im billy bush along with al and tamron. Im the newest member of the today show. We have a newer member. Shakes his leg. Enough about billy. We have our new today show puppy. Our puppy with a purpose. He loves chewing on the buttons on my dress. Hes unnamed. We can call him fancy for now. Hes being trained to become a service dog for a military veteran. Well be partnering with americas vet dogs. Our trainer, olivia is here. Come over. So excited to be here. This is a wonderful opportunity for americas vet dogs and the puppy as well. Do we let him teeth on our fingers or keep the bone that tamron has in the mouth . We try to set them up for success to learn good manners. He has the bone there to encourage him to chew on something appropriate. He chewed on my iphone already. He doesnt have a name yet. Were asking you to help us out here. Today. Com. Lets see which one hes taking one more time. Say sarge. Likes that one. Charlie. I think hes going with ace. Hello. Hes tired. Hes a puppy. He had a very Early Morning this morning to prepare for his debut. And west point band. Eventually hell be able assuming he passes, hell be up to 150 Different Service dog behaviors. We start with just three Foundation Tasks and we expand it and combine it from there. We look forward. Hell be with us every day. We cannot wait. Thank you so much. We do want to seriously welcome our pal, billy bush. We spent the last two weeks together. It was fun. A lot of fun in rio. Were not the only ones who want to welcome you. There are others . There are others. Hello. Welcome, billy. I was lucky enough to be a cohost on the show for a month last summer. I have to tell you these people are crazy. The best of luck to you. Youll need it. Just kidding. Theyre very nice. Welcome, bushy, to the today show. Get ready for those Early Mornings and no sleep but the nice Smiling Faces youll see every day. Billy, welcome. Good luck. Youre going to kill it. What up, billy. Andy grammer saying welcome to the team because im a big part of the team. I want to welcome youo billy, its luke here. Welcome to the today show. Whats up . We are 98 degrees. We just want to say congrats on the today show gig. Try not to screw it up, buddy. Billy bush, congratulations on your new gig on the today show. Well miss you on the west coast. The east coast is going to love you. I wish you all the best. What up billy bush. Happy you joined the today show. Its time for you to come okay. Good luck, billy. See you soon. Your twin. Thats your twin. You realize that . This looks like an old regis jacket. I had a jacket that color. You did. I took it. And now its my jacket of this color. Mine had blue checks in it. I know that one. It was louder. We spoke over the weekend. How was your birthday . I had a lovely time. Thank you very much. Spent it with the family. My brother, chris, moving back to y hes going to be the new ceo of queens hospital. How fantastic. Thats not a small position. Im telling you, hes a big deal. Not the only one. Dont mind standing in that shadow. Also my kids were there. We had a lovely time. Nice dinner. Any big surprises . Anything you need to tell us about . No. I didnt realize how tired i was. My head shaved again and i literally fell asleep in the barber chair. Out. You texted me and say you woke up at 9 30. Sunday morning. Thats the next day. I never wake up that late. When did you fly back . Friday night. Landed saturday morning about 6 00 a. M. Amazing anyone could sleep on the plane with the snoring that goes on with roker. Unbelievable. You were making other noises. Tamron and i were talking before in the underwent major ear damage this weekend. What happened . I put it on social media. I normally wear hoops. Ive been wearing the same hoops for seven, eight years. Well a pair of earrings at the White House Correspondent dinner ripped my ear and tear kept going. I had to have surgery on my ears and so i i went to a guy who is known for body modification best ear reconstruction artist. He does body modification. Lots of tattoos. Next level. Does he do lifting . Hes not a medical doctor but famous for what he does. Sometimes people get those big disks in their ears and then you turn 40 and you dont want that anymore, let me sew that back. He does that. Brilliant at. I went in. We have a picture. I had stitches. I know. It was unbelievable. I wish i had both of you to hold each of my hands. I to go solo. You got some braids. I vowed i wanted to get braids inspired by als daughter. This is the problem with braids when you have short hair. My friend, pat, came and braided my hair. My friends say i look like is that like a bun. Its a man bun. That was my exciting time while you were out with beautiful models. I cant get my ears pierced for two more months. I just pierced this one at the top. Sounds painful. Celebrated your birthday. I bid farewell, gave you a hug, immediately went up to maine where my parents are. Its my Moms Birthday yesterday. So we took a lovely we had a lovely lobster bake on the beach in maine with the fresh lobster and built a big fire pit. Al, you would love this. Dig a hole in the beach. You put the firewood. It gets hot. Cover it and it steams the lobster and makes it smoke seaweed flavor. It was lovely. Next day, look at these people. They like this photo. There are so many people liking this photo. Then i realize its a lot of lochte vengeance at the bottom with people fired up about that lochte situation which we are going to get into. Quickly going back to this elaborate meal because al knows i love to eat, what part of the meal did you do . I fire. And then i helped put the lobsters on the fire. Very good. Heres the best thing. There was corn. When youre done, you can throw everything onto the beach in low tide and it washes away. I need proof of this. Its a great low maintenance meal. Cooks itself. Very nice. Rio recap. You guys back from rio. The final medal count for the 121 total medals. 46, almost half, gold. We mentioned ryan lochte drama. Well talk about it later in the show. Lets look at the fun that my boys had without me. This is how you make an entrance, guys. He had to be gold. That was hey. Here comes the boom, boom, boom. Oh . Did your wish come true . Tirico wow. We we dont want you to feel left out. You are getting hangry. We know that. We got some lovely food provided by the nice folks. Do we have is it coming in . There we go. Is this my outfit too . How did you know i wanted hi. We had a man in a thong but he didnt get past the censors. I love meat. Let me have some of that. Al, you know what this is, i believe. Look at this. Thank you. You guys are such gentlemen. What do i do with this . One memory coming back and thats the meat sweats. When you eat a in the middle of the night, you get the sweats. Ill have the lean part. Thats good. Coming up, more on the ryan lochte drama while we eat meat. Your car got rearended and you needed a tow. Did your 22page insurance policy say, great news. Youre covered . No. It said, blah blah blah blah. The Liberty Mutual app with coverage compass . Makes it easy to know what youre covered for and what youre not. Liberty mutual insurance. Cant see it. Cant taste it. 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Technology is useful. I just bought a book. I downloaded a song. Oh, and full disclosure, when we were just chatting about that song thing, someone arranged a date. Guilty. The point is, life is digital. So, carmax, created a site where you can reserve a car online. Come in when its convenient, your car will be waiting. Just another thing to make buying a car better for you. Reads this tweet that i just posted. Oh, that appears to be trending. Were back now with more of todays take. I missed you guys in rio but occasionally on vacation i turn onto social media. I go on. The other day i log in and al roker is trending. There are memes about roker. What happened, please . On friday we were talking about ryan lochte. The sound effects. It was pretty funny. We were talking about ryan lochte whether he lied or not. We got into a discussion. A heated discussion. I think what happened is what people dont know, a, were friends. Weve known each other for a long time. This is what we do on this show. I think because this was such a paying more attention to it. My goal was to i spoke with our boss ahead of time. My goal is to play devils advocate here just so we dont have three opinions the same. Theres some things that remain. There was a gun. There were people told to get on the ground. There was a badge of some kind. Theres still a couple of things up in the air about it. I wanted to raise those points. In the end from guilty of something its not wanting ic ryan lochte, dont tell me that you made up all of this. We then find out, of course, after the fact he made it all up. What really upsets me or makes me sad is the people of rio. In 2009, they got the bid for the olympics. Inflation was low. Employment was high and things were going great. They really needed these games to go great. They didnt need damage to their reputation in any way because they see our set and say ill take my vacation and go to rio, i hope theyre not secondguessing that. From watching at home, the little thing i noticed as well is how it did take away from the other competitors. For a week. In fact, he did finally clear it up when you look at what he did with matt lauer. Take a look. I want to make sure about the bathroom side of this. You there was damage in that bathroom. A door was damaged, a mirror was damaged and a soap dispenser was damaged. Did you go in the bathroom . We never went in the bathroom. Did you kick the door of the bathroom . Like i said i was very intoxicated. I dont remember. Is it possible that you damaged the door to the bathroom perhaps even kicked it open . The bathroom outside in the bushes. Later in the interview matt was talking to him. One of the things i raised, we raised together, the fact that he left his teammates there. I think he really regrets that. Besides the part about insulting the folks of rio. Take a look at what he talked about with his teammates. I let my team down. You know, i dont want them to think that i left. Im just really sorry. Im embarrassed for myself, my family. Especially those guys. Usa swimming. The whole olympic games. Everyone watching. I was immature and i made a stupid mistake. Im human. I made a mistake. I definitely learned from this. Theyre not going to continue the case down there. Theyre not going to bring ryan lochte back. Will he be punished . He might be banned. Not lifetime. We love a comeback. We love give your pound of flesh. We all have something that weve done, im sure, that you have apologized for, owned it, hes done so after being busted. Nevertheless he did. At some point you have to say the person has given a pound of flesh. Get off their back. Move lets show you what we got. Its hot but nicer out. What do you mean by nicer . In the northeast spectacular for the week ahead. Low humidity. Plenty of sunshine. Wet weather making its way through the gulf coast through tuesday strong storms through the plains. Strong showers into the that is your burger that were teaming up with shake shake. Shake shack for a good cause donating. Is it low cal . No. Can we do something for you . Sure. Look behind you. Al rokers birthday was saturday. And billy and i baked this all night. Thats amazing. He did the stars. Right. Youre the best. Now lets move on. Up next, billy shares a few of his favorite things and it of his favorite things and it would be nothing without a liquid foundation, revolutionized loreals lumi cushion a cushion drenched in liquid foundation tap on a little for a fresh, luminous glow tap on more whenever you need more coverage lumi cushion from loreal makeup designer paris [ tires screech ] flo [ ghost voice ] oooo [ laughs ] jaaaaamie, the name your price tool can show you Coverage Options to fit your budget. Tell me something i dont know oh ohhh she slimed me. Which i probably shouldve seen coming. 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Thats why he starts his day with those two scoops in heart healthy kelloggs raisin bran. Ready to eat my dust . Too bad i already filled up on raisins. Kelloggs raisin bran. Deliciously heart healthy. Were getting to know our new cohost, billy bush. Well play a game of who knows billy better. Im going to lose. We want to know what to expect. Billy will give us a preview. He has a question for us. All right. Here we go. First question, what is my favorite new york food . A, pizza. B, hot dogs. C, soft serve ice cream. Pizza. Hot dog is not new york. Its a trick bringing them in is your hero, regis philbin. How are you . The king is here. How many years have i seen you. You are looking so sporty. Gosh, youre fit. Billy bush lived down the street and grew up 20 blocks from here. I see him all these years in l. A. Here he is finally back in new with regis. What night of the week are we having dinner regularly . This is billy bush i met out there. Where are we eating. This is amazing. 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Deputies are searching for the escapee. They arrested him after a car crash, happened cuffed him and put anymore the back but minutes later he was gone. A conoco fire. The flames broke out at a unit on coral landings boulevard. In one was at the home at the time but the fire did cause a locality of damage there. Crews contained the fire just one unit. Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the flames there. For more update, online at all morning long weve been welcoming billy bush to our today show family. What better way to get to know him than through his own words. Born and raised in new york city so this is a coming home i was wild. I was unfocused. When i got through school and i had to get through it, i got to radio and television, i started to excel finally. I have one brother named john. He is my best friend. My parents were great. My dad is sort of the fun, charming, joke teller. And my mom is the salt and backbone of the family. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. My parents loved that team. I thought thats the mecca of television. Billy bush is joining us. First moment i was on television, i was terrified. Live television. It was locally. Wnbc. I was terrified. . I feel pretty . They had coast access hollywood and that was 15 years ago. It ended up being the greatest thing for me in the world. There i met the unbelievable kit hoover. Its a wrestling match. The best thing about bill as i now call him, the guy is up for anything. Hell cross dress when its not early days. Pizzas on delivery to Victoria Secret fashion show. He loves the high heels. Hey. He makes some of the work really fun. My wife is polar opposite of me. Shes the introvert. Im the i have three girls. Thrilled i dont have a boy. More so a boy like me. Im a new york rangers hockey fan. New york giants football fan. I am home. My parents being close to them again in the twilight of my dear old dads life, thats the biggest thing for me. Hes my didnt expect that. Best father ever. This corner studio i looked at as a little kid and are you kidding me . Never would imagine being on the other side of that window. Now that i am, its the most humbling thing i can possibly think of. Ill give you three pieces of advice. One, two, three. One, a little word of advice for you, billy, never ever press snooze. Youll bring an energy here that we havent seen since al was 22. Age old tradition on the today show at 9 00 a. M. , the host buys his compatriots a new car. You have the warmest smile. Ill be able to look over at it five days a week. The bushman, billy bush, after years of having to travel on the road together to hang out to do it here in new york city. Cant wait for you to get here, my brother. Hey, billy. Hey, billy, if you havent heard theres a show called weekend today on saturdays. Drop by to join us. There will always be someone at the office party that did something crazier than i did. Im looking forward for billy to join the show because its impossible to walk into a room where billy bush is and not smile. You in the last 15 years of access hollywood. Youre coming home. Were going to have great fun watching the new show. Thanks for all of the joy youve given us. We love you. We love you. We do love you. Thats right. Gosh. That was a cheap move right there. Lovely people. You know how i feel about the old man and cant say the old welcome. Youre making us cry. Dont leave yet because we have the sandwich king with the ultimate school lunch your children will devour. A blt brourrito. Lots of real cheese people know how to pack uber flavor into ultra thin. Sargento ultra thin slices, the same taste, just thinner and 45 calories a slice. Thats 45 reasons to layer, fold, sneak, peek, tease, taunt, like, love. Because real cheese people bite with abandon. Hold the sacrifice, no compromise. Sargento ultra thin slices, were real cheese people. Wahhhh. 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Were making a blt wrap. Detriment to all kids lunch boxes is that Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich. These wraps last forever in the well turn it into pig candy. Leftover chicken. Lets make pig candy. Double cut bacon. Wire rack coated in sugar. You put this in the oven for how long . 70 minutes at 225. Make cleanup easy. Thats a long time. Its worth it. Its crispy. You put that immediately onto parchment paper off the rack. It will stick to that. Make Chicken Salad using leftover chicken. Your kids will love this. Celery. Dried cranberries. Let it sit for a couple minutes. Let that fla salt sweats. Sugar sweat. Pork sweats in a minute. Billy, your day has been eating and it wont end. Mayonnaise. Kids love it. Vitamin d with dijon and this way you can have a second life with that chicken. Give them something new besides turkey and cheese. I love it. Well add that rotisserie chicken in there. You mix it up. We chopped up that pig candy. Got chicken. Its a perfect blt. With lettuce. Theres a method to this. Take crunchy pig candy right there and lay it around. All even. We wont clump it up. You can take that Chicken Salad. Its got the cranberries in there. All that. You can substitute grapes in there if you dont have cranberries. Can you set aside the brourro and different container. Check out today. Com food. Also, i cooked up something. I teamed up with shake shack to make the roker burger. 100 all angus beef. Pulled pork. Double cheese. Mayo. A dollar from every roker burger will support no kid hungry to end childhood hunger. Most of the shake shacks will serve today through friday. Eating it and rokerburger. Well put it on our facebook page. It needs pig candy. Take a bite. What do you think of that . Balanced. Nothing better on a burger than more pork. There you go. Very nice. Lets show you very nice. I can hear myself. Okay. Dontn dress. This is a big burger. It is very good. My gosh. Thats your latest weather. Your daughter is eating it right now. 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What do you think . Hockey player. Hockey player is ri want to play . I play. Were you good . I played with Jeremy Roenicke back in the day and great guys that went onto the nhl. I was in there. Here you go. What is billys biggest guilty pleasure on tv . Is it dating naked. The bachelor bachelorette or i was going to say the bachelor. Youre lined up. Theres another show that billy currently hooked. We hear you cant get enough of billions. Are we talking about music genre that makes billy cry. Country music. Theyre both right. Good for you. I hope this is a good prize. Heres one of countrys biggest stars and someone who we know youre a fan of. Tim mcgraw. I love tim mcgraw. You do. All right. Now welcome to the today show family and thanks for your support of humble and kind. We love you. Youre going to be great. Humble and kind is the most beautiful song. I played it for natalie in rio. Listen to the words of humble and kind. We have a budget. One more. The craziest tv moment billy regrets and if he doesnt regret it, he should. Was it when he got his chest waxed. Dressing in the drag repeatedly. Accepting a hot dog eating challenge. Which one . Accepting the hot dog eating challenge. Chest wax. Al roker is right. When we were in rio, regis, he got a brozilian. He had his nether region cleaned and waxed. By super models. You won this one, al. You won. There you go. I think so. Nicely done. Thank you very much. Fantastic. Would you sign this for me. Im putting this in my dressing room. Im for once happy i lost. Regis, thank you so much. Were back with more bro waxing and all of the excitement. This is today on nbc. Regis. I would love it. Weve got one more wish for you from some of your biggest fans. Should i leave . Not yet. Take a look. We love you, billy congratulations, dad. Were so proud of you. Congratulations, daddy. I love you and im so proud of you. We wish you the best. We miss you park city gang. The gang. The friends and of course my beautiful wife and kids. Just there at the monitor. Can we do this tomorrow . Reliving your life over and over. There they are. Well have more fun tomorrow. The party is just starting. Kathie lee and hoda together again after your local news. Good morning. Time now 9 58. Lets get a check on the weather. [no audio ] all right, moving along. Tampa mayor bob buckhorn zika virus at bay. Mayor buckhorns News Conference comes just days after officials classified the miami beach area as a zika virus hot zone in addition to the winwood neighborhood in miami. We will be at the News Conference later this morning and bring you the latest on news channel 8 at 11 00 a. M. Of course, for local weather, wfla. Com. Its going to be another warm going back for the first day today. Have a wonderful day. Foster farms presents appetites. Even a small one can throw you off your game. They can happen anywhere. And they only get bigger as time goes on. 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