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Ryan lochte reportedly facing as long as ten months out of the water. Why some critics say even that would be too light. And vanishing act. New video emerges showing a suspect in las vegas breaking free from his handcuffs and then fleeing through the ceiling. That tricky escape and how Police Caught up with him today, thursday, september 8th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Do anything interesting last night . It was a nail biter. I tell you that. Serena williams pulled it out in the end. It was really, really good. A lot of people were watching something else. In fact, this commander in chief forum on nbc last night. Away. We want to get to the state of the race. Hillary clinton returns to the campaign trail with a rally this afternoon and tim kaine was there on tuesday. Shell then head to missouri where the latest poll shows her trailing there by ten points. Donald trump heads back to cleveland for the First Time Since the Republican National convention. This will be his seventh visit to ohio since becoming his partys nominee. So according to a recent poll, the race in that key battleground state is extremely close. Trump leading by just three points. So we have a lot to get to this morning. In a moment were going to talk to two generals who were advisers to the clinton and trump campaigns respectively. Lets start out our Team Coverage with National Correspondent peter alexander. Hey, peter, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. This election now exactly two months away believe it or not. Last night donald trump despite having no political or military experience insisted that hes countrys National Security issues. Last night he spoke almost exclusively in generalities and Hillary Clinton was back on the defensive peppered with more tough questions about her judgment. The first showdown on a single stage. Clinton and trump going back to back and toe to toe. The former secretary of state appearing first followed by the real estate mogul. The republican nominee blasting many of the nations military leaders. I think under of barack obama and Hillary Clinton the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our country. Reporter trump offering no new specifics about his strategy for defeating isis. When i do come up with plan that i like and that perhaps agrees with mine or maybe doesnt. I may love what the generals come back with. You have your own plan . I have a plan. Reporter clinton vowing will defeat isis making a Major Campaign promise. We are not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again and were not putting Ground Troops into syria. Reporter while clinton admitted her vote for the iraq war was the mistake, trump falsely presented his position on the war before the invasion. I was against it. Reporter here he was with howard stern in 2002. Are you for invading iraq . You know, i wish the first time it was done correctly. Reporter wednesday night trump proposing an alternate solution for iraq. Were going to get out, take the oil. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldnt have isis. Isis formed with the power and wealth of that oil. Reporter clinton trying to offer a clear contrast on what makes her Better Qualified to be commander in chief. Steadiness. Mixed with strength to be able to make the hard decisions. Reporter meanwhile, trump praising Russias Vladimir Putin while attacking president obama. The man has very strong control over the country. Its a different system. I dont happen to like the system but in that system hes been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. Reporter clinton on defense over her use with a private email server. It was a mistake to have a i certainly would not do it again. I make no excuses for it. Reporter the former secretary of state pushing back against questions about her handling of classified information. I did exactly what i should have done and i take it very seriously. Always have. Always will. Reporter and while clinton defended her time at the state department, trump defended this tweet from 2013 about the number of unreported sexual assaults in the military. Writing at the time what do put men and women together . Its a correct tweet. Many people think thats absolutely correct. Reporter bottom line, Many Americans widely believe that these are two deeply flawed candidates. Two of the most unpopular president ial nominees in modern history. They were shaky at times. Perhaps the silver lining, this was just the scrimmage before whats certain to be a political superbowl. That first debate just 18 days away. Matt and savannah . Peter new developments tied to that email controversy for Hillary Clinton. A top democratic releasing an exchange that clinton had with former secretary of state colin powell on the use of personal email on the job. Nbcs Kristen Welker has more on that. Kristen, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Democratic lawmakers are hoping that that newly released email exchange will show that colin powell advised secretary clinton on how to use her personal little to quiet the criticism. Hillary clinton facing more tough questions about her use of a private email server during nbcs commander in chief Forum Wednesday night. I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. I took it very seriously. Reporter but just moments before clinton took the stage, House Democrats led by longtime clinton supporter released an between clinton and colin powell. Cummings calling the exchange a detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records. In the chain, clinton asks powell about restrictions on using a blackberry. Powell responds, i didnt have a blackberry. What i did do was have a personal computer hooked up to a range of friends directly without going through the state department server. Powell also warned clinton about the dangers of using a blackberry because data on the pda could become part of the official record subject to the law. Be very careful, he said, i got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data. Is it a socalled smoking gun for clinton who has repeatedly pointed to her predecessors use of private email to justify her own as i said and has now come out, my predecessors did the same thing and many other people in the government. Reporter clinton told the fbi about her 2009 exchange with powell prompting a review from the former general. Powell telling People Magazine in august, clintons people are trying to pin it on me. The Clinton Campaign stresses she told the fbi powells advice did not affect the decision but the ongoing controversy she deletes 30,000 emails after getting a subpoena from congress. Reporter powell declined to comment on the story. The state Department Says it couldnt further insights into this new email exchange but highlighted secretary clintons testimony to the fbi in which she indicated she didnt use her personal email as a way to avoid government oversight. Thank you very much. Experts with us this morning. Well start with retired general michael flynn. He now serves as an adviser to donald trump. Good to have you here. You take a step back and listen to what was said last night. A lot of people are struck by the fact that donald trump seemed to have praise for Vladimir Putin while seeming to denigrate americas generals saying theyve been reduced to rubble in his words. How do you explain that . The questions that came out of the audience were great. This business about this general being reduced to rubble, donald trump has enormous respect for our military and enormous respect for our military leadership. It didnt sound like it. Whats happened is our leadership in the military, in the armed forces right now, theres a lot of frustration because of the policies that we are following and strategy that were following particularly against isis but also against what were doing out in the south china sea, what doing in eastern europe. I know theres a lot of frustration out there. Donald trump has enormous respect for our military, military leadership and our intelligence professions as well. What caught my attention is he talked about two Intelligence Briefings hes now received. You were involved in both of them. You were there. And he went off on this thing saying in some way the briefers said or body language led them to believe that president obama was not following their recommendations. You were there. Did you see that . I sure did. In what way . In a very specific way. Without getting into details of what we talked about, intelligence professionals brief the intelligence they see going on around the world. They do not make the policy decisions. So the intelligence that we received in the last two briefings were in stark contr being made. Thats coming up with that deduction. In the briefing did they look and Say Something and then look at him like this or this . Intelligence professionals as they should would say those are policy decisions. Donald trump in a very, very sophisticated way would ask tough questions and they would say thats not our job. Those are policy decisions that the white house is making. We would say okay. You were with the Defense Intelligence agency. You know as well as anybody else what Vladimir Putin has been up to recently. Are you concerned at all about the way that donald trump talks about putin . He said last night if putin says great things about me, im going to say great things about him. Thats not exactly the model of standing tough on the world stage against an adveradversary . Weve become the best enemies in the world because we telegraph everything were going to do and we become friends. Russia has a problem with isis. We have a problem with isis. Russia is in the middle east whether we like it or not. We probably could have prevented that had we made smarter decisions a couple years ago, but we did not. We have to figure out how do we Work Together against some of these common enemies that we have . We have to do that. We have run out of a lot of options. And the decisions that were made pulling out of iraq in 2011 have islamic state. We could have another hour on it. Lieutenant general michael flynn. Great job last night. Nbc did a superb job. We appreciate it. Retired air force Brigadier General john douglas supporting the Clinton Campaign joins us this morning. Secretary clinton said were not sending anymore troops to syria or iraq. Keeping in mind there are u. S. Troops there. Did she take something off the table that sheho taken off . I dont think so. She has a threepoint plan on how to deal with the middle east. As we all know, this is a problem thats been going on for a long, long time. It doesnt lend itself to simplistic 30day solutions. Do you ever want to take an option off the table as commander in chief . I think you can look at that one way or the other. I dont think she meant to take an option off the table. I think she meant to say that her policy is shes not going to others have done in iraq. You know, one of the issues about secret plans and things like that are that if your enemy knows your strong and enemy knows you have a good plan and enemy knows you have the resources and enemy knows youre well led, thats deterrence. Back staff, we would rather deter the enemy than fighting. Hillary clinton understands that and shes laid out a detailed plan. The comments about our generals being reduced to rubble, our young generals today are as fine as theyve ever been. When i see those young men and women especially the young women that have now taken stars, im proud of them. Theyre not rubble. On this issue of veterans and how they feel, they were the audience last night. Thats who we were trying to address. 64 of them in our recent poll said they are not confident in Hillary Clintons ability to lead. This is somebody who was a former secretary of state. She was on the Armed Service committee. The issue does not seem to be one of experience. How do you explain that . It is hard to explain. Theres some work to do there for secretary you know, theres an old saying in world war ii, snafu. Have you ever heard that . Familiar with it. Thats how a lot of that feels. The guys down in the trenches dont know whats over the next hill. They dont know whats going to happen tomorrow morning. They dont know what is the enemy doing. They have to trust their leadership from their squad leaders all of the way up to whoever is president at the time just being there at that level, things often do look like theyre screwed up and so thats just one of the things that leaders in the military have to deal with is to try to overcome that. Interesting to get both of your perspectives. Thank you very much. Thanks for having us. The president is wrapping up a weeklong trip to asia this morning and weighing in on Donald Trumps comments at our forum last night. Lets go to has been traveling with the president. Good morning. Reporter it didnt take much for president obama to weigh in. He was asked about those comments that donald trump made about our generals being reduced to rubble and about Vladimir Putin being a better leader than president obama. Heres what the president had to say. I dont think the guy is qualified to be president of the United States. And every time he speaks, that and i think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory, uninformed or outright wacky ideas. Reporter theyll target voters that put him over the top and voters trying to get excited for Hillary Clinton. Savannah . Ron allen, thank you. Police in chicago are searching for two suspects this morning after a 71yearold man was shot during an attempted robbery. The incident was caught on camera. You can see two young men on bicycles ride past the man as he watering his lawn. Short time later, the suspects come back and demanded the mans him in the abdomen. No arrests have been made. Back to that video we talked about at the top of the show. A murder suspect back in Police Custody after he was able to escape from an interrogation room. This happened in North Las Vegas last friday. Alonzo perez was able to break free from his handcuffs by putting his body weight on the chains that connected the cuffs. He twisted the chain enough to make it snap and then he made his escape by cli ceiling tile. You see it all there on camera. Once outside, police say he stole an unoccupied truck that was left running in the parking lot. He was recaptured on tuesday night and the police chief says while cameras were rolling, nobody was watching the feed live as it happened. He said from now on, someone certainly will be. Changes in policies coming there. No question. Lets get a first check of the weather from mr. Roker. Were watching our maps and is in the eastern part of the country. Hot and humid. 18 Million People or more under a heat advisory including new york city and philadelphia. Its going to feel like 90 in cleveland. 95 in savannah. Raleigh, 98 degrees. It continues right through friday. Feeling like 100 in d. C. 98 in nashville. Record temperatures for d. C. , atlantic city, also in philadelphia today. And then as we move into friday, philadelphia, atlantic city, new york city, hartford, just hang on. By the time we get to the weekend, well be looking at cooler temperatures. Well be 83 in new york city on sunday. 83 in washington on monday. And charlotte, youll drop down to 84 by monday. To 84 by monday. Were going to get to your ill have that goat cheese garden salad. That gentleman got the last one. Sir, you give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Sold. But i get to pick your movie. Can i pick the genre . Side. With the blue cash everyday card from American Express, you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. Throw. Its more than cash back. Its backed by the service and security of American Express. And thats your latest weather. Just ahead, banned from swimming. 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And another big event last night. Our exclusive commander in chief forum with president ial hopefuls donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Clinton vowed if elected, the u. S. Would not send more troops to the middle east while trump suggested the military leaders have been hurt by the current administration. I think under the leadehi clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble to the point where its embarrassing for our country. Were not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again and were not putting Ground Troops into syria. Were going to defeat isis without committing american Ground Troops. Clinton heads to North Carolina and missouri today while Trump Holds Campaign events in cleveland, ohio. Lets turn to Todays Campaign moment. This one played out on twitter right after our commander in priebus said this about Hillary Clintons performance. She was angry and defensive the entire time. No smile and uncomfortable. Upset that she was caught wrongly sending our secrets. Hillary clintons twitter account was quick to respond. Actually, thats what taking the office of president seriously looks like. Changing subjects. That embarrassing gas station incident during the all four swimmers are expected to be suspended today by the United States Olympic Committee and usa swimming. Willie is here with the latest on that. The usoc has not officially confirmed that suspension but usa swimming says something will be announced today. The scandal that rocked the rio games still impacting one of the biggest stars. At l. A. S International airport. Amid reports hes facing a tenmonth suspension. According to usa today, a person with knowledge of the situation says lochte will be banned from the 2017 World Championships next july. Usa today also reports lochtes suspension will be longer than the other three u. S. Swimmers. A guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it. Put it to my forehead. Reporter lochtol todays billy bush he was robbed at gunpoint. One week later he apologized in an interview with matt admitting he vandalized a sign at the rio gas station. I was very intoxicated. I have no idea why. It was immature. It was childish. Reporter hes been charged in brazil with filing a false Police Report after the drunken night out. If he gets a tenmonth swimming suspension now, analysts say lochte may have gotten off easy. Its the year after the olympic games. Are taking a year off anyway. Reporter the incident has been costly for lochte who has lost sponsors. I am speedo fit. Reporter now looking to repair his public image appearing on this seasons dancing with the stars. A tenmonth suspension would be harsher than Michael Phelps sixmonth suspension for his two duis. The most decorated olympian of all time empathizing with lochte last week on today. Ive been through it before. Hopefully he comes out of this a better person. I reached out to him a couple times, and i think he understands a lot and he will be able to grow from this. We reached out to all four swimmers including lochte. None had any comment on this news at this time. A lot of these swimmers take the year after the olympics off anyway so this maybe doesnt hurt ryan. All right. Thank you very much. Now to some disturbing several states on edge this morning. People dressed up at clowns spotted hanging around neighborhoods and in some cases said to be approaching children. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is in greensboro, North Carolina, where authorities are taking this very seriously. Reporter indeed. Reports have been coming in of clowns sort of doing some really weird things including a report of a clown standing in the woods like these. Standing motionless looking into an apartment complex and then on wednesday down the road in greensboro the authorities got calls of three clowns that they believe may have been out there doing something just doesnt fit in. They say that theyre not sure why this is suddenly happening, just that its no laughing matter. It may just be folks clowning around but its not funny. More and more people are reporting seeing creepy clowns in their neighborhoods and some are menacing children. A clown last seen wearing red knows and all White Clothing in asking for kids if they want ice cream. Reporter in winstonsalem someone in these woods is trying to get these kids. Reporter 30 miles away in greensboro, police got a 911 call reporting someone wearing a clown suit with a scary mask. My husband just spotted a clown in back of the woods. Reporter chris grabbed a machete and chased after the clown. Imagine someone come on t balcony and see a clown standing in the woods. People are scared. Reporter last month in green bay, wisconsin, residents spotted a clown walking the street at straight carrying black balloons. It turned out to be a publicity stunt for a small independent film. By itself dressing up as a clown is not a crime. We dont have a law in North Carolina that prohibits a person from dressing like a clown. Reporter making things worse, police are now chasing sightings. The sheriff of cleveland county, North Carolina, say perpetrators could be charged with obstruction of justice. Meanwhile, 5yearold sky brown just wants the creepy clowning to stop. Im scared because im a kid and i am afraid that the clowns are going to kidnap me. Reporter sweet kid. There have been a dozen sightings at least in the greensboro area of clowns. Professional clowns now tell us that theyre having some difficult times fearful of vigilantes. They call police and tell them where theyre going so they dont become a victim themselves. Guys, back to you. Sad state of affairs, kerry. Thank you very much. Mr. Roker now with another check of the weather. I got flooding to talk about. Milwaukee to be precise, dealing with some heavy rain last night and folks wading up to their waist in water to try to get to some rescues that had to be made. Cars were submerged. A real mess out there. We may see more of that again today. Strong storms firing up from detroit all of the way back down into wichita. Part of a frontal system pushing to the east. Locally heavy rain will continue along the front today right on into tomorrow with more moistur the remnants of newton actually causing severe storms and flash flooding. Some areas may pick up five to six inches of heavy rain from wichita all of the way into central illinois. And remember, always get your forecast when you need it when you need it on the Weather Channel on cable. All right, al. Thank you very much. Just ahead on trending, well save you time at the supermarket. 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Hodas special surprise for a man who has dedicated his life to serving his community now rallying to honor him. We decided to come here and honor you. Thank you. And the wait is over. Talk about her new tune for the new football season. I think everybody kind of felt like lets reinvigorate everything and just kind of see what we can do. Today, thursday, september 8th, 2016. . . All the way from georgia good morning, montana, and our grandkids. All of the way from raleigh, North Carolina, to celebrate my 30th birthday. Celebrating 31 years of marriage and he is cancer free. First time in new york city from st. Louis, missouri. Five florida friends celebrating. Its 8 00. Its thursday, september 8th. Its feeling kind of muggy. We say good morning to the crowd on our plaza. To happy to have them along with us. Happy you at home are joining us as well. Just ahead, a guy we like around here an awful lot, dana carvey is here. Hes going to give us his comedic take on all of the political players making headlines during this election season and trust us, i dont think anyone is for a wardrobe change with fall in the air. Jill martin has your back. Chic fall fashions at great prices. A lot to get to. Right now it is time for the news at 8 00. Good morning. We begin with the 2016 race. Im Hallie Jackson just outside new york city where were taking a closer look at the headlines from our commander in chief forum here. Donald trump raising eyebrows Hillary Clinton again addressing her email controversy. Today both candidates likely to improve their candidates performances for the first debate after last night what could be seen as a dry run for us. Today the nominees facing voters on the trail after facing questions in our commander in chief forum. Hillary clinton on defense over emails. I communicated about classified material separate system. I did exactly what i should have done and i take it very seriously. Always have. Always will. And on the fight against isis, definitive. Theyre not going to get Ground Troops. Were not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again and were not putting Ground Troops into syria. That promise a difficult one for any president to keep with about 5,000 american troops now. For clinton, questions of trust. For donald trump, ones on temperament slamming top military brass president. I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our country. Reporter the gop nominee not backing off his praise for russian president Vladimir Putin. If he says great things about me, ill say great things about him. Hes been a our president has been a leader. Defending a controversial tweet. In 2013 on this subject, you tweeted this. 26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military, only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together . It is a correct tweet. There are many people that think that thats absolutely correct. And this morning Donald Trumps team is already trying reduced to rubble. Earlier this hour on this show, top surrogate retired general mike flynn said trump has enormous respect for the military and its leaders. Savannah . Hallie jackson, thank you. Meantime, president obama is reacting sharply this morning to trumps criticism of his leadership and the state of the u. S. Military. At a News Conference wrapping up his trip to asia, the president said every time trump speaks, according to the president , he confirms h not be commander in chief and urged public and media to followup on what he called trumps uninformed or outright wacky ideas. Now the latest on the fight against the zika virus. Miamidade county officials have delayed the spraying of a controversial insect side following concerns voiced by residents. 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Or a lot of vegetables where the checkout person is going to have to look it up in the book. Or soda packs, that could go fast. Okay. They say stay to the left because most people are right this is controversial. Look for female cashiers because one expert says they are often more efficient than men. That is not controversial at all. Not with us. Dont you size up cashiers when you look . I look to see who is fast and slow. By the time you spend that just get in line and its like trying to get on the service road. Just get in a line. While hes in a line, run back and get more stuff. Also i makeim that line and ill go in that line and well have a race. I watch people selfchecking out and i could never do that. I dont either. Thats beyond my ability. Lets change subject and talk about colin kaepernick. His jersey is the top seller on the nfls website. Just an indication of the kind of support kaepernick has received since he started that controversial protest choosing the playing of the national anthem. On wednesday kaepernick posted this message to fans on instagram. The only way i can repay you for the support is to return the favor by donating all of the proceeds i received from my jersey sales back into the communities. No word on how much money the jersey has generated. Very interesting. Wait until you hear this. A walmart in panama city, florida, wanted to special tribute for the anniversary of 9 11. It hangered some customers. The store created a display of soda cans in the shape of the twin towers. Walmart says its being removed. Its one of those best intentions just didnt work. Anyone here like to eat hot peppers . Not hot, hot peppers. That make you cry . Yes. Perhaps you get a thrill from the stomach churning roller coaster. The list goes on and on. Why do we do these things if they can be such an emotional and physical challenge . Psychologists call it benign masochistism once our brain realizes theres not a lot of real get pressure from that. I love when they go to the dentist and they do deep cleaning and really scraping. You like that . I do get the laughing gas. I like to pluck my eyebrows. Hurts a little bit. Is that weird . What about you see a candle do you ever want to put your finger over it. I would like to put your eyebrows. No real segue here. Lets do pop start. Well start with an exclusive look at the highly anticipated documentary simply called amanda knox looking at her murder trial. Heres your first look at the trailer. If im guilty, it means that i have the ultimate figure to fear because im not the obvious one. Did you kill kercher . No. Either i am a psychopath in sheeps clothing or i am you. That gets you hooked . Want to watch that. Thats creepy. The documentary premieres both in theaters and on Netflix September 30th. Im surprised at the tone of that. Wow. She might have greed to do Creative Control over how they pieced it together. Next to kanye west, kanye west feeling the heat after his latest fashion show wednesday. Kanye unveiled his new line. The problem with the weather temperatures topped 80 degrees. Felt like 100 yesterday. I arranged for that. There was little place for shade. Didnt help the show started late. Models collapsed. Ripped off their heels and stumbled in the process. Despite it all, kanye took a triumphant walk down the cat walk with a smile on his face. Finally, this will get people talking. Whats the worst song of alltime . Do you want to say what yours here it is. . We built this city on rock and roll . . We built this city . 1985. I like it. Came out august 1st. The singer of the group said our big hit single we built this city was awful. I felt like i front row. That song was nominated for a grammy in 1986. I like it. Whats your least Favorite Song ever . Mine is that one actually. I dont love that one either. I dont know how to tell you loudly in your office that i hate. . I want to rock and roll all night. Greatest song of all time. I messed it up. Im pregnant. I dont want to work i want to bang on the drum all day. I hate that song. I dont want to work. I just want to bang on my drum all day. Thats a friday 5 00 p. M. Song. With her. Lets get a check of the weather. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by camping world. Get one stop shopping for everything rv at your nearby camping world rv supercenter. Playing three different songs. 98 of the country had above normal temperatures for the summer. Look at this. New york city became very close 76. 6 degrees. Atlanta. Hottest 1980. Came very close this year and as you take a look, chicago, 1955, hottest summer ever. Not quite but in las vegas, you had the hottest summer ever. 93. 2 degrees. Toasty one. Thats your latest weather. Guys . Thank you so much. Granted. Weve been loving this all week as she fulfills the wishes of deserving viewers. She gave a mother a role on law order. What do you have today . The most humble guy that changed thousands of lives. He runs a Salvation Army center in chicago. The guy never, ever takes a break. That is until we forced him one of his idols. Merrill powers head of a Salvation Army center in chicago grills a feast for the community. He has no idea this whole party is actually for him. Looking good. And merrill thinks this camera crew was hired by the Salvation Army. Without feeding services, a lot of people would go hungry on daily basis. Actually being filmed for the today show. He has his wife, nancy, to thank for that. Open house today. He wants people to feel loved. The person that maybe hasnt had anybody shake their hand. He wants to shake that hand. Like tom murphy when he first met merrill, tom was living in a tent. Nobody would hire him. He never put me down because i was homeless or anything else. He just opportunity to prove myself. Warren started drinking at six, sold drugs by 15 and ran the streets living shelter to shelter and then he met merrill. He told me youre somebody. Warren, youre somebody. Dont you ever forget that. God has you here for a reason. Merrills calling is to help others but he does have another secondary sweetheart. You havent seen somebodys face light up who yesterday was picking out of a trash can and today has pulled pork or barbecue chicken in their hand and he really enjoyed that. A food network fanatic, he won his share of ribbons but mostly he grills for those in need. Last thanksgiving he cooked 120 turkeys for the center. The highlight of todays merrills pulled pork, secret rub and another secret. One of merrills alltime favorite Celebrity Chefs flew in from new york to help me surprise him. And while nancy is expecting me, we didnt tell her about bobby. Smile and laugh at you but in his heart, his heart is going to cry. Hes going to love it. Good afternoon. Get some food. Hi. Merrill. Im hoda from the today show. Hi. Hi. I didnt mean to interrupt you, but i want to let you know that we came here today for you. Okay. Your beautiful wife, nancy, told us about this remarkable, remarkable man and she said he does nothing but give and so we decided to come here and honor you. Thank you. We understand that you serve so many people and we also understand that you make a mean barbecue. That you love those shows. Those cooking shows. Do you love those . I love cooking shows. Good to see you. We have something in common. We speak through our food. As soon as i got to this neighborhood, i could smell what youre cooking so im here to taste your barbecue. Oh my. How about some food, everybody . Come on. All right. Get in here. First of all, ill say this right now. Its perfectly cooked. Whats in the rub . A lot of different things. Youre not going to tell are you . Pulled pork. I would like merrill to have a new friend when hes watching those shows to be able to say i met him. Pork. Let me have more. Just say, i cooked with him and have a story to tell. I hope you like my potato salad. Definitely trophy worthy. And remember all of those turkeys merrill cooks and donates each thanksgiving, 150 free turkeys for ten years. Oh my. Thats insane. You still have to cook them. Theyre not going to cook them for you. Cooking for bobby, check. Nancy has one more wish for her husband. I dont know how many lives youve touched so we just found a handful. Love you, man. Love you. I would do anything if he could truly see the impact that he makes. Thank you for everything youve done for us. God bless you. And have an idea just how much he means to each of us. Thank you for helping me get my life on track. What is it like seeing physically what youve done . We see miracles every day. . I dont want to work . Were back now at 8 30 on this thursday morning, september 8th, 2016. Talk about the music here, savannah. Theyre playing your song. Every top 40 Radio Station plays this song friday afternoon at 5 00. Bang on the drum all day. Office the other day. It was tuesday. Its better than coming in every day to the theme from frozen. Were catching up with superstar Carrie Underwood in just a bit as she gets ready to lend her voice once again to nbcs coverage of the nfl season. And keeping with music theme, were gearing up for a live concert on the plaza tomorrow from bastille. All right. Also d, carvey is here sharing his impressions on the president ial race and more. Matt asked me a second ago wheres charlie because he wasnt here two seconds ago. He was inside being interviewed by People Magazine. We got him just in the nick of time. Here he is. Who is excited for scarf season . Jill martin is here with special steals and deals highlighting and Martha Stewart will share delicious recipes with fresh veggies, carson. Mr. Roker, a check of the weather . Fall weather getting ready. Lets think about whats going on. First of all, we got strong storms today making their way through the midwest. Hot and humid in the east. Cooler in the pacific northwest. Scattered showers through the southwest. And as we look ahead toward tomorrow, those storms make their way a little further east. Still hot and humid in the southeast. More strong storms in the midwest u valley. The sunshine returns to the pacific northwest. Were looking at plenty of sunshine through the southwest. Hopefully the weather where you are isnt for the birds. Thats right. Because nobody likes foul weather. I dont want to roughly your hello, iowa. Hello because its time for football night in america. Who doesnt love a little football night in america. Got the big game coming up tonight. Yeah. This is a good one. Weve got carolina against the broncos. Sports authority field. Partly cloudy. 80 degrees. Its all coming up tonight on nbc at 8 30 its sunday night guys . I missed that, al. Thank you very much. Now something new were calling lasting impressions. You have your own graphics with dana carvey. We had a great time the last time you were on the show. I want to thank the graphic team for that. Youll pay later. Hes back this morning with his arsenal of impressions ready to take on the political world. How have you been . Very good. Quite an exciting summer. Were you traveling yesterday . Did you see any of the in chief deal. I saw all of it. Trump is like this. How are you qualified to be president . Because april so good. I know how to do it, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Hillary is asked about the emails one more time. Take it easy in there. Ill be in in a second. Do you ever wish you could on the wall as they prep for an event like that or debate. Giuliani has helped trump be more president ial. The way you can win, the only way you can win this thing is you cant come off like a nut ball. You cant come off completely insane. Thats the only way to go. I know that. How old are you . Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Feel free to laugh. Sometimes i ask questions with a lot of names in them to what did you make about trumps comments about Vladimir Putin . Its clear that he loves. Its off the charts. He said i was brilliant, okay. He loved my hair. Putin has him in his back pocket because hell flatter the hell out of him if he gets elected. I like your hair and you have a very great body. You know you can have ukraine. Never been there. I really didnt. Nobody even knows what he sounds like. Matt lauer is the best. He did a good job. You have a fan. One. He said last night that he didnt have a plan. Im going to take out this family. He said that before. Ill take out their families. This is stuff you cant imagine obama doing just calling up mom. Frankie the fish, barack obama. I would like to see if you can over to syria and take out isis. Sure thing mr. President. Well go over. Rubber chicken. That would only work in new york. It makes no sense. It makes no sense. Let me tell you something, so fabulous. So good. Emails. You dont even need me here for this, do you . You mentioned bill clinton a second ago. Can you picture him as first gentleman if Hillary Clinton gets elected. I would want bill clinton right next to me. Its okay. Calm down, baby. Its good. Its good. Where are you going this weekend . Okay. Ill just stay here. Im drifting off there. It was so just fantastic. We were talking in the commercial break when i was doing this whole football night in america thing, youre a fan. Yes. Broncos. Destruction. I like cam quarter newton. Sorry. Only joke i got. We talked yesterday. Its amazing how much it affected me and the world and be the new james bond said i cant believe they broke up. Obama needed quiet time. Michelle, give me a second. I got to take a knee. Something happened yesterday. Taylor swift no more. I didnt see sean connery in the notes. Where are we on time . You can have the whole hour. Paul mccartney on mars. Well i didnt know it so red. I like that. Donald trump applies chapstick. There we are. So nice. Okay. Okay. Arnold schwarzenegger enjoys a sandwich. They are just very, very quick. Barack obama starts an outboard motor. Hold on, michelle. Let me get the motor. No. No, no, no. No, no, no. These are things you think of on the plane flying across countriry. One for you. Michael caine as a 2 year old. Al is my greatest audience. Dana carvey, when are you coming back . Ill be here tomorrow. Good deal. They put me in a special box and al gives me a cookie. He looks incredible. Been here since 68. Youre coming back next month with more president ial takes. Dana carvey, guys. And jill martin, steals and deals. Everything you need to fill up your full fashion closet. Were back. Monday marks the unofficial start of summer. Jill martin is here with exclusive bargains on some must have items. A segment we call steals and deals. What do we have . I cant believe were talking about fall already. Here we go. Fall must haves for steals and retail is 138. Welcome olivia and alex. Our beautiful models. Cute. Theyre great. Three styles. These are flattering on a lot of women. The retail is 138. Deal is 39. 99. 71 off. You can do it with tights or Something Like that or boots. A blazer and great for travel because they dont wrinkle. Roll them in a ball. Love it. Season. Nobody looks to scarf season like carson as we mentioned. We have great deal. These are ombre scarves. They are cashmere scarves. Available in nine colors. Retail 129. Deal is 26. 80 off. Super pretty and would dress up any outfit. I want you to do a segment on how to t ladies, thank you so much. Our next models are ana maria and rebecca. Modeling handbags. These are 100 italian leather. They come in four fall colors. Retail 495. 98 is the deal. This i love. Its partridge jewelry. You can either get necklace or earrings. Earrings have initials on it. Its nice if you have a daughter or son to wear that. Necklace comes with a pearl and heart or initial. Retail is 38. Deal is 11. 40. 70 off. A great gift. A good gift if youre organized you could do shopping right day before. Day before. These are cute. Retail is 106. Its a tassel pouch but also a key chain. Retail 106. Deal is 32. 70 off. Very cute. Thank you so much. Real quick ill run through products. The dresses, scarfs, handbags, jewelry and the pouches and key chains. Go to today. Com. Ladies, thank you so much. Coming up next, Martha Stewart shows us the perfect way to enjoy recipes of all vegetables. First, this is today on nbc. That was invigorating youre probably wondering why ive just carved a giant wooden tiger. Well, the answer is that a real one would maul me. Ive crafted dr. Whiskers here as a visual aid to show you that should you visit the lot, carmax associates will not pounce like tigers because people dont like that. Come here to buy a car. Dr. Whiskers wont pounce. Nobody will. 8 47. Back with today food. Right now there are so many vegetables. Its a great season. My garden is full. This hot weather which grew all of the vegetables. Youll start with roast tomato hand pies. Tomatoes are put on a cookie sheet like this. Salt and pepper. This. Its like 350degree oven. This is a lot of herbs and feta cheese. Black olives and oregano. Very good. Squares of dough. You make your own. Could you buy store bought. You could. Its easy to make this. Butter, flour and water and layer these little tarts with tomato and feta cheese coating of egg batter . Thats agency wash. You egg wash the edges of your tart. Thats what they look like. How beautiful. Do you like them . Theres more. This was grown in her garden. How cool is that. Youre growing meatballs again . The vegetable book is vegetable based but it does have some meat recipes and some fish you can do turkey. Pork and beef. Just turkey. Just beef. And these are little meatballs. All of the ingredients, ginger, salt, pepper, toasted sesame oil and garlic and scallions. Make tiny meatballs and layer them. These get sauteed in the pan. Roasted peppers. And do you like chai chilies . Theyre hot. Lov you can put in lime mayonnaise. You start on the next one. Im going to taste this one. This is a ricotta and kale dip. So easy to make. Saute your kale. This is a little bit of olive oil and take the stems off the kale and just tear it into pieces. You know who loves kale . So much fun to pick it and grow. This sautes down until it wiltz like this. Add salt and pepper to this and ricotta. Put in a little baking dish. Bake like this. Very simple. Eat it with i got a super hot pepper. I told you. Its like a five alarm fire over here. That happened to me too. These are peppers. These are delicious. These are like seared . This is olive oil again. These are so popular in a lot of japanese shops. And just let these saute until they are browned like this. This you could taste. Every other one is almost like a surprise. The first nine or good. I would say what do you think . Really good. Well be grazing all morning long on this. Thank you so much. The book by the way is beautiful. There you go. Catching up with music superstar Carrie Underwood but first this welcome back, everyone. The nfl season kicks off next week here on nbc. Carrie underwood has a new theme song and natalie got a sneak peek. After ten years of waiting all day for sunday night, the waiting is finally over. The iconic sunday night football theme song that kicks off the highest rated program on when the new England Patriots take on the Arizona Cardinals this weekend on nbc, Country Music superstar Carrie Underwood will change the song. Weve completely changed the song. Its been ten incredible years with waiting all day for sunday night and i think everybody just kind of felt like lets it kind of hit me one day. I was, like, i have a song that would work perfectly. Its just kind of a fight, stomp, clap, gritty kind of song. We started messing with the lyrics and sure enough, its pretty dang perfect. . If the song sounds familiar, thats because oh sunday night is a retooled version of something bad which reached number one on billboards country song chart in 2015. And while underwood is confident the energetic new song she came up will continue the tradition of revving up millions of viewers before the big game, shes prepared for monday some, you know, naysayers no matter what you do. If we kept everything the same, there probably would have been people that would be upset why are they doing the same thing and if we change it up, there will be some people that might not like that. Either way, underwood will be watching sundays game from her tour bus is eager for people to hear the new song. Im part of this huge Television Show that millions of people will tune into watch er some amazing athletes. We just kind of do our thing and have fun with it. I hope that shows. I know that will show. Exciting. Nice to have football back. It really is. By the way, season gets under way tonight. Super bowl rematch. Denver broncos do they do that on purpose . Yes. Broncos versus panthers. I didnt know. The sequel. The sequel. Cant wait. The rematch. What do you have coming up . Fantastic julanne moore coming up. And breaking a new guinness this morning on todays take, Julianne Moore on her new role that has her teaming up with George Clooney and the stars of brother nature and find out which celebrities showed up for breakfast at my all that and more coming up. Announcer fro nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, tamron hall, and billy bush live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. It is the official start to the weekend for college kids. Thursday morning, september 8th, 2016. Billy, tamron and al. Todays take begins. Al and hi a phenomenal day yesterday. Were going to talk about it. You were hanging out. Before we went, you were hosting your show for msnbc. What happened . Did someone moon you in the crowd or something . You look like you were horrified. Live on air yesterday. I wore this orange dress. Sitting there interviewing congressman charlie wrangle. I look down and i see something yellow. I feel pain. Im being stung by a Yellow Jacket in the middle of this brutal pain. In all of my years, ive never been stung by anything. Me either. Bitten by a mosquito. Nothing. On air live. Tears started rolling down my eyes as Charlie Rangel is talking about budget and sequester and this stuff. I had to put an ice pack on. I had to tough it out. Soldier right through. I saw that. Hes in my office right now. Hes on a box of cereal. My honey nut cheerios box. I always fear about sneezing on the air. If you feel a sneeze coming on, look at the light and apparently its supposed to i never sneezed on air. I cursed once on well twice. A sting to swearing on air. You think of odd things that happen on television to you. Instead of the city of chicago i did that. Sean connery does that all the time. Now i know im not allergic to stings. But you do get nervous around stings. It works out nicely. The singer. Wars. We went out to Yankee Stadium where we met a couple legends in james and John Standing behind us right now. Al and i went head to head. Who could sell the most programs. And then we graduated to peanuts and cracker jacks. Roker is a television icon. American treasure. The man has been on television forever. To go up against him in public is these are your between them 111 years vending. One guy 55 years selling and another guy 56 years. You had peanuts. Popcorn. Look at that little girl. Lauren. She was the cutest little girl. She loves you. Roker goes below the belt. He takes the baby. As if hes not liked enough by people. Hes Walking Around with this cute baby buying cracker jacks. Why didnt you pull money out he wouldnt have known. It was fiercely hot out there. The competition was even hotter. Youll have to wait and see when we cut everything together what happens and who wins. Speaking of heat. What a mess. This is fantastic. He loves this. This is great. Kanye, had his fashion show in new york yesterday. I wanted to go. He had the models according to some reports stand there for upwards around three hours. People started falling out of their shoes. The shoes started to disintegrate. This season his shoes are plastic. One model had to get help. Shes down on her knees. Just dropping. People were waiting on buses for a couple of hours. This thing was a mess. There was a blogger who live tweeted everything that was happening saying kanye and his team werent getting models water. They called it a hot mess. Sacrifice for fashion. We know that but thats not that much. What about plastic shoes. See through shoes that kim one of the models wore. Thats nasty on a hot day. Kim is one of kanyes mews. Looks like shes wearing saran wrap. I refrain from wearing this dress but today i broke it out for the first time. Risky choice. You know whats best about it, the smile on his face. Hes in kanye world. This is great. I hit another home run. Thats crazy. Hes oblivious but he does get praise for his sneakers, his fashion line. Not this one. Not the boots that kim had on. Were talking about him today. Look at that smile. I did great. Everybody loves me. Remember how hot it was, the choice of the black tshirt and black jeans probably a bad move. Got to be hot in there. Last year he had in tapestry of white he had lamars first appearance. Were talking about him today. Come on, al. Hes a genius. This was last year. They look like game of could you imagine kanye in game of thrones . How great would that be . We have Something Big coming up for you, tamron. You know the movie, grease. You wont believe the new theory about sandy and danny. It takes the whole precedence and turns it upside down on its head. Are you ready for this . Im not ready for this. Who are you ready r . Love her. Shell be join us. So excited. We love her. We love her. Do you know where s ill have that goat cheese garden salad. That gentleman got the last one. Sir, you give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Sold. But i get to pick your movie. 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Ill eat it. Youre going to go nuts. It went viral. The theory sandy is dead the whole time in the entire movie takes place in her mind as shes dying. It makes perfect first of all, its one of my favorite think about it. It opens like this on a beach kind of looks fuzzy like youre in dream. And ive always wondered ive always wondered why the end of the movie they jet off in the car up to heaven. The theory is that shes not alive. Shes going into taking her spot next to lord there. Did they both drown . I have another beef. I saved her life. She nearly drown. She nearly drown. Take a listen. . I saved her life she nearly drown . . He showed up splashing around . . Are they all dead . Wait a minute. Theres a polar bear and smoke monster in this movie. Its like bruce willis movie where theyre all dead. We found that out at the end. They did in this. They go to heaven in a car. Whos dead in the movie . Everybody around her and danny is driving the car. Is he dead . Dead. Everybodys dead in her head. Its in her head that shes dead. Its in her head. Okay. Heres a question. Why are we talking about this . This is a near and dear franchise. Its not real life. To some its very important. It was a play. A musical. You you love this story. Okay. The most interesting man in the world played by a west sider. We last see him after years of playing this character he blasts off to mars. Retiring him. Hes gone. And now introduces us to the new most interesting man in the world. Check it out. Wait for it. Hold on. Maybe he has a part in there now. Maybe the most interesting couple. Do you think they made him a partner or thats his girlfriend . I dont other women much like james bond. When you look at that man, i say not traditional good looks but something brooding and sexy. One week, one year, forever . One week, one year, forever . What category is he in for you . Just a day. Am i wrong to think one day . Hes hot, right . Hes hot but the show is so compelling. Heres a question. Courtney, do you think hes cute . Thumbs up. I wont ask the same question because shes rokers daughter. Heres a theory. Hes dead. Could it would be the original when he was dead because he got jetted off in the sky. Sandy went in the sky. That could work. Now listen, you are both technologically savvy. Iphone 7 comes out yesterday. Do you like it okay . Interesting to see what happens with the new iphone 7 which well talk about. Very expensive. How much is it . Jacks are 159. Phone is 649. Hold on. Not the new one. Okay. Its not wireless. You dont get wireless ones. They got rid of the headphone jack. However, it comes with some earbuds that plug into the lightning port of your phone. They dont give you anything. It comes with the box. I need to be given something by tim cook. You get a box with your big expensive shoes but you im just saying. It comes with the parts. But the buds. We were talking about in the meeting is that the buds, the ones that everyone wants, those are extra, right . Those are extra. 159. Those are extra. Same kind of controversy when they got rid of the disk drive. I will lose those, al. Every single time i get a pair within the hour. I will lose them. They come with low jack, thats this is what sandy played when she went to heaven. A little violin. Lets check your weather. See whats going on. Ill tell you, man, is it going to be hot and humid over the next several days. 18 million folks under heat advisories. Look at these temperatures today. It will feel like 97 in nashville. 101 in dallas. 93 in new york city. Tomorrow well have more heat, more humidity and looking at recordsin day or two. For example in d. C. And dulles airport, atlantic city, philadelphia, all setting records today probably. Tomorrow, philadelphia, atlantic city, new york city and hartford. Just hold on. Hold on. 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It wasnt until she discovered her talent for one legged jump roping that her record breaking dreams became reality. She achieved herir 2013 with 29 skips in just a minute. Then broke her own record a year later with 33 skips. Today shes looking to break her own Guinness World record yet again for the most one legged jump rope skips in one minute. Brea, break a leg. Kidding. Welcome to both of you. How did you discover this leg behind your head. I dont know. Ill try. Whats the record to break . 33 in one minute. Are you ready . Yes. All right. Take it away. You tell her when to start. Once your leg is behind your head ill give you the countdown. Perfect. Wow. Okay. For the record, three, two, one. Go. You kind of wonder what happens if she loses her balance. Oh no. 16 seconds. Shes going to try still. Counting down. Ten seconds to go. Five. Four. Three, two, one. Stop. Im so sorry. You i know you must be disappointed. Im okay because i still have the record anyway. Thats true. I mean, as you saw, there were a lot of rotations were complete. The record to beat was 33. She achieved 35. She did it. She broke the record. Congratulations. She broke the record. She did it. All right. Congratulations. Just ahead, oscar winner Julianne Moore with her new movie after your local news. Congratulations. She did it. She did it she did it she did it if youre taking prescription medications, does your mouth often feel dry . A dry mouth can cause cavities and bad breath. Over 400 medications can cause a dry mouth. Thats why theres biotene. Biotene can provide soothing dry mouth relief. And it keeps your mouth refreshed too. A dry mouth isnt. Biotene, for people who suffer from dry mouth symptoms. Tag, youre it. Tag youre it. Tag, youre it. Yes new gogurt writeon tubes. She is one of hollywoods biggest stars winning every award under the sun from an oscar to an emmy and multiple golden globes. 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That year she made times list of the most influential people in the world as this Hollywood Star continues to shine. Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Julianne Moore. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. You can hang them up now. They can say that at my memorial service. Youre not even done yet. I hope not. I felt for you during that. W when youre sitting right here. And at this time of the morning. Think of the rest of the day. Any part of you thinking wheres crazy stupid love. It was in there. We all have a movie. Do you have a favorite . I really, really dont. My favorite is usually what im currently working on. I like to just keep going. Really take up great causes. Youre a paid spokesperson for project literacy. Its so important. Its a big problem in this country we dont even realize. Literacy rates have remained stagnant. One in ten people globally. Its something that doesnt get a lot of attention because people feel like this problem is solved Development Issue we have. Poverty. And crime and gender inequality and disease. Its worth talking about and bringing peoples attention to it. Think about social interactions. Its selfesteem. Confidence. You cant read, you cant write, you are out of the room before you enter. If you receive medical treatment and you cant read doctor if youre illiterate . Would you feel like you would go and understand instructions. If you are given instructions and you bring them home and dont know how to follow them, your health is going to suffer. There is so many issues that are affected by it. Thats always the question when celebrity take on issues. You do it in such a classy way where it doesnt come off as if you are preaching. You are a citizen of the world and speaking out. I love to read. Its what made me a opened the world to me. I think it gives you access to absolute everything. And everybody. You suddenly realize youre not alone and all these thoughts that we feel exist somewhere else so that idea of connectivity as well as incredible function is very important. And youre still going strong. Wonder struck coming up. Yes. Very beautiful book. Todd haines. It was great to work here in new york city where i live. And directed by clooney and matt damon in it. How do you prepare . Those guys party . When its party night the twinkle in your eye. I have to be the girl here. Your fashion is the most au youre wearing now. Okay. I know again that im going to be the girl here. I like clothes too. What can i say. Freckled face strawberry kids book. Its about how you speak. Julianne moore one of the greatest. Thanks for hanging with us. Thank you for being so nice those blue days of life. Up next, guess who is coming to breakfast . Well reveal the surprise celebrity who showed up at billys house. My house. For some of his dads favorite pancakes. 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Thats a perfect pancake right there. Thats so far the lead pancake. Have a seat. Enjoy. Being 18, does it feel im going to crush all of the pancakes if you keep putting them on the plate. I would think its hard to process whats happened in the last few years. You went from sixsecond vines to sold out Madison Square garden in less than five minutes. You cant really fathom it. There are no words to make people understand what it feels like. You are growing u fans. Are they allowing you to grow up . Totally. I think thats been the most fun part. From the silly things like my style when i only wore khakis and vans shoes to putting on a Leather Jacket for the first time. This album for you seems to me is like a whole different level. I think a big thing for only is it going to be really different for people but it was different for me. When i went into the studio, i was learning myself as an artist and i was experimenting and i found myself in the studio making the album. Its a whole new world to me. Tell me about the song patience. You said that you have a sore spot for older people who are weird around younger people. I think that its not based its based off your personality. Did you have a mrs. Robinson move . I got to know. Its okay. It was just about who hasnt . Its basically about frustration when people treat you your age. Tell me about john and ed and how those relationships came about. Between managers and friends and stuff we got connected very early in my career. Going to get breakfast or something and my manager text me said this guy named john mair wants your number. I was showing my friends. This is nuts. This isnt real. I tell you what, connected between every sickle successful artist, actor, person, number one all around was how hard they work. Just dont stop. Just do everything. Youre lucky that its happening to you. Opportunity. Shawn, youre a great guy. Thank you. You too. To shawn mendez, our first guest on breakfast with billy. 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I love abbott and costello and of course love movies with great outdoors. This movie is intentionally a love letter to those. What about bob . Great chemistry. Youre very kind. We have great chemistry if you know what i mean. Thats how were rating. One week, one year one second. I would take you for life. Thank you very much. I come with him. One night. You come watch. Youre the one who brought it up. You have to instagram everything. The sound of five voices at once. Beautiful. Theres another movie coming. Youre doing this schwarzenegger in it . Yes. Taran directed the film. You kill him . Were showing why were trying to. Why were killing what does he do . I think we have to go back and reshoot the movie. Billy, what are you doing for the next two weeks . Billy has a whip. Lion tamer in me. More lion. More cowbell. Youre not on snl this year. It breaks my heart. I will miss it. I will miss the incredible crew and cast. Youll never see bobby again. 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