good morning. missing -- a yale university student vanishes just days before her wedding. now her des pratt fiance is helping the fbi with the search. >> whodunit? andy warhoportraits of muhammad ali, dorothy hamill, o.j. simpson disappr from a llecr's ho. a reward is up forgrabs. andonster snake. a stunning find in florida. imagine seeing this in your neighbor's back yard. tus out the giant python is a pet and the owner is fighting to get her back. today, saturday, september 12th, 09. captions paid for by nbc-universal television > and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm amy roch. >> i'm peter alexander sitting in for lester holt. he's taking some well-desved time off. the end of t summer, we said take a weekend. >> good for him andood for us. we'reappy to have you. >> thank you. >> quite day with snakes on e horizon. >> she is 18 feet long, incredibly 400 pounds. she is also a family's pet. her name is delilah. she's been living in the back yard of an orlando, orida, home for years now. apparently she's been known to escape from her cage. that's where the problem begins. coming up, we're going to find out whahappened wn wdlife official showed up at the house. this has been desib as a make-or-break week forresident obama'sealth care reform plan. afr his big address to congress and the controversial response from some critics, the president hitting the road toda trying toain some montum and rally the faithful. we'll get all the latest on the president's next steps. also coming up thi mornin michael jackson' sister ltoya speaking out today about her brother's ath. what she says michael'son prince witnessed the morning his father died. we're also going to hear wha janet jackson has to y as she prepares for a musical tribute to herroth they are weekend at the rad city music hall. all coming up. first, president obama takes his health care message on theoad today th a caaign-style rally. mike hasmore. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. after a summer of raucous tow halls, congressional infighting and sinking poll number, president obama is hopg that after that b wednesday speech the tide h turned on his heth care plan even after some two dozen speeches -- >> the cost of our health re is a teat to our economy. >> reporte -- to halls and rallies since his sumr push for health care reform began, present obama still has ltle to show for it from congress. then came his wednesday address. >> -ould not apply to those who e here illegally. >> you lie! >> reporter: heckled by republicans but well received by decrats, the speech has given e rerm effort new momentum anthe president now loo to keephe pressure on. beginning this morning in his weekly internet address. >> we have had a long and important deba, but now is the time for action. >> reporter: a continuing this afternoon, when the president travels t minnesota to speak before an expected crowd of 20,000 at lly. but ooh opponents are also on offense. minnesota republins will greet the president withhis tv ad. >> mr. president, let's slow down and do health care reform th right way. >> reporter: and also today, ans for a different rally, this one in front of the cato and sponsor by man of the anti-tax activis and obama opponents who led prosts last april and at town halls this summer. >> wait a minute. it a minute. >> reporter: mewhe, the fallout over wednesday's outburst by congressman joe wilson continues. in the wake of thecontroversy, wilson has a new campaign ad. >>ly not be muzzled. >> reporter: and says he's raised more than $750,000 from sympathetic supporters. but democrats say their candidate has raised more than a million dollars, support fueled by outrage over wilson's comment. now party lders say they will move t reprimand wilson. >> stunning to hearuch a statement made. >> repter: demanding a formal apology livered on the floor the u.s. house and threatening to hold a ve of dipproval as ear as mony if wilso refuses. and, amy, one small sign of progressafter strugglg with closed-door negotiations all summer ng, democrats inhe senate say they are going to mo forward nt week or without republicans. amy? >> mike vick kara, tnks so much. politico'sike allen joinss fr washington. >>ood morning. >> we' seen the president speak to congss. he is taking his message t minnpolis to the masses to begin. what can we expt from the president in terms of sty and substance? >> ll, this is going to be the fired-up ready to go barack obama that we saw on the campaign trail. they have an expssionround the west wing, which is no one ever got rich betting against barack obama and we're starting see why. if you had jt read the words on the page of the president's address to congress yesterday, especially liberals in the house might have said, hey, this is a prettyeek for us, but the was an emotional room that has democrs rking hard. he'll be athe target center in minneapoli later this week, he's goi to continue his health care tour in this area at college park, home the university of maryland terps. >> and speaking to what you just said about this new united feeling among democrats when it comes to hlth care reform, there were very few new tails in the present's plan or in his speech at least given to congress on wednesday. anyetou felt as though this inspiratio cominfrom that speech has helped this united front among democrats. should he have genhis speech earlier? >> ihink that's right. he's acknowledgeheet congress work on it too long. his idea was to not overshadow them, not make them feel pusd into it. but,amy, if you've ever done a barbecue with 5 people trying to flip the burger, that's kind of what was going on. so, he's takin control now here. we're going to see him very involved in the weeksahead. amy, we' going to see the president with a new message today that's very important. he'soing to talk about how anybody can be uninsured. in vic's report, w saw a clip from the president's internet address. he says there, we always think about the uninsured as someone else, but the administration is armed with a n study saying that half of people, 48% of people over ten years will face beg uninsured. th's so iortant because a vast mority of americans, senior citizens, middle ass, people who like their verage, felt that they only had somethingo lose under health reform, that they only had risk to the downside. so, he's going to convince them that health reform can hel them, as well. one of the big issues, and this was part of the outburst we saw on wedneay night, i this notion of iegal immrants and whetheor not thewould be a part of this plan. the white house now says that proof of citizenship would be required before someone could be a part of this new health care reform package. for all the flak that representative joe wilson got r speaking out or at least that outburst saying you'r a liar on wednesday, did this actually force the white house to address the issue in a way it may t ha before? >> well, there may be more clear language about that question, amy, but congressman lson's outburst was unquestionably unhelpful to republicans and helpful to decrats. again and again, leaders told me this wk that that was a key ctor in that unification, galvanization of democrats that you were talking about earlier. there's going to be a little drama next week also. congressman wilson i bng to, caus this happened o the floor of the house, because it was clearly against house rules, there's very specific rules about what y canay to or about the president, he has a choice. he'soing to apologize on the house floor o house democtic leaders are going t ceut with resolution of disapproval. so, you can see both sides are out raising money on it, but this was very bad for republicans, and it gave democrats the sort of glue tt they needed. >> mike, if weee a first draft of this bill next week, how long before it could take to actually get passed? >> things are going pretty quicy. thiss a little bit like an nba game. 's fine to tune iin the last two minutes. you'll see exactly what's going to happen. tuesdaye'll see the finance commtee bill. th's probably the base bill that's going to go ead. we saw this week vice president biden saying he'd like to see a final bill passed, the president signing it by thanksgiving. that's a little ambitious, so maybe early december. but the white house figuresf you tl congress christmas, like they'll be doing it chstmas eve. so, the ideaf saying thanksving is to have some deadline out therend push them ahead. addion hat question about the illegal migrants, we're also in the next 48 hours going to see a little naing do of language tt would lit the payment for artions under this. so all the movement is in a directn that will hp conservatives. the white house docrats maximizing the chance th they'll get a replin or t to help push this ahead. >> me aln, thaso much. >> hpy weekend, amy. >> same to you. fridaorning as the nation rembered the terror attacks of september 11th, what was intended as a routineecurity excise instead turned into an hourong scare. nbc'pete williams has more on exactly what happened. >> reporter: for the crews of the u.s. coast guard's fast patrol boats it was a normal day, a routine training drill like this one on t potomac river between two whington bridges and not far from the peagon andationalairport. par of the drill, a coast guardsman said on an open marine channel that a suspicious boat refused anrder to stop. bang, bang, bang said one of the exercise participants. >> there is other news that we need to get out t you, in fact, eaking news right now. >> reporte a few minutes later, cnn, hearing the radio ll and seeincoast guard boats maneuvering repord that shots ha in fact, been fired. >> this is pretty incredible i have to say, as the story is developi here. and i learned that rounds had acally been fired. >> reporter: based strictly on the news reports, the fbi scrale a response team, and nearby nional airport stopped altakeoffs for nearly half an hour, delaying 17 flights. but there waso suspicious boat on the river, no shots were ever fired. it was all a drill. the coast guard said it owedo apology. >> we're charged with seven by 24, 365, all y, every day, all weather security and safety on the maritime interests in the national capital region. train every day. >> but homeland serity secretary janet napolitano, who oversees the coast guard, ordered a colete review and the cot guard sd it wod look into conducting such a visible training mission while president obama was traveling back andorth across the river on t day of the 9/11 anniversary. >> this is very instructive for us, and we're going to back through this. we're going to review ourwn protocols,ur ownprocedures. >> reporter: but the white house spokesman said the reporting made matters worse. >> i do wish that some of the people that reported that incident might have taken little bit of time to check and see whether what they were reporting was accurate. reporter: cnn sayst wou have been irresponsib not to report what it saw and heard. bu the whole episode shows that eight years after the 9/11 attacks this is still a city on edge. for "today, "pete williams,bc news, washington. >> certainly put a lot of people on edge yesterday. 11 mines past the hour. me for the rest of this morning's headlines. >> norah o'donnell is at the news desk. >> good morning, amy, peter, good morning, everyone. a multimillion-dollar art heist that sounds like a scene out of a hollywood movie. police in californiaay a collection of andy warhol portraitwere stolen from the ho of a prominent l.a. businessman. a housekeeper at t home, richard weiseman, walked into the dining roomnd noticed several warhol pieces were missing. portraits ofuhammad ali, o.j. simpson, pele,hris everett were among the missing. a $1 million reward is being offered for informatio leading to the return of those paintings. e fbi is still searching for missing yale grad stude who is supposed to get married this morning. annie le, the 24-year-old medical student, was last seen tuesy at a yale lab about a mile from the main campus the university is now offering a 0,000 reward. in michigan,n anti-abortion activist was shot and killed in front o high school o friday. police say the accused shooter confesd another kling and had plans to kill a third. nbc's john yang has more. >> reporter: students from high school were arriving for class when jes pouillon, a well-known anti-abtion activistwas gunned down from a ssing vehicl >> my son actually seen him laying there, and he's kind of emotional about that. >> reporter: witnesses reported thvehicle's license number and police traced i to 33-year-old rlan drake. as they questionedhim, drake made a startling statement about another killing that had taken place. >> at the time of his arrest, the suspect made statements th heas involved in another homicide in sawassee county the same day. >> the second victim was michael fuo fuoss. prosecutors say dra wanted to kill a thirderson but they caught him before he could carry it out. drake was arraigned and charged with two counts of premeditated murd, one count of felony possession of a firearm and carrying a weapon with unlawful intent. he had grues against all three targets but none were ifically related to anti- or pro-aborti beliefs. now the students who witnessed the killing in the cmunity who knew these men are lef wondering why. for "tay," john yang, nbc news, michigan. a north dakota hospital is reviewing policies and security ocedur thisorning after a mother was sent home with the wrong baby. staff mbers at mercy medical cent realized the mixp after an hour and the mother w quickly reunited with her own newborn baby. >> all ght. the space shuttle has finally uched down in california. "discovery" landed friday night after diverting to edwds air force base bause o some stormy weather in florid the landi caps its two-week mission to the intnational space station where astronauts devered supplies and some other uipment. finally, put iin the books. team captain dereketer broke lou hrig's record of most hits atankee stadium with 2,722 hits. jeter's single came in the third inning against the baltimore orioles. as soon jeter goto first base, the whole tm ran out to congralate him. gehrig's record was held for more tn 70 years. that's ne. now back to amy, peter, and bill. of course the yankees eed up losing the ge. >> but the story is the jeter story. >> whe's everyone's pinstripes? i'm wearing mine. >> oh, well. >> not yankees folks up here. >> noh, thank you. tly put. >> got to lay it out will there. cubs fan. bi carinas a look at the forecast. summer to fall prey quick in new york. >> and soggy, too. is really t. from the ntheast with the showers especially down in xas tt'ha where we' seeing the rst of thet' weather, we ha flo watches ictn ef omklahom throu tex cluding the neorleansarea. we're getting a drencng today th's going to continue as we go throughout this weekend. e good news, that's where worst drought is, espec especia ñ1ñ1ñ1ñ1ñ1ñ1 good saturday morning. meat meet chuck bell. it is a cloudy day here in the washington area to get your weekend started. here is your check of radar. mostly light rains across portions of pennsylvania. there is an opportunity for a few light passing showers today. but on the whole, most of today and tomorrow will be dry. right now it is 64 in washington. 61 degrees in prince william county, virginia. mostly cloudy. scattering of showers today. primarily to the north of washington. nice today, mid 70s. that's a look at your weekend forecast. amy? bill, thank you. it has been one yearince galvesto texas, took a dect hit from hurricane ike. it was t third most destructive hurricane to ever make landfall in the united states causing more than 100 dehs aearly $13 billion in damage. and for galveston, it's been a tough year of trying to get back to normal. c's janet chambleeian has a progress report. >> reporter: when hurricane ike stormed ston a year ago today, tore up the town but couldn't break its spirit. >> right now it feels like it's about five year it just seems like it's been forer recover. >> reporr: if anyone had reason to give up, it wa m. photograph by "thhouston chro aclni outside his restaurant after the storm surge turned it int a filthy pool. and this wee in the same spot, his business born anew. >> it's coming back, and i'm convinced it's going to be betterhan it was. >> repter: a philosophy shared by joe and kathleen dinky. they returned find their home in pies. asheyold al roker shortly afte the hurricane hit. >> it's going to takene shovel at a time. most people in this situation alize that you can't do it by yourself. no man isn island. >> reporter: the couple has spen almt every day of the past 12 months turning a house back into a home. >> there a lot of hills and valleys throughout life, and yove got toovercomehese things. >>eporter: ad all the rebuilding and lives started over, the other storyf the storm is those who aren' coming back. myome estimates thesland has lost an es mated 20% of its polation. the island's bigstempler, the university of texas medical branch, laid off a third of its staff after the storm. the who didn't move away for a job left out of fear. >> part of the reaso for me is i can't go through it again. i coul never put my heart into a home and s it destroyed like that again. >> rorter: imas like these from the nearby peninsula are hard to shake. >> it gone. it's all gone. >> reporter: damage was catastrophic here the landscape is desolate. and two dozen people who defied orders to evacuate are still missg. but what galveston's knownfor, the beaches, are back. a cocktail of crowds and construction mixed with a splash hopehat this season won't be a mean one. for"today," nbc news, galveston. d nownce aga here's pete amy, thank you. want to live nt door to president obama? theris apparently no room on pennlvania avenue, but the obama family's chicago neighbors ar putng their house on t market. wh's it worth to live next door to the first family? bc g a lk insi. >> reporter: the thing about the white use is no neighbors. t what about the oba's other house in chicago? >> this is the safest place in the western worldo livehen you think about it. it's wonderful. >> reporter: stil obama next-door ighbor bill grimshaw and s wife jackie, are putting eir uniquely situated home up for sale. >> kids are out of the nest. it costs a lot to maintain a place like this. and then there's the third factor, you mig call the obama factor. this place all of a sudden has increased in value. >> reporter: talk abouthe ultimate gated community. >> it's a historic msion district, and it kind of surrounded by a million-plus dollar homes on large lots, so it's a secluded ar. but with the secret service protection outside now, i think it's the best ptection the united states governnt can buy. >> reporter:o probably no open houseso start at this house that sits ten feet from the president's. the cret service wouldn't like that. in fact, they didn't like the fa that the sellers let us bring a cameraover. so, out ofespect for his security, we agreedo blur the neighbor, mr. obama's house. so, how much for this 6,0-square-foot, 17-room home? we, that's up to all you potential buyers. yes, the reaor and owner are looking for you to praisthe, quote, obama factor. that is, what's it worth or not worth to live next to the most powerful m in america? >> we used to meet each othern the back rch. he'd be sneaking a cigarette. michelle won't let him smoke in the house. >> when he comes, we have to go through body-sniffing dogs. so, it's an advantage not having -- not having him here just because the security increase you know, tenfold wh he's around. but no, i mean, it's challenging. and it really dispts the neighborhood. >> reporter:he grimshaws say the obamas told the they would move back home after the pridency. unl then, thnew ownerould have bragging rhts and aery quiet ighbor. for "toy," diana olic, cnbc. fixer-uppe $300,000, live next to the amas, priceless.cl > e nation marked the eighth anniversary of the september 11th attacks friday in a n way making 9/11 a nationa day of rvice. nbc's kevin tibbles has the story. >> repter: on a damp, somber morning, 100 rays of hope. >> these guys are t best guys that ever happened tohis school. >> reporter: "these ys" are members of the 100 black men organization. did you do your homork last night? >> reporter: volunteering to mentor boys, some of who may not have a dad at atlanta's best academy. >> i do ts every day becau it's needed every day. we have toake sure it's straight. >> reporter: helping a boy become a man also means teaching him how to dress for success. >> everybody good? >> reporter: it was a day of hustle at the the greater chicago foo depository. volunteers gathered by the dozens filli boxes of food. >> we're here to be of service. >> i think we need to remember that we're a united states of america. >> i wish i could fill mor than put a can in a box. >> you're doing what you can do. >> i'm doing what i can do. >> reporter: this facility feeds a half millionhicagoan every year. their messa -- every d is a good day to volunteer. in los angeles, volunteering to rengthen community and self. >> taking an hour or two from your life, is not going to kill you. it's going to help you, actuly. reporter: they are membe of rls, inc., an organization that encourages young women to succeed. the first national day of service was spent touching up, cleaning up, and sprucingp their school. >> it's a d we could start looking ats a day of rebirth and renewal. >> reporter: on the anniversary of that awful day, people giving of themselves in difrent ways with common goal. ♪ we can make the world a better pla for everyone ♪ >> reporter: for "today," kevin tibbles, nbc ws, chicago. d still to come on "today," all 7:26. will we finally see the sun again? good morning, everyone. i'm eun yang. saturday, september 12, 2009. in the news this morning, exptet big delays this eeke wnd on w metro. track maintenance wilhave trnseail glin tracking between the medical center and grover in station on the red line, east falls church and ballston on the orange line. and between greenbeltgl and colle college park. the maintenance is scheduled through tomorrow night. new details this morning surrounding the murder of a pizza shop owner in the district. it turns out that a d.c. police detective found dead of an apparent suicide is being linked to that case. police found the body of detective terrence green at his mother's home thursday night in forestvill maryland. sources tell news4 green was recently questioned in response to allegations that he had given help to murder suspect robinson. robinson is charged in the death of ranna. he owned the pizza mart where the authorities found him dead last month. no charges have been filed against detective green. we will take a break. chuck bell will have your forecast in just a moment. a check on weekend forecast with meteorologist chuck bell in storm center 4. chuck, we want sunshine. >> absolutely, we do. we will get sunshine. tomorrow. might get a little bit of sun might out there today. on the whole, today is going to feature a lot more clouds than sunshine. there is a look from our city camera now. plenty of cloud cover to get to our weekend started. not much in the way of rainfall around the area just yet. there are showers across portions of central pennsylvania and some of those may very well sneak down into northern maryland and northern metro area here during the course of the day. can't completely rule out the rain. most of today will be dry. 64 here in town now. 63 in fairfax county. 62 at andrews air force base. highs will stay in the mid 70s with clouds. 30% chance of rain today. it is not going to be a washout. bright and sunny and considerably warmer tomorrow with a high back up into the 80s. tomorrow will definitely be the better of your weather day this weekend. >> we are looking forward to it. thanks so much, chuck. coming up this morning, a full hour of your news, weather and sports. good surday morning. wee back on this saturday morning, the 12th of september, 2009. you can see some oaf our friends on the plaza. wet morning. apprecte them coming out. hi, guys. hoare you? i'm peter alexander filling in fo lesteholt alongside my friend amyrobach. nice toee you. coming up this half hour, miael jackson's sisters are going topeak out. >> that's right. janet jackson is opening up about g brother micel on the eve of her highly anticipated musical tribute, b it's sister la toya who is revealing new details today about what happened in michael jackson's home the day he died and what did michael's oldest n, incewitness. we'rgoing to ve the answer cong up in just a few minutes. also coming up this morning, a frightening story. the search for a missing yale university udent, annie le. fbi agents are heading back into the research lab wherelast seen. last seen. coming up we're goi to tell you what's being done to find her this, the day before she was supposed to be getting married. and later, it's8 feet long, 400 pounds, a here's the really i think interesting factoid, nearly 30 inches arnd. we're going to meet delilah, t t python, who is slithering in a florida back ya. yikes. >> wait till yeawhat she eats for breakfast. first, the latest on the battle for swine flu. it's hitng early, and along wi seasonal flu it's affecting people already in all 5 states. there is news today about the new swine flu vaccinehat is still undergoing tes. nbc's chi science corresndent robert bazell has those details. >> yes, i am ready. >>eporr: health officials ar encouraged by the experimental results showing that healthy adults will need only a single dose of the sne flu vaccine whenttarts to be ailabl next month. >> it now appears that most of the fks have a robust immune response in eight to ten days fr the date of the first vaccine. >> reporter: but many people will get swine flu before ther is any vaccine. after the virus first appeared in late april, visits to doctors and hospitals forlu increased suarply, the mm er summer but in recent weeks, the mber have climbed srply again with no end in sight. th americanollege health association reports that 72% of colleges and univeities it surveys acrosshe country reported flu ces in the week ending september 4th. >> 98% of the vires thaare circuling rightow are this new h1n1. the levels of flu activity that we're seeing right now in september are extremely unusual for this time of year. we have u activity occurring in all 50 states and t district of columbia. >> all right. ready? >> ready. reporter: experts say the new swine flu vaccine shod be safe. a 1976 vaccinaon campaign against a different swine flu threat caused an increase in a rare paralytic condition called guioneret syndrome. >> we'll be moniting it very very carefully. this is eremely important, and of course we're very mindful of the experience in 1976 and the importance of being able to assure the publi about the safety of vaccine use. >> reporte a new monoring system will cck electronic medical records of many hospitals and insurance plans for the first signs of any side effects of the vacce. for "today," robert bazell, nbc news, new york >> dr. anony fauci is director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. good morni. thks for joining . >> good moing. >> esstially what's going on right now is there's a race between the vaccine and the virus to see which one gets here first. "the new york times" this morning is reporng that even though this vaccine is apparely working much better than pected, there is some concern at it won'te able to dull this pandemic, that the peak could come as early as next month, earlier than some people expected do you think we'll be ready in time for at? and whais your pmary concern right now >> well, we already know that there are some places in the countr where the are oureaks, particularly in schools and incolleges, as wee heard. so, if you loo at the map of th united ates, they're going to be places that will peak, unfortunately, before most of the people who cld use and needhe virus -- excuse me -- the vaccine will get it. but we're hopingha for most of theeople that, as this virus spreads tough the country, that we will be able to t vaccine to a pretty good proportion o the people that uld hp them bore they get exposed. so, the model that you were mentioning indicates that the viruis here a wreeeing the outbaks in scol. that's unfortunate. can't do much about that right now except make sure we take good care of the people who get infected and use other nonvaccine ways to prevent the read of infection. but the vacne will be available, as you mentioned, in tober, and we hope to get that out as quickly as ssible. >>friday's cdc report just out yesterday said the flu activity is aeady widespread in 11 ates, in the southeast, oklahoma, arizona i think. but one ofhe big headlines is now most people wl only need one vaccine shot as opposed to two. how significant is that? and does it mean that more people will beble toet it? >> well, that's very good news. we announced that yesterday here in washington. and what it really means is that when we started making the vaccine, we were unclear, it was unclear whether it would even be able to induce a protective immu response and wther or not we would have the ability to give it in one shot as opposed to two, which would really grtlydecrease the supply of vaccine. so, the news yesterday is that not only does it induce a good response tt's prectiut also it could be done very quickly after a single dose of the vaccine as opposedo two or more doses, which means two things. it'll have a good, positiv impact on supply. we'll have more doses available. and ao, once you get vaccinated, fro the time of vaccination to the time you're protected is a very short period of time, eight to ten days as opposed to several week which is usually the case. >> so, doctor, who do you recommend gets the swine flu vaccine? who's most susceptible? and does that mean that they do or do not need also to get the seasonal flu vaccine? >> they're two separate vaccines and people who needt should get both. so, let me tell you the five rget groups that we're trying to make sure get the pandemic or swine flvaccine. firsof all, it's pregnant wome and then it's children 6 months of age to 24 years old. there are theeopl who take care of childreness than 6 months old, health care workers and people who have underlying conditions that would makehem for susceptible to the complicatis. with regard to the seasonal flu, it's very important for elderly indivials continue as they do each year to get the seasonal flu vaccine, because with the seasonal flu,lderly individuals are much more suscepble to colication in fact, 92% of the 36,000 deaths that we see regularly each year with seasonal flu are among elderly individuals. >> and dr. uci, finally, i know safety is always a big concern en i comes to vaines. you've been part of the trials for this. arehere any concerns about side effects withhe swinelu vaccine? >> well, what we'reeeing is the standard thing you see whenever you stick a needle into somebody's arm, a little pain and swelling. but there have been no adverse effects that we've seen. thus far, things look quite good as we see eac year with seasonal flu vaccine. it's acting very much like seasonal flu vaccine, which has a very good safety recor >> dr. anthony fauci,e appreciate you spending time with us. >> good to be here. let's g a check ofhe weather from n meteorologist bi karins o on the plaza. good morning. >> good morning. finally stopped raining. great crowd behind me. here's a si, 15 years and h still les you. urs also says 1 years. congratulations. anniversary, right? >> yes. >> is your brain on? this is a loaded estion. what was the best year? >> thisyear. >> this year excellent. >> every year. >> we tried. les taltta ait butbo the wet weather and the weutiness on this saturday. have aot of it all through the gulf. we'r talking from tampa northward up throu appalachia, florida, pana city, new leans, across the north, beaumo, rt arthur, chance of rain in so many areas today. unrtunately,hat's where the wet weather is going to be. the great weather is out west. still feels like summer i in soó good saturday morning. meteorologist chuck bell. outside of our window this morning, yes, indeed. look at all those clouds around. there are one or two slifrs of sunshine trying to get through those clouds right now. but on the whole it is going to be a partly to mostly cloudy day today. couple of light rain showers. mainly across southern pennsylvania right now. there will be a slight chance for a few showers around town today. but most of us are going to stay dry for most of the saturday. 64 in washington. highs today in mid 70s with a 30% chance of rain. all right. i've been waiting all year for this. it is time for nbc "sunday night football" in america. we are heading, of course, t urirstgame. green bay ckers. aaron rodgers, chicago bears, new quarterback, jay cutler this should be a gat game and we should have great football weather. temperatures in the upper 60s. a game not to miss. pete i know you'll be watching. back inside. >> just need that music to follow you around today. bill, thank you very much. still to come, jet a la toya jackson speaking out. i felt this deep lingering pain that was a complete mystery to me. my doctor agnosed it as bromyalgia muscle pain and then he recommended lyrica. fibryalgia is thought to be the result of over-active ners that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is fda-approved to help relieve the unique pain of fibromyalgia. and withess pain, i can do more during my day. how sweet is that? 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(announcer) splenda® with fir. w that their brother has been laid to rest, michael jackson's sisrs are opening up about his death a celebrating his li. nbc's courtney haze let has more. >> reporter: michael jackson's lifend death all in the plic eye. and while his brothers are talking to the press, his sisters are now taking their turn. older sister la toya speaking out about her brher's death, tellin"acces hollywood's" tony potts that michael' son prince witnessed resuscitaon by michael's doctor, conrad murray. >> did he bring prince into the room? >> yes, he did. yes, he did. as he was trying toresuscitate mnowing michael was no longer there. you n't do this. you don't scar a child tt way. you don't do that. that was totally uncalled for. my concern is just therere so many littlehings that took ple at shouldn't have. it makes youwonder. >> reporter: dr. murray maintains his innocence, and the criminal investigation into jackson's ath coinues. la toya ao told "20/20" when michael's daughter paris made r moving remarks a the public memori in jul -- >> pas, ion't thinkhe worldknows, has sh a love for her father. >> and paris wanted to speak. >> s, she did. >> at that memorial. >> yes. she absolutely did. she wanted so badly to say sothing to her fath. >> daddy has been the best father youould ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love m so mh. >> and though burie in privat la toya dcribes how michael walaid to rest. >> he was dressed in all whi pearls, bead going ross, aped across, beautul big, gold lt, like a belt that you n being a boxer. >> reporter: meanwhile, baby sister janet is sharing her raw emotions about her brother monopoly in the latest edition of "harper's bazaar," janet focuses not on michael's death but, instead, on hisife. and on sunday, janet will open the video music awardsith a sical tribute to her late brother. nbc news. jool toure is an nbc news contributor and haret cole is the etor of "ony" magazine. goodorning tboth oyou. >> good mornin >>s we just heard, la toya is bringing up questions about what really happened to her other, michl. she told barba walters -- whdo you think la toya is coming out now and with these types of claims? i don't know. we always have to take whala toya says perhaps wh a grain of salt. she's the outer of group, has ng been that, and sometimes she's had somewhat,let's say, extrain youls motives for comin forward andringing the attention to her. the idea of a conspiracy to kill michael, it doesn't was with me, especiall at the moment when he's about to do 50 concerts andhe biggest money-making moment of his last severalears. so, you're going to kill him, why then? perhs mae -- even if it was aear or two earlier or a year or two later i'd believe it better, but we'reight on the p of making $2 million, $50 million. why now? >> and la toya also gave us a glimpse of what michael jackson's fe was perhaps like in the few months leadi up to his death. was ther a rl effort by jackson's family to intervene, to try and help him, given his mental sta? >> there are many repor that ve said at. i haven't spoke on the fily to tell me specifically, but we have heard this. i did speak to ramon bay, his manager up until october of last year, and sheaid that many people who were pt of his inner circle were pushed away in the last months of his life. >> they keptis family away from him. >> no, not just family, but he, he, michael jackson, let go of a lot of people who had been part of hisnner circle late last year. so, i think it's interesting. i want to go back to this thing that la toya said, though, for a second. whether it's true, conspicy, that's not so much the issue to me it is when someone dies tragically in your family, you're always pointing t finger this way. it has to be someby else's responsibility. i think that the jackson famy wi probably spend the rest of thei lives lookin i mean, we've heard that it was a homicide. you know, this is what the coroner said. but they're still loing. but who's responsible? and how many people are reonsible? 's the right question. she's asking it in one way. i'm sure every family membe is asking it in one way or another beuse thas what people do. >> right. >> that's what they do. >> in grief. >> it has to beomebody se's fault. >> toure, speaking of the family and the dynamics of this family, there has always been histically tension among the group. has michael jackson's death changed that? have ty beenrought closer together? you mention la toya being the outlier. >> one thing is atime you he a big famy there going to be nsion. don't know any famil with six, seven, eight, nine brothers that -- >> or even one brother. >> yeah. a big group. an anytime there's a lot of monein a family there's going to be nsion a division. you put those two things together, of course there's going to be strife and problems. this is not jackson thing so much as just a human nature sort ofthing. has it brought them together? i imagine it has. i haven't talked to the jacksons either so i don't know exactly real details o that. but i imagine it's got to bring them together. >>ut they'realking. >> right. yeah. >> they were all together and, you know, just around hiseath for quite a bit of time,alking and trying toork outhe memorial. remeer, we heard details of hodiffict it was work through that. i think what's interesting now is the family membersre now ving voice to their thoughts and feelings. and because they ar a pli family, we'rlearning about what they're feeling, how they're grieving peop grieve in different ways. >> true. >> la toya is angry and upset, pointing her finger. janet is trying to make sure that the legacy of michael jackson goals on. i think that she's briin dancers from the tour with her to the vma so that his vision through these young people will live on. so, every family member's probably furing out how to deal wit it. >> that's really important because we've seen several memorials to michael now and none have rlly focused on the dance aspect. >> huge. >> this is a guy -- fred astaire respecd him a a dancer. where is the dancing? know when i watchb.e.t. i'm like where i the dance aspect? >> they're coming. >> mtv is bringing michael's dancers from his tour to perform. that's goingo be excited and righteous. >> a he had all these young people part of t tour. weot a glimpse of that, but michael jackson s always brinngther people along. we geto see what does that mean. >> righ harriet cole and toure, thanks forharing your thoughts and ghinsits. cainghts. catch more of access hollywd's inteiew with la toya jackson on monday. would like it.ou (announc) it's more than just that great peanut taste, chosing jif is a simple way to show someo how mu you care. love you mom. i ve you t. choosey moms, choose jif. the reason that i pied alli was because its approved by the fdait was safe. it will ock 25of the fat that you eat and keep it from being absorbed. that's got to be better for you than something that is absoed into the system. alli is not only just a pill but it is a tal program. 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chuck bell will have the answers after the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. saturday, september 12, 2009. in the news this morning, thousands anth of people are expected to descend on d.c. today to protest excessive federal spending. a march from ppleo plaza to the capitol steps is scheduled to begin at 11:30 this morning. it ibeinplg organized by freedom works, conservative group that opposes what it calls a tax and spend agenda on capitol hill. starting at 9:00 a.m. a numbe wdropeakers addressing the at freedom plaza including leaders of the tea party veme a group calling itself billionaires for wealth care is planning a counterprotest at the capitol as well. it is a go for the white market.armer's market. ma tomile ochlo c to close the streets. the block will be shut down to traffic on thursdays between 1:00 and 8:00 p.m. market organizers say 18 local farmers and venders will sell their products. people will be able to buy milk, go re t angkeaktare br baked oi we areoing treta a break and chngk ur forecas when we come back. stay with us. time to check the weekend forecast with meat meet chuck bell. good morning, chuck. >> good morning. it is certainly a cloudy day outside. but not all that rainy at this point in time. there will be a slight chance for a few passing showers later today. but by and large, most of your saturday for outdoor activities will be useful. driving northbound into pennsylvania for the penn state game, cloudy skies. chance of some much better chance of showers up in pennsylvania today. for around here, about a 30% chance. temperatures now in the low to mid 60s across the metropolitan area. mostly cloudy and scattered shower or two today. by and large most of the showers will stay north of the d.c. area. up into northern maryland and southern pennsylvania. highs today low to mid 70s. tomorrow mostly sunny and much nicer. quite a bit warmer as well. highs tomorrow upper 70s to low and mid 80s. that will be very nice. actually a little bit on the warm and sunny side as we head towards monday with a high near 85. eun, nice weekend on the whole. >> thanks good morning. where is she? a yale student enters a campus builng and vanishes. now on the eve of her wdinging day a desperate seah for clues. stunning snak wildlife officials round up a giant from a florida man's back yard. it tur out she's a pe and now her owners fighting to get her back. and coming of age. britain's prince harry getting older and a lot richer. now royal watchers esking what will one ofhe world's most eligible bachelors do with his new mlion today's saturday, ptember 12th, 2009. and welcome back to "tod." i'm amy robach. >> i'm peter alexander sitting in todor lesr holt. big shoes to fill, wch i know because i'm using his office and he left them in thecloset. >> nice to have you here, peter. >> appreciate it. >> as always. imagine, though, if u were looking into yr neighbor's back yard and you saw this -- an 18-foot, 400-pound pet. animal control was kouled in. th called it a monster, the biggest snake they say they've rounded upn years. and of course that's not all there is to it. we'll bring you all the details in jt a few minutes, including at the snake likes to eat. >> may ruin your appetite. plus, if you we hooked by "the davinci code" and tantalized by "angels and demons," dan browne's next blockbte com out in just a few days. what ist abo dan browne stories th kaptd v so many us? wel go inside the suspse, the dark conspiracies, a those thrills. begin with the search for annie le, a medical stude a yale university o wa supposed to get married tomorrow. nbc's jeff rossens on yale's campus in new ven, connecticut. go morning. >> reporter: so birre. amy, good morning t you. you sai it, this wa suppod to be the big wedding weekend but still no sign of the bride, annie le, who's a graduate student here at yale university. just to give you an idea of how big a mystery thisas beme, there are now more than 10 law enforcement agents between the fbi and police officers working this case. but here ware still four days in since she disappeared, and as the new york "daily ns" put it today, policere still clueless about what happened here. fb ants were back at yale university friday, heading into the research lab wre annie l was last seen. th's her walking in on tuesday at 100 a.m. this surveillance photo is the last image tak ofer with her cell phone, purse, credit cards and cash still sitting i her office, this 24-year-old medical student simply assemblynished. >> we're going to ineasehe security some, but there's always been very goodecurity in this building. >> reporter: after months of plning, ann was set to get married this weekend with a reception to followere on lon isla, new york. friends say she was excited. it's allhe could talk about. but annie disappeared just days before the ceremo. the couple's registry still online. police have interviewed her fiance, jonathan wa dawe dow ski, but don't believe he's involved in r disappearance. in fact, wa dawe ski has joined the investigation. >> somebody could disappear in the middle of the day. very unseting. ey s whave a lot of security and evything, buto we really feel secure? >> reporter: police are n going through blueprints of the resech lab to check ery ok they're also analyzing h computer and e-mai accounts. on campus, it'secome a high-stakes guessing game. >> a lot of tngs are up in the r. some pple like to, you know, go the happier route that, you know, maybe it was cold feet for a wedding andome people are mo cynical, but you d't know. you just d't know. >> reporter: but even the optimists feared the worse when they saw this - the fbi on scene so early into the case sifting through schl trash and questioning student students. as each day passesthe mystery grows. >> everyone is working togethe collaboratively, yale uon police, everyon working together to resve this as quickly as possible. >> reporter: as more and more time goes by, you talk around the yale university campus, you n sense students are getting mo and more nervous. can't blame them. yale university now offering a $10,000 reward fny information leading to annie le. amy? >> jeff rossen, thank you. clint van zandt is a former fbi ofiler. thanks for being with us. >> hi, amy. good to be with you. >> we have a missing persons case like this one, especially a woman on the eve of her wedding, obviously the police have to take a lot of potential scenarios into mind. what are they looking at in terms of possibilits. you have to look at everything like you say. one is that sothing happened to her inside that building, either an aident or, you know, she was assaulted, and she was plac someplace and she hasn't been found yet. number two is that she left the buildingnd something happened toer outside. she was kidnapped, she was carried away. and of course number three, as she was getting married, worki on her double doctorate. she has more pressure than probably anybody of us could understand, d maybe she's o more runawaybride. she just had to go someplac sit down, compose herself. and if that's the case, amy, is the allenge is how do you ce back now? how do you come back and s i was th runaway bride but everything's okay, let meo back and finish my doctoratend get married? so, one way or the oer's a tremendous challengend a tremendous hunt that's goingon. >> right. and, clint, there are se interesting details aut this because obviously we saw that surveillance video or at least an image of at svlurveillance vide of her walking in. the cplication ofindi surveillance video of h walking out is there was a fire alarm, corct, pulled later in the afternoon? >> yeah. an most investigators don't like coincidences. she goes in at 10:00. supposedly tha was set off by steam in the building, but could someone have done that intentionally or is thatn accident and ehallenge, of urse, amy is that whe everybody in this building, 120,000 square feet o building, left, they all may ha had lab coats on to include herself. so, if you've got hundred of people streaming out of the ilding, heads down in lab colcolt coats, you may not be able to discern if she left ornot. >> annie le left her purse, cash, credit card her cell phone in her lab room. she took her college i.d. to get access to the buildin as a former fbi profer, what does yr gut tell you at this point? >> as an fbi profiler, as a father, a grandfather, everything in me wants this to the runaway bride. but as the days go on d as, of course, the fbi bringing in cadaver dogs and a worst-case enario, though most of her frnds suggested maybe initially she could have gotten cold feet, as this drags on, i think there is the greater potential for something that happened to her. realize there is a parking garage connected to this building that holds a thousd cars. so, it wouldn't have been very hard eitr for her, again, of her own volition or for somebody to have taken her from the building to the parking lot and got her off campus. >> clintan zandt, thanks so much. norah o'donnell at the news desk today. od morning. >> good morning, peter. good morning, am good morning onceagain, everybody. we begin with president obama, who isaking his health care reform message on the road today. nbc's mike viqueira ist the white house with more. good morng, mike. >> reporter: good morning, norah. it's been a raucous summer for that health care reform debate. infighting icongress, sinng poll numbers for president. but aerhat wednesday speech, demoats have taken heart. theyind it to be very encouragg. notwithstanding divisions that still remain within the party on that govnmen option, a public opon, a government-run eity thatould give csumers a plan tohoose from that's run by the government, of course. republicans almost unified in opposition to that. now e question is will the president be able to talk those on the left of his party into going along to get things pasd through congress. meanwhile, the prede keeping the public relationson. s internet address this morninspoke t health care once agai and this afterno he travels to minneapolis, minnesota, where h will address a rally o some 20,000 strong athe target cent center. and then later next week going to nearby college park, maryland, d having a similar ray in favor of health care reform at the university of maryland. meanwhile, in congre, some indications that democrats are coming off the mark. you know that democrats and republicans have been bind closed doors now f weeks, trying to gotiate, trying to ha out some kind of compromise. now democrats say by next week ey're ing to gond move forward with health care reform with republicans orithout them, norah. >> wow. feels like the campaign all over agn. >> repter: absote. >> mike viqueira, thank you so much. aides to congressman joe wilson say he wil decide this weekend whether he will formally apogize on the house floor after heckling the president earlier this week. remember, wilson shouted "you lie" at president obama during speech to a joint session of congress. house lders say they will introduce a resolution of disappval ife doesn't apologize. wilson has already apologize to thpresident, just not on the oor of t house. all right. a new exhibit in new york city is giving people a never-before-seen look inside the us airways plane that landed in the hson river. the photos show seats stripped of flotation devices, a waterlogged tr, ahot in the cockpit at the controls that captain sully sulnberger used to lanthe plane on the hudson back in january. michael jordan was inducted into the bketball hall of fame last night. jordan was teary eyed as he talked auteing cut from his highchool's varty team. d michaeljordan's legendary career, of course, included six championships, five mvps,nd ten scoring titles. coratulations to him. that's thenews. back to amy and peter. >>ll right, rah. thanks. my favorite part of that newscast was how you really just, i don't know, channeled e congressman. you lie! >>ou lie! >> that was great. you lie! >> thanks, nah. nbmeteorologist bill karins, a man whnever li, has a check of your forecast. >> imagine if he got heckled like that, the weather guys. it would be a nitme. this is aemonade stand that has done wonders this summer becaus of these two beautiful girls here, three, i should include, four even downhe road. you guysid a lemonade stand. what did you ? 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>> give us a sense. you got to this house, and flora is known for its pet pythons. around the state it's become a big issue. but when you get there and see this one is 18 feet long, 400 pounds and 30 inches around its waist, if you wi, give us a sense, how does it compare to the pythons you've seen? >> i've been involved with regulating the wildlife here in central florida for the lt 11 years. this is probably the largest snake that i've seen either in prive ownership or at some of our more popular exhibits. >> you called it a goliath, as yodescribe. i mean, whenouhow up, y've seen big snake, buthat happens when you walk up to this thing? what's going through your head? >> first and foremost, the first thing we want to make sures that the caging for t animal is suitable and approprie. and in this instance, tha didn't prove to be the case, which is why we tk the action we took today -- or yesterda >> thesnake's name as i read was, sweetly, delilah. can you give us a sense of what kind of condition delilah was in i heard melvin, the man caring for her, said he fed her sen rabbits yesterday morning, seven rabbs for breaast. what kind of cdition was this snake in? >> acally, the snake was in reallyood condition. it was clearly evident it's been well car for. there weren't any sig of exterior injuries, no signs of mites or other pests for us the principal issues were the lack of suitable caging and also some ofhe admistrative issu that we have to address, permit and recoreeping and things o that nature. >> in florida there have been a lot of issues about pet pythons across the state. a mother and her bfriend were charged withhird down murder after their pet phon got out and stlang led to death a lite 2-year-old girl, shocking and devastating not just to that family but to t community. w do families get away with continuing to keep snakes this size too oen without a rmit, $100 for a permit, without the necessary license, without the microchip? what's your thought on that? >> if you recall, prior to january 2008, these species of snakes were regulated in the sense of a sale transaction, a pet shop sellinghe snake. but ownership, private ownership of these species and t oer five reptiles of concerned species, were n regulated at the ownership lel. so, there were -- there's a number of snakes that ha become pets forumber of years, and onl in january of 2008, when theegulions chand, permitting issues wer requed now and caging relations were installed as wells some o the recordkeeping. some of those owners may still yet not know the regulations have changed for them. >> andieutentbrn, this snake, as we said, weighs 400 pounds. so, how many people doe i take to carry a snake that weighs 400 pounds and put her in a cagend help take her away? >>here we a large number of people needed to manipulate the snake into the cage itself basically, these pythons we one very long muscle. however,nce the an smalln the cage, it takes four men to pick it up and put it in a truck. >> four alt men. you can see them tryinto pull out the measuring tape to see how long delilah was. do you have pets? >> athe moment the only pet in myouse is a hampster. i suspecthe'd be good breakfast if you let the snake near h. appreciate it. 400 pounds. heck of a snake. >> appreciate it. >> still ahead, what prince harry is gting for his birthday. now to a milestone for britais prince harry. he's about to get a littl oer and lot richer. nbc's stephanie gosk is live in london with details for us. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. at remained of princess diana's estate after taxes between her two sons is an estimated $22 million. that money was invested and has increased to $30 mlion today. tuesday, harry inherits his share. so harry i nowonsidered old enough to handle the added respsibility. >> hey, rry! >> reporter: nearly5 years old andhe pubc still can't nail him down. on the cusp of inheriting his half of diana's forte, an estimated $14 million, prince harry seems determined to ditch the party boy persona. >> his popularity has never been better. >> reporter: an image makeover made possible in the military. early last year, harry fough for ten weeks on the front line in afghanistan. this summer he passed the first stage ofn intense helicopter pilot course. by rch,e could gis wings. >> by going into the military, reall proved himself, because not only just thrgh going to afghastan and being on theront line but just in general throwing himself into his military training. >> reporter: there are signs that harry, third in line to the throne, just might be pulliling out from und his big brother's shad. on a trip to new york in may, the young prince looked confident and mature. he was in a way a continue wanls of the princess diana-type image whe he was moreun loving, free, and able to conduct hielf in a appropriate wa >> and because my mother loved this city, it makeshis occaon all the more poignant r me. >> reporter: later ithe week, prince harry spoke to matt lauer about his visit to ground zero. >> very, very moving. rt of cple of hours i spent down there, greato meet all the firefighters as well, and e families, truly inspirationa the way they pulled themselves forward from-in the last few years. >> reporter: as harry's public appearances increase, so does the scrutiny of his private life. the british med have even been accuseof hacking into his cell phone. the latest reports are that harry is getting back togher with his former girlfriend, chelsea davey, but there is little proof, and his min seems to be elseere. >> he's single, 's training to become a helicopter pilot, and he wants to go bk to the front line to serve his country. >> reporter:abloids hoping for splashy headlines will just have to wait. it's unlikely the money will change rrs life in any real the princes are hardly struggling financially. they'll be sensitive about appearances. in tough economic times, it wouldn't send aood message to be throwing money around. i have asthma. and when my sympms-the coughing, whzing, tightness in my chest came back- i knew i had to see my doctor. he told me i had choices in controllemedicis. we chose symbicort. syicort starts to improve my lg function within 15 minutes. th's importt me because i know the two medicines in symbicort are beginning to treat my sptoms and helping me take control of my asthma. anthat makes symbico good choice for me. symbicorwillot reple a rescuenhaler for sudden symptoms. and should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like forterol maincrease the chance of asthma-related death. so, it is not fo people whose asthma is well coroll on other asthma medicines. see your dtor if your thma does not improve or gets worse. i know symbicort won replace a resc inhaler. within 15 minutes symbicort star to improve my lung function and begins to treat my symptoms. that mak symbicort a good choice for me. you have choices. ask yo doctor if symbicort right for you. 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[ sniffs ♪ music and dance ♪ calling you ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up... ♪ ♪ is folgers in youcup 8:26 is your time now. 64 degrees. cloudy skies over the naon's capital. could we get more rain today? chuck bell will tell us after the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. saturday, september 12, 2009. in the news this morning, he heads-up for metro riders morning.ig delays expect big delays this weekend. track maintenance will have trains single tracking between the medical center and grover in station on the red line. between east fallsr church and onbastthlln an oore ge line.or between east falls church and ballston on the green line. maintenance is scheduled through tomorrow night. new details this morning surrounding the murder of a pizza shop owner in the district. it turns out a d.c. police detective found dead in an apparent suicide is being linked to the case. police found the body of detective terrence green in his mother's home thursday night in forestville, maryland. sources tell news4 green was recently questioned in response to allegations that he had given help to murder suspect robinson. robinson is charged in the death of a pizza mart where authorities found him dead last month. no charges have been filed against detective green. we are going to take a break and check your forecast with chuck when we come back. let's get a check of the forecast with meteorologist chuck bell in storm center 4. good morning, chuck. >> good morning once again, miss eun yang. it is indeed a cloudy day outside right now. little bit of sunshine getting through. on the whole, more clouds and sunshine. that will be the rule important most of our saturday. to our sunshine comes back tomorrow and much warmer weather as well. for now it is cloudy a 65 degrees here in washington. 63 in frederick, maryland. highs today will stay mostly in the low to mid 70s with all the clouds around. only a 30% chance of rain day. that's welcomed news. tomorrow the sunshine is back and much warmer weather as well. tomorrow's high 82. back to work and school monday with a high near 85 degrees. it will be cloudy today. it will be a chance for a few passing showers but by and large if you have outdoor plans today you don't need to worry too much. rainfall amounts will not be enough to do any more than cooling the briquettes slightly. as you get ready to cook outside. >> that's what we like to hear. thank you, chuck. coming up on "find today," a full hour of your news, weather and sports at 9:00 a.m. a live report on the planned m.otests downtown d.c. we are back on this saturday, september 12th, 2009. plty of people out her enjoying what srted as wet one inew york. clearing up a little bit now. i'm peter alexander in toy. lester holt has the weekend off. alongside a robach. >> nice to see you. still to come this half hour, we'll lk about help for millions ohome owners who are facing some big increases in their mortgage payments. if your payments are about to change and skyrocket, listen up for some advice that could save you some bigmoney. >> also this rning,e're going to go behind the buzz of that hugely anticipated n book by dan browne 's expected to come out i just a couple of days. of course herote "the davinci code" and "angels and demons." thiz newook is called "the lost symbol," alrea a bestseer. what can you expect? we'll give you a heads-up. as t weather starts to ol, eveone thinks football season. what's football sson without chips and salsa? whether you like it spicy hot or full of exotic flavors, there is great salsa out there and the ip to go with it. tiff unrtune task of tasting the best of the bt of chips and salsa. speaking of football,iki barberoining us as we get ready for "sunday night football." "today" show national correspondent, analyst sunda night. bears an packers, le a ancient rivalry heading into a new season. >> this rivalry goes back as longs football has been played. what'soingo be interesting this year is the lgue has anged a little bit,specially the nfc north when they're playing, used to be a heavy running confence but now they have some big quarterbacks, brett favre r minnesa. >>ay cutler. >> jay cutler, aar roers. the eiting thing about this football season, we're going to have a whole bunch of stories across the nfl and we'll get to cover them alln "ay night football." >> and tony dung will be helping you guys out, ex-coach. >> yes. >> what perspective does he bring? >> whave two new guys in our studio, rodney harrison, super bowl champion, former new england patriot, and coach tony dungy, a wealth o experience dealing with players and also the issues of theeague. we'll get a great cross section of football experience to talk about sunday night. will be fun. >> one of the big headlines is michael vick and what he's going do with the eagles. if you watched him this preseason, he was playing pretty llon re, i'd like to say. >> he looks likee hasn't lost a step. philadelphia was the bt place for him to go beuse if he does well, kee his nose clean, th'll adopt him and he'll be a good asset for that football team. for defenve coordinators to preparfor m, they're wishing he wasn't going into the nfc ea, especially new york giants. play them twice this year. >> a lot of tms wish he wasn't in their division right now. >> exactly. >> tiki barber, thanks we appreciate it. big night tonigh e game. >> tomorrow night. college football on saturday. >> clearly i'm the big sports fan. you keep your day job and i'll ep mine. >> his nht job. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> les get a check of the weather witbc meteorologist bill karins. >>not bad out here. stopped raining out here on the plaza. we have a birthday. this isn't you birthday. who is this >> my sister teresa in lifornia. happy birthday. >> turn 50d. >> today. >> happy birthday. let's tal about everybody else's plans on this saturday. we have a lot of wet weather to dealwith nywh oerwinhe gulf, back throughflorida. that's wre wre seeing the trouble area. some swers left over in new england. won't be as bad as yesterday. tomorrow it will be kind of a washout end. in arkansas, louisiana, areas of east texas.?óóó?ó??ó?óóóóóóóóó good saturday morning. meteorologist chuck bell. it is cloudy outside this morning. it is not raining right now. that's definitely i welcomed news after fairly wet week across the area. 65 in washington this morning. 64 degrees right now in montgomery county, maryland. 64 in fairfax county, virginia. and 63 down in prince george's county, maryland. a nice day today. plenty of clouds around. only a slight chance after few showers today. temperatures in the 70s. sunshine and 82 tomorrow. now, let's amyout. packers, bears. who's going to win? >>packers. >> packers. >> sunday night. rit? >> that's right. >> back inside to you. packers. ♪ would i l to you bill, thank yo this morning on "today's real estate," help for home owners. the mtgage crisis is by no ans over and,n fact, millions who took out so-lled exotic mortgages are now wting for the worst. "today" real estate contributor baara corcoran has important advice. good morning. >> good morning, amy. >> let's talk about exactly what an exotic mortgage is. >> well, it's amade-up name that'secome popular, but what it really includes is any kind of morage that's hard to understand, that has a long label on it, that has a lot of moving parts. but in essence, all these mortgages share one thing in common. they want to give you a very cheap introductory rate, and they want to raise that rat and make sure you don't pay off your mortge ev. that's what's wrong with these mortgages. they're whacked out. >> there are specific areas geogphical speaking tt have some of the biggest problems with me of these exotic mortgages. which areas are we talking snabt. >> any area that had a high run-up in values more than any other state. the leader in the pack was california, where 60% of their product are vy unusual mortgages. peopleigned up for these. the other states that are on the list are ariza, florida, neda, and w jersey. >> and how often do these interest rates get reset? how quickly do they reset? >> well, it dends on what you sign up for, but typically either one year, three years or five years. but the kicker is once they do reset, they contie t reset every single year. and to give you a very go example of how it would affect a typical home owner, if yo had a 0000 mortgage five years ago and you signed up for a 2% teaser rate, which was very rightther right now your mortgage would be moving from $1,100 to $1,0 a month. at's an enormous one-month increase. >>hat is significant. what steps should people take now preemptively before rates reset? >> most people wait till they hear from the ba. the bank only has to give you 25 days' notice to let you know your mortgage isbout to reset. you can't in 25 days shop the market o even renegotie with your bank so you're kind o stuck with your bk against the wall. you have to mo early, 90 days before. start with your first bank. the first sp is your first bank because you avoid closing costs if you can renegotiate there. the last thing isake sure you call in the right peopl at the right bank. peopleell me i can't get my call returned, and the problem is ty're calling the wro people. the only people at the bank who camake the decision are people hee tnt n >> imadepartment. >> i imagine your credit score affects all of this asou're shopping around and trying to get cpetitive rates. >> the credit score affec everybody. the difference between a 650 credit sco and 750 on a $300,000 mortgage gives you a difference of maybe $300 a month each a every month. >> wo we have a viewer e-mail from tammy in foster, rhode island. is is probably a situation a loof pplere facing where their me is valued less than what they owe. >> let me tell you, 1 in 5 home owners iamerica rit now are in amy's situation, and it's a problem because the options are very limited. buwhat amyhould kno and other peopl in that same situation is you canet help from the new program at the feral government. 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>> try the wholly salsa -- well, what i like about these is the touch of lim is really very decate. >> mm-hmm good. >> it's a nice flavor, criy and it has whole grains in it. so, youan have health and ste at the same time. >> lime go with the heat? >> no. tequila helps with the heat. >> didn't brg tt this time >> no. >> okay. next pairing, organic chips. how does the organic fit into all this? does it affecthe flavor? >> no it doesn't affect t flavor. keep in mind, there's a lot of controversy rightow about ornic, whetherr not it's healthier. >> right. >> it's the same nutritionally, but if you are concerned about prervative ls or additives, that's where to go. it's a little more expensive, but it's a nice clean flavor. again, what you want to do for football season is give people a variety. >> true. >> i don'tike just one type of lsa or one type of chips. lepeopleave some fun. >> if you're tryinto lose weight, redud-fa chips but you lose a lite with t flavor. >> you do. again, if you bake your own chips, 100 drees for ten minus. >> ithisno-fat salsa? 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>> good morning. after a very cloudy and mostly rainy week across the area, i'm very optimistic our weather is just on the cusp of big improvements. forecast coming up. we had have those stories plus much, much more when "news4 today" begins in less than two minutes. confusion and panic after reports of gunfire on the potomac river. what really happened that caught nearly everyone off guard. president obama continues his push for health care reform. where he will be today and what he will be doing. in nshe, what will it sh like for your weekend forest ? all the details straight ahead. good morning. welcome to the 9:00 edition of ". >> narrator: "news4 today. ." i'm eun yang. >> after a very cloudy and cool week across the area, our weather is just about ready to start the improving trend we have all waited for. radar shows a couple of light rain showers now across portion of pennsylvania and maybe a few sprinkles into northern virginia. by and large everybody sunday a cloudy sky with dry conditions this morning. 65 downtown. 63 degrees right now in prince george's county. 64 in fairfax and loudoun county, northern virginia. and 64 degrees in frederick and montgomery counties in maryland. dew points remain mostly to mid to upper 50s. and so with the plenty of clouds around and a chance for a few light passing showers today, temperatures will stay in the