her plight drew sympathy from around the world. she's been arrested for murder. we'll have the details "today," she's been arrested for murder. we'll have the details "today," monday, october 25, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and in for meredith, i'm ann curry. >> we're talking about jennifer mee, a young lady we met several times on the show i think back in 2007, she suffered through five straight weeks of hiccupping. now she has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder the latest on that story coming in a little while. and new details on a rare and deadly shark attack that closed three beaches in cafornia over the weekend. a 19-year-old was killed by what experts believe was a great white shark, estimated to be up to 18 feet long. this morning we'll be speaking to the parents and the brother of a promising college junior. prince william and kate middleton step out for a night on the town at a friend's wedding, as talk heats up about their own wedding. let's sta with those tornadoes just south of dallas, texas. jay gray is in rice, texas. >> reporter: obviously no clses here at rice middle school after a tornado ripped through this area yesterday afternoon. take a look at the metal support beams, they used to be a covered walkway, they are pointing towards the ground now. if you push through that and look at the brick wall, there was a teacher inside at the time. she rushed to a closet. she was not injured. you can see the storm actually skipping across interstate 45 yesterday afternoon. very dramatic video of the debris field here, ripping across that highway. it actually toppled an 18 wheeler on to another vehicle. the driver of that vehicle was take on the the hospital. but when you see the inteity, especially in this video, it's hard to imagine that no one was seriously injed in these storms. still a lot of work to do cleaning up in this area of north texas, that will begin with first light. matt? jay gray, thank you very much for your report. the last full week of campaignin just eight days to go until the midterm elections and one of the tightest senate race is in alaska where lisa murkowski is trying to hold on to hereat by running as a write in. nbc's lee cowan is in anchorage with more on this. hey, lee, good morning. >> reporter: this was the candidate's first televised debate and from the sound of it you would think that they were from different parties, but they have in fact both republicans and for the moment anyway, they're running neck and neck. the round table discussion, they looked intimate, but it was knuckle to knuckle with senator lisa murkowski taking it to both her opponents in one breath. scott is not ready to lead, joe is not fit to lead. i have been leading this state. >> reporter: after losing the gop primary to tea party favorite joe miller, murkowski launched her write in bid and has been gaining in the lls. miller on the other hand has allegations that he misused public money for political purpes. also admit that is he violated public policy. >> i did get on the computers >> reporter: reports of orders that his personnel records be released. he quickly turned the tables on murkowski, questioning her financial disclosures. >> would you be willing to subject yourself to the same level of scrutiny that your campai has subjected to me? >> we filed a financial disclosure that laid out everything, everythi that i have. >> reporter: even on the issues, it got nasty, on immigration, murkowski cticized a suggestion miller had made. >> we shouldot be looking to east germany as a model for our security. >> reporter: miller shot back with a history lesson. >> last i checked, east germany was no longer a nation. but mcadams dried to stay above the fray. >> i support don't ask, don't tell. every single time there's been a demographic that's been allowed to ful integrate in the united states military, it's been done with gat success. >> reporter: but he was largely overshadowed by a feud between a write in incumbent and a tea party favorite. now this is not the end of it, the candidates have three more debates, one tonight, one tomorr night and one on wednesday night that makes four debates over the last four days. >> chuck todd is nbc's political director and our white house correspondent. how fluid is that race in alaska? >> reporter: it is fluid, but a lot are glad that lisa murkowski' bid is going so well because judging by how miller's been able to perform on the trail, there are fears that democrats might be able to steal this race and keep it more competitive. lisa murkowski isrobably going to ensure that it stays in democratic hands. a lot of times at this stage of the campaign, we look for the october surprise, something in the news or something in a campaign that turns the right on its ear. the fact that people are saying it's all about jobs and the economy, do you think that it's unlikely that we're going to see some october surprises? >> reporter: not at this point, in individual races, we have seen some prices what happened in california to meg whitman and what happened to her nanny and th maid issue. the kentucky senate race and the controversy over this ad, the aqua buddha ad, that probably turned that race in the direction of the republicans. but overall you're just seeing it in a couple of races, the biggest news is that there isn't news, the landscape that everybody foresaw, being a very republican landscape, you're seeing. >> chuck todd in washington, as always, thank you very much. let's bring in rachel mad dow. let's talk about money now, not what the candidates themselves are directly spending, but money that's going to be into the 527 organizations where they really don't have to disclose where the funding is coming from, how big are they going to be in this election cycle? >> we're sosed to complaining about money and politics and how transparent everything s if an individual wants to donate infit anily to a candidate, instead of that $2,400 ceiling, that person could declare themselves a pac and donate with no limit at all. >> president obama's out there crying foul here, saying show me the money, and michael steele on meet the press on sunday, said wait a minute, are you alleging that there is a crime taking place here? that election laws are being broken? if so, show me your evidence. >> michael steele endorsed the idea of full disclosure in terms of campaign donations. that was brought forward, it was called the disclose act after the supreme court made this all legal. now to have the chairman of the republican party say he supports that disclose act that his party blocked, it sounds like reblicans don't know exactly where they stand on the issue of disclosing. >> it's clear that when this election is over, there's going to be some tea party candidates that are going to be sworn into the senate. you could have joe miller, you could have sharon angle. >> the thing i think is surprising about the tea party candidates, without a national leader in the republican party, post mccain, post bush, without somebody who's the figure head of the party, the tea party is the figure head of th party. thoscandidates, the thing that has surprised me so much is how much they're into social issues, going b going back to hard line issues on abortion, gay rights, hard line positions on the second endment, that's been what's surprising, i think. >> you have got a new documentary on msnbc tonight about the murder of a doctor who provided abortions. >> dr. george tiller was really vilified by the anti-abortion movement because he provided abortions late in pregnancy. he was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist last year and the documentary looks at how the murder happened, what we know about why it happened and i think it's important that it's airing flight because th e there's five senate candidates who are running who want abortion criminalized, including people who become pregnant because of rape or incest. if the fall edge of the movement is -- high level candidates adopting their position, what d we need to know about t far edge of the anti-abortion oirkts campaign. we have natalee filling in for ann over at the news desk. we begin wh the growing crisis in haiti where a deadly disease has killed hundreds of people in haiti. nancy snyderman is in haiti, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalee. i'm in a small town of st. marks. this is considered the rural area of the country side, the epicenter of the cholera epidem epidemic. this is what's concerningublic health officials because they don't want the disease to spread from the country side to port-au-prce. for now the epidemic is concept traited in the rural areas of haiti. the hospitals there are inundated with the ill lying on floors, dehydrated children hooked up to ivs and too weak to move. cholera is caused by ingesting contaminated water or food. cholera hasn't been seen in haiti for 50 years, but now that it's here, officials are concerned that people in the country side will come to port-au-prince and that's going to make things worse. people are dying, says this woman, people know they're not supposed to drink from the with an estimated 1 .3 million people still living in tent camps across the country and hundreds of thousands concentrated here, preventing an outbreak like this has been a race against time. i'm standing outside st. nithe hospital where four children have been brought just this morning. frankly, natalee, to contain this and to keep it from spreading to the rest of hai. back to you. opening statements get underway today in a trial of a man accused of killing chandra vy nine years ago. it is now 7:13, you're up to date right now, let's turn back to matt, ann and al. >> mr. roker, beautiful weekend here, clearly some strange weather down in texa >> that's right and that same system is >> and that's your latest weather. now the story of the so-called hiccup girl. the 19-year-old who could n stop hiccupping for five weeks back in 2007 is under arrest for murder. mark potter is live with this story. >> reporter: policin st. petersburg, florida say 19-year-old jennifer ann mee and two young males were involved in an armed robbery in which anher young man was shot and killed. during the incident saturday night, police say mee lured the victim, 22-year-old shannon vickers to the home. the man was shot multiple times and was killed police say, mee and the two other men are now charged with first-degree mel any murder. three years ago mee became known as the hiccup girl after developing an uncontrollable case of hiccups, she gained national notiety and appeared on the "today" show. >> wn i get hiccups, sometimes it hurts. >> liit does. what are you going to do for attention now? >> reporter: five weeks later mee says she was cured from the condition after trying a number of remedies. now she's under arrest and all three suspects have admitted involvement. now the untimely death of a member of the u.s. national swim team who died over the weekend during an open water race in the united arab emirates. amy robach has the detai on that. >> 26-year-old fran griffin never crossed the finish line at that event. and it took divers two hours to find his body. now an invesgation is underway to figure out what happened. >> 26-year-old fran was competing in the open water mpetition near dubai on saturday when fellow swimmers noticed he did not cross the finish line. divers found his body near the last bouie. >> they were sad because one of theirs had gone missing. >> reporter: kripen from philadelphia came from a family of prominent swimmers and in august had won silver at the pan pacific championship. during this week's competitn, he reportedly told his coach he didn't feel well. others within the swimming community question the race conditions. offials say the temperature of the water was at least 84 degrees and two additional swimmers, two americans and one brazilian was take on the t hospital. >> when you're talking about a race like that when the air is so close to 100 degrees and the water temperature is in that mid to upper 80s standpoint, it's just an accident waiting for happen. >> the virginia athlete was well likein the swimming world. his sister said there was nothing he enjoyed more. >> he was a silly boy through and through. and he liked the rough and tumble sports and he made it a point being happy doing everything he did or he wouldn't have done it. >> reporter: in a video on his personal website h talked about his position for the sport and his disappointment in not qualifying for the beijing olympics. >> it's hard to describe the feeling in your heart when you know you can go better. >> reporter: this morning his facebook pages fillewith messages from fans. a medical report and autopsy is now complete, but racefficials have not made those results public yet. and by the way, three other swimmers at that same competition had to be taken to the hospital. so clearly the conditions were causing problems for lots of swimmers. it is now 19 after the hour, once again, here's ann. >> all right, ma, thanks, on a much different note, it looks like after mel gibson's come back is on hold for now this after his planned return to the big screen and the sequel to "the hang over" was axed. >> many of you likely saw this story, "the hang over" is the story of several friends who travel to las vegas for a bachelor party only to wake up the nextorning not remembering anything. now it's mel gibson that wishes that hollywood would forget his own recent past. >> tracey, it's bill. >> bill, where the hell are you guys? >> we lost doug. >> reporter: it was the top grossing r-rated comedy of all time. >> am i missing a tooth >> reporter: the 2009 blockbuster, "the hangover." followed four friends to a las vegas bachelor party only to wake up the next morning with no memory and no groom. >> that is my tooth, why do you have that? >> reporter: and now coming soon to a theater near you, the sequel "the hang over 2" but what won't be coming soon, a planned featured cameo by actor mel gibson. gibson's career has been challenged by a media storm stemming fromis nasty split from his ex-girlfriend and a barrage of phone messages he left her. and now the announcement that gibson has been dropped from the film. director todd phillips issued this statement. i thought mel would have been great ithe movie, but this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my cast and crew. without naming names said this on the comedy death ray podcast. i'm in a deep protest right now with a movie i'm working on, up in arms about something, very frustrating. >> reporter: what may be even more frustrating for gibson, the original hang over movie featured a cameo by mike tyson. >> i think it's very, very hurtful to his career, if all that has not happened before wasn't hurtful, this is the worst thing yet. if i were mel gibson right now, a chill would be running down by spine. >> we reached out to mel gibson who did not respond with a comment. zack has no say in who is hired or fired for a roles in the film, nor was he consulted on this matter. by the way, liam neeson will be replacing mel gibson on "the hang over 2." >> a promising college student killed by a great white shark. we're going to talk to his family memb just ahead, some new technologies that let you track your tvel whereabouts, but is it a good idea? ♪ where'd you learn tdo that so well. ♪ ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. and the life you want to live. with rheumatoid arthritis, there's the life you live... fortunately there's enbrel, th#1 most doctor-prescribed biologic medicine for ra. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop 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ra levy. he is accused of murdering the washington intern in rock creek park back in 2001. he's already serving time for two simir attacks that also happened at rock creek park. escalators are back open at the bethesda metro station after six months repairs. commuters had been using one stationary escalator to get in and out of that station. we'ltake a break, come back and look at ourweather and good morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. afternoon highs today into the mid-70s and a likelihood of afternoon and evening showers maybe with thunr an lightning. how's the traffic, jerry. broke down tractor trailer-66 eastbound approaching the beltway. it's jammed coming in from 123. over on 270, heavy but steady. joe. >> manage up today on the nate berkus shoerks it'sheirst berkus shoerks it'sheirst ever nate's crate bob ehrlich's 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecng the special interests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an increase in the minimum wage. and after losing his election, bob ehrlich joed a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to represent casinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich--24 years of putting the special interests first. 7:30,on a monday morning, it's the 25th of october, 2010. a little bit of a warmertart to the week here in midtown manhattan, we like that, so do the people out on our plaza. taylor swift, we say stick around if you want to see taylor swift performing live in concert tomorrow morning here on "today." inside studio 1a, i'm matt lauer longside ann curry. >> it's become a lot easier to know what your kids are up to because there are some high-tech vices and software programs now that can tell you exactly where your children are, who they're talking to, but if you use them, sit a good parenting or a bad parenting idea. we're going to bet into that this morning. wherever they go, speculation seems to follow, talk of a royaledding between prince william and kate middleton as they attend a friend's wedding. we begin this half hour with a deadly shark attack with closed atring of california beaches over the weekend. we're going to talk to the family of a 19-year-old boy in just a moment. kristen welker has the story. >> reporter: as the sign bind me indicates this beach is closed and has been since this attack. loved ones are mourning a young man who was so full of life and poised to have a very bright future. >> he was an awesome guy. >> reporter: in lucas ransom's 19 years, he touched a lot of lives, family and friends who are now devastated. >> there's so much more life he could have lived out. so many more people hcould have blessed. >> rorter: a junior at the university of california santa barbara was attacked and kill bid a shark at surf beach, a public area of vandenberg air force base 130 miles northwest of los angeles, everyone here stunned. >> it makes you think that you couldie at any time doing anything, especially something that you love. >> ransom was an avid water ortsman. he and a frid paddled out for what looked like some good waves whenhe shark hit. >> he saw his friend go under water for a brief moment, came up, something was wrong, noticed that he had been attacked by a shark. >> reporte the blue water instantly turned red, ransom's friend told the press. he instantly tried to pull his friend to shore, but it was too late. ransom's boogie board bears the signs of a bite of a large animal, more than a foot wide. experts say white sharks are often found in the cold waters off california. and they feed on small saeals ad sea lions. >> the great whites can me near shore if their natural prey items are near shore. >> reporter: there's only been 30 unovoked attacks in cafornia over the last decade, three fatal. >> he was just a genuine good person to be around. >> reporter: jeff and ransom were life guards together at a community pool. at age 16, ransom was honored for helping to safe a 5-year-old boy's life. >> he was a hero that day, he administered rescue breathing and saved the young buy's fe. >> reporter: the man who made a bi impact in the short time he lived. two other area beaches were also closed, all three are expected to reopen today pending final approval from beach officials, surfers already saying they will go back in these waters. >> kristen welker this morning. kristen, thankyou. we're joined now by chris ransom's parents and brother. please accept our condolences this morning. >> thank you. >> we understand that lucas was an avid swimmer, he was a polo player, he was also an avid body border. did he ever eress any kind of fear about being in the water. >> no, no. he really loved living life to the fullest and he just wanted to have fun and he was safe about most things and he loved life. >> travis, i know that you body boarded with your brother. how would you describe buy he liked it so much? >> i think every surfer, it's hard to put it into words what you feel out there, but you're just -- you're outith the ocean and it's like nothing else matters when you're riding waves. it's just an amazing feeling to put into words wouldn't do it justice. but it's just a great feeling to be out there and i know he shafred it and i know he felt it when he was out there before the event happened and i know he really enjoyed what he was doing out there. >> candace, on the day of this, as travis called it an event, youwere, however, concerned about his surfing plans that day, why? >> well, he had called me, he was so excited, heavy he was saying that, mama, there's ten-foot waves and i thought, well, you know, this wasn't the first time he had gone in big waves, but i was concerned for his safety and the other part was is that he was in an area that he had never been in before and i was concerned that being in an area that he hadn't been familiar with, that hadn't been in the undertoe and other things. i told him i didn't want him to break his neck like his father had recently in a car accident. he said mom, i'll be fine, i'll give you a call wn i get out. >> i understand that he even joked the night before, matthew, with his friend matthew garcia, about sharks, it was sort of thei -- they were just sort of making a joke about it, is that right? is that what you heard. >> yeah, something like that. did you hear that? >> yeah, i heard tt that they were joking about it and you know, every surfer kind of has that in the back of their head and it's in the very far back, you go out there to help joy life and celebrate and you don't really think about it. i know they joked about it. but it's something you really joke out, it never really hits home until something like this happens. >> that may have been why his girlfriend who was up there had prompted him to say please don't go up there because of the sharks and them talking about it the night before may have prompted her think about that. >> there's been like 100 attacks since t 1920s, but the main reason you wanted to speak out this morning so soon after the loss of your son is because you wanted to say what a great kid he was, hwas studying for, as i understand, to be a pharmacist at uc san barbara, he had been studying chemical engineering, he had a lot of hopes and dreams ahead of him. what do you want to say about your boy this morning. >> he was one of a kind, he was. he was an incredible young man and his personality was bigger than life, but i really feel blessed that he was a gift from god for me and he was the kind of person that had such a radiance about him that his eyes, he just sparkled and his smile would melt your heart. he just was the kind of person who cared about everybody and what i really wanted to share is that i'm saddened that he's n going to be able to see -- he had two dams and one of the dreams that was that he graduated next year in chemistry from uc santa barbara, and the other was that he always wanted to mak a difference in other people's lives. and we're hoping that we can set up a scholarship for him for students there that are in the field of chemistry or chemical engineering that come from underprivileged areas so that they will have that opportunity to be able to see their dream, the dream that lucas had. he really loved the school and what he was doing. >> wow. >> we hope we can help that happen. >> he and his brothers both, travis and he has a stepbrother, josh ransome, they're pretty much the reason why i'm here, the first half of my life, it wasn't -- i had a hard time. and then we got married and we got unbelievable kids and, you know, i wondered if they were mine atimes because they didn't grow up the way i did and they helped me to just to do better in life. you know, you've got kids like that, you've got to do good for them. >> well, obviously you too are going to be doing good in lieu k lucas's name and the love for him and f your family touches us all this morning. in that way you have made a difference. >> candace and travis ransom, our best to us, and thank you fospeaking to us this morning. and now let's get a check of the good morning. sunrise on this monday morning. live view from our sky watcher camera. the sunn eis up with high cloud in the southwest. it's in the upper 50s to near 60 so a milder sta this morning. we'll have another mild day with highs into the 70s and a cloudy afternoon. rain likely moving in late this afternoon and into early this eveninmaybe with some thunder. then tomorrow cloudy, small chance of sprinkles. highs in the 70s again. another likelihood of rain on wednesday, then drying out thursday into the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. coming up next, high-tech peace of mind, that let you track your children's every move. but are these a good idea? coming up after this. 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[ indistinct shouting ] at's in your wallet? good morning. our time right now is 7:56. 56 degrees here in the nation's capital. beautiful picture of the nation's capital. good morning, i'm joe krebs, it's monday, the 25tof october. a new poll that maryland governor martin o'malley has a substantial lead over his challenger, form governor bob eurlich. 54% of likely voters said they would vote with o'malley compared with 40% who will vo for urlich. fans of "the early show" will be taping four days at harmon hall beginning today. it's part of the indecision 2010 coverage tour. we'll the moment you feel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yrself again. oscillococnum, nip it in the bud. good morning. we have some high clods coming in and we have temperatures on the mild side this morning, near 60. later today into the mid-70s and some likely showers coming through late this afternoon into is evening. a small chance of some thunder with that. tomorrow cloudy, maybe some sprinkles. and more rain likely on wednesday, perhaps with some thunder. then drying out thursd into the weekend. how's the traffic, jerry? >> the inner loop of the beltway crawling now, volumeonly. inner loop, sunshine will get you off and on, rockville pike all the way to new hampshire, be careful. later today on nbc 4, "t nate berkus show" it's the one-hour design challenge. two best friends are battling it t for a $2500 grand prize today at 2:00 right here on nbc 4. what did i tell you? 88 miles an hour! >> hello, mcfly. it's now 8:00 on a monday morning, it's also the 25th day of october, 2010. kind of a beautiful day here in midtown, manhattan, 54 degrees, we're showing you this footage becaus it's been 20 years since back to the future. they'll all be here tomorrow morning on "today." >> that will be pretty cool. >> they had flying cars, we're five years away, we ain't got no flying cars. >> oh, ye of little faith. mr. roker joins us, what do we have coming up we have got a really interesting story, in fact i have been looking at my notes, in 1990, 28% of the babies were born to single mother. today that number has risen to more than 40%, an all-timehigh. why is this? y are so many women choosing to become single moms and what are the challenges they face? and for moms anddads, if they want to try to feed their family right and they want their children to eat healthfully, we have got some choices there. a busy half hour ahead, let's go inside, natalee the standingy at the news desk. good morning, everyone. health officials in haiti are struggling to keep a cholera outbreak from racing through the crded capital. the disease spread through infected water and food has killed 250 people in haiti and infected 3,000, mostly in rural areas, but five cholera cases have now turned up in port-au-prince where more than a million people have been living in tent camps since an earthquake in january. the leaked documents by wileaks has -- nbc's pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski has the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalee, there are new cries for investigations today based on the grim details revealed in this leak, massive leak of u.s. military secrets while the u.s. is also looking at filing possible espionage charges against wikileaks officials, but so far it's all a war of words. fighting fire with fire, joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen took to the internet with a tweet of his own. mullen writes another irresponsible posting of stolen classifies documents by wikileaks puts lives at risk and gives adversaries valuable information. some documents say that british troops tortured detainees calling for an immediate investigation from the top. >> anything that suggests that the basic rules of war and conflict and engagement have been broken or that torture is in any way being condoned are to be looked at. >> reporter: a much higher number of iri civilians killed in the war and a widespread abuse of prisoners by iraqi forces. but the documents show that iraqi politics was greater than first thought and growing. i raek prime minister nouri al ma maliki was in iran last moh. >> it needs to support its objectives. >> reporter: the u.s. military has a young army private in custody suspected of providing this information to wikileaks but their bigger problem is fixing this monumental leak in security that allowed it to take place in the first place. forecasters say there's a risk of severe weather from alabama to south carolina today, one day after a tornado's fury was caught on tape and damaged homes and a schooln north texas nearly dallas. at least four people were injured but none seriously. a warm welcome for snow in colorado's ski country, a ekend storm dumped eight inches of snow enough for ski resorts to start opening two weeks later than last year. al's out here somewhere. >> it's a nice day. >> where are you guys from? >> chattanooga. >> and who's this? >> this is will, he's from nashville. >> all right, will, i like it. he's saying, yeah, okay, whatever. let's show you that our pick ty is in cksonville, florida. afternoon storms of 86 degrees, and as we show you the week ahead, we have got the risk of strong storms in the east coast, above normal temperatures out west, below normal good morning. some high clouds drifting over now. temperatures are near 60 degrees and some mild weather again on tap hereor later this afternoon. we should make it into the mid-70s with thickening and lowering clouds and likely some showers coming in late this afternoon, early this eveng. might have some thunder and l e lightning with a few showers. then tomorrow cudy into the mid-70s,mall chance of a sprinkle. a greater chance of showers on wednesday maybe with thunder and lightning. drying out thursday. much coolefor the weekend. >> w got some friends doing the zumba thing. very nice. ann? 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"today" that number has risen to 41%, that's an all-time high. jane founded the natiol support group single mothers by choice 30 years ago, she says though the issue isn't knew, these days more women seem ready to take the plunge. >> they're not willing to marry just anyone in order to have a child. it's possible financially and in terms of women's feelings about themselves. ♪ don't you worry about a thing mama ♪ >> reporter: still, many of these single moms say it's not that they didn't want a dad for their kids, they just never found the right one. >> i would have loved to have found a good partner, had a good, strong marriage and then had children. that was plan a. this is a very solid plan b, i'm very happy with it. >> reporter: women taking an unexpected path, turni life's cards into a winning hand. >> lisa is a inical psychologist and a life coach for shape magazine. a lot of these women tend to be in their 30s, 40s, 50s, college educated eand why do youhink there is this trend? >> they're not going to settle for a man when they want to have a baby. their window to adopt is somewhat smaller than it is to get rried. so they're thinking i'll have the ba now and eventually i'll find a partner that will be perfect to sort of finish up this family. >> and sometimes they have a baby through artificial insemination, 145% increase since 1980 and other times they have these babies by adopting em. some 13,000 children have been adopted every year and that's by unmarried women. and in some ways, these children would never have been adopted had it not been f this choice. >> it's not that they had a choice to go somewhere different, some different type of family, it was either being adopted or not being adopted. especially when you're talking about domestic and international domestic options that they v sometimes with the international children, they're reall in a bad place, so getting adopted is a wonderful thing. >> that said, there is a stigma with the idea of being a single mother because that sort o belies the reality that children do need fathers. >> and that parenting is very, very hard on your own. a lot of these women will look for male alternatives and they also make sure they have a good support system. because they're a little bit older and have thought about the processnd really, really wanted this baby, they have made sure that there are people in the community that are the male alternatives and support system. >> what is your best advice then, 41% of babie born today are born to unmarried mothers, what is your best advise for these mothers in terms of how to make sure that they're --. i'm not sure we understand the impact fully. we don't want the children to suffer. >> i'm telling moms, consider all the alternatives, don't think y have to be childless or you have to be married in order to have a child. have the child if you have that opportunity, adopt a child if you have that oprtunity, if you're secure financially, if you have that support system and then later on if you find that significant other that should be with you, maybe you'll have that perfect family. >> that's for the mother, but what about the for the chd. >> as long as there are men in the vinity, as long as there are uncles and grandfathers and teachers and coaches and men around tt can be good role models. >> keep looking for that opportuny. some good advice to help women that are going through this. do you think the trend is going to continue. >> absolely. >> it's going to go highe than 41%. >> uh-huh. coming up next, we'll be talking about healthy foods tt your family will actually injen. a gooday to sneak in the vitamins. 8:26 is your time now, 61 degrees. a nice, mild start to your monday. tom will have your forecast after the news. goodorning. i'm eun yang. three students will appear in court this morning after a drug lab was found in a georgetown university dorm room. charles smith, and john romano and their friend were all arrested over the weekend. they are all charged with manufacturing a controlled substance called dmt. it's a synthetic hallucinogic that impairs motor skills and memory and can be deadly. memory [ female announcer ] joe here likes saving ney. that'shy joe likes aetna's payment estimator. he gets to compare out-of-pocket health care costs before they come out of his pocket. that's awesome. 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well guess what, i am. heart disease took my, but it doesn't have to take mine because 80% of cardiac events in women may be prevented if we make the right choices. eighty percent. you may not know you're at risk, but one wom dies every minute from this largely preventable disease. speak up to save lives at goredforwomen.org ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. back now at 8:35, supermarkets are filled with healthy products, b wch ones are actually the best. nutritionist joy bauer here with some taste tested family approved picks. who tested these picks? >> i tested these with adults, with kids and they're all universally liked. >> everybody loves to have a waffle, but you're saying that families approve of multigrain waffles which is a good thing. >> i picked van's eight whole grain waffles. two waffles are 180 calories and six grams of fiber. takes a couple of minutes in the toaster oven and if you want to up that nutrition even more, you can top it with some natural nut butter, a little bit of jam or yogurt or eat it straight up with a little maple syrup. >> cascadian farm cinnamon nut crunch. >> this is a good suggestion for gets off the sugar. >> is this for kids who won't eat oatmeal? >> i actually tnk it's for parents who would like to have chocolate in the morning. this is an interesting combination of semiswee dark chocolate chips, it also has brown flaxseed it in and whole grai oats. it's got three grams of fiber per package. >> is it satisfying? >> it is. >> you can microwave it at home or tote it to work and a couple of minutes in the microwave. >> these crackers by the wayre the skinniest crackers in town. they're under four calories. they're light, they're crispy, they're 100% whole grain. >> no ansfat? >> crackers are loaded with transfat unless you're careful. >> these are 100% healthy. it's 34 degrees wle grain crisp bread and i topped it with one of the new flavors. they from blue cheese and sun dried tomato. and with the laughing cow light cheese, it's only 35 calories and one gram of saturated fat. which is a fraction of saturated fat that you find in full fat cheese so it's great for people trying to lower their cholesterol. >> this is a bag of chips. >> mediterranean snack food company, they have baked lenl chips. but the best part, ann, is they're gluten free and because they're made with lentil and beans, it's got protein and fiber. it's power snack. >> aall taste like regular potato chips, but they have got a lot of flavor. >> and you can dip it in hummus or salsa as well. >> light ragu. 50 calories per calf cup. there's no added corn syrup or sweetener sugar which a lot of commercial brds do do. and it's also smooth so if your kids don't like pieces or chunks in their pasta? >> is this a wheat pasta? >> of course it is. >> if youtart teaching them early on to have that new pasta as well. >> it's delicious. >> and they also have macaroni noodles. you can have fun with the shapes. >> what about these usages? they're chicken sausage. >> i picked al fresco chicken sausages, they're glun free, they have no nitrates or additives. and they have in a variety of flavors. my taste testers preferred the spicy jalapeno and the sun dried tomato best. what i like about the best is they're fully cooked. >> thank you so much, joy. >> and coming up next, whoe hav got oscar winning actor michael caine in the house. ♪ new look. new style. new sears. come see our brand new side. at sears. who said in life there are no second acts? it's not true. just ask michael caine. it. >> my name is -- >> alfie. >> cane received his first academy award nomination for his role in alfie. two years later he won best supporting acr. then he almost walked away from vies all together. luckily though for us he did not. and now he writes about his remarkable life and career in his new book, the elephant to hollywood. >> you wrote a memoir like two years ago? >> i wrote a memoir because i thought it was over for me. i got a script one day and i read it and i sent it back to the produce and i said the part's too small and he sent it back and said i didn't want you to read the lover, read the father. i sa oh, my god, i'm not a movie star anymore. because you have to be a romantic lead to be a movie star. >> but you didn't walk away, you decided that there was great value in some of those roles. >> what happened was i was sort of hanging around miami in a nice way. i thought my career was over, literally. and i had a friend, jack nicholson who was down there and we had never worked together and he talked me into doing a picture with him and i enjoyed it so much, i said this is what i want to do. and for the next 20 years, i have had this incredible wonderful life when i thought it was over. >> it's a second act. >> it's a second act and i didn't try as a movie star and as an actor, it could apply to anybody, you thought it was over, it's not, it could be better. >> the way you write this book, is almt like you're sitting down over coffee with the reader and you tell it very much in anecdotal form. they don't las for 50 pages at a time. these are kin of little more sells that you came up with. >> i said i hen't written books, what do i do? she said write exactly the way you tell the story to someone if you were at dinner or talking to meone. it's like telling a joke or something. so that's the way i write. >> people have to remember that you have been doing this for a while and you write about some of your swinging bachelor days, the 60s and i love the line if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there. and you were there. there's no question about it. >> unfortunately, i remembered them. >> what's a the most striking period from that time in your life? in the most striking memory is that i knew a load of unknown actors, unknown musicians, unknown painte, unknown actors, including myself. they all became famous. the only thing that was scary, i was the last one to become famous. but i was pretty scared because everyone i knew was famous and i wasn't. >> there's some poignant stories in the book and there's one about when your dad was ill. and yowrite about saying to e doctor is there something you can do to help him leave the planet because he wouldn't want to live like this and he said no. and he said to me, come back at midnight and i came back at midnight and my dad died shortly after. and i said, did you do this? >> to the doctor? >> yes, and he said no, it's a coincidence. i always wonder, he said come back at midnight, you know, but i don't believe in that sort of thing. i was just very upset because my dad was in such agony and i knew he onl had 24 hourso live, so i said why don't you shorten it a bit. but he wouldn't do it. >> you also write about some of the movies you have made a your favorite movie roles, you loved "the man who would be king". >> i was working with two of my great friends and john huston, my favorite director of all time. and i was playing a part that he originally wanted humphrey bogart to play, and he's my favorite actor of all time. so it was an incredible thing. >> a more recent movie madyour list of favorites almost because i loved it so much, "dirty rotten scoundrels." >> the producer gives you a script and he says we're going to the south of france in the summer and we have got you a villa in sal paul, i almost didn't bother to read the script. >> and then finally you say that hollywd, you don't retire from hollywood, hollywood retires you. >> that's right. >> but you don't think that's on the horizon, do you? you're business s ee're busier now? >> i'moing hawaii too a movie. and i am playing a -- i'm a real grandfather now. after two years ago. i'm playing a grandfather for the first time. and i'm in a 3-d movie for the first time and that's me and my grandson. look. >> what's your grandson's name? >> taylor. we were picking potatoes in the garden. i have three grdchildren, two of them are identical twins. that'sy daughter and her children there. >> do all of us a vor, don't remember. >> i'm not going to. >> thank you very much, nice to see you, michaels always. >> up next, what does a 31 caretiamond look like? michael you have a lot of experience with that, i'm sure. >> i'm sure. >> this morning on "today's"men story with bob dodson, whose childhood survivor skills may some day help skur cancer. >> let me see if i can. >> think losing your keys is a big deal? mario has misplaced his nobe prize. >> you keep them under your hat? >> reporter: well, fame is not the most important thing on mario's mind. his wife lori has some bigger news. >> he got the nobel prize and then two years later, i waing theed with cancer. >> ironically, mario won his nobel for giving science a blueprint to control the spread of that dreaded disease. >> this is a model essentially for cancer. >> reporter: now his quest to find a cure is personal. >> sometimes you have to b forced to do something. i mean you're put into a situation and then you have to make do. i think that's not a bad lesson in life. >> reporter: a lesson mari learned early. he was the son of a single mom, a poet who thought she could feat the nazis with her pen. during world war ii, lucy ramburg was snatched from their home in the italian alps and sent to a concentration camp, mario ended up on the street, wandering from village to village how would a year-old survive on the street during a war? >> shelter is no probm, because there's a lot of bombed out houses, but the real problem is food. you have to see who's guarding the food, then see what their patterns ar and that develops a lot of patience. >> how did oliver twist become albert einstein? >> well, i wish. that would be terrific. >> reporter: at war's end, he was sick and starving. >> you know, i'm sure they have stayed, i would be in jail somewhere or else i would be dead. >> reporter: but mario's mother found him in a hospital. she had searched nearly a year for her lost son. frankly, i didn't recognize her, she had aged enormously. >> reporter: but she too had survived. lucy bought him new clothes. >> we went to rome, had my first bath in six years. >> reporter: mario and his mom ended up in a quaker commune in philadelphia, he was nine years old, couldn't speak english and had never been to school. an ordea like that could scar a child for life. but one of his teachers gave him some paint and let him communicate with a mural. the first o many who found a way to help him dream. >> giving a child an opportunity to have dreams and then to be able to go after those dreams and that's what the united states gave him. >> reporter: he would pay back america's kindness. he became a gra student working with dr. jameswatson, one of the scientists who discovered dna. now watso believes that watson's break through studies may help cure cancer in the next decade. >> it's one of the key points that enableded us, we couldn't really have the courage to find a cure for cancer if it hadn't been for that. >> reporter: he may hav already help save lori's life. >> i just had some blood tests and the results were good. >> she's still in the process of recovery, but everything looks terric. >> it intrigues me whether you think he succeeded despite his ordeal or because of it? >> i think that he has succeeded because of it. i think it's definitely part of him. it's part of who he is. >> reporter:ike many immigrants, he thought america's streets would be paved with gold. >> and what i saw was actually more than that, and that was opportunity. >> reporter: opportunity despite his ordeal, to save a lot of lives. more "today," bob dodson, nbc news with an american sto in salt lake city, utah. >> and a wonderful american too. all right, switching gears here, if diamonds are a girl's best friend, this one certainly takes the cake. it's a 36 caret diamond. and it's going to be on display at the museum of natural history here in new york. henry, good moing, so nice to have you. this is quite the rock here as we take a look. it's absolutely just perfect. we want to know the history of this. >> it's a very special stone, it was discovered in the late 1600st, sold to the king of spain, ginobiven to his daughte when she married, when it passed from the german family. after the war, all sorts of things happened, it was stolen, found in an auction, found again in 1968 and w bought it two years ago at auction and here we are. >> and you're now auctioning it off? >> we bought it at an auction. >> the price then was $25 million. >> and we have exhibited the stone for two months. >> thank you, we're back after is. 8:55 is your time now, 63 degrees. a lovely day in the nation's capital. will the weather last? tom will have your forecast after the news. good morning, i'm eun yang. in the news for today, opening statements will begin today in the trial of the man acused of killing chandra levy. ingmar guandique is accused of murdering the tern back in 2001. he is already servi time for two similar attacks that also happened in rock creek park. there is relief at a busy metro stop. escalators are back open at the bethesda station after six months of repairs. commuters had been using one stationary escalator to get in and out of that station. we'll ke a break and have your weather and traffic when we come back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ from the styles you want... ...to the foods you crave. even your favore toothpaste. now, the things you love at target... are even tter. save 5% off today and everyday... when you shop with your target credit or debit redcards. are you redcard ready? only at target. bob ehrlich's 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the speciainterests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an inease in the minimum wage. and after losing his election, bob ehrlich joined a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to representasinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich--24 years of putting the special interests first. good morning. temperatures now low0s. later today into the low and mid-70with thick neng ouds and some showers this evening some of which could produce thunder and lightning. how's the traffic? >> 395 really loaded up from at least the pentagon to th 14th street bridge where we hadan earlier accident reported. one more stop along i-270. late clearing out, an accident at 370 is now over to the shoulder. >> thank you, jerry. later today on "the nate berkus show" it is the first-ever show" it is the first-ever natetaxes 60 percent.did as gedy woman 1 syi didn't owatrnor man 3: he worked fork 10 billi doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. about now it's monday morning, the 25th day of october, 2010. it could be 78 degrees today in the big apple. there's some even in their t-shirts because the wea is supposed to be so nice. matt and al are making their way to california for a very important thing with maria shriver. we'll be talking about that girl who couldn't stop hiccupping? we spoke to her so many times a few years agoere on "today," but now she's been arrested on charges related to a murder in florida. so we're going to be talking about that. i know you're pretty surprised about that? >> she made national headlines for her medical condition. and buyer beware. we're going to show you how thieves could be stealing yr money this upcoming holiday season and how to protect yourself from five common holiday scams. and later in "today's" rel estate, we're answering some of your questions about refinancing and how to price your home to se. barbara corcoran is here with all those answers. people are really confused about this housing market and what to do. >> and you and i are in coats, even though it's kind of warm today, on that topic of coats, what you should be looking for when you're shopping for a winter coat. and we're going to try to find the right coat for your shape and your bank account. >> nice. and also coming up, whave got the new natalee morales. >> good morning, everyone. severe weather is possible today in the southeast from the same system that brought reports of at least three tornadoes sunday in texas including this one in the south of dallas there. in rice, texas, several homes and a school were damaged. there's a worsening crisis in haiti where cholera has spread to the capital of port-au-prince. it has already killed 250 people elsewhere in haiti. until now cholera has not been seen in haiti for 50 years. president obama will campaign in rhode island and attend a fundraising denver. republican national committee chairman michael steele says voters are tired of the way democrats are running the federal government and will likely give republicans control of the house and possibly the senate as well. 19-year-old jennifer mee is under arrest for first-degree murder. acrding to police mee and two others were involved in an armed robbery in which the victim was shot and killed. she is the teenager who had hiccups for five straight weeks back in 2007 and came to be known after being seen here on the "today" show as hiccup girl. gas prices are up again, according to the lundberg survey they're up 5 cents a gallon in the last two weeks. indonesia's most activ volcano is spewing so much smoke and ash, it could erupt at any time. paranormal activity 2 was number one at the box office over the weekend, taking in more than $41 million according to early estimates. jackass 3-d was second and red was third. there was a big surprise over the weekend for two georgia homeowners whe they saw something moving under the cover of their backyard swimming pool. when they pulled the cover back, they found a neighbor's buffalo hanging out near the shallow end of the pool who had been on the loose for two weeks. that's a surprise, all right. it's now four minutes past the hour, let's go back outside to ann and taon. >> al made sure we got a chance good morning. another mild day on the way. we've got some increasing high clouds. already temperatures into the low and mid-60s. these are about the highs we usually get this time of year. we may climb to the mid-70s by later this afternoon with thickening clouds likely producing some passing showers late this afternoo and early thisevening. cloudy tomorrow, small chance of sprinkles and still mild. mild again wednesday with possibilities of swers coming through. a greater likelihood of that a thunder and lightning as well. dry thursday into the . >> and that's your latest weather u natalee? al, on "today's" consumer, shopping scams. the official holiday season doesn't j doesn't get underway for a couple of weeks, but they're perfecting their strategies now. thinking about the holiday shopping season, is it safer still to go to the stores or is it better shopping online. >> you thi you would be is safer shopping at the stores, but there are risks to both. online it's really getting bad. last yearomplaints to the internet crime complaint center were up 22%. so you really have to beware, a lot of the crimes we're seeing are mutating and changing, they're getting more clever. >> one of the things we're hearing more of is smishing. phishing is like a variation. >> a bank or somether official sending you a letter and they say give us your information. th send you a text message and tell you to call the 1-800-number, you call the 800 number and you get into a voice response system and they sound very official. and they clear out your account. >> how can you protect yourself? >> if you get an e-mail or a text message or get on one of these voice response systems, don't call the number that they give you, cal the number on your bank statement or on the back of your credit card. so that way you canlways protect yourself. >> you can talk to your bank as well before you engage in this activity. >> find out if they need the informatio if not, you know it was a scam. >> sometimes when you go in to buy a gi, you choose to buy a gift cd and you say the over the counter strip gift cards, ieves can actually steal the information on those cards and then use them to shop? how are they doing that? >> you know how you go into the supermarket, you're in a rush, you're going to a party, you're picking up a gift ca. you grab a card and go. thieves go with a scanner and read the card and when y buy it, they go and spend the money before you do. >> last year we did a survey and one quarter of americans still hadn't spent their gift cards after a full year. so that gives them lots of time to use it. >>uy the gift cards behind a customer service desk, inspect them to see if there's been any tampering done. >> if youive a gift card, give them a receipt. >> that'sright, so if they have any problemhey can get the money back. >> i have done reports on this one, the skimmers at the atm maines. that's happening more and more. we're sticking our car into the atm. >> you want to be observant, be aware, a lot of times what they'll do is put card readers inside the slot that you put ur card in. they'll also have a hidden camera so they can take pictures of your pin number while youe plugging it in. and they have gotll the information they need to clean out your account. >> and they buy those fake magnetic cards and they make their own? >> that right. it's really bad right now, it's happening a lot. what you want to do is be observant. is there anything sticking out of the card slot? you also want to avoid nonbank atms which are at risk >> will your bank eventually give you that moneyback? >> most likely, yes. >> but after a thorough investigation, it will take some time, right? >> yeah. >> another things thateople may not be aware of is credit card charges, usually in small amounts. why are they small amounts? why don't they take just one lump sum. >> they are betting that you're not going to pay attention. maybe you scan your credit card statement every single month, you see a small charge, maybe under $10, it has a corporate sounding name next to it, an 800 number, mae you even call the 800 number you might get message saying please leave a message, we'll call you back. but these charges tend to happen over and over and over again. and you might not catch on until -- if you see a charge you don't recognize, even if has some generic name next to it that sounds legit, make sur you call your credit card kane. >> scams with membership programs, what kind of programs are we talking about? and how are consumers getting ripped off? >> if you have ever shopped online, odds are you have come across one of thesescams. you get a message, ann ad that says save $10 on your next order, and you're very tempted, you click on it, and before you know it, you're automatically into some program and you're getting charged every month. what you really got to do, if you see a message like this while you're checking out, read the fine print and definitely, again, look at your credit card and see what kind of charges are coming up on them. >> great information. lisa free man, thank you very much. if you're buying, selling or refinancing, barbara corcorans answering your real estat questions coming up. how to find that perfect winter coat, how to get the right look for your figure and what's hot for fall. but first these messages. put i. oh wow,t's going to be great. i think i'm going to cry. 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>> barbara, it's been three weeks, that doesn't seem like a long time. what's going on here? >> three weeks is a very long time for jane. but because mostly she' only had one buyer. it takes today 18 usually showings to get every single bid. se so if you're not having 18 showings, you're not going to get any bids. the important thing is that jane lists her house properly. the best way to go about it is to ask her broker for the last 12 sales, i don't mean listings, i mean sales. and se if her home is a competitor in the list. also many, many sellers today also include incentives lik closing costs included, free maintenance for a year, some incentive and it's smart to include that in the very front of a listing rather than wait until you're in negotiions. >> some people use them as a bargaining tool. >> what happens is when it's a bargaining tool at the end, the yer has the advantage. what you want at the front end is to draw the buyers in. >> jane, best of luck to you. good morning, what's your question. >> caller: i'm looking to inst some money in real estate. i would like to buy a property in an up and coming neighborhood, and wait until time is right to sell it for a property. are there any areas left in new york, the new york metropolitan area that are good locations for real estate investing and is it really a good time to invest in real estate given the market? >> that's the magic question. carmen, you are one brave soul to even be thinking about doing it now but let me commend you for that. because no one can really figure out where the bottom of the market is, but everyone agrees we're least near the bottom. and that's as good as you can do when you're an invest. every single market that was up and coming before the bubble burst will be up and coming again and it will recover like gangbuster you better be sure that you're get ready to get in there and hold on for five years if you're going to be a real investor. but please don't hesitate, get out shopping. >> >> up and coming, but the question is when will these areas about up and comg again. >> the minute people start marching into the market, t coverage in the new york city area is always at fast speeds and then what was up and coming is immediately up and coming again. >> carmen, thank you, we have an e-mail from a viewer. my husband and i have a condo in florida. the condo today is worth about $150,000, we have a mortgage balance of 234,000 which is is interest only, our primary residere residence has plenty of equity and a lower rate. >> the truth of the matter is you should leave your primary residence alone, it's like borrowing from pete tore pay paul. why create one big mess when you have one mess that's segregated in florida. the best thing to do if you have a 5.75% rate, you can refinance that one. keep the florida resident separate from your main residence. >> in state college, pennsylvania, she's joining us via skype. what's your question? >> we recently sold our house and took a fancial hit. we're now looking for a new home and wonder what options we have to put 5% or 10% down and have closing costs. >> that's a good option. >> you hav to have 7% down to buy anything in today's market. the days of 5% down are over. >> you nee 3% for closing costs. this is what i would suggest. an fha loan you nee 7% down, 1% or 2% for closing costs, and in today's market, ask for these closi closing costs from the homeowner. you're still goingo have to come up with 7%. >> thank you. >> good luck. and finally we have got another e-mail fm wilmington, delaware. what do you think is going to happen with the market? how soon do you think it will take things to get back on top. i was laid off from my banking job this year and have gone into the banking business. i have always work in banking my whole life. >> the big difference is commission basis, you've got to be comrtable working on a commission basis, don't worry whether you're going to make money in this market. because brokers make money as long as there's activity, good markets, bad markets, they still get their commission, the real question is are you comfortable with working on commission. the old boy network is shot, nothing's really working, so you couldn't have picked a bad time. but make sure you feel comftable on a commission basis. >> i know a lot of women who went into the real estate market as a way t supplement before the bust and thought it is a good way to balance raising the kids and making some money. >> it's a misnomer, even in the best of markets, getting into the marketplace as a part-time person never works, people never make money on that basis, it's a full-time career, you've got to get in with both feet. >> and if you u have real estate questions for barbara, you can head for todayshow.com. >> some of the most popular sweet treats from the pages of the "new york times." and we have a howling halloween party for you with costumes for your four legged friends. 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>> the popovers are as you can see just kind of fluffy. it's just like york shire pudding. i'll let ann help you with this. sure. looks like you've got two cups in there? >> two cups of milk. and then butter, melted butter. >> how much? >> the whole thing. and then flour and salt and then whisk. if you can serve, you can make both of these. >> you can stir it, you can do this? it's awesome. this is a recipe from 1966, by the way. >> recipes go back 150 years. what great about the "new york times" is they covered every major trend, every major chef and all of those recipes. >> a lot of history there. >> you need a special kind of pan for this? >> this is a popover pan. you don't have to use a popover pan. if you have one, you can put it out. it's probably been collecting dust. and you can also use a muffin pan. >> they're going to pop over on top. >> th's why they're called popovers. >> that is one big popover. >> yeah, exactly. how do you serve these. >> you can just eat them as is. eat them kind ofike y would -- >> you can also serve them with roast beef. >> so they're not york shire pudding because you're not cookg them in bac or beef. but they are a very similar recipe. >> it's the same batter. >> it's cled the essential "new york times" cookbook. i'm going to have a bite of this. and still to come, we'll be talking to shaun white in this broadcast, the two-time olympic gold medalist. we'll let you know more coming up on nbc. this f season, what would you pick for your flu vaccine? 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mexico has had a bad rap in the last couple of yea. >> we're trying to bng mexico into the fold for all the right seasons. it's not in international atntion for the right reasons. we have a week of exhibits here in rockefeller center. autograph signing, a soccer star at 6:00 tomorrow, a book signing here at the bookstore on wednesday. if you go actually to revealing mexico.com, you can actually buy this book and see the updated news and events for the week of celebrations. 100% of e net proceeds of this book goes go to foundation in mexico. that's sort of our offering to mexico. and for the writers who ben stein is a german writer. >> in that time visiting all 31 stat in mexico, what impressed yo most? >> i think what impressed me most was everyone who i spoke to, everybody in the book, all the taxi drivers, the bus drivers, everybody, they wanted more for their country. >> we hope this will give them more. thanks so much. john mack again, revealing mexico. hoda and kathy lee coming up next. two holiday costumes for your pooches, all that and more right after these messages and your local news. tuesday on "today," a back tohe future reunion. michael j. fox and his co-stars together again, live on "today," only on nbc. 9:56 is your time now. it is 65 degrees. getting warm out there. tom will have your forecast right after the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. in the news for today, in just a few minutes opening statements will begin in the trial of the man accused of killing chandra levy. ingmar guandique is accused of murdering the washington intern in rock creek park back in 2001. he is already srving time for two similar atcks that also happened in rock creek park. let's get a check of the forecast. >> about 10 degrees above average. temperatures will likely hit low to mid-70s. right now it's in the mid-60s. clou are beginning to lower as they come out of the southwest and later this afternoon, late afternn and into the evening hours we'll have some passing showers and there's a small chance an individual shower could produce some thunder and lightning. then tomorrow should be cloudy. small chance of sprinkles. highs low to mid-70s again. back into the 70s again on wednesday afternoon and cloudy and more likely showers coming through, perhaps some thunder and lightning. then on thursday, partly cloudy into the mid-70s. then much cooler and more autumn-like weather as we say goodbye to october over the weekend. how'the traffic, jerry? >> we'll head to silver spring just inside the beltway, an accident, fire rescue crews are on the scene. one more stop, the american legion bridge, there's the outer loop. as you come down from river road all the way to tyson's corner lookingood. same story for the inner loop, wide open. good news there. later today on "the nate berkus show" it is a home decorating challenge. two best f from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hey, everody. welcome to fun day, october 25th. we hope you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend. it is a nice day here. it was a gorgeous ekend here. >> it still feels warm. it was in the 60s and almost tipping into 70. look at people without their jackets on, some people just enjoying. >> ey came to see their hoda woman, sign some books. you were in some chicago. >> i went to chicago, right, to the prevention magazine event, which was terrif. met a lot of people and signed a lot of books and came back here and then went to sam's club in edis edison, new jersey. the biggest carts are not at sam's club. they're at ikea. okay, i wentoikea. i know you guys have been there. this was a new adventure for me. i did not understand that everything is in a box. so if you want a bed, you take your big cart to the place and you climb up on top of the thing and pull your bed down in a bo >> how can small people do this? >> ty have -- people are helping each other. there are guys -- i was so shocked how huge. it is acres and ares long. and everyone has these carts. >>nd don't they also sell swedish meatballs because it is scandinavia. >> yes. pizza at the end. and you - >> you earned it by then. >> you buy everying because you're like, my god, wooden spoons for $2. you don't need anything but everything ia nickel. >> that's the psychology of it. didn't you say i didn't need a cheese platter, but i got it. >> there was a lamp for $5. >> they love people like you. >> got it. it is like a globe and you put a bulb in it a -- you're going to be seeing my apartment very soon. your weekend was quite the adventure. >> we had a great weekend. we have very, veryear friends who live up in the amherst area there and it is so gorgeous this time of year. everything is peak. your foliage is in peak -- >> why do you keep bringing that up? >> another person called it foliage too. but the foliage was gorgeous, it was peak. i've told you before about my iends, mike and lisa kitrich. michael was the originator an founder of yankee candle. he was the genius who thought i think i'll put scents in candles and make them different colors and sell them to my mother's friends. he sold it for ny, many dollars and battled cancer three times, said i'm going to marry the woman that has been with me through all, we're going to have a family and see the world. what he was not planning on -- thank you, because he took us all over the world, he took us and our kids have grown up together, they ended up having two more babygils, but their son, mike's son is 20. he got the dna of his father. and started a brand-new candle mpany called kringle candle company in massachusetts. and there i was, and that's me with mick, we call him mick, little michael. i love places like this where it is -- here's the thing. there is frank. the thing we love about it is i love the pumpkin smell. but an orange can'tle lo lcandl hideous in my kitchen. their idea this time around was genius, make everything white, everything white, you can take the little -- the labels come right off, this one is called spiced apple. theyburn forever. they're absolutely gorgeous. this town had been hurting, that one is spiced apple. everything is re-useable, recyclab recyclable. this one is lemon zest, unbelievable. and then this one -- this is one i brought for you. look, smell the pumpkin spice. i put thi on in my kitchen yesterday and it smells absolutely glorious. >> i want this one. >> you can have that one. >> thank you. i love that. that is awesome. >> they're all affordable. go to kringlecandle.com. i love people like this that not are just dreamers, but doers. second time around, he says we're drinking a very expensive bottle of wine but licking labels. he's back to licking labels and stting it all again. god bless him. >> that's your favorite thing. >> that was my favorite thing for today, yes. >> let me tell you real quk what my favorite thing is. if you ever got into the shower and you want to take off your makeup and put lotion on you and all the other stuff and don't want a bunch of different jars and bottles to do it, hello, davins. this stuff is terrific. it is a cream that you put on your face in the shower, it remove your makeup, you put it on your body, and it moisturizes your body. you rinse it off afterwards, everything is rinsed off. you can put it in the ends of your hair -- >> the three things. >> yorinse it, all three. >> can you gargle? >> davins. it is all organic very cool, about $20 to $40 depending what you get. you have to rinse it off now. >> it smells nice. >> yeah, it is very -- >> no kringle candle but nice. >> it is nice. >> suld we go to sara? >> i love that, hoda, my mascara gets stuck on my face and you haveo -- i feel like you're washing, taking a shower at the sink again after the shower. my favorite thing is so high tech. it is cereal, kashi heart to heart. my friend sam is trying to lose weight and i told her about this, she said if it tastes healthy, i'm not doing it. now it is my guilty pleasure. i eat it dry, i put banana on it in the moing. the best. >> it is kashi, right? >> kashi. >> great stuff. >> it has a little sweetness to it so -- >> you know what else we have at is sweet, friday we didn't get to it, friday is try day and we didn't get to try it look at this cake. >> it is aake and a pie. >> an apple pie. >> it is called a pumple cake. >> only for large and very, very hungry parties or that one friend of you that has a problem. it should serve 40 people. i'll have a bite. try, that's the whole point. >> this whole slice, on our plates, 1800 calories. >> joy bauer would have a cow. mm. coconut in it. you know, when you don't eat sweets anymore, i could lick it. it is available at the flying monkey in philadelphia. i bet he fly after eating this. >> 1800. that's, like, a day and a half worth's of food. >> that is delicious. >> i want more. >> poor mel gibson. what do you think about this? i don't know. mel gbson was supposed to be in "hangover 2," going to play a cameo as a tattoo artist, going to be his comeback. remember when tom cruise did "top fever" and played the crazy guy and everyone started looking at him differentlyecause he was able to -- >> "tropic thunderthunder". >> now mel was supposd to and there was flack from members of the cast, bu no one specifically said -- >> he's been replaced by liam neeson. >> and he and liam share the same press agent. >> i didn't know that. >> i'm sorry, i don't know his name exactly but -- >> here is a quote from the director. i thought mel would ve been great in the movie, but i realized film making is a collaborative effort and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew. >> our question is,hen have you paid penance, when is it enough, when can you come back, when do you get a second chance? you go through the list of people who have, how shall we say, fallen out of favor, okay. alec baldwin, you know. >> he had a rant with his daughter. i kept thinking, the thing that makes mel's different is you heard his words. and you heard what he was saying to his wife -- >> girlfriend. his girlfriend. we haven't had him in his own words say he's sorry or have any repentance at all. lec apologized and seems to be in great terms with his daughter. i hated myself the entir time. >> you can't help it. n how about the hole where he didn't have his tooth. >> mike tyson was very funn remember, mike tyson was in prison f rape. >> but that was in '92. maybe people forget after a lot of years. >> i doubt the woman he raped forgets it. that's the way it is. no, i'm sorry, me things we seem to be able to forgive and other things -- >> i think it is over. i think people forget over time who -- i think you forg what someone was accused of. i think people are like that. >> do you remember what martha went to -- martha stewart went to prison for? >> some securities fraud stuff. >> insider trading, that sort of thing, now back with her show, the whole hallmark channel. tiger woods, that's not over. that's in the paper today. but he's playing gf and doing very, very well. >> it takes time. i think ultimately at the end people do forget and i think they accept people. i think people like to see a comeback, even when someone has been tough something really horrible. >> they like to see second and third acts. do you think mel should be given another chance? >> i think over time we'll see him again. he can't imagine we wouldn't. what do you think? >> i hope so. i think everybody should have a second chance or third chance if they truly learned something from what happened. if you don't believe in redemption, what's the point of living? every one of us needs it. >> we're all going to fall. >> especially you, hoda. >> stop it. let's talk about brett favre. first of all, all i saw was the front page of the "post" and it says not mine. i was like, i wonder what they're talking about. so brett favre apparently admits that he calledhis sports reporter, but he says he never sent her any photos down there. >> how could you tellanyway? unless there was defining characterists. you know what i'm saying? it takes a left turn or somethi, you know, it's obvious. >> oh! >> how would you know otherwise? it could hav bn photoshopped. >> all those things. >> a right turn, i don't know. >> bob is with us. he'll tell us. >> he's done a lot of that over the years. >> there has been a big baby boom in hollywood. >> i'm so excited and happy for celine dion and her twins. she's been public with her desire to have more children and they had a lot of trouble having their son, so very happy. they were about a month early. >> they were. >> the twins. >> and matt damon, he and his wife -- >> we saw him recently at the event in greenwich. that's the event, i think, that we were at, in dwrgreenwich. she was lovely. you know what i remember that day, that evening, we were at an evt for jim bell'swife anjelike in greenwich, kentucky. remember his wife went into the restroom with us and he was standing outside the ladies room, to make sure e was okay, waiting for her. >> is she still in there, he said. >> is she all right? is she still there? >> that's who you want. >> it wasn't movie star talk. >> i can't wait to see the pictures toof the cute little babies. >> we need good news around here. >> also in the paper, there was a new york issue -- a story. a cbie was driving a woman and her child in the bac and the child got sick. and -- >> it happens. >> threw up in the cab. >> projectile. >> and the woman felt terrible, she got to her apartment, called her husband, said, look, we're sorry, we're going to clean up the whole cab. >> the husband was waiting when they got there, ready to clean up, ready to do. >> the cab driver said, no, give me $120 because i have to get this professionally cleaned because no one will want to get into my collaboraab cause it wi wreak. he called 911. >> why 911 ? why not the better business bureau. he wanted to lodge a complaint against her. >> she offered to pay. if you get into a new york city cab and you know someone was in there before u and it wasn't a good scene, it is bad, you hve to get out immediately. i'm sure he'll lose a lot of fares but stuff happens. >> life happens. i'm sure the mother and the son -- well, the son he probably -- but the parents, they handled it beautifully. >> what else are you going to do? >> sme kids are fabulous at it. i mean, just -- they're unbelievable -- you cannot imagine how far it can go and how much damage it can coudo. some kids are incredibly talented. sounds like this kid was. you got into a cab the other day and it was like that. >> yes. >> try going totlantic city and walking into your dressing room and it wreaks of that. >> if a child does it, it is okay. if a drunk adult does it, i'm out. >> a sick adult is not drink. >> let's check in with sara. >> we have to? >> we were asking about mel gibson and when penance has arrived. heather wre, when the past repeats itself so often, it is hard to do. and then sue says it is too soon for mel. >> yeah. >> we're getting a lot of -- >> the battle is still on. it is an ongoing court ttle. >> too fresh. >> thanks, everybody. guess who's with us? >> rob with the celebrity buzz. how'd you do that? do what? it tastes too good to beiber. you made it taste like chocolate. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. do it again. turn it into something tasty. this guy's doing magic. there's chocolate chips in here now. how'd you do that? 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>> it was an indian minister that did it, a hindu minister is what i found out. >> i heard it was a hindu wedding but a christian minister who married them. >> i n't believe that's so but we can check. >> check please, rob. >> she did wear a sari, a traditional dress. there was elephants at the wedding. >> did any celebs end up going? >> nobody, nobody. >> you would ink with thr show business lives that somebody would be a best friend out of all that. >> the one that was rumored to go is rihanna. this is lovely. this was not a showbiz wedding. this is family and friends at a luxury big resort, a couple of elephants and tigers and bes, oh my. >> we touched on mel gibso and the "hangover 2." what are you hearing? >> this is shocking that mel thought he got this gig, he was really excited to ma ed td to m comeback. this was going to be his tom cruise moment like in "tropic thunder," a small part wherehe movie wouldn't be a success or failure because of his name. if you make a comeback, it is smart to do it without any risk of failing. >> was it just too early? >> it was early and it was the cast. the cast really got together here and this is amazing, this never happens, the cast got together and said, we just don't want him to be part of this. plus, i think everybody knew his attention to him was going to take over the entire movie. >> that could be. >> only in the scene for, like, less than two minutes. liam neeson taped the scene yesterday, did it in half a day. it shows you how short the scene was. mel's participation was becoming too much of a distraction, so we don't know if it was moral reasons, don't know if it was attention, but he's gone. >> do you think the jodie fostr film he made called "beaver," which is brilliant a will it ever be released as a result? >> i don't ow. they don't have a release date for it. it is hard. with mel's name above a title, are the audience going to go? >> tell us about the babies. we talke about the twins. >> pictures there. >>this is a great story too. celine dion had her baby boys, early, but very healthy. both five pounds, ght, thank goodness. nobody worry. they had the best attention. mommy's healthy, the twins are healthy, everything is very, very god there. and matt damon had another little girl. >> four now. >> can you imagine? >> his wife had a daughter from another relationship. four girls. >> very private. so matt has never stagedhose baby pictures. if you think about the other girls, we have never seen matt on the cover of a magazine with the babies and anuncing them to the world. i'm being told it won't happen with this baby. you're not going to see this baby for a long time. >> the paparazzi is vying for it, though. >> celine is planning to do the sit down with the twins. i hear it may be "people" magazine and she has a show in vegas coming up in a couple of months. >> she'll be a size zero by next week. >> what about lindsay? what is t latest on lindsay lohan? >> lindsay is back in rehab. the only other option was prison. she'll go back to rehab. however, lindsayannot afford to stay at the betty ford clinic. >> it is not cheap. >> $50,000 for 90 days. lindsay doesn't have it. >> even with all the films she was -- >> all the money is gon >> the lifestyle she was living is very costly. >> it is. and a long time she's been living it without making any moies. >> and a lot of -- and a lot of people were- their salaries were paid by her as well. >> even her mother, you know, family got paid by her. a lot of people are lindsay's payroll. the money is not there anymore. now they're trying to figure out how does she stay in betty ford? and unfortunately and this is a repulsive tale, but a trueone, she's looking for a onsor now to maybe pay for her to stay at rehab and when she comes out, she will endorse products. >> what a world! rob, good to see you. until next time. still to come, we're serving up adouble mctwist. >> the hottest snowboarder in the world, shaun white is here. first these messages. o...um...thank you. excuse me... this is yours... thank you! with chase freedom you can get a total of 5% cash back. excuse me, sir...what a pretty blue card. oh! give him the money. what? oh..a. that's 5% cash back in quarterly bonus categories all year long. that card's your favorite color. sign up for this quarter'bonus today including movies. see megamind in theaters november 5. chase what matters. go to chase.com/freedom. ♪ [ female announcer ] nutri-grain- one good decision... ♪ ...can lead to another. ♪ ♪ ...made with real fruit and now with more othe whole grains your body needs. nutri-grain can help you eat better all day. still to come on this fun day on "today," he snowed the whole competition at the olympics. we'll talk to two-time gold medals -- what is he dog over there? 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>> i think it is. all daughters, we heard, found tt they want their moms to be happy, they want their dads to be happy, but when your mom starts telling you, you know, exactly what's happening on r dates and details come out that you real don't even necessarily want to hear about your friends, let alone the people that raised you, radio t the reaction is la, la, la. >> kids grow up thinking their parents don't do that stuff anyway. when they do it with somebody else, it is disgusting. >> it shatters t things that make this a difficult topic. one is the feeling as a child no matter how old you get that your rents will always be together and always love each other and that's an intense fantasy that people hang on to through divorce and through death. >> why? is that for our own sense of safety. >> identity and safety and being loved and everything right with the world so that when your parent, even if the other one dies, stas to ve feelings for someone else, it can be very painful. it is a painful reminder that that other person is not there. >> what is the right way to do it? if your kid - let's say your mom is dating, you want to kow some things because you want her to feel comfortable saying, hey, i met someone, what is the right way to play it? >> daughters told us they want to know their moms are happy and happy to know basic biographical data about the men their mom mit be dating but don't want to hear intimate dails or anything thatill make them worry about their mom. you're still the daig. you don't want to have to take on the mother role and start worrying, why isn't my mom home yet at 2:00 in the morning. >> say your mom has met somebody and they're enjoying little dinners out and walks in the park and stuff. all of a sudden he wants to take her to vegas for the weekend. what do you do? >> you remember you can't have a role reversal. they're still your parent. you can have an adu-adult relationship but you can't become their parent. your temptation is going to be, you know may not go to las vegas and such, but really that's a role reversal. you can say things if you're concerned, like, gee, you know, do you really feel you know him well enough or, you know, and explore a little bit. at the end of the day, it is no up to you, even as an adult child. >> what do you think -- sometimes there are people looking for women who have some money. what if you think this guy might be after that? >> i think you can encourage your mother to take certain precautions. you can make sure her money is clearly under her name and encourageer to share that data with you, but, you know, you really do have to resist the tendency to be her parent. >> don't you find it is almost incredible, you can be with some 80-year-old people and all of a sudden they're teenagers again when it starts to happen. they forget all the wisdom they gained over 80 years. i'm get in the back seat of the -- >> mom! >> that's part of the enjoyable part, right? it does take you back. you feel youthful and it is exciting and it is fun to be, like, in new love. so you want your parent to have that, but you don't want to get caught up in that where you start treating them like they're 2. >> your mother needs to learn to talk to her friends about that, not to talk to you. >> no sexu, no sexual talk. >> some adults are anxious for you two to leave because they have got their costumes on. and they want to show off. they're ready for howloween. >> howloween. ring ring. progresso. i look great in my wedding dress with the help of youamazing light soups. oh, so when's the big day? 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