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determine what caused her untimely death. determine what caused her untimely death. today, monday, july 25th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this monday morning. i'm ann curry. >> i'm lester holt in for matt this morning. this morning's court appearance by the man who confessed to that tragic mass killing in oslo, norway, has now been closed to the public. >> authorities didn't want to give anders breivik a platform to speak out. today's arraignment comes hours after the victims were mourned at an emotional me motorial. we will have the latest. also, a scary encounter in a group of teenagers who gathered for survival skills in alaska. the boys were crossing a stream when attacked by a brown bear. two of them were badly injured. we're going to get details coming up. also this morning, a fresh blow to a mother who lost h her-year-old son in a hit and run accident that happened as their family was crossing the street. the driver who admitted he had been drinking served just six months. but now the mom could spend up to three years in prison after she was convicted of, among other things, failing to use the crosswalk. we will be talking to her exclusively this morning. the big 40, the milestone birthday that makes people squirm. but now some women are seizing the day and giving it a brand new meaning. we're going to explore that further. let's begin with the latest on that deadly shooting rampage in norway. nbc's martin fletcher is in oslo this morning. martin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. anders breivik is in court right now being arraigned on charges of terrorism. meanwhile here at oslo cathedral, this has become the center of mourning. this drama is just what the confessed killer wants, christian war to defend europe against muslim domination. at noon local time today all of norway paused for a minute silence in memory of the victims who died for one man's obsession. ♪ and at sunday's memorial in the oslo cathedral, king harold and queen sonya cried with their people. a nation shocked, listening with horror to the survivors of the massacre. >> he looked like a police officer. he had all the clothes and the gun and everything. >> it was like fireworks. >> reporter: as breivik's lawyer said breivik planned the attack for months, but why? rarery has a mass killer's motives been so clearly laid out. only two hours before allegedly setting off the massive bomb that killed seven in oslo center and driving, according to the police, to the island and hunting down and killing at least 86 teenager, breivik, 32 years old, posted a manifesto on the internet. 1500 pages. the work, he said, of several years. in the very first sentence breivik wrote, it is better to kill too many than not enough. later, we do not want to do this but we are left with no choice. and his capitol hihilling final i believe this will be my last entry. it is now friday, july 22nd. and then breivik set off on his murder rouse rampage. breivik wants a platform for his political views. >> this is the start of a revolution that will change the world. >> reporter: breivik wants to stop muslims from immigrating to europe, to end european attempts to have different people live side by side, what they call multi-cultur multi-culturalism. breivik also wrote that in 2002 he formed right wingers, from eight countries, so now the concerns in europe are who are they, did they act alone and is there another breivik out there. >> martin, thank you. she was on the island and survived after she was shot in the leg. good morning to you. let me first ask you what was the first sign of trouble? >> it was the shooting from the -- from one the side of the -- on the island. i heard, yes. and then i didn't understand what was happening. >> you were on a hill. and you ran, i understand, into a house. and you were trapped inside this house with some other young people, some young women. tell us exactly what happened. >> i was just in a small room in the main house. and when the man come into the house, we heard shooting inside and everybody ran out, windows, doors, from inside the room. but some people were just in the room, in the corner. and when he come in from a door, he start shooting on the people on the floor. and then three survived. >> three survived of how many in the room? i understand you were shot in the leg? >> yes. ten people were shot in that room. >> some of these -- some of these young women, i understand, were young girls, really, and you're just 16 years old, i understand. some of these girls were your friends. can you describe just sort of how you're able to be speaking to us given what you've witnessed? >> i don't understand what happened, too, so that's why i'm so cold right now. i think the feelings will come later. >> so you're in a state of shock, which is -- which is very understandable. as you are witnessing your country's state of mourning, your entire country is in mourning, you're also hearing this information that this accused shooter, this gunman, had a manifesto and that he was anti-islam, anti-multi-cultur anti-multi-culturalism. what is your reaction when you hear what motivated the gunman? i think it's horrible. it's horrible that my friends was killed. as i believe in multi-cultural norway. for my beliefs. >> i see. have you been able to understand how it was that one gunman could kill and wound so many people on the island? >> not really. just -- i didn't know it was so many until the day after. it's hard to know that he was in a policeman suit, so he attracted people and said it's okay, therefore many walked to him and got shot. >> did you look outside the window of the room after you were shot or did you stay you're alive because you pretended to be dead? >> i think i'm alive because i pretended to be dead. i had a woman lying over my body, and i lied under her until the police come to the main building and get us to the hospital. so everyone was -- the three people that was alive in the room was just lying. we didn't know how many people that was shooting so we didn't know if they were coming back or just leaving us. >> well, ingvild, we're glad to speak to you. and we wish you every luck in your recovery. i know i want you to know that the whole world is so sad for what has happened in norway. our best to you, dear. >> thanks. it is now 7:09. here's lester. >> quite a young lady that's been through a lot. now to washington where there is machiplenty of blame, still no deal to raise the debt ceiling. time is running out just eight days away. capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell has the latest for us. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester. the deadline they set for themselves keeps slipping. now speaker boehner wants a proposal to show his members when they get back to washington this afternoon around 2:00. majority leader harry reid says he thought he had an alternative ready to go of $2.7 trillion in deficit reduction. but so far, it's a no-go. no deal yet. the word went out to house republicans in a conference call on sunday led by speaker john boehner, a pep talk and call for unity after this message on fox news. i would prefer to have a bipartisan approach to solve this problem. if that's not possible, i and my republican colleagues in the house is prepared to move on our own. >> reporter: treasury secretary tim geithner laid it on tea party republicans. >> the problem is they have a vocal, loud, frankly irresponsible minority in their party who wants to take this country to the edge of default, and that is not acceptable. >> reporter: aides say boehner told his members to prepare themselves to give. he said, it's going to require some of you to make some sacrifices. while the speaker accused democrats of playing politics over their demand that a debt ceiling increase must last beyond p 2012 election. >> i know the president is worried about his next election. but my god, shouldn't we be worried about the country? >> reporter: democrats don't want a rerun of this mess during the president's re-election year. but the republicans want two steps, raise the debt ceiling by $1 trillion now with equal cuts and vote to raise it again next year with a next big chunk of cuts be made. >> not some short-term gimmick where we're right back in this fix. >> reporter: and beyond the debt dilemma, house democrats have another problem to deal with this morning. a scandal. seven-term oregon congressman david wu accused of online sks well encounter with a long-time friend. she's calling on the ethics committee to initiate an investigation into the allegations against congressman wu. she said, with deep disappointment and sad. about this situation, i hope that the ethics committee will take up this matter. that is a strong signal from nancy pelosi about his future. we are told he is not going to seek for re-election but democrats are calling for his resignation. lester, thank you. autopsy is being conducted today to determine how grammy winning artist amy winehouse died. the 27-year-old singer/songwriter was found dead inside her london home on saturday. stephanie gosk is in london with the latest on this story. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. i'm live in camden. this is the heart of london's music scene. it's where amy winehouse died. it's where her apartment is. she also often played here. this morning her parents visited here. her father spoke with reporters. he said he is absolutely devastated at her loss. her parents would not comment on speculation that she died of a drug overdose. this neighborhood has been attracting musicians for decades now. it's alternative. she fit right in. ♪ it was a rapid rise to fame and a familiar tragic struggle with all that came with it. ♪ amy winehouse's first album was released in 2003, not that long ago. she was only 20 years old. ♪ but it was back to black, the second release that launched the singer/songwriter's short career. nominated for six grammys, it won five. but those words would become the young star's undoing. tempted by drugs and then debilitated by addiction. >> i said, amy, you've got to do this, you've got to go to this doctor, you've got to do this, you've got to do that, you're killing me, you're killing your mum, none of it worked. >> reporter: on saturday winehouse died in her london home despite rescue workers' attempt to revive her. tabloids are filled with speculation of a drug overdose. winehouse went in and out of rehab. but ultimately, she couldn't beat it. in belgrade this spring the kickoff of a performance of a comeback tour was disastrous. her timing was off, she slurred lyrics, seemed drunk. the crowd boo'd. many left before it was over. she grew up in north london picking up a love of music from her father. her early favorites were sinatra. her own music would eventually rely heavily on jazz but often with hip-hop and r&b flare. >> amy winehouse combined elements of jazz and rhythm and blues and blues in a modern setting. and, thus, was reminiscent of some of the great female vocalists. she was one of the rare true artists of our time. >> reporter: the british newspapers are filled with speculation. today some of these reports conflicting, one saying that there was no drug paraphernalia found in her apartment, others saying she had gone on a 36-hour binge. the police say it's too early to speculate. later the coroners will perform a post-mortem. >> however she died, tragic. >> very sad story. a lot of 350epeople wanting to her. coming up later we're going to talk to a couple of people who have been down this road of addiction and talk about how difficult it is. but the sense that there really is never a lost cause. always find a way. we'll get to that a bit later on. we want to get a check of the other top stories. natalie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. the maid accusing dominique strauss-kahn is speaking out pb blikically for the first time. 32-year-old tells ""newsweek"" she was nervous and so afraid during the alleged incident and that she wants the former imf chief to go to jail. attorneys for strauss-kahn responded saying it is time for this, quote, unseemly circus to end. the first same-sex marriages took place across new york state on sunday from niagara falls to manhattan city hall. two americans are among the at least 36 people killed over the weekend in that train crash in eastern china. some 200 others were injured. the accident happened when lightning struck one train causing it to lose power and stall on the tracks. moments later it was smashed from behind by a second train coming from the same direction. two men charged with severely beating a san francisco giant's fan faced a judge for the first time today. luis sanchez and marvin norwood are accused of beating 42-year-old paramedic brian stoe during the opening day game between the giants and dodgers back in march. several teenagers are rofring this morning after being mauled by a bear over the weekend. they were rescued sunday. 17-year-old of denver was one of the youths on the trip who was attacked and received life-threatening injuries. his parents say they're just happy he's going to recover. >> i was so happy that he wanted to do it, that he wanted to get out there and do this backpacking and adventure, great stuff. and there are risks. so we're just thankful and relieved that he's okay. >> in all, four teens were hurt, but two only suffered minor injuries. they were participating in a survival skills leadership program. and a history making win at the tour de france on sunday. evans is the first australiian ever to win the race in cycling. he crossed the finish line saying simply, it is really incredible. he won it in the time trials. 7:18. back over to ann, lester, and al. 2100 miles, three weeks, quite an accomplishment. >> meantime this morning, we're enjoying the color purple. >> not the movie or the book. in any event, we've got the color red online on our map but not as big a line on our map bu as big an area as it was over the weekend. can you see heat watches, warnings, from texas to iowa. today kansas city 95, 105 wacko, laredo 102. big area of high pressure dominating. it's stuck right now in the south but as we move on toward the he said of the week it builds back into the east. that means the mid-atlantic will have more record breaking heat. that's what going on around the country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> but not quite as hot today. good morning, i'm meteorologist tom kierein. around the region we've got thick humidity and haze in the air. temperatures are warm and muggy in the low and mid-70s to upper 70s. later today we ought to hit the low 90s with clouds building. likely storms developing this afternoon into this evening, some of which could produce heavy downpours. that may cause localized flooding, lower humidity, >> and that's your latest weather. now to the harsh scrutiny being placed on the dna evidence used to convict american college student amanda knox of murder. keith miller is in perugia, italy with the latest on this story. >> good morning, ann. this is the beginning of the end of amanda knox's long battle in court to win her freedom. and in he's final days of testimony, it's all about the dr dna. the underground courtroom bunker built to prosecute mafia was packed. when court was in session, knox visibly stiffened. this is the last chance for the justice she says she deserves. then a forensic scientists pointed by the court to review the dna evidence testified about the results to convict knox and her former boyfriend, failed to conform to international standards. specifically, the knife allegedly used to murder knox's roommate, an exchange student from england, could not be retested as there wasn't enough dna material to analyze. and another key piece of evidence, dna allegedly matching knox's co-defendant is too contaminated to evaluate. >> we are hearing very minute fine details. mistakes that were quite obviously made. >> reporter: in her new book on the case "the fatal gift of beauty" the author claims knox was the victim of a rush to judgment. >> it was impossible to find anyone in perugia in 2009 who didn't believe that this girl had been the ring leader of a diabolical sex game. >> reporter: the 24-year-old from seattle, washington, just celebrated her fourth birthday behind bars with a cappuccino. her mother hopes knox can spend her next birthday back home with family and friends. >> she's definitely more hopeful that she will be spending christmases and everything from, you know, now on at home. >> reporter: in the closing stages of the trial, the defense team will also raise the issue of motive. the prosecution originally claimed this was a crime linked to a sex game gone wrong, but that theory was never proved in court. the fall back motive, did knox murder her roommate in a jealous rage, seems to have fallen flat. and this case remain on the front pages here because basically the testimony in these closing days seems to point to the innocence of a young woman wrongly convicted. ann? >> all right, keith miller this morning. keith, thanks. coming up next, why would a mother drive drunk and high with her young children and nieces in the car? we're going to talk to her sister-in-law about the controversial new documentary on that deadly wrong-way crash. but first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, 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[ male announcer ] get your own subway® bbq pulled pork sub. slow-cooked pork with bold barbecue sauce. morning, july 25th, 2011. our friends on rockefeller plaza, the northeast is getting a little respite from this heat wave. people are waving to their friends back home. meantime, inside studio 1-a, i'm ann curry and this is laester holt. the latest on the tragic story of a wrong-way accident here in new york state that left a family divided. a mother who police say was drunk and high, crashed her minivan killing herself, her daughter, three nieces, and three other people. now a controversial new documentary exploring this case, we will have detail on that and also talk to the woman's sister-in-law just ahead. plus, another tragedy. it's about a 4-year-old boy hit and killed as he crossed the street with his mother. now in a twist that has outraged some in the community. that woman has been convicted on charges tied to the case and could spend more time in jail than the driver who killed her son. she will speak out exclusively. >> all right. we are also going to get to a special series on what it means to women to turn 40. coming up, why more women are celebrating instead of hiding from that major milestone. coming up, all kinds of great things, marathons, go out for a spa day. hopefully inspire some of our listeners. >> enjoy. a lot to get to. let's begin the half hour with more of the untimely death of the singer of amy winehouse and the demon she battled. peter alexander is in london with more. peter, good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning to you. autopsy results are expected as early as later this afternoon. a formal investigation, an inquest, will also begin this afternoon. just a short time here outside amy winehouse's home. we did see for the first time from her parents, they came, mitch, her mother, and mom janice, visiting this location as well as all the fans that have come here over the last 48 hours. her dad said he was both devastated and speechless by his daughter's loss. now as you come back out live, you can see that massive memorial that has grown here over the last 48 hours. fans of amy winehouse leaving behind flowers, cards, candles, as well as alcoholic drinks and cigarettes being left here. winehouse had a very public well documented battle with drugs and alcohol. the question this morning is could anything have been done to save her? stumbling, incoherent, and disoriented. amy winehouse was clearly in no shape to perform in serbia in june, her tour canceled. a month later at age 27 she was dead. >> i think a lot of people knew she was headed down this path. ♪ >> reporter: it was her 2006 grammy-winning "back to black" album that made her a global sensation. >> ai think a lot of the pain ad trouble in her life came right out as she sang. >> reporter: as her celebrity soared her life began to unravel. the young singer acknowledged addiction struggles with song "rehab" here in her u.s. tv debut on "the late show with david letterman." >> amy tried just about everything. there was crack, there was cocaine, there was pot. >> reporter: before long her personal missteps overshadowed her music. >> she was in and out of rehab. ever since the "back to black" album. >> reporter: there were run-ins with the law, public fights, emergency hospital trips. even a video that appear to show her smoking crack cocaine. >> she was addicted to so many substances. >> reporter: winehouse also battled eating disorders and often looked gaunt and pale. >> amy's family tried numerous times to get her help. it never stuck. >> reporter: in 2009 her mother janice even spoke about fearing for her daughter's health. >> the need to rescue her is like enormous. i just want her to be okay. and i would do whatever it took. >> reporter: the downward spiral continued. >> many people are asking if amy winehouse could have been saved. i believe, yes, she could have had the circumstances been different. >> reporter: she now join what's many in the music world call the 27 club, along with fellow musicians, jimi hendrix, janice joplin, jim morrison, and curt cobain, all of whom died at just 27 years old. >> such a sad and familiar story. it will make her a legend of sorts but she could have been a much better legend. it's just a tragedy. >> reporter: also today we're learn that amy winehouse's record label, island records, insisted she have weekly doctor visits. the last doctor visit was here at her home at 8:00 p.m., the night before she died. >> peter alexander in london for us. thanks. we're joined by addiction expert and pat o'brien, tv personality and recovering addict. good morning to both of you. kristina, you had your own battles are alcohol and drug addiction. watching this story, all weekend long as i talk to people about amy winehouse, nobody was shocked. they were sad but everyone kind of shook their head as if they expected this to come. is there anything such as a lost cause when it komcomes to addicn and recovery? >> no n. my opinion, absolutely not. that's why i've dedicated my life to helping families. i was as hopeless as they come. 18 years ago i was homeless in the streets of san francisco eating in dumpsters and here i sit with you today. >> you failed in recovery, didn't you? >> i don't believe there's failure in recovery. i also think it's so important to say right here right now that treatment also works. treatment is effective. treatment gets a bad rap in the media and i want to be very clear that when you use treatment for what it's used for, which is detoxification and stabilization, treatment is successful. >> there's treatment and there's what happens afterwards? >> we lose good people is the re-entry into their lives and folding back into a media mix or a pr firm, although they're good at selling image, they are not good at teaching individuals how to live sober. nortd to live sober behave to align ourselves with like-minded individuals that share the same thoughts and feelings and struggles. >> you deal primarily with people whose names we will never know. let's turn to pat o'brien. pat, you know what's like to live in a public way. and to almost be a punch line at times. how does that affect what is already acknowledged a difficult strug until. >> lester, good morning. yeah, you've got to ignore the punch lines. i'm going to plagiarize russell who talked about amy, i hope that this allows people to look at alcoholism differently. it's a disease. you know, when i was in detroit, i almost died. coming up on 100,000 days, and you know, 1,000 days, i was almost dead. very smart people would say to me, pat, just stop drinking. you can't stop. it's a disease. our brains are wired a little differently. you know, if someone has cancer, i battled that, too, you can't say to them, well, stop having cancer. but with cancer there is a solution. there are solutions that you can do. there is no cure for alcoholism. >> pat, how many times have you blown it, have you fallen off the wagon and have you ever reached the point where you're like, i just can't do this? >> i relapsed three times. public relapses. i did stupid things and blackouts when i did them but i'm over that now. you can't get sober until you want to get sober and you have to have a structure and people around you that want you to get sober. there's no pill. there's no cure. and there's two things. there's alcohol and there's ism. you can stop drinking but then you have to take care of all the other thinks that go along with it. it's a lot of work but can be done. we talk about amy winehouse but 100,000 people died last year from alcohol-related diseases. get to the other story later and somebody who killed a family of four driving drunk. so it's not just celebrities. there are a lot of people out there suffering. >> christina, could amy winehouse, in your opinion, have been saves? >> i think -- i think there's hope for every addict and alcoholic that's suffering. it's really about after care and supportive, you know, support. after somebody leaves treatment. you know, i don't know amy winehouse and i don't know her story but i know addiction better than i know anything else. when there's appropriate structure around somebody, yes. we recover and we tlif and we go on. >> your family at one point rejected you, said we love you but we can't be you anymore. how important is the family dynamic in getting people help? >> it's imperative. addiction doesn't just happen to individuals but to family systems. and when my family let me go and, yes, i merely died, but then letting me go i came to terms with my own disease. and i certainly -- i want to -- we have to remember that today, you know, a family woke up without their beloved child. >> sure. >> and it's so tragic. and in this is what happens to addiction. left untreated, people die. >> this is a good discussion. i'm glad we had it. thanks so much for being here. pat, as always, nice to have you here as well. let's get a check of the weather now from al. >> lester, thank you so much. we've got some -- i guess you would say some pretty rabid dallas mavericks fans. what's your name? >> gracie. >> emma. >> i hope that's makeup or else you've got to see a doctor. >> yeah. >> good. >> emma. >> i hope that's makeup or else you've got to see a makeup. let's check your weather. below normal out west and new england. above normal in the midsection of the country, showers and thunderstorms in the east. mid normal temperatures back into the east, stays cool out west. then as we get toward the latter part of the week, much of the country above normal temperatures with showers from new england into the mississippi river valley. country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. thick humidity in the air on this monday morning, the 25th day of july. right now we're in the 70s to near 80 degrees. later today not quite as hot as it has been, we'll climb into the low 90s. mid to late afternoon evening hours around the metro area we could get some thunderstorms that could produce some heavy downpours that may cause localized flooding. earlier in the day in the mountains in shenandoah valley. lower humidity moves >> and that's your latest weather. lester? 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>> i know it's very hard because you can't dispute science. but if you look back at the type of person she was and what -- she would never do such a thing. she would never be driving to her brother's house with his children in the car, with her children in the car, and driving drunk or drinking. where did she drink? when did she drink? how did she consume that much alcohol in that little bit of time? one and one isn't making two to us. and i just feel that i really want someone to find out what happened to her. >> so the documentary does not resolve the question that your brother wanted resolve. >> unfortunately. >> when you looked at this, you looked at this case for more than a year in this documentary. what did you discover about diane that the family did not -- does not see in them, in their sister-in-law, for example? >> look, when something like this happen, when a tragedy of this magnitude happens, we have a need for answers, search for answers. some of those answers may not be findable. we did find, you know, that jay's and danny's stories about diane as a mother who was devoted and as a totally responsible executive were backed up by the people who knew her. you have that reality. and then you have the reality of what the toxicology reports said around the events of that day. how do you go about reconciling them. >> is it possible that she could have been a great mother, great person, was, as you described, the wonderful mother, who was also drinking? because the toxicology reports say there was twice the legal limit in her body? >> that to me alone makes me think -- how could that have happened? what could spark somebody at that point to all of a sudden decide at that moment on her way to her brother's, driving with the five kids, the phone call before saying everything was fine, we're on our way, and then a phone call saying something's wrong with aunt diane and the quotes that brian has said, that mommy's head hurt, she couldn't see? there's nothing that -- did you see her buy alcohol, did you see her do this, did you see her do that, there's so much unanswered. could anything -- i'm not saying anyone made any mistakes, but could anybody -- could have accident scene, anything that happened there altered anything? i know it sounds naive or gullible because of a fire, because of an exit -- >> she was suffering a tooth abscess. >> yes. could anything have done -- did anything to alter the results or anything like that? if we check every avenue first and then maybe tell me, we've checked everything. >> this tragedy has fractured your family. and it's made it very difficult, that's part of the reason why this has been controversial, is the mother of the three girls who died, the three sisters who died, wrote in "ladies home journal" that she's upset that you used emma's last words, her daughter emma's last words, there's something wrong with e diane, as the title of this documentary. >> had we known that that would have caused jackie pain, we would not not made that choice. we certainly did not wish that to happen for her. >> do you think your family will heal? 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>> well, let me explain here. you can see it's a busy street. the crosswalk, i think they determined it was .3 of a mile and even then coming home you had to cross another side street which is very dark in itself in order to get home. i was trying to hurry up and get home. so we wouldn't have to be in the dark. >> and now, with this situation being as it is, your reaction to the driver getting six months, serving six months, and now being on probation. >> i've had, like i said, to accept that he's gotten six months. there's nothing i can do about it. and even though he has had a history of it, i know nobody gets up that day and says i'm going to kill a 4-year-old. so i've had to forgive that portion of it. however, i think to come after me so much harder than they did him, i say it's a slap in the face. this will never end for me. >> you face three years? >> i could. >> and what would that mean to you to face three years? >> it's three years away from the two that i have left, and the part of him that stays alive with me to a degree, other than remembering him. so that's the worse part for me, is separation from the other two. >> do you feel that the jury treated you fairly? >> i don't think they could relate to what i was going through. i think that there was a lot of evidence that wasn't -- i can't say allowed to be presented but it all went very fast and many of the jurors -- actually all of the jurors, they've all said they've never ridden public transportation and they've never really been in my shoes. so i think there was maybe not a jury of peers, if that's what the statement is. >> when you say in your shoes, what do you mean by being in your shoes? >> well, as i said, they all mentioned they never had to ride public transportation or walk down a busy street. i'm sure they've had children, but most of them probably weren't single mothers, either. >> you are hoping that the judge here is what you call a hero. >> yes. >> why? >> because i understand that she had to do her job. she can only judge the evidence and things that are brought before her. we are just hoping as a family that she is compassionate and let me niece remain with her other children, because she needs to be with her other children. she hasn't really had a chance to grieve yet. and i believe she needs to be able to continue with her life with my other nieces. >> this accident happened more than a year ago. you've not had a chance to grieve? >> in my own ways. it's been harder, you know, because of the situation because it made me have to hold up just behind all the pressure of knowing that i possibly could not be with my other two children. >> do you relive that moment constantly or are you able to put it behind you the moment you crossed the street? >> you know, you're always going to relive it. you're always going to replay the moment. i guess it's hard to explain if you've never been through something like that, but you're always going to relive it. it may not be every second. then you're going to have to find times where you cannot let it dictate what's going on as far as at work it kind of takes my mind off of it and i've kind of had to push it away. >> is there anything you want to say about your 4-year-old boy? >> other than the fact that i miss him a whole lot and i think my other two daughters are -- they've been able to survive the situation has given me something to move on for. i don't think i could have without my other two. >> raquel, thank you for talking to us. thank you, loretta, for being here as well. >> thank you. >> we'll be back right after this. it follows you wherever you go. it's a cloud of depression. and although you've been on an antidepressant for at least six weeks, you're frustrated that your depressive symptoms are still with you. seroquel xr, when added to an antidepressant, is approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder. for many, taking seroquel xr with an antidepressant was proven more effective for treating unresolved symptoms of depression than an antidepressant alone. call your doctor if you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. elderly dementia patients taking seroquel xr have an increased risk of death. call your doctor if you have fever, stiff muscles, and confusion, as these may be signs of a life-threatening reaction or if you have uncontrollable muscle movements, as these could become permanent. high blood sugar has been reported with seroquel xr and medicines like it and in extreme cases can lead to coma or death. your doctor should check for cataracts. other risks include increased cholesterol and weight gain as well as seizures, dizziness on standing, drowsiness, impaired judgment and trouble swallowing and decreases in white blood cells, which can be fatal. use caution before driving or operating machinery. for more help putting distance between you and your depression, ask your doctor about adding seroquel xr today. learn more at seroquelxr.com. if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. paint supplies and... moving boxes. ♪ hey, i just finished painting in the kitchen. why is he still here? 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we're going to let you in on a secret. >> before we get to that, a check of the weather. it's let you in on the ticket. >> first a check of the weather. nice to have balmy temperatures, sort of balmy. >> not quite as bad as last week. >> a breeze now. >> as we show you for today, expecting a risk of strong storms, upstate new york back through the plains, sunny skies through the southwest where temperatures again will top 100. for tomorrow we've got our risk of strong storms in the upper mississippi river valley, monsoonal moisture in the southwest, also in the southeast. sunny and warm in the northeast. thunderstorms indoors in new england. country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. hazy sun now. temperatures near 80 degrees later today in the low 90s, perhaps briefly into the mid-90s by midafternoon. then mid to late afternoon around the metro area, some showers and some thunderstorms, some heavy downpours that may cause flooding. then earlier in the day, some showers and storms moving into shenandoah valley in a couple hours. then tomorrow and wednesday lower humidity and beautiful summer weather. but then heat and humidity return into the and of course you want to find out your weather any time of day or night, weather channel on cable or whether or not.com. up next, daniel craig on "cowboys and aliens," james bond. but first, this is "today" on nbc. daniel craig is perhaps best known as his role in bond james bond. while he gears up for his third installment of his "devil of franchise," his latest project is not the kind of action and adventu adventure, he stars in "cowboys and aliens" playing a stranger who wanders into an old western town with a secret that could save them all. daniel craig, good morning. you are a revelation in this movie as an american cowboy. >> thank you. >> i don't know how an english actor pulls off an american cowboy swagger. how did you do that? and also the accent. >> i just watched lots of cowboy movies and stole everything i could, basically. >> from who? who did you watch? >> we watched everything from "stage coach" on wards. so but a lot of the westerns are my favorite and later. and then i got the chance to work with real cowboys and wranglers and i just watched the way they walked and talked and the way they held themselves. stole the bits i liked. >> well, it definitely worked for you because you pulled this together in how you walk and how you talk. and my sense is that there's a little bit of eastwood in this character and a little bit of john wayne. >> i didn't want to go through anything too specific, but i guess as long as the good bits, hopefully the good bits. >> you did a lot of stunt training, i understand, for the film. was there anything james bond didn't already know? >> well, the horse riding. i hadn't done a lot. i had done a little on movies before but never anything at this -- giving me the chance to ride as much as this. i was on the horse every morning and most of the day. so i just -- that was the staubt training in itself. >> a lot of -- we just talked about the cowboys. the aliens part of this film, we don't have a clip of the actual aliens. we have a clips of some of the attacks. but the actual ailliens made me scream out loud. >> they did? good. >> how about you? >> i screamed out loud. >> really? like a little girl, you did? >> yes. i haven't seen it. i saw it the other night at comic-con at the premier, but i hadn't seen all the effects coming together. i was really looking forward to it. >> the aliens are ghastly. >> nasty. >> and i imagine this is a movie that combines them both and people are kind of going, uh, say what? both of them together. >> we sent out to make a straight a western as we possibly could. that's one of the reasons i was so sort of tempted to do it was that having a conversation with the director and he just said, look, i want to make a straight western. i'm a big fan. i want to make as near to one of a classic western as we possibly could. and the aliens land. by the time that happens, people are sort of into this story and into these people, and it feels as real as it possibly can. >> meantime, as i mentioned you were also filming the third install i'm of your james bond character. is there anything you can tell me about it without having to kill me? >> well, we haven't started shooting yet. wa we're going to start shooting in november. we have a great cast. we have a great script. the film will come out next november, 201. >> i'm excited about that. >> i'm very excited a it. >> do you have to bulk up for that? you already look like -- i don't have to bulk up for much. i'm just going to get fit. >> get fit. meantime, you were also in "the girl with the dragon tattoo" which is coming out and "dream house" with a woman you married last month. she's lovely. congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> well chosen. >> thank you. >> and you seem to be on kind of a -- i would say a major roll right now. how would you describe where you are in your life, given all of these movies, given all that's happened? >> i'm in a good place, i suppose. i'm just enjoying my work, and life's good. just -- i'm just getting along with things. >> you're on the kcover of magazines now. you did have hungry ears. >> a long ago. i've been working steadily for 20 years. i'm okay. >> do you still pinch yourself overall that's happened? >> all the time. >> yeah? >> all the time. sometimes it's -- i sometimes wonder how i got here. a boy from liverpool playing a cowboy in a hollywood movie. >> where are you going from here? >> right now? back to bed. >> no. had to get you up early. i know. it's so nice of you to come in this early. no, do you want to direct? where are you heading? >> i don't know. i love acting. i get a kick out of it. there are plenty of directors i haven't worked with. i'm just going to crack on with that. >> lucky us. daniel craig. thank you so much for coming here and waking up and being with us this morning. the movie is called "cowboys and aliens," opens in theaters this friday. and coming up next, going all out for the big 4-0, what some women are doing to reinvent that milestone. what makes the sleep number store different? you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you want a firm bed you can lay on one of those, if you want a soft bed you can lay on one of those." we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. this is your body there. you can see a little more pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. then they start telling us, "well yeah, i feel sore right there in the morning." my lower back. that's right where i've been experiencing pain. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting and allow the bed to contour to your individual shape. oh yeah. it's really shaping to my body. when you find somebody's perfect level of comfort, that may be the first time they've ever felt a bed that feels exactly like they're hoping it would. you can adjust it however you want so you don't have to worry about buying the wrong mattress. once they get our bed, they're like, "why didn't i do this sooner?" and now the revolutionary sleep number bed is redefining sleep again. find your sleep number and join over 7 million people who love their bed. only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. ♪ back now at 8:42 with a kickoff of a special two-part today's women series and this morning, facing 40. these days for many women the number itself has a different meaning than it did just a decade ago. nbc's aditi roy looks at how generation xors reaches 40. >> reporter: it used to be turn 40g symbolized the end of youth. now it's the beginning of something better. >> on my 40th i'm preparing for my first triathlon. >> reporter: jennifer allwood is racing towards 40. >> what a better gift for myself than giving myself the gift of health and fitness. >> reporter: it was a picture perfect birthday holiday in tuscany for dina's 40th. >> i wanted to be in a place where i turned 40 that i knew would not run out of wine. >> reporter: and for jennifer o'donnell, she's planning on celebrating 40 with a beach week followed by a spa day. >> i'm always thought 40 was a big deal. >> reporter: entering a new decade and changing her old ways. >> i definitely grew up think 40g was old. as you get closer, it's really not that old. >> reporter: turning 40 is a different experience for women these days. they're in the midst of raising kids, building their careers, and running their daily lives. and more and more, instead of dwelling on what's behind them, they're looking forward to what's to come. >> they are much more vibrant than their mothers or grandmothers were at this age. >> reporter: sharon jason writes about behavior and relation 14i7s for "usa today." in an article push bled today, she says soeshology may explain why for generation xers are s. no longer middle age. >> 40 a few decades ago was sending a child to college. now they're having babies. >> i like to say i'm going to be 40 and fabulous. >> reporter: 40 wasn't always fabulous. not too long ago the mere thought was enough to spark tears. >> i'm going to be 40. >> when? >> some day. >> reporter: but now, these women are redesigning their views on age. >> i'm more comfortable with myself. life is easier. >> reporter: it turns out 40 is more of a moving milestone. >> the older i get the younger 40 feels like. >> reporter: making old days seem blissfully out of reach. for "today," aditi roy, nbc news, los angeles. >> we are joined by three ladies who have all celebrated their 40th birthdays in style. sarah brokaw, licensed therapist and author of "fortitude" and trisha is co-author of "i was a really good mom before i had kids." ladies, good morning. >> good morning. >> as i was mentioning, i am right there, almost there, and i know how i'm feeling getting ready to turn 40. but how is it that the women that you talked with in your book "fortitude," how did they feel? >> i think there's mixed emotions for many of these women. i think that there are a number of women who feel like, yes, it's a great milestone, ready to celebrate, and also a lot of other women who feel like they didn't accomplish enough, they didn't read certain traditions that they are supposed to reach at that age. definitely a mixture of emotions. that's what my experience has been as a therapist. >> amy, let me ask you because a lot of people are putting the pressure on me. what are going to do for the big 4-0, where is the birthday. >> we've interviewed hundreds of women for our first book "i was a really good mom before i had kids" -- >> we love the title. >> we asked them, one of the questions was, what is the best compliment we can get. we always heard over and over and over again to be a really good mom. we went back to those same women and asked the same question and their answers shifted as they approached 40, the best compliment was that they look younger than they are. that is another shift generat n generationally. i want to mark this, i want to show the world that i'm not my mom's 40, i'm young and vibrant. better than ever. >> jump-start into what's my next chapter going to be? what do i want for my life and for my family and who am i? >> that's what m thinking. where do i go from here? >> a lot of women don't ask those questions and they go and have big parties and celebrations and suddenly feel like myself, i felt completely blind sighted, like a big dark cloud came over me. i'm not prepared. i haven't asked myself questions yet. >> even though you two did the girlfriend getaways and parties, you said it hit you like a ton of bricks. >> it was. it was like a huge black cloud at the end of the day. >> great. >> something to look forward to. >> it's like you get a memo, congratulations, you're 40. act really excited about it and go to the party and then, boom, go figure out your life. have, you know, inspire your kids. find out what your whole purpose is in life. by the way, do it all while you look 28 years old. >> sarah, how dow we reconcile those expectations for us for a lot of us do that v. that picture i'm going to have the house with the 2.2 kids and the backyard and that's going to be my life and the job and the career. but if you're not quite there and those expectations are still there. >> it seems it's going to be natural for us to have expectations. i think that's how we try to navigate our lives. but i do think it's essential for women to understand that there's no expiration dates. i think that life does happen on a continuum. so whatever milestone has been set by society, we don't necessarily have to reach the milestones at a certain age. >> right. >> i'm thinking about marriage, i'm thinking about kids, i'm thinking about changing jobs. i think if we give ourselves a break and say i know i'm going to reach a certain milestone at a certain point in my life, i just don't have to do it when society tells me to do it. >> it's very different as you mentioned, amy, 40 today and what our mom's 40 was, right? >> we're more empowered. the exciting part is you can reinvent any part of your life at any given time, change your job, rethink your marriage, set a new goal for yourself. that's all. we really didn't watch our moms do that. that's exciting. >> when they ask you, trisha, 41, was it easier? >> definitely. you go to work. you have to think about what your goals are and what you want for your future. it's important to take the time to do that for yourself. >> i say it's a great reason to celebrate. i'm planning a big celebration. sarah brokaw, tom brokaw's daughter, as well, trisha and amy. thank you both, all of you, so much. coming up tomorrow, sarah is going to be back with us at why some women hitting 40 are happy to be childless by choice. but up next, yankee's great, derek jeter. but first, this is "today" on nbc. we're back with some of the biggest names in baseball. new york yankees derek jeter and second baseman here to tell us about a week long program now in the third year. good morning. thank for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> derek, tell us what you guys are doing. you're not just giving, your giving yourself. >> it's a great organization, it's a fun time. us as athletes, we have a platform and we can use that platform to impact lives in a positive way. that's what hope week is all about. >> showing up places and doing stuff, right? with people. >> no question. i think, you know, you can give money but i think, you know, giving your time, that's something that makes it a lo lot more worthwhile. >> what is it like when you walk in, someone meets you for the first time and you're not just dropping off a check or doing something, you're actually rolling your sleeves up and working? >> it's fun. to be able to get out in the community and get away from baseball and step away and actually have an impact. >> this was a yankees thing for a while, but now it's spreading to other teams, starting to embrace it. do you hope this becomes a league wide effort? >> yeah, i mean, this is how you make it. guys are smiling. and now the minnesota twins are doing it. >> we love you guys to come on every year and talk about hope week and what you're doing. derek, while you're here. 3,000 hits, a huge mark. has it settled in now? is this pressure off? >> it's settled in but it's over with. now we have to try to win some games. it was fun but we're trying to win a division here. >> does it feel different now when you get to the plate now that you've passed that milestone? >> not at all. it's even harder to get a hit when you come up now. >> if you're past the halfway point right now, nip and tuck with the red sox here in the division. are you feeling another world series run? >> well, yeah, i mean, we have a great team. many people wonder about who is going to get it. but still got a lot of games left, top of the season. we've got a great team. >> any predictions, guys? >> playing hard. >> yeah, we don't make predictions out here. play hard and see what happens. >> you're making a lot of kids happy here. and you're making a lot of folks happy with hope week. enjoy the rest of the season. we're certainly enjoying it. >> thank you. >> our favorite week. >> last week when it was so hot out, we're usually sweating in the stands. i know it's got to be hotter on the field. how do you guys handle all that? >> al, you didn't say it was going to be that hot. >> throw it back on you. >> ouch. >> no, it's a lot better. it's a lot easier to play when it's hot than when it's cold so i would rather have the warm weather. >> do you want to warm up tomorrow? >> yes. >> great. thank you. thank you so much. >> boy, you guys are great. thank you so much. wow! back after this. 8:55 is your time now. 82 degrees. take a look at the haze. it's hard to see anything out there. we'll tell you if we're getting relief any time soon. tom will have the forecast after the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. police found a missing 7-month-old baby in baltimore and the babysitter accused of taking him in d.c. this is video of the children's hospital where ki'yauch birch is said to be. he was found with his babysitter, 16-year-old jonae boozer who is now under arrest. the baby was left in boozer's care friday in baltimore. a firefighter is being treated for heat exhaustion after battling flames in hyattsville. this is at a home along 43rd place. red sox helping people good morning. we are hazy now. temperatures around 80. later today low 90s and storms likely later this afternoon and this evening. some of them with heavy downpours. lower humidity moves in tuesday and wednesday. how is traffic now? >> traveling 66, jammed at gal owes road heading east. delays actually begin at fairfax county parkway. eun, back to you. >> thanks so back now can more of "today" on this monday morning, july 25th, 2011. folks out here at rockefeller plaza having a good time meeting the new york yankees derek jeter, c.c. sabathia. anyway, they're here for yankees hope week. and i'm ann curry along with lester holt, al roker, and savannah guthrie. coming up, talking about that situation in norway. we're going to try to give you an update on the tragedy where details are still emerging about what happened about the suspect, the bombing and the mass shooting there. >> of course, we're still reacting to the death of amy winehouse. fans have been gathered outside her home. we'll have the latest in the death of the troubled singer and five-time grammy winner found dead at the age of 27. also ahead, ways to save money during this troubled economy. there's one day of the week in particular where you can save the most money on everything from clothing to gasoline to groceries. so i'll tell you about that in into. >> good to know. later on, if you're trying to eat healthy and lose weight. some of the foods you think are so good for you, not so fast. we're going to tell you which ones actually a good for you and how you can avoid the ones that you think are good. >> oh, my goodness. we thought we knew. by the way, derek jeter is -- >> there he is. >> -- over there. wow. very exciting. anyway, let's get to natalie. she's got a check of the top stories. hey, natalie. >> good morning, you all. and good morning, everyone. the suspect in norway's mass murder spree had his first court hearing this morning. 32-year-old anders breivik was denied a public forum for his anti-muslim views. he killed 90 people friday with a bombing in oslo and shooting rampage at a youth camp. democrats and republicans are working on two competing plans to prevent a u.s. debt default. house speaker john boehner's republican plan parroted temp boost in the borrowing limit with spending cuts. democratic plan from senate majority leader harry reid would increase the borrowing limits through next year. the tributes have been poring in for british singer amy winehouse found dead on saturday. autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death. peter alexander is in london with more. peter, good morning. >> natalie, good day to you. the autopsy results could be completed and released as early as this afternoon. inqui inquiry, formal investigation will also begin today. stumbling, incoherent and disoriented. amy winehouse who is clearly in no shape to perform in belgrade, serbia, in june, tour canceled. a month later at age 27, she was dead. >> i think a lot of people knew she was headed down this path. ♪ >> reporter: it was her 2006 gram grammy-winning "back to black" album that made her a global sensation. >> i think a lot of the pain and trouble that was in her life just came right out when she sang. >> reporter: as her celebrity soared, her life began to unravel. the young singer acknowledged addiction struggles with the song "rehab" here in her u.s. tv debut. >> amy tried just about everything. i mean, there was crack, there was cocaine, there was pot. >> reporter: before long, her personal misteps over shashadow her music. there were run-ins with the law, public fights, emergency hospital trips, even a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine. in 2009 winehouse's mother janice even spoke about fearing for her daughter's health. >> the need to rescue her is like enormous. i just want her to be okay. and i will do whatever it took. >> reporter: she now joins what many in the music world call the 27 club, along with fellow musicians jimmy hendrix, janice joplin, jim morrison, and curt cobain. all of whom died at just 27 years old. today we're also learn that amy winehouse's record label insisted she have weekly doctor visits. we're told that last visit took place friday night at roughly 8:00 p.m., the night before she died. natalie? >> peter alexander there in london for us. thank you. the associated press is reporting that a deal has been reached to end the four-month nfl players lockout. team owners overwhelmingly approved a proposal last week. the players' executive committee is meeting today. and the boy wizard was no match for a patriotic super hero at the box office. "captain america," opened on top with nearly $66 million intact sales. "harry potter and the deathly hallows, part 2" plunged to second place and "friends with benefits" was third. you're update. let's go back outside with ann, lester, and savannah. >> al, what much. let's find al roker somewhere in the crowd. hey, al. >> folks from the weather channel here actually. very nice. all of a sudden showed up. who knew? let's check your weather, see what's happening. this heat wave has shrunk thank goodness but we still have our friends from texas all the way into iowa dealing with extreme heat. some of these records possible. little rock 99, st. louis 94, garden city kansas 95, san antonio 99. the high pressure ridge is built out west. that's where the heat is concentrated but move into friday, look at this, expands back into the northeast, the east and mid-atlantic states. we've got temperatures building back up into the 90s near 100 degrees once again toward the latter part of the week. country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. hazy sunshine now and temperatures in the low and mid-80s. 85 now at reagan national, later today in the low- to mid-90s. mid to late afternoon around the metro area we'll have some showers and thunderstorms. earlier, though, shenandoah valley and mountains, some isolated storms heavy rain that could cause localized flooding. lower humidity tuesday and wednesday, highs near 90. thursday, heat and humidity do return. we have a small chance of afternoon storms each day.'s yo weather. natalie? >> al, thank you. now on "today's" money, hump day deals. everyone looks out for a bargain. did you though that smhopping o a certain day of the week can save you money? we have great deals that you can find, starting this wednesday. good morning. >> good morning, natalie. >> we all clip coupons, a lot of us do, look for deals. actually shopping on a certain day of the week can save you as well. >> wednesday is where it's at. you know, timing is very important when you're trying to save money in this economy. and as we found out, that some retailers lower their prices on certain items on wednesday either because of supply/demand or trend. >> travel, groceries, we're going to talk about all of those. first up, gas. gas prices are up almost a dollar over last year. is wednesday the best day? >> wednesday morning according to gasbuddy.com. a plooe free application to check out gas prices in your neighborhood. they found gas prices lower their prices by five cents per gallon on wednesday because they're anticipating the rush on thursday, friday, and the weekend when there's more drivers on the road and they can amp up their prices on the weekend. so on hump day when it's usually slower, they lower the prices to get more drivers on to their -- who knew. fascinating. next, saving at the grocery store. you want to maximize the coupons you maybe clip. wednesday is the day to do it. >> according to mygrocerydeals.com. it aggregates all the circulars throughout the country on one site. if you're at home and you want to know what the deals are at your local grocery store, check this website out. wednesday evening is great time to shop because isaisles like produce, bakery, meat aisle usually lower their prices around 8:00, 9:00 before the store closes because they want to get rid of anything they have to throw out. >> get ready for the weekend as well. okay. now, how about online shopping? and you say, again, the day of the week can depend on where you're trying to save, right? >> sticking with wednesday since that's our theme. wednesday, according to shopittome.com, they looked at hover 300,000 deals from june of last year to june of this yearnd they found that on wednesday, women's sweaters and children's clothing experience their lowest prices, about 40% off, both of those categories. then if you're looking at monday, today is a great day to buy dresses and jewelry. >> okay. >> deepest discounts. tuesday is sports coats. thursday is shoes. friday is suits and -- suits and -- >> how do you remember all of that. >> sportswear. >> okay. so always good to look online and see where the deals are on specific days. and then the next thing, airline tickets. labor day is right around the corner. getting ready for vacation travel. >> a lot of us do book online. industry experts say wednesday, and you want to set your alarm clock for this. wednesday at 1:00 a.m. >> what? >> typically when prices reach their rock bottom levels. that's because, so, you know, friday is usually when the airlines start to reduce their prices. but the prices continue to drop until wednesday. wednesday is rock bottom. and on wednesday around midnight the airlines will reload their computers to reflect the prices. the best prices from tuesday and they'll reoffer them on wednesday. but around 1:00 a.m. is usually when they hit the web and they last for about 24 hours so you do want to act fast. >> be sure to set that alarm clock. next, if you are booking tral as well. what about hotels? do you find deals wednesday as well? >> my tip is to start your research on wednesday. go to hotels.com, expedia, orbit, and find out what is the best prices for the hotels you're interested in. then pick up the phone on sunday night and call the hotel and let them know that you're interested in staying there, that you found these other deals online. sunday night is great because you can probably get a manager on the phone, the weekend rush has quieted down and you might be able to negotiate your own deal with the hotel directly using these other deals you found online as sort of, you know, a negotiating point. >> so it's only monday but we've got two days to get in the act to start saving for wednesday. >> head start. >> all right. great information. thank you. coming up next, ways to protect yourself from cyber criminals when you go online. and later, nutrition mistakes that can side track your diet. track your diet. my whole body hurt. it was an ongoing, deep pain. i didn't understand it. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means, i can feel better and do more of what matters. 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>> because they include updates that have additional privacy and security software that protect you. viruses are constantly mutating. so in order to keep up with it your operating systems need to be updated. whether you have a mac or windows, do the updates. >> i love the next tip because we're all guilty of it. the easy password. >> is your password is password and you know who you are out there. >> yes. >> you need to change your password right away. >> i could get my sister's password or mom's password, if you use your middle name. >> or pet's name. any word in the dictionary is a bad password. what you want to do is actually mix up numbers, you know, capitals, you know, capitals in lower cases, symbols, even misspelled words and put them together with a number in the middle. that's the best way to do it. >> make up a word entirely. all right. you say be wary of e-mail links. >> from a friend or from your bank or pay pal, don't click on it because that's an easy way to get viruses. instead, if you think your bank is trying to contact you, go and call your bank or go to the url, go to the bank's website and then see if there's any information. >> sometimes banks do actually contact you. just because you hear from the bank doesn't mean it's necessarily suspicious. >> well, rarely will they ask you to click on a link and ask you to click on a link and put in a password. >> let's talk about shredding deleted files. what do you mean by this? i thought if you hit delete, that's it, good-bye, it's over with. >> a lot of people are getting rid of computers. they go and delete all of their files. the fact of the matter is all those files still live on your hard drive. >> shred? >> get software, free soft awar by eraser. go to their website and that essentially shreds the deleted files to make sure they're completely gone. and then it's safe to donate that computer or get rid of it. >> can you do it manually if you know how to do it? it a matter to delete e-mails and go to the delete out of the deleted folder? >> you need the special software. >> it's free. no reason not to do it. the next recommendation is regularly back up your data. any of us who have had a hard drive crash knows this is important. >> oh, yeah, you can lose photos, all of your personal information. a few very easy way toss back up your data in case your computer has a virus is external hard drive or the thumb drives. but the best way to do it is with an online storage system. amazon has a system called cloud drive. the first five gigabytes is free. >> rogue pop-ups, different from regular pop-ups? >> these rogue pop-ups will say, oh, you need to scan your computer, danger, injuvirus, whatever. most of those things are bogus. but if you're concerned, turn off your computer and restart it and see if the message comes up again. >> quickly, you say people are worried about tracking. what is that? >> it's a creepy thing. ever go on a website and click over to another website and seems like ads are following you whatever you go on your computer? that's behavioral advertising. they're tracking your every move. that's kind of creepy. it's an invasion of your privacy. some of the browsers are including do not track software and you have to just activate it. >> great advice for us computer surfers. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. coming up, chef to the royals, she is here with her favorite summer recipes using fruits of the season. but first, these messages. 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i'm having a good chianti. as we check the forecast. >> where did you go, al? >> i don't know. help me. below normal temperatures in new england early part of the week and out west, midsection of the country, mid-atlantic states. by the midweek period, we start to see above normal temperatures in the northeast, below normal temperatures out west. latter part of the week normal along the west coast but a good portion of the country will see above normal temperatures and higher humidity with showers and thunderstorms from the mid mississippi river valley all the way into the northeast. that's what going on around the country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. i'm tom kierein, low and mid-80s with hazy sunshine and high humidity. later today into the low- to mid-90s briefly then late afternoon early evening hours, some thunderstorms could come through with heavy downpours. there is a chance that some of those could produce brief flash flooding in localized areas. lower humidity moves in for tuesday and wednesday. highs near 90 each day for lots of sun. heating up for the week into the weekend. humidity does return as well. >> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you, al. coming up next, a bear attacked a group of teenage boys in the alaska wilderness. we're going to find out how they're doing, right after this. . and now, b vitamins to boot. coffee doesn't have fiber. unless you want it to. get more with new splenda® essentials™, a small boost of fiber, or antioxidants, or b vitamins in every packet. same great taste with an added "way to go, me" feeling. new splenda® essentials™. get more out of what you put in. look in this sunday's paper for a three dollar coupon. they gave us a consumers digest best buy award, then they gave us an iihs top safety pick, and you -- well, you gave us your approval. so we thought, why not give a little back? 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"looking light" contributor is here with a reality check. tonya, great to see you. a lot of us feel at this point we know what the healthy things are to choose in a restaurant or supermarket but sometimes we get a little misled, don't we? >> nutrition is such a science. it seems that one thing we heard yesterday changes the next day. it is important to keep up on the latest science. here today we're going to desspell some of the most common nutrition myths. >> eggs, it's a perception it's better to eat brown eggs than white eggs. >> when it comes to both food brown is better, more nutrient dense. but in eggs there's no difference in the nutrition. the thing with brown eggs is that nutritionalwise, compared to white eggs, it is the same vitamins and nutrients and the same ratio of yolk to the whites. what the price difference has to do with this s. the size of hen. typically the hens that produce the brown eggs cost more to feed and that cost is passed on to the consumer. >> nutrition ali the same. what about those with omega 3 acids, are those better? >> those eggs do have an enhanced nutritional composition but those eggs are typically white but not brown. when it comes to eggs, listen to your wallet. >> a lot of people are drinking soy milk these days. >> soy milk is great for vegetarians who would like to get calcium into their diet. and rather than drinking cow's milk they drink soy milk. the difference is it's not suspended the way it is in cow's milk. it cinches to the bottom of the carton. you can do it but it's important to shake the carton vigorously before pouring your glass. >> every time. >> every time to make sure you get the calcium. >> ground meat, i'm guilty of this. i pick ground turkey or turkey burger thinking that's got to be lighter in fat than ground beef. not so? >> if you're getting the turkey breast you are getting the leanest cut with only .5 grams in a quarter pound. but many cuts of turkey or ground turkey combine both the white meat and the dark meat. therefore, a quarter pound of turkey breast can contain as much as three grams of saturated fat compared to 2.5 sat chur rat is the chsaturated fat in surloin. >> ask the waiter if it's only turkey breast, but if it's just says ground turkey, get the sir loin. >> a lot of people get turkey bacon thinking it's lighter in fat. >> i mean, there are some, you know, very fat can y. cuts of pork bacon that are thick but if you get the center cut turkey bacon -- excuse me, the pork bacon, there are leaner choices. 60 calories per slice. of course, turkey bacon is extremely lean, jenny o., there's very lean turkey bacon that's only 20 calories p per slice. but it's important to read the label. >> are you getting more salt if you choose the turkey bacon or ground turkey? >> not getting less salt with turkey bacon. nor on the flip side more with the pork bacon. it depends on the brand. once again, the label is going to help make the healthiest choice. >> vegetables, hard to believe they're not perfect and healthy for you. boiling can boil away what is nutritional about them. >> i grew up with a grandmother who boiled all her vegetables. is issue is vegetables contain water soluble vitamins and they get leaked out and poured down the sink. at "cooking light" we found that when you either saute them or microwave them or steam them, you can maintain the vitamins. but when you boil them, you lose 55% of the vitamins. and they say that broccoli where they boiled broccoli for five minutes and 55% of the vitamins went down the strain drain. >> quickly, those vegetables have been dieting, people say i won't eat anything all afternoon. you say snacking is good. >> snacking is essential if you're trying to maintain your weight and energy levels. snack one to two times a day. snack should be one to 200 calories. we recommend low fat source of calcium like cheese, high fiber nuts and low calorie fruit. >> or a bag of doritos. just kidding. thank you so much. coming up, some healthy recipes using the fruit of summer from her royal highness, giada de laurentiis. but first, this is "today" o i'm laura, and this is my cvs. i just transferred a prescription to cvs because they have care 1on1. it's where the pharmacist stops and talks to me about safety and saving money with generic prescriptions. laura, let's talk about possible side effects. it's all about me. love that. get care 1on1 and talk savings, safety, and side effects when you transfer or fill a new, ongoing prescription. i'm laura, and this is my cvs. it's all mine. ♪ this morning we're cooking with giada, "today's" contributor, and chef giada de laurentiis. you find yourself with a fridge full of fresh fruit and no idea what to do with it? giada has creative and delicious recipes. good to see you. >> good morning. >> it's great going into the market now because there is so much in there. >> yeah. >> what's freshest right now? >> well, the berries are definitely in season and super sweet. this is the time to buy them. peaches, plums, apricots, watermelon. when i was a kid this was my favorite time of the year. it tasted who it was supposed to taste like. >> stone fruit, sometimes you think it has to be rock hard. >> you need to touch it. you have to hold fruit. if it feels nice and heavy, it's full of juice. sometimes plums and stone fruit tends to be dry. then smell them. and then also just check to see if there's any blemishes or bruises on them. >> we make a jam. >> we're going to make a jam, yes. >> we're going to jam. >> we're going to jam. >> slow jam. >> especially with these colors, we should be m gentlemaning. anyhow, with the berries, they kind of rot very quickly. a lot of people tend to leave them out at room temperature in the heat, a lot of times it gets too hot. >> put them in the fridge? >> yeah. >> a lot of times i'll say don't put things in the fridge because it kills the flavor but berries, put them in the fridge or they won't last. take a bunch of strawberries and blueberries. i make this mixed berry and thyme jam. go for it. then we use orange juice. you can do lemon. you can do some thyme. fresh thyme that you chop up. thyme is a hearty herb but a lot of people don't realize it's lemony. it works well with fruit. and then a whole cup of maple syrup. >> wow. >> yes. >> oh! >> i know, right? >> man. >> so the whole idea here is that you just kind of have to smash them a little bit. smash them before you add everything or smash them after. break them down a little bit and cook them for 15 minutes. >> how high? >> high heat. it s >> after 50 minutes it won't be quite this thick like jam yet but let it sit for half hour, it gets this thick. this can last up to six months. >> really? in the fridge? >> yeah. i do these kind of things and give it to people as gifts. it's awesome. dl you go. what do you think? >> that's fantastic. >> doesn't have too strong of an herb flavor. very mild. >> a little bit. >> just a little bit. you know? >> a little extra watermelon. >> yes. wat watermel watermelon. a lot of people just eat it regular. this is a fun thing to do for kids and adults and parties in the summer. i take a skewer. cube the watermelon. put the watermelon all of the way down to the bottom so it can sit up straight and then do a basil leaf and a tomato. there you go. you can do another basil leaf. and then to make it fun, i just do a little square of feta. >> i thought that was -- >> you can do marshmallows, too. that's true. the kids would like that. and then do watermelon and end it with tomatoes if you want. you can do it with the cheese or without the cheese. what i like to do is drizzle a little bit -- we might have to do it just right here. look at this. this is balsamic vinegar and a little bit of sugar that's reduced down. >> some of that leftover maple syrup. >> yes. or you can do the maple syrup, too. good point. back here. so we got a couple more things. salads. obviously very popular. i was trying to talk savannah into it this morning. arugula and bibb lettuce. raspberry and lemon juice. oops, not all over you. olive oil and salt and pepper. you can put the lid on and make a really nice raspberry vinaigrette. there you go. okay. >> okay. >> yep, there you go. >> yes! yes! >> turn it on. >> yes. i don't ever know which button it is. and then you end up with this. pour this over the greens. and i do a little something like pumpkin seeds. to make it a complete salad or with protein, i grill shrimp. look at the beautiful color. is that not beautiful? >> toss that? >> slightly tart, slightly sweet. that's your summer salad. >> and the classic short cake? >> yes. short cake, you can buy them, you can do this on pound cake if you want. i take plums and peaches and apricots and cook them down with lemon juice and sugar. 15 minutes it falls apart like that. >> just in time. >> ah. love it. >> thank you. >> those are the ones you couldn't touch earlier today. there you go. >> we bow to you. >> actually you do that in the beginning. >> i meant to. i completely forgot. we're not worthy. >> delicious. >> yeah. >> giada delaw rent w de lauren >> with t. one and only, aretha franklin. another hot one out there but not as hot as it has been. we'll check the weather coming up shortly. good morning. it's 9:56 on this monday july 25th. in the news at this hour, police found a missing 7-month-old boy from baltimore and the babysitter accused of taking him in d.c. ki'yauch birch found along nannie helen burroughs in d.c. birch was found with his babysitter 16-year-old jonae boozer who is now under arrest. she was found in baltimore. a firefighter hospitalized following a fire. the cause under investigation. find out how hot it's going to be today, tom. >> we are heating up now, temperatures around the region, for the most part mid-80s. 88 at reagan national. it will climate 5, 6, 7 degrees by late afternoon. could get storms earlier around shenandoah valley over the next hour, showers and thunder maybe. later this afternoon and into this evening is when we could have that around the metro area. some of the isolated storms could produce heavy downpours. danella, how is traffic? >> in d.c. police activity has c street closed between 3rd street and 6th street northwest. be aware of that as you make your commute. show you 66, i-66 at gal owes road. i am saying delays as you pass fairfax parkway and make your way on 66 east past the parkway. barbara. >> thank you. coming up on midday we'll talk coming up on midday we'll talk to a lawye if you've tried to lose weight, you know it's hard to find a diet you can stick to. try jenny craig, and enjoy options that fit your lifestyle. choose to get motivating support at your local centre- and pick up the delicious food while you're there. or, have the food delivered... and get the same support on the phone. it's about choice: stephanie lost forty pounds on jenny craig. so try a weight- loss program that combines results with flexibility: call jenny craig at 1-800-94jenny today. helping you buy better. from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotbe. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> we're so glad you're with us, it's fun-day monday, july 25th. hope you survived a a sweltering weekend in most of the country. somehow we survived. >> we made it. in studio 1a, you'll be tapping your toes, because aretha franklin -- >> the queen of soul. >> is in the house. >> let's hear something that will bring us back down memory lane. ♪ just a little bit ♪ oh, yeah ♪ just a little bit ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪ find out what it means to me ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t >> this is -- the 38th studio album. >> this is one of those songs that she sings that you're going to close your eyes. >> rolling stoen name her out of 100 greatest singers of all-time, the greatest of all-time. >> in the meantime, we've recovered. >> speak for yourself. >> tell the folks what we did. >> we were in rehoboth beach this weekend, we're shooting a piece that will air on thursday. we want to give you a little taste of what happens in rehoboth beach, delaware. >> not on a daily basis. >> there's something they call drag queen volleyball. >> if you take a close look at all of these guys and people -- everyone is dressed -- with their ta-tas were out and their nails were done. >> but enough about me. >> kathie lee somehow won. >> and i still don't know how that happened. >> but i had the geishas on that team. >> it was so hot on -- this was -- >> how hot was it? >> it felt like -- >> it felt, the heat index, i think it was about 116 degrees. and i've been there since 10:00 that morning. we had a lot of fun. we're going do show you the piece on thursday, what we can show, a nice home family television show. >> and we were at the browse about books store. >> it was an amazing group of people, a lot of fun. >> about 1,000 people. >> wow, a lot of people, huh? >> yeah. we only had two hour, because i had a plane to catch. but they said, you know, at the rate we were going, it was going to take more like three hours to do it. so we rushed through, we're sorry, everybody, we didn't exactly get to sign every one. >> but to show you how hot it was, people were going to the hospital because they were getting second-degree burns on the bottom of their feet from the sand. it was scorching. we picked the weekend to go to rehoboth. >> but we played volleyball there. we don't care. one of the sad things that i think pretty much very few people are the least bit shocked by this, is that amy winehouse died over the weekend in london. it's not -- confirmed, what she died from. but most people are -- >> there's a lot of speculation. >> 27 years old. >> you know what's funny. she is younger than britney spears. britney spears is 29. when you look at her, she just seems like, obviously she seemed so much older in her singing and everything. but the funny thing is, you know, that rehab song that she did back in 2008 -- she won five grammys from that cd. let's listen just so you can remember what she was known for. ♪ when i come back ♪ no, no, no ♪ i can't count the times ♪ and if my daddy thinks i'm fine ♪ ♪ send me to rehab ♪ i say no, no, no >> she had been to rehab before that song and when you look at her and ha she looked like -- >> the ravages of so many years of alcohol and drug abuse. we have a picture of her recently when she was on tour in europe and booed off the stage in serbia. to go from the pinnacle of success, winning five grammys. >> can you imagine? >> she's being booed. >> and they showed some views of her parents and how they were begging her to basically get off drugs. it was very, very, it was something she battled for such a long time. >> i can't even imagine the heartbreak of being a parent with a child going through that. knowing all the dreams you had for them. the first time she probably picked up a hairbrush and started singing. it all seemed so innocent and sweet then. and having it declined. she had a couple of romances that had just broken her heart and devastated her. and the only solace she knew to go to was drugs and alcohol and her music. and by that time, she couldn't make music. that kind of despair. you wouldn't wish it on an enemy if you had one. i don't know. her father, who i didn't realize, he who had been a cab driver was supposed to be doing a concert right here in new york that day. ended up just getting on a plane and going right back. and of course, he said it was a shock. i can't imagine that it's a shock to a parent after they've watched -- the deterioration. >> i agree. >> so toxicology reports will probably come out in about six weeks. >> but i don't think it will be a surprise to anyone, either. >> i don't think so. we have some lighter news in the pile. >> yes. >> now this one is a nasty piece of information, but you should know about it. real men wear dirty underwear is the headline. >> nobody told me that one. >> nearly half of the men surveyed have no problem wearing underwear they haven't washed many times. they rely solely on the sniff test. >> i'm going to throw up. >> that's what they do. >> hopefully they do the sniff test themselves and they don't ask somebody else to do their dirty work for them. that is repulsive. >> but men in relationships are cleaner than ones who are single. because they have to be, obviously. but it -- >> how often do they change their underwear, once a month? >> here's what they don't wash very often. jeans. >> well, a lot of women don't, either. >> and underwear. >> euw. >> hey, you. >> what do you say about that, sara? >> it's absolutely disgusting. that should be the bare minimum. it's like air. clean your underwear. >> air it out, baby. >> i do think that's nasty. but that's the way it is. >> hope you're cheered up now. >> and if you aren't cheered up, here's some news for you, most people on monday mornings, according to a british study will not crack a smile until 11:16 a.m. >> who came up with that? >> i don't know. >> 11:16 a.m. >> they say on monday. >> and half of the people will be late for work, struggling to get up from the weekend. >> yeah. >> what did you do over the weekend? >> people get tired from partying. then they only get three and a half hours of work done on mondays. so they just, they work little because they have to ease in. you know what i mean? have lunch, discuss what happened over the weekend. there's a lot happening. >> this is no surprise, people 45 ato 54 will suffer and complain the most. >> here are the ways you can get over that horrible, horrible feeling. >> don't get up. >> plan a vacation. have -- >> you can't afford a vacation any more. not to depress you any further, okay. >> buying chocolate or makeup. >> okay. that will work. >> online shopping. >> you can't afford it. >> having sex. >> we can afford that. >> watching tv. >> before eating dinner. >> what about lunch? or breakfast? >> at all. >> that will always be -- >> just because you have gast gastroenterology issues, come on. what's the point of a valentine's dinner where you have all the afro decent ydesia coffee -- >> first is the sex and then the dinner and then the going out. because everybody goes to sleep after that. >> it's not having sex, it's making love. having sex sounds like two animals in the barn yard. >> it does? >> yes. >> i want to say hello to a couple of friends who are here. dean and gina who are friends from college. did you bid? >> they paid. >> for a good cause. >> thanks, ladies, for coming to see us. >> so, since i was in the rehoboth mood, one of my favorite things today. let's do yours. >> go, go, go. >> mine are called fling-flops. they're under $25 at flingflops.com. it says happy hour and they're adorable. they've got a little martini on there and they come with their own little wine bag. >> i think it's better to take a bottle of wine in those. >> at the book signing, how many bottles of wine did we get? people kept showing up with bottles of wine. why? >> they were like, hey, they kept down putting down bottles and we kept on opening them. and how about the lady who showed up with these? these are the wine glasses. >> we never looked more attractive. >> this is what they show up with. >> are you worried at all with all the people bringing us wine? >> no, nobody seems to care any more. because nobody is at work. everybody is at home and watching our show and not smiling, hopefully they crack a smile with us by 10:00, i hope. >> here's my favorite thing. this is by this company called fresh. it's lemon body lotion. try a little bit. >> this is like the fourth body lotion. >> i like the smells. >> okay. >> smell that. >> that is very, very nice. >> it's called fresh. and it's expensive. >> is it? >> $22.50. >> at fresh.com. >> what about you, sara? >> we have a fan favorite. amanda from tampa, florida. this is her favorite thing. it's aveda cleansing mask. she said it smells fantastic, it makes your skin feel smooth and new and makes her pores look smaller. who wouldn't like that? >> was anybody on our website from rehoboth. >> there are a couple of pictures on here. we always have to get preapproval before we show pictures on here. >> are they like that? >> well we'll show them throughout the day. coming up next, don cheadle is in the house. >> no, the smell test. he smells good. >> and we're going to get up to date with all the celebrity news and gossip on today's buzz, but first, these messages. introducing purifying facial cleanser from neutrogena® naturals. developed with dermatologists... it's clinically proven to remove 99% of dirt and toxins and purify pores. and with natural willowbark it contains no dyes, parabens or harsh sulfates. dirt and toxins do a vanishing act and my skin feels pure and healthy. 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enlighten me. >> yes, kris kristofferson. >> this seems a little un-pc, these clips. but you are saying that he's saying out loud what in some cases people are thinking. >> exactly. you know, someone said to me earlier. he said look, if he was really a racist, it wouldn't be funny. he's clearly trying to get a rise out of my character and there's a real affection between them that you come to realize by the middle of the film. >> but there is an ignorance, too, that people have about other people's culture. >> but he's not one of them. >> he's not one of them. >> but you don't know that at first. >> no. it's completely to see what button he can push. he's just trying to see if he can get a reaction out of this guy who is so straight-laced and stick up the you know what, a funny combination. >> is this a comedy all the way? >> all the way. it's a really, really funny movie. brendan is great in it and it's directed by john michael mcdonough. the same sort of dark, irish humor. >> well, they drink a lot of guinness there. and i hear you became quite the fan of it yourself. >> i love the guiness in ireland. we had it every day. i'm getting a guinness flashback. >> did you shoot the whole movie in ireland? >> the whole thing in galway. >> tell us the plot of the movie? >> i play an fbi agent who comes over to galway ireland to try to follow this drug trafficking ring that may or may not come through the coastline. but he comes there. he doesn't think he's going to spend a lot of time there and runs into jerry boyle's character played by brendan gleason. who is completely out of his mind and they form this unholy alliance. >> and he's a small-town cop. and you kind of look down on him. because you're the fbi guy. >> what's great about it is the ignorance you're just talking about, it goes both ways. we think he's a small-town hick. and it's funny to see them throw their misconceptions about each other back and forth. >> you are so interesting in the choices you make, don. because we've seen you all over the map. >> yes. >> i guess that's the fun of being an actor anyway. >> absolutely. what was it about the script, because usually it's the writing, isn't it? >> the script jumped off the page. so often we get movies and you read it and you go, i know what's going to happen, okay. i couldn't get ahead of this movie. i didn't know where it was going and i was laughing from the beginning to the end. >> and yet, they call it a western. >> yeah, it is. it really is, it's a sort of a tit for tat, with all of those spaghetti westerns, sergio leone. >> what else do you have cooking? >> a showtime series called "house of lies." i'll be doing 12 episodes of that. >> it's a comedy? >> yes, it's a comedy, but a showtime comedy. >> it's dark. >> yeah, it's that kind of comedy. it's great, it's a lot of fun, like you said, i'm all over the map. i get to do a lot of creative stuff, the best thing about this business for me. >> you really do smell very good. >> thank you, i did check. >> you don't need to check, you're good. >> "the guard" opens this friday in theaters in new york and l.a. >> up next, sara introduces us to be the newest fan of the week. yourself sometimes cleanp after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. it's super durable, and in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. dnd super soft. bounty extra soft. in the pink pack. and try bounty napkins. and not because silverado's the most dependable, longest-lasting full-size truck on the road or because heavy duty made motor trend's 2011 truck of the year. no, it was good because you told us so. consider this a thank-you. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet. right now, combine the all-star edition discount with other offers for a total value 6,of $000. our greatest model year yet is wrapping up. it is time for our fan of the week. when we surprise a lucky viewer at home, who is an outstanding fan. >> and they really deserve it. as always, miss sara haines is here to announce the incredibly lucky viewer. >> this might be the best part of my job. so without further ado, we need the drum roll, it makes it official. our winner is, carly colson from ashford, pennsylvania, carly watches us on wgal, and she looks forward to starting each day watching kathie lee and hoda while drinking her coffee. the show helps her stay connected to her mother who lives miles away. they started talking after each episode and talk about their favorite parts. >> the favorite part of the show -- usually, they talk because it makes her feel like she's sitting talking to her girlfriends. her baby boy got in the habit of napping during the fourth hour. hopefully we didn't put him to sleep. she loves sharing kathie lee's book, "party animals" with him. congratulations karlie and for being such a great fan, we are sending you to the beautiful scottsdale, arizona, where you'll enjoy four days and three nights at the jw marriott camelback resort and spa, it includes round-trip airfare for two, furnished by scottsdale convention and visitors bureau. including two spa treatments and a tomkat desert adventure. furnished by jw marriott camelback resort and spa. >> remember we had the chef from there? 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>> with a 6-month-old. >> but your husband is working, you're working a little bit, taking care of your kid. but you're in a new place, you get to share new experiences. it's a bit of an adventure. >> just to stroll along a different boulevard. >> exactly. >> and it's a write-off if it's a business trip. >> it is. >> you can't write the baby off. >> well, you can't write off a vacation. you can write off your business expenses, but one of the tricky things we were talking about is when you go, and you're going with your business, your expenses can be paid for by your company, not your husband, not your child. not breakfast, not the extra taxi. and you're tempted to kind of squeeze it in. because then it makes it more affordable. but you need to be cut and dried about what is a business expense and what is not. >> you think emotionally it's a good idea. is it really beneficial to try to combine those two together? >> today, a lot of people can't afford to take a separate trip. and when i was growing up, the one trip our family would take would be to my father's law convention. we would get in the car, three girls, we would have our matching dresses, our rules at the table. how you greet people. you have to have all that stuff straight so that your family is on board with how they are going to behave when they're there, or else it could really be a drag. >> you could add on a day before or a day extra and then make it feel more of something you could look forward to. >> absolutely. to pick up onnor point, you don't want to do this if you're not a very independent kind of traveler. because the person who is working has to be working and you can't be someone who whines or nags. >> yes. >> and should you tell your boss, hey, look, by the way i'm bringing my family. or keep your work and family separate and do your thing? >> i say don't hide it. but you don't need to send a memo announcing that you're doing it. >> i say you don't send a memo, but you talk about it in advance, because some trips are not appropriate to bring your family. you need to figure out if it's okay with your boss, if it's okay with the agenda. and you look at the agenda in advance. the itinerary and where can you fit in time for your family. and if you can't, don't bring them. >> chances are, if you're the kind of employee that's already doing your job very well, not making trouble anywhere. don't you think most employers will be very lenient about it. >> some business trips are, you know, 12 hours of work. and if that's what it is, it's not appropriate for you to bring your family. >> well the museums are open all day. >> and you should have that talk with your family. here's the busy. be honest. but i'll meet you for an hour. >> right. and here's the dress code and here's all the things we're going to do. here's what the fun will be. you have to build in fun. for the working question, it could feel like a lot of extra work because you're working for your family and your job. >> well, why you're not leaving d.c.? >> because aretha franklin is going to be singing! >> up next, the one and only, aretha franklin sings for us. but first, this is "today" on nbc. empty nest, new kitchen, new us? who are we? chic, modern, daring dinner-party hosts. that sounds dangerous, maybe we're more the tradiotional sunday brunch set? i'll expect slippers and a cocktail to be ready when i get home from work. point taken. how about... peaceful, quiet cottage in the country folk? now that's us. save up to 20% on every kitchen style, now until august 21st at ikea, the life improvement store. the toyota concert series on "today" brought to you by toyota. >> with 18 grammys and an amazing catalog of music. "rolling stone's" top 100 singers of all time the top of the list, aretha franklin is undisputed queen of soul. >> her 38th album was released this spring and one critic wrote that it boasts some of aretha's most acrobatic and robust vocals in years. >> and you're here to perform for us? >> absolutely. >> take it away. >> how long, we've been waiting. kathie lee and hoda. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my darling ♪ ooh darling ♪ how long i have waited for you ♪ ♪ need your touch ♪ tell me how much ♪ just trust me ♪ we both knew this would be ♪ darling, oh darling ♪ darling you are mine ♪ your touches, i'm blushing ♪ i felt your touch ♪ now you're here ♪ this is our love ♪ my open eyes ♪ i waited here ♪ to be held close ♪ let go all of your fears ♪ my darling ♪ my darling ♪ darling ♪ you are first ♪ your touches, i'm blushing ♪ you are the one that quenches my thirst ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ mmmmm ♪ oh yeah ♪ you're a king of a man ♪ i'm hoping, darling ♪ darling ♪ if you i will be yours ♪ my darling ♪ ooh, my darling ♪ darling darling darling ♪ you are the first ♪ touching, yeah, i'm blushing ♪ you are the one that quenches my thirst ♪ ♪ yes you are ♪ ooh, baby, baby, baby [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> that's aretha. oh, unbelievable. >> that was awesome. >> this is available exclusively at walmart. you're not going to be able to get this unless you go to your local walmart. >> yes, walmart.com. >> that is a terrific song. >> are you singing it for anyone in particular? >> yes. >> oh. >> no names, please. >> but he knows. >> he knows. >> aretha, we wish you the best of luck, not that you need it. thank you so much, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you all so much. tomorrow, we have natalie cole with us. >> she's a good friend of yours, right? >> yes. >> and greg allman. >> yes. >> and greg allman. >> and cooking with giada. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here's what you should be watching: your cable bill. because you could be paying way too much. stop spending more for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for our best price -- just $84.99 a month for a year -- only available online. go to verizon.com/greatprice to sign up, and save $360 in the first year. fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers superior picture quality, more hd, plus america's fastest, most consistent, and most reliable internet. there's no annual contract required. why keep paying for cable? get fios tv, internet and phone for just $84.99 a month for a year -- our best price -- only available online. ordering online is easy. have questions? you can even chat live with a fios agent. so don't wait. visit verizon.com/great price. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that's verizon.com/greatprice. at 800-974-6006 tty/v. fios. a network ahead.

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