the child he fathered with his house keeper. i inflicted pain on maria and unbelievable pain on the kids. he prepares to release his tell-all memoir today, monday, october 1st, 2012. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning, i m savannah guthrie. i m david gregory in for matt this morning. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the deadly suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan overnight. they were targeting a military patrol in a crowded market. as we said, at least 14 people were killed, 3 americans among the dead. dozens were wounded. this comes one day after the u.s. military death toll in the war reached 2,000. we re going to get a live report, straight ahead. also coming up, a remarkable story. a mom of three and a former beauty queen suffers a traumatic brain injury. to survive, doctors had to remove part of her skull and y