sandusky, the former coach at penn state, in his own words. this is a tape taken about ten years ago, and recorded about ten years ago, talking about his relationship with children. we re going to hear more about that, even as one of the alleged victims in this scandal prepares to sue the college. so we re going to be talking more about that. a little bit later on we re going to take a look inside the home that michael jackson spent his final days in. we were granted exclusive access inside the rented mansion. we ll show you what inspirational messages he wrote to himself on his mirror and show you the message his kids left for him. also ahead millions of americans we know are under severe financial stress and a new polls finds that more than half of americans are dipping into their retirement savings, their college savings just to pay the bills. we ll have some advice coming up on how you can cut down on some of the financial anxiety and also good tips. on that point w
some winds and then on the eastern part of long island, al is the guy feeling the brunt of the storm, on the outer banks of north carolina. it looks better now, al, than it did about an hour ago. yeah. it has lightened up a bit, matt. the swind still strong. but the good news is we are the rain has lessened up a little bit. getting a bit of a storm surge. but for the most part, things not too bad. right now, earl is about 150 miles off the coast here, heading to the east-northeast or north-northeast, i should say. it s got 105-mile-per-hour winds. those winds extend out about 70 miles per hour. so, we do get some pretty strong gusts here. tropical storm force winds are out. we have watches and warnings up and down the eastern seaboard. the storm surge will be anywhere from about three to five feet between here and new england, little lesser depending on where you are. of course, the path of this system brings it up along the shore line. it will be up along ocean city in t
good morning. destruction and despair. a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leads to devastation in haiti. thousands feared dead, tens of thousands feared homeless as the full extent of the catastrophe isust starting to come to light today, wednesday, january 13th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. good morning, everybody. this is a major humanitarian disaer. overnight, the red cross estimated that some 3 million people have been affected by the strongest earthquake to hit haiti in more than 200 years. the imagines coming out of there just show just how devastating the situation is there, matt. the epicenter of the earthquake only about ten miles from the haitian capital of port-au-prince, where this morning the injured are being treated right in the streets, surrounded by debris from collapsed buildings, including a hospital and the national palace.