always fun when they re here. the weather was great for them. let s take a look at this little girl. d us that make you happy? look at her. what s her name? lizer. what do we have coming up in this half hour. coming up, nearly a decade after her abduction elizabeth smart finally got to confront the man who abducted her face to face in a court of law. also coming up we re going to be talking about mortgages and giving ourselves a sort of 101 class on it because since the real estate market and the rest of the economy collapsed back in 2008 a lot has changed in the mortgage market. rates are at historic lows. we re going to tell you what you may want to know about the best deal at the lowest costs. coming up, diet secrets of the stars. how do they really keep in such fantastic shape? what are the secrets to their success? we ll get some inside info. maybe you ll pick up some new tips. your life is calling you. that s what oprah told her fans. i watched it. it was
a closely guarded secret? we ll tell you today, thursday, may 26th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer. and in for meredith, i m ann curry. she s back tomorrow. this storm is unbelievable. although there were reports of more than 80 twisters on wednesday, fortunately this time no one was killed. of course, no one knows the power of a tornado more than the folks out in joplin, missouri, where the death toll there has risen again. take a look at this aerial photograph of joplin. this is before the tornado. now look at this new image that shows the twister s path of destruction. we re going to go live to missouri for more on this latest round of storms in just a couple of minutes. shocking, just shocking. also, nearly nine years after her abduction, elizabeth smart has finally got the chance to confront the man who abducted her and held her for nine months. and the daughter of
forge with the palestinian partner committed to peace. but you know very well that in the middle east, the only peace that will hold is a peace you can defend. so peace must be anchored in security. in recent years, israel withdrew from south lebanon and from gaza. we thought we would get peace. that s not what we got. we got 12,000 rockets fired from those areas on our cities, on our children, by hezbollah and hamas. the u.n. peacekeepers in lebanon, they failed it prevent the smuggling of this weaponry. the european observers in gaza, they evaporated overnight. so if israel simply walked out of their territories, the flow of weapons into a future palestinian state would be unchecked. and missiles fired from it could reach virtually every home in israel in less than a minute. i want you to think about that too. imagine there is a siren going on now, and we have 60 seconds to find shelter from an incoming rocket. would you live that way? you think anybody can live that way? w
for women and girls half a world away. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. it was the biggest product tampering case ever. in fact, it s the reason medicine containers are so hard to open to this day. if you were around back then, you remember the tylenol tampering case that killed several americans. the product survived and thrived but the case went unsolved. you may also remember ted kaczynski, the convicted unabomber. a reclusive homegrown american terrorist and killer. now, we have learned the fbi, after all these years, is looking to see whether there s a connection between the two. our justice correspondent pete williams starts us off in washington with more on this story tonight. pete, good evening. reporter: brian, this is a strange one, admittedly a leap for investigators. they want a dna sample from kaczynski. who has been serving a life sentence in the supermax pris
lasting peace. reporter: republicans like michele bachmann are calling obama s speech on the middle east an insult to israel. even though george w. bush basically said the same thing. former congressman robert wexler is here. and dr. who? you won t believe what glenn beck s favorite physician is prescribing for the arnold schwarzenegger mess. great to have you with us tonight, folks. this is the story that has me fired up first. democrats are licking their chops at the prospect of making every senate republican look just as weak as newt gingrich. the former speaker made an important stop on his republican damage control tour today when he appeared on the drugster s radio show. here it is. we welcome back to the eib network, newt gingrich. he joins us on the phone from iowa. hello, newt. how are you today? i m doing great. oh, they just all get along don t they? gingrich spent most of the interview trying to convince rush that the liberal media took his meet the press