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intimate details today, thursday, october 7, 2010. welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm meredith vieira. >> i'm matt lauer. >> people waking up in colorado and utah are bracing for that severe weather system that spun tornadoes in arizona. >> dozens of homes damaged and so powerful it blocked a freight train and blew 18 wheelers off the road. >> they call themselves purvivors who are at risk of breast cancer and don't have the disease yet but choose to have their breasts remove when some consider that a radical course of auction. >> and speaking out for the first time, describing a horrendous fight. we will hear from him coming up. what was marilyn monroe really like? a look at secret writings revealing a rather interesting side of the american icon including how she feared john f. kennedy's brother-in-law, actor peter lawford. natalie morales is still at the newsdesk while ann is still on assignment. >> good morning. a major cleanup under way in parts of arizona following at least four tornadoes wednesday. the weather channel's julie martin is in hard hit bellemont, arizona. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalie, an unbelievable scene in bellemont. these rvs to all around this parking lot. this business, a dealership, took a direct hit from one of those tornadoes yesterday and this morning, emergency managers tell us as many as 200 homeowners are also feeling the impact from this rare occurrence. >> please keep going that way. >> reporter: cell phone video captured the fast moving storm in flagstaff, arizona. >> whoa! >> see that power line over there? >> reporter: 15 miles away in bellemont, a series of tornadoes touched down, causing widespread damage throughout the area. train cars sheered off the rails and big rigs blown off the highway, dozens of motor homes flipped over with cars, trucks and debris scattered along interstate 40. businesses like this camping world warehouse took a direct hit from one of the 22 tornadoes reported in northern arizona wednesday, some with winds as high as 110 miles an hour. >> it's not unusual for a tornado or two or three this time of year, but this many is unusual. >> reporter: dozens of homes were damaged. >> unbelievable. >> reporter: this is what's left of a home lisa and rex kennedy had been renting to a family in bellemont. when the storm hit, that family narrowly escaped. >> the kids were getting scared so they ran into the room and got in bed with mom and dad. the next thing you know, the roof just lifted. he said he saw the eye of the tornado and he said he could see the lightning in the eye of the tornado. >> reporter: now, the cleanup begins, after a devastating round of wild weather. this morning, national weather assessment teams will be back at daylight assessing and rating the damage. they will have their work cut out for them. this region usually sees three to four tornadoes a year so yesterday made up for it. >> julie martin in bellemont, arizona. thanks so much. today, a milestone in afghanistan, where the war is entering its 10eth year, more than 1200 troops have died there. and hosting the inaugural peace conference. and former proposal candidate john edwards campaign finances is being investigated by the grand jury and investigating whether campaign money was used to keep an affair quiet. accusing the obama administration blocking efforts to see how bad the oil had become and the oil disappearing once the oil leaking stop. they dispute the commission's findings. philadelphia pitcher roy halladay threw a no hitter against the cincinnati reds for a 4-0 win. the first postseason no hitter for any pitcher since 1956 in the world series. it also happened to be halladay's second no hitter of the season. he is quite the man today. what a great game that was. >> what's the area code in cooperstown? i want to start calling that real quick. >> congratulations to the yankees. >> not my yankees. >> you love the yankees. >> i do. up one game, only one game. that gaem in philadelphia is >> we are off to a nice, quiet start this thursday. the storm that has been bugging us has pulled out from the northeast. mostly sunny skies, breezy and mild afternoon. that's your latest weather. meredith. >> thank you very much. now to politics, the latest mid-term elections is kicking into high gear as candidates across the country try to get their messages to the voters. kelly o'donnell is there. good morning to you. >> good morning, meredith. lots to tell you about. first in delaware, new polls showing republican christine o'donnell is down by double digits to chris coons. a top republican strategist for the national republican organization will be there to advise her campaign and florida voters got to see their candidate debate for the first time. no podium, just crowded around the table. florida's three senate candidates flashed it out on health care reform, tea party republican, marco rubio. >> if i had been in washington, i would not have voted for this bill. >> distribution congress kendrick meek. >> i voted for it and would vote for it again if i had the opportunity. >> reporter: independent charlie crist right in the middle. >> parts of it are good and parts need to be changed. >> reporter: crist accused rubio of putting social security at risk. >> he talked about raising age of. >> reporter: rubio brought up his 80-year-old mother. >> for you to suggest i would harm her is outrageous. >> reporter: meek proposed social security change. >> they will have to go through me for change. >> reporter: crist, who is methodist made it personal. >> i understand the unique bond between not only israel and the country, i actually married a nice jewish girl. >> reporter: tea party republican, christine o'donnell defended herself against charges she's unqualified. >> what do you want in a senator? someone groomed to run for office, taught how to carefully craft every word, taught how to cut the back room deals and apiece the party establishment or someone who will represent you. >> reporter: o'donnell took voters' questions but none from reporters. she took on president obama saying if the health care reform law is not repealed, he is at political risk. >> there's a lot of democrats who don't want this. if he has the audacity to ignore a very clear message from the people, he's making his reelection very uncertain. >> reporter: turning to alaska, a feud, a leaked e-mail from sarah palin's hubblesband, todd fired off to joe miller, after miller refused to say palin is qualified to be president. he wrote, joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works? is it to be completely one-sided? asked again, he praised palin. >> a constitutional requirement for somebody to run for president, of course she's qualified. >> reporter: there's more. he put out information saying he had been given bad information about what palin originally said and cross wires and said palin supported miller. and said it had been intercepted by someone with a similar website and released to a political blog and likes the y pay -- palins. >> thank you. the economy, the stock market surged in recent weeks and unemployment remains very high and americans are spending less. what does it mean for you. jim cramer, host of cnbc's "mad money." >> we have the gdp growing in the second quarter at 1.7%, very low. private employers cut about 40,000 jobs last month. the unemployment figures expected to tick up when the numbers are released tomorrow. your employer released a report saying the economy would be bad or very bad tore the next 6 to 9 months, your former employer. what happened to the economic recovery with a question mark. what happened. >> it's an anemic recovery. goldman's report was too mess mystic. we should have much better job growth coming out of the recession. >> if the state recovery can be seen in the habits of consumers we have a problem. consumers are spending less. they slashed their spending, trying to save more. what does that tell us? >> two-thirds of the economy is consumer spend. we have to pay attention to that. people are spending within their means. that's okay. we're not going to get a recovery like that but won't go nuts like we did in previous times. >> talking about consumers, there was an idea floated in an op-ed in the "new york times" that raised eyebrows and i think it raised yours as well, basically, american consumers should go out and spend more money than they have. financial writer daniel gross wrote rung up consumer debt may be a moral failure and recipe for long term damnation but also contains the roots of our short term salvation. what's your response to that? >> we already saw what the roots can do what happened between 2007 and 2010. dan gross is having fun with that. we took down too much debt in this country to buy houses. it all went bad. we don't want to recreate that to get short term growth. >> look at the stock market, great september on the market. seems to be in rally mode, which makes you think that the stock market is experiencing a different reality than the general economy. is that fair? >> two years ago, the market started going down, the economy looked good. the market went from 11,000 to 6500, then we found out exactly how horrible things really were. now, it's on an upswing. i think it will be as right predicting what will happen next year as it was before. >> you're optimistic? yes. >> gold is at an all time high. what does that tell you about the state of investors? >> people are scared and scared in china and india. gold will go to 2,000 in the next five years. >> from 1350? >> today. you can take that to the bank. it's important people have a portfolio with dividends, gold is part of what you should have. >> meredith, some of that bling you have, that will work out well. jim cramer, thank you very much. you can catch "mad money" at 6:00 p.m. eastern time on cnbc. >> and five of your teeth, right? matt, thank you very much. the governor of texas is demanding mexican authorities use every resource available to find the body of a man allegedly shot and killed by mexican pirates. this is that man's wife returned to the lake where the crime allegedly occurred. janet is in texas with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. nbc news have learned authorities in mexico have step upped the search for david hartley using boats and helicopters. it's now been a week since this attack happened. yesterday, tiffany hartley returned to the falcon lake reservoir to say her good-bye. a final farewell. tiffany hartley, one week ago out today jet skiing with her husband on the falcon lake reservoir was back out on the water yesterday for one last time. laying flowers on the spot where she last saw her love. >> i wanted the family to be able to see kind of what our day was like, in a way, to see the lake, to be able to lay the flowers down and honor him. in a way, say our good-byes, but we know we will see him again obviously in heaven. it's not over. we still want -- we want him back. >> reporter: tiffany says david was shot during a sightseeing trip on the mexico controlled side of the lake. an act of violence that's now snow bald into an international incident. for a week, tiffany and her family have been pleading with mexico for closure, asking to help search for and return david. >> please, negotiate this. i want david home. please, somebody. >> the older sister, the brother is protective. right now, i feel like i need to protect him, and tell him it's okay, that we'll be all right. >> reporter: officials in nextco continue to raise questions whether the incident happened as tiffany described. wednesday on "today," she denied any involvement in her husband's disappearance. >> no. not at all. i loved him very much. and i went back for him, to help him and i did what i could. i have no proof, i have no cameras, i have nothing. i don't have the photos that we were taking. i don't have anything except for my word. >> reporter: a long meeting at the mexican consol lat this week promises to help. tiffany says a week after she made the agonizing decision to leave her love, to save her own life, there is no closure. >> i know he's out there. we all want him back. so we can give him the proper -- proper good-bye. >> reporter: texas governor, rick perry, has called on mexico's president to find and return david's body by the end of the week. the family has reached out to everyone from hillary clinton to the department of homeland security for assistance in this matter. meredith. >> thank you very much. it is 7:16 and here is matt. >> thank you very much. state and local governments across the country are having to scale back to deal with huge budget short falls. why are some government workers still raking in lavish salaries? here's nbc's george lewis. >> reporter: he is perhaps the poster boy for public servants with hefty paychecks. robert rizzo, former city manager of bell, california, had been earning $800,000 a year. now, he's in jail as part of a huge public corruption case. since the arrests of rizzo and four members of the city council, communities all over the country are looking at the pay of their public officials. >> i think it is surprising that, you know, at a time when these cities and local and state governments are crying poor, that the people in many of the top positions are being paid very very well. >> reporter: when the msnbc.com website invited the public to send in examples of supersized government paychecks, over 1,000 people responded with tips that the site then verified. in phoenix, police chief jack harris retired three years ago receiving a one time payment of $562,000 and annual pension of $90,000. but then the city re-hired him as public safety manager at a base salary of $193,000 a year. in las vegas, a place well-known for high rollers, some of the city's firefighters make between 181,000 and $500,000 a year. the mayor is demanding pay cuts but hasn't gotten very far. >> now, we have a budget but the budget is a disaster, as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: in los angeles, the "l.a. times" accomplished a list of 199 county workers who make at least $250,000 a year. this, at a time, when state and local governments can ill afford lavish salaries. >> states have seen a collapse in revenues unprecedented. they've never seen a decline in revenues as large as what they're facing now. >> reporter: states and cities are also facing angry taxpayer backlashes over how the money is being spent. for "today," george lewis, msnbc news, los angeles. >> it is 7:18. here's meredith. >> thank you. the survivor of a vicious black bear attack in washington state is speaking out for the first time about the incredible encounter that nearly killed 9'+0# lee has his story. >> few people survived the kind of bear attack this man did and describes it as wrestling match between himself and brown bear. somehow he came out on top but just barely. >> reporter: he's been through five surgery, lost his left eye and has teeth marks from head to toe. that's considered a victory, if you're in a battle with a black bear. >> i need to get a t-shirt that says "i won." >> reporter: the attack happened while john was taking his dogs for a walk in central washington last month. all he heard was the sound of bear claws on the pavement and then hot breath. >> we hit, we went down, i got back up, she got back on top of me. i was trying to push her aside. >> reporter: the 911 call is chilling. >> >> i know he thought maybe he was going but i wasn't ready for that. >> reporter: when paramedics arrived, it didn't look good. >> he had -- several parts of his face and scalp were hanging off with areas of bone exposed. >> reporter: john stayed conscious throughout the attack. what he remembers is unsettling at best. >> i vividly remember being bitten on the head and the sound that makes as her teeth were going into -- into my head and running along 3 skull. it was just a horrendous fight. >> reporter: his only chance, he thought, was to keep the bear behind him. >> i felt if i went down on the ground and i got turned over on my back and she had a chance to go for either the neck or abdomen, i was probably dead. >> reporter: john doesn't know why the bear stopped her attack, authorities who later tracked her down and killed her said she was old and malnourished. whatever the reason, the tranquility of that vacation house hasn't been marred. in fact, john say, he can't wait to get back. >> meredith, he has at least three more surgeries scheduled, most having to do with skin graphs to his scalp, if everything goes as planned he could be going home as early as next week. >> a lucky guy. lee cowan, thank you very much. just ahead, a student's graphic descriptions and rankings of sexual encounters with athletes online for all to see. first, this is "today" on nbc. a telling us "maryland is moving forward," "and moving maryland forward" this jobs report tells the truth maryland's economy stalled "we face an uphill struggle in trying to regain the jobs lost" o'malley attempts a cover-up, falsifying the jobs report to help his campaign. "whatever we can do to make it disappear, we need to do it. that's coming straight from the top" martin o'malley, first he makes stuff up, when caught, he covers stuff up. we need a governor who tells the truth. just ahead, an inside look at the private life of marilyn monroe, through her own secret writings. >> and brian williams checks out bruce springsteen's digs in new jersey. after your local news and check of your local weather. there's nothing for 25. but they will let me give you the same seat for a big miles upcharge. how's that sound? for that many miles we'll be stuck taking a "staycation." [ imitates engine revving ] [ angie ] i'm through playing games. i switched to the venture card from capital one. vacation, here we come! 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>> i skimmed parts of it. it was very detailed. >> reporter: karen said she often met the men at campus bars like shooters, the sex often fueled by alcohol. in my black-out state, she wrote, still managed to crawl into bed with a duke athlete. in fact, she claims all the men were athletes, most of them duke lacrosse players, a sensitive issue around here since the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006. a stripper accused three players of rape at a team party. in 2007, the charges were dropped but the damage was done. some here say this new sex scandal won't help the school's reputation. >> it's the last thing this university needed was something like this. >> reporter: karen's thesis has gone viral on several websites. she sent her sex ranking presentation to a few friends, then they e-mailed it around and they e-mailed it and so on. a growing problem. >> nothing is amongst friends. if it's shared online, it's shared with the entire world. young people need to understand every time they hit "send," it's a like a bullet you can't pull back. >> reporter: at the time, karen seemed proud of her work writing, got some fantastic stories for the grandkids. clearly, things have changed. while karen wouldn't speak with us on camera for this story, the website, jezebal.com did interview karen and now says she regrets it and would never intentionally hurt anybody on the list. we also reached out to duke university, the spokesman from here wouldn't go on the camera and told us the well-being of their student is their top priority and reaching out to everyone involved. >> thank you very much. donna rice hughes is the president of internet safety advocacy group saying enough is enough. good morning. >> good morning. >> jessica is saying she regrets she wrote this list in the first place and only intended for a few friends to see it. should she be surprised how quickly this thing went viral for karen? >> i don't think she should be surprised. so many people think they're immune and invincible. the issue is, anything you put online, even if it's only meant for a few people, can be copied and pasted and go viral very quickly and there are no takebacks. we need to teach our kids, they need to think before they post. if it's not something they would say or show in front of a school assembly or not something they would want their parents to see, they really need to think twice about whether or not they want to send it to personal friends. >> there should never be any expectation of privacy when it comes to the internet? >> really, the idea of privacy is just -- no. is there no privacy online. >> karen shared the names and faces of 13 students at duke university. they had their privacy invaded and in some cases their characters defamed. what recourse, if any, do they have? >> i think they do have civil liability recourse, if they choose to take it. like you said, there could be defamation and invasion of privacy. all these things are teachable moments. for us, a teachable moment for parents to say, you know what, kids are going online, they're going online early. we need to start at a young age teaching them about how to use the internet in a safe and responsible way. we also need to start having the sex talk early in life with our kids in age appropriate ways. they're being brought in this sex saturated culture very voy youristic, reality tv, very pornfied and even the girls are doing things in our generation we couldn't even imagine talking about these kinds of things with our closest girlfriend, much less putting something like this out. >> karen owens said something interesting in that interview. she said, this is the kind of thing that frat boys do all the time. >> that's right. that is the kind of thing frat boys and jocks do all the time. there seems to be a lack of modesty anymore, discretion, even among our girls. we even know with pornography, girls are very involved in that now. we see them acting out a lot of what they're seeing and what they're seeing as acceptable because so much of the culture and message say, it's about your body and your sexuality, not really about who you are in your head and your heart. these are very disturbing messages. i think parents, if they start young with their children, to really in still in them their own values and own morals. it can really help them stay strong in this culture, where they're bombarded with so many things. >> donna, very quickly, in this particular case, who should be held accountable here, karen owen who wrote the original sex list or the person or people who forwarded it? >> i think both. originally, she was the author, so if there was any recourse, it would probably come back to her. we all just need to think about these things. you know, again, i just want to get back to the parent, they're the first line of defense. it's so important, when we see these stories, to not think your child is immune because your child is not immune. to any kind of internet dangers. >> thank you so much for your perspective this morning. >> thank you. >> now, let's get a check of the weather from al. thank you very much, meredith. whoa! somebody's celebrating their sweet 16. >> i'm 17. >> you're 17? >> 17 today. >> an extra year. all right. still just as sweet. let's check your weather, shall we? show you we have subtropical storm otto, 235 miles northeast of grand turks islands, moving north about 2 miles an hour. it won't affect any land mass. i may not even become a hurricane but something to note. afternoon temperatures in the gulf coast, cool in the pacific northwest. rainy weather continues in the northeast. a slight risk of strong storms in the four corners area, plenty of sunshine in the gulf coast and mississippi and river >> we are off to a nice, quiet start. we had a little bit of cloud cover in a few areas. oce the sunny and don't forget, you can check your weather any time of the day or not. go to weatherchannel.com. andheavilying to haiti to see what one nba player is doing to help his homeland. and marilyn monroe and what they reveal about the american icon, right after this. hello, mrs. jenson! you don't have any snickers in your shopping cart. let me help you. the neighborhood kids love snickers on halloween. we're definitely going to her house. 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>> it's absolutely extraordinary, isn't it? marilyn left all her personal effects to her acting mentor, lee strasburg and his widow, anna, was going through his papers and found these two cardboard boxes in a closet that contained these treasure troves. >> as long as you picked that up, that is a black direry from 1951. i understand the first pages she has written in and the rest of the dirediary is blank. >> there is a poetic line that says, "i'm alone, always alone no matter what". this is a real them in here life. i believe mineself, even my most delicate and tangible feelings. >> in the setup piece, it shows despair and optimism, written 11 months before she died, does it tell us there was this conflict that early in her life? >> i think it does, she had a difficult childhood, always in foster care and looking for balance on her life. >> she was a woman who exploded on the screen. any time she was on the screen, i pity the person who was with her because she dominated yet she does write about this panic she felt often before she would shoot a particular scene and fear of disappointing people. she suffered terribly from stage fright basically because she feared disappointing people. she had dreams she was hollow inside she did not have the gift she believed she had. >> for all her securities, in fact because of them, she was accused of being a kind of diva, a kind of movie star out of control. she was often late to acting classes and shoots and yet it was something she was trying, it seems, to change. >> yes. she wasn't really trying to change her image, she was trying to change herself. >> make herself better. >> make herself better. we see these resolution she wrote things, go to class, work harder, goo take a class at university in literature, try to enjoy myself no matter what i do. >> another notebook from 1958, seven years after this one, four years before her death. in it, there is a cry for here. . -for help. she writes in it, help, help, help, i feel life coming closer when all i want to do is die. you don't have to be a psychiatrist to say, you know, this sounds like some kind of early suicide note. >> it definitely is an expression of a very powerful emotion. she actually wrote that shortly after her marriage to arthur miller and she discovered a diary entry, where he was expressing doubts about their marriage and he was sometimes embarrassed by her. this devastated her, really filled her with despair. >> there is a writing in one of the books about john f. kennedy's brother actor peter lawford very popular at the time and this will give conspiracy therists a picnic. she expresses fear of him. can i read that? >> yep. >> about being afraid of peter, he might harm me, poison me, et cetera, strange look in his eyes, strange behavior. what do you make of that? >> i don't know what to make of it. all we have are marilyn's own writings, they're in black-and-white before us. we can't know what goes on in this relationship. it reveals mysteries and gives people a lot to think about. the writing itself is very turbulent and agitated. she writes notes and arrows pointing this way and that as if these thoughts are occurring to her very very quickly. >> what would you like people to learn from this book that they don't know about the legend? >> she had this image of being a dumb blond that had to do with a lot of her screen roles. she was very intelligent and thoughtful and witty, a great reader. she wrote poetry. she was trying to change her life. >> very complicated, no question. we appreciate it. the book is called "fragments". still ahead, nbc's brian legend, he's not the legend, but catches up with bruce springsteen. on fridays i have hockey before school, so i take two eggo homestyle waffles and put peanut butter inside. 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>> because 2.5 million kids will read the same book with an adult and the real issue is to make sure everybody knows how important reading is. all our kids have to understand if they want to really participate and really want to be entertained, books are where it's at. >> you've done so much during your years as mayor to improve education standards in this city. it really starts at home, doesn't it? >> it starts at home. most kids, their parents can help them. some kids don't have parents at home and we have to find somebody to read to them. the teachers can't do everything. they get the kids five hours a day, it's the parents that really have the responsibility. >> and they get something out of it, too. >> it's a lot of fun. i remember reading to my daughters. they don't want me to read to them now. >> what were your favorite books as a kid? >> johnny tremaine, a book about revolutionary war where i grew up. there was a young boy, johnny tremaine, his hand had been burnt, he worked for paul rever silversmith. i went to every place described in the book, where the british crossed the charles river. >> history comes alive. >> absolutely. the number of people that send me original copies of that book, i have the whole bookshelf. >> each one thinks it's the only copy. >> that's right. >> thanks for joining us. >> mr. roker, how about a check of the weather. >> you can see we have rain in the northeast. the pesky low pressure system won't get out of here until tomorrow. rogers, arizona, sunny and warm, 82 degrees. you can see the moisture spinning around in the northeast. that will get out of here late tonight. we have an upper level low causing problems, risk of strong storms back in the southwest. wet weather interior parts of the pacific northwest. lots of sunshine, gulfcoast to the great lakes. strong rip currents along the >> off to a nice, quiet start this thursday morning. generally a mostly sunny day. much warmer. that's your latest weather. >> mr. roker, thank you. when we come back, a difficult choice, women who have chosen to have their breasts remove, even though they do not have breast cancer. in the bathroom. stop all the cutesy stuff. and start talking about what you really want from your toilet paper. it's time to talk about clean. toilet paper has to help keep me clean while getting me clean. quilted northern soft & strong is now 50% stronger than the leading rippled brand, to help protect against breakthrough. for myself, for my family. it keeps us clean. i use quilted northern. quilted northern soft & strong. protection for a confident clean or your money back. i couldn't sleep right. next day it took forever to get going. night after night, i sat up. sprayed up. took a shower... or took a pill. then i tried drug-free breathe right advanced. and instantly, i breathed better! i slept better. it felt...better. thank you, breathe right! 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>> because of the statistics. i have an up to 86% lifetime chance of getting breast cancer. >> that was hanging over your head? >> that was hanging over my head, along with the family legacy i carry. i saw my mom have breast cancer. i also carried the knowledge i just had so many female relatives who had suffered from this disease. >> six months later, after the surgery, how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling just great. physically, i'm pretty much fully recovered. still working a little bit on my arm strength. emotionally, i'm setting into a -- settling into a new reality, which is a reality in which i don't have to constantly be worrying about getting breast cancer. >> claudia, you're just 23 and tested positive for the gene. the odds are so unlikely you would develop breast cancer this young. why have the surgery now? >> i tested at 21 years old. i actually inherited the mutation from my father. i don't have a lot of family history. the only person mine family to have cancer was my grandmother, had breast cancer at 60, post menopausal and ovarian cancer. and i tested at 21 and surveillance doesn't begin until 25. during that time period, i have been able to digest this information and make sense of it myself and made other friends through bright pink and forest who have developed cancer in their 20s and have to go in for mammograms on a regular basis and biopsies. >> you think that's more stressful? >> i am a worrier and seen them go through anxiety. i think all that anxiety will take a greater toll on my health than this mutation would. >> you decided to go public. i met you in the greenroom, you're taping everything and blogging about it. why is that important for you to do? >> when i decided to have the surgery in march and decided to start planning for it, i wanted to create a tool for my two younger sister, 16 and 18. i hope they don't test positive but should they, i wanted to have something for them to looking through, to help them through these difficult decisions also and other young women making decisions. >> know one of your sister doesn't want to deal with this at all and the other is more open to having the test. >> that's really the crux of this. these two young women are a microcosm of breast cancer we talk about this month. it only makes up 8% of cases with a strong family history. >> is that when you should go? >> you should go tested. for the average 21-year-old, if your grandmother had breast cancer, this probably doesn't apply to you. it has to do with a strong family history and having been tested. i don't want to scare young women saying every 18-20-year-old suddenly has this weighing over them. most women get breast cancer later in life and without the genetic hits. we still have to figure out what causes breast cancer. for young women with a true genetic hit, there are different decisions to be made and frankly, that starts with talking with a genetic counselor before you start talking about surgery. >> they're also saying if you test positive for the breast cancer gene, it's likely you r predisposed to develop ovarian cancer, they go together, not nearly as good, are both of you or either of you considering having your ovaries removed prophylaticly? >> term. my grandmother battled ovarian cancer four to five times. i lost count so many times. the deadliest and hardest one to fight. that scares me the most to be honest. i can reconstruct my breaths. i also want to have children and have to wait to find the man of my dreams. >> your ultrasound is so good. for women with high risk, getting an ultra sound of ovaries is very good. one thing i want people to understand, all young women go get tested and have your breasts or ovaries removed, that's not the message. the message really is the personalization what we can now tell genetically, the guidance we can give young women and individual choices they have. >> claudia, your surgery is scheduled this coming january. as the clock is ticking, getting closer, are you feeling more anxious about it or sense of relief pretty soon this will not be hanging over your head? >> i have been longing for that relief. i'm sure, you can speak more to that, too. the women i've spoken to that had this surgery, they expressed nothing but relief and so much pride in themselves, it just radiates. i can't wait to wake up from surgery and know i can breathe a sigh of relief and peace of mind. >> it's wonderful to be empowered by the choices you have now. thank you so much. important information. up next, nbc's brian williams, at home with the boss, bruce springsteen, right after this. 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"darkness" remained on the charts for 97 weeks. made "rolling stone"'s 500 greatest album's issue. and to date, it has sold over 3 million copies. ♪ >> reporter: at the beginning of the documentary, you're under a lot of pressure for a young man. this decides what kind of artist you will be seen as. it won't change your core or your character but it turned out okay, didn't it? >> yeah. the documentary was more than rich or famous or happy, you know, we wanted to be great. that's what motivates us on a nightly basis on any given evening, when the lights go down, you have an opportunity to pull magic out of the air. i look into the faces that diet for every night. i look straight at you. i see you looking straight back. so, you know, we want to be at our best. >> reporter: percentage of your fans who approach you in public to say, soundtrack of my life? >> i'd say, probably maybe that's the finest compliment people give you, you've been a part of my life. ♪ >> reporter: i sit in this room, behind you is a glass box where you record your voice. we're surrounded by tambourines the big man has used and guitars you used. this is the stuff of springsteen music, and you're laughing. pull yourself together. how do you see these disparate pieces other than a part of your house? >> they're my tools. that's basically it. it's my toolshed. >> this is a big part of our sound. for choops. i for got that. how about that? that's lovely. >> there it is. >> i'm brian williams, in heaven. >> with the boss. >> tonight on hbo. >> meanwhile, the reading effort is going strong on the plaza, patti labelle doing her part to get kids excited about literacy. >> cosby into the act to read that fabulous book "the snowy day." >> i think she's actually teaching. >> i don't know, doesn't look like she's teaching right now. >> get your >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. time for a final check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> a very busy ride right now. accidents all over the place. this is a multi-bill " crash at rossville boulevard -- to-be of a crash at rossville boulevard. definitely an area to avoid. a crash at the outer-loop of the harrisburg expressway br. but those reports could be in the inner loop instead. falls road and is dead road, all lanes closed. at the west side outer loop delays. whiskey bottom, watch for an accident at columbia. 24 on the west side outer loop. it will take you 15 to travel on southbound 95. let's give it could live look outside and show that things are almost at a standstill. inner loop on the south side approaching i-95, all this to construction on the right lanes. it is still inching along past white marsh towards the 895 split. rossville and perry hall, avoid the intersection due to a multi-vehicle crash. john collins joins us for a look at the forecast. this's and 50's for lows morning. 52 at b.w.i. marshall. humidity is up and barometer is rising. our storm system is finally pulling away. the lack of rain in today's forecast, breezy and milder. >> we will have another update at 8:55. 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>> we can spread the word and let people know simple intervention, talking to kids and going through the vocabulary can make a difference. one of the things i want to mention, for the first time this year, people can go online and read even if they don't have a book today. we put this site together so they can read today and help. >> we will be doing this all morning long. thank you. >> thank you. >> we are off to a nice, quiet start. we had a little bit of cloud cover in a few areas. oce the sunny and that's your latest weather. bill cosby and patti labelle reading "the snowy book." >> that's a great book. coming up next, from haiti.. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college. fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go directly to kids instead of through banks. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message. because it's not about the next election, it's about the next generation. right? yeah!!! so who is "making stuff up"? the news media say it's bob ehrlich... with attacks that have been called "false" and "misleading." made up attacks bob ehrlich knows aren't true. but here's what's not made up. bob ehrlich's $3 billion in taxes and fees. the $2.5 million he got paid working at a lobbying firm. or the fact ehrlich worked for the casinos to put slots at arundel mills mall. now, bob...that's all true. nearly nine months after haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 1 million people remain displaced and 5,000 children are still out of school. contributing correspondent, jenna bush hagen traveled there to see how it's progressing. >> good morning. i went to haiti on a trip to his hometown of port-au-prince. he was shocked to find a very different country from the place he went up. he's a powerful new addition to the sacramento kings. the 6'11 center, one of the top shot blockers in the nba, a force to be reckoned with. dalembert's journey to the nba began on a very different kind of court. this is where you used to play basketball here? >> yeah. i remember where everything is. this tree has been here forever. the tracks go around and you can see the whole world is open. a lot has changed. >> reporter: the recreational center r samuel had his first slam-dunk, now tent city, and thousands displaced. >> reporter: what do you think of seeing if these guys can shoot. >> see if i've still got it. >> reporter: he does a home pickup game with children of his own country. they are his motivation. >> kids playing baskets is nothing new for them. >> reporter: kids are probably playing hungry. >> absolutely. to overcome their hunger, they come here and play and not think about it, have fun. that's my vision, to be able to help. >> reporter: the earthquake has left most schools destroyed, including his own elementary school. is this what yours looked like? >> same old one. >> reporter: children in haiti no longer have the opportunities samuel had. >> reporter: when you look at this school that was your childhood, does it make you sad to see it damaged? >> yes. >> reporter: is it hard to see? >> it is bad. i was just here. i can picture here, how normal everything is, great, and nothing good will happen. >> reporter: his goal is to shine a spotlight in the desperate situation in the place he calls home. >> reporter: you want the kids growing up here now to have a different future? >> yes. i think no matter what, bad things happen, good comes out of it. i think this is the wake-up call. >> reporter: the samuel dalembert foundation is work with unicef to sponsor programs like sports for peace to help conquer fears through sports. >> it's very important. while they're playing, they're not thinking about their situation, you know. they lost their house, some lost their families. >> reporter: 11-year-old jerry comes to the program everyday to participate in track and field. >> after the earthquake, i was really afraid. i thought everyone would die. >> reporter: do the sports make it better? >> yes. i'm not afraid like i used to be. >> reporter: here, samuel has a home-court advantage. >> you lift them up and help them moving forward and maximize their skill and talents, that's the main goal of my foundation. >> reporter: in the eyes of the children he helps, a hero, and hope for haiti to rebound, bounce back and rebuild better than before. we should mention the sports for peace program received additional program from the hope for haiti telethon, aired on many networks, including nbc. meredith. >> it's so important. >> he's so terrific. when we went there, he didn't even know his own recreation center had become a tented city. the shock through his eyes was really sad and beautiful to see. >> absolutely. jenna bush hagen, thank you so much. still ahead on a much different note. a meatball cookoff live on the plaza. after months of martin o' telling us "maryland is moving forward," "and moving maryland forward" this jobs report tells the truth maryland's economy stalled "we face an uphill struggle in trying to regain the jobs lost" o'malley attempts a cover-up, falsifying the jobs report to help his campaign. "whatever we can do to make it disappear, we need to do it. that's coming straight from the top" martin o'malley, first he makes stuff up, when caught, he covers stuff up. we need a governor who tells the truth. "today"'s kitchen brought to you by jell-o, so gigli, so gigli, so fun. >> this morning, back to basic, meatball, we enlisted three chefs to share their unique recipe. italian chef is a contributor and mike maroney, from north port, new york and a chef here in new york city. welcome to all of you. you guys will take on those two chefs. i'm starting with giada. i call these straight to the emergency room meatballs, tell me about those. >> you're such a lightweight. look how little those are. >> i know what's in them. >> i know what you can eat and you can eat more than that. two shallots. tomatoes. parmesan cheese, basil, that's healthy. saltred pepper flakes. >> you will use a combination of pork and beef? >> i am, 22% beef, right? lots of fat. it keeps the meatballs - meatballs -- anyway -- >> let's say we ground that up in the food processor. >> mix it all together. >> here's the secret, make a little meatball and you will put a surprise in the middle. >> i am. growing up we used to make rice balls. the surprise i loved as a kid is smoked mozzarella in the center. cover them up. >> half vegetable oil and half olive oil. >> for flavor, one or two minutes and take them out and keeps them nice and moist. >> i will take one of those. what are they technically called? >> meatballs a la pizzaiola. >> this is your grandmother's? >> tell us about it. >> all beef, a lot of cheese, basil, parsley, onions, a little bit of milk for moisture. what you want to do is you're creating ing a qiche. it blows up and gets nice and tender. >> you make a bigger meatball than giada? >> they shrink when you cook them. >> but about the size of a softball. >> talk about shrinkage -- >> it is cold out here. >> is this the same salsa? >> it's a classic sauce, fresh onion, garlic and basil, olive oil, salt and pepper. >> you're good to go. >> all right. >> can ataste one? >> sure. >> no, you're not allowed. >> we will move to al. >> you can do whatever you want because you're the 40th most powerful woman in the world. >> i will stick this fork in you. >> you're making a chicken and lemongrass meatball, a thai influence meatball. >> i am. >> what goes into this. >> grass noodles. onion, hot sauce. >> you mix it up and make these little meatballs. >> i make a white curry. >> what goes into that? >> so far, garlic, ginger, shallot and a pound of lemongrass. >> coconut milk? >> coconut milk. add all that in. >> what's this? >> a little fish sauce for flavor. that might be a little too much sauce. >> sorry. okay. >> a little bit of salt. if you added that, you probably don't need all that. sugar. >> this is different than anything. you serve it over rice? >> yes. you want to finish it with thai basil, mix it around. >> mix it around. >> there you go. very good. >> i love it. i'll try one. >> a little spicy. >> that's fantastic. just a little sweet, too. >> yes. >> competition here. >> not at all. >> she's here, going, mine are better, mine are better! >> he's been hammering you all day. >> i don't get a break, that's the problem. i will see you next and i know i will get a break, al. >> thaw all, these are fantastic. i appreciate it. we will have much more ahead on a thursday morning. first, this is "today" on nbc. just drive, we'll get there! adventure runs on dunkin', with our maple cheddar breakfast sandwich. breakfast just got a whole lot sweeter. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. this morning, we're kicking off a new series, journey to secret kingdoms. traveling to a tiny almost unpopulated island, 200 miles off the coast of yemen. >> i'm so excited we are doing this. travel is very important. we talk about foreign places and describe them in terms of travel warnings and terrorist attacks. there are still many destinations completely alive with the spirit of adventure. this island off the coast of yemen called socotra is definitely one of them. in our shrinking and discovered world, there remains one undiscovered place that still seems truly lost. the small arabian island of socotra, tinged with romance and spirit of explanation. perhaps it's the bottle trees or flocks of yellow faced vultures, or the beaches, undisturbed by greasy sunbathers. socotra is 250 miles south of the arabian peninsula, technically, part of yemen, but 30 million years of isolation have made the island unique. the relaxed pace of life is completely dominated by nature, so much the people on the island use their own calendar with 24 months, each month marking a small seasonal change. a month when it rain, a month when the wind blows and even a month when crabs cover the beaches. socotra has more than 800 endemic species, a plant an animal. only hawaii and the gol llogapo have more. 50,000 people live here. most are fishermen. there is a small tourism industry. only 140 americans came here last year. >> this is about as crowded an it gets. >> reporter: american david has been studying it for years. why it is so isolated? >> perception of being a dangerous place. >> reporter: it is safe for people to come here? >> absolutely. 100%. >> reporter: but socotra wasn't always so empty. the island was once famous and fought over for these fantastically named tree, with branches that reach up to sip moisture from the clouds, socotra's 5,000 dragon trees. it's been called the forgotten world but these trees were prized throughout antiquity. cleopatra used it to redden her lips and gladiators in rome used it to heal their wounds. the trees can live 800 years or more. this is the sap, huh? the dragon's blood? >> yes. >> reporter: sacotras still collect dragon's blood today. the sap is a coagulant. women use it after childbirth and to color clay pots. there are few machines on the island and imports are expensive. so sacotrans produce much of what they need by hand. i watch a woman weaving what i first think is a carpet but turns out to be an ingenius type of chair. >> what she's making is a local item. people sit cross legged for long periods of time and it can be hard on your back. she's making a strap that what you do, put it around your shoulders and then over your knees and you can sit more comfortably. >> people have developed a culture, based on husbanding their resources because they know their livelihood depends on it. >> reporter: harmony with nature, allowing so-called living fossils to survive, like tadpole shrimp, believed to be the world's oldest creature, unchanged for 240 million years. nearby, ahmed saeb shows me this with origins unknown. >> reporter: people don't know the history of these? like all of yemen, he isthmus limb but the island retains many greek traditions, greet by touching noses and foreheads and speak their own language. and marry with a blend of is islamic and african tradition. an island locked in time by a world economy that long ago just passed them by. when cleopatra and the gladiators faded into history, with them went the market for dragon blood sap so their international perhaps plummeted and the island was almost completely and blissfully forgotten. that was almost 2,000 years ago. >> we're going to continue this story tomorrow with another destination. i don't even want to tell you. it may be even better. >> you spend so much time in war torn countries to have the opportunity to go to another place must be wonderful. i never heard of it either. >> it's between yemen and somalia, a very dangerous neighborhood but the island is perfectly safe. they haven't had a murder there in ten years. it is one of these isolated places very exciting to travel to. >> did you bring me back any sap? >> didn't bring back any dragons blood so you have to send me back. >> i work with a sap anyway. thank you so much. back to your local news. just kidding! >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara a woman convicted of killing an expected mother in anne arundel county has been sentenced and oregon. she will spend the rest of life behind bars without appeal or the possibility of parole the maryland mother-to-be met her through craigslist with the intent of buying baby clothes. intent of buying baby clothes. instead, she killed the woman i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. his past attacks have been called deceptive, his new attack, false. harris voted for deregulation increasing our electric bills by 72% it's not surprising, harris always sides with the big guys. he opposes cracking down on wall street and supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. harris even opposed making big insurance cover cancer screenings. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us. >> now let's take a look at the forecast with john collins. >> sunshine now. we started the morning in the 40's and 50's, but we will be climbing. the storm system is pulling away from the area. it will be a bit on the breezy side. if you costs will be stronger than that. 68 to 73 is the high. that is closed was typical for the year. next best rain chance next week. >> we will have another weather update at 9:25. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college. fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go directly to kids instead of through banks. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message. because it's not about the next election, it's about the next generation. right? 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