good morning. breaking news, the small plane crashes in southwest alaska and there are reports this morning that former alaska senator ted stevens, the longest serving republican in the history of the senate, may have been a passenger on that plane. this morning, the latest from the scene. cabipressure -- a jetblue flight attendant blows his top, cursing out a passenger over the intercom, before allegedly grabbing beer, deploying the plane's emergency slide, and sliding away. he has a date with the judge today. so why are some calling him a hero? captured. one of the convicts accused of murder escaped from prison

arrested near yellowstone national park where he was doing work at a local church. and now the paster is speaking out in a exclusive live interview today. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to "today," 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on this tuesday morning. i'm mare deeth vera. >> i'm matt lauer. we're following that breaking news out of alaska, a small plane with at least eight passengers on board has crashed near the town of dillingham, about 300 miles southwest of anchorage, alaska. >> there are reports that former alaska senator ted stevens may have been on board as well as former nasa administrator shawn o'keefe. >> nbc's tom costello covers aviation for us. he's in washington with the latest. what can you tell us. >> reporter: we have been getting reports to the effect throughout the night and the

morning, we started hearing reports and we now are hearing more and more reports that in fact former senator ted stevens may have been on the plane that went down late last night in alaska in a remote area in southwest alaska and in addition that shawn o'keefe, the former nasa administrator, may have been on the plane as well. the plane itself is described as a de havilland fixed wing single engine dhd-3 otter, a common plane in that part of alaska, has the capability of landing on the water. this plane was built in 1957. the weather at the time described as rather rough. in fact, rescue teams had a hard time getting into the region because of the deteriorating weather. and there are reports that some good samaritans got to the scene rather quickly, far in advance of rescuers, in fact, and spent the night there at the wreckage with the victims. there are reports of victims and fatalities. we don't know who has survived and perhaps who hasn't.

this plane was owned by the gci corporation of alaska, a telecom cable tv type of company and reportedly the plane was in route to a gci facility, some sort of a lodge, we're led to believe, in which they may have had access to fishing and the like. but, again, at this hour, we have reports that former senator ted stevens may have been on this plane that went down as well as the former nasa administrator shawn o'keefe, rescue teams still not on the scene. they have been struggling with very bad weather. back to you. >> most importantly, tom, at this moment we have reports at least earlier reports that there may be survivors after that accident. >> correct. >> tom costello in washington, tom, thanks very much. greg feith is a former investigator for the national transportation safety board and he knows the area where the plane went down. he is now on the phone. good morning to you. what can you tell us about the area where the plane went down? >> dillingham is a very small fishing community. there is about 3,000 people there. the airport sits right next to

the water, but the surrounding terrain from the city has a combination of low wetland type areas, up to mountains, just north and north and northeast of dillingham. >> difficult to navigate through if the weather conditions were rough? >> if the weather has deteriorated to the point where visual conditions are not possible, that is pilots can't see the terrain, they can still navigate the area, but if they're trying to approach the airport or they have to divert to another airport because there are other airports in that area, the terrain becomes a challenge in very bad weather. >> greg, tom costello reported the plane that crashed was a 1957 de havilland dch-3 hotteota more common plane that navigates alaska. what else can you tell us about the plane? >> the otter is a work horse airplane. it was developed in the '50s. there are a couple of different versions, meredith. one was a piston engine on it.

it was later developed in a turboprop, basically a jet engine with a propeller on it, more reliable, can carry a heavy load. the dh-3 can carry 10 to 11 people plus crew. so it is a very popular airplane because it can be equipped with both skis for snow and floats for landing on the water. >> it is being reported that there may be some survivors, rescue teams are having a hard time getting to the plane. when they get there, besides looking for survivor, what else will they be looking for, greg? >> the investigative team, once they do get on site, they're going to be looking to determine if there was any kind of mechanical malfunction that may have caused or contributed to the accident. given the weather conditions at the time, of course, the pilot operation of the airplane is always going to be in question as well as the dispatch. that is what did the crew know about the weather conditions and the environment before they actually took off? and then, of course, was there anything that was wrong with the

airplane either before they took off or may have developed in flight that caused them not to make it to the airport. >> a lot of questions still to be answered. greg feith, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> you're welcome. let's bring in nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent into the discussion, that's andrea mitchell. andrea, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we have early reports that ted stevens, the longest serving republican in the senate, may have been on that plane, a legend in the state of alaska. they call him uncle ted up there. ironically, andrea, this is a guy who was involved in an earlier crash in his life, back in 1978. >> he survived, but tragically his first wife ann died in that crash as well as four other people. that was a crash in anchorage. dillingham is a very different place. you'll recall, matt, i was there a year ago july when we went to interview sarah palin. that is the fishing village where todd palin and todd's family stayed for most of the summer in july and august. these are the prime fishing areas. ted stevens, as you know, was

convicted, shortly before his election bid and then that conviction was vacated by eric holder in 2009. so his record was expunged and that whole trial and the terrible way for him that he left the senate, in fact, was cleared. shawn o'keefe, a long-standing, well known figure here in washington, not only was the head of nasa, he was the navy secretary, he was the deputy director of omb, the budget office. he was in the bush '41 and bush '43 us whos, ed '43 white houses and very close to dick cheney. anyone who could have survived that kind of plane crash, it would have been shawn o'keefe, a well known figure in washington and currently the ceo of aeds north america, the north american part of the airbus conglomerate from europe. >> and friendly with ted stevens as well. andrea, thanks for your insight

on this. i appreciate it very much. >> all right, now let's get a check of the morning'se stores. natalie morales is in for ann. searchers were following up on tips as they look for an escaped inmate and his alleged accomplice. authorities say the two may be near glacier national park in montana. but some leads indicate they may have gone into canada. a second escaped convict was caught on monday in wyoming. we'll have much more on this story coming up shortly. police are searching for a serial killer who stabbed five people to death in michigan and wounded ten others. police in virginia think the same suspect attacked three people there. primaries and runoff elections are being held today in four states. in connecticut, colorado, georgia, and minnesota. it is a big test for incumbents and president obama leading up to november's midterm election. nbc's political direct and chief white house correspondent chuck todd has a look at what's at stake. good morning to you. >> reporter: there are four states holding primaries or runoffs today and while president obama is not on the

ballot, he does have some skin in the game in colorado where he's going to find out tonight if he can be persuasive, even with democrats. president obama deep in the heart of conservative texas on monday, hammering home his argument against the republicans. >> i am happy to have this debate over the next several months about what their vision of the future is. they don't have one. >> reporter: elections in four states today will measure voters' anger toward washington insiders as a slew of outsiders are running this year. republicans in connecticut will choose their party's senate nominee. the front-runner is new to politics, former world wrestling entertainment ceo, linda mcmahon, who poured millions of her personal fortune into her campaign, amassed over 30 years running the wwe with her more famous husband vince mcmahon. they have relished using the over-the-top wwe moments like this one with which features the candidate herself in campaign ads. >> mcmahon supporting obama's bailouts. isn't that just a kick in the --

>> reporter: mcmahon has fired back trying to use the unusual reputation of the wwe as an asset. >> look, she tamed the traveling show world of professional wrestling, turned it into a global company and created 500 jobs here in connecticut. >> all right. so think she can shake things up in washington? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: but vince mcmahon admitted to the associated press that extensive political and media focus using some of the raciest wwe clips out of context hurt the corporate brand saying most of the people have not even seen our show. all they've seen is one little snippet and try to make up their minds as to whether or not it's acceptable programming. not everyone believes linda mcmahon's campaign will do long-term damage to her family business. >> it's a controversial organization. having said that, it's an entertainment organization. i think we can separate a product that's out there as a vehicle of entertainment and a person. >> reporter: in colorado president obama's choice to hold the democratic senate seat michael bennett faces a tough

insider/outsider battle with former state house speaker andrew romanoff. and in georgia today the republican run-off for governor has turned into a 2012 republican presidential proxy fight with newt gingrich and mike huckabee on one side supporting former congressman nathan deal and sarah palin on on the other side, in support of her mama grisly, karen handel. >> show the nation how you are ready to bring it on, georgia. >> reporter: a political comeback is being attempted by mark dayton, he's trying to become his party's nominee for governor. >> chuck todd in washington for us. thank you, chuck. uss john mccain docked in vietnam today as two former enemy nations mark 15 years of renewed diplomatic ties. the destroyer is named for admiral john mccain sr. and junior, the grandfather and father of arizona senator john mccain who was held as a p.o.w. during the vietnam war.

now 7:12 pacific time. back to meredith, matt and al. >> thank you very much, natalie. mr. roker here with the first check of the weather. >> in dillingham, alaska, 48 degrees and raining. you see on the satellite, we haveot chauds and showers, nothing horrible right now, but the weather isot deteriorating, expect showers right over the next 36 hours there. as we take a look at the rest of the west, you see things fairly clear. showers in the pacific northwest on into the central plains. reno, nevada, 89 degrees and sunshine. l.a., sunny and 74. 107 in phoenix. denver going to be toasty, a temperature of 90 degrees with 91 in salt lake city. boise, a high of 89. seattle, sunshine and 70 degrees. rest of the country, risk of strong storms working their way from the plains up into the upper mississippi river valley. we have got a little pressure area that has developed in the gulf, maybe cause something problems later today. and on into tomorrow into the gulf and the oil spill area.

sunny skies along the eastern seaboard. but we have got heat warnings and advisories for 19 states through the south, the gulf and on into the mid-atlantic states. here's a look at a foggy golden gate bridge. you can expect when the low clouds are there on the mid-span of the bridge deck, we have flight delays into sfo. call ahead i you are expecting family or friends out at sfo. temperatures in line with yesterday, 60s for san francisco and oakland. the trend is finally showing warmer temperatures inland, especially closer to the weekend. may even approach 90 in a few spots by saturday. and that's your latest weather. matt? >> al, thank you very much. now to that bizarre incident on a jetblue flight that ended with a flight attendant deploying that plane's emergency evacuation slide and then heading home. following an argument with a passenger. tom costello is back with more on this story. tom, good morning again. >> reporter: this was a plane

that was on the ground when this happened, and none of the passengers was in any danger, but one jetblue flight attendant was apparently having a very bad day. for 38-year-old flight attendant steven slater, it appears to have been one flight, one passenger too many. jetblue flight 1052 from pittsburgh with 100 passengers on board landed at new york's jfk airport at about noon on monday, when slater was struck in the head with a piece of overhead luggage, a passenger was trying to retrieve, slater demanded an apology and the two got into a heated argument. that's when he pulled the emergency exit chute, grabbed two beers, slid down the chute, ran across the tarmac, through the airport to his car and then drove home. >> the gentleman was in the jeep, flying down the block, running and parked the car, and ran into his.

>> reporter: police arrested slater at his home and in custody he simply smiled as he was led way. >> people can be abusive to airline attendants. i just, you know, feel bad for the guy. >> reporter: in a statement, jetblue says at no time was the security or safety of our customers or crew members at risk. still, ground crews working beneath the plane could have been injured by the falling exit chute. former ntsb chairman mark rosenker says he's never seen anything like this before. >> to have a flight attendant, unexplainably deploy a chute, leave the aircraft after cursing out the passengers, the only thing i can explain it is perhaps a little too much cabin pressure. >> reporter: for years, flight attendants have been made fun of in pop culture. >> i'll wait for you outside in the terminal. >> great, bye-bye. >> no, no, there is more. i'm going to pound your face in. >> okay, slick, bye-bye. >> reporter: and suffered verbal and physical abuse at the hands of a traveling public that is increasingly unhappy and far less polite than in years past.

>> get out! leave everything! >> reporter: flight attendant also undergo extensive and rigorous training to deal with inflight emergencies and disasters. and they have proven they can make the difference in life or death situations as they did during the miracle on the hudson landing in 2009. the flight attendants and pilots were credited with saving everyone on board. >> we have thousands and thousands of operations that occur every day safely, without incident, routine. the people that do this work are excellent. they're highly professional, extremely skilled. >> reporter: what is not clear is why a veteran flight attendant simply decided he couldn't take it anymore and literally pulled the plug on his own career. police say his last words to the passengers were, it has been a good 28 years. apparently it is over. steven slater was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and trespassing. if convicted on all of those charges, he could face up to seven years in prison. on his myspace page, slighter

says he worked for jetblue since january of '08 and in addition to serving as the chairman of the jetblue uniform redesign committee, he also apparently served on the airline's inflight values committee. matt? >> all right, tom, no comment. thank you very much. earlier this morning i talked to phil catlinet and i asked him what he thought when he first heard the announcement. >> i heard him make the announcement and we didn't know what that was about. and i thought that was most interesting part of the day to that point. it wasn't until i got off the plane and saw that something had happened with the chute, and then i got to the air train and there he was. >> he makes this announcement on the plane, and it is profanity laced, right? >> yeah. >> what was the reaction of the other passengers on that plane  as they're listening to this? >> half the plane was still on, we were waiting to get off. we were all surprised we had heard somebody swear on the --

>> you thought somebody had done it by accident? >> no it was clear it was intentional. but we thought that was weird that someone would get on the intercom. he's got to be in some trouble now for calling out a passenger that way. >> right. >> and i thought that was the end of it. i wasn't sure what happened. >> apparently he grabbed a couple of beers and inflated the inflatable emergency slide and made a quick exit. >> right. >> did everybody see that happen? >> no, because i didn't -- maybe people who got off before me did. i was halfway back, still waiting to get off the plane. so i didn't see him pull the slide, i didn't see the beers, i saw him with his bags on the airtran, thouair train, though, so he had time to do that. >> here is a guy that has just done something way outside the boundries, in fact, illegal. did he seem agitated? did he seem calm? the photos of him, we see him smiling. >> he was smiling, he was happy he had done this, happy he was done with his job at jetblue. and he said that he had worked there for 20 some years and he

had been a flight attendant for a long time and was looking forward to whatever was the next phase of his life, his career. he seemed very happy about this. >> you're somebody who travels fairly often? >> a couple times a year. >> were you surprised he was able to do what he did on that plane, including the inflatable slide, and then calmly get on the air train and make it away from the airport without being stopped? >> i'm surprised because i didn't, until i heard him talking about this, i didn't know what happened. i thought a passenger had gotten in trouble for pulling the slide. because he was there with his bags, he was there -- >> as if nothing had happened. >> as if nothing had happened. he was going to the parking lot. >> i know you're aware of the fact that on twitter and some other social networks, he's being made out as somewhat of a working class or working man's hero. >> yeah. >> i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore. what is your thought on that? >> i think it is funny that he could quit his job that way. i don't think he thought this through, that to do something like that will get you arrested.

>> right. >> but at first my reaction was, maybe we can all quit our jobs, wouldn't that be funny. but it is not funny. and the other thing is, he's a flight attendant and you don't want to see somebody lose their cool that way. >> have you seen, though, flight attendants being placed in a situation by the traveling public that perhaps makes you feel differently about how travel -- how flight attendants should be treated? >> well, i see that on every flight, that somebody says something to a flight attendant or feel that they're getting treated the wrong way, and takes it out on the flight attendant. but i've never seen anybody react this strongly. they have always been very polite. >> phil, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. clearly this guy crossed the line. >> yeah. >> no question about it. let me read you the tweets posted about him. steven slater, that jetblue flight attendant is totally my new hero, crafting my own american flag using his face in place of every star and totally had steven slater as a flight

attendant last saturday, i would have grabbed a beer and slid down the chute with him. what a hero. >> most of them feel that way, i think, that i've seen. >> i think, look, we have all been -- we fly a lot. we see the abuse these flight attendants take. there are some stories he just lost a parent who was in the airline industry, had been taking care of that parent, lost another parent in the airline industry, you know, obviously there is a lot more to this. >> i think a lot of people relate too if you have a bad job and you're wanting to do something like that where you're so aggravated. >> go out in style, but not illegal style. maybe a little more within the boundaries. >> he's in trouble now. that's for sure. okay. well, just ahead, one of the escaped convicts from arizona captured near yellowstone where he was doing odd jobs at a local church. the pastor who hired him said he needed some money. pastor and a church member will speak out about their encounter in a exclusive live interview. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

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a san jose neighborhood is coming together to help an elementary school damaged by fire. over the weekend volunteers held a garage sale to benefit the school. the silicon valley community fund will match dollar for dollar. trace community school plans to open for class on august 16th. another local news update in a half hour. see you then.

7:30 now on a tuesday morning. the 10th day of august, 2010. right now you're checking out the view from the top of the rock. here in new york city on a hazy, hot, and humid day here in the northeast. at street level you can see some of the people who have gathered out on our plaza this morning. we're going to say hi to them in just a couple of seconds. inside studio 1a i'm matt lauer along with meredith vieira. remember when cell phones were just for talking? now you can do everything -- you can browse the web, stream movies on them -- all kinds of things. >> that's right. you have to pay for it. some carriers want to you pay every time you do that by doing

away with unlimited data plans and that could be costly if you don't know how much data you actually use. we'll weed through the confusion to hopefully save you money on that monthly bill. also ahead, new details on the scandal that led to the resignation of hewlett-packard's ceo mark hurd. if he didn't violate his company's sexual harassment policy, why did he have to resign? we'll get the latest on that coming up. plus, second marriages, grown children, and the two challenges presented to families. we want to begin with convicted murderer who escaped from jail in arizona, apprehended near yellowstone park. we'll talk to two men who came face-to-face with that escapee in a moment. but first, here's nbc's george lewis. george, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. 42-year-old tracy province is being held here in the park county jail before a court hearing which will determine his extradition back to arizona. that's where he and two others broke out of prison almost two weeks ago.

province might be on the loose if he hadn't stopped for sunday services near a small town church. 42-year-old terry province spent his sunday morning in the meeteetse community church singing along with the congregation. >> he was extremely involved in the worship. he was singing. he was closing his eyes. he was involved in prayer just like any christian that walked through our doors would be. >> reporter: across the street at this motel, province persuaded a guest to let him sleep on the floor for the night. >> apparently one of our guests who just started talking to him, said he needed a place to crash. so one of our guests was being a good samaritan, let him crash on the floor. >> reporter: later that night a member of the church recognized a photo of the escaped inmate and alerted sheriff's deputies. u.s. marshals staked out the church on monday morning and found the convicted murderer walking down the road carrying a 9 millimeter handgun and a hitchhiking sign asking for a

ride to casper. >> he was relieved that this manhunt was over for him and that this long process was finally over for him. >> reporter: the manhunt started when province and two other inmates escaped from this arizona prison july 30th. authorities believe casslynn welch threw wire cutters over the fence to help her fiance and cousin john mccluskey escape along with two other inmates, daniel renwick and province. renwick was captured in rifle, colorado, two days later. investigators say there is evidence to tie mccluskey to the murder of a couple last week in this burned out trailer in santa rosa, new mexico. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: province told marshals they fancy themselves as a modern day bonnie and clyde. >> they joke about it, and i think they've taken the persona that this is some type of a

movie and this is some kind of a joke they are living, but it is not. this is a very, very serious business. >> reporter: mccluskey's mother, claudia washburn, is in police custody in arizona, accused of helping her son evade authorities. her husband hopes mccluskey is caught before he hurts anyone else. >> you guys think you're bonnie and clyde, you're far from it. >> reporter: marshals are urging mccluskey and welsh to turn themselves in and avoid the fate of their real-life counterparts. >> they'll get caught sooner or later. they're making too many mistakes. >> rest assured, we are going to be on mccluskey like a cheap suit. >> reporter: officials emphasize mccluskey and welch are armed and dangerous. they are believed to be in montana now, perhaps heading toward canada. canadian authorities and interpol have been alerted. matt? >> george lewis, thank you very much.

before his capture, tracy province was actually paid to do some odd jobs around the meeteetse community church. we're joined exclusively by the church's pastor ron kingston and jim gould, a local rancher and the church treasurer. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> morning. >> ron, you're the pastor of a small church. i understand the population of the town is only about 350 people, so is it unusual for a stranger to show up for sunday services? >> not really a stranger to show up. we are outside of yellowstone park so we have a lot of tourists sometimes stop by, so it's not real strange but, yeah, we like to invite newcomers who want to come. >> when this guy, tracy province walked in this past sunday, ron, did he immediately attract your attention or did he blend in? >> he fairly blended in. there was nothing that stood out about him. i wasn't following the news so i

didn't recognize him like that. i just figured he was somebody who wanted to come and worship god with us. >> and, jim, you had a chance to speak to tracy province. what was the conversation like? what was it like? what was his demeanor? >> after church i visited with him about 30 minutes, and he was -- on some things you could tell he was telling the truth. other things not. watching him, you could tell he was not a very good person. and later i called and told ron that this guy is a bad guy and i wouldn't have him around your kids because he was there doing some work for the church. >> jim, did he talk about what he had been through over the past couple of days? did he tell you where he was from, where he had been, where he was going? >> yes. he told us that he had stayed three nights on the grass down on the river. before that he'd been in yellowstone park and his party had had left him and he didn't know why. he said he was heading to indianapolis, indiana, and

that's where he was from. he didn't have enough money to get there. >> did he seem -- you offered him, ron, a job doing some odd jobs around the church, i think pulling some weeds and cleaning up some hoses. you were going to pay him $40. did he seem grateful for the opportunity? >> yeah, he told me he was out of money and so i offered a job for him, so he mowed the grass and brought the weed whacker out and did a bunch of the work around the church. i paid him, he took the money and like any good pastor i talked about tithing and he wanted to tithe off the $40. >> and i know eventually your suspicions raised to the point where you did call law enforcement as did another parishioner who apparently recognized him from the news. he was planning to come back and perhaps do some more work the next day and that's when he was arrested. he was arrested with a handgun. you now know a little bit more about his background. have you stopped to think about what could have been had he come back to that church?

>> yeah, i sure have. i thought of all the scenarios went through my mind, and the scenario that happened here in meeteetse in our little town, it really happened good. i'm proud of our law enforcement and it wouldn't have happened without the deputy sheriff of my town really encouraging me to look on the internet to see if this man was, in fact, the man in our church, and it turned out he was the man and then the u.s. marshals got involved and everything worked out really good. i saw him walking through the street the next morning. got on the phone and it all happened and there wasn't a gunfight. everything worked out real good. so i'm thankful to god for his protection over our town. >> and we're thankful for your actions. ron and jim, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thank you. let's get a check of the weather now from al. all right, thank you, mr. lauer. warm, humid weather. friends hanging out having a good time. a little on the moist side but we're also keeping an eye out on the tropics especially down around the gulf.

low pressure 75 miles southwest of naples could become a tropical system in the next few days. may affect the oil spill site. we're keeping an eye on this one. we have the risk of strong bitockrms arsm down to omaha, out to des moines. the threat of damaging winds, isolated tornadoes. you can see the storms firing up now. in fact des moines yesterday had massive flooding washing out roads, railroad tracks, causing big problems. and they're going to pick up another 2 to 3 inches of rain today as far west as almost just west of chicago and up into grand forks. look at san jose, we have overcast skies, mist along the coast and peninsula. again this morning. as we head towards the lunch time, low clouds breaking up inland. cool along the coast. 60s for san francisco and oakland. 70s to lowar80s inland today. the trend as we head towards the weekend for inland spots, out towards the tri valley, areas south of san jose, looks to be warmer, finally.

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back at 7:43 and this morning on "today's consumer" dialback data plans. cell phones used to be just for talking, but now that you can use them to surf the web, e-mail, and a lot more, maybe cell carriers are trying to find a way to profit on all that data that you are using. a senior project editor for consumer reports magazine, good morning to you. good morning. at&t announces that it is phasing out its unlimited data plan. do you expect the other major carriers to follow suit? >> probably. it kind of remains to be seen. the rumor mill has it that verizon will follow suit, probably soon, maybe even this

month. farce t-mobile and sprint are concerned, we'll have to wait and see. >> what's the rationale behind getting rid of these plans, unlimited plans? >> it's kind of a pay for play. there are people out there that are using a lot more data and you have this unlimited data plan. it's that they're using a ton of data. they want to be charging people the correct amount. >> that's a small percentage of phone users. >> that's right. and a lot of people will actually do better under mees plans because they aren't using that much data. so if they have a tiered plan, they can pay less instead of paying $30 a month for unlimited. they can pay $15 a month at at&t and get 200 megabytes. >> let's start first with with the iphone, somebody who use as lot of data and you're obviously your carrier is at&t. if you have this unlimited plan at this point, can you keep it? >> yeah, you probably can keep it until the contract runs out, whether or not you'll be able to continue it beyond that, maybe not. >> you have a smart phone, you're trying to figure out what plan works for you. is there any way to calculate

how much data you are using right now? is there a website or how do you figure it out? >> probably your own carrier's website. in fact, all the major carriers will let you monitor, you get to sign up for online usage and they let you monitor how much you're using. that will give you a good gauge. you can figure out this is how much data i use each month and how much i talk, if you're still talking as well, and then you can pick the plan that's right for you. >> and what if you miscalculate? you use more data than you thought you did? >> we are using more and more all the time. >> exactly. >> one study says it's doubled in the last year or so. if you do as far as at&t is concerned, you won't be penalized. that's a great thing. there's no penalty fee. you can just re-up, have another 200 megabytes for another $15, for example, or go up to the 2gs for $25 a month with no penalty. hopefully everyone else will follow suit. >> i do not own a smart phone. if i wanted to get one, can i calculate, get some kind of figure as to what i probably will need? >> yeah, you can go online and see how much you're using now and you'll have to estimate if

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as former department store exec gail welly did. >> you have to have a good laugh or you could fall into a really bad place. >> reporter: and comics like shawn sullivan who joke about the joys of not working. >> when i'm asleep i can fly, i know magic. i can dunk basketballs. i'm awake. i'm a fat slob telling jokes to unemployed people in a basement. >> reporter: and it's not just comedy clubs. once a week a handful of people show up at the century old warehouse outside boston with one goal in mind. some take the stairway, some take this old elevator. it's a manual job and it's an old one. and they head up to the third floor offices of a man who makes them laugh. he's a doctor and he hosts one of the so-called laughter clubs

that have sprung up around the country. no comedy, no triggers, just start laughing. >> people think how can i laugh at jokes, and you tell them you fake it and you make it. >> reporter: participants like amy wyman find they don't fake it at all. >> i was laid off a year ago and i -- coming to these clubs is wonderful. i walk out, i feel your body feels better. you're exhilarated, uplifted. >> reporter: it's that lift people long for when they're feeling ground down, a accepts of shared struggle, to laughter whether it's generated by longtime pros like dave russo -- >> i actually have a limo waiting for me outside after the show. i'm the driver. >> reporter: or laidoff engineer turned comedian like dave who used to work for intel. >> when i applied for the job they said you're indian and japanese, you don't even have to interview. >> reporter: or by someone with a day job as a reporter. >> i'm not sure he's performed anywhere before. we're putting him on may. >> reporter: he collects and tells jokes as a hobby.

>> what happened? i don't know, it all happened so fast. >> people come in and say, i really needed this. we get e-mails saying, i need this. i haven't been out in three weeks. >> reporter: going out to guarantee you'll feel better, a good laugh. and you can't beat the price. for "today," mike taibbi, nbc news, boston. >> i don't know about that last thing. i'm not sure. >> the laughing class, the laughing group? >> yeah. >> just ahead, was there more to the resignation of hb ceo than a complaint by a reality tv star. >> and the latest on the scandal after your local news and weather. you got in pretty late last night. dad, i'm not sixteen anymore. still, it was late. well... you're not gonna have to worry about that anymore. yeah, why's that? ♪

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good morning to you. 7:56 right now. i'm laura garcia-cannon, felipe has a look at the morning commute. >> starting out in castro valley, an accident out there on eastbound 580 at castro valley boulevard, two lanes blocked. getting a look at the east shore freeway, that's the maze, speed right now heading from the carquinez bridge to the maze is at 49 miles per hour, taking you about 23 minutes. a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, things starting to back up -- this is the golden gate camera, things looking good. smooth coming into san francisco as the giants game tonight on nbc bay area, if you are making your way into the city for that, tune in. if not, as far as weather you could see some of that -- i've been calling it high with fog?

it's actually low clouds? >> fog and everything across the golden gate bridge. it may slow your commutes along spots along the coast. take a nice giants sweat shirt out to the ballpark tonight. 70s san jose, 80s inland. the seven-day forecast showing a trend to themear w rweather. just in time for the start of the weekend. more news after the break.

a san francisco teen is in custody for the shooting of a german tourist is in custody. san francisco police say 18-year-old phillip stewart shot and killed 50-year-old mechthild schroeer from germany sunday night. she and her husband were walking to their hotel. the couple came to san francisco celebrating their anniversary. four other people were questioned but released. i'll have another local news update for you in a half hour. the "today" show returns in less than a minute. 6rs and 24/7 roadside assistance. cause when you create

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worst decision since apple fired steve jobs. we're going to have more on this coming up in just a couple of minutes. also -- hello. saying "i do" for a second time, it can be tricky especially when one or both of the spouses have children that are now adults. we're going to talk about the minefields you want to avoid. and do you know what the new status symbol for today's working mom is? a stay-at-home dad. and we're going to show you why that's an upcoming trend and why a lot of working moms like the natalie is over at the news desk with the details. good morning, matt, meredith and al. there are reports this morning that former alaska senator ted stevens was aboard a small plane that crashed last night near dillingham, alaska. bad weather is hampering efforts to reach the site. stevens was the longest serving

republican senator before losing his 2008 re-election bid. it has been confirmed that former nasa chief sean o'keefe was among eight people on board. there are reports of survivors. police in michigan are looking for a serial killer who may also have struck in other states as well. nbc's ron allen is in flint, michigan, with more on the story. good morning to you, ron. >> reporter: yes, good morning, natalie. the attacks are spreading fear here in the flint, michigan, african-american men or men out at night alone. police say the attacker usually approaches someone, strikes up a conversation, and then for no apparent reason starts stabbing with a knife. the first attack was in may, the second a month later. both victims murdered by a knife-wielding killer. >> these stabbings have been taking place during the early morning hour, and the victims have been on foot and approached by the suspect from his vehicle.

oftentimes the suspect is asking for directions or assistance. >> reporter: it wasn't until july when a third victim survived an attack that police had a description of the killer. >> this guy just stabbing you, you know. >> reporter: on monday authorities released this sketch showing the suspect, a white male with light hair between 5'11" and 6'2" with an athletic build. police believe the suspect may be responsible for at least 15 stabbings in the flint, michigan, area since may 24th. five the attacks were fatal and all but one of the victims was a black male. several hundred miles away in leesburg, virginia, police say the same suspect may also be involved in three crimes. two stabbings and a hammer attack last week. >> this is an extremely violent individual. it does appear the target of his rage, the target of his attacks are african-american males. >> reporter: officials release this had picture take friend surveillance video.

it's a 1995 to 2000 chevrolet s-10 blazer or gmc jimmy or similar vehicle. the four-door vehicle is two-toned with dark green or either beige or gold trim. the crime spree has residents in both cities on alert. >> you're dealing with a nut here and he's already too close to the edge. >> reporter: and there may be yet another case. in toledo, ohio, which happens to be on the road from here to virginia, and that's what has police really concerned that they have no idea where this person may strike next. natalie? >> ron allen in flint, michigan, thank you, ron. an unusual air rage incident has a jetblue flight attendant facing a court appearance today. police say steven slater argued with a passenger monday at new york's kennedy airport. he then allegedly cursed the passenger over the public address system and then grabbed his bags and some beer and headed home by activating an emergency chute and sliding away. a lot of people talking about this one today. 8:04 right now.

let's go back outside once again to matt and meredith. it's raining a little bit. >> spitting. spitting. >> al is right over here. >> yes, i am. and, hey, wouldn't you rather be in holland? and, by the way, meredith, did you know over here is your number one fan. what's your name? >> veronica. >> veronica. she's your number one -- you have to come say hello. >> i'm coming. >> she's your number one fan. you could walk a little faster. >> i don't want to fall. hi, honey. >> oh, there you go. bringing people together. let's check your weather and see what's happening. pick city of the day, tem tem, texas, nbc 6. sunny and ho 102 degrees. and as we look at the satellite, wee got an area of disturbedwe weather along the gulf that could become a tropical system. wet weather moving through the northeast as you can see right now. we have a risk of strong storms through the upper mississippi valley. in the western plains, sunny and

hot from texas all the way into the southeast and mid-atlantic states. 19 states under heat advisories and warnings right now. here is a live look at the bridge. we have hazy skies, midst at times around the coast. highway 1 or 17 this morning, notice temperatures today. inline of what we had yesterday. 60s for san francisco and oakland. you have to head up to get there. you will notice some areas around the bay are closer. may get closer to 90 by saturday as things warm up for the weekend. and that's your latest weather. meredith? >> al, thank you very much. veronica here wants to be a newscaster when you grow up, right? you're going to help me out with this? >> yes. >> okay. up next was hewlett-packard's ceo really forced to resign over mistakes on his expense report? >> right after this.

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we're back at 8:09 with the latest on the scandal that led to the resignation of hewlett-packard ceo mark hurd and the former reality television con sesant tied to the case. nbc's jeff rossen has some details on this. jeff, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, matt, no question this is rare. one of the highest paid ceos in the country suddenly designs. the details still a mystery. there was a sexual harassment complaint, a secret out-of-court settlement, and even with all of that, a big parting gift worth tens of millions of dollars. this morning how his connection to an actress took him down. >> jodie, a pleasure to meet you. >> it's great to meet you. >> reporter: her name is jodie fisher, a 50-year-old single mom who appeared in the nbc reality series "age of love." >> you look beautiful. >> thank you. you're about to have fun. >> reporter: in fact, fisher ha appeared all over from

television commercials -- >> after using the instant abs system i could feel the results. >> reporter: to movies. >> what are we going to do about this blood pressure of yours? >> reporter: including adult movies, an unlikely match it seems for mark hurd, ceo of hewlett-packard and one of the country's most powerful corporate leaders. yet their mysterious personal relationship has abruptly ended hurd's reign at hp. they found no evidence of sexual harassment but instead discovered hurd was fudging expenses and misused company assets to conceal his relationship with jodie fisher reportedly including meals and travel together, inappropriate behavi behavior, hp said in a letter to employees, a conflict of interest. >> the irony is that when marched hurd was hired as ceo of hewlett-packard, one of his goals was to kind of re-establish a strong ethical structure within the company and yet he actually resigned because he violated business ethics and standards that he, himself, put

in place, essentially dying by his own sword. >> reporter: fisher and hurd reportedly met at hp where she worked as a marketing consultant. she filed a sexual harassment complaint against him. still unclear why. they settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. then hurd was forced to resign as ceo. >> there's no way a ceo who is about to make $100 million in a three-year contract, lost his job over fudged expense reports. there has to be more to this sto story. >> reporter: still, neither side will explain exactly what happened. die fisher released this statement. "i was surprised and saddened that mark hurd lost his job over this. mark and i never had had an affair or intimate sexual relationship." in a statement hurd said, i did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect, and integrity that i have espoused at hp. but he denies having an affair and says he's unaware of improper use of expense accounts. >> there's no question there was deal making that went on here. there was a deal between hurd

and the woman who made the accusation. there was a deal between hurd and hewlett-packard. and part of that deal is going to be let's not all discuss exactly what the terms of the deal were. >> reporter: now new outrage over mark hurd's kiss good-bye. even after resigning in disgrace, hp is giving him $12 million in cash and another $22.5 million in stock options. a total package of $34.5 million. >> you know, in the wake of this, a number of ethics professionals are questioning why mr. hurd is being paid at all given that he actually violated the company's own business practices. >> reporter: business aside, mark hurd is married with two kids. he would not speak on camera for this story. neither would jodie fisher. meanwhile, matt, we should mention hp's stock dropped 9% since this scandal broke. >> jeff rossen, thanks very much. dan abrams is nbc's chief legal analyst. donny deutsch is the chairman of the ad agency deutsch incorporated. we don't exactly know what happened at hp.

probably only a handful of people do know. the both of you are pretty sure there's more to this than meets the eye, correct? >> there's no question. the notion that this is a guy who is about to re-sign for an enormous amount of money is getting fired or being forced to resign over fudged expense reports just can't be the case. there has to be more here and it's got to relate to either them having wanted him out, although that's an unlikely reason -- >> he was a darling of the company. he doubled the stock price in five years. >> if he was that much of a darling, that tells us even more. that tells us it has to be that bad for it to have happened. >> he's not being forced out for having an affair. we live in a world post-sarbanes oxley that companies have to be clean. this woman, who was being paid to introduce him at parties for $1,000 to $10,000, money being exchanged, 9% -- that means this company lost billions of dollars by letting him go. there had to be some pretty nefarious stuff going on beyond

just some guy being indiscreet. >> there's another side to this. another ceo, the head of oracle, larry ellison, who is a friend of hurd's, said this. the hp board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the apple board fired steve jobs many years ago that decision nearly destroyed apple and would have if steve hadn't come back to save them. i mean, he's saying, look, this is a disaster for business, which means there had to be a very good reason. >> what's so fascinating about this stuff, look, whether it's tiger woods, eliot spitzer, is these men in power in various -- whether it's sports, running fortune 500 companies, brought down -- >> tiger woods fudge his expense reports? let's go on to the statement from jodie fisher here, okay? she says i was surprised and saddened mark hurd lost his job over this. mark and i have never had an affair or sexual relationship. but now she's hired an attorney.

she has gloria allred and threatened a sexual harassment lawsuit. you don't do that unless you think you've been wronged or are mad. >> uribe trying you're trying t. she has her money. they have a deal separate with him personally and now hewlett-packard is acting and she is saying, oh, i'm sorry he lost his job. that's very nice and i'm sure greatly appreciated. the bottom line is when you threaten to sue someone for sexual harassment, one of the possible outcomes is the person is going to get fired. >> real quickly, donny, this fallout is not what hp wanted after this. >> right. >> they got it anyway. what do they do next? >> they go back to business. at the end of the day this will pass. the parade will pass. there's nothing they can do but put their head down. they put a veteran in the spot. did the playbook 101. the stock will rebound. when a stock drops based on a personal thing, it's not really reflective of the business. put their head down, a new cycle. >> dan and donny.

>> by the way, i never saw that movie with the nurse. >> a lot of people didn't see that movie. up next, blended families. the joys and cen has of getting married for a second time in life.

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gabriella married, had two children, and divorced soon after. 12 years later she was convinced marriage was not in her future. >> i didn't think i would be married but i certainly wanted to spend my life with someone. >> dennis also married and had two children. his wife of 32 years passed away three years ago. and remarriage was the furthest thing from his mind. >> my wife before she passed wa wanted me to marry again. she said you have a lot of life left to live and i want you to be happy. >> the thread of their friendship over the decades ultimately brought them together, this time for good and with the blessing of their children. >> i think that it represented an opportunity for them to bring a family back together again as a complete unit. >> now celebrating their first wedding anniversary this summer, gabriella and dennis are settling into parenting four

grown children, all agree it's been an evolution of mutual respect. >> i'm very respectful of the relationship that gabriella's children have with their father. i want to be there for them as another adult that they can trust. >> i don't think that anyone could replace a mother. it's a healing that the two children have to deal with within their family. >> as time has passed, this couple says that communication and flexibility have been key components to creating a blended family. >> in addition to flexibility, i think you have to have patience because these are not relationships that can be forced. >> bill atkins is a psychologist and author. dale, good morning. it's lovely how nice that worked out for that couple and they did have the blessing of all of their children. how unique is that story? >> well, it's a wonderful story and it's a great model.

it is unique because what we have often are families that have resistance and they're really not feeling as generous as the children in this family are feeling or as comfortable with the fact that their parents are going to remarry. this is a beautiful model because they do emphasize the patience and the role of their parents and just knowing that it takes time. >> if you look at the statistics, 65% of remarriages involve children from the first or the prior marriage. when they are adult children, is it easier than when the kids are younger or is it just a different set of issues? >> it's a different set of issues and a lot of the parents who are getting married think it's really easy because their kids are grown. >> exactly. >> but, in fact they are probably more set in their ways and they still have the same feelings that younger people do. but the parents think, well, everything is fine. we don't have to pay that much attention and it's really not very compassionate, number one, and it's not realistic because many adult children have a real pang when they think about their

parents remarrying and they often sometimes even undermine the role of the parent meeting someone new or they just are very sad about it and they're not ready. >> so what do you do if you remarry somebody and you're met with resistance by his children, her children, or both sets of children? >> you have to remember that it does take time. you can't have an instant family. you need to be patient. one of the things that's very important is to get to know each of the individual children and to do things together but not just like thanksgiving dinner because that could be reminiscent of the times when the family was together before and that brings up all of the past. what you want to do is get new kinds of traditions that you can do together. but it does take time and you need to understand that europe not a replacement. you are an additive so what you bring to this relationship as the gentleman in the piece said, you know, i bring something new and what i'm doing is i'm bringing new advice or i'm bringing a different perspective. europe not replacing the parent. >> they said the job was not to

be a replacement, you're right, but more of an adviser. >> and sometimes it is an adviser but sometimes just to be not a threat. you don't want to threaten the relationship the adult child has with her parent or his parent whether or not that parent is deceased or present. >> so how important is it to reassure your child that you're still their parent even if they're a young adult? >> especially if they're a young adult because they may help to take care of you during the process when you were grieving or you had a divorce or maybe you have a whole different kind of relationship now that you're an adult child with your single parent. so you may feel that you have to reassure your child and also talk about issues having to do with finances, with grandchildren, with the place in your life as you bring in this new person. people do need to be reassured because they're fearful that they're going to lose you once again as they lost another parent. >> dale atkins, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> just ahead, the new status symbol for working women, stay-at-home dads.

good tuesday morning to you. 8:26 right now. time to check the morning commute again how is it looking out there? >> 280, southbound 280, north you are looking at the screen the times coming up and down the peninsula. southbound 280 slowing things down as well as southbound san francisco north of the 101 connector. the bay bridge there is a car blocking one of the lanes, the number 5 lane slowing things down. you c28 see things start iing t

back up there. that is it for traffic let's take a look at weather. >> clouds in the area. midday we will see clearing. kind of like we had yesterday in terms of our high temperatures. 60s along the coast. 70s around san jose. the trend heading towards the weekend will be warmer. hottest places may get close to 90. not much change on the coast. 8:27 news after the break.

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8:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 10th of august, 2010. got a bunch of hearty souls out on the plaza. they've endured a little rain already this morning and now the skies have cleared slightly. at least it's stopped raining. out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer along with meredith vieira, natalie morales, and al roker.

a large crowd. coming up, what is perhaps the new status symbol for power moms? >> hmm. oh, we talked about this. stay-at-home dads. >> it could be a stay-at-home dad. for a powerful career-minded woman, is it a status symbol to have a husband who stays home and takes care of the kids and the house? we're going to be talking about the dynamic that's present in many marriages these days. >> have them walk around in daisy duke shorts. >> you had to go there. also ahead, a very brave mother who has not let breast cancer slow down her ability to compete. karen newman. we'll catch up with her. >> and later on one of our favorite families, the scottos happen to be here. we're going to be catching up with them. they're going to be cooking with peaches which just happens to be john scotto's nickname. >> okay. all right. we're going to pick out the hottest colors for fall and we're not talking about clothes,

we're talking about hair. >> mr. roker, how about a check of the weather? we had a few showers move through today here in the northeast. we have a risk of strong storms today also in the upper mississippi river valley out in the plains. the heat continues across 18 states through the south and into the mid-atlantic states. tomorrow the heat continues. we have mild weather in the pacific northwest and plenty of sunshi sunshine. showers in the gulf coast you can see we have hazy skies, it will take another hour or so to break up and the low clouds will hang on longer along the coast. not much clearing along the coast line today. temperatures in the 60s. 70s and 80s between now and thursday not a lot of change. inland temperatures start to climb.

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we're back now at 8:35 with "today's family. "this morning stay-at-home dads with unemployment high and more women climbing the corporate ladder, many families are reversing traditional family roles. families like dr. michelle spiobe shared their story with us. >> oh, that's so nice.

you're so luck yip he gets to stay at home. there's always that pause right before. to hear that. i didn't meant to be the only one working. what's that? i don't think i could be a stay-at-home mom. >> i've never been uncomfortable to tell someone i'm a stay-at-home dad. when it's a problem we're told it's supposed to be. >> i'm not the one who has to rush home because my husband doesn't know what to do with the kids for more than two hours at a time. >> when they do tell them that you're a stay-at-home dad you get the mr. mom reference, which is a 20-year-old movie.

oh, are you giving mom a day off? or the babysitting. no, it's not babysitting. it's called parenting. >> at the beginning when it first started, this isn't fair. how come i'm the one? then you think about, you know, could it really be better? i don't have to worry about d daycare closing or holidays. if i need to go on a conference or a meeting, i can even take my family with me. i think we're just enjoying what male physicians have enjoyed for generations now. how their wives have taken time out of their careers, and so that's what we've chosen to do. >> it's not about the definition one parent is work iing outside the home and one parent is a stay-at-home parent. it's more about flexibility.

and balancing the different roles in ways that work because every family is different. >> so is having a stay-at-home husband the ultimate status symbol for the power mom or a practical arrangement for today's modern family? the subject of an article in the september issue of "marie claire" magazine. here along with sigh a psychiat. we have economic times and women are doing better in the work place. what are you hearing from readers, joanna, about this dynamic? >> well, we're hearing that women are both excited by it and also challenged by it because a lot of it depends on how much choice they have with this going on in their situation. you mentioned the economy. clearly a lot of men have fared much worse than women so they're making the choice to stay at home. and i think women are thrilled that it gives them the freedom to focus on their career, but they're also worried about whether or not their husband is

going to feel less masculine. >> i read the article in the magazine. there's this weighty paragraph -- not weighty but a big paragraph where the possibility is brought up this idea of having a husband staying at home taking care of the home and the children to some power moms is seen as a status symbol. is it a status symbol in the way a bmw would be a status sim billion or more of a symbol of enlightenment in a relationship? >> i think it's both. we've lived with men who have wives sitting at home, two masters degrees and they're not working and the husband is sort of saying either explicitly or implicitly, look at me. i'm the big guy, the alpha male and look who i have at home. there's an element of that, too, but also the sense of i'm incredibly lucky i have an enlightened man at home who is prepared to take after the kids. >> janet, i like that version of it. i have an enlightened relationship. that sounds good. you start to objectify a partner as eye candy with a woman or the

status symbol for a guy taking care of kids, that's not going to end well. >> the most successful stay-at-home relationship is when the man has a flexible idea of what masculinity is. i'm not man enough to be a woman. i think it should be i'm not -- am i man enough to be a stay-at-home dad because you have to be ready and willing to accept that. >> do you think, though, some women look at other women -- they look at other women in a relationship like this with a certain amount of jealousy? look what she gets to do. she's off working. she's powerful and she's got this husband staying home taking care of the kids. >> well, i think it's often easy to look at other people's lives with jealousy whether or not they have the bmw. you're seeing more and more couples passing the baton for the responsibility of earning. >> and i think you have to be careful. there are powerful women who stay at home and take care of the children and i think now we're just seeing that same power can be transferred.

kids need stable relationships. our kids need someone who is consistently there for them and can listen to their needs to make sure they're met. >> this will affect the marriage differently if it's done by choice or if it's done by necessity. >> i think the key is if it's not done by choice -- >> the guy loses his job. >> the guy loses his job, i think it's most successful when they don't think it's a permanent decision. maybe we'll do this for two years. children grow older. it's hard to remember they're going to grow up, become more independent and you can get back out there. >> or if it's a permanent solution but there's a reality that just who brings home the bacon just because you're a provider doesn't mean europe the parent and so you have to treat your relation shship with respe and focus on communication, focus on what the elements of a good relationship are. >> i think i like the guy in the piece said this isn't babysitting. i'm parenting. it's a different take on it. >> just as i'm going to say

good-bye, nice job. still ahead, do you hold a grudge for weeks or even months at a time? how to tell if you're an emotional horder.

we are back at 8:44. a world class competitor juggling her career and motherhood while waging a personal battle against breast cancer. we first met karen newman two years ago and we checked in with her recent ly to see how her lie has changed. >> anyway, so tomorrow is the big day. >> it has been almost two years since karen newman made these video diaries. windows into her personal battle with breast cancer. >> you're on chemo, you just

have to learn to ignore some of the side effects if you can so you can have a more fulfilling life. >> the married mother of three refused to let cancer keep her down. despite undergoing chemotherapy so severe her hair fell out, she somehow found the strength to dive into seven triathlons in 2008, swimming, biking, and running alongside world class athletes. >> i wanted to show our boys that mommy could still do this, that i could race, that i could finish. today is my last chemo. wahoo! >> another hurdle cleared on her path to an uncertain finish line. two years later karen's hair has grown back and she remains active coaching youth track, but her race isn't over. she was forced to take an eight-month hiatus from her training routine after complications with surgery. two more surgeries and a condition affecting the lymph nodes in her arm followed. she's had to resume chemo ththey doing treatments every six months and she still isn't

completely cancer free. >> i've learned through my life that, you know, you just keep pushing forward and maybe the finish line moves but i'm going to keep on aiming for that finish line. >> karen newman, our most determined athlete. >> now the 49-year-old devotes her time to sharing her story and inspiring other people living with cancer. >> can i hug you? >> yes. >> thank you. >> i think that the cancer, you know, it made her weak at the time but she came out ten times stronger. >> she has changed all our lives through her experiences and just made all of us see deeper into people. >> i have this very determined attitude. i just never give up and i just think that, you know, despite your diagnosis, you should just keep on pushing through. i didn't sleep at all. >> but some things don't change. despite all the setbacks, a resilient karen has returned to racing, this time for a new reason. >> okay, you guys, good luck. >> she competed with the american cancer society's determination team at the

nautica new york city triathlon. >> she's not really out here to win anymore. she's out here to compete on behalf of people who have cancer or disabilities. >> every time i'm able to be there, i just feel so incredibly blessed because i might not be here. so it really, to me, doesn't much matter how i do. it matters that i'm there. >> her team raised nearly $200,000, more than any other group of triathletes in american cancer society's history. >> i believe that god picked me, you know, healthy female with no problems in the past to go through this challenge in my life and i just feel that it's my duty and it's my great joy to help others in any possible way that i can. ♪ >> an amazing woman. karen will compete at the national triathlon championships next month where she hopes to

qualify for a trip to next year's world championships. up next, everything's peachy in today's cooking school with the scottos.

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this morning on "today's cooking school" we've got a real peach of a three-course meal courtesy of the scottos. we have mary and john, anthony and elena of fresco by scotto and they have recipes using my favorite, the peach. we're going to start with you, mary and john. >> you can't get better than august too much the best peaches. and to know you've got to pick up the peaches -- >> squeeze it a little bit? do you smell it, also? >> the smell, the aroma is what gets you. so now with this recipe we heated these pans, and now we're putting in fennel, onion, red wine vinegar, lemon zest -- thank you, matt. yes, please. and some olive oil. and this blend, the dressing for john's warm pasta salad. >> you have chosen farfalle.

why, john? >> we like it. it's cold. i'm adding the peaches to the vinaigrette. >> yellow and white peaches. >> peaches are very good because they're low in acidity, low in calories, great for minnesoimu c, and potassium. to ripen it, put it in a paper bag, put holes in it. 24 hours, it's ripe. to lengthen, put it in the refrigerator. i got the farfalle and cooked it al dente. i have my tomatoes. >> heirloom tomatoes. >> mozzarella, some basil. mix it together and now i'm going to add the -- >> what your mom has been sauteing. >> and the vinaigrette sauce to the whole dish. mix it up. >> serve it warm? >> serve it warm. looks like that. it's al fresco every day of the summer. >> where is that?

>> fresco by scotto on 52nd street. >> meredith, save me quick. >> anthony, we're doing a peach compote. >> we have a great pork tenderloin. let's talk peaches. georgia peaches are really the best. i think they're terrific. also another hint, you have free stone. i don't know if you've heard that before. cling stone are peaches that are used for canning and cakes and what not. free stone is actually the stone that comes free of the peach when you're eating it. >> and bridgestone is the peach you drive on. >> the other one, exactly right. >> which one do we have in there? >> white and yellow peaches. i'm adding lemon juice to this. i've already added water, cracked pepper. we're going to let that reduce down. >> i wouldn't think pepper in that. >> reduce it down and cool. that's our compote. >> the pork. >> as simple as that. we're going to marinade it

overnight, salt, pepper, use whatever seasonings you want. what's really great about this balsamic and fennel seed. >> balsamic and fennel seed. >> we're going to clean off all of the goodies on top before cooking it because you don't want it to taste like that burnt flavor. >> get rid of that fennel. >> and then we're going to -- a couple minutes on each side, two, three minutes, making sure it's brown all the way around, let it rest two or three minutes. cut it on the bias. you're going to cut it and add the peaches to it. it's just delicious. >> how long does that compote last? >> put it in the refrigerator, the more it breaks down, the better it is. a good couple of weeks. >> and then dessert. >> so we're doing blueberry and peach cobbler. >> a nice combo. >> peaches are loaded with fiber and work as an antioxidant. so if you can help me here, al -- >> a boo-boo. >> is it powdered sugar? >> it's granulated sugar and some corn starch. >> want me to help? >> if you could stir that, as

you'll see the juices thicken up and it gets nice and mushy. and if we could just mix that all together, our secret weapon here is vanilla and a little bit of almond extract which -- >> oh, nice. >> very little bit, obviously. >> did you do anything beforehand to prepare the peaches at all? >> we just sliced the peaches. so you're going to mix that all together. if you could put this in my baking dish, i've buttered the baking dish. >> i can't believe you have to he help. >> your turn is over, john. good-bye. >> and this is our topping. it's loaded with butter. brown sugar, sliced almonds, and you really want to be generous with it. turn your oven -- turn your oven at 425 and once you're ready, you're going to bake this for about 25 minutes until it gets nice and golden brown. we topped it off to change it up a bit. >> you could go with it just like that.

>> amazing. all right. >> good eating here. >> nicely done. scottos, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> by the way, we're going to put these recipes on our website. check that out. some more cooking with kathie lee and hoda.

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8:58 right now. >> good morning. 880 southbound. off-ramp ambulance has respo responded. causing some problems up and down. let's look in oakland northbound traffic on the right side there. things are slow as you make your way into there. up to the bay bridge.

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but labor support the view if it is good for the environment and good for the community and good option we seriouslyd. log onto join need. log onto join the debate.th back now with more of "today" on a tuesday morning, 10th day of august, 2010. just take a gander at some of the nice people sticking around on rockefeller plaza on kind of a muggy morning here in the northeast. thanks to them for staying around. we're happy to have them. i'm matt lauer along with al roker. and coming up in this half hour, they're going to talk more about this jetblue flight attendant who's in hot water this morning. apparently he got into a heated confrontation with a passenger on board as it was taxiing at jfk airport. he then got on the overhead pa system and unleashed a

profanity-laced tirade, a few sentences. then apparently or allegedly grabbed a couple of beers, deployed the plane's emergency slide, slid down it and walked away. we're going to talk to a passenger in a moment who was on board that flight and witnessed a portion of that. we'll find out what may have caused this. >> wow! i can only imagine being on that plane. and we've got nutritionist joy bauer. she's in the house in our "diet s.o.s." how to indulge in chocolate without blowing your diet. she'll have low-calorie options. plus how much water should you really be drinking every day? and is it different for men and for women? so we're going to get that all in your "diet s.o.s." and later on, emotional hoarding. do you hoard your emotions, hold on to grudges, and is it good to let it all go? we'll have the answers for you later on and have a quiz as well. let's go inside. ann's off today. natalie is over at the news desk with a look at the headlines. >> good morning again.

a manhunt for an escaped convict from arizona is focused in montana and southern canada. u.s. marshals believe john mccluskey is traveling with a female accomplice. police linked him to a double murder last week. former alaska governor ted stevens is believed to have been aboard a small plane that crashed last night in southern alaska. ntsb officials say at least five of the nine people on the flight were killed. it has been confirmed that former nasa chief sean o'keefe was a passenger, but there's no word on his condition. bad weather is hampering rescue efforts there. teachers are joining president obama at the white house today urging the house to pass a $26 billion package that contains money to save 160,000 teaching jobs. house members were called back from their own summer vacation for today's vote. this morning officials doubled the death toll from a

massive mudslide in china to more than 700 people. rescuers intensified their search for another 1,000 people still missing since sunday when the mudslide buried half of a mountain town. and rescuers used helicopters to reach people stranded by floodwaters that had killed at least 11 people in central europe. surging rivers washed away cars and homed in poland, germany and the czech republic. it is now three minutes past the hour. you're up to date for now. let's get another check of the weather here from al. >> hey, natalie, you know whose birthday it is today? >> i know it was hoda's yesterday. >> hoda yesterday. our director, joe michaels. >> happy birthday, joey. >> he is 59 years old today. happy birthday. >> 59? he's added on many years. >> he looks great. fantastic. let's all sing "happy birthday" to joe. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you >> let's take a look at your weather and see what's going on.

we've got another round of hot weather from omaha down to houston out to new york city. heat warnings or heat advisories. temperatures 6 to 12 degrees above normal. century mark in st. louis. it will feel like 106 in san antonio. 98 in washington and new york city and raleigh. 111 in kansas city. that's what's going on around there is a look at oakland right now. cool start to the morning and it should be a relatively cool finish to the afternoon. inland we will hit 70s and low 80s. if you want to find warmer temperatures it looks as we head towards the weekend things will be warming up. 80-90 in the warmest places. 60s on the coast. and that's your latest weather.

matt? >> al, thank you very much. the story of the jetblue flight attendant who had apparently had enough. he's facing charges this morning after police say he got into an argument with a passenger, unleashed a profanity laced tirade over the plane's p.a. system and then slid down the emergency chute. nbc's tom costello covers aviation for us. he's in washington this morning. hi, tom. good morning. >> reporter: we could all use one of those chutes some time, right? the plane was on the ground when this happened and none of the passengers was in any danger. but one jetblue flight attendant was apparently having a very bad day. for 38-year-old flight acontinuedant steven slater it appears to have been one flight, one passenger too many. jetblue flight 1052 from pittsburgh with 100 passengers onboard landed at new york's jfk airport at about noon monday. when slater was struck in the head with a piece of overhead luggage, a passenger was trying to retrieve, slater demanded an apology and the two got into a heated argument. police say that's when slater

got on the plane's p.a. system and unleashed his own profanity laden tirade, pulled the emergency exit chute, reportedly grabbed two beers, slid down the chute, ran across the tarmac, through the airport to his car and then drove home. >> all i see is the gentleman in a jeep flying down the block, running -- and parked the car and ran into his house. >> reporter: police arrested slater at his home and in custody he simply smiled as he was led away. >> people can be, you know, abusive to airline attendants. i just feel bad for the guy. >> reporter: in a statement jetblue says at no time was the security or safety of our customers or crew members at risk. still, ground crews working beneath the plane could have been injured by the falling exit chute. form earp ntsb chairman says he's never seen anything like this before. >> to have a flight attendant unexplainably deploy a chute, leave the aircraft after cursing out the passengers, maybe a

little bit too much cabin pressure. >> flight attendants have been made fun of in pop culture. >> i'll be waiting for you. >> great. bye-bye. >> no, i'm going to pound your face in. >> reporter: for verbal and physical abuse at the hands of a traveling public has increasingly unhappy and far less polite than in years past. >> get out. get out. leave everything. >> reporter: flight attendants undergo extensive and rigorous training to deal with in-flight emergencies and disasters. and they've proven they can make the difference in life-or-death situations as they did during the miracle on the hudson landing in 2009. the flight attendants and pilots were credited with saving everyone onboard. >> we have thousands and thousands of operations that occur every day. safely. without incident. routine. the people who do this work are excellent. they're highly professional,

extremely skilled. >> reporter: what's not clear, why a veteran attendant decided he couldn't take it anymore and literally pulled the plug on his own career. police say his last words to the passengers were, it's been a good 28 years. it appears to be over. steven slater was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing. if convicted on all charges, he could face up to seven years in prison. on his myspace page, he says he worked for jetblue since 2008 n. addition to serving as chairman of jetblue's uniform redesign committee, his linkedln profile says he served on the airline's in-flight values committee. matt? >> whoops. tom costello, thank you very much. early this morning, i talked to phil catalinet who was on that jetblue flight and rode the air train with steven slater. i asked him what he thought when he first heard that overhead announcement. >> i heard him make the announcement, and we didn't know what that was about and i thought that was the most interesting part of the day to that point. it wasn't until i got off the

plane and saw that something had happened with the chute and then i got to the air train and there he was. >> he makes this announcement on the plane, and it's profanity laced. >> yeah. >> right? what was the reaction of the other passengers on that plane as they're listening to this? >> half the plane was still on -- we were just waiting to get off and we were all just surprised. we heard somebody swear on the intercom. >> you thought somebody had done it by accident? >> no, it was clear it was intentional but we thought that's just weird somebody would get on the intercom. he's got to be in some trouble now for calling out a passenger that way. and i thought that was the end of it. >> apparently he grabbed a couple of beers and inflated the inflatable emergency slide and made a quick he is it. >> right. >> did everybody see that happen? >> no. maybe people who got off before me did. i was about halfway back, still waiting to get off the plane, so i didn't see him pull the slide. i didn't see the beers. i saw him with the bags on the

air train. he had time to do that. >> what was his demeanor on the air train? here is a guy who has done something way outside the boundaries, in fact, illegal. did he seem agitated? did he seem calm? because in the photos of him, we see him smiling. >> he was smiling. he was happy that he'd done this -- at least happy he was done with his job at jetblue and he said that he'd worked there for 20-some years and he'd been a flight attendant for a long time and was looking forward to whatever was the next phase of his life, his career. he seemed very happy about this. >> you're somebody who travels fairly often? >> a couple times a year. >> are you surprised that he was able to do what he did on that plane, including the inflatable slide, and then calmly get on the air train and make it away from the airport without being stopped? >> i'm surprised because i didn't until i heard him talking this, i didn't know what happened. i thought a passenger had gotten in it trouble for pulling the slide because he was there with

his bags. he was there -- >> as if nothing had happened. >> as if nothing had happened. he was going to the parking lot. >> i know you're aware of the fact that on twitter and other social networks he's being made out as somewhat of a working class or working man's hero. >> yeah. >> that i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore. what's your thought on that? >> well, i mean, i think it's funny he could quit his job that way. i don't think he thought this through that to do something like that will get you arrested. >> right. >> but at first my reaction was, well, maybe we could all quit our jobs. wouldn't that be funny? it's not funny. and the other thing is, he's a flight attendant and you don't want to see somebody lose their cool that way. >> have you seen, though, flight attendants being placed in a situation by the traveling public that perhaps makes you feel differently about how flight attendants should be treated? >> well, i see that on every flight that somebody says something to a flight attendant or feels they're getting treated the wrong way and takes it out on the flight attendant. i've never seen anybody react

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skype and go to middletown, new jersey, and christine. good morning. >> good morning. >> what's your question for joy? >> my question is so many moms like me need their coffee in the morning to get going. so my question is while trying to lose weight and cut calories, how can you still enjoy that morning cup of coffee and prepare it in a way that will have the fewest calories but still be yummy? >> you have come to the right place because i am a fellow coffee lover, and i'm always experimenting in the kitchen and coming up with concoction that is are low in calories but that are high in taste. the first thing when it comes to milk, i tell people to add either skim milk, which is fat free, or 1% low-fat milk or light soy milk. if those things are too thin for you and you're missing half and half or cream, try either over the moon or skim plus because they're still fat free. they're readily available but they have a thicker consistency. >> what about a fat-free half and half? >> you can do things like that

as well. i try to keep it as clean as i can but it comes in different flavors it will work. when it comes to sugar, you want to stick with no more than one or two teaspoons. know that for every teaspoon or packet or cube it's about 16 calories. and for a shot of flavor, what i love to do is add a half to one teaspoon of ground cinnamon or nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice in with the coffee beans and then the entire pot is infused with flavor and your kitchen is going to smell divine. and one of my most favorite things to make is what i call vanilla coffee. i take a quarter cup of skim milk, i add a couple drops of vanilla extract, i nuke it in the microwave and then i add it into my coffee and if you want, add one to two teaspoons of sugar into that. another thing is the chocolate twist, do the same thing. a quarter cup of skim milk, add one tablespoon of a light hershey's or chocolate syrup,

nuke it, put it right into your coffee and it's fabulous. there's a lot of great things that you can do. >> all right, christine. get that coffeemaker going. >> low calorie and you get your caffeine. >> thanks, christine. >> thank you. >> all righty, now to angela from birmingham, alabama. a angela, good morning. what's your question? >> caller: hi. excuse me. what i was wanting to ask joy is basically why do i -- why am i stuck on yo-yo diets? i've been a member of a top weight loss group for several years and i seem to keep losing the same ten pounds and gaining them back. >> a lot of people suffer from that. >> yo-yo doieting is one of the most common problems people have when it comes to losing weight. the first thing i'm going to tell you, you have to find a significant and enduring source of personal motivation. maybe it's, you know, bettering your health, maybe it's being

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good morning time now 9:26. checking in with phillipe who is in for mike. >> east of the bay bridge toll plaza, causing some back up. there was a disabled vehicle there. slow past grand avenue coming in is there. a look at oakland as well. accident on 880 -- i'm sorry northbound 880. creek on the on-ramp there causing some back up. little bit of slowing there. thp is cracking down on the

hands-free today as you head out. >> you can see the clouds there. over in san francisco, san jose, you can see clearing. ramone, seeing sunshine. inland spots 70s and 80s today. not much change through thursday and then the weekend we start to warm up. 80s to near 90 9:27 more news after a short break.

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growth. in the first phase, funds will go to buyers at the 88 and the works. the next phase will include axis and 360. >> people will be able to stay here. people who were raised here don't want to move out of town because they can't afford to buy. >> we have deetail have details website. more local news coming up. the "today" show returns in a minute have a great morning.

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>> uh-oh. >> you touched a nerve, al. >> i guess so. well, holding it all in could be bad for your health. this morning we'll have a quiz to find out if you're an emotional hoarder. >> okay. also ahead, navigating your fashion dilemmas with the help of a style road map from what to wear at the office to making a statement with accessories without overdoing it. we're going to point you in the right direction. and from what you wear to your hair, maybe the most important accessory of all, whether you want a sexy new do for fall or just a new cut and color. we'll show you low maintenance looks and some of the hottest color trends for the season. of course, al, you have it easy, man. >> maintenance free, baby. >> maintenance free. >> hopefully your air-condition remembers working especially to the southeast where we have temperatures well over 100. heat index is well over 100. we've also got a risk of strong storms in the upper mississippi river valley, out in the western plains. sunshine through the southwest. then for tomorrow we have

showers and thundershowers, again, in the mississippi river valley. sunny and warm in the pacific northwest. sizzling in the southeast on into the midwest. warm here in the northeast with showers and thundershowers along the mid-atlantic coast. hazy sunshine. probably a half hour or so low clouds starting to clear out of the valley. you can see out toward san ramone. sunshine along the coast a different story. low clouds this morning. for the afternoon, 70s and low 80s inland. heading towards the weekend as high pressure builds in, temperatures should climb a few degrees. as we head towards the weekend. weather. al, thank you. up next, are you an emotional o pgo you to the test and help you get rid of the baggage. hey, you made your own lunch. yep! (mom) i'm so proud of you.

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>> you can think of it like a traditional hoarder except instead of holding on to, say, useless junk that clutters up your home, you're holding on to grudges and negative emotions and they cloud up your mind. >> gail, i'm guessing this is not a good thing. >> it is not a good thing. it's not a psychiatric diagnosis like hoarding which is the obsessive/compulsive realm we've been seeing on all these shows and so on, but it is a real problem, a problem in the sense it can suck up so much space in your mind that you really can't live your life, that you destroy emotion, that you destroy relationships. you suffer a lot of the day because you're ruminating over what happened to you and you're ruminating over, frankly, the revengs. >> and the person you have this grudge, doesn't even know it, going along with their life. >> unless it's a valuable relationship. sometimes people are not speaking to somebody very, very important in my life, a parent, a sibling, so on. then they know it. otherwise they're on their merry way and europe the one

suffering. >> jennifer, you developed this quiz. how many times have you been so upset you ended the relationship and stopped talk iing to them? never or rarely, a few times, more than a few times. you chose more than a few times, what does that say about you. >> that says you might be an emotional hoarder and there might be a problem. you're having a hard time letting go of these emotional problems and they can cause problems in your life. >> question number two, think back to a time in the past you felt a judge towards someone. what did you do? feel upset for a few days but moved past it? feel upset for several weeks, but eventually came to terms with it. feel upset then and i still teal upset today, months or years later. gail, that can't be good. >> the point is people can spend their whole lives thinking about this. there's probably even a little bit of a buy liologic predisposition. you tend to ruminate. >> if you think you might have this problem, you have some tips.

you say recognize that you have a problem. >> which is frankly the hardest thing to do. if you're watching today and this resonates with you, you really need to think about it because we tend to like to deny, no, i'm really fine. this isn't a problem for me. >> the first part of the next tip is make the choice to change. we get that part. the second is go from being driven to being the driver. >> when you are a person who holds a grudge, you put yourself in the victim role. you're helpless. people do things to you and you feel upset about it. but if you realize that you have the power to make a choice, to say i'm going to forgive you or, you know what, i'm done with you, this didn't work for me, instead of holding on to it, that's a very different mental position to be in and a much better one. >> and the last one, be in the moment. >> this is is huge. grudge holders tend to think about the past. you did this to me. and think about the future. i want to do this back to you. they live in those two places. if you can work on being in the moment and, by the way, meditation is really helpful for this. but think about where you are right now that can really help. >> you said this isn't a

recognized disorder but you say get treatment. >> i say that because it's not recognized by psychiatrists as emotional hoarding but it is recognized if it's really bad as i have depression or i'm a masochist, i'm always the victim. or i'm kind of a paranoid person. people feel like -- i think people are attacking me all the time. you may have a real psychiatric issue going on. if this is huge for you treatment could help. >> jennifer, is this really resonating with people on your website? >> it is. we polled members of our community. we found people who held grudges seven years. one for 40 years. and the thing is this doesn't just cause emotional problems. this can lead to physical problems. there's a growing amount of research that shows it can lead to higher blood pressure, headaches, chronic pain. it's been linked to a risk of heart disease. so there are a lot of problems that can come out of this and you need to recognize and do something about it. >> jennifer barrett, dr. gail saltz, thanks so much. and if you want to take the quiz, go to todayshow.com and visit the ivillage community but don't hold it against me.

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this morning on "today's style" pointing you in the direction of the latest trends with a fashion road map. stefani greenfield came up with the concept to make sure you never get lost on the road to style. what do you mean by this fashion road map? >> well, always what's hot, what's not. this is about answers. not advice. it's about solutions you never get lost in style. think about it as your own personal gps using familiar objects that we see every day road signs and it's fun and it's cute and it helps us get dressed and feel good. >> the gps can be wrong sometimes, too, you know. >> so let's get first to the first street sign called airport ahead. now of course labor day right around the corner so a lot of you will be traveling. it can be difficult to come up with some style but you do want to be stylish while traveling, right? >> you don't want to be slepy even though you're casual. in the '50s people used to get dressed up. we're saying no to flip-flops. >> dress it up a bit. >> i think you see she's casual

and her items can serve double duty. we're getting charged for heavy luggage now. so that cardigan you can wear on a cool night if you're going out. her scar of, easy and drapy. tie it over your bathing suit like the white man shirt. tloefr throw it over the bathing suit. the legging can go anywhere. a combination between a jean and a legging. and ballet slippers, easy to travel with, easy to pack. no flip-flops when you travel. say no to the toe. cover it up. >> no one wants to see your ugly toes. >> she's comfortable, casual. to travel at the airport, these can do double duty on your trip. >> by the way, all at good prices. thank you so much. okay. next fashion road map street sign is the 30-minute parking. now this means that we all like to be on trend but we don't want to spend a fortune, right? >> and we don't want to buy a fad. we said 30-minute parking because it's of the moment trend.

we've incorporated of the moment trends from spring and we have our new trends here which is the faux fur vest. >> seen here on maureen. >> $79.90. you could wear this with everything for the new season. you know what's really fun here? boyfriend jean and oxford shoe. she is incorporating all of these of the moment items and working them together. but the item to have for this season is the faux fur vest. >> the faux fur vest. >> it's a great way to do outer wear. she has a hood, too. >> she's going to be warm. next fashion road map street sign, caution. rocks falling. now this signifies a warning to not overaccessorize which can be a major no-no, right? >> how wonderful does dale look? when you're going bare on the neck, bangle bracelets. take your hand, throw it around your wrist and dale can show us

here. wear thicker for the day. if your bangle bracelets are bigger, it may be too many. i think your belt is important because it ises jewelry. it's part of your look. so keep your -- >> especially a belt like that with a lot of gold hardware. >> keep your tones tonal. i love this top here because it's a great canvas for your accessories and too much is no good. so keep it minimal. the falling rock sign signifies more isn't more when it comes to your accessories. >> less is more. accessories can be expensive. a good way to pair it down. >> her necklace is $30. her ring is $18. you can't go wrong with these items. >> a great way to dress up what is a basic classicout fit. thank you so much. next fashion road map street sign women at work. this is appropriate work attire. sherry? >> i think the biggest mistake women make is they distract at the office. nobody is going to listen to what you're talking about. you don't want to be the woman remembered at the meeting for wearing the tight black dress

even though you said something great. $59.90 and i love it the kitten heel not the chunky platforms, the sleek kitten heel. we adided a print but it's subtle. people look at you to admire what you're about and saying. a little bit of the leopard trend is so in trend now. >> let's bring out the ladies for one last look. thank you so much. stefani greenfield, great to have you back here. >> thanks. nice to see you. thanks for having us. >> for more on the fashion road ìáhp &h& todayshow.com. clothes to a new do, some of the hottest looks in hair for fall. 5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a

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new you. fall is just a little over a month away so it's not too early to start thinking about trading in that care free beach hair for a more subdued look. a top colorist here in new york city, rita, good morning. so test ir. a lot of women like to change their hair because they get ready -- they get the kids ready for school so they want a new look for themselves so it's important to change your hair color. it's easy, you can do it at home if you want. the transition to make it warmer, richer, and happier for the fall. >> your color during the summer oxidizes a lot with the sun. you get that bleached-out colored hair. time for a change. when you're talking drastic change, you say you can do it at home f. you're talking major hair color, you probably want to go to the salon. >> you want to go to the salon if you're going to do a drastic, major change. going from blond to brown, you can do that at home. go to the drugstore and they make it really easy these days to pick a color.

if you start here, you'll end up here. it's really easy to warm it up at home. >> easier to go blond to brown than brown to blond. >> blond to brown, go to the salon. >> jessica simpson and, you know, this is a classic hair style. she's gone and done that whole blond to brunette and brunette to blond. is that easy to do yourself? >> yourself it's not so easy to do but you can actually do the blond at home yourself, get a highlighting kit, and they have a thing you can put on your finger and pull pieces out. >> the cap? >> no, it's not even a cap. they make it really easy now. it's a brush you can put on your finger and you pull pieces out. >> she looks great. >> she does. >> is that a hair style that -- is that color something that's easy to maintain or require a lot of touchups? >> blond, yeah, you have to do it like every six weeks.

you can do that at home, too. you can get a golden blonde color. >> touch the roots. >> touch the roots up every six weeks and you're golden. >> a little bit edgier with the latest look, and let's take a look. this is something i imagine is probably not something too easy to achieve at home. >> this is something you're better off going to the salon to do. also this is a good example of getting a haircut first and then coloring on the haircut. she cut her hair because it was sort of like a bob and it was brown. she got a haircut and then i just did a multitonal blond look. you can do this at home by doing it slowly instead of all at once. lighten your hair color a little bit and add a few highlights, wash it and then do it again. >> that way you get the color you want. >> it may take more time at home but you can still do it at home. >> do you have to worry about damage if you're coloring on top of color? >> as long as you do conditioning treatments, you should be good. you do this at the same time you do color. after a color, straight into a conditioning treatment. leave it on for half an hour or

overnight is the best solution. more preventative than i already damaged my hair, what am i going to do? >> really, it is the cut sometimes that can tell you, almost guide you in the hair color, right? >> yes. the haircut is super important because it's a whole look. you want to get the whole look right. if you're going for a dramatic change, cut first. >> let's talk about low maintenance look. we all love that and the perfect example is jessica beil, the blondish, brunettish thing going for her now. how can you achieve something like this? it looks like the roots have grown out a little bit. >> basically. this is something easy you can do at home because it's sort of care-free, low maintenance. you don't have to worry about roots at all. get a highlighting kit, put gloves on, some bleach, and pull it on the ends. it's supposed to look messy and undone. this is something you can easily do and you don't have to worry about roots. >> just let your roots grow out and you're perfect. good to go. and then finally i think for that really classic look,

glamorous look, is angelina jolie and her hair color is always very subtle as we see in this photo here. >> usually her hair is darker but this is a great example of how you can take your hair color and change it a little bit and make a big difference. so her hair is a little bit lighter than we normally see her which is really nice and soft. it's useful for her. she's beautiful. >> a gorgeous woman. she can't do anything wrong. auburn with highlights around the face. rita, thank you so much. >> thank you. and still to come, actor oliver platt and also the new uses for botox. we'll tell you all about it in our fourth hour.

good morning the 9:56. checking in a new accident? >> southbound -- northbound 280

in the south bay. winchester where 880 meets. there is going to be slowing there due to an accident. ambulance is responding. look coming in from the north bay across the golden gate bridge. don't say we didn't warn you, chp cracking down this morning on cell phones and hands free devices. >> lots of low clouds over towards oakland. san jose, 15 or 20 minutes away. already cleared out around dublin, but on the peninsula and the coast the clouds will stick around longer. 70s and 80s inland. weekend inland temperatures start to look more like august maybe near 90 by saturday. >> commuters are about to have the option of paying for a faster trip through the east

bay. the first express lane is about to roll out heading south between highways 84 and 237. single drivers can now pay for access and the price depends on the traffic. the express lane rules would begin 5:00 in the morning to 8:00 p.m. the price of a faster commute will start at 50 cents but the agency says it does not have a top price probably going to average between $3 or $4. some drivers say they are not sure if they are going to use it. >> the shooters pretty much $3 each day. may be just once in a while. time is money so planners do expect drivers to pay up. the lane is scheduled to open. the "today" show returns in about a minute.

captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hi, everybody. it is booze day, tuesday, august 10th. yesterday was hoda's rthday, so i'm sure you celebrated. >> i had dinners with friends at this cool greek restaurant called kafee. they have this brand zino, which is a fish. delicious. >> why are you having an italian fish at a greek restaurant. >> i don't know. it tasted like steak. >> then order steak. >> you had to taste it. it was the best fish you will

ever eat. my little niece sang happy birthday to me on the phone. >> i heard that. >> i loved it. i was like do it again, hanna. >> you are a little gonzo about her. >> you blew me off. >> i did. >> she was supposed to join me later after her dinner with a friend, but no hoda sighting. frank i and did something last night we haven't done in a long time. we went out. we went -- when we were childless and lived in the city, we were out all the time. it was fun. we were young and stupid back then. now we're just so stupid. last night we went to finestein. that was that's one of the beautiful rooms there in the regency hotel. michael has a club there. it's one of the rare places other than the carlisle, a couple of others where you can hear great traditional music

from the american song book. so you know my friend carol lee carmelo, a brilliant broadway star, she's in adams family right now, her husband is a four-time tony nominee, greg edelman. he was performing -- there's greg. he was performing last night. >> how was he? >> he was adorable. in a word -- charming. he's very tall, lanky, has a beautiful singing voice, but he's like a combination -- i said i don't know if anybody will know who this is. it's like a cross between a gary cooper and a henry fonda. gary cooper is sexy but henry fonda was every man. he was wonderful. wonderful. >> i'm sorry i missed that. >> he'll be back. he'll be back. >> i'll go. >> sorry you missed it. >> i did miss it. okay. this story is pretty -- i don't know whether you call it hysterical, sad. >> it's all of the above. >> it's about a flight attendant on jetblue who had had enough. he was at the breaking point.

he was on the flight and he was doing his thing. >> there he is hanging out in the galley. >> the plane was taxiing apparently to its little -- when you park the plane. >> i don't know where it docks. >> a passenger got up lerl aearly and started -- people want to get their bags quickly and getting up. they tell you don't do it, and they do it. they tried to get the -- the woman got her bag down. he said excuse me according to sources you need to sit down. she apparently said -- she dropped the [ bleep ] bomb on him. so he was -- then the luggage apparently fell on top of him. >> hit him on the head. >> he demanded an apology, and she said [ bleep ] off. that's what we hear. now, he had had it. he was at that point. he went to where they have the p.a. system, and this is what he said. he said to the [ bleep ] a [ bleep ] that told me to [ bleep ] it has been a good 28 years. he followed up by saying i had

it. he grabbed two beers. >> the version i heard is he broke into song. ♪ take this job and shove it ♪ i ain't working here no more ♪ >> off he went. >> he grabbed the beer. two of them. >> and he slid down the thing. >> two because he had a date. >> he had a date later. now, i'm not excusing what he did because -- >> you shouldn't, hoda, because you think this behavior is wonderful. >> you shouldn't be cursing on the plane, and you think he should go to prison for life i'm sure. i think that this guy was -- this is a guy who -- if you've worked in any of those kinds of fields like a waitress where you deal with the public day and night, people can be extremely rude. >> unbelievable. >> terrible. there are times where you worked in a job where you say i'm going to say this --

>> [ bleep ]. thank you. >> i'm going to get out of here, and that's a fantasy. if you told your friends that, you won't believe it, they're say no, you're kidding me. >> this guy is my hero, i wish i could do it at my job. you've done it a couple times around here. >> i've thought about it. i have to say he shouldn't have done the things he did, the cursing and whatnot. >> no. but the -- it's understandable feeling like you want to do it. it's the doing of it. he didn't think it through. another thing he didn't think through, took the beer and went home and had a play date with his boyfriend and that's when the cops arrived. >> that happens. that happens. so he could face seven years in prison. i don't think there's -- >> i don't think he's sorry about it. >> jetblue says at no time were our customers' safety at risk.

what was the crime? the cursing, or the putting the chute down? the sliding? the running away? i mean, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, trespassing. it seems like it was stupid, but it didn't seem criminal to me. >> he could go to prison for much longer than lindsay lohan did. she could have killed someone in a car. >> i know. a lot of people see this guy as the working man kind of hero, and other people say you work in customer service. you know the drill. >> another example of the lack of civility in our culture. we don't know how to deal with one another in a civil way. >> when you watch the people on those housewives shows yelling at each other, i think there might be something when you watch someone confront a friend, and you would never do that, maybe there's something in you that watches and almost green lights it a little bit. i'm not saying you do what's on tv, but when you watch someone let something out, i think people are taking cues from

stuff on tv and using it in their own lives. >> are you aware half of your earring is missing. >> really? it fell off? >> it did. i'm just wondering if america is noticing that, too. that's your jennifer. >> it is. did you have one on? >> yep. it's kind of cute. >> it's around here. i want to point out, too -- >> we know you have friends, hoda. >> this friend -- see the girl in the white jacket? that's cameron. she's trying to hide. cameron went to high school with me. most popular girl at the high school. that's her daughter next to her and the two friends that came in from the hamptons. >> a cross between maria shriver and natalie. >> she does. >> welcome everybody. >> coming up the stairs and you had your friends down there. one of the greatest gentlemen in the world is matt lauer. matt was in a hurry. it would be a thrill for them to meet matt, and he took the time to be so gracious to them.

he didn't go [ bleep ] you. you know? he did not. that's not the way he rolls. speaking of matt, they've taken a survey, a sex and ifcy survey. >> who do you fantasize about when you're having sex? that's the question. the number one answer is a friend. the second is an acquaintance, the third an ex-partner and celebrity. >> what if your friend is a celebrity? >> when they said friend it was vague. it could be a person you work with. >> could be a colleague. >> i think it should be -- >> a colleague for the least. >> i think it should be like the fedex guy. that's who most people fantasize about. the cable guy. that's the person. yes, it is. it is. >> not at my house. >> i think that's the guy. i really do. i think it's more than -- i mean, i think acquaintances --

>> that's okay. i'm sorry i shouldn't have pointed it out. there's a guy changing his name over and over and over again to make a statement. the first name he changed it to was in god we trust. now it's one nation under god. and each time you change your name it costs about $500 each time. he's trying to create awareness for christian unity and what our country is based on and stuff. >> when he fills out the forms about first name, last name, what do you put? in god we trust? >> first name in and god we trust. i don't know. i think there's other ways of working on christian unity personally. anyway, what do you think miss sarah? >> i would agree with hoda that fedex guys are hot. >> i'm not saying they're not, but they come in all sizes and shapes, you know what i'm saying. >> lots of packages. >> like the packages themselves. exactly. >> we were talking about the

jetblue flight attendant. gary wrote in i wish i had an emergency exit and inflatable slide at times and greta wrote you can only take so much crap before you snap. >> interesting. in that case he should have celebrated national smores day and had a smore. then had some of this 900-year-old beer. >> 9,000-year-old. >> it is booze day. >> actor oliver platt is with us. he'll caulk to him after this. we'll save a little of this 9,000-year-old beer for him. >> where's my earring? 9,000-year-old beer for him. >> where's my earring? [ cat meows ] ♪ [ male announcer ] cats everywhere are using fresh step with carbon because it doesn't just mask odors, it eliminates them. so don't be surprised if your cat needs help finding her litter box. fresh step, the only clay litter with carbon. it's paw-activated, to eliminate odors. so it's almost like not having a litter box.

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>> >> is that you, lover? is that why i sleep on my sister's couch. >> i'm going to bump off the deck and put in a new hot tub. >> katherine, i don't know who you are anymore. >> on the new show series "the big c" stars with laura linney

and the well-meaning husband. >> after receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer kathy decides to shake things up. >> oliver, how are you? >> nice to see you both. >> you too. >> this is a comedy about cancer, right? kind of. >> i think it maybe falls more under the drama d or the -- what it is is a show that has a -- it's very respectful of the disease, yet it has a highly developed sense of irony and also absurdy about the way people actually behavior under these circumstances as opposed to standard kind of movie of the week. >> yeah, yeah. >> we have to let you know the premise, right? laura linney discovered that she has terminal cancer, but she doesn't tell you. so she kicks you out, but you don't know why. >> i don't know why. i'm flailing around trying to figure it out. there's a couple of reasons, but

you know, i know it's not all adding up. it's hard, because -- it's extremely interesting from the narrative standpoint because the audience knows what's going on, but i don't. i get to behaving like a bit of a tool, but understandably. it's very interesting. >> your character seems funny. in that scene you seem immaturity and frat boyish. >> the charm is off the wazoo chart. >> how is working with laura linn linney? is she the best? >> she is. we met doing a movie called "ke "kenzie." we knew each other for a while. they sent me the script. i was nervous, a comedy about cancer? how do you pull that off? the magic act the show pulls off is it's extremely truthful and

respectful, but it explores this bizarre -- this kind of why is it that we need to get a death sentence to start to live fully and truthfully and beautifully? why do we need to get a death sentence to tell people that we love that we really love them and to not really bother with the people we're being polite to for the wrong reasons. we're all dying anyway. why don't we, you know, go for it. >> there is a humorous component. it's part of the whole deal, right? >> any great tragic narrative without comedy, and vice versa, any great comic narrative -- it comes from desperation and anxiety and pain. >> is any of yourself in that character? >> married 18 years, of course.

>> married 18 years. i'll comment no further on that. >> well, so when you look at a new project and as you were talking about, it's always in the writing, isn't it? casting comes after. >> it's the writing and people. in this case, all the boxes were checked. >> is this a onetime thing or 15 episodes? what is it? >> we like to think it's going to keep going. >> all right. >> you are so sweet. >> i don't care what anybody says, you're a sweetheart. >> i was going to say the same thing about you. >> okay. "the big c" premieres august 15th on show time. everything boils down to the hair. arhe hethat.d >> i'm having a bad hair day. >> no, you're not. . mars is down...and... um, it's only 10am. who hasn't had their jimmy dean breakfast this morning?

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hairstyle. >> bridget burns is creating a piece of art that sits upon one's held called "hair battle spectacular." it premieres tonight, but she's with us today. hello, brooke. nice to see you again. >> the premise of this crazy show? >> exactly. we brought together ten fantasy hair designers to compete for $100,000. the thing appealing to me was taking these guys from small towns where they create them for fun or halloween, on the weekends, and then you put them together living in a home in los angeles and competing for $100,000. >> it's always the living together that brings out all the stuff. >> especially hair dressers, because you have a lot of drama, a lot of egos. >> look at this creation with the puppy. >> in the first episode we asked them to bring two items from home that represented themselves and make them into an hairdo to get to know their personalities.

>> on paper, i was thinking oh, please. now i can see that it's chock-full of interesting things. >> it's oxygen. their mantra is live outed loud, which is clearly what these designers do every day. >> what kind of tension comes out when they live together? >> we had a designer go awol and hairpieces fall on stage and hair thrown. >> it's not just done for the crams, because hoda and i often wonder about that. we know friends on certain reality series and we know that certain situations are planned in advance. even though there's no script, they're set up in situations so that fur can fly. >> you see it on the show. when you start all ten designers are very friendly. halfway through the season whether they're down to five left and only one goes home with 100 grand, everybody starts to turn on each other. you start to see the competitive nature of these people come out. >> in this landscape there are

so many reality shows out there and everyone looks for something that makes theirs unique. by looking what the you brought into the studio is unique. >> pure genius but on steroids. we asked them to create a to come tail to hococktail to hold liquid. we had a hairstyle with an edible element. they have these themes every week, and every week we get rid of one designer. >> lady gaga should be the ultimate judge. >> is that hair? what's going on over there. >> it's all hair. unless we tell them to incorporate an element or something like that. >> that's hair extensions? >> you can cut up wigs and do hair extensions, color, graffiti. >> how many time do they have to the complete it? >> we give them a quick challenge, but they have to compete on the show. then we give them overnight a glam slam challenge to create, design and put it on a model and

create a wardrobe as well. the thing is what's so amazing, not only do the designers create the ideas but to execute them. that fascinated me. you have hot glue and chicken wire and all kinds of things to make them stay on the models' heads. >> i'm not judging. we have derrick j from chris rock's good hair and atlanta housewives. >> good luck to you. glad you're having fun with it. >> it's a lot of fun. >> you can catch the premiere tonight. still to come, something i know nothing about. the botox, nothing. and fall fashion looks. you're wishing for a deliciously, nutritious fiber cereal. i am. well, you don't want that one. new kellogg's fiber plus cereal®. the delicious taste of berries, plus yogurty clusters, plus 40% of your daily fiber...

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>> time lapse, san jose, clear skies. the clouds have backed off, into the central bay and the north bay valleys and san jose will be some of the warmer locations today, 70s and 80s inland. time now 10:27. more news after the break.

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all pit bull type dogs to be spayed or neutered. he cites the malling that killed a boy last month. he said nobody should wait for tragedy to happen before they act. more than 120 type of theses dogs in that area. inspectors and police will team up to stop vehicles and ask riders for proof that they paid. the program was started last summer. they are coming back now after a three-month break. neighborhood is trying to raise money for a school damaged by fire. 85% of the school was destroyed early last month. volunteers held a garage sale and raised close to $5,000.

the community charity will match that dollar for dollar, so $10,000. thank you for joining us this morning. the "today" show continu .xt we're back on this booze day with more of "today" and the many uses of botox. >> most of us know especially one of us that botox is the most recognizable miracle erasing power but it can be used to treat other things. some are approved and some are not. >> she's the author of "what the yuck?" and we'll ask here about different uses. we heard about it for sweating and cosmetic. what are some of the other things? headaches, migraines? >> exactly. there are medical uses for botox, and one of the big ones is migraines. migraine sufferers often go

through so much it can affect their life and sometimes medications won't help and they don't want to take a pill every day. botox is something they are using. they do tiny injections in the muscles of the scalp, the forehead, or the neck, and it is showing good results for some people. >> do you have to get it right wheth when it starts? >> these are off-label. the fda says you can use it for wrinkles and stuff. this is what the fda said. we reached out to them, and they sent a statement. health care professionals are free to use medicine for uses not approved by the fda if they feel it will benefit a patient's health condition. the fda approved prescribing information list and warnings and cautions so they make informative decisions. >> okay at the doctor's discretion. >> you have to be a little bit more careful if something is not fda approved and make sure who you go to is trained to use it in that way. >> that's the problem. an awful lot of people are just

giving botox injections who are not well qualified for it. >> we're going to talk about side effects later. one thing with botox you have to be careful whoever is doing it knows the anatomy. >> what about the sweating issue? get botox and it will make it easier. something about that makes me feel weird, you clog up pores. what are you doing? >> you paralyze the glands that produce sweat, and you can get very effective cessation of sweating. sweating sounds funny, but it can affect how they work. they can't hold a pen sometimes because they're so sweaty. >> think what it does to their interpersonal relationship. >> where does it go? >> another part of your body. >> underarms is approved for that and some are use it for the hands. i would stay way from the face. there are so many muscles and nerves there. >> that's where most people use it. >> for wrinkles but when you

talk about sweating, you can't do your whole face. >> what are the sigde effects? >> one of the effects is it can cause temporary pain and a little redness. the major side effect is very rare but you can affect a different nerve or muscle and not the one you sbenintended wh can cause a droop, you can have trouble breathing or speaking. some dangerous things, very, very rare. >> after botox you're supposed to remain upright for four hours. i'm honest about the fact i've used botox and will continue to. >> you have to remember that this is a temporary drug, so within three to six months you need repeat treatments. >> okay. all righty, then. >> thank you doctor. is your bock going well? >> it's going well. >> good for you. you're adorable. you're no oliver platt, but

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fall we brought to you, but we don't want to you squirrel this away in your closet and not wear it until it gets cold out. wear it now, wear it later. >> everything is under $100. the first item is the flaired pant look. we have two models. >> they're so attractive. >> they're so universally flatters. we were tired. sea of skinny jeans. >> or the bell-bottoms which is the other extreme. >> it's the best shape for every body type. we have the summer version. what's great about in pant is you can go skimpier on tops, so we paired it with this great ann taylor top that's sleeveless to give you a little skin. >> what's the fabric on that? >> it's a lightweight wool. they're from express, 59.90. i love it with the shoes. this is an easier fill.

now on christana we have the fall look. this really looks, and actually that sweater is from unique it's 19.50. >> a bootie would make it a fall look. >> what are you talking about? >> a little boot. >> oh, oh. >> on the foot. on the foot. >> nathank you, ladies. the next look is the tailored short look. lauren and ashley are with us. >> neez are from the limited, they're 49.50. you would think shorts for fall would be crazy, but actually designers love the look and have done lots of shorts in heavier fabrications. >> i love that beat meets girl look that lauren has rights now with that little button down shird a

shirt and ballet flats. >> what age are we talking about? these work for them. >> i actually think with a thicker type on ashley for fall, it gives you morleyway in na regard. i love she has on yet another trend, the little lace-up bootie which gives her a nice, long leg. >> it's going to be in in the fall? >> it is definitely. the sweater is a great look. >> you call those booties, too. you got a bootie theme. >> i like the bootie. i don't know why. >> i'm sure you do. >> thanks, ladies. >> our final trend is the cropped sweater. we have deb and cory modeling these. >> that's cute. >> this is from a.m.a. from jcpenney, 24.99. for our summery look, we wanted to balance out the sweater with a fuller skirt. this is a moment for standout shoe, so again, i'm going to say it, aren't i? it's a bootie.

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they belong. >> animal lover jennifer koppel man hut and alexei stewart are here to weigh in on the subject. they're hosts of the show called "whatever." >> hi, ladies. how are you? >> thanks for having us back. >> it grew out of the radio show. >> this dog issue is an issue, because a lot of people treat the dog as if it is a family member. >> because it is. >> bring it to restaurants. >> it is a family member, yeah. >> it's a family member, but it's your family member. it's not anyone dpaish. >> my dog was a person. your dog is a dog. so realize that. >> and deal with it. >> you no longer have dogs? >> i don't right now. >> why? >> well, they died. >> on top of it -- >> it happens. >> there's a whole thing with dogs. when you first have a dog before you have a child, the dog is your baby. that is your child. but then once you have a kid,

the dog gets relegated to dog status. >> there are some restaurants that make it work for dog lovers. >> i think it's against the health rules. >> to me, that's silly. >> there are some rules in life. >> outside you're allowed to bring a pet in the outdoor area. >> other people don't like that, either. >> right. if it's outdoors and it's permitted. >> i think it's up to the restaurant owner, and then if you don't like that, don't go. you better have a well-behaved dog. >> whethern a dog is there and you're eating and drinking, a dog going -- >> i don't like that. >> at central park at the water fountain they drink and the dog licks on the same thing. >> i'd rather have the dog looking at that thing. come on. >> take your water into the

park. >> you should have a little cup you could put the water in and put it down. licking on the nozzle. >> are you using that, really? >> don't put your mouth on the nozzle. >> you're not supposed to put your mouth on the nozzle. she likes that sort of thing, all right? >> what about other things? what about weddings, outdoor weddings, people bring the dog? >> i won't allow your dog in my apartment on thanksgiving, but you're like it's thanksgiving. but the dog doesn't know. >> the dog doesn't know you're getting married. >> it's a matter of courtesy. call your hostess and say listen, may i bring. somebody just had dogs in their wedding. say you're coming for the weekend. >> if no is the answer, deal with it without freaking out. >> i'm your mother, you know

that? >> she brings her dogs everywhere. it's so obnoxious. >> do you think you should be allowed to bring your dog everywhere you want to at all times? >> no. nobody thinks that. >> some people think that. >> really? >> yeah. martha. >> she's going to love this segment. ladies, thank you. good luck with -- whether does your show start again? >> september 13th on the hallmark channel. >> all right. we'll be back with a cool dish for a hot day. this is "today" on nbc.

it's time for "today's kitchen." >> they have cold and refreshing dishes for a very hot summer day. welcome to mary and john and anthony and elena. we're going there today for your birthday party at their famous

eatery. >> how are you? >> what are we making. >> we're beginning with a chilled cucumber soup, and it's delightful. you see me draining the cucumbers, because whether you blend it with the yogurt, the cucumbers get a better flavor whether nathey're drained. otherwise there's too much fluid and water. >> ants like moisture. we learned that yesterday. >> yes, we did. >> i'm going to turn it over to john. >> i'm john. >> i have greek yogurt already in the blender. i have some chives and some difficult to add to it. some olive oil. >> this isn't particularly low calorie? >> no. it tastes good. lemon juice. >> could you make it with 2% yogurt or sfwhaewhatever? >> with the greek yogurt it tastes better.

>> keep talking, keep talking. >> i got to blend this, turn on the blender, and there it is. that's amore. >> i like that. wow. >> come on. >> that's all you're doing? you're done? >> i'm done. >> we should have tasted it. go ahead, anthony. >> what are we making? >> i'd rather if we did it, we would use fresh tuna, but we have tuna at the house. here's your canned tuna. here's what we've done ahead of time. we have rice sitting in the refrigerator usually. it's sunday, it's 12:00. what do you do? >> what do you do, anthony? >> the dog days of summer. we have our tuna and rice and we have a little red onion. >> we have something else that's red, too. >> celery. and we have peppers. we're mixing that together,

tomatoes, olives. string beans. cappers, radishes, a little salt, a little pepper. olive oil and lemon. >> that looks good together. >> we're going it to mix that up, a little rose and a little lemon. >> is that it right here? look at the final product. >> that's beautiful. >> look at elena. >> thank you so much. >> what happened, honey? >> i did a slip and fall routine, and -- >> i'm fine. i'm here. >> oh, you're so sweet. >> we're making a chilled berry. take your -- take it over here. you want to talk about the accents? >> okay. okay. shall i start? >> please. >> chilled berry soup. mix your berries, whichever berries you like, some red wine,

lots of red wine, sugar and cinnamon sticks. we let it come to a boil, and then we'll as i remember for about 30 minutes. it will look like this, we'll just simmer 30 minutes. this is what it looks like, and we like to -- thank you so much. raspberry sorbet. it's a very lady like dessert. good for our figures, and some toasted almonds on top. isn't that lovely? >> that looks great. >> it's fruit. >> it's fruit. you're allowed. >> fruit and sugar, sugar. >> just a little. >> how is it? >> delicious. >> everything you make is delicious. come on. let's be honest. >> here. >> there's the fork. >> all right. thank you so much. we'll see you this afternoon. >> yeah in an hour. >> we get to order what you want, or will you bring it out? >> anything other than chinese food is terrific. tomorrow we talk about the

dangers that may be lurking in your house and how to fix them. and some makeup that won't slide off your face in the summer heat. >> have a great day. thank you for watching. >> have an awesomeooze da everybody. >> have an awesomeooze da everybody. don't drink and drive. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com