>> that's not even nice. >> nice. >> this, as you know, we're on this no drinking challenge. >> "ladies home journal" put us up to it. hoda must have been drunk when she said yes. >> at my book signing, that's what people wanted to talk about, not the book. >> they haven't read the book yet. >> hey, about your book, but why aren't you drinking? how is it? what do you like to drink? >> we're trying to get fit! so far it's not working. even wine futures are down. >> we heard. see what happened? that's sad. >> i think we need to make it up for the wine industry, take our show on location to napa valley or sonoma valley. what do you think? >> my favorite thing is when you announce something on air and we have to do it. >> you were there last night. you have another one tonight, right? >> one at huntington tonight, now jimmy kimmel apparently did not get the memo that we are not drinking wine through the end of the month.

but anyway, let's take a listen. >> seems like a man thing, but it's called the vapor-timi. it allows you to inhale alcohol. you pour alcohol on the bottom and you heat it up, inhale the vapor, and the alcohol goes directly into your bloodstream. it's like a reverse breathalyzer. that's quite an idea. dude, what if you could smoke beer? inhaling alcohol is dangerous. you get a lot drunker a lot faster, and if you get too drunk, it can look something like this. [ laughter ] >> terrifying. so be careful. >> that's my old friend jimmy kimmel. i will find you and hurt you. >> we did try that thing. where you snort the -- >> we did that a couple of months ago. it was weird, though. >> i liked it. you don't feel like you're getting the calories, but you're still getting the -- right? >> apparently, you want something else as well.

>> you were on something else. it's called "the new normal" on nbc that has nene. you know that one? >> won't invite us on, but will have their way with us. >> let's hear what they have to say. >> families look different now. no matter what their gender, all that matters is being lucky enough to have a partner to count on, an ally to always have your back. they are the strength to your weaknesses. the yin to your yang. the kathie lee to your hoda. >> that one i like. >> how sweet was that? >> you know what, we are actually tod going to be talking about our girlfriends, the new husbands. . yes. wait, by the way, that's a really interesting topic. >> i know. >> a lot of friends and i have had this discussion. guys are funny about things. i remember back in the day when i was married, men are problem solvers. if you come in complaining at work, this is what this girl did

to me, i was so upset, what did you say to her? nothing. well, say something to her tomorrow and the problem is solved. yeah, but i'm not done discussing it. so i want to let it breathe, and he wants -- >> you want to live there for a while. >> he wants to fix it. then you stop, okay, this isn't the right place to go. let me call my friend so i can complain about that and i'll get him to change the light bulb. >> then if you're married long enough, you get to the point he doesn't want to fix anything. hire somebody, call somebody. you do it, i'm going to sit here and be me. >> a lot of people do rely on their girlfriends and sometimes the girlfriend is the first call as opposed to the huts. maybe the girlfriend's been going through what you've been going through. >> here's the sad reality, everybody. i say this from almost 27 years, and i love my husband, so let's keep that in mind. once you know somebody really, really well, everything changes. >> what do you mean, all the dirty details?

>> when you don't know somebody, you're in a slinky this and they're all -- after awhile you become very, very content with one another. that's a good thing to get to that point, it really is. >> you're right. >> i thought you were sipping wine. that was going to make me crazy. anyway, yeah, you know what i'm saying. >> it is true. >> your girlfriends don't live with you. your best girlfriends, even if they lived with you, would drive you crazy. >> absolutely. you're right, you're right. >> i adore you, but if you left all those doors open at my house and threw your jeans -- oh! i'd be at your throat. >> right now, again, with my cabinets open, it's so weird how i don't notice. i duck under. i don't even notice. i clean -- i don't clean. i move things away, throw things away. i do. you get used to it. you're right, i'd drive you out of your gourd.

>> that's why you call your girlfriend, you don't live with her. >> everyone you live with, you know all their secrets and they are not as terrific. >> let's be honest, okay. the big gun control debate caught fire in another way. the nra came out with an ad that's really touched a lot of nerves. again, we're talking about whether or not teachers or security guards or somebody in schools should be armed. a lot of people, this is a controversial ad. take a look. >> the president's kids more important than yours? then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school? mr. obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, but he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to fair share to security. protection for his kid and gun-free zones for ours.

>> so the debate is that going too far? it's one thing to have your feelings about the second amendment and what that actually means, and it's another thing to drag the president's children into the debate. >> clearly, the president's kids are always a bigger target. >> no matter whether republican or democratic president. >> i still don't understand why there can't be a debate about the way we can still have weapons that are reasonable -- it shouldn't be about no guns or uzis. there's always talk about the slippery slope if you take away the uzi or ak, i know i'm not saying the right terms -- whatever those kind of guns are. >> assault rifles and machine guns. >> that somehow you won't be able to have a weapon to protect yourself in the home. i don't really get that. >> it's a huge debate. i believe in our constitution, i'm a huge constitutionalist, and i real you will believe everybody should have the right

to bear arms. but when those laws were written it was one bullet and we could never have foreseen uzi machine guns in the hands of crazy people that want to massacre your children. i'm very much for the strict background checks. i hope that they could actually work. it's going to add to the price. they can't do the background checks now. i'm all for enforcing laws we already have on the books before we start writing a million more laws. however, i think rational people feel like they don't want any crazy person to have uzi machine guns with 30 bullets -- >> i do think if you made the penalty for a crime using the guns, if you tripled the penalty, that would have to have some kind of impact on whether or not even criminals choose to use that type of a weapon. if you really were serious about ed and said i'm going to lay down the law. i don't care. it's a different penalty if you use a gun or this type of crazy gun. >> maybe it's a lot of all of

the above we really should be looking at. i'm telling you, if i were a parent at sandy hook who'd lost their child, i would have wanted somebody there to protect them. i would have wanted somebody at that door that could have stopped that killer. >> you would have hoped that person could have. but then you saw a lot of parents who had a news conference who said all they wanted to talk about was getting those guns, working on gun control. >> as you say, has to be a balanced approach. everybody's rights need to be preserved. you got to remember, there's a huge amount of money to be made in ammunition, arms, magazines. huge, huge, huge. basically, at the end of the day, it's all about money. they want to make it a constitutional thing, but there's a way to live within our constitution and protect our values and our rights, but at the same time -- >> i agree, i agree. >> send all your nasty e-mails to her, because i don't read them. >> no. guess who's going to be a grandpa. >> i'm in an e-mail-free zone.

. you are. >> and i like it. >> guess who is a grandpa, charlie sheen. going to be, at least. frightening thought. who knew he had a daughter who was 28? did everybody know? i had no idea. >> can you back up? girlfriend's 24, but he has a daughter who's 28 that's expecting a baby. >> it's his girlfriend's daughter who's expecting -- wait a minute. that doesn't make sense. >> it's his daughter. >> i thought he had a daughter from when he was 17 years old. in high school. >> it was written funky. >> his girlfriend's 24 and his daughter's 28. >> his daughter is the one that -- it didn't say it that way. never mind. his expectant mom is ca sand remarks charlie's child, his high school child with paula prof fit. >> you don't picture him as a grandpa. >> i don't think he pictures himself as one either. do you think charlie sheen will ever change? >> i don't know if people ever change.

>> i know people who have changed enormously through life, but usually when they've had an epiphany or something like that. >> i don't know. he was on fallon last night and yukking it up about who's going to be the one wearing the bib. he was laughing about it. >> how about somebody wearing the -- instead. >> oh, that. >> indeed. >> it's just a thought. if we could solve our problems with guns, perhaps we could solve our problems otherwise. >> i think you're right. speaking of jimmy fallon, since he was on jimmy fall son. i'm so excited. >> nobody's more important than hoda woman. >> except sara haines. hi, sara. >> i can't believe you're going to be on jimmy fallon. i love that. >> don't you love him? >> he's the best, he's a real guy. but he cracks me up every time he opens his mouth. >> he's like the new regis, in a sense. regis always had a sense of wonder, can you believe i'm here and i get to do this and i'm standing here with george clooney?

jimmy makes you feel that. he's that every man. >> he's grounded. >> let's talk about hoda's book. >> we appreciate everyone posting on our facebook wall, so keep chatting with us, because we're going to pick five people at random to send a signed book. >> i'm ready to sign! i got it, girl. >> books, the hard part is not writing them. as hard as that is. the hard part it getting out there that first week and selling them. >> you got it, baby. you got your girl, who needs a man, right? >> are girlfriends the new husbands? perks and pitfalls right after this. before the sneeze, help protect with a spray. before the tissue, help defend with a wipe. before the cold & flu season, help prevent with lysol. because when you have 10 times more protection with each hand wash... and kill 99.9% of germs around the house with each spray... those healthy habits start to add up.

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is here. and a psychologist and author of "sanity savers, tips for women to live a balanced life." >> and ladies, nice to see you both again in the new year. >> thanks for having us. >> this is an interesting topic, isn't it? >> as we were thinking about, i tried to realize why this might be so. does this have to do with the fact women are waiting later and later? i think the average age is 27 now to get married for a first-time bride. >> there is an unprecedented number of single women between the ages of 25 and 34 in the country now, and almost half believe the institution of marriage is obsolete. >> that worries me about our culture going forward. should it? >> even the ones who are looking forward to getting married, they are going through bigger life decisions with their girlfriends. >> is it that men are problem solvers? because they like to fix. i get it, they don't want to hear you rattle on and on and on about your problems. >> whining! >> you've really hit the nail on the head, hoda. what we don't really reward in

our society is an empathetic bow avenue yoerl response. and men get rewarded for that all the time in our society, and they are much more oriented to do that, where women are much more oriented to be empathetic, have much more compassion in the interaction and that's what most women are looking for. >> are we also looking for both? sometimes hoda will have a situation or i'll have a situation and she wants me to talk to her about it and understand it. you look for me somtimes what should i do with this? we come to a solution together. >> you come to a solution. >> you're my husband! >> of course, i am. >> you come to a solution, because you understand you're heard and you understand the person has exactly the feeling that you have of how you might be best at solving this problem. >> you get it. >> that makes you want to go forward with that person. >> is it a danger for your relationship? if you're married and you call

your girlfriends when you have news and it sort of leaves him out of the loop. isn't it detrimental? >> i think you go to your girlfriends for some things or you go to your husband or life partner for something else. the thing about marriage, it's a legal contract. he's legally bound to be there in the morning. >> they leave a lot of times. they pack it up. >> your girlfriends, you may have a spat and it could take a week or month or sometimes a year to make up. >> is it really about ultimately listening? somebody -- because we are such a nation of yap yap yap. but we don't really listen to one another. >> it is about listening and empathetic listening. it's also about reduction of stress. i think it's important to recognize when we are with our girlfriends, our stress usually reduces. there's unbelievable research that shows that women not only want to tend and befriend, which means be together in times of stress and take care of the young ones if they're around, but also that we feel better and

we want to be nurtured and nurturing. so our blood pressure goes down, our cholesterol goes down, our health improves, and if we don't have our girlfriends and don't have those connections, we really are more at risk health-wise. i think the other issue, though, is -- and i appreciate what anne said, we tell men some things, our girlfriends other things. when you're telling something to your girlfriends that might be embarrassing or not kind to your husband, i think you have to really appreciate there's someone else you're bound to you have to be respectful of. >> guys get together for the same reason? do they talk to their guy friends? >> no, they head butt and watch games. >> thank you, ladies. >> thank you so much. all right, you sent them in. >> we picked the best. >> all those photos that made you say what the what coming up right after this. [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night

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>> photo from marsha edgarton from virginia. was this a big enough issue? do not warm up -- never attempt to dry a pet in the oven. >> oh, please. >> are you kidding me? >> that was in a manual for a new oven. >> people are cooking their pets. >> seriously crazy. >> please, don't. >> from new york, danica webb sent us this photo. have you seen this cat? you may have seen one that looks like this, but have you seen this one? >> i actually saw that cat and it was wearing a party hat like that one. >> those are ears. >> looks like a party hat to me. >> we're starting something new this week. >> we're going to show a photo each week and if you log on to klgandhoda.com, give us your best caption and we may pick yours. let's show the photo. possibly. >> okay. >> oh! >> got milk? >> tell us what you have to say. got binky?

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new trubiotics. from the makers of one-a-day. back with more of "today" on this wineless wednesday, and i'm whining about it. we're kicking off our new series en-joy getting fit. we selected six lucky ladies to compete over the next eight weeks. in a series of health and fitness challenges. >> better them than us. >> kathie lee and i will each have our own team, that means it's a competition. which ever team conquers the most competitions over the next couple weeks will be declared the winners. to help introduce the ladies and tell us more about the challenges, nutritionist and our emcee, joy bauer. >> i am so excited. we've recruited six of your biggest fans. they feel overweight and out of shape. >> how did you find the six? >> we had thousands of people. we did a call out on facebook,

on twitter. it was a really tough thing trying to pick. we wanted to help everyone, but the good news is that all of their meal plans and the challenges they are going to be doing are going to be on your web site, klgandhoda.com. so everybody at home can follow along. >> i can't wait to meet your team. >> first team, heidi callahan, hi, heidi. we're going to listen to her story first. >> my name is heidi callahan, 37 years old, and i'm from new york. i've been married nine years. i have triplet boys who turned seven yesterday. they were born at 27 weeks. so i consider them my little miracles. they were about two pounds each. adan, brady, and chase. my son chase has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair. he's like a sunshine. he's a light. he's a beautiful boy who's always smiling. and they keep me busy. i wrote in because it's been seven years i've been carrying about an extra 30 pounds since the boys were born.

a lot of it, i remember them being in the nicu, my husband and i would get a pizza and i would eat as much as him, and finish the entire pie. a lot of it was stress eating, emotional eating, looking to food when things got crazy. it's a habit that's hard to break. >> we all know about that. >> how cute is she? >> brave heidi is going to stand on the scale now. everybody's going to be in the same situation. >> i've lost my mind. >> you can do it, girl. >> welcome to our world. heidi weighs -- 182. >> 183.4. we'll go with the thing on the back. >> it's the shoes. >> it's the shoes, it's the shoes. >> can i tell you something? >> you look good. i'm sorry, you look really good. >> i do work out. >> i can tell. >> so the next lady we have is kathy gilbert.

let's listen to her story. >> my name is kathy gilbert, i'm 48. i live in new york. i'm married, i have one child. my mom was diagnosed with dementia, and it was emotionally really draining on all of us, and i found comfort in food. i love to eat. i love to cook. i love to eat. i love to read about food. i love to be around food. i love to see food, and that's a problem. i'm very unhappy with my weight, and i feel like since 42 my body has started to change, and i think it's a lot to do with hormones, so what i used to do to lose weight doesn't work anymore. this is a whole lifestyle change for me. it's going to be hard, but i'm excited. >> a lot of women can relate to you, kathy. so come on over here. >> come on, girl! >> this is the first step to changing all this, girl. >> hold my bracelet. >> take off the jewelry at

least, right? >> pop up right behind you -- >> 168. >> okay. all righty. >> hard part's done. >> all right. not too bad. >> our final lady is zakia prince. let's hear her story. >> hi, my name is zakia prince. i am 28 years old, and i'm from brooklyn, new york city. i'm single. my son, he's 2 years old. his name is caleb. i'm a stay at home mom. i'd like to return to school and finish my degree. the hardest part about being a single mom is not having me time and enjoying just me and not having to necessarily, you know, do the baby talk all the time. i've always been, like, the bigger person that was athletic, so i had got to like my highest, you know, which was about 300, little bit over 300. i just like, okay, i'm not

feeling this right now. so i'm hoping to get more information, lose weight, and be more successful. >> all right. zakia, bring it over, baby. >> that little boy's so cute. >> thank you. how cute your son is. >> thank you. >> all right, zakia's weight is at -- >> 235. >> we're going down! >> so there's team kathie lee. >> my team's coming up next. we're going to meet them in a minute and have a performance by the latest british invasion. they are called the saturdays. >> i haven't seen people excited in a long time about the saturdays. first these messages. i played a round of golf.id in the last five hours? then i read a book while teaching myself how to play guitar; ran ten miles while knitting myself a sweater; jumped out of a plane. finally, i became a ping pong master while recording my debut album.

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we're back with our new series, the eight-week series we're calling en-joy. getting fit where six ladies compete in health and fitness challenges.

we met kathie lee. >> they are awesome! >> they are awesome. now it's time to introduce the other team, my team. hey, ladies, how are you? >> i have to tell you the funniest thing, i asked the one thing you do not want me to make you eat. she said, my husband, my arm or my daughter. >> going to be trouble, i'm telling you now. again, mindi, let's listen to her story. >> my name is mindi millerburg, and i'm 49 and live in mont claire, new jersey. i am married. i have a son, he's 15, and my daughter is 13. my sister is concerned about this lump under her arm. unbelievably, it wasn't breast cancer, and when you don't know what kind of cancer something is, you can't really treat it, because there's no protocol. we went through that for a good year and a half, i would say, then she lost her battle. then my mom wasn't feeling well.

she was diagnosed with something called mds, and that's the precursor to leukemia. again, it was just sort of a waiting game and nursing her to the end. then there was my dad. he just deteriorated, you know? at the end he basically didn't recover from an infection. i just want to kick start a more productive, healthy lifestyle again. i want to focus on being the best person i can be. >> mindi, you're such an optimist. before that, when you walked in, you're just like a ray of sunshine. >> thank you. i got that from my mother, by the way. >> of yours course you did. come on, girl. i hope you get your courage from your mother, too. get on this scale. you know you can do it. are you ready? >> i heard the graphics also put ten pounds on you. on tv. >> all right, let's see. namaste. 198, girl. >> below 200!

>> why am i rooting for her? >> because you kind of are. >> i like her. >> the next lovely lady is jessica. let's listen to jessica's story. >> my name is jessica. i am 24 years old and i'm from arizona. i am married. we've been married for six years. we have two kids. david is 5 and michael is 19 months. my youngest son has a medical condition. it was, you know, a flattening of the skull in a certain place, and he had to wear a specialized helmet that was made for him to reshape it. he wore the helmet, it helped him a lot, and he's a fiery little 19-month-old that runs around and gets into everything he can. my husband has been in the marine corps for almost eight years. i've struggled with my weight, up and down, especially since i've had kids.

it's not easy to drop all the pounds when you're, you know, juggling military life and you're juggling kids. there's a lot of military spouses out there, so i feel like it would be, you know, nice to have one of our military spouses represented. >> that's sweet. jessica, you're sweet. we have such a great cross-section of ladies. >> we sure do. why don't you get over here and get on the scales, jess. you ready? you got it, girl. you got it. 206! >> this is the beginning point. >> that's the hardest step to take, that one. >> you got your baseball on you? rooting for the right team. our last girl -- that old thing? anyway, yolana. let's listen to her story. >> my name is yolana. i'm 35 years old, and i'm from long island. i'm married. i have two children. my son is jaden. he's 9 years old, and my

daughter is ava and she just turned 7. i think after i started having kids -- and i always blame it on the children. but you can't blame it on them because they're 9 and 7. we were affected by sandy. not tremendously, thank god, not like other families, but we did, we had our basement flood, couldn't get a hot water heater, and i just literally let myself go. we were going out to eat every day, you know, just whatever doesn't need to be refrigerated, so we were eating chips and bread, then i went on a trip right away. as soon as the storm kind of settled i was overseas for three weeks, eating fried rice and noodles. that's what i eat when i go overseas. i'm always on some sort of diet. i'll have no carbs for a week, two weeks, then the third week i'm eating an entire bread basket. not just a piece, the entire basket. i'm hoping to learn a new way of life, and in the process get a hot new body. >> yelena, i feel you. i feel every single thing you said.

>> hot new body, here we come. >> all right, you ready? >> i am. >> climb aboard. >> last one, here we go. >> get on the train. 145. good girl. all righty. >> we're going to bring out kathie lee's team, too. >> team kathie lee! >> good job. joy, all this stuff, all the info and advice and stuff is go to be on the web site? . >> everything's on the website. and each week we're going to be adding more options to the website, klgandhoda.com. >> we can't wait. thanks so much. they are called the saturdays. >> you can listen to their music any day of the week. >> live performance after this hot message. we have a hot group. after this. >> good morning. i'm meteorologist crystal egg erwith the weather channel. we have yet another winter storm to track. this is a small but dynamic storm. and it will bring snow to unusual places like the deep south. we're going to see snow into

mississippi, alabama, even north georgia. that may bring snow to the atlanta area. it will be later in the evening if we get any snow. we expect most of the accumulation on the north side of the state. but the heaviest amounts where we could see 6 to 12 inches will be across the appalachians. parts of eastern tennessee and into western north carolina. get ready for a very snowy day. and some snow may make it into d.c., the baltimore area. at this point we're look at mostly rain mixing in with a few flakes. i don't think it will be too big for your travel impacts later in the afternoon. 39 in d.c. so we're pretty much staying above freezing throughout the day. 48 in atlanta. the temperatures get a lot colder as we head into the evening. some very cold air moving into the upper midwest and the northern plains here. be prepared for that. temperatures will stay below average for several days as the clipper system moves through on friday that will bring some snow to the western lakes. we're looking at clearing for the southeast with temperatures coming back into the 50s. big warm up for the southwest.

in fact, 71 in l.a., gets to right around 80 degrees for the weekend. notice the cold here in place across the northern tier. minneapolis at 31. gets even colder for you for the weekend as a reinforcing shot of cold air moves through. 43 in chicago. still not looking at much snow. maybe some light snowshowers scattered here and there for the weekend. look at how cold it's getting. now at 5 in minneapolis. that's for your high. some 40s in place here across the northeast on sunday. and by monday, snowshowers still building across the lakes. and we're going to see this cold air start to filter into the northeast. some of the coldest air of the season. get ready for it. you can wake up with al and stephanie weekday mornings on the weather channel. that's at 5:30 a.m. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms

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singles, three top ten albums, and millions of records already sold. >> they also have more than 3 million followers on twitter and more than 67 million youtube hits. now the girls are trying to expand their fan base. with a new reality show called "chasing the saturdays." >> the secrets are worth it. >> i'm not going back home. >> i feel like a bad mother. >> you feel like you're drowning. >> i looked over and knew something was wrong with her. she was having a panic attack. >> i'm scared i'll have another one now. >> you've got a great form. >> i feel like he could be the one. >> after one date? >> it's going to numb the pain in my head. >> the kardashians must be very, very upset. >> they are scared. they are the saturdays! so nice to meet you all. we've been talking about one of you dated prince harry at least once. please raise your hand so we can

look at you. >> nobody did. >> is that just a rumor? that's rumor? it was about you, right? >> it was about me, but no, we're just friends. >> you're friends. allegedly. >> one of you is with child, and that is you. >> congratulations. how did you guys get to know each other as a group? >> we've been together for five and a half years now. we got together originally through auditions. >> you two ladies were in a band together earlier. >> we were. >> i don't understand what took five years to get you over here. to get on an airplane and come to america. >> we're going to listen to you sing. what are you going to perform? >> our single "what about us," which is out now. >> take it away the saturdays. ♪ oh why are we waiting so long ♪

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