it is not the top prize. it is only second place. nothing for second place. >> we have to say good-bye. that's what's happening "today in the bay." we have a local news update in half an hour. >> enjoy. see you tomorrow. good morning. breaking news.3 c3 el medio oeste enfrenta tornados tornados from oklahoma to illinois. >> huge. >> al is live in one of the city's hit hardest by those storms. who knew what when? a new report the white house chief lawyer has been aware of the irs' targeting of conservative groups for weeks, as the president gives a personal commencement address and talks about his experiences growing up black in america. i might have been in their shoes.

i might have been in prison. i might have been unemployed. >> and aloha. we have made our way to hawaii to kick off our week-long great american adventure today. monday, may 20th, 2013. >>. >> from nbc news. this is a special edition of "today." "today's great american adventure." with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from honolulu, hawaii. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning. welcome welcome to waikiki beach. >> we have a lot to show you from this beautiful place. we want to get to the breaking

nuchlz al made the trip with us. overnight he has traveled to tornado ravaged shawnee, oklahoma. >> the system that pronounced the devastating twisters there is on the move this morning. by the time it is finished it could impact half of the u.s. population. we go right to you, al. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt and savannah. this is the latest this is what has happened here in shawnee. this is the bricker family. they hunker fd down with 14 neighbors in a next door neighbor's sherlt when these tornados hit. members of their church are helping them get through this. they watched the weather channel and their local affiliate. this is what the radar looked like last system as the systems spawned over a three-state area. the good news is only one person was killed. it could have been worse. more than 20 injured. scores of homes damaged or destroyed. as you can see here's what will happen today with the same areas under the gun.

we have a lot of warm, moist air coming n. colder air behind it with a strong jet stream. as you can see we are looking at a big problem with the future cast. there's lines of shower and thunderstorms starting to fire up once again. we have a slight risk of strong storms from brady, texas to michigan but a strong risk making its way from dallas in to parts of southern missouri. that's going to be the big problem. somebody who was here watching this all unfold yesterday was janet. it had to be terrifying for these families. >> how heart breaking is this to watch them clean up? you are right, al. familiar sirens. people taking cover and for the same thing to happen the next few minutes. these storms came through very quickly. they were devastating, as you can see here, it wasn't just here. they put millions of people across several states at risk. >> we are littered with debris right now.

>> watch out, guys. windows up. windows up. >> reporter: terrifying moments as a tornado ripped through edmond, oklahoma on sunday. caught on camera by a tornado hunt team traveling with the weather channel. >> stop, stop, stop! >> it stretched from north texas to minnesota. rough hail and heavy rain. >> obviously it was very close. from the basement hearing through the fireplace. it was awesome sound. we couldn't really tell where it was. >> reporter: a tornado barrelled through rural homes on the outskirts of wichita, kansas. forcing road closures. >> no sooner had we got in the basement than we saw heavy wind and heavy rain. and after it subside we came out and saw we sustained quite a bit of damage. >> reporter: while the region

suffered severe damage there are few deaths or injury, giving credit to the weather service for issuing storm warnings for the region as early as wednesday. >> we are telling people not to drive in this area whatsoever because we have roads shut down because of the lines down over the roads. >> around shawnee, oklahoma three large tractor-trailer rigs flipped over. one had been blown off of a highway overpass. 490 reports of severe weather across the region justette yesterday. the bricker family has a lot of help because they are expecting more storms later today and they could be just as severe or worse. back to you. >> thank you very much. as we said the weather channel's jim cantore has been in the elements tracking the worst of the storms. good morning to you. you are chasing some storms yesterday. what was it like on the ground? >> good morning, matt. we punched through the first storm, which had a track possibly of 20 miles long.

we went through it three times. every time we went through it got stronger and stronger. of course we didn't go through with an automobile but a essentially designed automobile that weighs 10,000 pounds. it can go all the way down to the ground if it has. to it has harmer on the outside so it can take debris. it is meant to go through a tornado. there you see us actually going through it. the first time. it only got bigger and bigger and finally we met debris on the road where we couldn't go new further and move south down here to chase the shawnee cell. what we learned along the way, matt, is people want reassurance that a tornado is on the ground. through obviously helicopters and vehicles like we have yesterday with streaming video they can see that. they tend to take tornado warnings more serious. >> yeah. al and janet have talked to us about the damage left in the wake of these tornados. talk about warnings because you talk about people needing that assurance that they know where this is. the weather people have been talking about these storms for

the better part of six, seven days, right, jim? >> yeah. we saw this coming a long time ago. through research, especially after the tuscaloosa tornado, 27, april, 2011 we learned people need to be reassured. prove it to me. if you are asking me to uproot my life and change what i am doing we want you to prove it to us. when you see monsters like these you will take cover. luckily, as al mentioned only one person lost their life yesterday. that is sad but it could have been a lot worse. >> lmplt jim cantore in oklahoma, as well. jim, thank you very much. now to washington with new developments this morning on the irs scandal. when the white house became aware of the targeting of conservative groups. chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the issue of when did the white house get informed that the irs

had been audited by the treasury department and that the report about the targeting of conservative groups was completed and was out there. last week, jay carney, the press secretary, admitted that the white house counsel's office had been informed in late april. this morning, we are learning that it wasn't just the office but the counsel herself, that was informed. the question is why did she choose not to tell the president? did she tell the white house chief of staff? all of these issues. what was the decision around not telling the president at the time? of course the president himself has said he learned when we, in the media, reported this situation. so it goes through at what point did the white house find out about this? it is a difference of three weeks. as for the president, he spent his sunday in atlanta. he was the commencement speaker at morehouse college. he had an interesting message there, particularly aimed at african-american men.

take a listen. >> sometimes i wrote off my own failings as another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned the last four years is there is no longer any room for excuse. >> it was an interesting message. both president obama and michelle obama have given both have them have given commencements at historically black colleges this year. >> chuck todd, thank you very much. bad news for drivers this morning. gas prices are on the way up. tamron hall is in new york with the details. good morning to you. >> drivers are paying more at the pump days ahd of the memorial day weekend. for more on this turn to cnbc jackie at the stock exchange. news that no one wants to hear.

what do the numbers look like? >> gas prices jumping 11 cents in the last two weeks according to the lundberg survey. the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.66. as you said we are approaching memorial day weekend than critical summer driving season. yahoo's board agreeing to pay $1.1 billion to purchase popular blogging site tumblr. yahoo held a press sflent new york city later today. headquartered. we may get more news on that. violence overseas in iraq. a string of car bombings targeting shiite neighborhoods in baghdad has killed at least 40 people at markets and bus stops today. blood shaeds been on the rise in recent weeks sparking fears that widespread sectarian violence could return to the country and bring it to civil war. meantime n northern afghanistan, a suicide bomber targeting a group of local leaders killed at

least 14 people. the taliban has claimed responsibility. yet another missile launch on north korea this morning. the fifth projectile in three days. officials in south korea are analyzing the rockets to see if they contain a new type of artillery. the missiles have all landed in north korea's own waters. the embattle sod-called dreamliner takes to the skies today as united resumes flight of the 787s today. the jets were grounded in january because of battery problems that caused one emergency landing and a fire on another plane. a big night for taylor swift as she swept the billboard awards. the pop star won eight trophies, count them, including top artist. it is her reaction to some pda from justin bieber and her besty selena gomez that got her on-line. she caught the pair kissing backstage and like any good

friend she made the eww face. and miguel tried to leap across a mosh pit of fans but land on one woman's head. thankfully she is okay and i think he owes her free concert tickets, if she wants them. it is 7:11. back to savannah, matt and natalie in honolulu. aloha. >> aloha. >> fabulous crowd here. >> huge round of applause. >> maybe you think it is a little hard to get the feel for hawaii when it is pitch black out. this is what it looked like yesterday. it was just that beautiful. >> like a promo for weather. >> i wanted everyone to have an idea of it. >> cool dress. like. that mr. roker, let's check on the weather now from you, al. >> all right. thank you so much. here in shawnee, oklahoma, you can see the damage in the back. farmlands, barns destroyed. however, we have more of the

same coming, and part of the reason this contrast in temperatures. as you look at the jet stream, it divides the country. one half, the western half, chillier than usual. the eastern half way above normal. syracuse today going to be 80 degrees, 11 above normal. columbus 89, nashville 90. then behind the front and look at rapid city, 51. durango 65, cheyenne 56. that is cold air slamming in to warm air and add the energy of the jet stream and that's why we have a risk of severe weather once again today. that's what is going on first but let's get the latest weather after this message. that is what is going on. first, your latest weather after this message. strong hitch! this thing is built to tow, huh, jan? sure is! and the tundra is extremely rugged! [ woman ] rugged, dependable. that's what i've been telling him. [ man ] that's true. [ male announcer ] and now for a limited time, get 0% apr financing on a rugged and dependable 2013 tundra.

the toyota time sales event is here. hurry in today. toyota. let's go places. monday. temperatures are going to be comfortable today. if you want to make outdoor plans, try to get it done early. it will be unseasonably warm. 75, san francisco. look at where we are headed. temperatures will drop like a rock for tomorrow. the low 70s for the end of the week. hope you have a great day. >> coming up in the next half hour we'll have a look at your week ahead. guys back to you in hawaii. >> well, al, before we let you go, we were having lunch with al yesterday in paradise when news of these storms really started to heat up so al jumped up from a table, jumped on a plane and

that's how you ended up in oklahoma. >> that's commitment. we know you left a mai tai on the table. we were happy to drink it for you. >> thanks, guys. >> we could not have picked a better location for day one of our adventure. >> anyone who comes here to hawaii thinks could i live here permanently. >> some say it has its ups and downs. 2,500 miles from land an island oasis of sun, sand and surf. >> i would love to live here, sunny every day. >> who wouldn't want this? it's beautiful. >> weather is great, the people are nice. the food is great, we love it. >> reporter: picture perfect, but life here is not a permanent vacation. rafael jacinto gets that, raised in hawaii, he's left the island twice for a better job. >> living here in hawaii has its challenges and you don't have as

many opportunities maybe as you would on the mainland. >> reporter: he and his wife, margie, are back in honolulu for good. >> there's something about hawaii t keeps calling us back. >> reporter: that something is the aloha spirit but it's one that can come with a hefty price tag. the median house price is over half a million dollars, compared to just under $200,000 on the mainland, and groceries, try nearly $6 for a box of cereal. traffic in honolulu is among the nation's worst. in 2011 the city beat out los angeles for longest commute times, but at the end of the work day hawaiians are driving home to this, beauty that provides a lifeline to the state's economy. tourism is a $14 billion industry followed by defense and agriculture. land, however s at a premium. >> we need to preserve the beauty of hawaii. that's what makes this place

special and attractive to visitors. we're being very strategic in how we grow. >> reporter: high's unemployment rate is nearly a third lower than the national average, 4in' 4.9% versus 7.5% on the mainland. it's wills one of the most educated in the country and culturally diverse. >> there's a certain gentleness to the way people in hawaii treat each other. >> reporter: rafael jacinto knows that despite the tradeoff that's what brought his family back home. >> feeling of ohana, you feel like you're part of the place, you can find a sense of community living here. >> we're sold. natalie and i have been staying all weekend and ready to move. >> ready, bags are packed. >> we were spending time with people who live here, yesterday, and they said the weather is

like this every single day. >> let's say hi to some people. hi, ladies. where are you from? >> i'm from here in hawaii. >> you got up at midnight to come see us? >> we've been up pretty much all night. >> what's your name? >> melissa. >> and randy and this is benjamin franklin. >> oh, benjamin frank slin heli here. >> a night owl. what is your name? >> carolyn, from maine. i actually live here. >> originally from pennsylvania, i live here now. >> pretty nice place to live? >> wonderful. >> do you miss the winter like natalie said she would? does anyone miss winter in. >> no! >> i thought so. >> i have cynthia here, you're a broadcaster with the navy. >> i'm originally from washington, new jersey, i've been here about seven years, retiring in a couple and not leaving. >> i wouldn't leave either. it's a good place to retire.

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homes. 48-year-old julie tenpenny in jail charged with arson and being under the influence of a controlled substance. neighbors calling police?6i(áu night when they saw a< woman ona hill near alhambra avenue trying to set the dry brush on fire. an officer there hurt one of his legs in a struggle with tenpenny. he is expected to be fine. that fire ended up burning 15 acres up to the property line of some of the homes out there. it is monday morning. let's get a check on the day one of the workweek forecast. 7:27. good morning to you. beautiful day shaping up for us, jon. it is going to be warm. a little bit too warm for comfort later on today if you don't have the a.c. pumping in your home. we are talking about the 90s. nice and crisp. by noon today, we are going to jump to the mid to upper 80s to round out the day at 4:00 p.m. 81, fremont. 75 degrees today in beautiful san francisco. getting to the next couple of days, we keep that natural coolqme@going. it is going to be much cooler and we stay cool all the way

through this upcoming weekend. 27. let's check the drive with mike. >> we'll look over here to san jose where 101, live shot,tpk finally shows the amount of traffic we are looking for. that's the case. look at the maps we see. slowing 280 and 85 in the middle of the screen as well as 101. from 680 up to the7hairport. 87 has had a problem earlier. we had a lot of? debris. last 15 minutes. we saw the slowing cleared and it is back again. >> we are back in half an hour. hope to see you then.

♪ ♪ ♪ back now at 7:30 on this monday morning, the 20th of may, 2013. do not try that at home. we are in hawaii enjoying a modern day samoan fire night dance, one way to kick off the morning and the first day of our great american adventure. >> we should thank these gentleman for joining us at this hour. the way they got here is natalie and savannah were partying with them over the weekend, and they said, hey, guys, join us monday morning. >> that's right and all we asked really was not to have the fire anywhere near our hair.

>> great concern with the tiki torches this morning. >> i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt lauer and natalie morales. we have a lot coming up. >> we'll take you on a tour to one of the most popular tourist destinations here in hawaii, that of course is pearl harbor, so historic, and also incredibly humbli humbling, and i got a chance to take a private boat tour of that amazing area. we're going to give you that in just a couple of minutes. >> we have had a bit of fun over the weekend, including going out on a traditional outrigger canoe, very important to the hawaiian people. we tried our best. we had a little friendly competition. spoiler alert, everyone got wet. >> also another tradition you come to hawaii and you think surfing. these shores right here have been having some of the biggest surfs on record. just in this part here on waikiki beach. >> they usually list the conditions as mild or moderate.

over the weekend in the south the conditions have been listed as epic and we have seen hundreds of surfers just off the beach here. >> i actually got to not do this beach but a little calmer shores, i tried them out and you'll see my surfing expedition coming up as well. >> a lot to get to in hawaii. as we've been mentioning all morning, it's been a tough night for the folks in the midwest, severe storms, and al has made his way from hawaii to shawnee, oklahoma, with the latest. al, good morning again to you. >> good morning, guys. at least 12 tornadoes touching down miraculously only one fatality, which is terrible. still just one fatality, about 21 injuries, countless homes damaged or destroyed. let's look at what's going to be happening around the country the early part of the week. you can see we are going to be looking at strong storms today in the midsection of the country. that's going to last the early part of the week. wet weather along the east coast. above normal temperatures out west. by the time we get to midweek period, above normal

temperatures but wetter than usual. as you make your way further east. and above normal temperatures in the southwest. latter part of the week, wet weather along the eastern seaboard, which is not good news for the last two days of our great american adventure in orlando and the jersey shore. we're looking at below normal temperatures happy monday to you. i'm meteorologist, christina loren. beautiful start in san rafael. not a cloud in the sky. a warm one. temperatures tumble. cool all week long. 91, livermore, 89, concord. 81,ja$x fremont. 75 today. nice day shaping up !]he city by the bay. tuesday into wednesday. that natural cool land is going to be coming in strong. low 70s until friday. starting to climb a touch by sunday. hope you have a great day!

i'm jon kelley. a safety officer injured at the amgen tour, california. that officer was hurt in brentwood saturday afternoon doing traffic control for'jythe. he was on a motorcycle ahead of the pack ofoxp cyclists when a turned in front of him and they collided. one of the baby falcons at san jose city hall sadly s found dead this weekend. the one-month-old baby bird apparently crashed right into the side of the building on its way back to the nest. a passerby found the bird on the sidewalk yesterday morning. = of a pigeon where the falcon fell. those experts say the falcon may have been in the process of taking a mid-air food delivery from its mother when it sadly crashed into the wall. it is day one of the workweek. let's get a check on the monday forecast with christina loren.

good morning. taking a live look. beautiful start to the day over san francisco. no low clouds8fx to report. tomorrow, at this time, a full deck of low clouds. much cooler weather on the way. for today, high pressure stands firm. 50s and 60s for now. one more great day to hit the beach. pacific, 73. half moon bay, 74. down in santa cruz, 77 degrees. we have much cooler weather just around the corner. we'll get to your seven-day forecast in just a few moments. first, i want to check your drive on a back to work monday with mike inouye. 1+goverall on the freeways, nothing super unusual. look at the maps, north 101, 87, 280 and 95. all showing your typical)jv bu. we ayñ looking at a major surface street intersection. east capital expressway at silver creek road, reports of a vehicle versus a bicycle. p.d. is doing a local traffic control. word they may have to shut down silver creek. we2x! are tracking that. f1 o out of south 880.

>> thank you you very much. we are back in half an hour. "today" show is next.

welcome back to hawaii, day one of our "great american adventure." it's 8:00 op. a monday morning, the 20th day of may, 2013. you are watching a traditional tahitian drum dance called the oteja, where the performers make gestures that re-enact daily life. so that is just a typical day if you're wearing a bra made out of coconuts apparently. >> at 2:00 a.m. >> welcome back to the show. i'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie and natalie morales.

>> here we are in waikiki beach. we traveled roughly 5,000 miles to get here. now later today, we are going to go back east about 3,000 miles and find ourselves at the beautiful yellowtone national park. >> and consider this, it's about 75 degrees here in hawaii right now. right now in yellowstone, it's about 33 degrees, so it's going to be quite a contrast as we head there from tuesday's show. and we're going to be showing you the sights and sounds and also putting our survival skills to the test. >> should i not wear my coconut bra? >> you can actually. that's fine. >> special for you, savannah. but we still have a lot more to right here in hawaii. you can't come here without getting a try of surfing and i actually got out there and did just that. see how i did. >> we've got some extreme photographers. you get real adventurers out here. these folks go to extreme lengths to get beautiful images like that one from inside a wave. we'll talk to them how they get those shots.

>> let's do this. we've been learning some of the local language, trying. why don't we put some of the locals who have shown up here to the test, all right? >> all right. here's your little language test. what does ahui ho mean? >> ahuiho. >> matt told me ahuihow. >> do it again. >> we were told until we meet again. >> until we meet again. >> you got it. >> a quiz for you, brokedemou. >> delicious. >> what if you ate something that was brokedeou and had a kanack attack? >> it means you're tired after such a delicious meal. >> food coma. >> what's the last one? >> this one is for you, matt. >> you take this one. >> it's paohana, what we'll do in a couple hours.

>> let's have a mai tai, right? >> we had a question for you, matt, one of the things do you when we go on the trip is legendary, you learn so much about the local place. >> i thought you were going to say wine. >> you drink a lot but that's not where i was going. you read the notes and like to quiz us. we had a simple question. >> what is the name of the state fish of hawaii? >> first of all, it's got about 31 letters to it and it's pronounced the ahukinihunu chifanahou. >> humu humu nuku nuku abuaha. >> apparently set up twice on this trip, the canoe race and the state fish. tamron, can you pronounce the

state fish of hawaii? >> humu humu and i forget the rest. the irs scandal alive and well this morning. a senior administrator stating the white house lawyer learned weeks ago an audit would show the irs targeted conservative groups. the white house insisted president obama did not know about the targeting until it came out in the news. meanwhile, sunday, the president livered a powerful speech to graduates of the all male historically black morehouse college, and told them there's no longer any room for excuses and urged them to set a good example for "the young brother growing up." convicted killer jodi arias is expected to take the stand today as the phoenix jury that convicted her decides if she should be put to death for murdering her boyfriend. defense will present witnesses on air was' behalf. for one brief weekend, much

of the nation shared the dream of winning the $590 million powerball jackpot. nbc's kerry sanders is in zephyrhills, florida, where the single, uno, one ticket was sold. >> reporter: $590.5 million, sold at the publix grocery store back there to one person, the second largest lottery jackpot in u.s. history, but it is the single largest to one winner, who has yet to come forward. now zephyrhills is famous before this because of bottled water. this is the zephyrhills bottled water that has put this town of 13,000- plus on the map. of course, now the question is, do we know, do the residents here know who that winner is? it's probably a neighbor. it's a grocery store. this is not a place that you get a whole lot of people coming from outside, other than a few people who go to the drop zone here, because it's a famous place to come parachuting and do

skydiving. we know what a florida lottery ticket looks like, right there, and we know what a losing ticket looks like there, says not a winner, which as i say, is a polite way of saying a loser. >> we're all losers together and that one winner, i cannot wait to see who the person is. maybe it's a group. we'll see hopefully soon, kerry. thank you very much. well, her heart was in the right place but the lyrics were all wrong. you got to feel for canadian singer alexis norman, who performed the "star spangled banner" in saskatoon saturday night. ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ at the dawn's early light whatsoever we brave and the star light's still gleaming ♪ >> so eventually the crowd

joined to help her to the finish line. norman apparently only found out that morning she would be performing the song. it is now 8:06, let's check in with al in shawnee, oklahoma, with the latest on the deadly tornadoes out there and an incredible day and we're still worried about more tornadoes. >> you're absolutely right, tamron. it is a beautiful morning, a breezy morning but you can see what's left of the bricker family home. yesterday around this time, they were planning for a birthday party for their 3-year-old grandson. and they were watching all day as the radar was firing up, they were watching their nbc affiliate, kfor, and, of course, their worst nightmares came true. fortunately, they went next door to this home over here where they actually have a storm shelter.

they all piled in. mr. bricker, the elder bricker had to go to his parents' house because the storm shelter was so full. the bad news is we're seeing more of this. we're going to see more of this again today. take a look, here's what's happening. we've got warm, moist air, high dew points. it will be a mess. add to that cold air coming in, a big jet stream moving up on top of that. and as you can see on the futurecast we are going to see storms firing up really getting going later this afternoon on into tonight and monday morning. we have a slight risk stretching from brady, texas, all the way into michigan. we have a strong risk, a strong risk from this area, dallas on into little rock, and parts of central missouri for damaging winds, hail and tornadoes, long-track tornados so we're going to keep you posted and continue to track this during the day today. that's what's going on in good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. taking a live look, beautiful clear sky over san jose. it's going to be a warm one, even warmer than yesterday. plenty of 90s, 96 in fairfield

today. meanwhile you're going to hit the 80s in places like oakland. by tomorrow we all fall into the 70s. much cooler weather moves in. then temperatures are going to remain cool all the way throughout friday of this week. in fact, saturday looking cool as well. finally nudging temps up just in time for sunday and memorial day. hope you have a great monday. >> that's your latest weather. guys, back to you. >> all right, al, we miss you here but nice job over there. when we come back, nat natalie is going to head to the north shore of oahu to try surfing. see if natalie can hang ten >> not so much. >> it got better. we'll meet some of the adventurers behind some of the beautiful and epic photographs. and grammy award winning singer zach johnson takes us on a tour of his hawaii. first this is "today" on nbc. nespresso. where there is an espresso to match my every mood. ♪ where just one touch creates the perfect coffee.

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american adventure." what is trending in hawaii the surf on the south shore. now for those of us who haven't been here before you might have thought this was normal but this is an epic swell. >> what happens normally in the winter the big swells are up north on the north shore. in the summer they switch around to the south so this is the first big swell of summer. it started in tahiti so a lot of the local surfers here jumped on planes, they flew to tahiti, surfed it there and three days later that swell arrived here on the south shore, waikiki beach yesterday and the day before was hopping, and they call these conditions epic. >> we were trying to figure it. i thought we saw 30-foot waves off the shore, three different breaks. this is a surfer's paradise. >> i love those go pro shots. >> topic number two in trending the board of yahoo! has approved a deal to purchase the popular blogging website tumblr for $1.1 billion, an official

announcement could come today. it would be yahoo!'s biggest acquisition since marisa meyer took the reins. more than $1 billion for tumblr. google paid $1.65 billion for youtube seven years ago. facebook paid about $1 billion for instagram so we hope it's money well spent. >> yahoo! has been on a buying freeze and this is her strategy to turn the company around. >> tumblr has 117 million users worldwide. could you say it's a good acquisition. the billboard music awards were last night and the person who ended up cleaning house apparently taylor swift. she won eight awards including top artist and top billboard's 200 albums for "red." she says you are the longest, best relationship i've ever had, addressing the fans. knows how to put it out there. another notable moment of the night when singer miguel took to

the stage,' tempted to jump over the crowd from the stage to the catwalk, he landed on that fan's head. he continues to keep singing, the fan got up, walked ay. >> she didn't look like she was in great shape and another woman stands in her place and miguel thinks she's the one he landed on, he puts his arm around her. we hope the girl he landed on is okay. >> he tweeted out "got caught up in the moment, thank goodness khyati is okay." >> she has a great story to tell. "snl" hadis end of the season and bill hader sent us off with stefon getting married. take a look. >> stefon!

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something. >> that's unbelievable. good for her. our world is made up of four elements, water, fire, earth and air. nowhere else do those elements burst to life like they do right here in hawaii. ♪ oahu, the heart of hawaii, home to honolulu and the waters of waikiki beach. >> different types of surf and waves we have around this island, it can be stormy, and choppy, and dangerous at times, but it can be also big and clean. >> reporter: on any given day these waters of teeming with activity but the ocean is more than a playground. >> the ocean is life. it's a magical place. >> reporter: oahu is the first stop for many visitors to hawaii. the locals say even tourist also never truly leave. >> my parents always taught me a

hawaiian is anyone who walks on our beach, anyone who swims in our water becomes part of our family. perfect day on oahu is tomorrow. ♪ >> reporter: from a thirst for thrills to a destination of discovery. >> many by chance describe everything on the island, the mountains and the wind and the spirit, the spirit of kauai. >> reporter: kauai is the oldest island in the hawaiian chain, known for its lush tropical forests, dramatic cliffs and thought to be the birthplace of hula. >> when we're dancing the hula and describe the ocean, we dip our hands into the water and the sun would be something nice and big and bright. ♪ >> reporter: hula is a form of story telling and the story of kauai is about embracing the senses. from fantasy to fireworks. >> seeing the power down there reminds us that everything in

life really is as it should be. >> reporter: hawaii island, also called the big island s home to mauno loa and kilauea, two of the most active volcanos of the world. >> we call them fingers and toes of lava. it moves slowly, creeps along, instantly changing the landscape. >> reporter: this hawaii island landscape has grown by 500 acres from recent times from these lava flows. >> people think of volcano flows as destructive, but none of this would be here without this incredible power. >> reporter: from the fire down below to the golden glow of skies up above. >> the colors change. banana yellow, lemon yellow. tangerine oranges, and the bottom of your jaw just goes, ooh. yes. this is morning. >> reporter: maui is home to the

volcano haleakala, its literal translation house of the sun. >> i've been up here for 25 years. i have never in all that time seen the same sunrise. >> reporter: visitors come from all over the world to watch this unique sunrise above the clouds. >> the person next to you, you may not know but you will form a new relationship. >> reporter: hawaii, water, earth, fire, air, a place to be challenged, to reflect, to excite, and to renew your spirit. you know the good news is we get to spend a weekend here. the bad news is we could have used a couple of weeks because to get out to the other islands would be amazing but we at least get to see it by videotape. >> water is one we got acquainted with over the weekend. >> about an hour's drive north from here actually is the seven-mile miracle, the north shore, the famed shores for all of those hawaiian surfers, all

the surfers who come from all over the world. i got a chance to try out my own epic adventure. from the big waves at waimai bay to the tube pipeline, oahu's shore made by duke kaha moku and the legendary surfers of the '60s and '70s. race here on sunset beach, freddy is a veteran of the world tour. >> i started when i was 7, my dad loved to surf and it was a father/son thing we could do together. >> reporter: this is where it happened? >> this is where it happened. the north shore is one of the the most iconic places in surfing, they call it the proving ground. >> reporter: freddy says catching a wave can be a spiritual experience. >> the wave you're going to get today no one else will ride ever again, there's no other wave like it so it's kind of like

it's you and something that will no longer exist ever again. >> reporter: every good rider knows surfing start with the right fit and eric arakawa is one of the famous surfboard makers in the biz. >> it gets put in the machine and preshaped and it goes into our shaving room and all of the detail finish work is done by hand. >> reporter: i left ready to catch some waves. carissa are you ready for me? >> i'm excited. we're going to have fun. i'm excited and scared to death. my professional instructor, 20-year-old carissa moore, world surfing chp. >> let's lie down on our stomachs. >> reporter: feet at the edge paddling. >> perfect. >> reporter: can we stay here? >> no, we got to get you up. paddle, paddle, and get up. come on.

nice, nice. that's it. >> reporter: you think i'm ready? are you kidding me? that's it. >> knuckles. >> reporter: okay, knuckles. time to give it a go at the beautiful turtle bay, perfect for this first timer. >> you want this part of the leash to be pointing out. >> reporter: we're going to be good buddies, you and me, surfboard. ♪ ♪ >> i'm so proud of you. >> i swallowed a lot of water but it was fun. >> that's half the fun. if you comment to hawaii you want to bring your camera. this place provides an absolutely breath-taking

backdrop but you have to be adventurous if you want to get shots like those. clark little, c.j. and nick sellway. we have waves over here, lava flows into the water over here. how dangerous is it to capture shots like this? >> we pride ourselves on our stupidity so it's pretty dangerous. >> you're right up close and you go where no one else really goes, right? ? >> we take calculated risks. i've been shooting it for over 16 years. >> i've been doing it for nine years. >> what do you have to do to get a shot like this? >> we wake up with you guys. we're up at 1:00 a.m., we're driving down the road, three hours to the volcano hike up on hour. >> hour average and put us in the position most people don't want to do. >> c.j. you fell into a lava tube once? >> i did. i know the lava fields, pretty dangerous but you know, i

dropped in 20 feet into a lava tube, shattered my ankle. it can happen to anybody, somebody who has been doing it for years. it is dangerous. >> the shots are beautiful. thank you for risking everything so we can see beautiful shots. clark you're shooting waves from inside the waves. how do you do that? >> i have a water housing here and what i do is just use swim fins and as the wave is sucking up and barrelling over i'm holding the trigger trying to get as many shots as i can, facing in the tube. >> and it crashes over you. >> sometimes i get sucked over the pause and get smashed but it's worth it to get the epic shot. >> do you know you've gotten the shot or do you have to wait to get back? >> you get a feeling of it, kind of know that was magic, you go on the computer and zoom in 100% and you know for sure it's a shot. it's a lot of work but it's fun. >> clark, nick and c.j., thank you for showing us your beautiful photographs. >> thank you.

still to come we're doing an authentic traditional luau right here. but first this good monday this morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. no one in the bay area won the powerball jackpot but some did come very, very close. the ticket sold at this 7-eleven hit five numbers in the drawing, missing just the powerball number. while it's not the $590 million jackpot, the ticket will pay out more than $2.3 million. we're told the local winner could claim his or her ticket as soon as today. not too bad. maybe buy a new ride for the roadways. lets check with mike. >> buy a new road. >> looking towards 880 through oakland, slow northbound heading past the coliseum, 580 westbound from the bottom of the screen. the east shore freeway bogged

down. heading to the maze you have monday build kicking in. jump to south bay, northbound route, calming down a bit, except 101 toward capital expressway exiting east toward crystal clear. that intersection has traffic control, vehicle versus bicyclist, has northbound shut down north of capital expressway and one lane eastbound of capital expressway off 101 is down to one lane as well. that's what's causing all the back-up from 101 south. laura garcia-cannon, back to you. >> thank you very much. thank you for joining us as well. another local news update in half an hour. see you then.

♪ 8:30 on a monday morning, day one of our "great american adventure." you have never heard the y yukelele played like that, this is international sensation jay

shikoro, some call him the jimi hendrix of the yukelele. i'm savannah guthrie along with matt lauer and natalie morales. al is covering the tornado in the midwest. >> we put on our aloha shirts here and this is traditional here, it's very appropriate we're wearing them here this morning because we are working and this is what the people here wear to work, this is for a man for example this would be the equivalent of wearing a suit or a sport jacket. >> i kind of like that style. >> the tourists tend to wear bold, flashy ones and the locals tend to wear more subdued ones. >> who wears ones with the "today" show logo on them? >> not a lot of people. >> not very subtle whatsoever. speaking of fashion, coming up some of the aloha style. we'll show you more of what we're wearing but more of a modern twist on some of the traditional hawaiian fashions. >> we'll check in on jack johnson a fantastic musician who

calls this state home and how he gets so much inspiration for the great music he makes. before we get to that can we please bring in the governor of the state of hawaii neil abercrombie. great to see you. >> you are fashion forward. >> thank you very much. you know what got me? williamsville, new york, just outside of buffalo, billsville as my college roommate used to call it. how did you end up in hawaii? >> if you've been in buffalo you know why i'm in hawaii. >> how long have you been here? >> statehood, 1959, fell in love the second i got off the plane just like you guys. >> thank you for hosting us. we hope this is a postcard of everything that the state has to offer. how has business been, tourism been? we know there's been a downturn across the world. >> not in hawaii. hawaii is an adventure, a dream for everybody. >> we're getting ready to experience a tradition aal luau.

>> have a smile on your face and be hungry. >> we'll do that and a little hula dancing. >> oh, yes, you can't miss that. >> shake those hips. >> you will and as i say you're fashion forward now. that shirt that you have on is from an original design more than 50 years ago, everything old is new again, the adventure that hawaii is always will be. >> that wasn't an old joke, was it? i appreciate it, governor, thanks for the welcome. >> thank you very much. aloha. and we have chocolate covered mac da macadamia nuts. many, many thanks. >> mahalo. >> al was here, governor, he sends his apologies, he was here on the weekend and jumped on a plain to talk about the tornados that hit the mid section of the country. 's in oklahoma, al, good morning again. >> good morning guys, yes and again the real miracle here is, given the severity of these storms that covered three

states, there was only one fatality, it's one too many but thankfully just one, 21 injuries. in this subdivision here, shawnee, oklahoma, everywhere you turn there is destruction, homes destroyed one after another and the sad story is that this area the wide swathe is going to be under the gun again today. let's show what you we've got, a strong risk of storms stretching from central oklahoma all the way up into nebraska, wet weather up into the northern plains, east coast is going to be a mess today, the best weather from west texas on into the southwest and the pacific northwest. tomorrow we've got a risk of strong storms from the great lakes to texas, where we don't need to see that, more wet weather but warm weather along the eastern seaboard, wet and cool along the pacific northwest, sunny and hot from the southwest into southern california and hot weather through the lower mississippi river valley into the mid plains. that's what's going on in the countr 8:34.

happy monday. meteorologist christina loren. taking a live look around san francisco. beautiful clear start to the day. last day tomorrow those low clouds moves in, low pressure drops our temps substantially. stay cool every day. if you want warm weather today is the day. 74 san francisco, 81 today in fremont, getting into the next couple of days looks at the difference. we're only going to end up low- to mid-70s inland. stay cool all week and warm you up a touch for sunday. >> guys, we started off with bright blue skies. already clouds are moving in, which is a portend of things to come. most likely i won't join you tomorrow. guys, back to you. >> we understand, al. good luck there. see you later in the week. hopefully you'll be able to join up with us. tomorrow we'll be at yellowstone. take a look right now.

a live look at old faithful, that iconic geyser at yellowstone erupts every 60 to 90 minutes. we're hope it does a couple of types on the air tomorrow. >> >> 7:41. >> i'm saying 8:15. >> that's how it goes tomorrow. that's where we'll be tomorrow. today so much more ahead of us. natalie, are you ready to continue the hula dance. >> i've been doing this all week long. >> we're going to learn what natalie already knows, how to do the hula today on nbc. >> they do it so much better. crystal geyser is always bottled at the mountain source. crystal geyser. crystal geyser. crystal geyser. then we deliver it directly to you.

♪ ♪ i'm yours, pretty girl welcome back to our day one of our great american adventure from oahu here in hawaii in

waikiki beach in the middle of the evening and willie geist has joined us, made the trip in from new york. >> a little late but i'm here. >> you have an aloha shirt. >> glad you're wearing it. i thought they'd have me the only guy in the aloha shirt. >> check out the grass skirts. >> you can't shop hulaing. >> they are the real deal. >> i think they're incredibly flattering. >> they're made with tea leaves. >> nicole thompson is here and will teach us the art of the hula. show us some moves. >> you just swing your hips from side to side. >> oh, yeah. >> should they be wearing pants? >> not traditionally. we teach you to the koholo, it's two steps to your right. >> the guys have to do it, too. >> i have to hold the microphone. >> and two steps to your left. now we can add the hands.

this is called the koholo. >> come on, willie. >> now we can try the kahala. alternating your feet. >> this is called the hela. and the last one, around in a circle. >> this is the one we've been waiting for. >> come on matt, let's see it. >> this is going on the chris mass blooper reel for sure. okay. nice, willie, work it. work it. thank you, nicole. this is kind of addictive. >> put it all together and what do you have? our goal christmas reel. thank you very much. >> thank you, nicole. thank you. >> let's go over here and learn how to play the conch shell. hongi how are you? nice to meet you. this is called what traditionally? >> it's a conch shell but called a pu in hawaii. >> go ahead and blow the pu.

>> first you hold the pu. willie here's your pu. >> very punchy this morning. >> you can hold this? >> sure. >> then what do we do? >> make sure the hole is sticking up, take a deep breath. make sure the hole is facing up, take a deep breath, lips pressed against the opening. >> against the u. >> against the pu, and blow. ready? try to make your lips vibrate. >> willie geist! >> i've got a lot of air. >> see if the girls can do it. you try. >> that's the fattest pu i've ever heard. >> natalie!

i've got no pu'ing ability. people use this during ceremonies? >> common throughout the south pacific, commitment of ceremonies and signal the arrivals of high chiefs. >> you're two miles away. >> yes. >> thank you very much. time for a luau. >> let's go. afasia, let's taste some of the beautiful delicacies. >> traditional luau future, kahlua pig, prepared in an underground oven. not kahlua as in the alcohol, very different. if you try anything, troy the poi. sacred to the hawaiian people. poi is the root of the arrot mashed up with water to a consistency. >> it's an acquired taste i'm told. >> it is. >> you either love it or hate

it. >> ooh, i like it. >> you don't like it with the kahlua pig in there? >> it's really good. i like it a lot. >> a little bit of spice. so the traditional food, sweet potato or waa, that's the kahlukahlu kahlua, and this is laulau, taro leafs, salted pork or chicken prepared in the emu. >> can i try the pork? just dive in here? >> sure. >> all right. >> tell me how that is. >> mmm, really good. >> delicious. >> delicious. >> we have more ahead from hawaii, from waikiki beach, we'll eat more, with he'll drink more, we'll watch them hula more, but first this is "today" on nbc. wow, the track looks perfect.

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professionals moroccan infusion. >> welcome back to "today" in hawaii, and this morning on "today's style" we have fashion with the aloha spirit and crystal is here, based here in hawaii and knows everything about the fashions. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you're going to show us some of the styles of the island. >> yes. >> what do we have first? >> we have so many things going on in the big pineapple, so many, i mean we are going to have everything made of aloha. everything in hawaii that you lov love, eternal summer. we don't just live in grass skirts and run around barefoot. we have fashion here and we'll talk about so many different things. hawaii is known as the international shopping mecca of the world. >> we have anna and joe. >> this is basically we're taking traditional hawaiian wear, appreciating our history but really just changing it with a modern twist. anna is wearing a beautiful

aloha print but it's with a beautiful fabric from tori richards a one-shoulder maxi. we her earrings and check out her cuff another edge and her shoe is like a nice ankle strap the summer shoe of the season. you can run on the beach f you wear slippers, go barefoot, pack it up and travel. >> joe is wearing? >> he's the man of hawaii, this is another shirt by toya richards and basically this is a vintage inspired aloha shirt. pick a fit that fits just right, paired it with chino's a pop of color with print, fedora hat. >> traveling in style. >> travel with aloha. heidi looks so adorable. this is our marilyn monroe romper, so versatile for summer,

polka dot remines me of puka shells and she has a white blazer and kicked with off with a travel tote. nothing says summer than nautical print, neon and island accessories to give her that travelwear. >> thank you. >> fun with aloha. we have savannah, hailey and joaquin. >> it's all about ohana, about the family and different things to do in hawaii. for savannah it's totally the norm to wear a swimsuit all day and night, that tank is a dress so you could wear that as a coverup and a cute aloha print, floral short and a cute afterup which is sheer, she can take it to dinner, take it off, floppy hat and great beach back. hailey is our really cute beach

girl, this is a local made local boutique versatile swimsuit. you can wear it four ways in one. we call it slippers in hawaii, not flip-flops. when the girls are going out shopping and having a day out it's all about golf. golfing in paradise, we're known for the aloha stony open so joaquin is wearing a pop of color and everything here and wearing a great belt to modernize that. >> models, thank you, you look great. coming up we'll catch up with jack johnson but first this is "today" on nbc.

♪ we're back now on day one of our "great american adventure." we got here and found out zinger jack johnson has performed around the world but you know what? this is the place he calls home and this is the place where he finds inspiration for his music. take a look. ♪ jack johnson is in his hawaii recording studio and in his element. >> every album except for my very first one i recorded in here. >> reporter: he's giving us an exclusive preview of one of his new songs from his upcoming album. ♪ back when all my little goals seemed so important ♪

♪ >> reporter: hawaii is home for jack johnson. he was born and raised here, and now he and his wife, kim, raise their children here, too. >> the neat thing about hawaii is that you pretty much spend all your time outside, you just need a house to sleep pretty much and a lot of time out in nature. oh, wow, i hit the jackpot today. >> reporter: for jack time in nature is time well spent. >> protect the land, protect the ocean, protect what's righteous. if you live here it's all about giving back and making sure you're working together as a community to keep it a beautiful place. >> reporter: that's one of the missions of jack johnson's foundation called the kokua hawaii foundation t supports environmental education in hawaii's schools and communities. >> we are out here in a garden learning that food doesn't come straight from the supermarket, right? where does it come from? >> garden. >> gardens and farms. >> reporter: jack credits his wife for focusing his attention on projects like this.

>> if it wasn't for her, i would just be surfing right now. >> what's really neat about this program is it is entrenched in the school community. >> reporter: and it's not just in schools that jack's passion for the environment can be seen. it extends all over hawaii. >> right now we're standing in one of my favorite places on oahu farms. you meet the kids working the fields and also getting scholarships to go to college. you come here and see this is the solution. you see the answers when you come here. it's a positive place. from here all the food they harvested today is going to town restaurant, we're going to go in there and have a nice meal. >> reporter: literally from farm to table. >> looks good. >> it better be good. >> this is all from stuff you folks harvested today. >> a hard day's work. >> reporter: whether making a difference or making music, this is jack johnson's hawaii, and it's his home. ♪ when tomorrow's too much, i'll

carry it all, i got you ♪ >> i love that. well speaking of music jake shiabukuro is a yukelele master. every description calls you the jimi hendrix of yukelee, do you get tired of that? >> no, no. definitely not. i have a lot of fun with it, i love exploring different styles of music, started off playing traditional hawaiian music and went off to rock, jazz, classical, a little bit of everything. >> start to play more so people can hear what you can make that instrument do. >> this is the traditional hawaiian music, but you can also -- ♪ >> "freebird."

>> you can have a lot of fun. >> you have a new little baby at home. >> i do. he's not watching, he's probably sleeping. >> i thought these were baby hours, up all night. you're going to teach him i guess how to play as well? >> hopefully when he gets older. >> take it away. >>forget the lesson, will you do us a favor and play us out of this hour? all right, here we go. ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ not a bad way to start the morning. welcome to "today" on this monday morning, may the 20th, 2013 and welcome to hawaii, the first day of our five-day, five-location "great american adventure." i'm willie geist along with natalie morales. you've already been having fun hula dancing. >> i've been having fun, eating. >> drinking. >> surfing. canoeing. we've done it all. you were in tennessee yesterday and hawaii today. >> i know. >> quite a turn. >> i was at a wedding to are a good friend of mine, a long planned wedding and i got in here last night. it's a travesty to be in hawaii for 12 hours. >> at least you're here and you

get to sample some of the fineries of hawaii. >> al was here but obviously some big news happening in the midwest as tornado blowing through oklahoma, he's there this morning. >> more weather expected as well. >> more weather as well. al, good morning to you. what's the latest there? >> well, guys the latest is that people are on edge because we're looking for a repeat of what everybody here saw yesterday happening again today. three states under the gun yesterday, the tornado warnings went up, and people were hunkering counsel. we've been talking about this since last week that there was going to be a massive outbreak over the weekend, and in fact, this is the bricker family home, they were planning birthday party for their 3-year-old grandson and sirens went off and they beat, they hightailed it over to their neighbors because these folks don't have tornado shelter. these folks do, about nine people crammed into a small tornado shelter, the dad, mr. bricker, headed down to his parents' house, and he hunkered

down there. so in fact take a look. this is what the radar looked like yesterday, if folks were watching the weather channel or their local nbc affiliate kfor, you can see these storms making their way across a tri-state area of oklahoma, kansas and nebraska, causing big problems and again as we said, one person killed, but while one person is still a tragedy it could have been a lot worse. people were prepared for this. the problem now is we have a setup for the same kind of weather again today. here's what you've got, you've got a lot of warm, moist air ahead of a cold front coming in. you've got a dry line that sets things up, cold front back behind that with this extremely potent jet stream that starts the rotation and getting everything together. if you'll take a look at the futurecast, you can see where we see these storms setting up again and it's just about maybe a little further to the east of where it was, but places like

sha shawnee, oklahoma city, still cannot be ruled out. here's what we have as far as the risk is concerned, from brady, texas, all the way in to michigan we have a risk of strong storms including chicago and st. louis, but then we have a strong risk of storms stretching from northern texas, just to the north of dallas, all the way through much of oklahoma, on into arkansas and parts of missouri, and again, that's going to be the big problem. we're staying here, i know i'm supposed to join you guys at yellowstone tomorrow but with the threat of this severe weather we're staying here so that we can monitor this and whatever happens we can bring it to you both on the weather channel and of course tomorrow morning on "today". guys, back to you. >> all right, we'll miss you, al, but you're doing great work and you take care there. we'll check back in, in a little bit as well. >> give our best to the folks in oklahoma al, thanks so much. we want to turn and get a little culture in hawaii.

i didn't realize how big coffee is in hawaii. >> it's delicious, too. you haven't had a chance to to your kona chance. >> now i'm getting that chance. sean steinman joins with us a look, it's hawaii's biggest frappe. what are we looking at here? >> you get the molakai. these are from a little farm. >> what makes hawaiian coffee so good, the way they roast the bean, the actual bean itself? >> it's a little bit of everything. everything from growing it well to caring for it on the road to where it's brewed in your cup. >> what is it about hawaii so good for growing and cultivating it? >> we have the temperature conditions, we have the resources to really care for the trees well. and like all places that grow coffee we have a strong passion. >> are there a lot of coffee producers? >> it's one of our biggest industries, over 800 farms. >> so coffee in hawaii is one of

the biggest, right? >> they're pretty big operation. they were one of the first farms to sort of rejuvenate our industry. >> it's very smooth, not bitter at all. >> good coffee shouldn't be bitter. >> sean thank you so much. >> very good. >> we wanted to come back with souvenirs, we have a lot of people -- >> these are traditional things you would have to bring back. >> there's a lot of kitch and stereotypes but this is the cooler stuff. >> these are the handmade quilts and apparently it's a real art form here, people really grow one these on their beds. they have them throughout their homes and they're just so well done as you can see. it's a different form of quilting than what we see on the mainland. >> this is koa wood, a beautiful hardwood in hawaii, exclusive to here and it was first used for monarchs to build their furniture and castles and this is beautiful stuff to bring home. >> also you cannot leave hawaii

without one of these, the little hula girls. that's a must. >> you get that right on the dashboard when you get home to new jersey. >> and the edibles, have you had the cookies yet here? >> no. >> from honolulu cookie company. >> i need to get in there. >> shortbread with pineapple in the middle, unbelievable, you eat one and you don't stop there. >> you have the dry roasted m macadamia nuts. and fine gift box. we should sweep up the table and bring it home to our people. >> now you know, one thing that you've missed out on, willie, because you haven't had a chance to enjoy the weekend here, the mai tais. >> do we have the mai tais. >> the drink of hawaii and we have with us -- >> kui. >> how are you? >> thank you, now we're talking. >> now from the coffee to the mai tai, cheers, willie. welcome to hawaii. >> thank you. i noticed when i checked into the hotel there was a half made mai tai.

>> waiting for you? >> for every guest. all you have to do is add the booze to it. >> what goes into a mai tai? it's different than the mainland. >> for sure, you think about the mai tai bar, with he make the best in the world. basically it's a white rum, orange orange liquer and fresh squeezed juice. >> do you recommend drinking them at this hour? >> probably. >> they're still going at this hour, the mai tai drinking is happening. >> it's 12:00 somewhere. >> a nice white cap. it's really good. >> but not too sweet. i love it, well done. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> nicely done. >> delicious, delicious. that's my kind of welcome to hawaii. >> there you go. >> we want to get a look at some of the other top stories, a lot going on. for that we turn it back to new york tamron hall. >> hi, willie and natalie and everyone. the white house is still trying to tamp down the irs scandal.

senior adviser insisted president obama did not know about the irs targeting of conservative groups until it came out in the news. an official confirms the chief white house lawyer knew weeks ago that an audit would likely show that agency employees had taken part in that targeting. convicted killer jodi arias is expected to take the stand this week as the phoenix jury that convicted her decides if she should be put to death for murdering her ex-boy frebd. today attorneys present witnesses to testify on arias' behalf. "iron man" lost his grip in the box office. "star trek into the darkness" took the spot with more than $70 million. "iron man 3" fell to second place and "the great gatsby" in third place and taylor swift scooped up eight trophies as she dominated last night's billboard

awards in vegas. and prince received the billboard icon award and celebrated by performing a medley of his hits "let's go crazy" and the new one "fix your life." another big winner justin bieber took home the milestone and top male artist. before taking the stage justin made a special appearance at a smaller venue to support a cause close to his heart. here's nbc's mara schiavocampo. >> reporter: with legions of belieber, justin bieber is adored around the world. >> what's up, how are you doing? >> reporter: including these young fans at an elementary school in las vegas. >> don't cry. how are you? >> reporter: bieber paid a surprise visit to the school on friday, packing food donations and handing it out to students. >> what's up, man? i'm teaming up with conagra foods to fill the food banks in america. my mom and i went to food banks

to being to help out now has been amazing. >> reporter: bieber also pledged to fill the school's food pantry over the next year. >> oh, god. >> reporter: giving back is a big part of what happens at this school every day. in addition to meeting the educational needs of nearly 600 students, principal sherry gahn provided many of the children and the families with the necessities, from food to medicine and housing. all thanks to funds donated by individuals and companies from around the world. >> they're struggling every day. we have basic survival needs here. justin bieber coming means a lot. these kids get to see that someone really important to them believes in them. >> come on! >> reporter: this is a change of pace for bieber, who has been in the not so shiny spotlight recently while touring across europe and he's hoping his fans continue to believe in him. >> i know who i am and i know about my music and i just want to make people happy and you know, media can say what they

want to say but again i rise above it all. listen to the principal and the teachers and always try your best in school. thank you. >> reporter: for "today," mara schiavocampo, nbc news, new york. >> wow. it's 11 minutes after the hour. let's go back to natalie and willie in honolulu and after seeing justin bieber hug those kids i'm officially a belieber. that was sweet. i like that guy, now. >> he always gives back to the fans. tamron, thanks so much. let's go back to al roeker in shawnee, oklahoma w another check of your weather. >> thanks so much. what's been really interesting and this is what makes america great all these folks whose homes have been destroyed like the brickers here and the folks next door there has been a steady stream of people. take a look right there, people showing up, friends, neighbors, volunteers, coming up with plastic bins to go in and help see what they can salvage of what has become a disaster for

these folks and a lot of folks in and around this area. and one of the reasons why we're seeing such severe weather the temperature differences, the jet stream is the big divider, and as you look at what we've got for today, the eastern half of the country very warm, way above normal and back to the west we've got colder air. in fact in the east, syracuse today up to 80 degrees, that's 11 degrees above normal. chicago 85. 12 degrees above normal. nashville getting up to 90 but then you go to the other side of the jet stream, and you've got temperatures in the 50s and 60s, anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees below normal and that's going to be a big problem. that's what's going on in the country. here's what's happening 9:12, happy monday. i'm meteorologist christina loren. what a beautiful start. breezy, winds pick up more so through tuesday. cool on shore winds. temperatures going to drop by 15

to 20 degrees from today's high. 80 in fremont today. 81 that's it for you. as we head through the next couple of days, temperatures will drop off. low 70s friday through saturday, climbing on sunday. your latest weather. natalie, willie, back to you guys. >> all right, al, thanks a lot. we'll check back in with you in a little while. when we come back to waikiki beach we'll look at some of the hawaiian traditions. you'll be glad to know that are alive and well. and a lesson how to play the ukulele, from the man, the champ. first we'll be back after this. new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain.

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♪ together we could make some memories ♪ welcome back to waikiki beach and our "great american adventure." there's a rich cultural tradition. believe it or not about 30 years ago the native hawaiian language was almost extinct but today there's a big push for a return to all the great traditions. the tourists come for the breath-taking vistas but for the early hawaiians the land is respected with an almost spiritual reverence and nothing shows off that spirit more than the ancient dance of hula. ♪ >> it expresses all that we hear, see, smell, taste, touch and feel. hula is life. >> reporter: but that tradition has largely been pushed aside in

the hustle and bustle of modern day island life. which is why it's more important than ever for the old to teach the young. >> relying on the help of our ancestors that are no longer here in the physical sense is just a part of everyday life for us. >> reporter: fish ponds were once designed to supply a steady supply of fish, making sure the tradition conditions today. >> they saw something 800 years ago and they were innovative enough to create these forms of traditional aqua culture. >> reporter: farms like this show a new generation how to harvest and pound poi, a purple paste made from the taro root, a staple from the hawaiians to are far healthier than the ones of today. >> the rate of hawaiians is more than double the rest of the

nation. we've seen it shift from the traditional hawaiian diet to the traditional western diet which is full of processed foods. >> reporter: lost are the skills the ancient hawaiians made in art form. voyaging and navigating by the stars was mostly in the mind of the elders, until now. >> if you don't learn it, you can't pass it down to anybody. >> reporter: traditional voyaging classes like this keep history alive and the hawaiian language as well. less than 1% of the population can speak native hawaiian fluently. immersion schools are trying to change that. >> it's really the rhythm, the sound of our earth, of our ocean and how we as a people connect to these species. ♪ >> reporter: if you know where to look, the past is very present out here in the middle of the pacific, the islands may be surrounded by water, but it's the love of the land that keeps that hawaiian spirit afloat.

and now we're going to get a chance, natalie to pound poi ourselves. daniel anthony is an expert. what do we have? >> we wanted to go through the process of how our sacred taro becomes poi. lot of people have questions, what is this piece, where does it come from. >> that's the root. >> this is a tube root, all of waikiki used to be and taro patches, this is the bredbasket of our island. >> after you boil it, it's peeled off. >> peeled off. the clean taro is separated into two types of beat and so what we have here is we have a little bit of the sweeter type. >> like a sweet potato. >> that's good. >> and then we have a little bit of starch, put that back down there and what you're seeing is basically the steak and the hamburger. so we separate that. >> interesting. >> where does the banana leaf come in? >> the banana leaf is just for

show. this is what we use to wrap it in order to take it on long voyages. >> people feed babies this, right? >> people definitely feed babies. >> high protein. >> we want to see you work your magic. >> all right, let me give you a sample. >> show us how you pound it. >> try a one-finger poi on the way there. >> this is the art of pounding poi, natalie. >> you talk about mixing it. >> wow. >> north to mix it, you take the pounded taro and begin to add water to it. >> daniel, how do you know when it's ready? >> that's a lot of muscle that goes into. >> it you imagine our ancestors are making 500 million pounds of this a year. >> wow. >> so the water is pounding. >> it's like a waist almost, right? >> it starts off much thick ears a gel and it goes into, how is

that, pretty sticky? >> good, very quickie. >> paired with something salty or sweet. >> this is hard physical labor, though, this is no joke. you're working. >> yeah. >> look at his muscles. >> the lifestyle of this keeps you in shape. the eating of it helps to fuel your body. you look at the last greatest sports player that ate fish and poi, big kahana muku. >> thank you, daniel. >> pounding poi with daniel. we're back after this. ♪ when it comes to pizza crust, i like to do things... ♪ ...by hand. so tonight, things might get a little messy. ♪ [ chuckles ] ♪ that's nice. so, i'm gonna take my time and do it right. oops. let's get zesty.

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welcome back now. the time is 9:28. taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. a lot of pedestrians out here. beautiful day. the city of san francisco, close to 75 the forecast. look at the numbers right now. already very comfortable out there. a warm day. tomorrow temperatures drop like a rock. if you're looking for beach weather, you get one more day before the thick fog rolls back on shore. as we head through tomorrow, 91 in livermore, 74 san francisco. getting into the next couple days, there's that cooldown. your full forecast in a couple minutes. check that drive with mike. >> tough one on the peninsula, folks. look at this shot. this is university avenue area of 101. northbound on the opposite side

heading away towards willow just north of this camera range we have a crash involving a motorcycle blocking one lane. look at the slow drive. getting off dumbarton, heading towards 101 backed up as well. surface streets. both directions, new krsh on the southbound side. into palo alto also a factor. use 280 instead of that. meanwhile south bay while traffic on the freeway starts to clear up a bit as laura told you, east capital expressway at silver creek we still have the investigation. they are going to close down the intersection, laura. back to you. >> sadly a cyclist was killed there. another news update in half an hour. we'll see you then.

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welcome back to "today" live from hawaii from waikiki beach, day one of our "great american adventure." not everybody can pull that off. >> could you do that? >> i got to get in the gym for a few months before i can think about doing anything like that. very cool to have the royal hawaiian hotel. tomorrow as we continue our great american adventure we'll be at yellow stone national park camping out under the stars and wednesday we head to chicago, thursday on to orlando and friday we finish up at the jersey shore joined by governor chris christie and have a live performance by the band fun. i'm willie geist along with natalie morales. coming up this half hour we're going to help you plan your trip to hawaii all five of the major islands that you want to visit, we'll get you the best places to go if you're planning to come to hawaii. >> fish is a staple when you come here to hawaii so we'll get a cooking lesson from none other than the chef of this iconic royal hawaiian hotel where we've been staying.

he'll show us how to make black magic ahi. >> al has been in oklahoma where the tornadoes touched down yesterday and expecting mo more severe weather today. >> good morning, guys. it's heartbreaking. we talk about this but the human toll on this when you see a family's life just kind of torn apart literally, literally torn apart and they're trying to pick up the pieces and salvage what they can as the bricker family yesterday at this time they were planning a birthday party for their grandson and today they're trying to salvage what they can from their lives. let's show you what we've got. we're looking again at more severe weather in this same area. we've got a risk of strong storms from oklahoma into parts of nebraska and mama, wet weather in the plains, east coast looks wet, too, plenty of sunshine out west. tomorrow still a risk of strong

storms from texas all the way on up into wisconsin and michigan, cool rainy weather through the western plains, cool in the pacific northwest. the warm weather continues in the east but it stays wet up and down the eastern seaboard, plenty of sunshine in the southwest on into central and monday.n californi good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. we have major changes headed our way over the next 24 hours. today's highs are going to be in the 90s in places like livermore. tomorrow only ending up in the 70s. just want to make sure you're ready for that. summer like weather right back to fall as we head through tuesday. 91 on the way to livermore, 96 today. from tripl digits in fairfield. tomorrow low 70s. we hold onto that cooldown all the way through friday. sunday starting to warm you up, 75 degrees. hope you have a great day. >> and that's your latest weather. hail, hail, the gang's all there. back to you guys. >> not all the gang. we miss you, al.

>> al, thanks so much. we'll check back in with you. you can't come to hawaii without hearing ukulele music, the signature sound of these islands and we have with us -- >> the master. >> the jimi hendrix n the presence of a hawaiian great. >> oh, no, thank you. >> jake, what are you going to teach us. you have your work cut out for you.. >> savannah plays the guitar. >> "the lion sleeps tonight" first one, two chords. ring finger and second you add in. >> strumming pattern on the second. >> strum one four times. ring, one, two, three, four, index, two, three, four, ring, two, three, four. here we go. ♪ in the jungle, the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight ♪ >> i don't know the words. ♪ blah, blah, blah, da, da, da, da ♪

♪ the lion sleeps tonight ♪ ooh >> do the oweemawep. ♪ ♪ ooh, ooh >> they know it. i feel like jimi hendrix! >> all right! [ cheers and applause ] >> well done, jake. >> jake, what are the challenges of playing this versus the guit guitar. >> the guitar has six strings and the ukulele only has four. i tell people it's the ipad of instruments because you can take it on t plane, you can hike with it. it's so portable and the best thing about being a ukulele player audiences all over the world have no expectations of you. no girls in ukulele. >> jake shimabukuro, thanks so much. we'll be right back to tell you where you should stay when you visit hawaii, right after this.

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♪ welcome back to the royal hawaiian hotel in waikiki beach, hawaii as we continue our "great american adventure" day one. there is so much to see and do not just on the island of oahu where we are but across the hawaiian islands so we thought we'd give you a taste of what you can expect as you visit each one. brian brusch is a travel expert and expert on all things hawaii. >> thank you. >> is this a good time to come to hawaii? >> this is a great time, it's fortuitous time. we have 30,000 less people on the island, it's pretty nice for getting around and seeing things and you know, the temperature doesn't vary too much.

>> let's go through the islands. you can give us a snapshot of each. start where we are in oahu. what makes this unique and special? >> oahu is informally known as the gathering place and i tell people this is the one island where morning you can find a private cove or a secluded beach where you're the only one on the beach, lunch time get yourself to like a world class gallery or museum and in the evening have dinner at a james spirited awarded restaurant. >> there's a lot going on in terms of population, almost 1 million people on the island alone. >> exactly. >> another popular destination is maui. >> absolutely. >> is that an adventuresome place? >> outdoors. >> you see a lot there. >> maui draws the far more adventurous. there's a family-friendly part further down the way, wailea which is luxury, the upcountry theme is exploding, a lot of hiking, rain forest, back country kind of stuff, mountain

biking, the haleakala sunrise tours. it's fun. >> another one we heard of because of julia roberts, people like that have places, kauai. why is that unique? >> kauai has one road that skirts the entire perimeter of the island. it's a secure and hunkered down place, a little bit further away from the other islands so the celebrities like the security and the safety of being able to kind of be, you know, exclusively -- >> a beautiful place even if you're not rich and famous. >> of course. >> the big island, natural wonders, if you like volcanos that's the place to be. >> it's an island that's literally growing. you see the lava and i interviewed somebody the other day who is from there and he said the first time he saw snow was when he was 30, went up to mauna kea, snow covered and molten lava and nine different climate zones. there's no shortage of stuff. >> and lanai, what do you expect

there? >> it's spectacular. lot of the locals that live here tend to take a weekend there. very secluded, two but tibeautil resorts, very quiet and peaceful, tranquil. >> you can't go wrong with all five. >> it's great, each one has a distinct personality so there's something for everybody everywhere in hawaii. >> we feel lucky to be here. brian thanks so much. appreciate it. >> thank you, it was conwe fewo. >> when we come back we'll get tooking with one of high's top ch efz. loaded with protein 0% fat that thick creamy texture, i was in trouble. look i'm in a committed relationship with activia and i've been happy and so has my digestive system. now i'm even happier since activia greek showed up because now i get to have my first love and my greek passion together, what i call a healthy marriage.

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home. since opening its doors in 1927 the royal hawaiian has attracted influential visitors to the island of oahu. >> people from everywhere were aware of this magnificent, new resort and it was pink. >> reporter: president franklin delano roosevelt stayed here so did a little girl who was a big star. ♪ on the good ship lollipop >> reporter: shirley temple. >> the story is told at our famous mai tai bar the shirley temple was created just for her. >> reporter: during world war ii the royal hawaiian became a rest and relaxation center for navy personnel and saw a resurgence when it reopened in 1947. today the royal hawaiian remains an icon on the waikiki shoreline giving visitors a modern line experience with old world charm. >> they feel that spirit, that spirit of aloha.

>> and joining us now is jean matsuraba, executive chef here at the royal hawaiian. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is early for you, thank you. what are some of the staples of what would be more are traditional or hawaiian inspired food? >> we try to use the local products, fish from pier 38 and bringing in great products and working with the local producers to really put together some more modern fare, take classic cuisine. >> there's a fish option every day. >> absolutely, checking in and getting the best product and making sure that the fish comes in absolutely fresh. >> i love the name of your first dish, black magic ahi. how could you not order that. >> the black magic ahi is a special spice blend that comes up with cajun spices. i was working in tabla in new york city, indian spices and furikaki, a traditional local spice, we'll put that on the ahi

and stir it up. it's a combination of different spices. before that i have a special treat for you. >> this is the intergalactic. >> the intergalactic vessel to clear your palate with. >> pop rocks. i haven't had those since ten. >> a palate cleanser? >> yes. we do that right before you have your meal. wakes you. . >> it's intergalactic. >> we call it intergalactic. >> popping away. >> are you saying that's gourmet cuisine? >> cook something supposed to be fun. >> it is fun. >> oh, my. >> are you popping over there, nat in. >> it's still going, right? >> it's still going. okay. >> we're going to sear it up. >> you put the spice rub on it? >> we'll put the spice rub on it. who can help me. >> willie is great. >> willie will work chopping the opa and herbs. we'll get the ahi started and we're just going to put the special rub in.

you can chop it as fine as you want. we'll put it in and mix it with shallots and tomatoes. i'll sear this off quickly. >> you want it kind of rare. it's a nice sear on the top. >> it's a beautiful product. you don't want to do too much to it. so we're going to sear it off a little bit rare and we have some scallops working also and we have some beautiful mushrooms with some, wrapped in prosciutto. and i have herbs wrapped up in the -- >> willie is making the moon fish. >> we have opa. >> that's just here in hawaii. >> in the hawaiian waters, it's a special fish, very beautiful, very nutritional, high in omega threes. >> tomatoes, perfect. >> it's also sustainable. >> these go in here, all of

this? i'm just assuming all this goes in. >> he puts in everything. >> i'm dumping everything in a bowl. we have 30 seconds left and i understand there's a big presentation you want to make. >> let's get to it. we'll try after. >> so we're going to -- >> there's fish in ice. >> we're going to chop up the opa, smoke it out, put some beautiful chips in. and we have our special -- >> oh there's power equipment. >> does it involve pop rocks, too? >> you know, with he try to have -- >> tell me something's going to explode here. >> we try to have a lot of fun. cooking should be fun. we take the opa and we brine it and smoke it. >> you're smoking it now. >> we smoke it to order and it's smoked ahead of time so when it

comes to the table we drop and we train the waiters to really move the smoke. it's kind of a bells and whistles thing but people love it. you actually have this beautiful sustainable fish, very delicious product. >> chef john matsubara, thank you, delicious. thank you very much. >> we'll be back. this is "today" on nbc >> ma hallow.

our thanks to all the wonderful people in hawaii. we are heading off to our next destination, yellowstone. see you tomorrow. >> after eating pop rocks. out of this world! >> that is good. >> water to it. ♪

♪ we don't have a ten step filtering process for our water. we don't need it. because crystal geyser is made by nature, not by man. crystal geyser is always bottled at the mountain source. good morning to you. it is 9:56. i'm marla tellez. a chp officer injured while working at the amgen tour in california is still hospitalized but doing well.

he was hurt saturday afternoon doing traffic control. the officer was on a motorcycle ahead of the pack of cyclists when a car turned in front of him and they collided. one of the baby falcons at san jose city hall was found dead this weekend. the one-month-old bird crashed into the side of the building on its way back to the nest a passerby found the bird on the sidewalk yesterday morning. bird experts found part of the pigeon where the falcon fell. experts say the falcon may have been in the process of taking a midair food delivery to its mother when it crashed. a warm start to your workweek. lets look at the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> hey, thanks, marla. it's going to be a warm day only to be followed by cooler weather as we progress throughout the next 48 hours, temperatures will tumble. the last day to hit the beach comfortable, 81 in fremont, 75 on the way to san francisco. once this stun starts to drop off, giants back in town at&t park 62 degrees for tonight's game as they take on the

nationals. getting into the upcoming week, temperatures will stay cool. we'll be in the 70s all the way through friday. then by sunday starting to warm you up just a touch. check on that drive, good morning, mike. >> good news, bad news, look to palo alto northbound coming toward us. we do see a little slowing. ofrl on the maps, see things are much better than half hour ago. crash at willow cleared, so have disturbances toward redwood city. chp report, there is a wir9z down, 101 hillsdale, san mateo, expect slowing there. likely traffic control arriving on that scene. meanwhile south bay looking good. scattered intsz on the shoulders for 880. oakland clearing out nicely. back to you. >> mike, thanks. we'll be back with our next local news update at 10:26. we'll see you then.

from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. ♪ if i could turn back time >> all we have to say is -- thank you. >> and happy birthday to cher, she's 67 years old today. >> she's had her coconuts done a few times, that's why those coconuts still look darn, darn good. >> in mine in reality are way down here. >> i'm just sipping and that's where mine are, that's sad.

i'm doing it because the rest of the today show, we're the only ones left behind. >> why? >> because it would be nothing but trouble if we went on the road. they wanted to minimize the things that could go wrong, so they left the two things that could go wrong, at home. fine. >> this is called a lava flow. it's got, it's half pina colada and half strawberry daiquiri. >> i don't think you can have it, hoda? >> what's in a pina colada. >> who cares. >> hoda, you can't be doing that. because your dog's already got the runs. you don't need it, too. >> for four days. can i tell you something? it's really gross and sad. >> it's motherhood, get over it. >> gosh, that's delicious. >> it's fantastic. >> so back to blake and his stomach issues. he was eating the food i've been eating him, and he must have eaten the junk off the street.

i grab it, i try to get it out,s mouth. he got really sick. so not really sick, he just has diarrhea. and it's not great walking your dog in the rain. because -- >> with diarrhea. >> and it rained all weekend. and i'm telling him to go. >> very hard to clean up, which your neighbors appreciate. >> i'm giving him some stuff and someone said put a little quarter of pepcid ac into his food. >> i know it's white rice and chicken. as long as he still has an appetite, you're good. >> how was your weekend? you know how mine was. >> my weekend was great, my son came home for a while, i'm so excited to see him. the trouble was when we went -- we picked up some chinese food last night in our neighborhood. not my favorite place, his favorite place. because mom's general tsao chicken is so much better. so i had a taste of it, cold noodles, which i don't like. i like my noodles the way i like my men -- hot.

so i was fine, i go to bed early, sleeping, tired. and all the allergies and everything that are happening. and 11:00 last night i wake up, i had msg poisoning. i know. it was -- have you guys ever had. frank was fine. cody was fine. but joanne, do you mind? joanne, do you mind? because it's cher's birthday does not mean that -- >> we're fine with that, i'm sure it's important. >> i'm telling you, i thought i was going to die. what's it called when you get that -- >> anaphylactic, when your throat closes up, your nose closes up. you think you can't get air to breathe. and i'm still, i'm on benadryl. >> but you feel better than last night. >> i thought they outlawed msg. >> maybe you're allergic to something else, maybe it's cody. >> good news if you live in florida. >> zepher hills florida, 30

miles outside ever tampa. somebody walked into a publix, bought a ticket and now is a zillionaire. >> the highest jackpot in history, $550 million. >> i guess after taxes, it's only $23 million. >> i didn't realize it's not after taxes. a smart man said that's just what the lottery gets, and on the 360, you pay taxes. i never heard that before. and peter knows it. our photographer, who knows really nothing at all is saying yes. so -- he knows how to take a statistics, let's be honest. >> let's talk about the billboard awards last night. if you watched -- >> that was cruel. >> it's true. peter knows that. >> if you watched the billboard awards last night, you got quite a show. first of all, there were bells and whistles and fireworks and taylor swift won all the awards, it was great. and then there were the moments that stood out. >> there aays ar

>> madonna received the award for top touring artist and she wasn't wearing pants in her acceptance speech. >> when does she wear pants. >> let's watch and hear a little of the her speech. >> it took longer to negotiate whether i could show my [ bleep ] in that trailer, than it did to rehearse for my tour. a lot of [ bleep ] negotiations. anyway, they obviously think i'm shorter than i am and i'm not happy about that. they say, thank you, will, by the way. >> and i'll also take off my pretentious sunglasses. it's good that i have will here to hold all my props, thanks. >> wow. >> you can see a little bit of that speech. >> that was interesting. >> she seems so grateful. >> you know -- when you've been

blessed enough to be at her age, the number one touring -- still in the country, still kicking it, still, you know, i don't go to madonna concerts she not my cup of tea. she's no paul anka. who is on our show today. she should, of all people, be extraordinarily grateful and she doesn't seem grateful at all. >> it was an unusual speech. the no pants theme was going around. >> i heard, certain people got carried away. j. lo had no pants and she had on thigh-high boots that were -- you'll see. >> oh! okay! >> anyway, what was happening there. >> my mother -- my mother would absolutely die. >> here's justin bieber's pants were hanging down. >> they're all multimillionaires, can't they afford some underwear. >> nicki minaj, she was doing some kind of gyration on someone. anyway, there was a lot of that going on. by the way, there were great

performances, we should point out. bruno mars killed it. >> i'm sorry. >> he's so talented. >> can we see a little of that? please? ♪ ♪ ♪ girl i'm going to show you the way i'm mine all mine ♪ >> here it comes. >> what? >> that's all you get. >> i love bruno mars, he's great. we didn't get to see them then. >> hold on. >> some people were saying a lot of the artists were lip-syncing at the billboard music awards. >> stop it! >> yes. >> one girl who was not lip-syncing was the one who was thinking the national anthem at the hockey game. did you see that? >> we should tee it up. >> her name is alexis norman. she went to the memorial hockey cup game in canada.

she said no, you're singing the canadian and american anthem. >> she has an excuse not to know the words, but not that much. >> let's watch. ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous night ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ at the dawn's early light ♪ were so ever we saved and the dawn light ♪ ♪ and the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ the land was still there >> oh! [ laughter ]

>> that is so awful. >> what do you do if you're a seasoned performer. you say the obvious -- obviously i don't know it, so let's sing it, people. if she hadn't had done that, it wouldn't have been so funny. >> i'm going to cry. >> that was so good. >> that was perfect. >> i did it at the super bowl, you know that. >> until you -- i did it fine. but there was another time where i was doing it, in a big professional -- i think it was in vegas, a big basketball thing. and i didn't -- i didn't forget the words, but i was singing it a cappella. because nobody sings it like that except for neil sedaka. so anyway, i forgot where i was in the song. but i forgot what was next. so i just went -- and then i remembered it and people came up to me and said after, i loved that, that dramatic pause you

took. before you -- fake them out. if you don't know it, either be really honest about it, but the fact that she started over again and then just fell apart -- >> poor thing. >> god bless her. >> what's your favorite thing, this monday. >> besides you, hoda-woman? >> yes. >> i've got two. first of all, one of my favorite people in the whoeld world is david friedman, who wrote "scandalous" with me, along with david pomerance. he also does "everyone has a story" these cds are available at amazon.com. if you love his music, you're going to love these. i was going to use this as my favorite thing, hoda, but i didn't realize, they're a little pricey. but part of the proceeds go to -- charity water. it's called. >> a great organization. >> this is called ciao beachwear. they're really adorable.

>> how much they? >> they're $225. they're a little pricey. but part goes to charity. >> this is the cure-all to everything you ever need. >> even a broken heart? >> everything. >> chapped lips, aquafor. your face is peeling. you have a scar? this stuff -- >> it's better, it's better than anything. aquaphor. >> available at local drug stores. >> hey, sara. >> my favorite things is hot men everywhere. the third ivillage hot dads contest. you have until may 27th at klgandhoda.com. a bunch of categories, including facial hair, military dads, the prize is a week-long vacation for two, in the scrub island in the british virgin islands. make sure to submit your hot dads. the deadline is may 27th. the submissions are pouring in. so get in there. >> all right. >> we shall. >> we've got a lot coming up,

don't we. >> we do. >> we have our fan of the week. >> we do? >> our winner is -- barbara m ama maher. we have her on the phone right now. barbara? >> caller: yes. >> are you excited i want it to tell everyone about you before we talk to you, okay? >> caller: i'm speechless! >> we want to hear how excited barbara is. she watches on nbc 29 in charlottesville, virginia, she is a a middle school teacher. she dvrs the show every day. she says the show brings plenty of laughs and keeps her updated on current events, she owns several of kathie lee's cds. >> what's that supposed to mean? >> looking at her reading and enjoying a glass of vino with the show. barbara loves hoda, too, has both of her books and is a fan of virginia tech.

>> barbara, congratulations. >> do you want to know where you're going? this is amazing, we're sending you to athens, greece. you'll enjoy a four-night stay at a five-star hotel britannia in athens. >> what the heck. >> get ready to take in all the sights of the city, including the acropolis, a perfect trip to share with your students come next school year. hotel and airfare provided. >> caller: i love you guys! thank you so much. listen, say hi, everybody. >> you're on. hi, kids. >> and listen, while you're in greece, learn greek. >> caller: thank you guys, so much, i watched you from day one. you are both so amazing. >> oh, sweetie, thank you. >> caller: thank you for this wonderful honor. you're the best part of the "today show." thank you very very much.

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>> jumped on her. >> he like landed on her. >> look at everybody in the back. >> here's the worst part, that he didn't seem to care. >> now this lady. >> there's another lady. >> the injured lady, the injured lady is on the ground and this blonde lady is like my chance to hug miguel. >> how about in the background. there's blood. >> she might be dead, but that's okay. >> bieber walked up to get an i a ward and there were boos. please explain. >> i think it's just because he's having an acting-out moment. but he got the milestone award and he got up on stage -- >> milestone award? >> hello. >> what does he say here? >> he says stop talking about everything and start talking about the craft. >> and i thought maybe he's talking about his macrame thing. i hope it's not about being a wikkan. >> i enjoy him. i think his music is fun. >> he makes -- >> he wears drop-crotch pants, which i'm not a fan of.

and, yeah. >> you know why i don't like the drop-crotch thing? because we all know from studying fashion that when you're short, you should elongate. he needs to elongate the legs, he needs to wear urkel pants. >> i'm sure everyone is listening to this and thinking yes. >> let's talk beyonce, is she or isn't she? please tell us the truth. >> beyonce and i are like this close. i was on the phone with her this morning, i call her b. she supposedly is pregnant, but she won't confirm it of course. she did cancel a concert in belgium, which she was exhausted. >> but somebody like beyonce who is a thoroughbred workhorse, she's on time and she does her thing. >> she can do anything. >> she might have been sick. she might just need a day off. >> why is the world fascinated with baby bumps.

she's either pregnant or she's not. and when she's pregnant, she'll let us know. >> that's true. i'm not. >> so calm down. >> the cannes film festival there was another -- >> wardrobe problem. >> we're back to crotches. so the -- >> you never left them. >> no, we never did. >> at the cannes film festival. everyone looks gorgeous, but eva longa was at the premiere of this movie, and it was raining the whole time. and she was hiking up her dress to make sure it didn't get wet and she exposed her -- >> hiked it a little too high. >> she exposed eva. >> so the next day she made sure she wore underwear. she treated like no wardrobe malfunctions. i don't know why she's not wearing underwear. >> she ran out of spanx. >> i guess so. >> thank you, tim, for all you do. ever try to pull a prank that didn't go as planned? >> we've got something webtastic for you right after this. [ female announcer ] now you can apply sunblock

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welcome back now. the time is 10:28. it is already warming up. 1:00 p.m., 70 degrees, beautiful

beach weather today. 77 at 3:00 p.m. elsewhere it's going to be a little on the hot side. 92 degrees, downtown right hot in livermore. 96 for fairfield, 90 in gilroy. today at 11:00, we'll tell you about a major cooldown and how long it the last. first check the drive. can't catch a break. >> the toll plaza at the bottom of the skein, much needed air conditioning unit, hot day. back-up on the commute, should clear up over the next half hour. south 101 slows, north 101 have the crash, car went off the road. northbound direction through southbound okay except a lot of slowing north 87 a crash just cleared. back to you. >> mike, thanks. one of the stories we're following, a 16-year-old boy dead and two others hurt after an overnight shooting in east palo alto. the victims were sitting in a car when two men approached them

and started shooting. no word on the motive. the victimed father said he's not in a gang. what else he had to say at 11:00. jon kelley and i hope to see you then. we're back on this monday with more of "today." one of the biggest concerns for anyone who has a teenager -- texting and driving. >> 62% of girls use a cell phone behind the wheel and nearly half of who is girls are texting or emailing. and one of them could be your daughter. >> amanda clear knows all about this. too well. she survived an awful accident while texting and driving. amy ashley is the editor in chief of "teen vogue" magazine which covers this topic. including amanda's story. >> so happy you're here to tell your story. that was a brutal, brutal crash. we want to warn everybody, hoda. because some of the images we're going to see can be pretty upsetting. >> pretty graphic. >> you were driving.

and you were on your phone, you're not sure if it was the exact point of impact. but you did have your phone going. explain what you remember of what happened to you that day. >> i was stationed at mcguire air force in new jersey, i'm an air force veteran. i was going to see friends that lived in virginia. >> five hours away. >> yeah. about. so i was going to see them. and it was a long trip. you know and you're by yourself. you're trying to keep yourself entertained and you've got the cell phone going. with texting, updating facebook, talking on the phone. you have not only that, but the gps. and -- >> there's a lot -- >> radio. >> all of those things. you know there's a number of distractions happening. and it always happens so fast. and i mean i can't remember which one of those things i was doing specifically at the point of impact. >> she said it was pretty much all of those things during the course of that drive. >> you ran into another car, right? >> right. i hit the back end of a tractor-trailer that had a forklift on the back of it. >> terrible crash. >> look at her car. >> dear god, how you survived is

nothing short of miraculous. >> you were in a coma for a while? >> i was in a coma. it was a medically induced coma. i was in there for about a week. >> i can't believe you came out of that. >> you lost your right eye. >> uh-huh. >> and amy, when you -- this story is obviously a very dramatic portion of the story. this is something that's happening, you found with a lot of young girls, especially. >> yeah, i mean "teen vogue" has partnered with toyota to raise awareness of the scourge of distracted driving. it's not just a teen problem. it's everybody's problem. and grown-ups are doing it, too. one of the most incredible things i'm learning is parents have so much impact on children's behavior. we think parents are ignoring us, but actually we're modeling for them. we asked mothers and daughters to go on our website, to sign a pledge, they will not drive with distractions, which is a big deal to commit to. i think if mothers and daughters can do this together, they'll

have great influence, like drunk driving. >> i was waiting for an important call yesterday and i was on the way to pick up cody and my phone rings, you have to fight the urge. you find a safe place to pull off and you answer it. most things are not so urgent that you can't -- can't put them on -- you know, on hold for ten seconds to find a safe place to be. >> and that's the message, with kids, you know, they've grown up with these cell phones, they're attached to their hands, amanda has talked about it. all kids have talked about it. they feel it's rude not to respond. >> the research shows that you're still distracted. it's better to put the phone away. turn it off, there are great apps you can download. you can find them on teenvogue.com that will answer the cphone for you. >> on the car, everything is electronic and the gps, sometimes they're in the car and you have to punch it in as you're doing your thing. all that stuff. i mean are people -- are young

kids listening to you? because clearly you have a strong message, do you feel like you're making an impact? >> i can only hope so. i do what i do because it means so much to me. because it's not easy to get up and relive those moments. but i just feel like if i can save only one person's life, then it's worth it. >> i appreciate it about what you write. you take responsibility for it. it's a terrible thing that happened to you. but you know what you were doing. you're the cause of it. >> right. >> thank god you didn't hurt anybody else. >> right. >> it's because of that that you're spreading the word. >> we're proud of you sweetheart. we're glad you're here. she left the city for the reason many do. >> the mom who got lost in suburbia and found what she was hi i'm terry, and i have diabetic nerve pain. i worked a patrol unit for 17 years in the city of baltimore. when i first started experiencing the pain, it's hard to describe because you have a numbness but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot.

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we're back, a very cool job as a tv producer here in new york city, but she traded it all in to raise her kids in the suburbs. >> after years of diaper duty and driving a minivan, she managed to find her identity and she writes all about it in "lost in suburbia" a memoir of how i lost pregnant, lost myself and got my cool back in the new jersey suburbs. >> that's a mom war. >> i didn't drive a minivan. i refused to drive a minivan. >> do you know a thing about minivans? the minimum looks just like a pregnant woman, right? when the doors open up and the kids pile out. it's like the van is giving birth. >> i find them very convenient. >> they're very convenient, but

not cool. >> what took you to jersey in the first place. >> i had been working in the city and quit my job to someday home with my son. because clearly the nanny was having more fun than i was. and we couldn't afford to stay in the city and i felt like i was blowing it by not being home with him. it was about switching from having a career to being a mom. >> your identity changed. >> yeah. and all of a sudden you used to be wearing cool clothes and have this great job title and you're in the money. and then you're home and you're like covered in goop all the time and you're buying your jeans out of the bin at costco. and -- >> everything has elastic on it. >> you have a time to take a potty break, that require as zipper. >> did you find humor in it? were you resenting it? >> i think in the beginning it's hard, you're so exhausted. it's hard to see the humor in it. after you get a little bit of time, you start to realize how funny kids are. and they really are, they're hilarious. >> you see the videos you post on the air. >> you're the best. >> and then it was working out so well had you another one.

so now you were realizing -- >> well you know, the second one we should have named oops. but -- >> you know in new jersey this trend where they name babies after the places where they were conceived. we thought we'll name our kids harrah's resort and casino. >> in the commercial break i'll tell you a joke about that. >> then you happone of your son happened upon your vibrator. >> it's called a personal massager. using it for my back. i had no idea it had other uses. i left it in the bed one morning. i can't believe i'm talking about it on national television. >> you wrote about it. >> i did, but he didn't know. so yeah he found it and he's like three years old and he's like what's this, mommy? >> you are darth vader. >> how did you explain it? >> i said it's a massager for my

back. so there's my son holding this giant vibrator. >> so you lie to your children? >> don't we all lie to our children. we tell them how cute they were when they were little. no, they were like monkeys, are you kidding? >> how did you manage to get your cool back? >> it was a process. first i realized i had turned into this person i didn't want to be, i was wearing the mom jeans and the hair scrunchies. >> did that affect your marriage? >> being uncool? >> yes. did your husband still desire you the same way? >> oh yeah, that's why i had the vibrator in the bed. >> he's here, by the way. >> what a cue, fantastic. >> wow. >> he's like the mini me. there was the hot momma he married and the real momma and all of these evolutions. but i think part of getting my cool back was about realizing how funny kids are and also starting to do something which was writing. that was really just for me. to channel it. >> and where am i working? >> at home. >> i write a syndicated humor

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almost here, the official kickoff to the backyard party season and nonstop barbeque. >> if you like gathering friends around your grill, but tom isn't on your side, ryan scott, the host of "food rush" on the live well network has one rule to live by. >> prep. >> what did you give me? >> so they're done and make one. what the held does that mean?

>> what's the point. >> three done make one. that means appetizers that can be done the day ahead so when you have your party, you can drink. >> these are the three dishes that you can do stuff, mushrooms which i have here, crimini mushrooms, you can make them the day before. >> no msg, super delicious and great. love it. you can roast them, pop them in the oven at the last second. >> here is grilled halloumi, it's a goat, sheep's milk. that you can sear, i put it on top of a salad, you toss it last second with strawberries and basil. >> what kind of dressing? >> a little basil strawberry dressing on top. just simple. here's my favorite chicken sandwich. >> it looks like -- >> try one of these. >> there's no cheese in there. >> mango chutney out of the jar, a little red onion. here. >> now -- it's fine.

>> you take that. >> you take the roasted chicken, toss in a little bit of mayonnaise and sriracha sauce. and simple chimmichurri prawns. >> grilled watermelon is amazing, by the way. >> let's do some shrimps. >> is it shrimp or shrimps? >> yeah. >> what's the plural? >> i don't know. >> say it like you're sure. >> a little bit of olive oil. a little bit of chili flake, which i love. a little bit of chopped garlic and a little bit of vinegar and we put the top on and pulse it. i want to give you a trick to making great emulsions like for instance this guy right here. when making a nice green pesto or chimmichurri. put a bit of vitamin c in there and it keeps it green for four or five days.

>> liquid vitamin c? >> no, you microplane it. >> whats could it do? >> it makes it nice and green and vibrant like you have here for five days. >> we grilled prawns like this and can you skewer them. >> shrimp is single, but it's prawns if it's plural. >> prawn. >> i took some watermelon, which is really fun. >> hi, sara. >> she always shows up when it's food. >> so what we did is we take these, you skewer them, you grill them and something about watermelon, there's great sugar in there, but i do a little bit more and you take the same chimmichurri, look how the smoke is going totally towards the beauty on both sides. you can grill the prauns the day of and the watermelon the day of. and you take the chimmichurri. it's universal you can put it on

either one. >> all right. you want a little something after your snack? we have paul anka, a new cd out. he's the legendary one right after this.

♪ much more than this ♪ i did it my way >> all day long, that's the great paul anka, singing "my way." >> the song he penned for frank sinatra, the story behind that song and others is part of his "new york times" best-selling book "my way." and he also has a new cd out called "dutyets". >> a look so good, by the way, terrific. >> he has got the knack to how to manipulate and manage through

the decades and stay relevant. which is a tough thing to do in the music industry, isn't it? >> indeed and in life. >> and in life. >> and some of the stories we can't even tell you about them, the one with tom jones and the sheep? i don't want to go there. but there are those things that you reading and you're going, oh my gosh. so it's juicy. but it's not mean. it's not a mean book. >> no, no. there's no malicious, there's no giving up of any confidences, it's just what i experienced, the sheep didn't even know who i was. >> now you were, you were well described as like sort of the justin bieber of your day. and a lot of times stars like that flame out. >> you were 15 when you had your first hit. >> i was 15, a fellow canadian. i guess there's some comparison, as i've heard. and listen, it's difficult right now, because it's a different time. different technology. media-drifg society. back then, it was easier, you could fail, you could learn from your failures. >> now it's different. >> totally different and i think

you'll be fine, you've got good canadian blood in there. >> the thing that never changes is that there will always be screaming, prepubescent girls, right? >> absolutely. >> talk about how you went from being that guy to then going -- other directions, and i love the story of you with the beatles in europe before they hit here. he a big part of the beatles coming here. because you went to a certain person and they called a guy -- and -- >> correct. all of those machinations going on. >> i was working in europe, we weren't in a media-driven society. so nobody knew what was going on anywhere in the world. i'm in paris and i see this new group called the beatles. i'm in london and i meet them. and we're talking. and i would come home to my agents, normie weiss and i would say normie, there's this group and they're the beatles and they got hair and they got this. and i said you got to see these guys, they're unbelievable.

nobody listens. and ultimately, he got on a plane and signed them and got them over in '64. nobody was aware today, i always use the analogy if cnn were around back in the '40s, hitler would never have left germany, you know. >> you almost put yourself out of work with doing that because then the british invasion happened and you were suddenly not the cool guy. >> and that's okay. you know why? what happened was, we were not embraced. all of these teen idols, we were very specific to fans. and madison avenue, we were not embraced in totality by everyone. when the beatles hit, that whole window opened to the music industry. and it went to another level. and you realized that you needed that evolution for the business to get better. and that's why i went back to my writing and kept writing, the "tonight show" theme, "longest day." >> and michael buble was someone who you spotted, a fellow canadian. he's got the chops. >> my buddy brought him to me and we produced him.

>> we were excited about your book. >> it's fascinating. terrific. whether you love the music industry or a great success story. or just a story of a great guy through the decades. tomorrow our guys tell-all panel answer your burning questions about the men in your life. and the actor michael caine stops by.

good monday morning, everybody. thank you for joining us. i'm jon kelley. >> good morning. thanks for being with us. i'm marla tellez. a father trying to come to grips with what has turned his world upside down, his son shot and killed in a car overnight. kristi smith in east palo alto where investigators are still looking for a june. then we know there's more than one shooter, kristi. >> reporter: they think there might be two. a very somber mood. friends have been coming and going to the home with tears in their eyes. 16-year-old shot and killed. his dad said