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>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, welcome to "today" on a thursday morning, i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer along with al roker and natalie morales. this breaking news out of washington will outrage a lot of customers, at least for now, of one of the country's largest communication companies. >> according to britain's "guardian" newspaper, a court order dating back to april requires the phone company verizon to turn over phone records on an ongoing daily basis to the national security agency. we're talking about the private calls of americans whether they've been suspected of a crime or not. the phone record data not the content of the call. we want to get right to chuck todd. chuck, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. this is part of a secret surveillance, domestic surveillance program that was first launched during the bush administration. and in order to do this court order, the obama administration is essentially exploiting a part of the highly controversial

patriot act. of course, all of this became public when the actual court order itself that allowed -- that forced verizon to turn over those records was published in the british newspaper "the guardian." the document obtained by "the guardian" shows for the first time that under the obama administration, the communication records of millions of u.s. citizens are being collected in bulk regardless of whether there was suspicion of any wrongdoing. >> one possibility is there's actually a threat, you know. an imminent threat that the united states faces in which the u.s. government feels compelled to expand broadly in an almost unprecedented way, the scope of their investigations. >> reporter: under the terms of the secret court order, verizon is required to hand over the location of the caller, location of the recipient, and the time d duration of all calls. the content of the conversations are not covered. the order also said that verizon is required on an ongoing daily basis to give the

national security agency information on all telephone calls in its system. the nsa implemented a similar program under the bush administration after 9/11. that collected domestic telephone, internet and e-mail records. >> i think the administration's going to be -- have to be forthcoming or this is more likely to grow bigger rather than smaller. >> reporter: overnight reaction was swift. >> between the total failure of attorney general holder and his team and the irs scandal and all other things we're watching, why would anyone trust the government to keep its word? >> and former vice president al gore tweeted, in digital era, privacy must be a priority. is it just me or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous? >> reporter: now, we only know it's verizon because the court order that was leaked to "the guardian" only talked about verizon. it's very possible other cell phone carriers also were issued this subpoena by the federal

government. and one more thing, savannah, the obama administration finally responded this morning. and while they did not confirm this report, they're defending the practice and say all branches of government are aware when things like this happen. >> all right. chuck, stand by for a moment. they're not confirming the report, not denying it either. we want to bring in michael. he served as the director of the national counterterrorism center in the obama administration. michael, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> i want to get your reaction as somebody who served at the highest levels in counterterrorism in the administration. does this surprise you? >> yes, it does. >> because this is incredibly broad in its sweep. as we understand it, the administration is ordering verizon to turn over records not just of suspected terrorists, but every customer of verizon. can you explain what the justification for that might possibly be? >> well, it is surprising.

but i think it's surprising because my guess is we don't actually see the full story. what's also required by law is that not all of this information which is collected can actually be used and sent about. so the judge orders this collection and then the government has to have additional protections in place about who can look at it, how it can be used. and then there's oversight of that. and that oversight makes it, i think, very, very different than from what happened by the bush administration. this would be oversight by congress and judicial branch by through this fisa court. until that comes out, it's hard for people to understand. >> to be clear, there is judicial oversight and presumably the administration would've had to provide some kind of justification in terms of a specific threat. in other words, the administration is not permitted to go on a fishing expedition and collect all these records hoping it might find something. >> and i think that's why this is shocking to people. this represents a collection. the question then is how the government looks at it and uses it.

and without knowing what the protections are about those pieces, it looks like the same blanket surveillance which has occurred in the past. and i don't think that's going to turn out to be the case. >> and let me bring chuck in really quickly. check, as we well know, the administration has been dealing with the follow-up of several scandals, including leak investigations. now we have this leak of a classified court order. what do you think the political fallout would be? >> reporter: well, this is going to be bipartisan outrage. there's a democratic senator ron why -- wyden, from oregon who savannah has been hinting at these broad powers that essentially have been buried and allowed in the patriot act. he's been hinting at this without saying it. it was clear that the administration had been giving congress some classified briefings about what they've been doing. there has been outrage going on at capitol hill. it's going to be the political fallout, savannah. as you're going to see, bipartisan outrage. it won't be conservative libertarian types upset about this, but a lot of libertarian liberals and civil liberty liberals, like ron wyden, who

are going to be outraged by what's going on. >> a story we'll hear a lot more about for sure. check add mike, thank you very much. and now here's matt. >> thanks. we're following new developments overnight on that deadly building collapse in philadelphia. a woman was pulled out alive, which is the great news. right now, crews are still searching through that massive pile of debris. nbc's kristen dahlgren at the scene. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. yeah, we did learn overnight that the death toll here has risen to six. but there was also that incredible moment a woman rescued 13 hours after the collapse. she was found when she reached her hand up out of the rubble and grabbed a firefighter's hand. >> reporter: the frantic late night search for any possible survivors paid off when a woman was pulled from the rubble. >> a 61-year-old female by the name of myra was just recovered. she's alive talking to the firefighters. >> reporter: transported to a waiting ambulance, she was rushed to a nearby hospital

where she's reported to be in critical condition, moments after the mayor made a grim announcement. >> we are now confirmed that there are six people who died. one man, five women. >> reporter: earlier in the day, firefighters and rescue workers climbed through the debris pulling 13 from the rubble, bruised and battered, but alive. they were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries. this is what the corner of market street and 22nd looked like before and this is after. many of the victims had been in the salvation army thrift store when the building next door sandwich shop and apartment building under demolition came crashing through. >> one laborer guy, he went right down the basement. he's a hero in my mind. he went down there and started handing people up. we freed up as many people as we could. >> reporter: maggie davis had just spoken to her husband by phone minutes before the incident. he worked in the basement of the thrift store and died in the collapse. >> we have just had spoken 15

minutes. i called him and he never answered. >> reporter: now all of the people reported missing have been accounted for. but they haven't officially given up the search just in case there's another miracle inside there. there's also now an investigation under way, matt, to figure out just what went wrong with that demolition. >> kristen dahlgren in philadelphia, thank you very much. in other news. we're less than a week into hurricane season and we already have a first named storm andrea. and overnight a tropical storm warning has been issued. andrea's approaching the florida coast this morning. here's a live look at reddington beach west of tampa where the rain is already coming down. al has more on the storm and how it could have a major major impact up and down the east coast. good morning. >> that's right, matt. and in fact, we do have this tropical storm warning up for andrea, located 220 miles west-southwest of tampa, florida, 60-mile-per-hour winds. it's moving pretty quickly now north-northeast at 13 miles per

hour. we have tornado watches up until 11:00 this morning, we have tornado warnings right now for palm beach and opt ceola county until 7:15. it's going to make landfall right about 2:00 this afternoon, 60-mile-per-hour winds. friday morning early, it's along the carolina coast and as it makes its way up the coast inland on friday afternoon comes back out onshore just to the south of new york early saturday morning and makes its way out. we have flash flood watches, flood warnings up also throughout the southeast. we've got tropical storm warnings. rainfall amounts with this going to be major. we're talking about anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rain throughout florida. and as we make our way up the coast, you're going to be looking at 3 to 4 inches of rain all the way on up into boston by early saturday. matt? >> all right, al, thank you very much. >> well, natalie's here with an nbc exclusive interview. with the nation's embattled attorney general. good morning. >> good morning, everyone. eric holder says he has no plans

to step down but will push for changes and how the justice department seeks the phone and e-mail records of reporters in leak investigations. he spoke to nbc news justice correspondent pete williams in a rare and exclusive interview. pete, good morning. >> reporter: natalie, good morning. we spoke before this latest story about the nsa's gathering of telephone data, but as the for the controversy over previous leak investigations, the attorney general says existing laws and rules forced him to make decisions in going after reporter phone and e-mail records that he's not comfortable with. despite intense criticism from congress over leak investigations and even some calls for him to step down, attorney general eric holder says he's not going anywhere yet. >> there's some things i want to do. some things i want to get done that i've discussed with the president. and once i've finished that, i'll sit down with him and we'll determine when it's time to make a transition to a new attorney general. >> but to be clear you're not stepping down now? >> no.

i have no intention now. >> reporter: but a meeting with executives persuaded him that the rules governing leak investigations should be changed. >> i'm a little concerned that things have gotten a little, a little out of whack. >> reporter: recently released cord reports show that the justice department obtained phone and e-mail records of fox news reporter james rosen to investigate the leak of sensitive intelligence about north korea. in seeking the records, the government called the reporter at the very least an aider or abettor or co-conspirator. holder says the the law that required that phrase to get a search warrant should be changed. >> so that you never call a reporter who is simply doing his or her job in gathering news a criminal. that is not something i'm comfortable with. i'm not comfortable with guidelines, with rules, with laws that would force us to do something like that. >> reporter: and he says he favors giving the news media the chance to fight requests for records before they're turned over. >> to make them aware of the fact this is information we are seeking and allow them to raise any objections, any concerns that they have.

and i don't think that our prosecutions are necessarily going to be put at risk by sharing that information, by making those notifications more frequently than we have. >> reporter: and holder says throughout these leak investigations, he has never asked that a reporter be prosecuted. he says the focus has been on the government official who does the leaking. and by the way, you can be sure this latest story about the nsa's collection is going to trigger another leak investigation. natalie? >> certainly will. pete williams, thanks so much, pete. women will now be able to buy generic forms of the so-called morning after pill at any age without a prescription. the federal government is currently appealing a judge's ruling that allows those sales. but the court will not allow unrestricted sales of the brand name plan "b" one step contraceptive pill until it weighs the golf appeal. a federal judge has temporarily cleared the way for a 10-year-old girl to move to

the adult waitlist. sara is dying of cystic phi browse, and under existing transplant rules, was being forced to wait until a pair of children's lungs became available. the ruling only applies to sarah and gives her doctors ten days to find a transplant before a hearing takes up the matter once again. and while no transplant is guaranteed, sarah has now at least a chance of finding a match. flight attendants unions are praising a decision by the at the present time sa on wednesday to keep small knives out of carry-on luggage. the chief reversed his position after months. they argued that small knives would free baggage screeners to concentrate on larger threats such as bombs. irs officials face a grilling when lawmakers take them to task over lavish spending at employee conferences. the agency has cracked down imposing new regulations to prevent the problem in the future and placing two officials on administrative leave for accepting free food at a party

back in 2010. well, we've seen him anchor nightly news, we've seen him slow jam the news on "late night," but now jimmy fallon has a new career idea for our own brian williams. how does this sound? gangster rapper. ♪ one two three to the four ♪ snoop doggy dog and dr. drea is at the door ♪ ♪ me ♪ ♪ death row is the label that plagues me so just chill ♪ >> snoop dogg and dr. dre's "ain't nothin' but a g thing" he's got a future there. not bad. >> that's good. >> you may have buried the lead this morning. >> what? >> it's your birthday. happy birthday to you. >> appropriately buried that. >> thank you. >> happy birthday. >> one day older, one year older. >> and wiser and all that stuff. >> i don't know about that. >> happy birthday.

by the way, we are throwing you a huge party on the plaza. we've got lionel richie coming. how is the weather looking for that? >> not so great. >> i'll still by dancing. >> it'll be raining on the ceiling. but in the event, let's take a look. we've got not only andrea to talk about. we've got this front that's going to be augmenting that, as well. in fact, to the northeast and the midwest going to be looking at heavy rains today as this system moves in from parts of central and western ohio into west virginia and western pennsylvania, 2 to 3 inches of rain rest of the country, we do have a risk of strong storms back through texas, sunny skies up and down the west coast. beautiful weather here in the northeast at least for one more day. your local forecast is coming up in 30 seconds. hasn't changed muh is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need

to enjoy all of these years. ♪ weather. >> thank you very much. and now nbc news investigates drone warfare. it is a controversial component of america's wars in iraq and afghanistan. this morning, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel gets a unique and exclusive perspective from one insider.

richard, good morning. >> good morning. as you said the u.s. has been using drones for a long time inside and outside of combat zones. and yet, almost everything about the program is hidden. the operators, the victims. but we spoke to this airman who said that there can be at times an impact even on those who are behind the controls. >> reporter: for nearly six years, senior airman brandon bryant operated the camera on drones over iraq and afghanistan from u.s. bases in nevada and new mexico. this is the first time he's spoken on television about his experiences. >> my recruiter actually made a james bond reference. he's like, you know those guys that sit in the back and give james bond all of the information he needs to execute his mission? i was like, yeah, and he was like, you'll be one of those guys. i didn't think i'd have to pull a trigger. >> did they talk to you about civilians? did they say there might be civilians in the area and we don't want to kill them?

>> they would say something like we only strike at people who are away from civilians who are bad guys. so like if there's civilians in the area, no striking, none at all. >> so you think there was a concerted effort to try and avoid civilian casualties? >> yes. >> reporter: but brian sometimes had doubts. on a mission, he was told to track three afghan men walking six miles away from a fire fight with u.s. troops. >> they're just lollygagging, doing their thing. they were probably carrying rifles, but i wasn't convinced they were bad guys. >> you got the order to shoot on these three men? >> when the smoke clears, there was a crater there and i watched this guy bleed out. i can almost see the agony on this guy's face. it's really more intimate for us because we see everything. >> do you think he was a combatant? >> i have my serious doubts now, but i didn't really question

those voices in my head. this isn't a video game. this isn't some sort of fantasy. like, this is war. people die. >> reporter: and it became even more real when a commander gave them a tally of those killed on missions to which he contributed. >> 1,626 total people killed on every mission i've ever been on. >> 1,626? that's a big number. >> i would have been happy if they never showed me the piece of paper. >> when they handed it to you, did they say congratulations? >> yeah, actually, they did. i did my job, i did it better than anyone else. >> 1,626. >> correct. >> how many of them do you think were innocent? >> it's a number i don't want to think about. >> but it is a big number, richard engel, an interesting perspective. >> we don't often hear that kind of perspective from the people behind the controls. and there are many other drone

operators. and it's a weapon he doesn't oppose, but he thinks onthat should be subject to more debate. >> richard, thank you very much. good to have you here. it's 20 minutes after the hour for an extended interview with brandon bryant, head to today.com. and coming up, new details on what may have led to the apparent suicide attempt by michael jackson's daughter paris. we're live at the hospital. in other news, a mystery solved, the 84-year-old winner of that record powerball jackpot and the remarkable story tied to her winning ticket. but first, on a thursday morning, this is "today" on nbc. for our families...

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good morning, everybody. i'm jon kelly. here is a look at what's making headlines. president obama landing in the bay area in less than 11 hours. he is making a couple of fundraising stops in pale lo al and portola. he will then talk about obama care before leaving tomorrow. the father of a little boy killed in a car crash could face

criminal charges. police say gilbert girl was sfeeding when he slammed his car into a tree tuesday afternoon. sadly, his 3-year-old son, angelo, and the boy's mother, were both killed in the crash. a brand new charge against george shirakawa jr. when he is sentenced. he will be arraigned on a charge of felony emper son nation. fliers meant to discredit magdalena corosco's campaign. evidence found on one of the mailers matches his d.n.a. we may notice some clouds. never fear, the heat is coming. christina is here to tell us about it. good morning to you. good morning to you at home. those clouds are going to clear up earlier than any day so far this week. temperatures are going to end up warmer, comfortable. a little too warm for comfort in

livermore at 85. we will hit 77 in places like los gatos. cool in san francisco at 64 degrees. the heat really cranks as we get into the upcoming weekend. triple digits. saturday will be the hottest. sunday, temperatures tumble. maybe a few showers. it is very tough here southbound 110 heading through central san rafael on your way to the golden gate bridge. the golden gate bridge itself, low clouds, visibility okay on the span. the map shows you getting there through san rafael is the problem. the crash is at the central san rafael exit and that's what's causing folks to slow as they clear. the eastshore freeway moves smoothly. there is a crash eastbound opposite your commute. no real slowing there. starting to build. 101 and 280. we'll have another local news update in one half hour from now. certainly, hope to see you then. have a good one. luscious locks there's an entire land here...with living cars.

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7:30 now on a thursday morning. it's the 6th day of june, 2013. it's natalie's birthday. and we have lots of happy faces outside our window on the world helping us celebrate. the music is a reminder that lionel richie will be rocking our summer concert stage tomorrow morning on "today." he was here last year, put on one of the best concerts we've had in years here on "today." so we look forward to him coming back. al's going to clear the rain out of here. it's going to be perfect. >> there may be backup singing going on. i hope he doesn't mind. >> that's happened in the past as well. >> really bad backup singing. >> guilty. >> i'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie, natalie morales and al roker. coming up, a new warning for

anyone around pools or the beach this summer. would you notice, would you know what to look for if someone were drowning? >> that's right. despite what you might think, when someone is in trouble in the water, a lot of times you don't see a lot of splashing, don't hear cries for help. oftentimes it's the sound of silence. we will tell you what you should be on the lookout for this summer. >> that's scary. all right. how will parents in a wealthy new york suburb reacting to the shocking arrest of a well-known mom now charged with being a major pot dealer? all right. and the big day has finally arrived, martha stewart is going to be here to tell us how her online dates turned out. larry or stan, stan or larry, or none of the above? >> we'll find out a little later on. we want to begin this half hour, though, with michael jackson's 15-year-old daughter paris. she's recovering at a los angeles area hospital this morning after what sources close to the family are calling an attempted suicide. e!'s jason kennedy is out in los angeles this morning.

jason, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. a family source is telling has been telling e! news all morning long that paris jackson has been suffering from depression. she's been hospitalized before, and, quote, she's dealing with a lot of drama right now. just before 1:30 a.m. on wednesday morning, the l.a. county sheriff's department responded to an emergency call from the jackson family home. >> overdose, sheriff responding. >> sheriff deputies treated 15-year-old paris jackson and transported her to an area hospital. >> we've confirmed through a source close to the family that paris did cut her wrists. >> reporter: it's been nearly four years since michael jackson's only daughter bid farewell to the king of pop. >> daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. >> reporter: recently, the teen once shielded from the camera's eye has been living a more public life. even opening up to oprah about being bullied. >> a lot of people don't like me. >> in a video that went viral last month, paris shared make-up tips. >> i need serious help. i'm crazy.

i am crazy. >> reporter: but it was on twitter just hours before her alleged suicide attempt where paris left several cryptic tweets and a final message quoting a beatles song. "yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay." all of this while her guardian grandmother katherine jackson battles aeg, the company behind michael jackson's comeback tour. the lawsuit claims that aeg failed to investigate dr. conrad murray who was convicted in 2011 of causing the singer's death. an allegation the company denies. paris along with her brothers is listed as a plaintiff and may be called to testify. >> these are really heavy-duty pressures for anybody much less a young girl who is trying to figure themselves out. >> reporter: both her mother debbie roe and katherine jackson

issued statements, thanking everyone from their concern and asking for privacy. katherine jackson's attorney adding that while paris is physically fine, being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are. it is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. >> reporter: now paris' aunt la toya jackson also issued a statement thanking everyone for their overwhelming concern and asking for privacy while the family deals with all handles these issues together, quote. matt? >> all right, jason kennedy in los angeles this morning. thanks very much. >> obviously we wish her the best. hard to be a teenager, hard to be a teenager in the public eye like that. we'll take a turn now, get another check of the weather. al? >> all right. we've got a tale of two countries in a way when it comes to our temperatures. the jet stream keeping the warm air out west. and in fact, as you look at some of these temperatures, anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees above normal. 103 in vegas, 96 in reno, even up into parts of oregon, 92 degrees, but then that jet takes a dip to the south as you move your way east. and look at this, chicago, only 65 today, 61 in minneapolis, and we're expecting johnstown with

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>> reporter: it is surveillance camera video that serves as an important reminder every summer. a 10-year-old falls off a float and begins to drown in a pool full of adults and life guards. he's there, head under the water. precious minutes pass and no one notices he's on the bottom of the pool. finally after five long minutes, an adult swimmer finds him and pulls him out. lifeguards, paramedics and doctors save the child's life in 2005, but he suffered permanent brain damage. mario batoni is a former coast guard rescue swimmer and an expert on water safety. >> drowning is often silent. you're not going to hear it. hollywood teaches us there's splashing and yelling and that's almost never the case. >> each year, 390 children die in accidental drownings. most within just 25 feet of a parent or an adult. very often someone who is drowning can't scream because they're trying to catch a breath of air as they bob up and down in the water. the warning signs, look for

someone whose mouth is at water level, their head tilted back, their eyes glassy or closed. if they can't talk, they're usually in trouble. >> a child can drown within seconds before anyone knows that the child is under the water. and that is why it's so important for children to know how to swim. >> look up at the sky. >> reporter: in west virginia where hundreds of kids crowd into more than a dozen municipal pools every summer day, teaching kids to swim at an early age is a priority. red cross certified lifeguards keep a constant vigil and conduct regular drills. but experts say wherever kids are swimming in pools, backyards, lakes or rivers, adults have got to be vigilant. >> one of the things i see often on vacation is parents who are watching the children but they're on their cell phones or they're texting. and if you're not looking at them, then you're not watching them. >> reporter: if you're not looking, you're not watching. drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death behind car accidents.

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line. >> which explains why her kids' friends were like, any chance your mom will make us brownies? >> reporter: federal agents say she was running a multimillion dollar marijuana growing operation out of this new york city warehouse. >> we smelled it in the air once in a while. >> reporter: agents say her business fell under the name fantastic enterprises. a far cry from this seemingly fantastic life she was living with her two daughters in the suburb of scarsdale. >> my nanny and daughter have played with their daughter and nanny in a local park and you would never believe in a million years this would happen. >> reporter: she could often be found riding her $9,000 horse or cheering on her daughters at this equestrian center where the owner said she told him she was an interior designer. >> she would watch the lessons, always very cordial, got along with all the parents. >> reporter: the mom also blended in at her daughter's middle school. >> surprising? >> reporter: her 13-year-old daughter posted this mother's day message on facebook. i am so happy and lucky we have

a mom like you to take care of us. federal agents targeted andrea sanderlin in an operation called strike force. they say a confidential witness tipped them off to the woman known as andy. the electric company also reported huge bills, upwards of $9,000 a month, typically she paid in cash. >> people try to highlight maybe scarsdale because it's affluent, successful, but the truth of the matter is, you -- no matter where you are, you never know. >> reporter: andrea sanderlin has pled not guilty, her attorney has not responded to our request for an interview. he has said she's innocent and the brooklyn jail is no place for a housewife. matt and savannah back to you. >> thank you. coming up, martha stewart tells us about her date. and a surprise delivery for a woman who didn't know she was eight months pregnant. also pippa middleton's new

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they could be tainted. facebook, pledging more than $215,000 to overhaul a building. >> let's get a check on the weather. you can taste it at this point. good morning to you, jon. good morning to you at home. it is pretty mild. 62, sunnyville. 50s throughout the greater bay area. your temperatures are going to end up much warmer than where we hit yesterday. 85 degrees in livermore. up to 98 degrees by saturday. consider yourself warned as we head throughout the next few days. the heat is on. we are going to drop the temperatures as quickly as the heat comes in. it is going to go right back out. sunday, a few showers. off next week. let's check out your drive. look at the bay bridge toll plaza, shot. i believe we may have that shift that happens typically as we

transition to the summer months. some schools are off and some folks may be going to graduation. we are looking at an eastshore freeway. speeds in the 50s. that is great for the eastshore freeway. a slower drive. now, building coming off of 238, north and south of 880 coming out of that area. slow down to the san mateo bridge. thank you very much. we'll be back with another local update in half an hour. see you then.

♪ we are back now at 8:00 on thursday morning. it's the 6th of june, 2013. >> once in a while something happens at our plaza and something comes to us. a man out on the plaza began yelling. he took out a knife, and he said he was going to harm himself and had no intention of harming others. he did, in fact, harm himself. he cut himself pretty severely. our security team and the new york police department were on him very, very quickly. they disarmed him and took him down. but again, he did manage to hurt himself. we don't know what his condition

is right now, but we decided to stay inside and make sure everything was under control out there and not add to the confusion out there. >> and he was attended to by medics, also no threat as we understand it to anybody who was out on the plaza. we cleared the plaza. a little bit scary, but we do want to commend our security. >> absolutely. >> and nypd that keeps us all safe and keeps those out on the plaza safe. we just want to let everybody know what happened. >> every day they do a very intense security screening check of all the guests who come in the plaza. >> and again, we don't know what was behind it, but clearly this person was disturbed and we'll find out more about it. >> meantime, let's get a check of the headlines. natalie? in the news this morning, the obama administration is facing a new scandal this morning over telephone snooping. "the guardian" reports the national security agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of u.s. verizon customers. the paper says the secret database is allowed under a top-secret court order. the nsa ran a similar program under the bush administration

after 9/11. but this is the first report that the obama administration is checking records of millions of u.s. citizens regardless of whether there is any suspected wrongdoing. a 61-year-old woman was pulled out alive overnight from the rubble of a philadelphia building collapse that claimed at least six lives wednesday. she is in critical condition. more than a dozen others were also hurt. officials say the building that collapsed was being demolished, and the debris fell onto a smaller neighboring building that housed a thrift shop. president obama has likely pleased some of his critics and defied others by naming two outspoken women to his new national security team. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell's in washington with more. good morning, andrea. >> good morning. susan rice and samantha power, both lightning rods in the past and now in the administration sometimes assailed for its mostly male inner circle.

>> reporter: all the president's women. samantha power for the u.n. and replacing tom donilon as national security adviser, susan rice. >> she is fearless, she is tough. she has a great tennis game and a pretty good basketball game. throwing the occasional elbow. but hitting the big shot. >> reporter: rice is the president's first line of defense after the september 11th benghazi attacks. but back then those cia talking points cost her the nomination to be secretary of state. >> i am dead set on making sure we don't promote anybody that was an essential player in the benghazi debacle. >> but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi is outrageous. >> reporter: rice took herself out of contention. >> i think it's the right thing for the country. and i think it's the right thing for the president. >> reporter: clearing the way for john kerry. as national security adviser, rice won't require congressional approval and still isn't getting it. >> no comment. >> to go to a post that is supposed to be void of political

controversy, you want that to be as nonpartisan as you can. >> reporter: but the recent release of all the talking point e-mails vindicated rice. >> it was only a few months ago that john mccain and lindsey graham were trying to bury susan rice's career. and today she is arguably about to become the most important national security figure in the president's universe. >> reporter: replacing rice at the u.n., samantha power, also no stranger to controversy. she left the first obama campaign after calling then-rival hillary clinton a monster. irish born, power has done everything from posing for "men's vogue" to winning a pulitzer prize for her book on genocide. john kerry was in guatemala when the president announced susan rice's promotion. kerry called her brilliant, a tireless advocate and first-rate diplomat. now, of course, rice will be the gatekeeper, controlling kerry's access to the oval office. natalie? >> andrea, thanks. it was a frightening scene earlier this week at a taco bell in ohio when a minivan came crashing into the restaurant, sending customers running for

their lives. two people were injured. the driver reportedly had suffered a medical problem before the crash. it is now 8:05. you're up to date right now. savann savannah, matt and al. >> thank you so much. busy day in the weather department. we now have our first named storm of the season. >> that's right, tropical storm andrea. 60-mile-per-hour winds, moving north-northeast. tornado watches in effect until 11:00. you'll see the path of this thing, it comes on shore later this afternoon, makes its way up the coast through friday on into saturday morning, comes off the coast and then makes its way out to sea. we've got flash flood watches and flood watches in effect. we're also looking at a lot of rain from florida. three to five inches all the way up into boston. that's what's going on around the 8:05 now on a thursday morning. good morning. i'm meteorologist christina loren. san jose still dealing with some clouds but you can see the sun's

rays breaking through some of that cloud cover. by about 11:00, we'll see much of that cloud cover peel right back out to sea and clear up. mostly sunny conditions by noon today. as we head throughout the day, temperatures going to be warmer with that sunshine coming in earlier. 85 in livermore. 65 in san francisco. then we really crank the heat up, saturday, rough day. >> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, mr. roker. thank you very much. coming up on trending, how would you say the word "pajama." >> pajama. >> pajama. >> p.j.s. >> talking about regional differences when it comes to how some very common words are pronounced. >> all right. and then, did she meet her match? martha kisses and tells. we don't know if she kissed, she's going to tell. she'll report back on her match.com dates. and she's about to be an aunt, but first pippa middleton has landed a new job. what she's up to right after

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one o of the top stories on the website of "the washington post" has to do with vice president joe biden. the vice president brought down the house on wednesday where, at the funeral of new jersey senator frank lautenberg, here's a piece of what the vice president said. >> never make a good eulogy. you'll be asked again and again and again. by the way, josh, i'm representing the pope. my wife says i'm the most obnoxious gran father in the world. no, wrong, frank was the most obnoxious grandfather. i knew strom thurmond so well literally i was asked to do his eulogy. i did his eulogy. this is a lot easier. >> so there are some people who are kind of out there saying is it appropriate to tell jokes in that situation, and i say, first of all, that's joe biden being joe biden. and second of all, that's what i

want. i want a little bit of, you know, yes, some serious discussion, but yes, some kind of celebration of the life and some humor. the levity really helped that room. >> 89 years old, sick for a while. >> the circumstances are very important. >> yes, they are. they were good old friends. lautenberg had a good sense of humor, appreciated a good joke. >> i eulogized both my mom and my dad and i used some jokes. >> there didn't seem to be an uncomfortable situation in the room at all. >> it wasn't nervous laughter. >> even his own daughters were making jokes. >> also now, trending on google, what do you put on your pancakes? all right. do you put syrup or syrup? >> syrup. >> those kinds of questions are the focus of a an interesting new research project. he's looking at regional accents across the country.

take a look at this word. i think we have a graphic. there we go. how do you say that word? >> caramel. >> caramel. >> you said caramel? >> you don't pronounce the other "a." >> katz composed a map of his findings. in the areas pictured here in n red, people tend to say caramel. >> people in the shaded areas in blue say caramel. >> which is where we're from. >> let's put the word up. how do you say that word? >> mayonnaise. >> people in the plains tend to say mayonnaise while folks in the south prefer mayonnaise. >> mayonnaise is also in the northeast, too. >> a little bit there. >> finally this word -- put it up. what do you say? >> crayon. >> out west they say, crayon. as in dawn. >> here in the east we usually

say crayon like in -- rhymes with john. >> some people say crown. >> really? >> say the word s-i-n-g-e-r. >> what? >> singer. i pronounce the "g." do you have any problem with that? you do more of a soft "g"? >> yes. >> what about o-f-t-e-n? >> often. >> because you're fancy. >> and it goes on and on and on. >> trending on youtube, quite an exciting game between the chicago white sox and seattle mariners. game going to 16 innings. he hits a grand slam tying the game. perhaps nobody more excited than this guy who mows down a little boy. >> oh. >> oh!

>> yeah. >> well, in the guy's defense, pretty extraordinary? no, not really. but the white sox go on to win it 7-5. >> he was probably following the ball, wasn't looking. >> the good news is the ltsittl boy is now demonstrating flat stanley. >> he's okay? >> he got caught up in the moment. >> right. >> trending on msn, jay leno had a little fun with taylor swift's hot new song "22" which celebrates the virtues of being young. it got him thinking what about life at 63? ♪ you don't know about me ♪ but i'm turning 63 ♪ got more prescriptions and more colonoscopies ♪ ♪ wheel of fortune's on ♪ and now i got to pee ♪ everything will be all right if we just keep dancing like ♪ 63 >> kind of like that. what about --

♪ 41 >> something else we've been following along with, martha stewart's journey through the world of online dating. and she's here this morning to tell us how it's going. we'll get to that in a second. but first, a little refresher on where things stand. >> in the spirit of adventure. >> just over a month ago martha stewart, along with her niece's husband, dan slater and match incorporated's ceo appeared on "today" and launched the search for a man. >> what we know we can get you is some great first kates. finding a soulmate could be difficult. >> they started her profile. >> what's your body type? big and beautiful, curvy, about average. >> that's horrible. >> then filled out what she's looking for in a match. >> in other words, do you want to make sure people without graduate degrees -- >> with that, her profile was

uploaded to match.com, and the response -- overwhelming. >> there's no question that martha's one of the most popular members ever to join match. she's had over 200 profile views in the first day. >> the next step was to review potential suitors. this catch miss attention. "you are quite an attractive woman." >> he's 34 years old. so far aquarius and sagittarius have worked out pretty well. >> worked out pretty well but you're here on match.com. how do you feel about pdas? >> i like that. >> after poring through e-mails she narrowed it down to a few good men. >> my name is stan. i'm a filmmaker, i do commercial, independent features, paint, landscapes, i like to eat, have a nice glass of win, good dinner. >> i'm larry, i'm in the international steel trading business. i love traveling, the new york philharmonic, love swimming, life really revolves around the ocean. i live right near it. >> she met two of them here on

"today" in person before heading out on dates with each. you will both go out, coffee, whatever? she got together with larry at perry street? >> i'm the only person in my whole crowd who is single. >> and my friends, most of whom are married, have never fixed me up with anybody. i think they're afraid. the person they fix me up with don't like me or something. >> and at new york's rao's with stan. >> do you like anything to eat? i've been to a film festival there. south by southwest. >> some baked clams? >> oh, that sounds good. >> and martha is here now along with match inc.'s ceo. good morning to both of you. was it fun? >> the date? >> yeah. >> were you nervous going on these dates? >> no. how could i be nervous? >> i thought you would say yes. >> i had already met them here

on the "today" show, i read their profiles. they weren't hiding anything. i think they were pretty honest guys. having a drink at perry street, what could be nicer. >> there were cameras around. not exactly a natural dynamic. did that bug you at all. >> my work is sort of my life. i'm not made nervous by that. maybe somebody would have been. but the guys weren't nervous either. i think they did a really nice job of being dates. >> also i think let's just say one more time, what they're doing or what they did here was very brave, to agree to do this. now, we've made a point here, we weren't looking for your soulmate. we were looking for a couple of fun first dates. all right? so i think everybody's -- >> but it broke the ice. this got me to sort of think about dating as a nice thing to do on a regular basis. >> but i think people are going to want to know is there going to be a second date with either larry or stan?

>> well, we've been in contact, and we've already -- we're already talking business. this is how things do deteriorate. with larry, we're talking business. >> let's stick with the subject at hand. >> you never know -- you never know what happens. if business is good, you know, maybe something else will become. >> but you had a good enough time with either or both that you would pursue a second meeting? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> is this typical that the bells and sirens and fireworks don't go off on the first date but it does kind of break the ice, as martha says? >> one of the things about signing up for an online dating site is it gets you out there. whether you end up meeting someone through the online dating site or your friends now know you're ready to go. and martha, you have been introduced to other people through friends. >> other people have surfaced. >> i bet you get phone calls not even online. >> my lawyer came up with a

great idea. >> what's that? >> a fixup. >> but he may not have thought about the fixup if you weren't committed to finding someone. >> maybe not, yeah. >> we know that martha signing up for this at match.com has inspired a lot of men and women to get out there and do the same. >> especially women. >> how is it happening? >> well, we're reading all the feedback that we're getting as women sign up. i'd been nervous to try online dating, i'm not tech save, but to see someone like martha who i've been watching for years do it made me want to do it. >> you have some tips for people trying this for the first time, be yourself, which is sometimes easier said than done. start the conversation. and i like your third one, stick with it. if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. >> you've had two dates and they were good. >> i still have like a thousand more. >> a thousand more dates to have. >> i could do a thousand dates with all the people that have responded. >> so many dates, so little time. all right. >> you're the chaperone at every one of them. >> with a camera crew.

>> by the way, that's not a good idea. martha, we're going to keep following you. we're going to find out what happens. thanks for being such a good sport. sam, thank you. >> thank you, sam. >> over to savannah and natalie. >> now to a story that seems kind of unimaginable. >> it really does. a woman giving birth to a baby at nearly full term without ever realizing she was eight months pregnant. a true bundle of joy. this baby girl is giving new meaning to surprise deliveries. >> we're both still in shock. >> trish said she had absolutely no idea she was eight months pregnant. >> i didn't even have a baby belly to feel a baby. >> what's more, trish said her husband john had a vasectomy. so having a baby wasn't even on the table. >> i didn't miss any periods. it's impossible. i had my period the whole time. >> everything suddenly changed after running ten miles in training for a half marathon. >> at that point the pain had progressed so bad, this is not

right, this is not normal. i need somebody here right now. >> the 33-year-old mother of two knew something serious was happening to her when the pain became severe. >> i was yelling and screaming. i thought i was dying. >> after being rushed to the emergency room, the news was stunning. >> the lady found a heartbeat. i'm looking around like, no, that's not -- i don't believe it. >> trish wasn't the only one who was shocked. her husband john says he was blindsided but completely thrilled. >> till they took me to see the baby, i didn't believe them. >> the unexpected gift, a 6 pound 6 ounce baby girl. >> she is doing pretty well. i wouldn't mind naming her miracle and just calling her mira for short. >> dr. nancy snyderman is nbc's chief medical editor with perspective on this. i have one question for you, really? can this really happen? >> it can. it's well described in the medical literature. it's called denial of pregnancy.

british medical journal, a study in germany that one out of 175 women that delivered a baby did not realize or refused to acknowledge that they were pregnant. >> the classic situation that i've heard about anyway is someone who is rather obese or maybe doesn't recognize the weight gain. that's not the situation with this woman. >> in a couple of cases, they're very obese, then the very, very thin who maybe have missed period ors they're running and they have sort of anorexia related to exercise. so their ovaries and hormones have shut down, normally enough to carry a fetus, a small baby, but not to recognize they've missed periods. but for a woman during pregnancy to have not missed periods means she wasn't having regular periods to begin with. >> one has to wonder is it a little bit dangerous, the safety of the child when you've gone through an entire pregnancy not knowing it. >> we're so attuned to full

prenatal and perinatal, you know, observance, high blood pressure, blood sugar problem, diabetes, all the things we worry about with moms, is this mom and baby at risk? potentially. but it's the very obese and the very thin you wore be the most and teenagers. i think this will go down as one of those really? really? but in the medical literature, yes, it exists rare but true. >> you've actually had this happen. >> when i was a young doctor, a woman came in. she was a little hefty. came in with stomach flu. and guess what? i held the baby. >> thank you, nancy. >> i've seen it in person. >> we'll be right back after your local news. live tomorrow lionel richie returns. the toyota concert series. >> live on the plaza. >> don't miss a moment. >> that's how you do it. lionel richie.

good morning to you. it is 8:26. i'm marla tellez. here's some proof that speckcheck pspec spellcheck pays off. crews just finished correcting this sign. instead of directing drivers to milpitas, the sign originally read milipitas. the fix didn't cost taxpayers. instead the contractor who made the mistake picked up the tab. let's take a look at the roads in oakland now, mike. >> we'll look at the slower roads in oakland. 880 starting to gum up by the coliseum.

it's been pretty light through the area all morning. down the eastshore freeway, close to the 50s at the worst traveling through richmond and berkeley. that's a great flow of traffic. southbound 680 toward walnut creek, both directions north of danville and alamo. the north bay, the southbound side of 101 still slow. novato towards san rafael, the earlier crash cleared, though. >> thanks. we'll be back with our next local news update in 30 minutes.

♪ come on and sing along >> it's 8:30 on a thursday morning, the 6th day of june, 2013. this time tomorrow we will all be rocking out on the plaza with the guy you're listening to right now, mr. lionel richie. he'll take over our concert stage at 8:30. we're expecting a big crowd. we're expecting perfect weather. so come on down with an umbrella and get ready to sing. >> exactly.

>> i'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie, natalie morales and mr. al roker. >> we have a great concert lineup all summer along. one week from tomorrow maroon 5 will rock the stage performing some of their biggest hits. then hunter hayes will bring his southern charm to the big city. another event, father's day, just a reminder a week from this sunday. and this morning we've got you covered with some special steals and deals gift ideas. you can still get them in time. nice. >> in time, get it. >> i planned that. >> i'm that fast, al. >> 31 years old. that's right. i got a real treat. i got -- how many have you read the stories about mo williams to your kids? >> definitely. >> i got to spend time with the award winning children's author and illustrator, and he has a message out there for all us parents. >> we'll get to that. first, let's say hi to

19-year-old holly tucker, one of the competitors on "the voice coun." all four coaches fought to get to work with her. unfortunately, holly's time on "the voice" came to an end tuesday night. good morning. nice to see you. i look at that moment, where it end, and i know how hard that must be after how much work you've put into it. you seemed particularly upset. was it sadness, disappointment, what? >> i think it was just the fact that i've been here for almost two months now and just going through this whole process. you know, it's been a lot of work and a lot of time put into it. and i was thinking about how much i'm going to miss my teammates and how much i'm going to miss everybody here on the show. >> your coach, blake, who obviously adores you, did you really feel like he helped you this season and you've kind of grown as an artist? >> oh, for sure. i've watched myself literally transform as a performer. i've gotten so much experience. and i can't be more grateful for

it. >> what's next for you? i know you left school to go try out for "the voice." are you planning to go back or are you headed for nashville? >> you know, education will always be there, but the platform that "the voice" has given me will not. i need to capitalize on that. i need to get music out there as quick as possible because that's my passion. >> great to have you here. >> we'll miss you on the show. thank you. mr. roker, you've got the weather. >> andrea down there getting ready to come in, a slight risk of strong storms, tornadoes, flooding. the eastern third of the country will be wet today. western two-thirds good with the exception of a slight risk from west texas on into new mexico. we'll get to the forecast, but first calling all transformer fans, you have one more day to enter today's ride of your life sweepstakes. to win a trip for four to universal orlando. check out the official rules, go to o

8:33 now. good morning to you. good news, we have stratus clouds over san francisco but they are starting to thin out. we're right on track to see clearing by about 10:00 to 11:00, even in the city by the bay where we have the flight delays. like i said before, we should see clouds lifted two hours earlier than any day this week. 85 degrees for livermore. 74 in fremont today. over the next few days, temperatures soar, we'll be in the mid to upper 90s friday and saturday. and that's your latest weather. >> thank you, al. >> what is the craziest thing you've ever done in the name of fashion? >> hmm. >> plaid jacket. >> yeah, your plaid jacket. that's pretty crazy. part of a show premiering tonight on the style network, a fashion expert. what do you think about the plaid jacket trend around here? >> the first thing i noticed was

you popped two patterns together with a floral. that right now is a big trend right now. playing patterns together. >> boom. >> he's on fire. >> bring it in. >> the polka dot tie. >> i love it. i think it's magical, i really do. >> what can people expect to see on this show of yours every night? >> exactly what we did here. when you throw out a topic amongst people, they're going to share their opinions. that's what style pop is all about. i call them my style chick, guru. fashion, trend, technology, rumors, gossip, but you guys get to interact with us. not just what we think, twitter, facebook, instagram, you can go and tell us. >> guys get in on it, too? >> oh, yeah. >> thank you so much. style pop premieres tonight on the style network, 8:00, 7:00 central. pippa middleton is certainly known or her style and the royal sister-in-law has a new job this morning.

pippa has been named as a contributing editor to "vanity fair." >> she first got the world's attention in a different role as the maid of honor to the wedding of the century. since then pippa has become popular with paparazzi, with tabloid readers eager to find out who she's dating and what she's wearing. now, the 29-year-old is turning to prints to make a name for herself. >> she's carving a role of her own and with "vanity fair" magazine. >> a topic she knows well, tennis. she's often seen courtside, and in her column gives insider tips for anyone going to wimbledon later this month. writing about her first trip when she was just 8. "i bought myself a postcard of the women's championship trophy

on which i wrote i will win this one day." and she write, she told her family, if i have to get married, it would be in my tennis whites-shorts. pippa already has a book out and a column in a british magazine. though some are questioning whether or not she's qualified to write for "vanity fair county ". >> pippa brings a unique perspective to all the fun we have in england that we don't have here. the traditions for so many centuries. wimbledon are certainly one of those. >> vanity fair says she hope to have a column from pippa every several months. so far there are no plans to have her write about her royal in-laws. >> we'll have to see if those plans remain in place, guys people sure she'll write something eventually. come on, she's got to, on her sister and the royals. >> tamron, thank you very much. a lot of pressure to do that. coming up next, steals and deals gift ideas for dad just in time, as natalie would say, for

father's day.

we are back with a special edition of jill's steals and deals with great gift ideas for father's day. jill martin is a contributing editor and style editor for "people's" style watch. good morning. i think guys can be so hard to shop for. >> my dad's my guy. but i haven't gone shopping yet. >> turn away. >> but i want to start with something that every guy loves, which is a polo. the retail here is $54. they are mostly cotton. they are dry tech technology. it comes in 11 colors. the retail $54, the deal, $16. >> nice texture. >> that's 70% off. >> next.

>> next, for mr. moneybags. >> the retail $40. you have to know what your guy uses. because everyone's very particular about wallets. so when you go on, there's so many different styles, they come in black and brown, different leathers. if they open to the right, do they open at the top, credit card slots. i think this is a specific thing. but great deal, their retail is $40. the deal is $10. they're sold at lord & taylor, bloomingdales and nordstrom. that's 75% off. >> are there different styles? you know how i like to investigate jill's steals and deals. >> right, there's six styles in black and brown with different leathers all on our website today.com and they come in a box. just put a bow on and they're ready to give. >> that's a great gift, actually. and not too bulky. >> there was a "seinfeld" episode on that. >> really? >> yeah. >> i love it. i love "seinfeld," i can't believe i missed it. next up, shaving stuff. >> many men don't have a beauty routine. this is how to get them involved.

this is pure additive grooming kits, the retail $98. dad's daily routine. protein and shave cream, hair and body wash and shave brush. i actually used it on my arms. >> i was just about to do it. >> the retail, $98, the deal $29.40, that's 70% off. >> okay. it's good. it smells good, too. manly. guys, it smells manly. we give it our blessing. >> last but not least? >> almost last but not least. >> second to least. >> the retail's $295 to $895. men's and women's and unisex watches. there's nothing sexier than a woman in a man's watch. >> i do, too. that's my favorite look. >> buy one and then borrow it. i love these. high grade stainless steel. silvertone, rose gold, go online, you can see all the different options, come in this gift box. which is great. brand is 150 years old, luxury time pieces, the retail $295 to $895, the deal, $69.99 for any of them, up to 92% off. >> that is a great deal. actually, you could do self-shopping if you like the

look of a man's watch on the gal. >> kind of a selfish gift. it can be. >> it's efficient. >> finally we have -- >> this is just a beautiful gift from collage.com. retail $89.99. you upload photos, they send this to you in a frame, this collage. >> i love this glamour shot. >> only my mother will like that. >> the retail $89.99. the deep $27. that's 70% off. just feel this. it's ready to hang. a beautiful, thoughtful gift to give and will arrive before father's day. >> that was my question. you have to get on everything. the polo shirt, the wallet, joseph abboud, the pur attitude gift set, watches or the

collages. jill martin, thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, a school that's found a way for kids to sex sell despite challenges at home. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

today's education nation is proudly supported by w.k. kellogg foundation. a partner with communities where children come first. we're back at 8:46 with education nation today. president obama is unveiling a new plan today to get more technology into classrooms. >> of course, there are already terrific programs at schools all across the country helping kids succeed in some of the nation's poorest communities. rehema ellis is nbc's chief education correspondent. rehema, nice to see you. >> nice to see you, matt and savannah. we should tell you, we visited a school in north

carolina where administrators accept no excuses about race or poverty as reasons as to why kids aren't learning. they put together a program ensuring all of their kids have an equal opportunity to achieve. >> we want to make sure you guys are safe. >> reporter: at deafen shire elementary, rochelle mccormick is at the front of a class every day but she's not a teacher. mccormick is the full-time social worker in a school with lots of needy kids. >> they may go home to lights being on, they may go home to lights being off. they have a totally different lifestyle than most kids have normally. >> reporter: the 600 students at the charlotte, north carolina, school are mostly black and hispanic. they come from low-income families and often troubled communities. mccormick helps the families and teaches the kids to be socially smart so they can put more energy on being book smart. >> they learn the strategies at home, sometimes, to if you hit me, i'm going to hit you back.

we want them to be able to verbalize, to be able to talk about the problems. >> we have seen phenomenal gains in academic achievement in the last five years. >> reporter: the school went from 40% to 93% of the students performing at grade level. attendance is up to 90% daily. and behavior has dramatically improved. >> i think you have to have a belief system and dispel the myth that children of poverty cannot learn. because they're eager to learn. >> reporter: how did the school do it? they brought in new teachers, a social worker, provided extra help for students and more. five years ago, they invited parents into the school not just for special occasions, but every day. it was part of a larger plan to change what people could expect from the school. >> everybody know me now. they know who i am. >> reporter: he welcomes the change at school and in his 10-year-old son. he doesn't want to fight anymore. his grades have improved and he

dreams of being a genetic engineer. >> i'm just proud of him. >> overwhelmed that his dad sees his progress in school. >> so what you thinking about? >> what you said about me. that you look forward to me growing up. and becoming -- >> whatever you want to be. >> he's a great little boy as all the kids are. and the principal says schools are doing more than ever before to build relationships with families and communities because they recognize by helping parents they help kids to be more successful in school. >> that's a phenomenal change in that school by making some really smart decisions. >> 180 degrees. that's great, thank you. >> thank you so much. coming up next, al will indulge in one of his passions

with an award winning illustrator. but first, this is "today" on nbc. look at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ]

[ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. as we all know, our al has many passions, plaid among them, but also animation. >> that's right, savannah. one of my proudest moments ever was interviewing the great charles schultz. well, as a kid, charlie brown spoke to me. i met another cartoonist who is speaking to millions of today's kids and parents.

>> reporter: cartoonist and author understands the little people. because he speaks their language and with nothing more than a black marker and a blank canvas, he can create a world a little less scary and a lot more fun. >> one of the things you say is kids get the short end of the stick. what do you mean? >> it's inherently unfair being a kid. you have to ask permission to go to the bathroom. and they could say no. you can be lifted up out of the room and carried away from that thing you like. and if you complain, if you go -- then you get in trouble. >> his books and cartoons about pigeons, piggies, mole rats and norwegian dinosaurs have tickled funny bones in over a dozen languages and topped the "new york times" best sellers list. >> i am a corporate attorney

specializing in tax affairs. >> but he knows he's nothing without the help of mommys and daddies. >> i'm a parent, and i know we're the orchestra. you read a book you hate, happy bunny was happy and they all went to happy land you're going to read it in a terrible way. i need to get you excited. i need to get my orchestra jazzed so they scream and yell, make up words. that's hilarious. >> anybody can draw a cartoon. anybody can draw a cartoon. >> willems believing crayons and markers are meant for hands of all sizes. >> there's a day in everybody's life where they realize they're not going to be a professional cartoonist and not going to be a professional basketball player. but kids still play basketball and they stop drawing. and that is a real shame. >> and this is the dining room. we sit here every night and doodle and draw on the walls. >> to keep the art alive, each night, mo, his wife, and

11-year-old daughter mix cartoons and conversation. >> so is doodling kind of like the jazz of art? >> doodle is kind of -- yeah, it is like the jazz of art. drawing are just a bunch of shapes put together in the right order. and you shouldn't have to worry about what you're doing. there is no wrong drawing. >> you think it's important for us to keep doodling. >> i feel that drawing and doodling is a form of physic physicalized empathy. and you're thinking about someone else and becoming more empathetic. this is my real inspiration. amazingly enough this is a temper tantrum, not unlike the pigeon right here. >> he admits as a kid he could relate more to the frustrated charlie brown than the cheery mickey mouse. >> if you could go back and meet your 5-year-old self, what would you tell you to do? >> i'd buy new york real estate but sell what you don't need. really, a good picture book is a

child's friend. and for some kids, it can be their only friend. i want to make sure i'm making a very good friend for someone. >> i think it looks great. >> thanks for coming on. >> it was really, really fun. thank you, it was really great. >> sure, i get it. anybody can draw, but couldn't that weather man have drawn me an umbrella? >> hop on, sunshine. >> hey, lady penguin, nice hat. >> oh, it's getting hot in here. >> i love it. our art department here did that animation. >> that is cute. >> and if you want to see more of a mo williems retrospect in amherst, massachusetts, that's where we did the interview. we set that up and he drew that for us. >> he said you were a good

doodler. you really do have some talent there. >> thank you. coming up, these guys get an ethics test along with willie. >> but first, your local news. good morning to you. it is 8:56. i'm marla tellez. time to say good-bye to hp pavilion. the shark tank is getting a new name. a five-year deal is expected to be approved between s.a.p. global, the city of san jose and the sharks. it's thursday, let's get a look at the forecast outside. nice day today. >> nice day at the new home of

the s.a.p. pavilion. we are mostly cloudy all the way down the coastline. not for long, though. the sun is breaking through. it's a matter of hours before full sunshine. over the greater bay area, 95 degrees for friday. we'll see the heat crank on saturday. hope you have a great thursday.

♪ welcome to "today" on this thursday morning june the 6th, 2013. >> is that maroon 5? >> i don't know, sounded like adam levine. >> we should try to figure out who the song is. >> parachute. >> we like being surprised every day. >> we don't know. >> we are going to do songs this summer too. yesterday was the decoy. >> the decoy. >> we swear we're doing them today. >> you sure? >> yes. >> no surprises with my dad showing up. >> no. that was a yesterday situation. >> okay. >> today is june the 6th, 2013,

the anniversary of d-day. more importantly, it's natalie morales' birthday. >> no, not more important. >> happy b-day. >> we're going to be celebrating all morning long. >> i'm going to put you to the test in a little bit, see who knows me better. al and i, we've been working together for so many years. >> i've been doing a little studying. our take one, kindness turns out in one case may not pay. 84-year-old gloria c. mackenzie was the woman who won the $590 million jackpot prize becoming the largest sole lottery winner in the history of the united states. she chose the lump sum payment of more than $370 million after taxes comes out to $270 million. >> aunt gloria. >> so are a lot of people today. >> so she buys the winning quick pick ticket. >> right. >> after a stranger, a very nice woman -- >> at the local publics, a the

the grocery store. >> sees sweet gloria, she walks with a cane and says why don't you go in front of me? you get your lottery ticket first. and it was a quick pick. >> it doesn't matter. >> there's no guarantee that number would come up. >> no, there's no guarantee. >> what are the chances? what are the odds? i mean -- we've heard 1 in how many hundred million. >> she stepped aside maybe cost herself $590 million. but also reporting that gloria mackenzie plans to split the money with her son scott. >> doesn't she have other kids? >> she has a daughter. >> this is why it gets interesting. there's scott and another son and two daughters. >> four children. she says she's splitting the money with scott. >> but she's not really saying i'm not giving the money -- we don't know. >> she didn't mention the others. >> and scott was there with her yesterday when we saw her on camera. >> that's truly the ultimate mom's always liked you best. >> yeah. and why is it gloria took so long to come forward? >> well, she says she was sorting out the finances and all the legal questions that were going to come -- >> making sure the other kids are not included.

we're kidding. gloria's probably a sweet, sweet lady and i'm sure she's going to take care of a lot of people. >> scottie, you done good, man. all right. let's move to our take two. these are the songs of the summer. we promised you these yesterday. we faked natalie out. summer is in full swing. it's always good to check out what those songs are going to be stuck in everybody's head all summer. the music app shazaam, you know it. >> i love that app. who is that song? oh, yeah, shazaam it. >> and last year, they predicted before summer that it would be the song of the summer. not a bad choice. so this summer, here are the predictions from shazaam. rank number three, "i love it." ♪ i don't care i love it >> good song. >> yeah. i can see that. it's got a lot happening. >> i drove my car into the bridge. >> and i loved it. >> runner-up here for the summer

song passengers "let her go." ♪ lights burning low >> i like that. here in a little bit. >> yeah, sounding like donovan. >> is that how it goes? that is not the song of the summer. >> and shazaam's number one pick for the summer song. >> yes. "get lucky." >> with farrell. >> how do you explain "get lucky." >> we had the song the other day. >> the theme song for grace mackenzie. >> getting lucky because they bought the power ball ticket. >> we had this song on, great song, infectious, the kids come

in, i stayed up all night long to get lucky and christina goes, turn that down. >> that's not what he's saying all that much. >> kids going to kindergarten singing about getting lucky. >> you've got to get lucky. >> do you have a song of the summer? you like that one. >> i really do like that song. i picked another one i can't remember. what was it called? oh, you know that song? "next to me." >> no, that was earlier this year. >> earlier this year and some of last year. >> she made her name at the london olympics. >> she was -- i know she was on the show. she did the opening and closing ceremonies. >> it's not going to be the song of the summer. >> y know what, i'm going back to ring. >> it's always good and it's always every summer. >> thank you. >> they'd like their song back. >> i like that song. >> oh, they're great. ♪

>> yeah, that's a great song. >> great running song. all right. okay. >> anyway. >> let's play this game. you guys work with me. it is a big birthday. let's see who really knows me here. >> okay. >> so let's get to the question. where are my questions? here we go. >> what animal would i want to be and why? you get multiple choice here. a, would be cheetah to be fast and furious, b, would be a hyena because i sound like one when i laugh. c, sloths because they get to laze around all day. >> cheetah. >> cheetah, yeah, a. >> okay. that was just the warm-up. okay. how would i fill in or finish this sentence. i'm a natural born -- this could go so many ways. >> oh, dear. >> a, dancer. >> no. >> b -- >> singer? >> singer. >> no, ma'am. >> c, artist.

>> i'd have to go with artist. >> we know it ain't the other two. >> are those the only choices? >> clearly i'm the only one who knows my talent. i'm a singing dancer. >> okay. >> i'm going with dancer. >> are we in a parallel universe where good is bad. >> yes, i have my own little dance party. >> i'm glad you think so. >> and i think i'm good. okay. so what is my middle name? and how do you pronounce it? >> oh. >> did you study so well you would know this? >> no, i know everything else about you, but nothing. >> nothing. >> boris. >> boris? not boris. >> what is it? >> it's elle. >> laticia. >> my sister-in-law's name is

latice. >> can i say something else? she graduated from rutgers suma kumlade. >> she's a good singer. >> dancer. i'm a good dancer. i'm not claiming to be a good singer. i know better than that. a lot of news to talk about. the white house is defending the need to collect phone records of u.s. citizens calling it a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats. the comment followed a report in britain's "guardian" newspaper that verizon is giving the national security information about phone calls on an ongoing and daily basis. the paper said phone records were collected on millions of americans regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrong doing. a collapsed building in philadelphia searched through the night for more possible victims. at least six people were killed and 14 hurt when part of a building being demolished

crashed into a salvation army thrift store on wednesday. a 61-year-old woman was rescued alive from the rubble last night after being trapped for 13 hours. a house committee has proved tough new measures aimed at cutting down on sexual assaults in the military. those measures include taking away the power of commanders to overturn rape and assault convictions. they also require that punishment for anyone convicted of rape or sexual assault include dismissal from the military or dishonorable discharge. a vote in the full house is expected next week. hope this morning for a 10-year-old girl in philadelphia who needs a lung transplant. on wednesday, a federal judge temporarily allowed her name to move on to the adult list for transplants instead of having to wait until she is 12. the ruling applies only to sarah, the girl's mother says they are beyond thrilled but doctors still need to find a suitable match. and if dogs could win oscars, well, this one would be

a shoo-in for best actor. take a look. >> bang -- >> even better in slow motion. >> slow motion. it's a slow death. i like the way he's slowly falling down. very cute. >> ready for his close-up. >> yes, i think so. make sure he doesn't chew the scenery. >> oh, boo. >> all right. you're up to date. >> thanks, natalie. how about a check of the weather? >> all right. >> he did the slow-mo version too. >> we've got andrea out there. our first tropical storm of the season moving at north-northeast, 160 miles west of tampa, florida. and we've got a tornado watch in effect until 11:00. it makes this thing going up the coast comes onshore this afternoon. and then continues along the

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>> good morning. >> we're going to make it a competition. we're armed with our letters here. multiple choice. >> sounds good. >> maria, get us started. >> all right. here's the deal. you are at a party and you mistakenly pick up your friend's husband's phone and see racy text messages between him and someone who is not his wife. you, a, do nothing and pretend you don't see it. best not to interfere. b, confront him. or c, tell her what you saw. >> how good of friends are we talking? >> good. pretty good. >> all right. well, the correct answer, b and c. >> b and c. >> willie, you would really confront him? >> perhaps, on this show, i would -- no, i wouldn't get in his face but talk to him about it. >> well, the reason why is a real friend would tell you if your fly is down. a real friend would tell you if you had spinach in your teeth. and a real friend would tell you if your husband's cheating on you. and the best thing is to give

the guy a chance to make things right. let him know you're going to be spilling the beans and give an opportunity to make a mends. >> this is your friend tommy and his new facebook profile photo. in his facebook page, he mentions the company where he works and he mentions his position at the company. would you, a, suggest he take the facebook photo off, b, say nothing to tommy? or c, click the like button? >> why would you say something to tommy? it's uncomfortable. >> you want to help him. he's your friend. >> that's right. >> it's like good grief, man. >> he probably -- >> long enough to think about what you're doing. >> he probably isn't aware that employers are now looking at the social networks of employees and future job candidates, this could come back to haunt him. >> that's an easy one. you've got to help out your friend. >> so how about this one. your brother-in-law wants you to

lend him $5,000. now, you have the money but you were saving it for a family vacation. what do you do? a, tell a white lie and say you don't have the money because it's not worth burning bridges with family members. b, tell him you do have the money but you're not willing to lend it to him. or, c, lend him the money even though you don't want to. >> what does he need it for? >> what does he need the money for? >> make it up. use your imagination. >> awesome, b is the right answer because the truth always wins especially when it's delivered with love and compassion. >> if it was for a life-saving operation, then maybe, okay, hold on. >> how you tell him is just as important. >> so your spouse wakes up with a terrible hangover and your spouse says to you, i want to call into work sick. would you, a, suggest that the spouse go to work anyway and get through the day. b, call in sick, you suggest, or c, use a personal day?

what would you recommend to your spouse? >> "c." >> take a personal day and you would say call in sick. you would suggest -- >> i'm sorry, they're one in the same to me. take the day off. >> but "b," is lying. tell your spouse to lie. >> oh, sorry. >> now we'll know why. >> we know where your impulse is, willie. we're all tied. >> even steven. that's the ethically responsible thing to do. even though a lot of people, in fact, lie just because they would do it. >> there's some sort of award. >> yeah. >> oh. judge judy. >> a framed picture of judge judy for you, al. >> you know, it's kind of like we've been juggling our ethics, you know. so coming up, we're going to be juggling.

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is felony impersonation. police say he mailed phony fliers meant to discredit a city council candidate in 2010. the d.a.'s office says evidence found on one of the mailers matches shirakawa's dna. we'll check the forecast and look at the roads after the break.

welcome back now. the time is 9:28. look at this. the sky is clearing up very quickly in san francisco right on time. as we head through the next hour, we'll see complete sunshine just like we're already getting at this hour in sunol. highs, because of the sunshine coming in today, will be warmer. 85 in livermore. 77 in santa teresa. 74 for fremont. cool in san francisco but those days are numbered. we have a major warm-up headed our way friday into saturday. a slight chance of rain at the coast on sunday. let's find out what's going on

in the traffic department. >> looking over here toward the peninsula, much smoother now that a disabled motorcycle has been moved after a traffic break was in the center divide. still some slowing but it will recover quickly. other side of the bay, south 880 approaching mission and tesla, look at that jam-up. no accidents reported but something is going on. here on the bay bridge toll plaza, no back-up. and the north bay, slow southbound san rafael which is just starting to move much better. >> mike, thanks. we'll be back at 9:56 with our next local news update. see you then.

♪ welcome back to "today" on a very special day, june 6th, 2013. it is natalie's birthday and her parents came in from florida to surprise her a few minutes ago. we wanted to make this day a little extra special. natalie, you the other day talked about the toupee from your wedding photograph. i think we have it here that your father wore. >> you kind of outed him because we didn't know. >> you didn't notice? >> no. >> look at that. how could you not notice? >> it looks fine to me. >> it looked okay. >> so we have ceremonial ribbon cuttings from time to time. >> toupee cutting. >> today, a ceremonial toupee cutting for you, mr. morales. >> why did you hold on to that? >> he holds on to everything.

>> for this show. >> he knew this day would come. >> my dad holds on to everything. my mom wanted him to get rid of it. >> natalie, this is what you've been waiting for. >> i really wanted to burn this thing. >> oh! >> all right. >> enough, enough. >> that's all right. >> wow. >> the rat rug. >> the rug is gone. >> may he rest in peace. >> as he said to the comb, we'll never part again. >> doesn't he look so much more youthful? >> yeah. >> you're not going to tell us any secrets about your mom, are you? >> no, but it's her birthday on monday. we get a little birthday weekend out of it, right? >> right. >> natalie, is this now officially the strangest birthday of your life? >> very weird.

>> we're so glad you all could make the trip. coming up this half hour, we've got some more fun for you. three sets of twins showing off their skills, only one pair, though, can be crowned "today's" best. that's just a few minutes. >> what's happening? >> that is so bizarre. >> dueling twins. >> can we see that one more time? >> go back to that. maybe not. >> the one-time event. it will never be repeated. also ahead, the best beauty buys, the long lasting lipstick getting a workout. there's no shortage of people willing to give that a try there. >> okay. america's favorite family of italians, the scottos, they're heading back to their italian roots with simple dishes. including a fast go-to tomato sauce that anthony's great, great, great grandfather made for caesar.

>> always wanted to meet the scottos, now they get to. >> the moraleses, the scottos, the twins, the other twins. what a show. >> all that's left is to do the weather. let's show you what we've got for today. wet weather up and down the east coast. eastern half of the country really, risk of strong storms with andrea coming onshore. risk of strong weather also back to west texas. beautiful out west and through the northern plains. tomorrow, more rain along the eastern seaboard as andrea makes its way up the coast, risk of tornadoes along the atlantic coast. that's what's 9:33. good thursday morning to you. you're so close to the weekend. temperatures are going to climb rapidly between now and saturday. that is the warning i have for you. but you can see over san jose, just a little bit of haze right now.

temperatures with all that sunshine coming in early are going to end up warmer than yesterday. 77 in san jose. that goes for santa teresa and los gatos. 76 in san rafael and 81 for napa. here's the heat wave i promised you. 95 for friday. 97 by saturday. >> it's dark in here. >> yes. we're always hearing about the latest and greatest beauty products on the market. but today, we've got the items that not only the pros recommend, but they actually use on themselves. >> for the last 18 years in style magazine, research of best in beauty come out with the editors' top pick. here with a few of them. good morning. >> good morning. >> first of all, the beauty lip color. tell us about this. >> yeah, so tom ford beauty lip color was the clear winner in this category. tom ford launched the line in 2010 with 12 shades of lipsticks and really perfected it. they're loaded with exotic

butters and oils and go on really great. >> even tested on a mug. >> yes, they stay put. and the company doesn't claim them to be long lasting, but they are. >> next, the blush that's the best two in one product. >> this is a golden blond bronzer, highlighter and rosy blush that gives a nice glow. our model has it on one side and i'm going to put it on her other side. it brightens her cheeks. you can wear them separately or you can take the brush across. >> self-tanner. >> so this is dr. dennis gross glow pads for body. they exfoliate as they tan. she put it on last night and after an hour, there you have it. so it's a pad -- >> better even her out. >> yeah, you can go ahead and even yourself out with this pad right here. >> what about nail art? >> nail art is a new category for best beauty buys. we know it's a huge trend in

beauty and magnetic nail polish won in this category. it has a magnet at the lid at the top. so you hold it over the wet nail and creates this really cool holographic effect. >> oh, cool. >> look. >> there you go. and we like it because it's sophisticated. it's not, you know, like wearing nail stickers or polka dots. >> and it lasts like nail polish. >> and our "today" intern what you call the best beauty product. >> it's a new product from john frieda. really light serum that will not weigh your hair down. >> her left side is already done. >> her left side, we actually straightened with a flat iron and this is her natural wavy texture. and it takes away the frizz. >> and you shouldn't do this to people you don't know. >> yes, we made friends. >> all right. >> thank you. coming up next, it's a toss-up who's going to be crowned today's quest for the

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>> i understand that you guys play them sort of differently. >> yes. we use an rc3 loop station and we're able to record live our rhythm harmony and percussion and then we play melody over it. >> oh. take it away. >> fellas, let's hear you do your thing. >> sure. cool. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ >> yeah. >> all right. >> good song choice. >> impressive. >> unique, different. nothing i'd ever seen before. >> okay. cool. let's move on to the next. this is david and scott from middletown, ohio. i think we know what your talent is based on what you're holding there. and the matching shirts, by the way, give you a decided advantage. how long you been juggling together, guys? >> 30 years. and we passed our skills along to our children now. >> go ahead. >> let's get out of the way. ♪ >> in addition to our regular jobs as juggling, we also moonlight at top male model.

let's stick to the juggling today. we're going to do some passing. first over the shoulder, behind the back. >> oh. >> under the leg. >> whoa. >> over the top. this can be quite a workout and we're both trying to lose some weight. we've been on a diet for a month and so far we have lost 30 days. right now things are going much faster sort of like our hair loss. >> three. >> nice! >> juggling and comedy. >> both separately difficult things to pull off. you pulled off both things. i'm impressed. >> we like. >> okay. and last but not least, let's get to camille and courtney. not just talented singers, track stars at new mexico state. you often compete against each other, as well. who wins? >> we take turns.

>> let's hear it. >> all right. ♪ everybody needs it everybody wants it ♪ ♪ everybody searching for someone ♪ ♪ down a thousand highways i never thought it would end ♪ ♪ baby i've been waiting all my life to find you ♪ ♪ always been one step behind you ♪ ♪ your love baby i've been waiting all my life ♪ >> nice. beautiful voices. >> you got your work cut out for you. >> beautiful. >> we have a few seconds. >> make a decision. >> quickly, quickly, ladies. >> they don't do anything quickly. >> time is of the essence. >> okay. drum roll. >> we have a decision. >> okay.

who is it? >> to surprise us, we have chosen the juggling twins. very unique. very unique. >> what do they win, guys? >> they win lots of good movies and candy. and a tandem bike. >> and a tandem bicycle. >> gentlemen, congratulations. >> congratulations to all of you. you did a great job. >> by the way, we are launching our very next quest for the best. we're looking for the best wedding band in america. go to today.com to submit a video of your tango, whatever it is, three couples will win a trip to new york city and a chance to compete live in studio. coming up next, the scottos take a trip to the old country and going to share some simple family recipes right after this. [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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[ dad ] jan? this morning on today's kitchen melting pot. >> maryann scotto can trace her roots to a region located on the italian peninsula. >> and here with cuisine from the old country, fresco by scotto. >> we've got 2 1/2 minutes.

>> all this food are recipes from clalabria. >> and we can read about it on the website. >> oh, al, you're rushing me. >> i am. >> we're making it. >> garlic, red pepper flakes. >> yes, saute it, fresh tomatoes from the farm. >> which is a great time right now. lots of fresh stuff. >> and, of course, we put a little salt, little pepper. >> little rub. >> basil. perfume. >> right. so you cook it down. >> homemade pasta. >> boom. >> 20 minutes. 20 minutes. >> now we're making chicken. >> chicken, pork, right, mom? pork is very big. great, everything from the sea. it's chicken, sausage and vegetables. i've already browned off some of the chicken and sausage you see here. we're going to add that back to

the pot. i'm going to add your mushrooms, potatoes red and yellows, peppers, onions. we put that all together. you're going to reduce that down, add a little stock, add a little butter. always better with butter. >> always better. >> and a little bit of balsamic vinegar to give it the flavor. >> how long will you cook it down? >> 25, 30 minutes, that's what it's going to look like. >> about the family, when they came over. >> oh, really? >> yeah, we can talk about it, right? >> well, they opened -- there's the photo. >> there we go. >> mom's taking her time back there. >> come back here. >> time for dessert. chocolate covered oranges. >> you know what, oranges are plentiful in calabria. we melt them here. we melt i on boiling water and then you just -- whoops you dip it with a fork. just do that all over again. we just dip it in and then we put it in our pistachio and you

let it cool about 20, 30 minutes. and we like to top it off with fresh creme. >> and these are blood oranges, right? >> no, these are navel oranges. >> like i said. >> big oranges. >> big oranges. >> and big orange. >> careful with your hands there. anthony and elena of fresco by scotto. we'll be back in a moment, but first this is "today" on nbc.

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the employee contracted the virus after eating frozen berries recently pulled off shelves at costco. people are being told not to take medications they received from those pharmacies because they could be contaminated. menlo park's bellhaven neighborhood is liking the three-year lease for the new substation at the corner of willow road and hamilton avenue. facebook is pledging more than $215,000 to overhaul the building. looks like the coast is clearing. let's get a look at the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you. that's exactly the case. but dealing with flight delays out of sfo. i'm monitoring your sky and i wouldn't be surprised to see those lifted throughout the next half hour. still at one hour right now out of sfo. on time out of oakland and san jose. we have a warm day ahead because of these clearing clouds. 85 in livermore. 98 degrees by saturday.

temperatures are going to continue to climb. we have a rapid warm-up headed our way. it's going to be hot around here. saturday, 97 degrees. cooling you down on sunday. a slight chance for a coastal shower. let's check the drive with mike. >> note that chance of a shower. looking toward fremont, we have a good chance that you're having a smoother drive now. the southbound side, just started clearing over the last few minutes. we had a good back-up all the way down to mission. the last ten minutes, very good down into the south bay. we have a new crash that was clearing south 680. around the bend, smooth out of sunol. peninsula side still slow down southbound 101 through palo alto but the earlier stall has cleared. >> we'll be back at 10:26 with our next local news update. see you then.

>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, erybody, it's thirst-day thursday, june 6th here in beautiful new york city. how you doing, everybody? glad you're here with us. >> we certainly are. when you look at the papers every morning -- >> you never know what they're going to say. >> sometimes it's a great headline and sometimes it's kind of a sad one. today at least in the new york paper there is were two sad headlines. it was, it's about paris jackson, michael jackson's daughter, and there are reports that she tried to commit

suicide. >> yeah. well apparently it's true. because there was a family statement as well. but she tweeted the night, the very night before she tweeted the lyrics to the beatles song "yesterday,". >> and she tweeted "i wonder why tears are salty." >> you don't hear paris tweet a lot and a couple of days ago she tweeted something that popped up on youtube. you have to hear her speak. she's talking about putting makeup on. take a look and listen. >> you know me, you're pretty familiar with me. my eye makeup and those of you who have not seen me without makeup. well, hello. i need serious help. i'm crazy. i am crazy. anyway, if this helped, i doubt it did, yeah. so this is me with no makeup.

>> so that's different than the video i meant. i meant -- i didn't know we were going to show that one. the video i think she did an interview with oprah. she seemed like a darling young unaffected teenaged girl. this one she seems quite troubled, very troubled to me. >> so there are signs there of trouble, i think. >> "people" magazine confirmed that she cut her wrist and swallowed a bottle of motrin. this is one of those things where you wouldn't weather the family is going to be doing. she's been spending some time with her biological mother. >> debbie rohe. and she also, i didn't know the jackson family told a source at "e" news that she had been hospitalized for depression. when you think about it, depression seems like an older person's disease. it isn't this is a young girl. but look at the way she was raised. she's never really known her biological mother. she's 15 years old, she lost the love of her life, her dad.

it's a very dysfunctional family. katherine is the executor of their will. she's in the hospital. she feels lost. crying out. >> katherine did release a statement saying that paris is physically fine and getting appropriate medical attention. being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult, no matter who you are. it's especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. please respect her privacy and the family's privacy. >> which no one ever does. it's too big a story. anything to do -- there are some reports that she was very upset about the trial that's going on with the company that was going to be producing michael's "this is it" final concert series. and she was going to have to testify. now i don't know, that's not confirmed. but that's another report i read. now think about it, the little girl who spent a lot of her childhood behind a veil, you know just learning now how to be a normal kid. and then, normal, who is normal any more, anyway, certainly not

children of michael jackson and then all of a sudden she's worried about oh, my gosh, i'm going to have to testify about -- i just wish the lawsuit would go away and everybody could just, there's so much money at stake. it always comes down to that, right? >> you're right. >> our prayers go out to this beautiful, beautiful young girl that she gets the help she needs. changing gears a little bit. last night jimmy fallon always has his fun with people. >> yes. sometimes it's not us and that's good. >> he decided to have some fun with brian williams, he was trying to figure out what it would be like if brian williams covered snoop dogg and dr. dre's "ain't nothing but a g thing." is that what i think it is? >> anyway, let's watch. >> here's a clip of nbc news anchor brian williams edited to make did look like he's performing the snoon dogg classic "ain't nothing but a g thing." ♪ one two, three, four

♪ snoop doggie dog and dr. dre ♪ nothing but a g thing ♪ so death role is the label that haze me ♪ ♪ so just chill to the next episode ♪ >> that's genius. that's genius. >> that is so good. >> four years to compile that amount, get him actually saying the words they needed. >> they needed dre, imagine trying to chop that up. >> where did they get g, where did that come from? "nothing but a g thing." on another note, last night was the cmt country music television awards. >> congratulations to carrie underwood. >> she is so classy. >> she won for the video. year "blown away." she did a great performance, a tribute to the folks of oklahoma her home state. it was beautiful, there was a gospel choir and i think we have a clip of that.

♪ stay strong ♪ and i hold on ♪ because i know ♪ i'll see you again ♪ oh ♪ this life doesn't end ♪ i will carry ♪ you with me ♪ i will see you again >> she's a great singer on her own, you add the choir element. hello, hallelujah. and blake. >> and miranda, they took home best male and female hosts, videos of the year. congratulations to both of them. >> blake wasn't able to be there, so miranda accepted on his behalf saying honey i'm drinking for two tonight. >> of course she is. >> tell me the truth, hoda. >> i'm very happy. >> do you think that marriage will last or what? >> i do, i do. >> i already have a blake shelton at home. >> did you give him a middle

name shelton? >> no. >> blake shelton kotb. >> i dngt mean that, just blake. >> finally the lottery winner has emerged. >> waiting and waiting. >> could she be cuter? >> she's 84-year-old gloria mckenzie. >> she kept it secret, it's a hard thing to keep secret in that town. she lives in a very modest home, that's her son walking with her. she won -- $590 million. which when you get your pay-out of that, it's -- >> $371 million. but that's before taxes. so you know, i think she's probably in the 1%. >> she's going to split it with her son. >> she apparently has four children. so that's going to be an interesting family dynamic. >> so here's the cool thing. >> when she was buying her ticket, she's in a line at publix. and a woman who was in front of her with her, i guess her kids said to her, why don't you go ahead of me. why don't you get your ticket ahead of me. >> slees an 84-year-old lady.

>> the woman went ahead of her, bought the winning ticket. the woman thinks she might be the woman who allowed gloria to go ahead of her. let's listen to her for a second. >> the joke was, watch it will probably be the lady that went in front of you. luck of the draw. >> that's what the cashier said to her, watch, it will be the lady who went in front of you. you know what, here's the way i want the end of the story to be. i want the sweet little gloria lady that won it all, to discover who that young girl is right there in her own neighborhood and i want her to share the wealth with her. >> good idea. >> share it, share it. >> we usually pay it forward, kindnesses, this one, pay this one backward. she got in the back of her and it looks like she's got kids. >> okay, grandma? that would be awesome. >> here's the best i-hoda song. and it happens to be blake shelton's not because of anything, but because i love this song a lot. it's called "the boys round here" a little country, a little rappy. crank it.

>> you know you're going to lose me, hoda? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that doesn't actually rhyme. >> chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit.

wait, wait, wait. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> isn't that fun? >> i have to say, i adore blake, i adore blake and i see why people love him. but four things in a row that don't rhyme, dougie, truckee. >> ice cold beer, boys round here. >> that's the only rhyme. i'm a purist. can we -- >> can we go back? >> no. ♪ don't take no lip ♪ chew tobacco ♪ chew tobacco ♪ chew tobacco, spit. >> is it okay to have a quickie engagement. this is what we had to say. >> you can only decide for

yourself if it's okay. but we all know love is an untamed beast. and some ride it for all it's worth. others take their time. >> nice, klg. >> thank you. >> if it lasts, who cares how long the engagement is. >> your mother. >> maybe. probably not. >> it's true. it's true. >> you guys, they were ambushed on the plaza and swept into our makeup room. two lucky ladies show off their new looks. and a new tune, we've got a great story coming up with leona and a new tune, we've got a great[ male announcer ]ith leona this is bob, a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested.

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>> she's been busy with a recurring role on lifetime army show "army wives." she plays a mom with the right mix of spirit, hospitality and swagger even when she's struggling, take a look. >> you know money has been tight. >> you pawned your grandmother's pearls? >> we were out of cash. >> you could have used credit. >> no. i don't buy anything i can't pay for, you know that quincy. i never carry debt and i ain't starting now. >> you loved that necklace. >> look, i felt every piece of jewelry i owned to help keep us afloat. so long as we're together. >> look at you doing the right thing. >> look at you. >> you're always here with your mom who is such a huge, huge part of your career and that was her favorite show because she grew up in an army family. >> she was an army brat, my grandfather was in the army. so how crazy and small-world i'm ever ending up on a show like

this. >> have you ever disappointed her? >> cute, cute. >> that's a good question. >> have you ever done something that she was just not proud of you? >> yeah. >> would you care to share? >> let me see, anything i care to share? i don't think she was like proud of my first hickey. >> she probably could relate. >> that was a curling iron burn. >> that's a burn. >> acting is a new muscle for you to work and how were you able just do learn that skill set. because that's something different for you. >> it was totally different than anything i've ever done. i'm done broadway, feature films, but being on a series and having the responsibility of knowing your lines and you're there all day from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. it's a lot, you know. >> it ain't the rock star life. >> it's definitely not. exact opposite. >> but you did get to film it in

gorgeous charleston, south carolina. a great spot. >> wonderful town. >> amazing there and the restaurants, the food is actually amazing. >> i'm still getting rice spoones if people down there. especially george. we loved it down there. thank you, george. >> talk babout your music, your single out and talk about the new cd. >> it's called "braveheart." >> your own label. >> yes. >> you're really fancy with your own label. >> i try to be. it's a lot of responsibility and i put my heart and soul into it. it's a little different kind of being on your own and it makes you just become way more involved, way more hands on. >> did you want more control and that's why you left? >> a little bit of both. i definitely wanted more control and the social networking and social media. you can kind of do it yourself now. without giving a huge percentage to the majors. that 40/6 0 deal. no. >> does it make it harder to

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that's gorgeous, gorgeous. 19-year-old college student holly tucker in her shining moment on nbc's "the voice" as she performed a tribute, a beautiful tribute to the victims of the moore, oklahoma tornado. >> it was terrific. but with the competition heating up as we head into the semifinals, holly was voted off and sent home, leading to a heated twitter battle. the good news is, we get to meet holly right now. >> yes and you know who came to your defense? >> oh yeah. >> blair. >> is there a day we go by without saying his name, blake. >> let's talk about your moment on stage. it was one of those things emotions are running high and i

know did must have been, it must have been disappointing that -- >> yeah. i mean i just kept thinking how much like you know, i'm so grateful to have been here and so blessed. but i was going to miss my teammates a lot. and we've become so close, we are a real family and i love them to death and i'm rooting for them all the way. >> you're going to have a long career. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about this tweetgate thing that's going on. apparently there was some critic, a guy named joe guerrero from the "houston chronicle," who wrote something stupid like he was glad you were eliminated and blake was angry about what he had to say. so we had to edit blake's down into one of his more tv-appropriate tweets. he it reads people like you, joey, that make me sick, holly is not only a talented singer but a great person who is simply chasing a dream. what do you think about this twitter war that's going on in the background as you're living

your life? >> kind of like you guys said, everybody is going to have their own opinions, you've got to take it in stride and use it to be your motivation. it's fuel for my fire, it doesn't bother me, but seeing blake stick up for me like that and knowing that that's my coach right there. and that's -- >> he's got my back. >> doesn't have to do that. >> he doesn't. >> he's doing it because it's real and nobody ever knew this guy's name before this happened. i'm sorry we even said it because you know what, you'll have critics for the rest of your life. the sooner you learn you no to get, don't even read it, you go out there every single time and you sing and you do the best you can. >> what did blake say to you after you were eliminated, quickly? >> it was all kind of emotional for all of us. i think that he didn't really say much. he just kind of held me for a minute. >> that's all it takes. >> i felt he was just telling me, it's all going to be okay. >> well, it is. >> you're 19 years old, you're beautiful and you are talented as all get-out.

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test. test. test. it is 10:26 now. good morning. i'm marla tellez. less than eight hours away from president obama arriving in the bay area. air force one is scheduled to touch down at moffett field in mountain view at 6:00 tonight. from there he will go to palo alto for a fund-raising

reception at a private home. then it's off to portillo valley for dinner and more fund-raising at another private home. the president will then make his way to san jose where he will stay the night and deliver remarks on health care. after the break, we'll look at the forecast and check the roads.

welcome back now. the time is 10:28. look at the clearing sky over san francisco. that's all that's left of that low cloud cover. and as a result of the sunshine coming in, so quickly, we're

going to see a warmer day by about 5 to 8 degrees on average. 85 in livermore. 85 in fairfield. and 85 in napa. to the weekend, temperatures to heat up to near record levels. friday and saturday both looking hot. >> east bay getting clear as is the bay bridge toll plaza. the metering lights are off. we'll look toward oakland, 880 was slowing, northbound, just north of the coliseum. much thinner traffic over the last half year. a look at the peninsula side, no problems for palo alto. watch for local road closures because of the president's visit. >> mike, thanks. we have a quick programming note to pass along to you. french open tennis will be aired in place of our 11:00 newscast today and also tomorrow. so today and tomorrow, no 11:00 show. for the day's top stories, be sure to check us out tonight at 5:00 and as always online. stay up to date on

nbcbayarea.com. we hope to see you back here tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. ♪ ♪ >> we're> back for this thirst thursday, with our ambush makeover. >> picked by our makeover team. >> working their magic as always, today contributor and stylist to the stars -- lois! i want to describe to hoda what an actual rhyme is. today contributor and style watch contributing editor and author, joe martin. tell us who you were able to find. it was a busy day on the plaza. >> busy day. it's a beautiful day. i think it's the last beautiful day of the week actually. >> they're changing their minds. it will get better over the weekend. >> oh, really? what's going on this week, we

found two great ladies, one in her 80s, and one much younger. >> and the lottery winner here. >> here we go. lisa hayslip is our first lucky lady from oklahoma. after surviving the devastation of oklahoma recently, we wanted to get the whole family together. they packed up their troubles and came to new york and wanted to get pampered for a few hours. so let's listen to her story. >> i can only imagine what you've been through, but everybody is okay. so tell me what it was like for you. >> the sirens went off, we went to the basement. everybody is safe. tornado, to problem, it was all good. >> so grateful. now you're here in new york. and we get to pamper you for three hours. what do you think about that? >> i am so totally excited. this is the best ever. >> tim, i know you're happy about this. >> absolutely. >> what do you think?

what do you think about a glam mom. >> i just want her to be sexy. >> we got it. >> i want a hot mama. >> wow! >> a hot mama she will be. she's here with her husband, tim. daughter lauren, lauren's boyfriend, adam, and a whole bunch of other family members. okay. all right. we're going to take one last look at lisa. please keep your blindfolds on. here is the new lisa. come on out. >> oh, my gosh! >> all right. you guys ready? take off your blindfolds. take them off. >> wow is right. >> lisa? >> oh, my gosh! >> you look hot. >> her nail polish matches her dress. >> you look gorgeous. >> look right here at the camera number 12. look what you did. wow. >> this is, of course, you can

tell by the way the layers are placed, how it blends all together. i softened the color, added a few highlights. together you are a hot mama. her daughter wanted her to be hotter and was asking her about breast implants. i don't know why. >> she doesn't need them. >> what a body, jill. >> tim, tell us real quick about what you think of her look. >> she looks amazing. she's always kind of -- a little bit of coloring with her hair. but that -- >> be careful. >> well, you know. that looks amazing. >> and lauren, are you excited? >> i can't wait for atlantic city. >> that looks great. >> you noticed her nails? your favorite color is turquoise. she wanted to match that to this dress. they thought they were celebrities. >> that's amazing. love it. >> big round of applause for

lisa and her family. our second lady is mary parsons. today is her 85th birthday. she's from katy, texas. she's here visiting her daughter, granddaughter and two great grandsons. in honor of her 85th birthday, we decided to surprise her with a brand-in you look. let's hear her story. >> look at your beautiful family. four generations. >> aren't they wonderful? >> and happy birthday. 85th birthday. i can't believe it. >> thank you. believe it. >> i know you want to give this to your mother. >> it was a big surprise for her. we packed her up and brought her up here without knowing where we were going. when he came out of preschool, he had the sign and she started crying. so we drove from massachusetts to bring her over here today. >> are you going to cry a little more? >> yes, probably will. >> do you want to be on tv? >> say yeah. >> yes.

>> so sweet. okay. she is here with her daughter, caroline, her granddaughter amy, and two great grandsons jack and beau. let's take one last look at mary. and bring out the 85-year-old today. mary parsons. >> wow! >> oh, my gosh! >> stay right there. hey, everybody, take a look at grandma and great grandma. >> oh, my gosh! >> mary, you look pretty amazing. turn around, sweetie. >> it's me! >> it is you. you look great. and you're gorgeous. >> wow, mary. >> oh, my. >> i love your hair. >> you guys can't believe it, right? >> it's amazing. wash away the gray. it just washes away years. it's amazing. with this color, it's so close to her natural, that she won't

have an obvious root line. >> a mary martin cut. >> right. it gave her a pinch of color. remember, less is best. especially when we become a little more, you know, more mature. >> what do you think? caroline? >> unreal. the whole thing has been a fairy tale. >> beautiful. you look just beautiful. >> beautiful. >> oh! >> you look so beautiful. >> we had so much fun trying on everything. this is just the perfect fit from london times. celebrating her 85th birthday. >> what are you going to do to celebrate? >> this. >> this is it. >> big round of applause for both of them. [ applause ] good job, guys. nice job. a teen abler who faced tragedy and a blessing. right after this. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter...

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we're going to meet everyone in a moment. beautiful story. >> my story is about my daughter. almost ten years ago, her life changed. we lost our daughter, jessica clinton, at the age of 17. lauren lost her sister and her best friend from sudden cardiac arrest during cheleading practice. we didn't know jessica had might tral valve prolapse, a heart condition where one of the valves doesn't work properly. months went by and lauren found out she was pregnant at the age of 16. she knew she wanted to keep the baby, because she felt it was a gift from god and jessica. that day at the doctor's office, we made a promise to each other, that lauren would not only go to school, and finish, she would also graduate from college. we knew it wasn't going to be easy, but she was going to show

everyone that not all young mothers drop out of school. lauren has been blessed with a great husband and a new baby. her husband is in the army and has been stationed in japan for over two years. but on may 3rd lauren graduated from college in a degree in elementary education. we are so proud of her. her daughter is now 8 years old and is a great student and a great young girl. not only has lauren gone through school, but she has also helped me with keeping her sister's memory alive, by helping me with the jessica clinton foundation. it gives free heart screenings for children. i don't know if i would have made it through the loss of jessica if it wasn't for lauren, and my little angel. my husband and my daughter rachel would love you to let lauren know how proud we are of her, and that we knew she could do it. >> and you see why we picked that letter. it's an awesome story.

cheryl is here with lauren, and her beautiful children. >> he's going to get a kathie cd before he goes. congratulations. you leaned over to me and said, you were the loudest one there. this has been quite the journey you've all been on. >> it has. >> your deceased daughter's picture, what did you say to me? >> it never gets easier. >> but look what's been restored to you, two beautiful children. >> i think a lot of people, when they see a teenage mom, there is an instant stereotype in your head, television shows talk about it, and you wanted to sort of break that stereotype, didn't you? >> i was a good student. i was a good -- i'm a good person. i never wanted to be judged negative when i got a gift. and i owned up to my gift. >> did you ever think about not having that gift come into the world?

>> you might have for about two seconds. but i just knew she was -- she's mine. >> i love that you thought it was a gift from god, and your sister. >> a gift from god in the wa i that many people think you miss out on your teens. my way was, she kept me on the right direction. i went through a different way. i planned birthday parties, and everybody who knows me, i'm the over-doer. >> aren't you just melting? >> how old are you now, sweetheart? >> i'm 8. >> 8 years old. >> coming up, we have a special performance just for lauren by broadway star judy. >> tony winner many times. like over and over. >> i think 12. >> right after this. [ doorbell rings ] donuts? ♪

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we're back with everyone has a story winner. sheryl and her daughter lauren and lauren's kids, colleena and max. >> and now please welcome broadway performer, two-time tony award winner, with the song, "we are blessed." ♪ when we are very young ♪ and we first encounter sorrow ♪ ♪ we might think our life is done and there's no hope for tomorrow ♪ ♪ but if someone very strong ♪ can take life as it's given ♪ they can prove that nothing's wrong ♪ ♪ by the way that they keep living ♪ ♪ you were very young when the

pain and heartache started ♪ ♪ but you clearly weren't one to be dejected and down-hearted ♪ ♪ you chose instead to see all the gifts that might be waiting ♪ ♪ and your life turned out to be cause for joy and celebrating ♪ ♪ and the triumph that we see ♪ as we all look back today ♪ have truly come to be out of what happened on the way ♪ ♪ and all it only goes to show that with gratitude and grace ♪ ♪ we must always, always know ♪ there is nothing we can't face ♪ ♪ so your husband and your child ♪ ♪ and your loving family

♪ want to take this day to honor you for all you've come to be ♪ ♪ for the faith you've always shown that things all work for the best ♪ ♪ we have watched you as you've grown ♪ ♪ and we know that we are blessed ♪ ♪ by your willingness to live ♪ by your eagerness to give ♪ by the memories that we share ♪ ♪ by the love that's always there ♪ ♪ we are blessed

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and we're back with "everyone has a story" honoring a very, very special young woman, judy kay just sang a wonderful song, "we are blessed." >> sister rachel joined us along with the two davids. >> thanks, guys, judy, that was so beautiful. >> what did you guys think of your song? >> it made me cry. >> it was beautiful. >> thank you. >> there's a little something we're going to give away. lauren, we "now" know how busy you are with your stuff, we decided that our friends at yo-yo.com, each donated a $500

gift certificate to help you out with whatever you need. toys, beauty products, household items. and they'll have everything delivered right to your door. >> so anyway -- >> thanks. >> nice work if you can get it, how long, hon? >> until the 15th, then i've got a book, sue grafton book to read. >> we just got so much going on. two new shows, david. all right, so proud of our team. thank you, god bless. >> tomorrow, performance by the barenaked ladies. >> i'm going to join them. and jeffrey donovan. >> and a lot of great stuff. we'll see you guys then. have a great day, everybody! stight chance to play on

saturday. she lifted the championship trophy last year. and in paris it has just been determined that on saturday maria sharapova will play to defender her championship at the french open presented by longines on nbc. maria sharapova winning a third set against victoria azarenka, a set replete with long tense games with both aces and double faults for maria sharapova. >> john: amazing amount of lines. >> mary: she's so stubbornly believes in herself. even when things are going poorly she's going to believe and show this kind of resolve and boldness under the gun. >> john: the sheer joy,