red as it went into the shadow. a live pic at a tt&t park. 7:15 tonight, go, giants. morning. scene of destruction. powerful storms hammer the south, flipping cars and campers and injuring at least two people, while up north, it's back. snow makes a springtime comeback to chicago overnight. setback. the mini submarine searching for malaysia air flight 370 force to abandon its first mission. is this area just too deep to reach? courtroom dramatics. oscar pistorius re-enacts his attempt to break down his bathroom door, as his relentless cross examination finally comes to an end. and one year later, boston stays strong. natalie is live at the finish line of the marathon with emotional stories of recovery and remembrance, today, tuesday, april 15th, 2014.

>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to a tuesday morning of "today." i'm savannah guthrie. >> i'm carson daly alongside willie geist and dylan dreyer. matt and al have the morning off. anybody stay up for the blood moon last night? >> i did, and i took some fabulous pictures. let me show you. >> wow! >> yeah, that's some -- i took that with my iphone. >> slept in the orange room last night? >> exactly. no, i didn't stay up. did any of you? >> well, we couldn't see it here anyway. >> and wake up in time for it. >> and you're saying we're still here. some people saw this as a sign of the apocalypse. >> the world did not end, so everything you ate yesterday is going right on the hips. >> and if you missed that, it's happening like three more times in the next year, so drk. >> yes, in the next 18 months. three more chances. >> exactly.

well, we want to get to today's top story, and as we mentioned, natalie's in boston this morning. this is the one-year anniversary of the marathon bombings there, and 12 months later, the city and its people are still coming to grips with this tragedy as they prepare for this year's race. natalie, good morning to you. >> and good morning to you, savannah. and today will be a day of reflection remembrance. vice president joe biden, along with state and local officials, will lead a tribute here to the bombing's survivors, the victims' families and even that hero in the cowboy hat. then at the finish line, a moment of silence followed by church bells at the exact moment, 2:49 p.m., when the first blast went off. the words emerged almost as soon as the smoke was clear, boston strong. a city stopped feet from the finish line, a finish line they finally crossed. >> three, two, one! >> the one run for boston, a cross-country relay that began in california and finished with

runners and survivors walking across the finish line side by side. >> boston strong, baby! >> you get goose bumps. it's -- i don't feel like i deserved to cross that finish line. >> reporter: for the home of the world's most famed foot race, it has also been a marathon back. the street once blood-stained now repainted. boston has unfinished business. 20-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev, caught cowering in a backyard boat four frenetic days after the attack, now faces trial in november. >> it seems pretty clear that what dzhokhar tsarnaev's lawyers are going to argue is that he joe the older brother tamerlan killed in a hail of gunfire. but there are still unanswered questions. did the bombs mean they had more

targets like the fbi suggested? could his american-born widow hold clues to the brothers' motives? she and their 3-year-old daughter are now out of the spotlight venturing out to trips for dunkin' donuts and chipotle. when asked for more information about tamerlan, why did russia refuse to answer? for now a new starting line for next week's marathon in the race to replace what happened last year, respect for the victims and vigilance. >> our officers while i'm sure they've always been vigilant in the past, they're just going to be a little extra vigilant out there. >> reporter: they turned out 3,000 strongs for this "sports illustrated" cover shoot. crowded in copley square ready to show the world where this ends. and dzhokhar tsarnaev will face the death penalty when he goes to trial this fall. he has pleaded not guilty. but right now everyone here is focused on moving forward, looking ahead to monday's

marathon. and you better believe boston is ready to run again. >> and natalie, you have been in boston so many times visiting with survivors over the last year. what would you say the mood of the city is today as this anniversary is upon us? >> reporter: certainly a lot of mixed emotions here. you see obviously the strength and resilience of the survivors over the past year and how far they've come. but a lot of people as they approach today, this anniversary, but also looking ahead to monday, marathon monday which is a tradition for so many here to come out and cheer and stand alongside in the crowd. i think a lot of people have mixed emotions about whether or not they want to thj it may be a difficult thing for them to do to once again stand and cheer along without obviously thinking, you know, about what happened here a year ago. >> a lot of people want to make some new memories. thank you. we'll be back to you throughout the morning with more from boston. all right. meantime, dylan is here.

looks like it's going to be another rough day of weather here on the east coast. >> this is a fast-moving storm system that's already produced tornadoes, flooding rain, even snow. it's going to hit new parts of the south overnight and will continue to affect the east coast as it heads this way. >> you can see absolute chaos. upwards of 20 to 30 trailers destroyed. >> reporter: high winds in mississippi damaged dozens of trailers in this rv park where two people were trapped by debris. >> they believe they had a tornado come through the rv park here. we did have two people trapped. the fire department personnel were able to extract them and get them to the hospital. >> reporter: despite temperatures that soared into the 80s last weekend in chicago, winter's last blast blew through the windy city overnight dropping up to 3 inches across the area coating spring flowers and back yard barbecues.

and just adds many people are ready for spring, a fast-moving storm system sucker punched parts of michigan, nebraska, and texas with snow, hail, and heavy rains causing flooding along the red river in minnesota. and as that storm moves eastward, it's in the form of mainly rain for now. a and we are looking at delays possible through the big hubs. especially in atlanta this morning and then through the afternoon as we work our way through the northeast. by charlotte, baltimore later on today. new york city. it's rain and wind. and boston, rain and wind as well. you can see some of the really strong storms moving right through tallahassee. but up across atlanta, it's really just some showers. conditions are improving there. but we'll see the system make its way up in the northeast with the snow on the backside of it. tomorrow morning, we could see this whole thing end with a bit of snow. it certainly is one of those times of year where you get your really nice days, but then you also get the snow. >> dylan, thank you.

>> i can't imagine that. well, there's new developments this morning in the hunt for malaysian air flight 370. crews are now using a robotic submarine to search the area. this morning that work is proving to be trickier than officials first believe. katy tur is in perth for us again this morning. >> reporter: hey, there. not a good start. six hours into what should have been a 16-hour scan, bluefin-21 aborted its mission sending itself back up to the surface. what happened? officials say it just got down too deep past it's capacity. it's three miles down there, which is the same capacity as bluefin-21. it's supposed to scan the ocean floor above it. this is largely uncharted and unknown. so they're going to hit some anomalies. still they analyzed the data the bluefin-21 was able to collect

and found that nothing was there. not encouraging these at all. when you're not getting encouraging news, you're going to get in-fighting and finger pointing. "the new york times" came out with a report today that cited an unnamed senior defense official that says the chinese were hurting this as much as they were helping it. the chinese denied this report saying it was unfounded, not grounded at all. not what you want to be hearing when you're talking about a missing airliner. >> kate ty tur, thank you. we are going to learn more about the charges against an alleged gunman in kansas city. ron allen has the latest. ron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. prosecutors have been carefully plotting their case for several days now. they're going to charge him with premeditated murder and committing a hate crime. if convicted, ultimately he could face the death penalty.

investigators now believe they can prove bias, hate drove frazier glenn cross to shoot and kill three people outside a jewish community center and retirement home. >> we've now determined the motivation behind this was a hate crime. >> reporter: hate crimes is an idea of white supremacists including time on federal prison in weapons charges has mocked in the past. >> hate crime laws, for example, that only apply to white races. >> reporter: while prosecutors seek justice, the victims' families celebrate the lives of loved ones loss with remarkable strength and grace. >> it didn't feel like a crime scene to me. it was my family. >> reporter: mindy corporon reveals on what she felt upon finding her father and son shot and killed in a parking lot. >> from what i heard, they didn't feel anything. they didn't know it was coming. >> reporter: reat, a high school freshman and promising performer

seen here at a recent school event. ♪ oer the land of the free >> reporter: his grandfather, one of reat's biggest fans had taken him to the audition. tom hastings lost his kid sister terri lamanno gunned down at the retirement center where she visited their mother every sunday. planning to celebrate 25 years of marriage today. daughter elizabeth finds it ironic her mother was a victim of intolerance. >> she loved with no boundaries. she loved everybody. >> reporter: for now, they refuse to even discuss the alleged killer. >> it was a horrible act of violence. we want something good to come out of this. >> reporter: the families are planning services this week. no doubt will be emotional gatherings. this week reat's classmates held a private service outside the school as they prepared to return back to class.

carson, savannah? >> ron allen, thank you very much. mindy corporon you just saw lost her 14-year-old son reat underwood and her father dr. william corporon in that shooting. mindy, good morning to you. >> good morning. good morning. >> let me just say, our hearts go out to you. they break with you. how are you doing this morning? how are you holding up? >> this morning -- excuse me. this morning's been a little tougher. i did wake up with a renewed spirit, but i had not heard about the shooter as much. i just heard from your show in my earpiece, so i understand. but i'm okay. i'm lifted by my belief in christ, in my belief that reat and my dad are in heaven, and i know that mrs. lamanno is in heaven also, and we pray for their family also. >> so many people in these last two days have been struck by you, your poise, your grace, your eloquence, your ability to

unbelievably comfort others in the midst of all this. why has it been important for you to speak out and to be a voice here? >> i don't really know. i don't understand. i've asked our pastor why it seems so important that i speak and why are people asking to interview me, but i have a sense of peace about me that they're in heaven. literally, when i saw my father lying there, i heard god say, "he's in heaven," and it was horrific but comforting, and i ran right to reat, but i had a lot of hope that reat was not as bad off. and somehow, god and my life and my family and our friends have prepared me for this.

and so, i'm uplifted by that. i have my moments, but i am uplifted by the fact that they're in heaven. >> and i want to remember both your son and your father. let's start with reat. he sounds like an exceptional young man. he was on the debate team, was a gifted singer, and he had written on his twitter account, "live life to the fullest and never give up." to me, it's amazing that someone so young would have that very wise perspective. >> yes. thank you. yeah, he's wonderful. he's wonderful now, he's wonderful in my heart and nye memories, and we had a wonderful 14 years with him, and he had a very full life for a 14-year-old. we're going to be able to talk about that at the funeral, and we'll write some things about it in his obituary. and i'm hearing -- i'm going to be at the vigil today, and i want to hear from the students. i don't want them to shut us out. i want them to know that we're available for them to talk to us, and we're going to follow them, those students that knew

him and we'll follow them through graduation and college, and we want to be a part of that as well so that reat's memory lives on. >> and your father, dr. corporon, very popular in that area. and as i understand it, totally devoted to his grandchildren. he even moved to your town to be closer. >> yes, yes. we would tease that my parents didn't move here to be close to his kids, he moved here to be close to his grandchildren. and that was accurate. he and my mom did everything that they could for their grandchildren, you know, soccer games, basketball, baseball, tournaments, nonstop. they wanted to be with them. and they're the grandparents that bathed the kids and diaper and everything. they're very all in. >> well, mindy corporon, i think so many people are just praying for you and caring about you, and thank you so much for being here this morning in the most difficult of times. we really appreciate it.

>> thank you. it's the prayers that help, so keep praying. >> we will. mindy, thank you very much. all right, with natalie in boston, willie's here with this morning's other top stories, including new turmoil in ukraine. good morning, willie. >> good morning, guys. breaking news in ukraine, where a military operation is under way with the goal of removing pro-russian separatists occupying government buildings in the eastern part of the country. some of the activists have voluntarily surrendered to police more than three days after taking over those buildings. in a phone call monday, president obama urged russian president vladimir putin to use his influence to get the militias to lay down their arms. the woman accused of throwing a shoe at hillary clinton last week could spend up to two years in prison. the incident happened during a speech at a las vegas hotel. federal authorities have now filed two criminal charges against 36-year-old alison ernst. clinton was not hit by the shoe. she made a couple jokes about it and continued on with her speech. there's no word on what the suspect was specifically protesting. michael jackson's mother is

on the hook for almost $1 million to a concert promoter in a failed lawsuit over her son's death. a judge on monday called on katherine jackson to pay aeg live $800,000. a five-month trial ended in october with the jury determining that aeg live did not negligently hire the doctor convicted of causing michael jackson's death in 2009. the money will cover costs for filing fees, court reporters and travel, among other things. guys, check this out. emergency responders in england calling the survival of a driver miraculous after he somehow survived an 80-foot plunge over a cliff. the man's car veered off a road, went over the drop and crashed along the rocks at the seashore near brighton. the 33-year-old was able to get out of the crumpled ford focus and walk down the beach until he was found, believe it or not, suffering only minor injuries. my take away? i'm getting a ford focus. >> yeah, exactly! my goodness. >> getting a ford focus. >> get a deal on two of them. meanwhile, a beautiful reunion between a father and son

last night in front of more than 17,000 people. it happened at a phoenix suns game. 8-year-old logan bledsoe was blind-folded during a time-out. now, he thought he was supposed to follow the cheers of the crowd to meet the team's mascot. instead, he found his dad. >> awesome! >> specialist jamie bledsoe has been in afghanistan for nine months. they hugged, then they walked off the floor together, watching the rest of the game. those get me every single time. >> you've said it before. >> how beautiful. >> willie, you said, it there was a network -- >> give me the network. >> that all they had was military -- >> military reunion channel. i'm in. >> i will watch that. >> carson and i will back it. >> amazing. >> pass the tissues. willie, thank you so much. all right, ms. dylan, what's shaking? >> we've got a lot of wet weather, some storms, some snow. we've got it all with this cold front that's moving eastward. today's threat of strongest storms will be across the southeast, for small hail and damaging wind gusts. any tornadoes would be isolated at best. you can see the snow that's going to take hold across western new york. we could end up with another 1 to 3 inches. that's the weather across the

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the exception in san francisco, but 77 here in san jose. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> all right, dylan, thank you. now to that spectacular sight in the sky overnight. the so-called blood moon. don't worry if you didn't stay up all night, because tamron did. >> ha. >> and all the devoted orange room viewers did. >> a lot of blurry eyes. we have talked a lot about blue moons, but the blood moon made its appearance between 3:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. eastern time. if you missed it, you missed a treat. but guess what, guys, we've got it covered in the orange room. this is from nasa. a blood moon occurs when the moon passes directly behind the earth into its shadow, but some of the sun's light filters through the earth's atmosphere casting a red glow on the moon's surface. the scientist of our crew dylan dreyer would know that.

>> oh, i know all about it. >> this is the end result, which is a beautiful blood moon. and guess what, of course, people were tweeting about it. tiffany, my hometown of burleson, texas, sent this one out. but this one is even more intriguing. matt lauer, who is on vacation, guys, at a tropical destination, he notes. this is what he tweeted. in all, seven tweets. six of them right here from matt on vacay. the final one, boom goes the dynamite. he refers to it as the final flare. matt on vacation tweeting. tweet us, not about matt's vacation tweets, but about the blood moon. >> something tells me cocktails were involved. >> i know. >> blood moon cocktail. that's what we've got going. >> tamron, thank you so much. coming up, did he change his story? the contradiction in oscar pistorius's testimony, highlighted by the prosecution this morning. and olympic legend michael

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around them. so, today, bulldozers will knock down what is left standing. the cause of the fire is under investigation. and right now we do want to get a look at your forecast for this tuesday. meteorologist christina loren is here with that. >> thank you, peggy, good tuesday morning to you. kind of a gray start here in san francisco. the whole area low clouds and dense fog this morning, as well. at the immediate coast, we'll stay cloudy for the first part of the day, but between 2:00 and 4:00, beautiful sunny sky and, yeah, nice sea breeze, as well. mild conditions cool at the coast and temperatures work like this. 77 in san jose and 78 out in the east bay and 66 degrees in san francisco and you might want to keep your jacket handy today by the coast with that breeze brick picking up and wind chill developing. overall not a bad day, really nice in the south bay. let's check your drive, here's mike. >> start in the south bay, we have northbound traditional about this time and look at 101. this is the issue.

north 101 is jammed up coming off of 85 and all the way past tully road. southbound side a little bit of slowing. one lane is blocked and that deadly crash investigation leaving the southbound lane at tully blocked. northbound is jammed by the distraction and the earlier problem we had with all the flashing lights and the distraction and the ripple. over here across the bay, slow across the san mateo bridge and the metering lights on, but lighter flow coming out of the maze. >> thanks so much, mike. another local news update in just about half an hour. i'll see you then.

7:30 now on a tuesday morning. it is the 15th of april, 2014. >> something we have to do today. >> what is it? >> 15th of april. >> brush your teeth today. >> no. >> oh, taxes. >> that's it. >> yes, tax day. a lot of people out on the plaza. they're happy. it's raining on them, but they've got their returns filled out and they are ready to rock. look at them. so we say good morning to them, good morning to you. and let's tell you what's making headlines this morning. at least two people were injured last night when a powerful storm tore through parts of mississippi. it downed trees and damaged or destroyed up to 30 trailers in that area. and search crews hope to put a robotic submarine back in the water today as they look for

malaysia flight 370. on the first dive, the sub exceeded its maximum safety depth and automatically returned to the surface. one year of the boston marathon bombings is being observed today. vice president joe biden and his wife are attending the official memorial service. natalie is in boston this morning. we'll have a lot more from her coming up. ahead, michael phelps swore he'd never compete again. but now he's planning to do just that. so, does it mean we're going to see him again in rio in 2016? plus, a one day only sale for google glass that's touched off a frenzy. >> all right, but we're going to begin this half-hour with oscar pistorius on the stand in his murder trial for a final day. today national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is in pretoria with the latest. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning to you. inside the courtroom, i actually got the chance to speak with oscar pistorius briefly. he spoke so low, i could actually barely hear him, just thanking me basically for saying

hi. in person, up close, his eyes are really puffy from crying. he looks exhausted and absolutely broken. no rest today for him either. that prosecutor nicknamed the pit bull is on the attack again, wrapping up his cross-examination in dramatic fashion. within minutes today, the prosecutor caught oscar pistorius in yet another contradiction. >> i'm sorry, my lady, i'm getting confused. >> reporter: all along, pistorius said he shot and killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp by accident. he heard the bathroom door opening and thought an intruder was about to attack him. but today he testified the noise he heard wasn't the door, it was just the magazine rack inside. >> why would you fire if the magazine rack moved? because it has nothing to do with a door. >> i didn't have time to interpret it, my lady. i thought it was the door opening. >> reporter: the prosecution says that doesn't make sense. their theory, reeva was inside the bathroom dressed and with her phone, fearing pistorius

during an argument. after he shot her, the blade runner says he panicked. >> i was screaming, i was screaming reeva, reeva! and i was crying. i was crying out the more desperate i got that i couldn't get into the toilet. i was crying out and then i ran to get the cricket bat and then i ran back to the toilet. >> you weren't screaming at reeva, because she was hiding in a toilet, were you? >> no, my lady. >> reporter: as you watch the testimony, just want to give you some perspective. you can't tell from the courtroom cameras, but the prosecutor stands here. look how close he is to oscar pistorius in the witness box right here. literally arm's length. one other interesting note from here, pistorius never makes direct eye contact with the prosecutor, even when he's answering his questions. he just looks straight up, over there at the judge. >> who should we blame for the fact that you shot her? >> i don't know, my lady, i was scared. >> should we blame reeva? >> no, my lady. >> you must be blaming somebody for this?

>> i don't, my lady. i believed there was a threat. >> reporter: and with that, the prosecutor sat down. his grueling five-day cross-examination over. pistorius's lawyer now trying to repair any damage on redirect. >> did you consciously pull the trigger or not? >> my lady, i didn't think about pulling the trigger. as soon as i heard the noise, before i could think i pulled the trigger, my lady. >> reporter: at the heart of the case, pistorius's relationship with reeva. he said they were in love, reading to the court her valentine's day card to him. >> it says on the front of the card, roses are red, violets are blue, and then on the inside, she wrote the date on the left, and then on the right she says, i think today is a good day to tell you that -- and then it says i love you. >> reporter: so here's what's next. the defense now has the case and will call all of its experts. in fact, a forensic expert is on the stand right now. there's something else i want to

show you. just moments ago, our first look at pistorius since coming off the stand. at one point, he actually appeared to be sleeping in the courtroom, eyes completely closed. a minute later, the camera cuts back, his eyes are open, but he is looking absolutely spent. in all, we can expect 14 to 17 more witnesses before this case is closed. so we still have a couple weeks left to go here. >> all right, jeff rossen at the courthouse, thank you very much. now let's get a check of the weather from dylan, who's in this morning for al. >> "today's" weather is brought to you by the new windows. one experience for everything in your life. >> and now that we all have spring fever, let's talk about some ridiculously cold temperatures. we have freeze warnings all across the south, over into the east. this is for brutally cold temperatures, even record-breaking cold. look at some of the current temps we have right now. lubbock, texas, 27 degrees. dallas is at 37. head north, we're looking at single digit temperatures.

we have broken the all-time record low in marquette, michigan. nine degrees this morning and high temperatures don't look much better. 26 for a high in northern michigan today. 40 in chicago. that's 17 degrees below average. we're even looking at temperatures about five to 15 degrees below average down in texas. houston only tops out at about 15 degrees today, and it is going to stay chilly on the backside of this cold front. we also have to keep an eye out for some severe storms. the biggest threat for small hail and also for damaging wind gusts, and this area in red 7:36. good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. you can see here looking really cloudy this morning, although we are starting to see a little bit of sunlight. as we head through the day, we will become sunny each and every hour all the way through about noon and then completely sunny sky headed our way. 74 degrees today, 65 degrees in san francisco with the building breeze. this is where you might find some cloud cover later on today.

71 on the east bay today. tha never served his prison sentence for armed robbery, but now years later after turning his life around, the state is trying to make him. here's nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: as mike anderson, a father of four sits behind bars, his wife says she struggles to eat and sleep. >> it's just very hard. and i miss my husband very, very much, my kids miss their father. >> reporter: she says she recently learned that before they met, anderson had been convicted, guilty of armed robbery, taking money from a burger king manager who was making a bank deposit in 1999. anderson was sentenced to 13 years in jail, but during his appeals posted bond and went home. >> he then waited and waited and waited for the missouri department of corrections and the courts to give him a date to surrender and to begin serving his sentence. that day never came.

>> reporter: for some reason, the state thought anderson was in prison when really he was leading a normal life. >> he got married, had children, opened a successful business, coached youth football, joined a church group, did everything that you would expect a normal person to do, because in his mind, he believed that maybe the state courts had changed their mind. >> reporter: then last summer when his sentence was supposed to end, authorities realized an apparent clerical error, anderson was never in jail. that's when law enforcement showed up at his front door and arrested him. from prison, anderson spoke with the radio program "this american life." >> i never felt like a fugitive because a fugitive's someone that's running from the law. i never ran from the law. i was there. >> reporter: his attorney has filed a petition asking for anderson's release. even that burger king manager thinks the state should set him free. >> it's their fault, so i mean, it's like they're going to try and penalize him for another 13 years. that don't seem right. >> reporter: but the current prosecutor disagrees. >> i believe that if we allowed

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the summer olympics in rio in 2016. for the first time in two years, he signed up to compete in a swim meet, so in ten days, we're going to see michael phelps back in the pool. >> you're looking at the greatest olympian of all time. >> and here comes phelps to the wall! >> his accomplishments have made him an international superstar. >> whoo! >> the london games put him on top with a staggering 22 medals collected over three olympics. he swore that was it. >> i'm done. i'm finished. i'm retired. i'm done. no more. >> you say it so definitively. i trust rowdy gaines and mark spitz and they both say you're going to get bored of not swimming, and in a couple of years, you're going to need a real outlet for your competitive juices and you're going to do it again. >> i mean, the biggest thing is i can look back at my career and say i've done everything exactly the way i wanted to. and if you can say that, i'm happy. >> phelps has spent his retirement running swimming schools. he started a foundation. and he's played a lot of golf.

>> how's retirement going? >> i'm living out of a suitcase, using a golf club a lot, and just traveling the world. >> but now, phelps is hitting the pool again. >> you know, life changes. feelings change. he feels like he can be out there with them and competing against them and beating them. i haven't talked to him. i have no idea. but bottom line is he's a competitor. as cliche as that is, he's a competitor. >> last fall, phelps began training at the same baltimore pool where we caught up with him before london. he'll compete in arizona next week, along with fellow olympic champion ryan lochte. phelps is 28 now. he once vowed to not be swimming into his 30s. his new vow may prove to be never again say never. >> if he decides to go for rio, he will definitely win more medals. there's no question in my mind. >> we reached out to mep's camp. they say talks of rio are premature, but he will race in

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good morning to you it's 7:56. i'm peggy bunker. a security guard from a san jose hospital is under arrest charged with molesting children years ago. arrested last month and it is not clear why the public is just now learning about the case. hammond was hired by santa clara county and not clear what led investigators to hammond or how many children whee ishe is accu. he is also charged with possessing child pornography. police are hoping this new security camera footage will help them find, you can look from this grainy video here that was just released yesterday that it shows a man behind the building just before the fire was reported. also, right now, we want to get a lookt that weather forecast and check in with christina loren. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. still not seeing a lot of improvement in the overcast sky.

mostly cloudy here in sunol and same sky in san jose this morning. nice and sunny as we progress throughout the day. 77 here in the south bay and 77 for the peninsula and beautiful conditions here with that fog returning by about 5:00 to 7:00 this evening. so, we're looking really good everywhere except for at the immediate coast a little chilly today. 75 in san francisco. let's check the drive across the bay area, hear mike inouye. >> just past the coliseum starting to bog down a bit. fog not an issue on the east bay side, just the haze. looking at the map, slowing drive and nimts freeway north and south off of 238 and peninsula, as well. nofrth 101 a crash and north 280 around the 101 interchange and makes that approach slower than we like and in the south bay, we have a jam north 101 approaching tully earlier crash on the

southbound side. peggy, back to you. thank you so much. another local news update coming up for you in just about half an hour.

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♪ ♪ it's 8:00. on "today" coming up, boston strong one year later. a city prepares to pay tribute to the victims of the marathon bombing. as the father and son with 30 marathons under their belt gear up for one final race. >> well, as soon as the bombing happened, i just said, we've got to do it one more time. then, a guide to be popular? one girl's unique quest to be cool using advice from a 1950s guide for teens. how living by those old school rules for one year changed her forever. and walk of life. one man's stroll through 11 countries over 44 days brought together in one incredible video.

and wait till you see the willie geist. today, tuesday, april 15th, 2014. ♪ ♪ >> good morning, seattle. >> hello, prince george county, virginia. >> phs high school. >> wake up, spring valley, illinois! >> we're on the "today" show. >> first, let me take a selfie. >> i love my marine. >> we miss you, dad! >> yeah! good morning, everyone. welcome back to "today." it is tuesday morning, the 15th of april. whoo! i love it. getting the crowd excited. >> they are having fun this

morning. >> spring break crowd. >> yes. >> did you say something? >> what? >> it's like trl. i've got this experience. this is great enthusiasm. thank you all for coming out. >> nice alarm clock, right? >> good morning to you. let's head inside for a check of the top stories with willie. >> good crowd out there. survivors and first responders will speak, church bells will toll and thousands will gather in remembrance on the one year anniversary of the boston marathon bombing. vice president biden will pay tribute in ceremonies in honor of the three killed and more than 260 wounded in the attack. 20-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev faces the death penalty in his trial slated for december. he and his brother tam merlerli accused of the hate crimes. earlier on "today" savannah spoke with mindy about the moment she came upon her father

and son who were killed in the attack. >> they're in heaven. literally when i saw my father lying there, i heard god say, he's in heaven, and it was horrific but comforting. and i ran right to reit, but i had a lot of hope that reit was not as bad off. >> 73-year-old white supremacist frazier glenn cross is suspected of killing her father and son outside a jewish community center and a woman at a nearby retirement home on sunday. 11 planes and as many ships are battling the seas. the weather is one of the challenges for an unmanned submarine that's scouring the sea floor for wreckage. nbc's katie tur is live in perth, australia. good morning. >> reporter: not a lot of good news to report out of perth, australia, willie. six hours into what should have been a 16 hour scan blue fin 21

aborted its mission and sent itself back up to the surface of the ocean. what happened? well, it got about three miles down and a little bit lower than its capacity. officials say the ocean floor around there is about three miles down. they do believe that blue fin 21 hit something a little bit deeper and then just had to go back up. they were able to collect the data that blue fin data collected already, unfortunately, nothing of note on it. they're going to continue searching sending it back down as soon as weather is permitting. so far though, willie, not a great start to what could be their last best effort. >> so difficult for anything to operate at those depths. katie tur in australia. thanks, katie. the world's first commercial space ship makes a dramatic appearance. the replica of virgin galactic ka is in the u.s.s. intrepid museum. richard branson announced this with land rover. our parent company nbc universal

partnering with virgin and we'll be there when space ship 2 hopes to carry the first private citizens up into space. the run for the roses is less than three weeks away, and what would the kentucky derby be without a mint jew lip. check out this mint julip. the sport of kings and this drink will cost you a king's ransom. $1,000 buys a gold-plated cup of woodford bourbon with candy rose petals and mint julip. a single plinth julip will run you $2,000. i don't like to drink my bourbon without a sterling silver medallion. it is 8:05. let's get a check on the weather with dylan. >> announcer: today's weather is brought to you by k 9 advantix. its broad spectrum kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. >> carson is literally pushing me out of the way so he can greet everybody. >> excuse us.

>> we've got the 3-d sign for hoda. we have the seattle chew toy, but there's also chocolate on the sign, too. the dog and hoda need to figure this one out. we are going to see temperatures today on the cold side. we've got snow falling in parts of cleveland. look at that. it is coming down pretty good right now. starting to clear out of cincinnati. extends all the way down into kentucky. where we are going to see most of our accumulating snow is in higher elevations. syracuse, 3 to 6 inches. northern vermont, new hampshire, maine, 3 to 6 inches with 1 to 3 in the lower elevations. all because of this cold front which will produce possibly storms down in the carolina. small hail and damaging wind gusts. on the back side it is cold and it will stay cold. we could see record low temperatures across a good portion of the eastern half of the country by 8:06. good tuesday morning to you.

i'm meteorologist christina loren. this is san jose. filtered sunshine at this point, but those low clouds are starting to clear. i wanted to show you san francisco, where it's breezy and cloudy. overcast conditions here, at least for the first part of the day. that's going to limit the sunshine and keep your temperature down in san francisco. otherwise, we're expecting the 70s inland for today. i want to show you what to expect from those clouds. they're all going to clear out of here by about 11:00 a.m. and we'll continue the day with beautiful conditions. 78 in the east bay, but 65, a little cool sflains. and that's your latest forecast. >> okay, dylan. i think you say back to you. coming up next on trending, the big surprise that awaited 24 people brave enough to apply for the world's toughest job. plus, one year later, how the survivors of the boston marathon bombings are rising above the tragedy. natalie shares their emotional stories on the way. and one girl's quest for popularity by living according to the rules from the 1950 guide book, pearl gloves, girdles and

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today. everybody wants to know the secret to a happy relationship. we may just have the answer right here. >> oh. >> it is candy. okay, there's a theory behind this. have you ever heard of the word hangry? >> yes. >> i just heard it recently. >> it's a combo platter of hungry and angry. apparently it happens. a state of anger caused by lack of food. you become hungry and angry at the same time. according to a new study, it's low blood sugar. scientists at ohio state university say missing a meal makes us cranky. okay. not surprising. but getting a little glucose into the system can help us control ourselves. how did researchers test this? this is where it gets interesting. they gave people voodoo dolls representing their -- >> what does that have to do with anything? >> representing their partners. and then asked them to stick pins in the dolls when they were upset. and the results were the hungrier they were, the more pins the doll got. >> let's all say who we're thinking of when we stick this in. >> say it out loud? i'm not falling for that. >> give it up.

>> i'm just going for the chocolate. >> so you grab the chocolate in the middle of an argument with your significant other? then that just makes it better? >> just start with a candy bar. and then say, we have to talk. >> willie, you have a theory. >> carson, you'll be with me on this. can you imagine you're in a fight with your spouse, your girlfriend or your boyfriend, and you say oh, sweetie, do you need some candy? are you hungry? are you tired? that's a good way to get a black eye. >> have you eaten today? >> condescension doesn't work. >> it's like the snickers commercial. where they have the angry person. they give them the snickers. >> i get vicious when i'm hungry. >> you're not alone. here you go, dylan. another sure way to irritate your partner, using words and phrases that gets on their nerves. if you're not sure what those words are, our friends at "huffington post" have come up with a list of common phrases we all use but secretly hate. let's go through some of them. at the end of the day. same difference. i don't even know what that means. honestly. or, to be frank. someone's definitely lying to you if they say that. no worries. >> i hate that one.

>> i say that all the time. why do you hate that? >> it's like the anthem of jamaica. >> i say no worries. >> really? you hate this one when someone says, you're killing it. >> it just seems so not genuine. >> do you have any other phrases you guys can't stand? for me, amazing. in l.a., everything's amazing. it's amazing. if everything isamazing, nothing is demanding. >> that's the same as epic and literally. >> yeah. misused every time. >> literally. like. like. like. is. salary. what?

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terror resolve proudest cities. natalie's with us from boston once again. natalie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, carson. scariest

ways. yes. it comes to determination, it doesn't get much stronger than dick and rick hoyt. >> dad, if it comes down to one marathon. since 1981. raising money for charity and becoming local legends. cerebral across the finish line times. i feel very proud. >> two pushes, rick. it people. meant to stopped in their tracks by the

killed by wounded. heroes every day normal. both legs injured. eventually you come out on the other side and life goes on. >> reporter: it's a new beginning for jeff bowman who lost both legs, too. looking forward to a patients. technology. h

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stroll in >> reporter: the man behind the video is filmmaker phil maracca. he's made a series of videos about seeing the world. >> being able to make a film it special. exactly travel shooting miles. moving. into the video never expecting it to blow up like it has. >> it kind of gave me that real wanderlust.

couch and experience the world. >> the filmmaker is here. rick, hi. >> good morning to you. you. when you and i shot our version, you kept talking about symmetry. now when i go back and watch the original video that so many people around the world have watched and fallen in love with, i see it in every shot. how did you step that up? >> it was just -- i mean, it was so important to the film making. basically it's what makes it watchful. it's going so quickly. by find that go symmetry, it's not so distracting. symmetrical, you would find it too much. we're cutting every six frames. cool. frame. exactly what it is, exactly 200 shots willie? amazing. diva. trailer. up stairs.

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>> wow. cool. >> that's nice. poses. put two. working know it. asking, what's my motivation? >> the whole way through. >> what are you doing for the sequel? >> well, there's a whole bunch of ideas i've gotten in the works. hopefully someone might want to do the next. >> will it be the same sort of idea but even larger? >> a different concept. something that no one's seen before but going around the world. >> thank you, rick. nice to meet you. >> thank you so much for being here. >> well done. >> thanks, willie. coming up, the 15-year-old girl who decided to live for a year but a guide book from the

1950s. >> you're going to love the story. she's such a gutsy girl. good morning to you. it's 8:26. i'm peggy bunker. right now investigators are trying to figure out what caused a house to go up in flames in east san jose early this morning. this happened at a home near alan rock and north jackson avenues. firefighters say a family of nine, including a 6-week-old baby was able the to make it out of the burning home safely. they are thanking their smoke detector. checking in on that traffic this morning, we've had a couple of tough spots. >> a couple of tough spots to speak of. the bay bridge toll plaza, this is like it's been all month, because spring breaks rotate between the peninsula and the san jose school. the upper right-hand corner, joel see that the benicia bridge is one of your tough spots

coming across 680, we have a crash clearing from the roadway. that's bogging things down across the bridge. but this is an issue off the bay bridge. north 101 at interstate 80 in octavia. reports of a propane tank that's busted in the center divide. san jose fire is headed out to take care of that, because it is propane and leaking, that's a smaller break. we're tracking that in the newsroom as well. meanwhile, the rest of the area looking at a relatively light flow of traffic for this tuesday. these routes through san jose still very slow. >> thanks so much, mike. we will have another local news update for you coming up in just about half an hour. have a great tuesday.

it is 8:30 now on this tuesday morning, 15th of april, 2014. not too shabby! those who are in our crowd this himself.

"transcendence." s the dog." >> good reminder, dad. you know what to do. >> best ever. >> dylan is in for al this week. she's got a check of the weather. >> i'll replace dad with "brian, take out the dog." it's not raining yet. we are looking at a chance of severe storms across the southeast where we could see some small hail and damaging winds. we are not really looking at a threat of tornados. some snow is possible back through parts of western new york into the cleveland area as well. had.

plains. possible. also through central wisconsin. of the country does start to dry out, but it will be on the cold side with highs. hey, thank you, dylan. 8:32 on a tuesday morning. taking a live look. still have some low clouds lingering over sunol. but overall, clearing out nicely over san jose. headed the towards a comfortable afternoon. very spring-like day coming your way. temperatures right the now mostly in the 50s. we're headed towards the upper 70s in san jose. 77 degrees, hard to beat that this time of year. 74 for the peninsula and 65 degrees in san francisco. so a little bit cooler, but breezy today at the immediate coast. but 79 degrees, comfortable conditions inland. latest forecast. carson? >> all right, thank you, dylan. now let's go back to natalie in boston where the city is marking one year since the tragic marathon bombings. natalie?

forward year's marathon, now away. monday. city >> i can remember just about >> you took a series of photographs with photographer robert fogerty. >> yes. like being back there at the finish line? i it.

it. world" that hope. pivotal this taking those pictures felt so empowering and so healing, and it took the negativity, the spot away. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

.. to do that. natalie in boston this morning, thank you so much. coming up next, a life-changing experiment. the shy teenager who found confidence by following advice from a 1950s popularity guide. but first, this is "today" on nbc. [ mom ] hi, we're the pearsons, and we love chex cereal.

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which is a huge thing for us. and there's seven to choose from. like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. i tell them "you guys are gonna turn into chocolate chex!" i like cinnamon, greg is a honey nut nut. when you find something this good, you want to spread the word. [ all ] we're the pearsons, and we love chex! we're back now at 8:37 with a great story. surprise you. popular. pushed her comfort zone to the limit. look. that girdle. liked. popular. would an old pocketbook.

shake out the dust and tidy up the contents. the summer before my eighth grade year, we found "betty cornell's teen-age popularity guide." my dad had bought the book over 20 years before thinking it was an interesting piece of vintage pop culture. >> i can't even begin to tell you how many times i nearly threw that book away. i thought, i think i'll just give it to mya. she might be interested. >> so my mom came up with the idea to follow the advice during eighth grade. i'd always wanted to be a writer, so she told me, you know, this is a great writing project. >> mya's always struggled in school socially. >> i had always struggled to make friends and i had always struggled to find confidence, so she'd hoped maybe this 1950s guide could have an effect on how i felt about myself. >> it was not a book project as much as it was a survival project. >> in betty cornell's popularity guide, she basically gives advice on a series of different chapters and themes, and those include everything from figure problems to good grooming,

dieting, going to a dance, all of that. >> but as it kept going, i saw the things that she was doing. i saw the clothes that she was going to wear, the skirts, the gloves, the hats, that she was going to wear a girdle. >> this is my girdle that i wore. >> that's when i got really nervous. >> it's not comfortable at all. >> i worried that things were going to get worse for her and not better. >> as my heels were, like, clicking on the sidewalk, it reminded me of, like, the drum beats of an execution. and so i was -- i was really nervous. >> i would sit down with her and i would say maya, you have a lot of nerve, you have a lot of guts. >> they would ask various questions about what i was doing and i always responded, well, it's for fun. that made it easier. so my dad, he was able to find betty cornell. i knew the face so well and i said oh, my gosh, it's betty! you found betty! >> this is the real you. >> she went from sort of being this imaginary friend in my head

who's like maya, you need to sit up straight. she was a real person and she's standing right there. this whole "betty cornell's teen-age popularity guide" experiment truly did change her life. >> but it's up to you when you read the book to decide whether or not it made me popular. >> and maya van wagenen is with us now as the author of her own book fou. it's called "popular." "betty cornell's teen-age popularity guide" has recently been republished. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> mii love this story. when i first read it, i thought this girl's got moxy, she's got courage. how did you work up the courage to do this? >> a lot of it, i would fake it, hoping that a little bit of that confidence would, you know, spread. and so there were days when i would just be like hiding, shaking hands under the table and saying i've done other stuff, and so i worked up from

like the least challenging to the most challenging things, and so that definitely helped. >> all right, so we know you wore a girdle. you had the gloves, the hat. you dressed up. you didn't tell any of your friends at school that this was an experiment. >> i did not. >> so did they think you were off your rocker? >> my friend would approach me and she's like, maya, this is really weird. this is really weird. what's going on? and it's like, well, it's for fun. they go no, this is really weird. you look like a substitute teacher. and so that was always, you know -- because you want to tell. because it makes sense. if only you understood what was going on. but it was -- definitely i didn't want to jeopardize any of the reactions. >> i was going to say, middle school, i think we can all agree, is the worst. >> definitely. >> and the hardest. and to be different at all is so difficult. how were people's reactions? i mean, were they nice about it or not really? >> there were both. i think in the beginning, it was really hard because, you know, people were like -- i had been

very quiet for sixth and seventh grade, and then all of a sudden i'm wearing these outfits. so they were pretty shocked. and towards the end, they would approach me and they would go wow, you're really gutsy. you've got a lot of -- basically you've got a lot of courage to be doing that i really respect that. >> let me get betsy in here. your mom betty cornell wrote this book. we saw her in the piece. she looks fabulous. she's 87 years old. what did she think when she finds out a young girl from across the country is not only reading her book, but taking it to heart? >> well, i was able to give her the same e-mail that miaya sent me. she absolutely filled up. i think for her, she just couldn't believe that her advice was still helping somebody else. >> well, it's true, because we laugh about some of the advice might be a little outdated, like putting vaseline on your eyelids instead of eye shadow. but you say it well, maya, in the book. some of it is truly timeless. what advice in your mind really stands the test of time?

>> i think the core of betty's book is so much based on it's not as much about how you look and what you wear, although she says that's a key factor. mostly it's about the person you are and how you treat others. and i think that's the timeless message that i gained from the book and that can be gained from reading betty's book. >> and now you have a relationship. betty and betsy both. you know maya. you're following her career. >> i am, i am. >> i know you leave it in the book to find out if it worked, if you're popular. can i just say this? "time" magazine put you on their list of most influential teens in 2013. and you've got a movie deal from this book from dreamworks, so i say, my dear, it worked. congratulations to you and give your mom our best. >> thank you so much. up next, morgan freeman is here to talk about the cautionary message in his new movie transcendence. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

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oscar winner morgan freeman, an actor who can do it all from serious roles to lighthearted comedies. >> and his new movie is a sci-fi thriller, it's called "transcendence." johnny depp stars as a scientist whose brain has been up loaded into a super computer and freeman's character must stop its seemingly unstoppable search for power before it changes humanity as we know it. take a look. >> are you all right? >> i've gotten everything i ever asked for. >> okay. bye. >> bye. >> that's a pivotal point in the movie right there. morgan freeman, good morning to you. >> good to have you here. >> we saw the movie, it seems to me it really does ponder these

big questions about technology and where it could be headed. i mean, is that what attracted you to the role, these kind of interesting philosophical questions? >> there were three or four attractions to the role. one being johnny himself. always wanted to have a shot at working with him. wally fister, who i've done quite a few movies with. and this was his first shoutout, so i wanted to be there for that. the script i thought was awesome. and this is a question we should be pondering, because we're really going towards all kinds of technology. and the question is, okay, so we can, but -- >> how far can it go? >> how far should it go before we realize that we're no longer in control of it. >> your character joe was actually a mentor to dr. castor, johnny depp's character. he looked up to you. his wife in this. paul bettany. great cast. all fantastic. you realize there in that moment you've got to run from this

place. how are you going to stop this thing? >> well, it's not -- not an easy thing to do, because in order to stop it, you've got to shut the world down. think about that. >> in a sense create y2k. >> y2k was phony. >> a walk in the park compared to what happens in this movie. let me ask you, are you a technology guy? what is the one piece of technology you couldn't live without? >> you know, that's a strong statement. there is nothing technologically here that i couldn't live without. as long as i could get to the woods. [ laughter ] >> gps? >> no. >> you don't need it. >> okay, what technology should be banished from the earth? >> oh, heavens. now you've got me. i have no idea. whatever technology we're using to drill for oil. >> interesting. not only do we see you in all of

these great and different roles, we hear your voice everywhere. did you ever think -- you know, in my career, my voice is going to be its own bankable asset? >> absolutely not. never did. had no idea that that would happen. but, knock on wood, it did. >> it's a great movie. that's real thought-provoking -- >> and i'm glad we did it. i think that it will start people at least talking. >> great acting. >> and there will be others that came out about the same stuff. because we are going a little fast towards who knows what. >> right. >> morgan freeman, great to have you here. if you could just record my voicemail greeting on my phone, that would be great. and we got a little music going. we're going to play you out. up next, a live performance with ingrid michaelson. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

♪ ♪ >> announcer: the toyota concert series on "today" brought to you by toyota. we're back now at 8:51 with talented singer/songwriter ingrid. her music was used on "grey's anatom anatomy". you played morgan freeman off. gutsy. >> that wasn't my choice. >> congratulations on the record. i'm a big fan of yours. >> thank you. >> have been for a long time. >> thank you. >> for people who don't know

you, this is your fifth album. you're a prolific singer/songwrit singer/songwriter. you reached out for help. >> yes. i've always written my songs. this time i felt like i wanted to change things up and i wrote with 11 different people and worked with six producers including chris kupner here. >> this boys chase girls is a little homage to robert palmer's video. >> yeah, girls chase boys is a universal breakup song. we all want love. i took that theme of gender bending and i did a role reversal, gender reversal. >> a lot of people watching this. >> a million and a half hits. thanks to you. >> ingrid michaelson with girls chase boys. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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[ sparkle ] sweet. from nbc news, this is "today's take" with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist, and tamron hall, live from studioa in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning, april 15th, 2014. i'm willie geist along with tamron hall. al has the day off. natalie on assignment up in boston. we're going to talk to her on this one-year anniversary of the boston bombings in just a moment. testimony r tamron, yesterday i looked outside, i said it's burvelg it's spring-like. we turned the corner. winter's gone. you said, have you seen the forecast? it's cold, rainy and it's all over the country. >> yes, it's snowing in parts of chicago. heard from a friend this morning with the wt -- i won't say the next letter, what is going on

with the weather. yesterday we saw tornados. it's been rough. >> it's crazy. the south, the midwest. high winds and tornados in goshay, mississippi, damaging dozens of trailers and at least one r.v. park. i think 20 or 30 of them were flipped over. i guess two people were injured. i don't know how more weren't. thank goodness they didn't lose anybody. chicago got about three inches of snow. >> let's pause for a second. what is today's date? april 15th. >> it's tax day. >> tax day. that will heat you up, because the weather will not. look at that. april 15th. and i lived in chicago for ten years. coldest place i've ever lived. but that's even surprising for chicago. >> even for chicago, that's bad. meanwhile, michigan, nebraska, texas all hit by a fast-moving storm system, and snow, hail, and heavy rains caused flooding along the red river in minnesota. check out this photo taken by the family of one of our staff here, carter. her family lives in lebanon, ohio. lebanon, ohio. that's what it longs like this

morning. >> look at the beautiful easter flowers. >> they bloomed. mother nature gave them a head fake, said it's time to come out, and then they snowed on them. >> mother nature gave them a head fake. >> it's supposed to snow in the northern suburbs of new york tonight, too, getting down to the 30s. you're right, i was wrong. >> i just listened to dylan. she'll have an update for us. also today is the anniversary of the bombing, during the boston marathon. i have to say this, natalie has been doing an incredible job and she's with us now. you've been following the journey of survivors for the past year. you're there on the ground today. getting a sense of the mood. and i think you pointed out something, natalie, that really touched my heart. people there really don't want to focus on the bombers. they want to focus on boston strong and those stories that you brought to us over this year, and today. >> that's right. and i can tell you, tamron, the

mood here is exactly that. it's about surviving. it is about, you know, being boston strong, a term that we have come to know so well over the past year. but here they live that every day. you know, what i've seen and getting to know a couple of the families and those who have survived the bombings over the last year, as you see that strength and the resilience that they're showing every day. for them, every day is a post-marathon day, as celeste corcoran told me. you know, this has redefined how they live their life. it's their new normal. so they're looking forward, though, to this one-year mark being over and behind them. and looking forward to moving on and looking ahead, and of course, next week, what's ahead is the boston marathon. i can tell you there's some mixed emotion here surrounding the marathon. a lot of people excited. they want the marathon to go on and be back to what it was, being one of the world's most elite running events. but at the same time, i think there are those who also, you know, still have a little

concern and high anxiety when it comes to the emotions that they'll be feeling as they face that day. >> natalie, we know how the city more broadly is feeling, but what about some of the specific people that you spent so much time with over the last year who were directly impacted by the bomb and who lost legs, lost loved ones? how are they feeling about this as the anniversary hits? >> you know, as i just -- and you'll hear it coming up in just a little bit, i speak to one of the survivors and she talks about having mixed emotions, as i mentioned, on this day, about it being more difficult than a lot of them thought. i think they thought they would get here and be able to just say, okay, i've moved on from that, and my life has gone on and i've accomplished so much in the past year, but at the same time, this is a day where they are remembering and where they're paying tribute and honoring those -- you know, three people did lose their lives as well as the fourth person at the campus of m.i.t. so a lot of thought to those who lost their lives, but of course,

a lot of people celebrating the milestones that have been accomplished and, you know, acknowledging the fact that this is a city that has come back stronger, a community that is stronger than ever. >> no question about it. we're going to check back in with you in just a few minutes. you have an interview with coming that you're catching up with after a year in boston. natalie, we'll see you in just a few minutes. meanwhile, in some obviously much, much lighter news back here at home, michael phelps -- sounds like he might be coming back to swimming. >> is it true? >> he couldn't keep himself away. for the first time in two years, mr. phelps has signed up to compete in a swim meet. in only ten days, he'll be back in a pool in mesa, arizona. so everyone's asking, does this mean he'll swim in the 2016 rio summer games? he's already got 22 medals, most decorated olympian ever. he has spent his retirement running swimming schools, he started a foundation traveling the world, playing a little golf.

he's 28. about to turn 29. remember, he retired, he vowed "i'll never swim into my 30s." we actually reached out to phelps's camp. they said talks of rio are premature. see how he does in arizona and go from there. >> i love that you say the question everyone is asking is about rio. me and my girlfriends are saying, will we see him shirtless again in the little speedo. >> oh. i hadn't considered that angle. >> wingspan. it's like, come on. >> it's a good swing spwingspan. we talked about kate upton yesterday. you called her a national treasure? >> any argument? i said bravo. michael phelps. chest, wingspan. >> he's a legit national treasure. >> you're basing that on athleticism. i'm basing it on his body. we're not seeing eye to eye on this. but we were talking about the number of athletes and entertainers who have retired and then they come back. what is it called when you do that? >> reretirement, unretiring. i think we ticked through

michael jordan, right? muhammad ali did it. brett favre. jay-z. cher did it, i think. she retires all the time. >> but we so find -- cher did it a couple of times. we struggle to find a female athlete who had retired and then come back. we couldn't think of a name. and i said to willie, is it possible that women -- and i don't want to make everything a gender battle. >> here we go. >> i'm saying, i gave you the caveat. but i wonder if men -- there's something in your wiring that requires male athletes to really need to come back, where women, we say okay. >> are you suggesting -- and dylan's laughing over there. >> you agree, dylan? >> i don't know. give me a female athlete. we named off the top of our heads men like this, boom, boom, boom. jay-z. >> that's true. >> are you suggesting that men are a little needy perhaps, and

that when the cheers die down, they sit there for a year and go, i need the cheers again? >> you said it. >> maybe. >> is that what you're saying? >> i'm just asking, you know, you can go online and let us know, why do you think that female athletes don't do this, and men walk away and they come back again and again. how many times did jordan retire? he retired from two sports. >> including baseball, it's three. but the thing with michael phelps is he's 28, about to be 29. he's in his 20s. i mean, he's still in his athletic prime. so he may have just said i walked away too soon. i can still play this game. when michael came back the second time, he was pushing 40 and it was like don't do it, mike. but michael phelps, he can still compete against these guys. >> absolutely. i was sad when he decided to retire. matt interviewed him and he was adamant that he wanted out. but obviously, things change. i hope to see him in rio. he's phenomenal. >> he's just going to try this out, see how it goes in arizona. if he wins a couple races, then the speculation ramps up. bottom line, we're needy, though. >> we, meaning men.

moving on now, this video caught our attention. it is adorable. so britain's got talent last saturday, the judges and the audience were once again blown away by the dance moves of a 79-year-old patty jones. apparently just ripped up the floor with her salsa routine. ladies and gentlemen, patty. ♪ >> so patty turns 80 in july. she has moved on in the competition. so we will be seeing more of her. >> oh! >> she started dancing at 2 1/2, but gave it up when she got married. had four children. so she unretired, basically. that's her dancing. she picked it up again after her husband passed away.

her dance partner is nico espinoza and said that she went to nico's dance academy to learn something different. i love this woman. but you know what i love? the size difference. it's similar to us. he's very tall. >> when we salsa dance, it looks a lot like that. flipping you over. >> i would allow you to do that. only but for one day. >> she's in incredible condition, too, to be able to do that. >> she kicked her leg up. unbelievable. >> a beautiful woman. let's get a check of the weather from miss dylan dreyer. she's in for al this morn. >> so it's official, we did find one woman who un-retired. >> the world needs patty. >> we got one. we found it. we are going to see some heavy rain down across the southeast. it is moving through northern florida right now. we do have thunderstormsing but they're not severe in nature. but this rain is beginning to be really heavy. we are going to see some airport delays in some of the major hubs. heavy rain right now moving through washington, d.c. and it is through eastern pennsylvania, but look on the backside of it. it is still snowing in cleveland and that snow is moving in

places like erie, pennsylvania, and buffalo, new york. we want to focus on this red area, from norfolk, virginia, right down into tampa, florida. that's where we could see a strong risk of storms today, with the small hail and damaging wind gusts, we'll see those through the morning. and then that threat -- they will weaken a bit as we go into the northeast later on this afternoon. but it is still going to pour. we could see about one to two we have such a pretty day shaping up. good morning to you! happy tuesday. i'm meteorologist christina loren. this is sunol. it was cloudy just about 15, 20 minutes s.a.ago. now all that cloud cover has burned off and we'll see a nice, comfortable finish the temperatures in the upper 70s. 79 in the north bay with a mix of sun and clouds, especially towards the coastline for today. and tomorrow, we're going to bring those temperatures right back up. hope you have a fantastic tuesday. >> and that is your latest forecast.

tamron and willie? >> all right, dylan, thanks a lot. coming up next, a woman seriously injured in the boston marathon attack talks to natalie about her long road to recovery and her plans to take part in this year's run. and her plans to take part in this year's run. that how do you want to feel this spring? confident! optimistic! dazzling! fierce! radiant! spring is the time to make it happen with the new special k simple 5 plan. no counting, no keeping track. just make five smart choices every day. and lose up to 5 pounds in 2 weeks. fabulous! get started at specialk.com

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injuries you sustained. how difficult was that process coming back, being an amputee? >> it has not been easy. it's a whole new world that i really didn't know anything about. and it's been slow -- it feels like a slow-moving process, but when i look back and realize it's only been a year and i'm getting around pretty well, i guess, you know, i couldn't be happier with my recovery process. >> you've really come a long way considering that doctors first told you you might never be able to walk again unassisted. have there been many milestones that you've looked forward to over this past year? >> absolutely. some of the things i used to love to do, like paddle boarding and running and wearing high heels are all things that i'm able to do now. so although they're not quite the same, at least i'm -- i feel a little bit more like myself. >> as a lady, we know how important it is to wear those high heels and you're wearing

them today. i see the leg -- if we can just pan down a little bit. you see how rationalable it is that it looks almost exactly like her leg. >> it is. i was amazed at the technology out there now for prosthetics. they've really come a long way, apparently. >> what did it mean for you to put those heels back on? >> i think for me, it was a way to kind of regain some of my old self. it's harder to wear them and to walk in them than regular flat shoes, but it makes me feel like i didn't have to give something up. >> meanwhile, you have joined what is an incredible community of survivors, and the strength that they have shown in the past year alone has been nothing but awe-inspiring so many of us. how has that community helped you in your healing? >> those other survivors are like family to me now. i would do anything for them. and i lean on them for support. they are the only other people,

15 people going through what i'm going through at the exact same time as a result of the boston marathon bombing. >> i know that you have plans to be back here on monday for the marathon. it was always a tradition that you would come out here with your friends and be a spectator cheering on the runners. do you think emotionally you're going to be ready to do that? >> i think i will be. i've been looking forward to coming back to the marathon and creating some new memories, and this year, the woman who helped me get away from the area of the bomb last year is running the first marathon. so i'm going to be jumping in at the last half-mile and finishing the race with her. >> that's incredible. have you been training for that? >> i have been. >> on your running legs? >> on my running leg. >> you feel strong? you think you can do it? >> i think i can, yeah. >> i'm so excited to see you do that. the rest of america will be cheering you on as well and all the survivors here. heather abbott, you look wonderful. and continued good luck and success and well-done.

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make them even fussier. the concern is that kids are missing out on opportunities to learn healthier coping skills. experts blame the obesity epidemic for the recent increase in diabetes cases over the past 20 years. researchers at johns hopkins studied the prevalence of diabetes in more than 40,000 adults from 1988 to 2010. they found the number of cases nearly doubled during that time. also during the study period, the number of obese adults went from one in five to one in three. researchers say the conditions are likely linked. a spectacular sight in the skies above monday night, and this morning. it's called a blood moon. a rare celestial event takes place during a total lunar eclipse when the earth's shadow obscures the sun. people in north and south america and australia were among those who could see the red glow. coming up, if you're one of those getting a tax refund, we'll tell you about some smart ways that you can spend that, and that could save you thousands of dollars. and remember, go to office depot today to have five pounds of paper shred. that's after your local news.

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a very good morning to you. 8:26. i'm laura garcia-cannon. firefighters say a family of nine, including a 6-week-old baby safe this morning, thanks to working smoke detectors. the family sleeping in the home when the flames erupted just after 4:00 this morning. the mother heard the alarms, was able to get her family out of safe. cadaver dogs and bulldozers expected this morning at the scene of that massive fire that destroyed al old studio on park avenue in san jose. more than a dozen homeless people were apparently living inside the abandoned building at the time of sunday's fire. one man who lived there told us as many as 42 people were living there with him and that everyone got out okay, but arson investigators have not yet had a

chance to go inside because of the danger of that building collapsing. bulldozers will knock it down and see what's left standing. the causing of the fire is still under investigation. redwood city police investigating a suspicious death after a man suffering from a head wound was found in a park. police say the man was found about 8:30 yesterday morning lying on the ground in red morton park. his name has not been released. we're going to take a quick break. we'll have a look at weather and traffic right after this.

welcome back, now. the time is 9:28. it's tuesday and temperatures today, perfection coming our way. and i wouldn't tell you that unless it was the absolute truth. 57 driveway s in the south bay 57 degrees in san francisco. today, 77 degrees, good air quality in the south bay. a nice gentle breeze building this evening. 74 for the peninsula. 65 out in san francisco. that's a nice day for you. and 75 in the north bay.

changes coming to your forecast. we'll talk all about that today at 11:00. let's check your drive. here's mike. >> i was just trying to teach my kids how to do that. you can do it too. that's perfect here as well. 101 looking much better as we're traveling northbound, a lighter flow of traffic. but look at the map. jammed from 85 up to tully because of an earlier cig alert on the southbound side. all lanes now cleared. we had an early morning deadly crash on nbc bay area. more details as the investigation continues. the cause and exactly what happened there. around the bay, a lighter flow of traffic. a lot of schools on vacation. back to you. >> hope they're enjoying it. hope they're still watching. we'll be back in half an hour. ♪ hey, that's the last crescent! oh, did you want it? yeah. we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. that's half. that's not half! guys, i have more. thanks, mom. [ female announcer ] do you have enough pillsbury crescents? so i should probably get the last roll... yeah but i practiced my bassoon. [ mom ] and i listened. [ brother ] i can do this. [ imitates robot ]

everyone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls. make the weekend pop. welcome back to "today" on a tuesday morning. tax day, april 15th, 2014. it's a good time to start thinking about your taxes. >> yes. >> i'm willie along with tamron. al is off and natalie is in boston covering the one-year anniversary of the bombings. we asked at the beginning of the show, talking about michael phelps -- >> right. >> which women had done this? a lot. >> when we were coming up with a list of people who all re-retire, they were all male athletes. so we ask you to send us some names of female athletes who re-retired. boy, did you. >> dara torres. kim clijsters did it. justine henin. misty may-treanor walsh.

cynthia cooper. a lot of them. >> we're all needy, dylan says. >> we're all needy. thank you. >> we all want attention. >> a universal need. >> that is interesting, though. that all of the athletes we thought of off the top of our heads were men. >> i think jordan and brett favre are the most famous. >> iconic. there you have it. takes a village. so the most frustrating thing that happens when you're trying to get a hold of your cell phone carrier or whoever it is is you never can talk to a person, right? it's so frustrating. everything's automated by computer. one "usa today" reporter had trouble with his verizon phone and internet service. came up with a list of helpful tips on how to get there faster, if you have problems with your phone or internet service. not just verizon, but anybody. have the account number by your side before you make the call, because you're going to have to plug that in right away. >> you know you're going to need it. >> this is the one i always do. just hit zero. the harder you hit it, the faster you get an operator. >> but that doesn't work anymore.

>> turns out that doesn't work anymore. >> i used to do it as well. now they hang up on you, they being some companies, some companies will hang up on you. >> they don't like you pressing zero. >> what do you do? >> if you're asked a specific question, like what's your current bill total, don't be hesitant to answer. that's security measure. most important, bypass the phone and message verizon, @verizon on twitter. >> so go online and complain to them. someone did that with apple. she got an ipad out of it. >> but it seems like you can only do it in 140 characters. i need to have a conversation. not sure we resolved anything. >> what we learned, don't press seay row. >> i'm going to keep doing it. just feels good. dylan, how about another check of the weather? >> i was on hold yesterday for 25 minutes. >> what? >> and then when they finally came on, i called the wrong number. >> oh! >> so another tip for you, have

the right phone number. >> great tip, dylan. >> yep. a tip for myself. we are looking at a pretty drastic difference in temperatures here. can you find the cold front? you don't have to be a meteorologist to solve this question. we've got it right through here. we're in the 60s. back behind it, we're in the 20s. 12 degrees in marquette, michigan. they have broken an all-time low temperature for this date. as we go into tomorrow morning, temperatures in the northeast will be colder than this morning by about 30 some degrees. 36 tomorrow morning in new york city. 35 in cleveland. 26 in minneapolis. but 41 in chicago with afternoon high temperatures about 15 to almost 20 degrees below average. we should mostly top out in the 40s and aud50s. back behind it, we even have some snow. we could see about one to three inches of snow in parts of the eastern great lakes and maybe up to 9:33. happy tuesday. taking a live look here.

this is san jose. you can see still a little hazy here. filtered sunshine here in the south bay. meanwhile, a foggy breeze in san francisco. it's going to take a while for us to clear out here. but you can see from our at&t park camera, getting a nice breeze out there. grab a jacket, temperatures are going to be kind of chilly today in san francisco. 65 degrees for you. 74 along the peninsula and 77 degrees today in the south bay. really heart-to-beat temperatures like this. have a great day. >> and that's your latest forecast. guys? >> all right, dylan. thanks a los s s a lot. the dead loin is midnight tonight to get the tax return in. >> according to the irs, the average refund is about $2,800, and if you spend it wisely, it can pay off big later. here with some smart advice is "today" financial editor jeanne chatski. you get that big fat check. >> it's a lot of money.

>> but you have to use it wisely. i didn't. i'm going to be honest. >> you can make good decisions that will pay off really big down the road. me on that. it's so smart. >> when do you make that payment then? when do you make the extra payment? >> i would make it as soon as i get the money so that you don't have the urge to do something else with the money. just make sure it goes to principal. if you're actually writing a

check, write principal on your check. if you're doing it electronically, call your bank and say i want this to be a principal payment. >> that's a very responsible way to spend your refund. that's very good. the next one, replace an old appliance like a fridge or air conditioner. why does this pay off? >> because energy savings are significant. you replace a 15 or 20-year-old fridge, you could save $250 a year in just energy costs. so go to energystar.gov, there's a calculator there where you can type in the old appliance that you're thinking of replacing and it will tell you how much money you'll save every year just in energy savings. >> again, a smart way to think about it. not looking at just the appliance. you look at the money you're getting back in energy savings there. >> you want it to pay off. >> put it in a 529 college savings account. >> we hear from parents all the time, they know they have to save for their retirement, but they feel guilty about not saving for college. you put that $2,800 every year into a 529, earns 6% on that money, which is a pretty

conservative return. 18 years down the road, you're going to have $91,000, and by the way, right now, that's enough to pay for four years at an instate moderately priced school. now, will it be down the road? probably not. but it will get you a large part of the road there. just one note. not all 529s are created equal. you want to make sure you're in a good one. maybe get a tax break from your state. go to savingforcollege.com and it will tell you where to go. >> that's good advice. we do that for our kids. it's great. >> i do it for mine as well. >> another good one, emergency savings account. just put it away. >> i know we urge people six to nine months emergency cushions, but we also know half of americans don't even have a couple thousand dollars put away. the average cost for a family of four to get through one month is about $5,200, so that $2,800 is a really, really good start on that money. and then if you can add $200 a

month to it through the rest of the year, you'll have that solid one month emergency cushion by this time next year. >> and honestly, there's a sense of satisfaction, and you feel good when you're able to have that little bit of emergency money if you're able to. it makes a big difference. >> absolutely. and look at the money as it's adding up. go visit those accounts and see yourself making progress. >> you say pay off some debt, but you point out pay off the most expensive debt. >> so here's a good way to think about that. the return on your money that you get when you pay off a debt is equal to the interest rate. so you pay off a credit card at 9%, you're getting a guaranteed 9% return on your money. or a 19% return. so if your most expensive debt is a car loan. if it's a credit card, pay off the credit card. >> thank you, great advice. appreciate it. still to come, we're going to hook you up with some space-saving tips to help get you organized after this. i'm obsessed with at least two of them.

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offenders in our closets, especially if they're dirty from a day at the beach. so get them up off the floor. these are skirt hangers that i picked up for around $7. easy way to display them. you see what you have and they're off the floor. >> i love this. this is so awesome. moving on to handbags, something willie can relate to as well. >> it's a clutch, tamron. >> a clutch in time. you know, they get squished, you can't see what you have. so this is a simple letter oregon fizer, i found a whole assortment of them so you can get different styles.ganizer, i assortment of them so you can get different styles. it's a really need way to display the bags. so on your dresser, they look pretty. >> i read that you have to have a little paper to keep your bags formed. you can still put the paper in and put it in this and it's perfect. >> you're getting a little crazy now, tamron, who has time for this? we're doing quick and easy tips today. >> fine, fine, fine. okay, our swimwear. bikini land. >> we were just talking about

this in the break. you have two pieces. sometimes you're digging for the other piece. they get ruined in your drawer. so this is a really clever way. found this nice decorative bin for under $10 at marshall's and i just took big zip lock bags and you put the pieces together. you can even take a sharpie and label it, like who it belongs to, what style it is. >> i feel like willie is the boyfriend or husband you've taken shopping with you, and he's like hmm, okay. >> this is what's happening right now. i'm trying to be interested. is it working? >> yes, you're doing very well. >> tank tops. >> these are the things that always get wrinkled and shoved in drawers. i'm finding millions of uses for those shower hooks that you can get at the dollar store. these are blastic shower hooks. and i just displayed them. they're not getting wrinkled. they're hanging in your closet saving space. >> again, willie, you end up dumping the entire drawer out trying to find the one color you're looking for. >> i know, it's true. >> i'm sure you have a lot of expensive tank tops.

>> you'd be surprised. >> jeans. >> these again are shower hooks as well, just a different kind. the kind that have the hook at each end. it's a really need way to display them and store them where they're not taking up a lot of space in your closet and not getting wrinkled. >> so you would have your bar and -- >> just hook them right on the bar? >> okay, cool. this one i can relate to for sure. with little kids. >> so we both have small children and it's really challenging to find like a neat way to store it. and bins just look messy. so this is an art supply station that i made out of a dish drying rack that i got for like ten bucks at target. i love repurposing things you have around the house and everybody pretty much has one of these. so just another clever way to do it. >> that is smart. >> and then they have a little art station. >> because it can turn into chaos. books and markers and blue. >> children and chaos go hand in hand. >> this is nifty. >> now, what did you do over here? >> okay, so what i did was i took an old bean bag chair. everybody has one of these, right? and i used it to store stuffed

animals. because stuffed animals are like these notorious dust collectors. super hard to store. so this is kind of a neat way to keep them out of sight, but your kids can still sit on it. it's still functional. you can take the stuffing out oismt. >> take the stuffing out. >> board games. >> board games are another thing that look messy when they're piled up. you want to reach for one on a rainy day. this is a simple closet organizer i found for under $20 at t.j. max. >> really smart ideas. i love it. >> thank you. >> i'm going to go put my two-piece in a zip log back. thank you so much. you can find out more about these tips at today.com. coming up next, she strikes fear into the hearts of many. the star of tabitha takes over, tabatha coffey. the star of tabitha takes over, tabatha coffey. right after this. how was prugh.ce? that bad? i dropd 2 balls, mom. eye on the ball! that's all it is. eye on the ball. that's a good tip. i'll try it.

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>> she's not kidding. and now tabatha wants you to be the boss of your life at home and in the workplace in her new book "own it." tabatha is with us. good to see you. you're a lovely person, but when you tell people the truth, you don't hold back. and this is a part of the concept of owning it. what does that mean? >> you know what? i don't think enough people take responsibility for their lives or their work. so everyone likes to sit back and say oh, i wish i had this, or i wish i was here in my career, or i wish i could do this. but they don't sit back and really take a look at it and take charge and really own what they need to do to make the changes. >> so where does this toughness come from that we see on the show? we know you're a sweetheart underneath it all. it's all for show. where does it come from? because you talk about your mother and you have norma's notes throughout the book. what did she mean to you and to who you are today? >> oh, everything. i mean, she was my mother, so she formed everything. she was pretty much a single parent. my father left when he was very young and she was tough. my mother believed in giving

praise that was earned. you had to earn it. you had to work for it. it wasn't just praise for the sake of praise. and that made me as an individual work a lot harder, and she was a tough businesswoman. she ran very successful businesses and she was very tough the way she ran them. >> but it was tough love. >> it was tough love. it was always done to make people better. to protect her business. to do the right thing, you know, for her family and to take care of people. it was never done in a mean or gratuitous way. >> i want to get to one point you make. you say one of the threads for changing it is change. you say not all changes are under your control, but how you handle them is. how do you apply that to business? >> you need to be like bamboo. you need to be able to sway with the breeze and be adaptable, because we can't count on everything staying the same all the time. change will happen. it needs to happen. it's part of life. but you need to be adaptable to it, and so many people are so rigid that they get so freaked out by the unknown that they

become paralyzed. >> you say see change as an opportunity, not as an obstacle. how do you do that? >> you need to sit back and say here's what's happened, i've been given a. now i need to go to d. what are the steps i'm going to take? instead of sitting there and being paralyzed by that fear and not being able to move, you need to look at what it's opened up. sometimes change opens up a whole new way of life for you that you never thought of going down that avenue before and it really makes for huge success. >> along those lines, you say successful people adapt fast to change. you've got to move. >> you have to move. you can't sit there and kind of woe is me, what am i going to do, i don't know what to do, you need to figure it out while you're moving forward so you can keep being successful. >> it's amazing advice. quickly, at what age did you feel you owned it? >> i still feel like i'm owning it. i think that's process every day. i think that's the great part of what being a person is and growing older and being a business owner is, you need to

keep adapting, keep working towards change and keep moving forward. >> tabatha, great advice. thank you so much. >> see, she's not so scary. we're okay. >> i love her. the book is called "own it" and we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc.

we're back now with our pee peeps today. >> yes. >> happy easter. >> that's so sweet. >> it's awfully quiet around here without al, isn't it?

a very good morning to you. 9:56. i'm laura garcia-cannon. a security guard from san jose hospital is under arrest, charged with molesting children years ago. derek hammond was arrested last month. not clear why the public was just learning now about the

case. hammond was fired by santa clarita county to provide security at valley medical center. also not clear what led investigators to hammond or how many children he's accused of molesting. but police say all of his alleged victims are now adults. he's also charged with possessing child pornography. police hope a new security camera footage will help them find a person who set fire to some offices used by children's hospital oakland. video just released yesterday showing a man behind a building, just before that fire was reported. let's check the forecast now with meteorologist christina loren. >> hey, happy tuesday to you. we have such a nice day shaping up and temperatures are already pretty comfortable out the there. we're in the upper 50s in the south bay. the peninsula, same for our. 58 degrees, not a bad way to kick off a tuesday in the east bay. you're at 57 in san francisco and the cool spot right now the the north bay. 50 degrees straight up. nonetheless, you'll climb into the 70s today. temperatures are going to be really comfortable. we'll see a nice, gentle breeze inland. meanwhile, breezy to windy conditions at the coast for today.

65 degrees in san francisco. now, coming up today at 11:00, we're going to tell you what's happening across the bay area for easter in year. what's free for you and the family. it's all coming up at 11:00. >> looking for some of those cadbury eggs. westbound 580 moves very smoothly right now at the off-ramp. kind of getting a wider shot here. let's look at the map. because just past there, past the dublin interchange, a crash at san ramon road. a backup through dublin 580. and farther back at greenville, a new crash is blocking three lanes out of the altamont pass. in the city, 101 at interstate 80, an earlier, with a from pain tank has cleared from the roadway. that fast lane has reopened and we're starting to recover through the south bay as well. >> i'll have another local news update for you in half an hour. see you then.

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from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody. good news and bad news. >> wha is the good news? >> booze day tuesday, april 15th. that means your taxes are due tonight. right? >> midnight. >> midnight tonight. >> the good news is, two things, number one, you always get an extension. >> i do. which my tax guy wrote me this morning, like, hello. >> matt money? >> no, somebody in new orleans. i'm a creature of habit. i lived in new orleans 15 years ago and that same guy does them. >> that's loyal of you, but -- >> i like him because i like

what i know. i like what i know. >> the other good news is my sister mishy's birthday today. we have great families. >> we do. mom and niece are here. we have a picture of them. they arrived yesterday. they're in my apartment. there is my mom and my niece and there's blake. and hannah has a little bit of a bug, but we think it's over and she's coming to see us soon. >> that is adorable. >> i know. >> before she got sick or after -- >> kind of in the middle. >> there is a bug going around. >> there is. >> we have a lovely family with us today. third, fourth time with us. the berkle family here to talk about "heaven is for real." we championed that book because it was so fascinating and then they made the movie. and it is coming out, i think, this weekend. >> look forward to that. a new website out there, if you have weather sensitive hair, you're going to like this website. >> why, hoda? >> it is called how

how'syourhair.com. you type in your city and state and you get the weather forecast, not the normal one, that says, like, 70% chance of rain. how it affects your hair in detail. here's what happened today. we checked out new york city. this is what it said. light rain in new york city. your umbrella is your new bff. >> al roker can tell you that. >> there's more. new orleans, today could be a bad hair day. bring a hat just in case. tomorrow's clear. phoenix, arizona, hey, it is going to be a good hair day, just enough wind to make your hair look like beyonce standing in front of a medium powered fan. >> you love this? >> look, anything that has to do with hair, i like. i don't care what it is. >> i guess it makes sense if you're traveling. but you can also just go on your phone -- i can do that on my phone and put in a city. >> i like humidity levels. they don't always give you -- they told you. you understood. they do. they give it to you! >> speaking of happy, let's play

a little more of the song "happy". >> pharrell sings this great song "happy." on sunday night, this song actually made him cry. he sat down with oprah. they realized so many people used this song in video montage, he didn't have any idea all these fan made videos were out there of his song. it touched him. let's take a look. ♪ you can take a break >> they have different cities. >> i don't know this song. >> i just appreciate the fact that, like, people believed in me for so long, that he can make it to this point to feel -- to feel that. >> wow. >> that's very sweet.

>> that song -- >> you don't see enough of that. >> that song is one of those worldwide -- it is so catchy, has that great little rhythm and, anyway, pharrell will be replacing cee lo on "the voice". >> some things that make the happiest people in the world happy. >> what do people -- what do happy people have in common? so time.com compiled data and discovered happy people have one thing in common, very basic. >> they savor the sweet little moments in life. >> yeah. >> stop and smell the roses. >> cliche because they're true. when you do stop and smell a rose, it changes everything. it doesn't even change it chemically. >> i think you're right. there was a hazard professoprof had this happiness course. he found people that went to the staple restaurant over and over and over again compared to people that went to different ones. of the two groups, who is happen

yes, the ones that go to the same restaurant or the ones that try something new andexciting, what do you think? >> i think the same old one that you know the people there and can't wait to have the lambchop or can't wait to have the -- >> that's what it is. they say if you're not always chasing the shiny penny, the new thing, what was the party? i didn't go to go, where was it? they were at a good party, they want to go to the better party. they were at a good restaurant, but what did you have? where was that? it is interesting. so happy people, you know -- >> george carlin who i worked with a bunch of times as his opening act years ago, he passed on, but if you can find a video of him doing his whole riff on stuff, it is one of most brilliant -- you will wet your pants laughing because it is so true about all we do is in life basically is collect stuff, then we got to move our stuff to make more room. i'm not doing any disservice.

and then people want your stuff. so then you have a yard sale and it is just this -- all about how all of life is about accumulating and getting rid of stuff. >> you're right. >> but check that out. it is absolutely -- people, you know, didn't know, thought he was just foul mouthed. he was one of the gentlest, sweetest guys in the world. did that thing on the seven words you can't say on television or something like that. but one of the smartest, smartest and -- >> we should check that out. >> "the voice" was on last night, big night. the teams from team shakira were there and team adam. last night was the playoffs. so five singers performed for each team and they had to cut them down. let's watch three out of the five for team shakira and see which one she saved. she only saved one. so deja. ♪ like a battlefield

♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ i'm sorry and i'm hanging on a moment of truth ♪ ♪ i'm on the edge of glory ♪ ♪ and i'm hanging >> getting hard. >> i'm picking -- >> i'll tell you who i'm picking. >> i'm picking patrick, the guy in the middle. >> he had a -- >> interesting sound. >> i'm doing with dani. was that first one or the last one? >> last one. >> let's see what happened. >> and it is dani. >> you're right! >> dani moz completes shakira's -- >> can someone steal? is stealing over? >> stealing is over, yes. >> hers is just the more -- the show stopper kind of voice. and that's not always what i want to put on, i like to put on

a nora jones. >> nora jones. that's not a show stopper, just wow and wonderful. >> how do you pick among that group in. >> i just did. >> you and you won. let's go with team adam. he had the last three and saved one. let's see. let's take a look. ♪ i don't mind spending every day ♪ ♪ out on the corner in the portion rain ♪ ♪ so here i am with open arms ♪ ♪ hoping you'll see ♪ if i told you i loved you ♪ ♪ would it make you want to stay ♪ ♪ i'm sorry for the way i made you walk away ♪ >> i know who it is. i didn't even see it. okay. okay. i think it is that last guy. >> morgan. >> let's see. i can't wait. >> moving forward, aim i am goio

take with me to the live rounds, kat. >> kat perkins completes team adam's team. >> what? >> he knows more than we do. >> he does. and he also knows about how his team balances out. >> strategy involved here. >> here is a good question. why do we keep losing our keys? think about how often you lose something, okay? there is an article in the wall street journal that says the average person misplaces up to nine items per day. where is my pen, where are my glasses, where is my phone? where is my -- i can't find my -- you know i do that all day. i'm exhausted. >> it might be nine items a day, but you lose nine items nine times a day. >> i relose. >> it is part of your charm. we don't want you organized like bobbie thomas or jill martin. it wouldn't be the same. >> i was going out to walk the dog at 4:00 in the morning and i

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a real life family from the small town in nebraska who inspired best-selling book "heaven is for real". the story is about a 4-year-old boy's near death experience and what he describes as a trip to heaven. >> todd, sonya and colton burpo's incredible story which todd co-wrote and is a best-seller four years later has captivated readers all around the world and now with that story is heading to the big screen. take a look. >> tell me about the hospital. how do you feel about that? does that scare you? >> no.

that's where angels sing to me. >> the angels sang to you? >> yes. >> when? >> during the operation when mom was in one room, talking on the phone, and you were in another room yelling at god. >> oh, my god. >> it is an incredible book, millions of people have read it. and the movie i think turned out really, really well. a hard story to tell. welcome. how do you feel about the movie? >> we're thrilled. i think the biggest thing for us was the integrity of the story, and it kept their word to do that. not only that, the quality. when you see greg kinnear and this little boy conner, you're going to see the best representation of what i saw 11 years ago. >> and when you met him, did you look at him and think that kid could play me? >> well, what some people don't understand, i have plenty of people pretending to be me.

i have some of my friends pretending to be me to pick up girls so i'm pretty used to it, but he's by far the best. >> the chicks are out there, huh? >> apparently. >> look at the -- >> i thought it was inspired because i'm telling you, we met you -- we met you how many years ago? >> four. >> four. you're how old now? >> 14. >> looking at you now, and how you've grown, you totally freaked us out when you walked in the room. do you remember clearly, vividly, all the things that happened to you when you were a little boy? >> well, my hospital experience and all the events leading up to not really. but with heaven, i still remember a lot of what i saw. >> do you still dream about it at times and does it recur in any way in your life? >> no. i only have the one memory, no visions, no dreams. >> that's so scinating. >> so what was your take on the film and how you were portrayed

and how the movie played out? >> i think they did a very good job of showing us as a real family, a pastor's family. we do struggle. we fight. we kiss. we make up. and it just showed us in a very positive light. >> that's a tough story to tell. you're afraid it is going to come off cheesy if you really try to show how gorgeous heaven is. it is indescribable, right? so how did you feel they dealt with those kinds of -- >> i think when it comes to real life, especially the scene where greg and kelly are fighting with each other in the kitchen, they know us pretty good, but, you know, i think the one scene about heaven, that's colton's saying about the movie, he's like, you know, i know they did the best job they can, but heaven is so much better than that. that's good news for all of us. when you see -- you're going to see a good depiction, but for you it watch the movie and realize it is so much better,

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"popula "popular:vintage wisdom for a modern geek." she was going to be here with her friend betty, but she wasn't feeling well this morning. we send her our good wishes. i hope she doesn't have that bug going around. for a shy little girl, you're doing awesome. >> thank you. >> must have been kind of surreal to look at "time" magazine and see you were one of the most influential teens they chose. >> it was insane. i didn't believe it. i thought my parents were joking at first. they said, it's real. i said, no, it's not. >> you first looked at the book, was it ridiculous that this is what girls at your age at the time thought? >> i couldn't believe how outdated it was and the advice, i have to be doing this, this is so different from everything that normal teens, you know, teens do now. and so but what i realized as time went on is the thing that was not outdated was the message

and the message is, you know, true popularity is kindness and less about what you wear and how you look and more about the person you are. >> the cool thing about what you did, it is one thing to tell everyone you're going to do something. you decided you were going to try these thins out and not let anybody know. >> not even your best friend. >> what was the purpose behind not telling anybody. >> it was a social experiment. i didn't want to jeopardize the reaction. i wanted to see if it really worked, from a secret. it wouldn't be be oh, yeah, let's pay attention to her because she's doing this. >> she might write a book and write nasty things about us. some people were cruel, though. >> i wanted genuine reaction. recently on twitter, somebody said, remember that girl maya van wagon from high school, she wrote a book, we should have been nice to her. i didn't want any reaction that wasn't genuine since i wanted to be able to -- >> what a thrill to ultimately to meet the woman behind the actual book. that moment -- it looked

surreal. >> she's still a beautiful woman. >> she is. >> so beautiful. >> what did she think had you walked up and said, hey, i look up to you, i love what you wrote? >> she was so excited. it meant a lot to her to have that, you know, even all those years later have someone to still validate her writing and say, you know what, it still works and it is still true. and so she tapped into that, you know, universal truth. >> one thing to write a best-selling book. a whole other thing to get steven spielberg to call from dreamworks or whoever did and say, we want to buy the rights to this for a film. tell us about that. >> i remember i got the call when i was in new york for publicity training, so it was fun. and i didn't believe it. it was so exciting because, i knew there was people trying to sell, you know, media rights, but when i got that call, just so excited and so they optioned the rights for 18 months to see if they want to do something with it. >> i think they're very smart over there.

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altamont. a smooth drive through the south bay and peninsula. back to you. >> we'll be back with more local news coming up in half an hour at 11:00 a.m. i'll see you then. we are back with more of "today" on this booze day tuesday. time to get the other view with matthew hussey and today we're talking about what really annoys you when it comes to the opposite sex. >> we sent matthew who is "today's" contributing relationship expert, new title, and the host of i heart radio's love life with matthew hussey to todd english's olives in andsworth park to find out what drives people crazy. take a look. >> the thing that drives me most about women particularly is the time allotment, the amount of time they take with various things. >> i don't think there is one particular thing. >> the thing that annoys me about women is their instability and inconsistency in thinking. >> most annoying thing men do, act too cocky. >> the toilet seat. >> the toilet seat?

>> yeah, not putting it down. i've been there twice, so i know. >> i'm ready for dinner at 8:00. my wife never has been ready for dinner at 8:00. >> one day they say something the next day they're not? >> right. >> what annoys you the most about women? >> how much time do we have? >> the most annoying thing about men is they tend to be disorganized. >> and both of them pee on the toilet seat. >> i train them. >> you're a saint. >> love her to death. never get ready. never get ready in the time they're going to. >> you cannot indict all women that way. >> who does he think he is? >> women are good. men not so great. >> they were brave, those guys. >> yes. they have to go home. >> i know. >> do they realize -- >> do they realize this would be televised on the "today" show. >> they did. which is particularly surprising that they said those things. >> people are chronically late. that's their nature. i'm the exact opposite, i'm

chronically early. aren't you just that way or you're not? >> i don't know. i feel like lateness is a respect thing. >> i agree. >> you have to be very careful. >> we get to viewer questions. can we give you a big fat congratulations. >> big old wet kiss. >> so happy -- >> you were telling the truth when you said you liked me. >> we love you. >> we love you. welcome to the family. >> very honored to be here. >> we knew -- we had a cartoon. >> that's when we knew. >> here is the first one. shelly says my husband makes most -- these are pet peeves. my husband makes the most awful noises when he eats. his jaw pops and he sounds like a horse eating hay. i got annoyed and i know this is my own issue. what can i do? >> it is easy to say this is a communication issue. she could say to him, look, you eat really loud. and at least put it on his radar. if she's never done that, she can give him, you know, that. i will say this, though, i think some of the beautiful parts of relationships are the

idiosyncrasies between people and within people and i think -- >> not the one you've got. >> yeah, but, you miss them in the one you've got. that person is not there, you miss them. >> yeah. >> hoda, this is -- you're too picky. you can't let people have their little thing. by the way -- >> seriously just sitting here listening. >> what was this lady's name? >> shelly. >> i'm sure shelly does things that annoy her husband. he doesn't even mention. >> right. >> sometimes a little humility is important as well. >> she surreptitiously hates him -- honey what is this and play it back? i don't know, two dogs mating or something. no, darling, that's you. and make it fun? >> that's hard core, though. that's, like, really intense. i think people got to zoom out a little bit and start focusing on bigger problems than their husband chewing. >> once you start focusing, you can think of nothing but that thing. >> but the thing is, if you go

out with another couple and he's just slopping away, it is embarrassing. >> here's susan. susan says my boyfriend usually walks ahead of me. for example, after parking the car, he's already at the restaurant door before i'm completely out of the car. or he follows the hostess to the table while i'm still at the entry checking my coat. >> wow. >> what should i do? >> this is really common. this is very common. susan, i hope you got your guy watching, because this message is for him, not for you. i think, look, susan's boyfriend, start walking with her, it is not a logical thing. men think it is a logical thing, like, i don't need to be doing this for her right now. i can go and she'll follow. it is an emotional thing. it is not a logical thing. it is her wanting it feel protected and looked after and like you're paying attention to her needs. >> and like he's proud to be with her. >> proud to be with her. >> a lovely thing to do. susan, cover his ears now, what you got to do is be the person

that links his masculinity to the action you want him to do. say to him, the next time you wait, open your car door, does something for you, say to him, that was so sexy, you doing that. >> what if he never does it? >> he never does it? >> he never does it. >> you know what would be so sexy, you know what would make me feel safe, make him feel look a man for doing it. and, susan, sometimes, just hurry up because he's hungry. >> do you ever walk ahead of frank or just go -- >> i do it now. he's slowing down a little bit. i'm still at my pace. >> you got to go. >> yeah. he dropped me off -- we got to church the other day and i just went -- >> let's go. >> i get that way too. >> that's not as important the other way around. women like to feel protected. opening the car door -- >> that i love. >> it is not important for -- like people say, it is a safety thing. it is not a safety thing in most streets in the world. we do it anyway because of the communication of it. >> frank slows down and says

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good news, ladies. after years of forgoing comfort for style, the hottest shoe of the season is also the easiest to walk in. >> from the runway to the red carpet, sneakers are everywhere this spring and here with the top picks is style expert and author of "the cheap chica's guide to style," littliana vasquez. >> you got something for everybody here. starting with the little ones. >> starting with the babies. even babies can get in on the sneaker trend. these are from vans, $22 to $25. they fit in the palm of your hand. not great for running for the kids, but really, really cute. for the little boy that is a mix of low tops and high tops, bohdan hbod b

boden has fun color combinations. for the little girls, we like something more playful. we did great sneakers from old navy. these are glitter and pink. what little girl wouldn't love those and a high top for the girls. these are under $20, available at old navy, so cute. teens and tweens want to show off their personality. that time where they're developing their own style. great cutouts from keds and bolt bright color, printed sneakers, cheap chica approved, $14.99 at payless. we love bold frintprints. kids shoes, they grow so quickly, you do not want to spend the money on them. this is one of my new favorite trends. this is coordinating with your partner on sneakers. his and hers. mesh is a huge trend now. these are kate spade for keds, adorable. your feet can breathe in them, which is essential. then black and white, we saw a lot. all over the runway, all over fashion, now worked its way into

sneakers. these are lace from steve madden. how cool? and then for men, as well. you don't want to match the sneakers exactly, but you want to be close. and then a throwback sneaker here, these are from pumas, this is having a major moment now in fashion, under $65 and, again, all about playing with color for his and her sneakers. speaking of color, there is no hotter sneaker now than the slip on. i think -- think of them as your flat for spring. replace your flats with slip-ones. >> all over the place. >> these are from american eagle, bright neon colors. and then pastels are huge. these are simply vera, vera wang for kohl's, under 40 bucks on those. and she's in this great leopard print slip-on. these are from tjmaxx. like slip-ones with a skirt or a dress. you can wear them with pants or shorts. this is more of a flirty, fashion forward look for spring. and then sneakers.

fashionable sneakers. the key with this is you don't want to look like you're wearing sneakers to go to the gym. you want to look for details you wouldn't see on a treadmill. for example, high shine metallics. these are from adidas by selena gomez. and how cool are the iridescent ones. you get all your metallics in one. and then studded converse. a lot of people love their regular chuck taylors. we have upped these a notch with a stud. >> these are more expensive? >> $80 from converse. these are the hottest sneaker now, these are the air max lunar 90s from nike. beyonce is a huge fan. so comfortable. the sole on them feels like you could run a marathon on them. bold, bright colors. and lauren is wearing a fashion editor favorite. these are also a favorite of street bloggers, style bloggers. these are from new balance, the 574s, classic new balance and 80 bucks. i love them with more kind of tailored elegant separates, trench coat, in a bright white

jean. >> on the left? >> on the last one, if you do need sneakers to wear to the gym, these are from asics. they were named the best all around cross trainer and performance sneakers can be very expensive. these are only $80. >> i swear by asics. >> everybody loves. >> thank you so much. >> thanks. >> her book is called "the cheap chica's guide to style". ingrid michael son sings for us. >> and grab your eggs, an easy easter brunch you voted for. you're going to cook it with us right after this. ♪

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[chris]still smoking up a storm? [tom]yeah.pathetic,isn't it? [chris] ever try to... [tom] quit?of course! my best time was six days. the worst was ...uh...23.4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you... [chris & tom] why are you still smoking? [tom] [sarcastic] "it's so much fun." [chris]why not call the smokers' helpline? the program's free,and... [tom]and they'll tell me..."you oughta quit." [chris] not so. just tell them you're ready to quit. then,they'll tell you how. [tom] really? you wouldn't have that number on you,would you? it's time to head into the kitchen and cook with us. since easter is all about eggs and goodies, we'll show you how to make both. >> grab your ingredients, because we got an easy brunch menu chosen by you and you don't have to do a thing until sunday morning. >> chef ryan scott, the host of food rush is here with us. what did everybody vote for?

>> i love this new format. everybody gets to pick what they want to eat. we have anything from, like, eggs benedict to frittatas. and the song we're singing -- ♪ have no cheese and bacon and egg whites ♪ >> the great thing about easter is having a cocktail at house. we have a similarity had it comes to frozen fruit. we love grapes, we love -- frozen grapes, one of my favorites. we take a little tangerine juice here. and the frozen raspberries that add the ice cubes inside which makes it cool. put it inside, finish it off with some champagne and try to sing peter cotton tail after you do this whole thing right here. you have two of these, you can't sing any song. but the great thing is if you do the mimosas ahead of time -- >> okay. grab your mimosa, take a sip and

then the cool thing about what i love do at my house when friends come over, cheers. happy easter. here we go. cheers. >> blessed easter. don't forget about that. >> let's eat. let's drink. when i have friends -- >> that's what he meant by blessed easter. let's drink. >> that's at my husband. frittatas, you can make your own frittata. you can make drinks. i have scallions, chives, challots and butter. start with onions, chives, any of that? no butter? >> butter, butter. >> do you want chives? >> i don't like chives. >> cherry tomatoes. bacon? do you want anything? do you want a drink? >> wait, what are you doing? >> i dmoent whon't know what ka is doing. that smells good. a little salt and pepper? >> yes. >> i feel like i'm at a hotel

buffet here. okay, so the great thing about this, do you want to add cherry tomatoes? >> sure. >> add whatever you want. >> throw it in. if you want to do the kathie lee special, do something different. you saute everything. then you add your -- watch this, add your kale and egg whites over the top. the thing about a frittata is, it is foolproof. you don't have to do anything. >> look what's happening. >> do this here, add that, no cheese. check this. because it is bacon, brown sugar, rosemary, black pepper on top. >> oh, my god. >> try that. a little small bite. take these guys -- watch. don't have to do anything to them. you pop them in the oven, you don't have to cook it on the stove top. nothing at all. and look at this guy, we have a frittata done, just like this. and you try it. you go here and the great thing about this, this is cold the

next day, in a sandwich -- try one of those. and check the peach, apple or apricot crisp. no cheese on one. so you make the frittata ahead of time. add the eggs ahead of time. put your bacon, build your bar, go like this, and you're done. >> you rock. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> check out our website, klgandhoda.com, excuse me for saying that -- >> her songs are all over the radio, on popular tv shows. >> and she's singing one of her biggest hits for us, ingrid michaelson. first, this is "today" on nbc. >> i love it.

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lauper tomorrow. >> right now, a special performance by singer/songwriter ingrid michaelson, churning out catchy tunz f y tunes for the l decade. her latest is called "lights out". >> her single debuted seven years ago called "the way i am." here is ingrid michaelson. ♪ if you were falling then i would catch you you need a light i'd find a match ♪ ♪ 'cause i love the way you say good morning ♪ ♪ and you take me the way i am ♪ ♪ if you are chilly

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