>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybody. this is wines day wednesday, also known as hump day. it's october 19th, and that is -- >> drake. singing "one dance." by the way, that particular song is the most streamed ever on spotify. 880 million streams. you know why? you don't have to do anything. just this. just a little -- >> there's someone else. >> most people, like me, who are

who's drake and what's spotify? they understand 880 million. right? thank you, jerry, for all you do. yep, yep. we've got a terrific show for you today. making three moms, two daughters and one granddaughter begged us to give a new look. our squad worked their magic to get their before and afters. >> wait pap squad. >> we have a squad. >> all right. plus, if you have to choose between breakfast or putting on makeup in the beauty tricks that will get you out the door quickly to do both well. >> and quick, good ideas, fun ones. diy ideas to decorate onfront door just in time for halloween. >> words of wisdom to start off the day. >> thank you. >> here we go. >> and suddenly -- you know it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. >> i like that. >> that's by -- >> meister eckard.

theologian. >> i wonder if it worked out well for him? >> i'm not sure. my mom sends me a picture from r rehoboth. look at me. i'm in the car with jack nicklaus. you zoom in -- >> it does look like -- >> nicholson. who's had a car accident. looks like he's wearing a neck brace. >> the star in rehoboth, can i off she went. >> hope she didn't teach you that way, get in the car with strangers. >> just get in the car. >> i went to an event last night in new york that's a big deal every year. a friend of mine as well as yours along with 11 other people inducted into the broadcasting cable hall of fame. the beautiful deborah norville on -- trying to make it so it doesn't -- one of the people inducted into it. she's from our "today" show

really hard, has for years and years and years kept her family life together, kept her marriage going and beautiful children. >> still working on "inside edition." >> congrats to her. >> and everybody inducted last night. >> a question for you. wine bot. rom coms in the '90s. would you pick? e! posted an article rom com? meg ryan? or julia roberts? the facts. meg ryan was in 15 films in the '90s. breakout role "when harry met sally" in 1989. >> great movie. >> '90s films, sleepless in seattle, joe versus the volcano. french kiss. french doors what is it? >> or kissing a french door.

you've got mail. >> yep, yep. the other is julia roberts in 18 films. breakout also 1989 for "steel magnolias" great movie. listen to her '90s films. pretty woman, sleeping with the enemy, hook, my best friend's wedding, notting hill and running a way bride and erin brockovich, 2000 and won the oscar. >> in the '90s, who do you think? tweet us at for julia and for meg, #klghodawhite for the white wine. >> what do you think? we're curious. >> give opinions. maybe sway people. >> we both agree. >> julia roberts. >> yeah, yeah. although we love meg ryan. >> thinking it's meg ryan. >> both adorable and great actresses. for the movies -- why it's be subjective thing. which moved you the most.

love the one she started with and ended with. i did like "french kiss" we kiv kevin klein. >> "my best friend's wedding" one of my favorites. >> perfect. so was "run away bride" and so was "pretty woman." come on, stop it! >> we'll revee who e! believes the queen of the '90s rom com is end of the show. meantime, keep voting. >> so far kind >> #klghodajulia red one, #klghodameg, the white one. >> and 1958, hoda wasn't born. michael j. fox made it popular in the '80s performing it in the "back to the future" movie. >> chuck berry releasing a brand

first in 38 years. >> wow. >> he wants -- dedicating it to my beloved toddy. his wife of 68 years. her name is thelmetta berry. >> wonder if he calls her hot toddy, because i'm sure she is. chuck and tony bennett, both in their 90s. let's really makes hadtry. have betty white do a little bit of a rap a, what, what. >> can you imagine if they went on tour together? chuck berry and tony bennett? people would go. so we like beautiful proposals. here's one for you. a football player, sanford university in birmingham, alabama, wanted to propose big to his girlfriend jasmine.

? i just want to tell you that i love you ? do you love me ? kiss me and ? >> whew! >> will you marry me? ? baby, we found love ?? [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] >> all: she said yes! >> i'm trying. jerry's getting quite the workout lately. [ laughter ] >> thanks, jer. >> that was absolutely beautiful. not only said yes, won the game. everyone's a winner. >> do you know what it is? such a depressing time we're living in. everything is so ugly out in the

>> election is -- >> i'm blocking. my philosophy, we already know what we know. >> yes. >> i've put on a full-court block. >> you didn't have cable. >> i was so happy. the cable man hadn't come to my apartment. i wondered why i was so joyful on monday. everyone was so depressed, i was like, hey! i realized, turn it off, because we already know everything. >> well, there's some people out there who still don't. >> they should watch. >> the rest of us -- >> i >> i'll watch tonight, too. >> and we are celebrating some of hollywood's hottest couples when he play "who knew?" >> and three get made over by our fashion squad. >> family hasn't seen them.

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a beautiful mess of chaos, which i said i want her. so why don't you tell us. are you excited about this? >> super excited because my mom is getting married next year and i want her to go into marriage with a new, chic look and just a in makeover. >> look at this tape, it will explain a little more about what taisha was asking for help about. >> right now my mom's style is the bed mom jeans and sports t-shirt and trying to go for that edgy, biker look, but can't quite figure cannot figure it seven days a week she wears the cavs and shen te she wore an ohio state jersey. she wears the jeans and they have rips down the side and they're horrible. it's rock er and edgy. she is my best friend. >> wait. >> is it happening? >> i have to say that she is my

>> yeah, come on out. she wants to see. >> what! >> beautiful. >> super. >> that's great. >> okay. first of all i have to say that did you ever think that she could look like that. my obsessed and has the bling and i love that and the most important tip is at home. if you love sparkle you have to do this. >> let me tell you the trick here and then you buy and you can just lay it over a blazer.

>> of course you are. okay. what do you have? >> i have courtney and her grandmother has 12 kids and 17 grand kids and this is her before. what did you tell us? >> so i am one of the 17 and my mom is the oldest and my grandmother dresses a little too sexy. >> it's the basic and my grandmother always wears something tight and it could be a dress or a halter top and knee highs or something dressy. she wears heels no matter where she is going. even in the airport, she is going to be in stellto.

>> bring her out. >> come out. >> yeah. >> i love it. >> still hot. >> and is that just a one pair of jeans? >> how do you feel? >> amazing. >> you look hot too. >> the jeans are under $30. >> and that's a good job. >> it's a true artist and she wanted her mom to really reflect on the inside and outside. the look was updated: >> i loved that my mom is in vepting and dressing for her life style. she has to wear something that she can get a stain on. i'm excited. >> let's take a look.

comfortable. it's a style of being a photographer and wearing things that she can get dirty. she looks to me for fashion advice. i would love for my mom to enjoy putting together outfits and not for it to be something that she dreads and maybe we can enjoy together. i want my mom to wear what she wants and feel confident. let's bring out terry. >> okay. >> oh wow! >> it's totally twinning in this. this was cut out. >> look at the shoulder. >> and that's for the program. >> she is wearing an apron over

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we're going to start with this tip you're going to use your hair dryer. cool setting on your hair dryer to dry the skin care during applications. >> put on a serum? >> make sure it's cool otherwise it's drying. >> if you don't, it can tend to peel up. putting on foundation, like, what are all of these -- little bits in my fingers? >> yes. simple as a blow dryer on cool. >> right. >> how many time do you cut out? >> >> honestly, like three minutes. >> i like it, carly. okay. >> do it with body moisturizer. putting on jeans are so hard. >> panty hose. >> or spanx. >> spanx are hard, too. >> thanks, hon. >> did you do anything? was that -- just sat there, looked gorgeous. right? >> that's all she needs to do. needs to stand and look gorgeous. okay. our adorable smoky iron looks like itic tas forever and a day. >> basically, you can use a liner like this. you can apply it to your lash

>> and you can do it haphazardly, doesn't have to be perfect. >> not hoda. >> yeah. >> use your ring finger. blend it up. this isn't going to be as dark, since we're in a rush, but you can see -- even the subtle smoking eye. take a look at that yeah. >> how quick that is. >> pretty. >> took no time at all. >> and adorable, wake up feeling like you have redness under your ey y liner underneath here, and for darker skin tones use a warm gold or copper. just makes the whites of your eyes bright and neutralizes redness. >> beddy time. how do we save time about to crack out? >> use, keep wipes by your bed. >> okay. >> no one likes washing their face. i mean, i don't. if you don't wash your face you break out. >> how do you make sure your hair stays nice and wavy? >> keep it in a braid and then take it out here.

>> and you'll see her pretty waves. >> all right. so you go to bed with braids and wake up with waves? >> yes. >> okay. >> see how gorgeous the waves are? brush it through with a bristle brush, make them more uniform. >> thanks for all the tips. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. all righty. much more coming up including joy's s.o.s. question of the week. >> joy, what do we have for today's question, sweetie? >> hey, ladies! this week it's all about sugar and how to stop the urge for eating so much. the question comes from holly she writes, i've eaten too much sugar most of my life. how do i end the cravings? help for holly and everybody else who's in the same boat coming up later in the show. two words. sugar detox. stay tuned. back to you guys. >> all right. also, how to deck out your door for halloween with items you already have in the house. >> and a hollywood couple's edition of "who knew?" our crowd is so ready, after

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aren't you glad louis found his dog? >> so glad! >> so happy for louis. okay. this lovely couple is from philadelphia. according to forbes which would youer won the most? beyonce and jay-z, tom brady and gisele bundchen -- >> a. >> surprising. taylor swift and calvin harris. >> a couple that is no during their time together certainly made the most of it. she was on tour. whenever you're out on tour, you're going to brick in a lot of money. her 1989 tour, hugely successful. in addition to being a very hot paid d.j. for the gigs in vegas, endorsement deals with armani. put it all together, $146 million. >> cha-ching! all right. kath, over to you, sweetie. >> yeah. lovely girl from texas. how are you? which of the following

smith and his, or meryl streep and her husband. >> c. >> yeah. they were married a long time. >> meryl streep and her husband. how long have they been married? >> 38 years. meryl streep married to her husband don gummer 38 years. >> wow. >> met when she actually moved into his brother's apartment, that he was subletting and then when he came back to the apartment, meryl stuck around. >> in her business? >> creative type, yes, but not an actor, director, nothing in that vein. >> all right, kath, over to you. >> a beautiful lady from arkansas. i wanted everybody to see her. what did blake lively accidentally do to her dress on her wedding wine? spill wine on it. sounds familiar to me. burn a part of it, who knows? or ripped the train? >> c. >> no. apparently not. that's all right. >> she actually burned a part of

sparklers, as you do. you have sparklers at your wedding. >> of course. >> florence welch performing as you do. he was holding a sparkler, got a little too close to the applique on her dress and singed in the front of the dress. didn't notice it. ryan reynolds says have a memory holding a s florence. a great reminder of a beautiful part of the night. >> great way to look at it. kathy, to you. >> and queens, australia. what respect it justin timberlake write about his wife jessica biehl? >> a. >> "mirrors." >> wow. >> her, huh? >> we love her, and you know, that sweet, because i'm like, "sexy back," this sock is about

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doesn't take a lot of time. >> yep. last-minute decoraors like myself, achieve his with items from around your home. cut large pieces of cardboard and use a permanent marker to add detail like we've done here. feeling really crafty, cut out holes for knots in the wood. arms, simple, too. >> make the arms. hannah and ella to do this. >> trace your arms. >> trace your arms. >> do it exaggerated to look a little more spooky and you can use cardboard. use foam. whatever you like. and if you'll notice here we have spooky witch hats in the trees. light up, have glow sticks. something the parents should do, what you'll do, take a glow stick, attach fishing line with a needle, poke it up through the top of the hat. >> it lights up. >> lights up and hangs in the trees and looks like it's just hanging. dress of you the door, great

>> scary stuff. >> yeah. >> move on over here. >> all right. so -- >> this right here, pinterest-inspired door. looks more difficult than it is. >> it does look difficult. >> took pieces of leaf garland, strung them together sort of like a shower curten and connected them on the back of the door. picked up pumpkins from a local craft store. easy to ha decorate like here with permanent markers and hang on the front of the door using a nice clear -- >> looks like it took a lot of time. >> time and effort. >> festive. >> yep. >> and this right here is our monster door. >> yeah. >> a great way to get the entire family involved and to do it for under $10. all we did, paint sheets of newspaper green. paint it whatever color you like. just recommend doing two to three coats to make it really bright, and just traced a mouth

the kids involved. all you have to do here, trace a soupbowl for the outer part of the eye like we have here. >> all right. >> you have this. >> makes eyes. easy. >> trick-or-treat? >> wait. [ doorbell ] >> trick-or-treat! >> hey, guys. >> perfect costume for alex! >> oh, my god. >> isn't it? >> we've seen him in many. >> y >> very generous. oh, my gosh. >> kids, come here. >> skittles! >> come here with us to get on tv. come over here, princess. come here. come here, princess. >> look at that outfit. >> oh, my gosh. >> looks so cute. for more halloween ideas go to klgandhoda.com. >> important health information to help save every woman's life,

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it's breast cancer awarness month, of the more than 200,000 cases diagnosed each year, brca 1 and 2 account for a lot of breast cancer. >> it can also create tough choices. as the women of the shooby family know all too well. >> 20 years ago i lost my sister diagnosed with breast cancer six years later. so i had genetic testing. i tested positive for brca 1. >> reporter: for max shoopy, knowing those results meant the possibility her daughters alana and rochelle could also be carry yirs of the gene putting them at an increased risk for breast cancer knowing one day they, too, would need to be tested for that gene. >> in her 20s, suggested she wait until she finished college,

knowing her genetic outcome would be too much. >> i decided that i needed to find out for myself, because not knowing was just as bad as knowing for me. >> reporter: so when alana was just a sophomore in college she went through with testing and discovered like her mother, she, too, was a carrier of brca 1. >> i became extremely proactive and doing breast self-exams. one night i felt a lump in my breast, and the moment that i felt it, i knew that was not right. >> and alana tested positive for breast cancer at 23. >> i went from being a full-time student to a full-time patient. >> reporter: alana and her doctors opted for a double mastectomy along with chemotherapy with her daughter at her side. >> to know she would to go through what i went through was

chemotherapy my sister found a suspicious lump in her breast. >> it took all the breath out of me. >> reporter: by that tim rochelle then 28 knew she also carried the brca gene. >> my heart broke to her flrt a pro active move, like her sister eight months earlier bravely opted for a prevechbt tin double mastectomy. >> i'm so glad i don't have to go through what my went through. i have never questioned it, a day since then. i do not have to worry about breast cancer anymore. >> reporter: and just as things were moving forward, the family had another setback. >> six months after i considered cancer-free, i felt another lump. i had a recurrence. having to share the news with my family and friends that i was sick again, was the most

>> you don't have time to think about your feelings and you don't have time to deal with your emotions. >> reporter: that lump near alana's armpit was treated with lymph node dissection followed by over six months chemotherapy and recently the family received much welcome good news. >> in march, 2016, i had a clear ct scan. so i'm now officially cancer-free. >> young girls need to know this can happen to them go for your checkups. do breast self-exams, know your body. ultimately that's what saved my girls' lives. >> wow. >> that's an unbelievable, unbelievable story. >> it is. >> and doctor weiss, breast cancer doctor here with us. if that doesn't tell the story what does, right? >> as a doctor taking care of these people each day we take

to be protected. >> when you see a 23-year-old, do you -- i feel like anecdotically now more and more young people seem to be getting diagnosed, but how common is it for a 23-year-old to get diagnosed with breast cancer? >> breast cancer is very uncommon at that age. 1 in 8 over 45 of diagnose the breast cancer. diagnosed as a young age or in your family, a man in your family or eastern european jewish background, you should be particularly when also there's a history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in relatives. >> so when you go in, do you say, i want to get tested, and does insurance say, okay, great. you can go ahead and we'll take care of it? >> if you fall in one of the high-risk categories, only about 10 % of women have a gene like that, most insurance carriers do cover the cost of testing. >> they do.

gene, we've heard of people pro actively saying, i don't have a lump, but i'd rather just do the surgery. what do doctors recommend in that kind of a case? >> if you carry an abnormal breast cancer gene, 1 or 2, your risk of breast cancer over of the course of your lifetime, over 85% and ovarian cancer, over 65%. looking at those high risks you need to take big steps to lower that bigis mastectomies and removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes's those steps reduce the risk up to 90%. it's not 100% but close. and, also, there's tamoxifen and medications like that that can also help to lower your risk, and for anybody who's, any woman out there, any girl out there, there are everyday steps to take to reduce your risk of breast cancer. >> tell us? >> getting to and sticky to a healthy weight is important.

diet. limiting alcohol to three or fewer drinks per week. avoiding medicines that contain hormones and not smoking. just some of the steps we all can take. it's hard work, but it's really worth it, because even if you start taking these steps at age 50, you can lower your risk of breast cancer by 50%. >> sure. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having -- being here. >> control your sweet tooth, what a important, too. >> from lincoln, nebraska, joy has the solution to curve the sugar cravings. first, this is "today" on

we've been waiting patiently. time to get the answer to joy's s.o.s. question about weight. you have a question, go to our website and clickity clack. >> how can the intense sugar cravings -- for hoda, too.

holly. basically that's going to rehabilitate your taste buds. seven days, all of this stuff off the menu. okay? totally off the menu. no added sugar. also, no artificial sweeteners as well. artificial sweeteners and zero calley substitutes saturate your taste buds with all of that sweet. and the idea of this is to become more sensitive and satisfied with naturally sweet things. like apples, sweet carrots. end of the seven days, be very selective and mindful what you put back into your diet. >> okay. detox. >> it works. >> change what your body starts to crave. >> exactly. >> okay, good. >> totally will. >> good luck, holly. >> and our -- julie roberts, meg ryan? >> who is it? >> julia red wine. meg the white. majority believe it was -- julia roberts. >> gets what? e! agrees. all right.

hendricks. >> love her. >> shares something jim childs: one of the ways criminals avoid background checks is by going online and connecting with strangers to buy guns. as someone in law enforcement, i think that's dangerous. millions of guns are sold through websites like this, most with no background checks, no questions asked. the law requires background checks in gun stores; why don't we require them online? a few clicks of the mouse, now a bad guy is armed - and potentially dangerous. narrator vo: yes on question 1 it's not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands.

than party. my son max can't live in trump world. so i'm crossing party lines and voting for hillary. i don't always agree with her, but she's reasonable. and she's smart. she can work with people to solve problems. i want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered.

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