warning in place for the washington state mudslide? family members want those answers. you can't forget the unfrefrable mary lou henner. our special guest. this is "way too early." that will go down in the history as one of the best openings ever. i'm thomas roberts. it is wednesday, march 25th. welcome to "way too early" it is show that knows mary lou henner will never forget her appearance right here on this show today. we have a special guest. the obama administration is expected to announce today a new change in the health care law that will allow certain people more time to sign up for coverage. the planned extension first reported by the washington post comes six days before the deadline to enroll in the federal marketplace or face a government fine. now, under the new loophole people who ran into the

technical issues while applying for obama care will reportedly have until midapril to ask for extra time, and americans won't have to prove they really tried to sign up earlier. instead the government will rely on an honor system where people simply check a box. the white house has been pushing a major p.r. offensive to boost enrollment numbers as nervous democrats brace for the potential of political fallout of the midterm electrics and as the "new york times" is pointing out, officials have previously insisted the deadline was term and will not be altered. that includes health and human services secretary catherine. here's what she told congress earlier this month. >> are you going to delay the mandate that individuals have to buy government health care or pay tax? >> no, sir. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31st? >> no, sir. >> is it correct that you don't have the authority to extend that deadline? the position that the senators from medicare and medicaid have

made, do you agree with that? >> i haven't seen their statements, but there is no delay beyond march 31st. >> meanwhile, the supreme court is now weighing arguments into whether obama care violates the religious freedoms of employers by requiring them to provide insurance for birth control. the justices seem to buy it. today mior saying could they object to vac sin aings or blood transfewings and just as anthony kennedy pushes them on both sides challenging the government whether they could be forced pay for abortions. officials in washington state are facing growing criticism that more could have been done to prevent the loss of life from saturday's massive mudslide. the disaster is now blamed for at least two dozen deaths. a federally funded report in 2010 warned of dangerous conditions when two steep slopes and -- other research recordly raised concerns as well. >> i think that the county should have been aware of the

risk. there have been numerous studies that have documented it. there's a historical record of repeated failures on the landslide that have gone all the way across the river. >> we've done everything we could to protect them. we've mitigated the landslide from 2006. there's been warnings and advance notifications of high risk for landslides. we've done everything we could. my heart goes out to all of these individuals. >> officials say they believe a small earthquake 12 days ago may have played a role in causing the disaster. a despair that's growing for family members searching for missing loved ones. more than 100 people are still reported missing and now we're hearing some of the frantic 911 calls made in the moments right after the slide hit. >> there's a mudslide and everythings's gone. the houses are gone. i got people here screaming for help. >> my neighbor's house and their neighbor's house has been completely taken out. it's collapsed on several of them, and they're trapped. >> president obama says that he has signed an emergency

declaration to help the county with its current recovery efforts. weather conditions, they did improve overnight allowing crews to resume the flight for flight 370. a dozen aircraft are patrolling the skies above the target area on this 19th day of the search, including the planes from the u.s., china, and japan. a number of ships have also returned to the area. the southern i understandian ocean. the u.s. navy is sending an undersea drone to assist in recovery efforts. several objects have been spotted on satellite images, but officials have not been able to identify any plane parts belonging to the missing flight. it was earlier today australia's prime minister spoke about how long the search would go on. >> we keep searching until there is absolutely no hope of finding anything. plainly there is quite a bit of debris in this part of the southern indian ocean. we've photographed it on a number of occasions now. we have not yet recovered any because of the difficulty of locating bits of debris in a

vast ocean. >> he went on to say that the search isn't openended, but it's unlikely to be abandoned, and now malaysian airlines and boeing could face a lawsuit from the families of the now presumed victims of flight 370 because of possible manufacturing defects that led to the plane's ultimate crash. president obama is expected to reassure europe of america's absolute backing and underline the -- yesterday he made it clear where he sees russia's standing in global geopolitics. >> america has a whole lot of challenges. russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength, but out of weakness. >> meanwhile, a major aid package to ukraine is closer to reach congress after harry reid removed a sticking point with house republicans reorganizing

the international monetary fund. former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld is less than thrilled about u.s. foreign policy under the president. especially when it comes to treatment of afghanistan and its president hamid karzai. on monday he framed what he sees as obama's ineptitude in no uncertain terms. >> our relationship with karzai and afghanistan was absolutely first rate in the bush administration. it has gone downhill like a toboggan ever since the obama administration xwaim came. if the administration, white house, and state department have failed to get a status -- >> all right. they were assigned to keep president obama safe on his trip overseas this week, but three secret service agents are now sitting at home on administrative leave. the secret service says the agents were booted from the detail after a night of drinking

in the netherlands. one of the agents was reportedly found passed out in the hallway of a hotel, and this happened the day before president obama arrived in amsterdam. agents are not allowed to drink alcohol within ten hours of a shift. that rule went into affect after agents assigned to president obama in columbia were found with prostitutes in their hotel rooms two years ago. all right. we shift our attention to focus on business. wall street was able to turn things around yesterday closing in positive territory for the first time in three sessions. cnbc's jeff cutmore live for us in london. jeff, not the biggest boost we see, but green arrows nonetheless. >> yeah, absolutely. and let's just bridge from your last story about too much stimulus to one about not enough in europe. it seems that there is still an issue with stimulating european economies to grow faster, and that's what's holding back the markets at the moment a little bit in the european context, but ecb's head drogge and the bank

both indicating there could be stimulus to come. either a negative deposit rate that would have some former targeted asset purchase program. watch this space. another story that's developing at the moment fascinating. $2 billion buy of populous. it's in the virtual reality space. a games company. facebook spending $2 billion to acquire it, and they don't even have a product that's in the public market at this point, but the 21-year-old founder parma lucky, no doubt feeling pretty luck where i to get the $2 billion for the business. back to you. >> it's fascinating to watch facebook continue to absorb other product out there to make sure that their content stays relative -- relevant, future-proofing itself. geoff, fascinating. still ahead, the baseball season is are already underway. well, kind of. for the first time in a long time the yankees are not the top spenders. we'll have the new top five for you. also, the fabulous actress mary

lou henner will join us coming up in the next block. she has this super memory, meaning she literally does not forget anything. and i think that i forgot that i wore this exact outfit the last time i was here. really bad of me. if you had that super power, how would you use it to impress others? use the _#way too early. if i remember, i'll put those on later in the show. it's moving up into new england. that and much more when "way too early" comes right back. how is that chicken going? we've got a guest. >> 21 women, 18 men all dressed in similar outfits. apparently they all thought they were headed to heaven in a spaceship. they were computer experts to earn money. enough to rent this mansion in rancho santa fe, but they considered it to be a monastery. mine was earned in korea in 1953.

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we go to sports now where it may be the beginning of the baseball season, but it's the end of an era. the l.a. dodgers have surpassed the new york yankees as the biggest spenders in baseball. that ends the yankees' 15-year reign as top spenders. new york is actually more than $30 million behind l.a. can you believe that? the phillies are nearly $25 million behind the yankees followed by the red sox. behind the tigers as well. the average salary in majors is now approaching $4 million. >> sorry. very excited. >> we're in the wrong profession, just so you know. just so you know. to the nba and thriller. no. i'm just learning it this morning. light dawning on marble head right now. the thrill of two teams that can match up in the first round of the playoffs. the thunder visiting the mavs. we skip to the fourth. less than a minute to play. the game is five. kevin durant pulls up and drains the deep three. next play. yeah. derek misses the three, but the mavs get another shot and jose

calderon, yeah, there you have it. all right. tie game in overtime. it was all mavs. they take the win here. 128-119. they now sit in the eighth playoff spot. they don't call it the no fun league for nothing. the nfl plans to flag one of the popular touchdown celebrations. >> this is dumb. the goal post dunk. >> the rule? why do you take that away? it takes two seconds. it's not like when they're dancing. >> the league already bans using the ball as a prop, and now refs will begin enforcing the rule on this particular intras. last season one of the dunks moved the post out of a position delaying the game for several minutes while it was fixed. so -- >> that's different. if they're going to ruin the goal post, they're going to delay the game -- >> it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, though, bill. just so you know. >> got barnacle's attention. you got -- >> barnacle is not out in chatham, cape cod this morning.

we got -- this is a huge storm that's just about a 200 mile off the jersey coast right now. if this was maybe 100 miles closer, you would be talking about this incredible hurricane force winds in many areas, but it's very isolated out towards cape cod down east maine and nova scotia will get nailed too wrash we've been spared. i know where heed we did pick up six to seven inches of snow in southern new jersey and off to delaware and maryland, but you weren't getting these hurricane force gusts. the snow is really confined to kentucky martha's vineyard, and once we get past the canal, there's not much snow at all. we didn't see much in the area of long island. these pictures in chatham, this is incredible stuff out there this morning. we have dillon dryer out there this morning and all the weather channel people taking some amazing pictures once the sun comes up, and the winds have been gusting so far above 30 to 40 miles per hour from boston to newport and out on the cape we do expect gusts up to hurricane force later today. the rest of the east is still a

very cold morning. all wait down to the atlanta and after that it's going to get much, much warmer. >> dillon dryer really liked you last week when you were on spring break and she got to be inside. now you're back -- >> now she's out in chatham in the blizzard. >> thank you. now it's that time where we welcome a very special guest to the studio. mary lou henner. >> so glad i'm here. >> you are only our second guest at this time of day. >> this is my time of day. i love this time. >> you are gust starring in brooklyn 99. >> yes. it was last night. >> was it last night? >> it was last night. >> see, it's on my dvr. >> it's tonight for you. >> let's play a little clip. >> okay. >> i felt like a teenager. >> i feel like i'm 40 again. >> give her a kiss. >> so that is the sexy vivian.

>> you know what happened? it's so funny. i went on for the one show, and we did this scene, and they said will you come back, and i ended up on five episodes. we ended up having a whole relationship. almost getting married. >> an old friend of 30 rock now killing it over at fox with his show. >> killing it. >> how fun was it for you to return to a comedy? >> it's always great. i mean, that's like -- it's a new fresh group that just adores one another and, you know, they just won the golden globes. much like taxi did. we won the golden fwloeb and emmy. who knows what's going to happen? >> speaking of great chemistry, you're also on the crazy ones. >> yes. >> which is robin williams, sarah michelle gel ar, who i know as buffy the vampire slayer. >> i play robin's ex-wife. sarah michelle gellar -- my

buddy. >> see? my sister. >> you are so awesome. >> may 2nd, 1967. >> may 2d, 1967 was a tuesday. >> see. >> stay for this. watch this. >> i wore buttons today. >> this is like -- find a stud or just stick those in. whatever. one thing, you also have a radio show on national syndicated. i got to be a guest on that. >> thank you so much. >> it was a lot of fun. >> it's called the mary lou henner show, and i have stations all over the country. this week we started in atlanta. >> hotlanta. >> of course, we're on-line as well. you can find us anywhere. >> now we're going to do the perfect thing. i want to show a picture of you. >> okay. >> and you're going to have to remember the date. >> okay. all right? >> hope i can remember. oh, that was the opening of

"staying alive." the john travolta movie. that was in july 11th of 1983. >> holy crap. >> wasn't it? no, no, no. >> i scan. people when they think they go up. when people with -- we go across. we scan. i see the whole year sort of present itself. 1983. it was july 11. from that picture -- >> what year? >> 1983. >> that's right. i wish i had a bell. she's really right. >> i'm really right. >> we don't embarrass guests on "way too early wroish ". >> that picture was in the calendar. it was also with sylvester stallone and his wife. from that i got johnny dangerously. >> do you still have this dress? >> i do. it's such a bad 1980s dress. i had a red one too. >> good 1980s hair, though. >> good 1980s hair. >> both working the bangs.

anyway, this was great, and we'll have you back. we'll keep you hostage until the end of the show because i did ask today about memory for our twitter questions, so coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," though, we have a brand new conversation on the obama care deadline, the delays involved. is the president simply trying to run out the clock until the midferps? we'll to say that topic around when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler. lots of busted brackets heading into this week. swrimy kimmel has just the remedy. we keep marilu for our twitter question. if you had the super power of memory how would you use it to impress others? you impressed the hell out of me. how is that chicken coming? we got a guest. have a product that eliminates odors and doesn't just mask them." could you give us access to maybe the smelliest room in your house? -sure come on in. the trash is bad... oh yeah. ...and we just took it out. febreze doesn't mask odors, it actually eliminates them. it smells really nice. like fresher. another success story.

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>> we talked about the latest link to obama care. would between the affordable care act's passage, there were only one major delay, but in the last nine months there have been nine. all right. we kept marilu around as we're going to do our pitch to lewis. this man is the latest. he does our cooler stories. look at him. >> it's very nice to have you, marilu. >> look at him. so handsome. >> if your march madness bracket is already busted like most of america, you are not alone. jimmy kimmel feels your pain. >> it is disappointing when your bracket gets busted early on, but if you like many americans

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more photos on the inside. it's the april-may edition. my instinct is that these photos are fantastic. look how handsome you are. >> we thought we were going to breck the table. >> you guys are ice dancing. >> i want one of he's photos blown up. i want it signed and i'm going to put it over my desk. >> i'm going to make you a calendar. how is that? >> thomas is almost -- i think he is probably better looking than travolta in his prime. wouldn't you say? >> definitely. >> i can't dance like that. lewis, stick around. i'm bringing marilu back. she's staying with us. if you literally never forget anything, how would you impress others? we've gotten some great wooet tweets from you. we are going to read them coming up. >> great. >> morning joe is just moments away. what if a photo were more than a memory? what if it were more than something to share?

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oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ >> earlier in the show we asked if you literally never forgot anything, how would you use it to impress others? marilu henner and her super memory. what kind of tweet dozen we get?

>> we got a couple of good wumgz. father dark says two words. vegas, baby. >> wrau. >> that's -- >> well, i'm a pretty good card counter. >> when they see you coming in a casino, they have guys on you right away to drag you out. >> i move around a lot. >> what else do we have? >> this one from larry, which i think is really funny and true. this is how i kind of feel. i had the perfect answer to this question, but i forgot it. >> yeah, yeah. that would be me. what else do we have? >> there's a few other people who said that theeee collins, i would ace my law school exams and graduate at the top of my class and land a lawyer job. >> people are thinking like a photographic memory. photographic is kind of like two-dimensional, but highly superior autobiographical memory is about the whole experience. it's about what you are wearing, what you are thinking. >> that's what you are saying.

it's highly superior. you are above us. we're down here is what you are saying, rate? >> it's not. it's just different. it's just different. >> do sd it work for scripts? >> yes. when i read just different. >> does it work with scripts? >> it does but i say what does it remind me of in my own life and what was i wearing when i read it? >> thank you very much. "way too early" is over. what time is it? >> 6:00, oh, it's time for "morning joe." >> yes, "morning joe"! >> i'm joanie ernst. i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. my mother taught to us live within our means.