good morning. getting personal. president obama tries to clear the air over life and death, and what his health care plan does not include, by sharing his own personal loss. >> i just lost my grandmother last year. i know what it's like to watch somebody you love who's aging deteriorate. fire and rain in the west. thousands of firefighters continue to battle nearly a dozen wildfires in california. while in the east, the atlantic hurricane season suddenly kicks into high gear. and done deal? a new report suggests britain's prince william and his long-time

girlfriend are finally heading to the altar, and that's got some people asking, when's the royal wedding? "today," sunday, august 16th, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this sunday morning. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe, and any talk of anything that happens from the royal family is big news, but you throw in a potential wedding and it's downright bedlam. >> we've already made our london pla plane reservations. >> we're on our way. >> we'll find out more about that and what's being reported. plus coming up the first named storms of the atlantic hurricane season. >> the season began officially in june but not until yesterday did any storms get big enough to qualify for a name, we have two, tropical storm anna and hard on her heels tropical storm bill which got its name in the afternoon. coming up we'll get the latest on them and what may be coming

after those storms. >> i thought we'd be at yolanda and zachary by now. >> please, no. we'll also bet get the latest on the wildfires burning out in california. nearly 7,000 firefighters are battling them throughout the state. we'll keep an eye on the so-called lockheed fire and bring you a live report from from there in a few minutes. a bit later on the golden voice of joan baez. i got a chance to sit down with the legendary singer and get her perspective on an amazing life and career. you'll hear what she has to say and sing coming up, still strongly committed to her message of nonviolence and committed to beautiful music. she says this is a terrific time in her life >> was she committed to letting you jam a little bit with her? >> no, we didn't play but she was performing in massachusetts, where we caught up with her. it was a great advise pit. >> looking forward to that. pmplgts first, president obama is combining business with pleasure this weekend out west taking his family to some great american tourist spots while taking his case for health care

reform with the people. nbc's chief white house correspondent chuck todd is traveling with the president. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jenna. the president used his third town hall in less than a week to display a feistier side to regain his attempt for control over the health care he debait. president obama's working vacation out west continued with a second town hall in as many days, this one in grand junction, colorado >> hello, grand junction! >> reporter: he spent as much time dealing with the tenor and tone of the health care debate as he did with the details of his plan. >> whenever america has said about solving our toughest problems there have always been those who sought to preserve the status quo by fearing american people. i just lost my grandmother last year. i know what it's like to watch somebody you love who is aging

deteriorate. >> reporter: during the q&a, the president faced some tough questioners. >> i'd love to have a debate, just all-outany time oxford style if you like. >> reporter: university of colorado state a 2008 mccain volunteer challenged the president to explain how private insurance companies could compete against the government. the president repeated a refrain he's used in other town halls taking a shot at the u.s. postal service. >> ups and fedex are doing a lot better than the post office. >> reporter: afterwards lane said he wasn't satisfied with mr. obama's answer in the public option. >> i didn't want any generalities or philosophical and i felt like i got those. >> reporter: did the president hit that the public option might not be in the final bill, not quite but -- >> the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it. >> reporter: the president wrapped up the town hall by turning a question about doctors into a plea for those concerned about the deficit to join him in

his efforts on health care. >> if you are a fiscal hawk, then you, more than anybody, should want to the reform the health care system. >> reporter: the deficit resonates big-time out west here particularly with independents, a group shying away from health care. by the way you noted it was a working vacation. yesterday it was yellowstone, they saw old faithful. today the first family will take in the grand canyon. >> chuck todd with the president in arizona, thank you. here's lester. for more on the president's town hall tour and the battle over health care reform we turn to david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." david, good morning. to watch the president we realize if nothing else he's taken back the headlines. it's him the last couple of days, not the meetings with members of congress. but given the fact that there is no one bill, no one plan here, is he able to answer all the critics' questions or is some of this still a bit ambiguous? >> absolutely ambiguous. chuck todd mentioned the fact

the president is hinting at flexibility perhaps about the public option because he doesn't know whether that will survive. he'd like to see it in there and not drawing any red lines it has to be in there even though he thinks its he a better deal for consumers. the important part about being out there, he's writing in the "new york times" today on the op.-ed page he has to control this debate and have the debate on his terms f he's going to win the argument and make no mistake, there are vast forces arrayed against him here, both on ideological grounds and also special interests who don't want to see change. he's got to be able to win the argument to get this through. >> we've talked a lot about how he's employeeing a campaign style. they were very effective for him, these community meetings, these town halls during the campaign and back then, when he talked about things like health care, there was this grassroots movement. where is the grassroots now, now that this is real and potentially will become a bill? >> it's interesting, because the white house is trying to amp them up and get them fired up, like they were during the campaign, not quite as easy. they're trying to push back against some of the organization

that's now facing them, and also trying to dismiss a little bit of what we've seen, saying that it's television that loves the raucous, overshadowing the fact there's real debate out there. there's elements of truth to that. the real sit the white house has to amp up grassroots efforts to keep pace with advocacy groups against all of this but the president is the one who with k singularly drive the message, he can command the bully pulpit and if he really chooses to make this a focus he perhaps can have some impact. >> you picked up on his language this notion of maybe the public option won't have to be necessary, there's no red lines he's drawn here. at the same time, what's the measure of victory? at what point can he say we have succeeded on health care in terms of his vision? >> well, i think it has to be universal coverage, or something as close to it as you can get, getting most of the 50 million people without health insurance with health insurance, that's got to be key and somebody that has the promise of bringing the

health care costs down. >> david gregory, thank you very much. now here's jenna. in northern california, wildfires are threatening hundreds of homes and thousands who live in those homes have been told to leave but not everyone is doing that. nbc's michael okwu is in california with the latest. good morning, michael. >> reporter: good morning, jenna. all day and overnight firefighters. worried about the weather, will the hot dry winds pick up, start fanning flames and destroy whatever progress they had made? firefighters keeping watch, guarding fragile containment lines around the wildfire's western flank, reinforcements, strike teams from around the state, arrived this weekend, preparing for the worst. a forecast of hot, dry offshore winds. >> with these winds are going to come higher temperatures, lower humidities and very strong winds that could fan these flames out towards the residences. >> reporter: 6,800 firefighters

are batting almost a dozen fires across california. officials have declared a state of emergency in santa cruz county. governor arnold schwarzenegger visited the fire zone. >> the way they're working out things, i think we have a good chance the fires will be put out as quickly as possible. >> reporter: 2,400 residents are still under mandatory evacuation, but some people won't leave. they're staying to protect their homes. like bud and emma mccrary. >> we're going to say no, question about it. >> reporter: branches of the mccrary have lived here in swanton, along the ridge over big creek, for six generations but co-founded big creek lumber, the last surviving redwood mill in the bay area, 40 years ago. this week, the wildfire came within yards of the mccrary's property but with the help of firefighters and this motorized water pump attached pool, bud beat it back. >> we raised our kids here.

we had v a lve a lot of emotion involved. this is the best place in the world, as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: firefighters are still concerned about those offshore winds but right now a thick marine layer has settled in. it's cool and moist and those are favorable conditions for the firefighters. they continue their work this no carrier

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>> good morning. i'm lisa robinson. it's 8:25. here's some of our top stories. baltimore city police are investigating a double shooting at the inner harbor. it happened last night inside the light street pavvilion.

someone approached officers and said there was a man carrying a gun. while looking for the suspect, shots rang out from in front of one of the restaurants. >> when the officers spoppeded, they located two victims. having said that, members of our central district detective units are investigating this matter. 410-396-2411 if you have information. the investigation is in its very early-on stages, so any information would be helpful. >> both victims are said to be two men in their 20's, one shot in the leg, the other in the arm. either injury is sid to be life-threatening. some by-standers also suffered minor injuries running from the scene. >> four people recovering after an accident involving an accident in southwest baltimore. city medic 12 collided with an s.u.v. at dennison street. two paramedicics taken to mercy

medical center. two people in the s.u.v. treated at the university of maryland medical center. >> exactly how this accident occurred has not been determined. we have investigators on location to make assessments as to what with this accident. >> the patient in the ambulance was not hurt and was taken by another ambulance to the hospital. >> howard county sheriff's department is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a prisoner who escaped custody. officials say 20-year-old devin champagne was being transported thursday night when he used his handcuffs to shoke a sheriff's deputy before fleeing the facility. if you have information called 410-313-4174. you can remain anonymous. stay with us. jim nichols has your

>> fts a gorgeous start to our sunday outside. a few distant clouds to our south. from indiana to the coast, from virginia to maine, we are clear outside. starting to warm up. 71 in hagerstown. for the rest of today, 86 to 92 degrees. it's going to be pleasant. winds will be light throughout most of the day. your seven-day forecast shows another nice day on tap for monday at 90 degrees. a cold front moves through late tuesday evening providing a chance for thunderstorms. temperatures hold steady, though. upper 80's and low 90's throughout the rest of the workweek. a cold front arises in the evenings. that brings with us on saturday slightly cooler temperatures and

a mostly cloudy sky. >> thanks for joining us. "11 news sunday morning" continues in 25 minutes. and we're back on this sunday morning, august 16th, 2009, with a happy crowd joining on theñi plaza. thank you, çóçóoh,ñiçóñiñi so m i'mñi jenna wolfe añi ñrlongsid lester holt. got allñr excited, we love jenn. wait, turn it around. justñr in case only lester came out. >> when i came out this is what i saw. >> actually you did it right. you got on tv, did you see? >> it worked. >> still to come we're talking money, we're talking sex, sex as in gender and the difference between who spends, who saves, who invests and who doesn't. >> you know the stereotype, men invest, women spend more.

we're going to dig down to thor is yo types and find out what's true and what's not about our spending habits. and today on aches and pains, people who suffer from knee pain. i do and i'm still young, i shouldn't be having as much knee pain as i do. we'll talk about what causes the twinges and the stiffness and whether it's linked to arthritis, whether it's linked to overuse so we'll get to all of that in a bit. >> then we're going to talk about beer. for a lot of people, beer is the drink of choice as opposed to wine, going out for a good meal and there is such a thing as good beer pairings with food, just like wines. we're going to find out, you know, whether it's a lager goes with a light food, heavy food. >> if you're eating that food, really matters what beer? >> it does. spicy food, bar food, anyway, gale simmons from top chef is going to be here. >> bravo's top chef while she's here a preview of the season to come. i'm a big fan so i'm very much looking forward to that. you have a special interview coming up.

>> you might have seen yesterday a story about the 40th anniversary of woodstock and heard a little bit from joan baez. we'll play a lot more of that conversation. a terrific lady, great career. this is probably the best time in her life right now, incredible talent is still there, and we caught up with her in massachusetts when she was performing and we have that conversation coming up. >> the everlasting music. but first another check of the weather with weather

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weather.com, that will cover it for you. jenna, back to you. nearly one in three americans over the age of 45 has some type of knee pain, for some it's stiffness after sitting for hours, for others, a dull ache after exercising, but what's causing it and what can you do about it? dr. victor kobe, co-chief of orthopedic surgery at northern westchester hospital in new york. >> good morning. >> we're going to break this down. knee pain comes in a number of different forms, there's osteoarthritis, overuse, tendonitis and specific injuries. i want to get to all of it and then we'll talk about treatment. let's start with osteoarthritis because as we get older undoubtedly we're going to have knee pain but why is the question, why does that happen? >> what happens is we all get knee pain from time to time, but it's when the pain becomes more persistent that usually catches our attention. there's cartilage or cushion in the knee and over time, that can wear thin. the knee doesn't glide as smooth as normal, that causes

inflammation and that causes pain in the knee. >> and you can't regrow cartilage so twhauns happens you're basically out of line. >> once that happens you're sort of dealing with the situation at hand. the good news is there's a lot of things we can do with that. >> is there treatment for osteoarthritis though? >> once osteoarthritis has set in, you sort of have it but the symptoms from the arthritis can be helped by various treatments. >> we're going to get into that. 500,000 knee replacement surgeries are performed each year. how do you know when it's your time and when it's the right time to do it in. >> that's a good question. comes up in my office all the time. people will come in and say i have an achy knee, do i need a knee replacement? a knee replacement is an excellent operation and it has done a lot in terms of helping people restore function and get back to a normal life, but it's really only reserved as an operation of last resort, and it's done on those people who have such severe pain that they

can't go shopping at the supermarket, they can't walk up and down the aisles, have difficulty putting their shoes on because their knee is too stiff so it's really incapacitating pain with daily activities >> so everything shy of that, you would say point towards treatment or therapy? >> exactly, exactly. >> okay, so let's talk now about overuse injuries. i know you see a lot of overuse injuries because boomers were just a little more active they were in the generation before. for me, personally, i have a lot of knee pain after exercising, i have that dull, achy pain you probably hear so much about. are you getting a lot of people talking about the overuse knees? >> absolutely. i would recommend you need to identify what are you doing, what type of physical activities are you doing that you think is aggravating that. i would never say stop doing it because people like to exercise and they have a routine but you need to back off on it a little bit and maybe cross-train and start exploring other areas of exercise that maybe don't put as much pressure on your knee. >> what kind of signs can you look for, if it is, and this is tendonitis you're talking about? >> and the most common in front

of the knee cap, the patella tendon below the knee cap. >> i hate that area. that pains me. >> that's the thing, it's difficulty with going up and downstairs tends to be a key, where if you have difficulty with stairs or sitting down for long periods of time. >> talk to me briefly about prevention and what you can do about it. a lot of people have the pain, where are we, what am i supposed to do if i don't want to get a knee replacement? >> i think you need to vary your exercise routine. i think doing the same thing day in and day out puts too much pressure on the knee and i think cross-training is very important. if you're running you can run a little but substitute that with elliptical machines or walking or swimming, biking type of stuff, stretching before and after exercise is important and the other thing is, utilizing ice. ice is very important, right after a workout, whether the knee hurts or doesn't hurt, if you're prone to having knee

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role in that. >> and if i get shares if any kind of schemes, then i get them and cash them in and spend them. >> investing is a guy's thing, not for women. women spend >> yes. >> definitely. >> david bacm is the author of "smart couples finish rich" and the author of "give yourself credit" good morning to you both. >> i'm a saver, i'm just going to make up my own word. everyone has their weakness but in general does one gender spend more than the other? >> absolutely. here's the reality it costs more to being a woman. dry cleaning, shampoo, the scales are tipped. >> i love the fact she admitted women spend more money than men. >> it costs more to be a woman. >> i think she's right. what's interesting, women spend small amounts of money on a lot more things but what guys do we

spend big impulsive purchases. you're wearing the guys watch. >> easy. >> we'll go and buy the electronic appliance or the big tv screen or the car or the watch, with the thought process, we think through what am i buying over long periods of time but you'll buy more things, sensible, more things. >> there's truth to the stereotype. >> tends to be truth, absolutely. >> companies market to it. companies strategically market to the fact that men are impulse purchasers on big items. >> let's talk about stocks. there's a study by oppenheimer funds, 25% of women, versus 44% of men are responsible for buying and selling stocks, bonds and mutual funds so basically more women pay bills and balance checkbooks but more men invest the money. why is that, both of you? >> it's an unfortunate reality and the person who said women don't do stocks, we spend, that shouldn't be the case. if we're paying the bills, if

we're taking responsibility for our families we need to go the extra step and understand. i think the stereotype exists, i'm not good with money or i don't like math, some of the things we tend to fall back in default positions as women but we need to be empowered. when we invest we do it better than men. >> it really starts with the education at home. really in the last ten years, women have started investing money like men have and in many cases more than men do, but it's the last ten years, i wrote a book called "smart women fin irrich" in 1997. there were no books on money back then, hard to believe. but true. we've seen men investing for all of these years, teaching their sons to invest. women invest because they're earning more in cases than men and teaching their daughters to invest. it's an education process that starts at home. >> getting comfortable with money is an important thing for men and women. >> couples say you're more financially savvy. you take care of the money. you say do not do that. >> absolutely not. you have a divorce rate in this

country as well. women are going to live longer than men. we tend to spend more than men and we have the responsibility -- >> we're just better than men. what do you want us to tell you? >> the truth of the matter, women do a better job investing. men, you can learn from the ladies. they ask for directions. women, before they invest, they take a much longer time to make the investment decision. >> sure. >> we ask and do the research to ask questions on fees but they stay with the plan longer, whereas men believe it or not tend to be more emotional when it comes to this and buy and sell. >> we could talk about this for hours. >> absolutely. >> let's do it. david bach and saniyka callaway boyce, thanks very much. pairing food with the right wine, but pairing food with the right beer? it's something connoisseurs take seriously. here is gale simmons from "food and wine" magazine and judge on bravo's "top chef" which begins its sixth season on wednesday. >> great to see you.

>> congratulations on a next season of the show. you are in vegas. >> we are in vegas. i have to say i loved sin city. we had such a good time there. this season is really exciting for us. the chefs are incredible, the town is amazing and it was really an amazing place to film. so much to do. we never had a moment of boredom. >> i bet a lot of beer drinking. first of all, i want to say thanks for legitimizing beer. >> yes, thank you. >> i'm one of those beer drinkers that feels funny in a nice restaurant ordering a beer instead of wine. >> you shouldn't. the same sort of rules apply. >> light beer, light meal. >> very similar. light beer, light food. the same principle you would apply to white and red wine you want to stay the same. i'll give you simple tips. this is a light meal, belgian style, has coriander, citrus and goes well with light citrusy food and light chicken dishes. that's an easy one for any time

of day. it's early here and we're already drinking. it's one of my favorites. if you want to do a white wine and you're pairing the same principles, stay with a lager, this is a sam adams, and this lager is going to go just as well with the food you're going to drink with the white wine. >> equivalent to white wine and red wine? >> this is an ale, sam smith, a little richer, you can see the color and it can take the place of a red wine. have a sip. >> and fried foods? >> a lot of fat, you want something with a highs aity, and a lot of hop that will cut the fat so an india pale ale is great for that, this is ipa, and the interesting thing about these, these were designed to make the trip between britain and india, so the hop is acted as preverveive, last a long time and great with high fat foods. >> by the way, mouth wash bef i go to church. >> good idea. >> this is looks like thai food. >> spicy, ethnic food, you want to keep it local to where you're

eating and that's my plan on how to pair properly. you also want something that has a greater ifme er ier i er ier . this is victory prima. this is a little hard to find but a delicious, really refreshing beer and goes really well with spicy food and then when i say keep it local, i mean this is what i'm always craving, when i'm having ethnic food, vietnamese, thai, asian, japanese, ioire always want to drink an asian beer. they're meant to be together. >> like a side. >> the sapporo we have here and eating spicy mexican, stick to mexico v a modello. barbecue, it's summertime. people have a misconception that guinness is high inical ris and really rich. it's actually refreshing. it is the same or even actually fewer calories than coors. >> it's really heavy. >> it's a heavy looking beer, certainly has that great stout flavor but goes well with

barbecued food, ribs, hotdogs, hamburgers, all of that stuff on the grill. >> i would have never thought of a dessert beer but you brought one. what are we looking at? >> this is the belgian lambick, this is the raspberry, and just like pairing a desert with a dessert wine. >> a sip of that? >> absolutely. keep your flavors fruity, light. it's sweet but not too sweet. not for everyone. >> it's a little aftertaste, makes me pucker up. >> it has a tartness but a beautiful fruitiness that goes great with dessert. >> it doesn't taste like a beer. >> it's a little bit different. >> good to have you here. thanks very much. cheers. the supersize premiere of "top chef las vegas" airs this wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on bravo. again, congratulations on the season. >> thank you so much. still ahead on this woodstock anniversary weekend, music and memories from the legendary joan baez but first these messages. we're up to our necks in landfill,

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40 years after performing in front of a half million people at woodstock, folk singer joan baez is still entertaining and inspiring audiences. i recently caught up with her on tour and asked her about that rich and distinctive voice. ♪ i'm going to take a trip on that old gospel ship ♪ ♪ i'm going far beyond the sky >> i think that i was given two gifts really maybe at birth. one was the voice, it's a huge gift and i don't have any problem saying that, because it was given to me, and the other gift maybe was the way i wanted to share it. i mean, that just came to me, and i have always wanted to share it. we have to try to reach some kind of brotherhood of man and i think it has to be done non-violently. >> to hear your story and i

recently picked up your memoirs, i get the impression that you really have not changed in terms of your outlook on nonviolence but the world around you has changed and i think to vietnam, you know, you went to the north there and you brought food to the prisoners, and you tried to preach your message of peace, and a lot of the people who were angry with you then i bet are fans today. is that what you found? >> i found really interesting responses, a lot of them from people who were in the military then, a couple of them have said, boy, did i hate you then, and boy was i wrong. ♪ but i've heard of a city called heaven ♪ >> how would you describe this point in your career? >> oh, it's probably the happiest point, because i've overcome lots and lots of things, and i've reached a point

where it's a low maintenance situation. it takes a lot of work to keep singing. i have fantastic musicians. >> one of the musicians is your son? >> yes. >> did he naturally gravitate into music or did you pull him along? >> no, i never pulled him any which way or another and he went right smack into african drumming. ♪ >> is there any song in your set that makes you personally nostalgic? >> nostalgic's never been my gig, you know. i mean, i prefer to do otherwise. >> i keep thinking of you singing "we shall overcome" marching with martin luther king. >> "we shall overcome" i usually don't do. i do it in farcie, for people in iran, at that moment. i gave up singing that song in this country when it became a

nostalgia trip because that's all it was. i'll sing it in a situation for people that really is uplifting in a time they need to be uplifted. ♪ one time around on our gallant ship ♪ >> i know you're working on a documentary now. >> finished. >> about your life. >> yes. >> how was that? >> exhausting. >> how was that to look back at the zplipz. >> it's absolutely exhausting. i forgot. a lot of it was researched by a lot of people. i think oh, god, did i really do all that? >> it's been a pretty gocool li. >> it's been a wonderful life. it's been a wonderful life. ♪ nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah ♪ >> and we told you yesterday that she was six months pregnant when she performed at woodstock 40 years ago.

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