good morning. slippery slope. bp's stock value drops 16% in a single day, now off more than 50% since the start of the disaster. is one of the world's most profitable companies headed for bankruptcy? new video of joran van der sloot introducing himself to the woman he is now accused of killing in peru as the fbi admits he was given $25,000 in a sting operation just days earlier. this morning investigators are looking into van der sloot's possible connection to two more missing women. and ay, carly. california republican senate

candidate carly fiorina caught on an open mike making a joke about her opponent's hair. >> lauder saw her briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says -- god, what is that hair? so yesterday. >> and her campaign is calling it nothing more than small talk "today," thursday, june 10th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning, i'm meredith vieira. >> we are in day 52 of this disaster in the oil. now bp's stock has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade. >> consider this -- back on april 20th it was trading at just over $60 a share. on wednesday it closed below

$30, that's more than a 51% drop. some on wall street fear bp's stock will keep losing value. we'll have much more on that and what it means to those whose lives have been impacted by the disaster. also a dramatic new underwater look at the toll that spill is taking on the environment. we'll talk to a man who dove into the gulf waters to take these images straight ahead. new home video of 15-year-old josie ratley's recovery after a brutal attack. for the first time a 13-year-old girl charged in connection with that case is speaking out. kayla manson pointed ratley out to her alleged attacker, a 15-year-old boy but she says there is more to a story. this morning manson is here for an exclusive live interview. this morning, ann curry is at the news desk for us. good morning, everybody. on this day 52 of the gulf oil disaster, president obama is meeting with the families of the 11 workers killed when the rig exploded. he is also getting an update on

the spill and clean-up effort. meantime, as bp tries to stop this leak, its stock dropped 16% in u.s. trading on wednesday. cnbc's trish regan now joins us with more on this. trish, how much trouble is this company in? >> it is in a lot of trouble. people are talking about potential bankruptcy in this situation. look at where this stock price is. it's lost more than half of its value since the spill happened 52 days ago. it is a loss of $82 billion, ann. it's now sitting at a 14-year low. and the reason folks are so concerned about this company is because the administration is talking about lifting the liability caps in terms of what bp would have to shell out to cover all these problems. now typically they would just be responsible under the 1990 oil act. they would just be responsible -- pollution act, that is -- for the costs associated directly with the spill. however, the administration is talking about lifting those liability caps so bp would be responsible for all the costs

associated with this spill so essentially bp would have to cover any workers that lost their jobs as a result of the moratorium. they'd be responsible for those wages so you'd be talking billions and billions and billions of dollars. and investors are worried that the company just, frankly, doesn't have it. so it is really taking its toll. people are questioning whether this is going to in fact mean bankruptcy. they're certainly questioning the company's going to in fact give that dividend. so a lot weighing on bp certainly this morning. >> it is amazing when you consider this company was considered something that could not fall. trish regan, thank you this morning. iran remains defiant this morning a day after the u.n. voted to impose new sanctions. iran is saying that the sanctions are like annoying flies. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is now standing by with more. andrea, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these new sanctions are not as tough as the u.s. originally wanted but the administration compromised in order to get iran's long-time supporters, china and russia to sign on. now the question is whether the

sanctions will work. the security council's 12-2 vote was a rare show of unity capping months of intense diplomacy. iran is being punished for trying to hide an illegal nuclear program and accelerating its production of nuclear fuel, fuel that could eventually be used for weapons. >> this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government, and it sends an unmistakable message about the international community's commitment to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. >> reporter: the new sanctions include a ban on iranian nuclear and missile investment abroad, a ban on conventional arms and ballistic missile activities, new procedures to inspect suspicious cargo to stop the smuggling of equipment to iran, tighter restrictions on iran's international banking. after the vote, iran's u.n. ambassador was defiant. >> no amount of pressure and mischief will be able to break our nation's determination to

pursue and defend its legal and inalienable rights. >> they know this resolution will bite and that it is a major blow to their ability to pursue their nuclear weapons and proliferation activities. >> reporter: iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, called the resolution valueless and said it should be "thrown in the waste bin like a used handkerchief." this morning reports out of russia say they'll freeze a contract to sell missile systems out of iran. >> andrea mitch this will morning, thanks. today a u.n. tribunal sentenced two bosnian-serb army officers to life in prison for contributing genocide in 1995. they are the first defendants sentenced for genocide by the u.n. tribunal so far. a brutal attack during the night in afghanistan where a wedding party was bombed killing at least 40 people near kandahar and wounding more than 70.

children are among the dead. the bride and the groom survived. delta airlines is apologizing for sending two children to the wrong destinations. it blames the paperwork mix-up for sending an unaccompanied boy to cleveland instead of boston and sending a girl to boston instead of cleveland. the two finally ended up in the right cities. at&t says a security problem exposed e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 users of apple's ipad and among those said to have been exposed, some big names in finance, media and politics, including new york city mayor michael bloomberg. at&t says the problem now has been fixed. and celebrating inchicago. last night the blackhawks won the stanley cup with a 4-3 overtime win over the flyers. it is chicago's first nhl championship in 49 years. kiss that trophy a kumt of times. 7:07. back over to meredith, matt and al. al, i'm thinking about your ipod. >> he's got his ipad right now.

>> obviously i'm not a big name in media.

>> that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you. now to more on the disaster in the gulf. bp says additional ships are on their way to the leak site as engineers try to increase the amount of oil being captured from that blown-out well. nbc's anne thompson is in venice, louisiana with more. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. today president obama will meet privately with family members of the 11 men who died on the deepwater horizon rig and parish leads from the effected areas will testify before congress to remind the nation that this

crisis grows worse with each passing day and there is no end in sight. when you see helpless oil-covered birds and porpoises try to make their way through water coated with sheen, it is easy to forget people are victims of this oil spill, too. >> it's scary. >> reporter: dominic brought no inn his final catch of shrimp wednesday, the last process at this seafood house. it closed and dominic's shrimping days are over. for how long, he doesn't know. >> fixing to lose something we had for a long time. got all this money invested in a boat and don't know what we're going to do with it. >> reporter: the emotional pain of this disaster reverberated all the way to capitol hill. >> we are tired of being dumped on in the gulf! >> reporter: actor kevin costner, an investor in a technology he says could help clean up the spill, testified before a house committee. >> i'm dying to see anybody that cleans up oil in any kind of

response on the scale that i'm talking about. >> reporter: over in the senate, there was bipartisan focus on the most basic information. >> i'd like to get a little better picture about the flow, how much is coming out. >> reporter: bp says it captured 15,000 barrels of oil tuesday with a containment cap. but with lots of screwcrude sti escaping, the government is still trying to get naum ber. >> i think we all had estimates, some people were disappointed when they were changed so show me the numbers. >> reporter: this is what the oil looks like from below the surface. these disturbing new underwater images taken by an associated press reporter. here you can see the softball-sized globs of oil and a green haze, a dim view of a dark crisis. now adding to the problems down here today, the weather. the temperature in venice will be in the high 90s and it is going to feel like it is

somewhere between 110 and 120 degrees, and that could pose grave problems for those clean-up workers wearing those very hot hazmat suits. >> as if things couldn't get worse. anne thompson, thank you. rich matthews is the associated press photographer who went scuba diving in the gulf to take those underwater images of the disaster. he joins us now. rich matthews, good morning to you. >> good morning, meredith. >> you actually took two dives. the first one you were about 20 miles from the oil spill itself. tell me what you saw when you went under with that camera. >> you know, the oil was as thick as i had's ever seen it. i was not prepared to see as much oil beneath the surface as i saw as anne's story just reported, they were softball-sized globs of oil hanging as low as maybe 15 feet below the surface, and it may have been even deeper but that was as far as i felt safe going since i was in the water by

myself. >> you wrote about it and said you were actually scared. >> you know, i wasn't worried about long-term health effects but i'll admit that once you dive in that water by yourself and you get under water and are having trouble seeing, my nerves were on high alert. again, i just felt i had to be safe and not go any deeper. i'm not worried about long-term effects because the exposure was a relatively short time for me. >> did you see any sea life in that dive? >> not out there, not on that dive. i did see a few dead jellyfish, a few small bay fish. i'll also stretch out in the open water 1,000 feet deep you wouldn't expect to see a large amount of sea life there. >> you then went on another dive with a couple other divers, this was off of an oil rig that's about 40 miles from the one that actually exploded. and in the first 30 feet of your dive you found no life under the surface. what would you expect to find normally? >> well, normally the second

that you splash in around an oil rig there's so much sea life that fish will come out and check you out and, yes, you're right, that for the first 30 feet, there was literally nothing. even if the corals, we dropped down right beside the rig, normally you'd see crabs and things, small crabs, we saw very little life that first 30 feet. i don't know if that means things have died off or just moved, but it is certainly not natural. >> then below that you did see sea life but you also saw something you referred to as -- i apologize to those folks eating their cornflakes right now -- you refer to it as green snot balls. what did you think that was? >> again, i'm not going to stretch my credentials here. i'm not a scientist. what i can tell you is a long-time diver and the two gentlemen that dove with me are much more experiences than i am. none of us had ever seen it. it wasn't algae, it wasn't natural. it kind of disappeared as we

reached out and touched it so it was something that should be there normally. >> very disturbing. thank you, rich matthews, so much. 7:14. here's matt. there are several new developments this morning tied to the arrest of joran van der sloot. did the fbi miss a chance to nab him for extortion? nbc's michelle kosinski has the latest from lima, peru. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. this case in which truth seems to be stranger than fiction just gets more complex by the day. now you have colombia investigating the disappearances of young women while van der sloot was there. you have aruba and the u.s. hoping information comes out to solve the natalee holloway case, and now you have the fbi explaining why they didn't arrest him in aruba when they say they caught him in the act of extortion from natalee holloway's mother. in the latest video to emerge

from joran van der sloot's arrest, he looks exhausted, defeated, had just been caught in chile, about to be paraded over and over again for the world to see in peru. but it was weeks before the brutal beating death of student stephany flores in van der sloot's hotel room here that the fbi was pursuing him from the u.s. they say in april, he reached out to an attorney close to natalee holloway's mother and promised to finally tell what really happened to her daughter back in 2005, including where her remains are. in exchange, investigators say, for a quarter of a million dollars. but mom called the fbi. she wired him $15,000 and a meeting was set up in aruba monitored by the feds where the 22-year-old roefing poker player was handed another 10 grand, cash. days later he was off to south america where fate would have him meet stephany flores as a cat know poker table in lima. here they are, newly released

surveillance footage, gambling together and they leave during what would be some of the last moments of this young woman's life. so why was he not arrested on the spot in aruba? the fbi now in a statement says the case was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der sloot left aruba, not due to any fault on the part of the fbi or the u.s. attorney's office. federal sources tell nbc news they first wanted to see if van der sloot's information about natalee might solve the case. his latest story, that he and his father, who died of a heart attack in february, had buried natalee near a construction site. he claims she died after falling and hitting her head on a rock. the fbi insists the money van der sloot was paid and which may have paid for his trip to peru came from natalee holloway's mother and not taxpayer dollars. but checking out his story took time. ultimately investigators say proving to be merely more lies. by then, van der sloot was gone. in peru, the press has been

buzzing with new details each day, quoting police sources as saying van der sloot hit stephany flores in the head with a tennis racket at least six times, so violently he broke her neck, allegedly telling interrogators he became enraged when she found information on his computer revealing him as the suspect in the natalee holloway case. newspapers claim he considered taking her body in a bag to put it in the ocean, but was afraid and that he was found to have cocaine and marijuana in his system. strangely, precisely five years after natalee, joran van der sloot is in custody accused of murder, just in a completely different case. so here you have natalee holloway's mother desperate to solve that case after so many years, possibly unwittingly funding joran van der sloot's trip here to peru where now all this has happened. and colombian authorities are interviewing people there looking into the disappearances of two young women ages 20 and 21 who liked to spend time in casinos just to see if there

might be some connection to this case now. matt? >> michelle kosinski in lima for us this morning, let's bring nbc news analyst in, former fbi profiler, excuse me, cliff van zandt. cliff, good morning to you. as you hear the circumstances here surrounding this fbi involvement in the case, the two payments to joran van der sloot, first $15,000, another $10,000 in aruba, take me through it. does any of it surprise you? i know you have strong opinions on this. >> no, it doesn't really. i think from day one when natalee disappeared, i think those closest to the case -- as you know, i was down there for nbc. i interviewed one of the others, the investigators who knew sander slow the, his personality, his actions and lies were all consistent of having something to do with the disappearance of natalee holloway and that same type of personality is something that we felt should be watched over the years because he was capable of any type of untoward action

against others. >> however, though, so first he gets a check for $15,000, or it's sent to him. then in aruba, $10,000 more. you're hearing the questions, clint, people are saying why didn't the fbi arrest him right then? was this a jurisdiction issue? >> yeah, matt, i think first of all, people don't understand, the fbi internationally, once i get outside of the united states when i was an fbi agent, i had to work with local authorities. the fbi has no authority to arrest someone outside of the u.s. and its territories. you have to work through the local authorities. the arubans and the dutch and the u.s. authorities all cooperated in this investigation. then they had to pull together the elements of the wire fraud and the extortion. they had to attempt to verify the information, realizing we're trying to find out what happened to natalee holloway, as well as lock in these violations that he allegedly committed, present it

to a grand jury, get an indictment, then extradite him back to the united states. that doesn't happen overnight. >> real quickly though, are you surprised that there wasn't more surveillance kept on van der sloot? in other words, how did he manage to get away from that payment in aruba and end up in south america? >> well, for the last five years there hasn't really been a big surveillance on him. we know that he always goes back to holland, he goes back to aruba. once he got indicted he could have been extradited. with 20-20 hindsight we could say, gee, that money may have been used to take him to peru. but for the last five years we don't know of a criminal offense, much less a violent act that he's committed so there was no way the holloway family, the arubans or the u.s. government could have predicted this terrible case would happen, and the bottom line was they were trying to lock in the elements of the extortion in a wire fraud, perhaps you'd have to flip him on the holloway case and bring this thing into fruition. finally bring this person that

so many feel may be connected to natalee's disappearance to justice. >> there are a lot of moving parts. clint van zandt, as always, thank you very much. 21 after the hour. here's meredith. >> now to that open mike incident for california republican senate candidate carly fiorina. take a look at what she was overheard saying just before a television interview on wednesday. >> lauder saw barbara boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says -- god, what is that hair? so yesterday. >> that's the risk of those open mikes. you never know. >> i can only imagine what would happen if someone -- oh, my gosh here. >> zip it! just ahead, investigators expand the certainly this morning for 7-year-old kyron horman. why has his family yet to speak out? we'll talk to the sheriffs heading up that case. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

just ahead, the 13-year-old charged as an accomplice in the text rage beating of josie ratley speaks out for the first time in an exclusive live interview. plus, is many being withheld from your paycheck and you don't even know it? the warning if you have any debt at all, after your local news and weather.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. time to get a check on the morning commute. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> finally some good news report on westbound 95. it is easing up a bit, with the overturned -- on northbound 95. it is easing up a bit, with the overturned vehicle off to the shoulder. southbound 95, delays from white

marsh to the beltway northeast. north side and was cited delays as usual on the outer loop. a crash as clearing on eastbound 100 at i-97. at 216, a crash coming in there. delay is moving up to 175. let's give the live view of what is going on at our cameras. this is a pretty full ride from 795 all the way down through to edmondson. southbound 795, delays coming out of owings mills. joppa road, those delays are easing up. all lanes are open past white marsh. >> good morning. so far we are off to a quiet start. we have a little bit of fog in some neighborhoods. most of that is putting off. mostly sunny skies for the rest of the day. 67 in parksville.

we're heading for a high- temperature in the mid-80's. yesterday we were stuck in the 60's. antifog left out there will be burning up in the next hour. -- any faulk left out there will be burning out in the next hour. if you like the summer heat, that will be back on saturday and sunday. it is not going to be a washout. don't cancel any plans, like if you are going to the beach. we will keep the forecast through monday and tuesday. scattered afternoon the murder storms, with temperatures in the 80's -- scattered afternoon thunderstorms, with temperatures in the 80's. >>

7:30 now on a thursday morning, the 10th of june, 2010. you're looking at the view of new york city from the top of the rock, about seven stories above our crowd here on rockefeller plaza. a hazy today. tomorrow we'll have a summer concert with rascal flatts performing out on that plaza for another energetic crowd. meanwhile inside studio 1a, i'm matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. just ahead, a good reason to take a look at your paycheck the next time you get it. >> absolutely. if you owe any type of debt --

credit cards, student loans, child support -- collectors could be taking money out of your paycheck and you might not even know it, in some cases you weren't even told they're about to do it. what you should look out for just ahead. also ahead, new video of florida teen josie ratley out of the hospital and back home more than two months after she was nearly beaten to death at school over a text message. coming up, the latest on her recovery and this morning for the first time, the 13-year-old girl charged in connection with the case will speak out in an exclusive live interview. and also a programming note -- tomorrow on "today" we'll have an exclusive interview with the parents of gary coleman. they will be here to talk about coleman's tragic death, his legacy and also share the reaction to those deathbed photos taken of their son. that is gary coleman's parents tomorrow, only on "today." but we begin this half-hour with investigators in oregon expanding the search now for 7-year-old kyron horman. we'll talk to the investigators heading up that search in just a moment, but first, nbc's janet schamlian is in portland with the latest.

janet, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you. this has been an unusual missing child case in a number of ways, including the fact that the parents have not appeared publicly to appeal for their son's safe return. as you indicated, the search is continuing today and it is intensely focused on a half-mile radius right around this school. it's been almost a week since 7-year-old kyron horman went missing from this portland elementary school, his last picture proudly posing by a science project in a "csi" t-shirt. it was last friday, and still no word whether directives believe it was an abduction. no sketch or description of a possible kidnapper has been released. >> we want this to come to a quick conclusion. we want to find kyron and we want to get him home. it has our total focus. >> reporter: unlike so many missing child cases, kyron's parents have not gone on television mavging a plea for his safe return. why aren't these parents talking? >> i don't really know at this

point. i know that they've been fully cooperating with the investigators. they've been in contact with the prince. here at the school so they are definitely participating in the search and the investigation. >> reporter: wednesday, the family did release a written statement read by a sheriff's deputy who's been staying with them around the clock. "we need for folks to continue to assist us in our goal. police search your properties, your cars, your out buildings, your sheds." >> reporter: captain schultz said the family did not appear alongside them because they want to keep the focus on kyron, not them. his stepmother says she last saw kyron had been posting regularly on her facebook page but the page was mysteriously taken down yesterday. meanwhile, sheriffs officials deny a search warrant was issued for the horman's home but were more cagey on other investigators details. >> was evidence presented to a magistrate? >> i'm not commenting on any of those questions. >> reporter: crews from every county in oregon are arriving

today to help search and research a half-mile radius around the school, much of it dense and forest like, as a community holds its breath. this case has certainly captured the heart of this community, as well as official. many of whom are working around the clock to try to bring this little boy home. matt, back to you. >> janet schamlian in portland, oregon for us this morning. as janet mentioned, that expanded search for kyron horman gets under way today. sheriff stan staton is heading up those efforts. gentlemen, good morning to you. let me just ask, are you basing this new expanded search on any specific information, any tip that you've received over the past five or six days? >> we're billing off of everything, including the tips that came in. but this is also to expand the search operation and the distance from the point that -- last-seen point of the missing child. >> i'm sure a lot of people are applauding this expanded effort,

but you may also get some questions as to why now, why didn't you have this extra manpower in place earlier in the investigation? >> we had a lot of manpower going into this initially. we had about 532 searchers employed. we had air support that came in to assist. we also utilized tracking dogs and bloodhounds in this process. and we've worked it consistency and as i said, we started from the center point. this is a missing child. and when you look at the terrain that surrounds this area, we've covered from the center point going outward approximately 2 to 2 1/2 miles covering every piece of ground. to this point we've also done door-to-door checks with every resident in this specific area up here, and we've been following up on every lead that's come in. so we've been employing our searchers in that effort.

and at this particular point, it is now building off of the original search which is a standard philosophy and technique that we use and we are going to be expanding out from that point and recovering the areas that we've already searched. >> guys, i want to see if you can maybe help me address something that more and more people are starting to talk about. i think it is important to put it in perspective. the fact that this family has decided not to step in to the spotlight as we've seen other families do in the past. i want to make sure we don't attach any suspicion to that behavior. that is their choice. but having said that, are they fully cooperating? are you getting everything you need in terms of cooperation from kyron's family in this investigation? >> they've fully cooperated with us in every effort. they've been consoling each other. we're respecting that. at some point in time i'm sure that they are going to step forward and they're going to be reaching out to the community,

but right now they are allowing us to expand our efforts. we're keeping them informed and they've been very appreciative to this point. >> i know that because of the terrain you're going to be dealing with, you don't want untrained people out there looking. so obviously there is a lot of interest in this young man, a lot of people hoping for his safe return. what can people do to help, if not take to the fields around that school? >> we would prefer at this point to have the trained people in the surrounding terrain, but we're also going to be employing volunteers in addition to the search and rescue efforts. they're going to expand beyond this point. >> guys, i know you have -- go ahead. >> adding to that, matt, is that the public can really be aware that there's flyers. we're looking for tips. any information that we can employ in this search from the public is very critical. that's what the public can do right now. certainly if they're not trained, they're not prepared,

it really would hamper professionals on scene. >> guys, good luck. a lot of people so interested in this young man. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for the help. let's get a check of the weather now from al. >> thanks very much, matt. we've got the great national music of the pacific war. fredericksburg, texas. that's near san antonio? >> yes. san antonio, texas. >> thank you so much for honoring the veterans and folks who fought there. as we look ahead, afternoon temperatures, 50s in much of new england. 70s on the severe tip of northern new england. 100s from the gulf coast. 90s there, 100s on into texas. risk of strong storms from texas all the way up into the dakotas. wet weather in the >> we are going to see improving conditions as we head to the

day. there could be a little bit of fog early this morning. we will get mostly sunny skies thisqñp1 >> and that's your latest weather. up next, garnished wages. is money being withheld from your paycheck without you even knowing it? what do you need to know right after this. ñ 0 0 000 0 000(?(?(;(;(?((?(?(

we are back at 7:42. if you have suddenly seen less money in your paycheck, we may have the answer. collectors are now targeting people's wages to recover delinquent debt. here's nbc's george lewis.

>> reporter: sabrina of chandler, arizona is a single mom who found herself unemployed and got a couple hundred dollars behind on her credit card debt. >> so i did let it go. but for me, i understand i obviously have to talk take of it. >> reporter: arizona justice of the peace john ore says people in debt have to stay on top of the situation. >> a debt doesn't go away because they ignore it. in fact, in many cases it simply gets much worse. >> reporter: that's what sabrina discovered when she found money missing from her bank balance. unbeknownst to her, debt collectors had won a judgment against her and garnished her account, and with interest and penalty fees, her debt had ballooned to $2,500. >> i was afraid. i had fear in my chest, my stomach was sick. i was -- i became very emotional. >> reporter: thanks to the recession, wage garnishments are up all over the country, but especially in arizona where they've risen 121% in the last

five years. the foreclosure crisis has gotten a lot more attention than e ballooning numbers of garnishment cases. >> most of the time people get garnished without any prior warning of the fact that their money is about to be taken. >> reporter: attorney marshall meyers took up sabrina's case and discovered that the collection agency had failed to properly notify her that she was being sued. >> and that runs afoul of notions of service and notice and due process. >> reporter: sabrina won her case and will get her money back, and her creditor will have to pay the legal bills. but many debtors are unaware of their legal rights. >> there are some creditors out there that are absolutely taking advantage of many families. >> reporter: a lesson sabrina learned the hard way. for "today," george lewis, nbc news, phoenix, arizona. >> jean chatzky is "today's" financial editor. good morning. first off, this wage garnishment, it is totally legal and sometimes there are very good reasons for it.

>> in many cases you see people coming after money that's owed for child support, things like that, student loan payments. but this is different. these are credit card bills that people are coming after and that this is an increasing trend. >> this lady in this piece we just saw complained she was never notified about the suit against her. >> it is a big problem. i spoke with the ftc and they said in many, many cases people just are not receiving that due process. they're not receiving the notice and the ftc is going after these people, as are attorneys general across the country. but if you don't get notified there are steps that you can take. >> creditors would argue we do notify people and they just don't show up at court. >> well, the process servers themselves are a problem. in some cases they are dumping these notices. so you do have to be careful. if money is starting to be taken out of your paychecks and you were not notified, go to your employer, ask for copies of that documentation and then you go back to the court and you start to make your case. >> if fighting the wage garnishment doesn't work, then what do you do.

>> essentially you have to go back to the court and you have to go through the process and figure out if you can get it back. but if you can't, you should know they can take it, in most states, 25% of your money. bankruptcy is the alternative down the line but it is, of course, not a good one. >> is there a site, website or anything, people can go to to get more information? >> if you're looking for an attorney, the national association of consumer advocates are the right attorneys to get on your side. >> jean chatzky, thank you so much. up next, just a week after al and tipper gore announced their separation, there is another split in the gore family. we'll have details right after this. ñ?ñ?÷>÷>

we are back at 7:49 with another split in the gore family. a week after al and tipper gore annoyancunced the end of their 40-year marriage, we've learned the couple's eldest daughter has separated from her husband. norah o'donnell is in washington with details. >> reporter: good morning. this is a tough time for the gore family, and friends say

karenna gore schiff and her husband, drew, separated a couple of months ago. i'm told it is a friendly situation, they are in marital counseling and are working to save their nearly 13-year marriage. they are one of america's most famous and admired political families. blessed with success, money and lots of love. but behind the gore's picture-perfect image that was always front and center is now a family drama. one week after former vice president al gore and his wife, tipper, shocked everyone with their separation, another bombshell. their oldest child, karenna has split from her husband. the gore's second-oldest, kristin, divorced last year. in 2007, albert iii their youngest was busted for drug possession. >> i think people are sad because they really like the gores. and they seem to be kissed by good luck and all of a sudden there are a series of bad things that have happened to them. >> reporter: karenna gore schiff was always the star of the next generation of the gore family.

>> does it mean that you might actually even imagine yourself running for political office? >> i don't know. i wouldn't rule that out. >> reporter: a graduate of harvard, columbia law school and a mother of three. she married drew schiff nearly 13 years ago in a storybook wedding. the match brought together one of america's most prominent political families, the gores, with the schiffs, one of wall street's most powerful. the wedding was held at washington national cathedral, the site of some other famous unions, including karenna's own parents. >> i'm very blessed in my personal life. >> reporter: karenna was just 23 years old when she married, something that worried her grandmother, pauline, gore. >> i got married fairly young. i remembered calling and telling her. the first thing she said, there was just silence. then she said, "you're too young. are you still going to go to law school?" she very much expected all of us to make something of ourselves, to serve the public in some way, to make a difference. >> reporter: karenna is trying

to make a difference. she's collaborating on a documentary about trail blazing women. as to why her marriage is on the rocks, her friends have pointed out it is really not anybody's business and they want some privacy to try and work it out. matt? >> words to live by. norah o'donnell, thank you very much. just ahead, the 13-year-old girl charged as an accomplice in a brutal text rage beating of josie ratley. >> she's going to tell her side of the story for the first time in an exclusive live interview. after your local news and weather. ñ1÷÷ñ dd

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. time for another check on the morning commute. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> looking a lot better on northbound 95. heavy delays due to an overturned vehicle. that is clear and all lanes are open in the area. we have delays on the north side. 25 miles per hour on average from york road towards dulaney valley. 18 miles per hour on the west side outer loop. watch for an accident in the owings mills region. another one on southbound ritchie highway.

we're looking at 30 minutes on the north side to get through the outer loop stretch. 22 minutes is your drive time on the outer loop west side. let's give you a quick life look at traffic. going away for office, just off the ramps, very heavy conditions. live view of traffic on i-95, those delays have cleared up in the northbound direction. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we are often a pretty quiet start now. -- off to a pretty quiet start out. temperatures are generally in the 60's. near 70 downtown. 72 at the airport. only 62 degrees in parkton. forecast for today is mostly sunny skies. warmer than yesterday.

temperatures in the mid-80's this afternoon. we will turn up the heat of the weekend. >> back in 25 and its with another live update.

8:00 now on this thursday morning, june 10th, 2010. we have a delightful crowd gathering on the plaza. in 24 hours they can catch a live concert from rascal flatts. they'll take over our summer concert stage tomorrow on "today." i'm meredith vieira, alongside matt lauer and al roker. just ahead, a very serious story. this is a really serious story

actually. it is a savage beating of florida teen josie ratley over text messages that she sent to a 15-year-old boy. we'll have the latest on her recovery and for the first time, ratley's friend, the 13-year-old girl charged as an accomplice in that vicious attack is going to share her side of the story in an exclusive live interview. all right. also ahead on a different note, what would you do if you were suddenly fired in your 50s? >> oh, don't say that! >> would you go for work in the same field? would you try something completely different? would you retire if you had the means to retire? we're going to be talking about that situation coming up in just a little while. coming up also, "the karate kid." it's been 26 years since the original. coming up, we've got a new one. it is back to the big screen. we'll catch up with the stars, will and jada smith's son and

the inivitiable jackie chen. but first let's get a check of the morning's top stories from ann curry. there are new developments in the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. capitol hill is holding another series of hearings on the spill today. the obama administration is sending the labor secretary to new orleans to meet with fishermen affected by the disaster and bp stock fell 16% in u.s. trading wednesday, and again in london this morning, reducing the company to about half the value it was when the oil disaster began. as for the president, he gets another briefing today and meets with the families of the 11 workers killed when the rig exploded. nbc's white house correspondent savannah guthrie now joins us with more on this. savannah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, ann. the president invited family members of the 11 fallen oil rig workers to the white house. they'll be here today. 10 of the 11 families will be represented in person. about 50 people meeting with the president in the state dining room. senior aides say this is a chance for the president to

offer his condolences personally and also hear any concerns, particularly of the fallen workers, what they may have said about safety on the rig. the president's also going to have a meeting with the leaders of congress, talking about reforming energy laws, as well as the regulation of the oil industry and of course, he plans another visit to the gulf on monday and tuesday, mississippi, alabama and florida, ann. >> savannah, thanks so much. iran is now threatening to limit international oversight of its nuclear program in response to those new sanctions approved wednesday by the u.n. security council. iran insists its nuclear efforts are strictly for peaceful purposes but the west is convinced that iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. a wedding party suddenly became a massacre last night in southern afghanistan. a bomb exploded killing at least 40 people, including children and wounding more than 70 others. nato says it was a suicide bomb and it blames the taliban. the bride and the groom survived. heavy rain flooding parts of central texas is now being

blamed for at least one death. in just about eight hours on wednesday, 11 inches ever rain fell near san antonio. the guadalupe river well went over its banks flooding a nearby park and more rain is in the forecast today. south korea says one of its unmanned rockets carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded about two minutes into its flight early today. it is south korea's second major setback in space in less than a year. those are some of the top stories at four minutes past the hour. time to get a check of the weather with who else but al. >> announcer: "today's weather" is brought to you by caltrate. replenish your body daily with tlc -- tender loving caltrate. >> good morning. got these folks here from earth, texas. where's earth near? >> lubbock. >> very nice. you guys on a school trip? >> yes. >> very nice. thank you for coming down. earth to al. let's check out your weather,

for today, norfolk, virginia, clearing, warm, 89 degrees. the jet stream is way up to the north. that's allowing a lot of hot air through the southwest. showers in the pacific northwest. heavy rain continues in texas on into louisiana. then for tomorrow, we get a little bit of a block in pattern coming in bringing in heavy rain into the plains, sunny along the coast, showers and thundershowers along the eastern seaboard and i >> we are off to a fairly quiet start. a little bit of fog out there in some neighborhoods. that should burn off quickly. mostly sunny skies this afternoon.

>> and that's your latest weather. still to come -- new home video of 15-year-old josie ratley's recovery from a brutal attack that was sparked by a text message as the 13-year-old charged in connection with that case will speak out for the very first time in an exclusive live interview right after this. fortunately, there's caltrate. as we get older, our bodies steal calcium from our bones. caltrate helps replenish the calcium we lose. with 1200 mg of calcium, plus advanced levels of vitamin d to help reduce your risk of osteoporosis. it's never too early or too late for caltrate. and now big news -- the same caltrate comes in a new, smaller, easy to swallow pill. ♪ (announcer) right now, all over the country, discover customers are getting five percent cashback bonus at restaurants. it pays to get more, it pays to discover.

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so say hello to ocean spray 100% juice. and goodbye to added sugar. i thought we weren't adding any sugar. oh. okay, nobody use these cranberries over here. the gulf spill is a tragedy that never should have happened. i'm tony hayward. bp has taken full responsibility for cleaning up the spill in the gulf. we've helped organize the largest environmental response in this country's history. more than 2 million feet of boom, 30 planes, and over 1,300 boats are working to protect the shoreline. where oil reaches the shore, thousands of people are ready to clean it up. we will honor all legitimate claims, and our clean-up efforts will not come at any cost to taxpayers. to those affected and your families, i'm deeply sorry. the gulf is home for thousands of bp employees and we all feel the impact. to all the volunteers

and for the strong support of the government, thank you. we know it is our responsibility to keep you informed and do everything we can so this never happens again. we will get this done. we will make this right. we are back at 8:09 with new developments on the florida teenager who was badly beaten over a text message.

josie ratley suffered severe brain damage but after more than two months in the hospital, she is now back at home. as questions swirl around another girl's alleged role in the attack. we're going to talk exclusive to 13-year-old kayla manson in just a moment with you but first, here's nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: 15-year-old josie lou ratley basked in attention during a recent homecoming. having endured anything but sunny days this spring. the florida teen is recovering from a horrific attack in march, a beating so severe it left her hospitalized with brain damage. she's essentially starting over, relearning everything from her abcs to brushing her teeth, to putting on lip gloss. >> just for the little progress she shows me gives me some hope that she's -- maybe she'll be back 100% i'm hoping for.

>> reporter: 15-year-old wayne treacy is charged with attempted murder for allegedly stomping josie's head repeatedly while wearing steel-toed boots. he told police he snapped after getting a text message from josie. he confessed to police on tape but has pleaded not guilty. like many people, his mother's devastated. >> you just ruined your life. attempted murder? what were you thinking, babe? >> i don't know. she said something about mike. she knew he was dead and i lost it. >> reporter: police say josie and wayne did not know one another before the attack and have charged a third teen, 13-year-old kayla manson, a friend of both, as an accomplice to attempted murder. >> this was her best friend. this was their day to day, it was go to school, it was dress like josie, it was look like josie. >> reporter: oofficial say kayla didn't have a cell phone and sometimes used josie's to text wayne.

on the day of the attack, wayne was trying to text kayla when josie reportedly texted back disapproving of his relationship with her 13-year-old friend, kayla. they argued back and forth by text. authorities said kayla identified josie for wayne outside their school. >> i don't think she even in her mind comprehended that something like this would ever happen. because to her, all she did was think that her girlfriend was going to get yelled at. >> reporter: since the attack, kayla's family says she's left school, is taking classes online and getting death threats. today she looks after a disabled cousin as she's always done. >> she's a helpful little girl. she just is really kind of devastated. >> reporter: devastation tyinging three teens to tragedy over a few words sent via text. for "today," ron mott, nbc news. >> kayla manson is with us exclusively along with her aunt,

and her attorneys. good morning to all of you. kayla, when you see those pictures of josie as was said in the piece, she was your very best friend. what goes through your mind when you look at those pictures of her? >> that i'm really sad that he did that and if i knew that he was going to do it, then i probably would have done something about it. >> why did you decide that this was the time to speak out? why did you want to come here and talk? what do you want people to know about you? >> that i wouldn't deliberately hurt somebody and i wouldn't help someone hurt somebody. >> can we go back to march 17th, that day that those text messages were exchanged between josie and wayne. you were in school with josie. you heard about the texts? you saw them? >> i only saw two. >> did you see the one where he threatened her, to kill her? >> no. >> you did not. which ones did you see? >> the one where she calls him a

rapist and she calls him a cunt -- i mean he calls her a cunt. >> we just have to be careful with our language. but that's all right, sweetheart. did you have a conversation with josie about those e-mails? did she seem concerned about them? did she tell you that wayne was going to come get her? >> she -- when i left her to go to my fourth period class, she seemed happy and she was just joking around with him. >> so when he showed up at school, it was about three hours later, he had never met josie. he asked you to point her out an you did. is that correct? >> yeah. yes. >> did he say to you what he was planning to do at that point? >> no. he didn't say anything. what did you think he wanted to do? was he angry when he said i'm looking for her? i thought he would probably just

curse her out or yell at her, embarrass her. >> so did you see any of the attack at all? >> no. my bus came before i saw anything. before i heard anything. >> so that night the police came to your house, right? and is that when you first learned about how josie had been hurt? >> yes. >> and what was your reaction then? >> after they left i cried. >> you cried. you know wayne. obviously he's a friend. right? did you think he's capable of anything like this? >> no. i thought he would never touch a girl. >> you know that police are saying that about kayla that she had seen the text messages, that she did know the threat involved, and that she pointed out her friend and then did nothing to help, never reported it. she's been charged as an accomplice here.

>> actually, meredith, she's been charged as a principal. she's been charged as though she actually committed this act. i think that's really tantamount in this situation, we're sitting here with a 13-year-old little girl. these terms, unfortunately, are part of common vernacular in middle school. these children speak in ways that adults would not find appropriate. you'll hear one child threaten another child, oh, if you do that, i'll kill you. they don't take these things seriously. i think what's of utmost importance is that kayla never thought, even if she had seen a threat, that wayne treacy was going to do anything other than verbally acost the victim. >> you never thought to talk to a teacher about it, you never thought there was any great risk here. >> right. tristin, kayla spent 30 days in custody. since she's been home you've had to basically home school her

because there have been death threats. what has happened to your life and her life? >> it changed a lot for both of us. now that she's home of course, i don't want to take her anywhere because of the threats. i don't want to take her anywhere where she can actually be with friends or kids her own age. she's stuck at home most of the time or with family. family things, family houses. with her gone of course, she's my lifeline. without her, even though she's my niece, not my daughter, she's my lifeline and she takes care of my son like it's her little brother. >> you have illnesses of your own you're dealing with. >> right. without her i struggled majorly. had major problems. had to do most of the care by myself and with her back, unfortunately, she's stuck at home and she does meet his bus and she feeds him a snack and makes sure he has his pills in the afternoon. so she's it. and without her, we -- he had a hard time. had he a very hard time without her. he looked for her.

they share a room together. and where's kayla at bath time? at dinner time? you know what i mean. he struggled a little bit. >> kayla, you've gone through a lot here. the charges are very serious as your lawyer has pointed out. you lost your two best friends. at least one, josie. you're not allowed to see her at all. and wayne, who is in a lot of trouble right now. what has this been like for you? >> it's been harder. i can't see my friends anymore. can't go to school. scared to walk outside. >> if you could see josie, what would you say to her? >> that i'm sorry that this happened and if i actually took it as a threat then i would have told somebody and i love her and i really miss her. >> what is next for kayla? >> well, at this point, the case is still in the discovery process. we're still getting information and so it's proceeding. and legal matters usually don't

proceed quickly, so it's going to be a process of gathering all the information and from there deciding where to go with this case. luckily she's being charged as a juvenile and staying in the appropriate court. >> but if she's found guilty, she could end up -- >> she could end up in what's basically like a juvenile program, jail, up to her 21st birthday. but we are working towards not having that happen and hopefully that will be the outcome of the case. >> kayla, thank you for joining us this morning. it is very brave to sit here and talk about what happened. we appreciate it. tristin, thank you as well. jonathan and regina as well, thank you. we're back in a moment, but first these messages. one on, kiddo, let's go.

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whitney houston's comeback tour has hit yet another snag as hundreds of fans walked out of a recent show in denmark. here's nbc's testny gosk. >> reporter: whitney houston walked on stage in copenhagen to a warm reception. >> yes, i have come back. >> reporter: it didn't last long. more than half the audience walked out before the end of the show. fans thought houston talked too much. music critics said the once-fit perfect diva. one wrote she looked and sounded like a person who doesn't have

many years left to live. >> for whitney houston this has really tournd into the european tour from hell. i think what happened in copenhagen has really been the culmination of actually several weeks of disastrous performances. >> reporter: houston has already postponed four dates on her "nothing but love" tour because of respiratory infection. other lackluster performances have been blamed on allergies and air conditioning. houston was off key burma, struggled nurnburg and lost it in london. fans hoping for this -- ♪ and i will always love you >> reporter: -- are instead hearing this -- ♪ and i will always love you

>> she can't sing the highs of "i will always love you." she's going to have to make a mental change. she's going to want to be a mature woman singing reflective songs. >> reporter: but despite the critics, die-hard fans have jumped to her defense. one wrote, "i don't care about everyone else's opinions, she is, was and always will be amazing." one of the top-selling artists of all time with six grammys and a mezo-soprano that earned her the nickname "voice," whitney houston now needs every fan she can get. for today, stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. coming up, "the karate kid's" jackie chan and jaden smith.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am sarah caldwell. time for a last look at the morning commute. we have an accident just coming in at 895 at lombard street. if you are at a harbor tunnel, you might want to take 95 as your alternate for fort mchenry. timonium road, accident there. heavy delays on the northeast outer loop. average of 24 miles per hour through that stretch. inner loop delays from greenspring towards the j.f.x. j.f.x. is filling up quickly

into account also. another crash to watch for elkridge. 36 minutes on the outer loop northeast side. 10-minute ride on the inner loop from 795 towards the 83's. pretty clear going away from us. traffic heading towards the bay bridge. no problems to report in any of the other areas. southbound 895, all lanes closed at lombard. now we want to the latest on the forecast. >> temperature right now is 72 degrees. all the rain has got away from the area. the west wind at 7 miles an hour. mostly sunny skies. couple patches of fog. a lot of the dissipating now. the sunshine is out, very

strong. 82 to 87, very high bid by the weekend, hot and humid and maybe a few thundershowers. >> we will have another update at 8:55.

8:30 now on a thursday morning, the 10th day of june, 2010. kind of a cool morning here in the northeast. about to move away. looks like we are in the way of a little sunshine for these nice people. by the way, if they come back

tomorrow they'll be treated to a concert from country superstars rascal flatts. that's tomorrow morning, 8:30 right here on the plaza. out on that very same plaza, i'm matt lauer, along with meredith vieira, al roker and ann curry. quick survey among the parents here. okay? fathers and sons dressed exactly alike. cute or a little icky? >> i did it on easter with nicky. >> same exact outfits. >> yeah, i did. >> so you would say cute. >> i hope so. >> the rest of you? you can't say icky now. >> you have to own it. >> i think cute until the sons are 15. then it is not cute. >> and they start dressing like their mother. coming up, we're going to take a look at some father-son fashions that are similar -- similar. we're going to give you the guidelines for this as father's day fast approaches. >> okay. also ahead, losing a job is

obviously never easy and it can be even harder if you were fired at 50. too early for retirement, not ready to call it a career. what do you do? we'll get advice from two people who found themselves in that unenviable position. also we have a real treat this morning. "the karate kid" is back on the big screen 26 years after the original. guess who's in our studio? jaden smith and also jackie chan. >> all right. we also want to remind you about what do you care about today? you have until tomorrow to logon to our website and tell us about your favorite charity. one lucky winner will be awarded a $100,000 grant from the pepsi fresh project. so get online and check it out. >> before we go to weather, i want to apologize to the audience at home for the rough language in that last segment, that last half-hour. it is really not kayla's fault. i asked her what was in the text

message. she didn't know there were certain words you can't say on television. we do apologize. meanwhile, mr. roker, how about a check of the weather? we'll show you as we look ahead toward the weekend, on saturday a risk of strong storms from texas all the way into new york an pennsylvania. we're looking at mile weather up and down the west coast, mild in new england and hot down through the gulf coast. then sunday -- sunday -- more rain through new england, rain in the central and northern rockies, hot along the west coast, and a lot of hot weather along the gulf coast. bad news for our friends who are doing all the really terrific clean-up work from louisiana into florida. >> we are going to see improving conditions as we head to the day. there could be a little bit of fog early this morning. we will get mostly sunny skies this

>> don't forget, check your weather any time of the day or night, weather channel on cable, weather.com online. they're from flippin, arkansas. now back over to flippin, meredith. up next, up next "the karat

we are back now at 8:36. 26 years ago, ralph maccia lid up the screen as "the karate

kid." jaden smith is now in the leading role and jackie chan is his mentor. >> there is only one person you need to learn how to control. >> who? >> empty your mind. flow with my movement. connect you to energy. >> i kind of just want to learn the cobra thing. >> cobra takes a lifetime. it requires great focus. >> but i have great focus. >> whoa. >> your focus needs more focus. >> jackie chan, jaden smith, good morning. you weren't even born. you weren't even born when the orange nat "karate kid" came out. >> yeah, i saw it because i knew you would be asking me if i saw it. >> that's the only reason you watched it? >> no, i had to watch it because i have to study it to like check

it out and, you know. >> did you like the original? >> yeah. definitely. the movie was good. >> your mom and dad actually are producers on this movie an they thought you would be good for the role. did you have any doubts about taking on that role? >> no, not really. >> you thought you could handle it? >> yeah, definitely. >> jackie, what about you in terms of the original. did you see it and did you like it? >> for me honestly, when i was watching, i don't understand the english. at that time i don't know english. then the action movement, honestly is not really -- >> it wasn't all that realistic to you? >> no. >> so when you signed on to this one, were you determined to make that part of it more realistic? >> yes. so this way when we choreograph all the action sequence, i want him to do all his own things, stunt, action, flip, everything. we sent out my best guy from

jackie chan stunt team train with him for three months, doing the movie four months. after the movie, right now, still training. >> did you have any experience jaden with martial arts before taking on this role? >> i was in karate since i was 3. >> so you had a background in it. >> little bit. >> but this is kung fu. correct? >> yeah. >> how hard was it? >> little bit hard. harder. yeah. >> this high kick that i've seen like in the poster for example where your foot is about the same level as about where my head would be, how long did it take to get that down? >> i think about the first month and a half in. >> if i did that, not only would my pants tear, my entire hamstring would tear. jackie, can you still do that? >> half. >> you can do half of that? >> yeah, half that. >> so what did you want to teach not your training team but what did you want to impart to jaden when making this movie?

you made so many films in the past. >> i want to teach jaden everything i know really and teach him about respect, respect your life, you respect kung fu, respect martial arts, respect your parents, respect the whole world, respect your country. that's how martial arts is. >> jaden, ralph maccia was the original karate kid. >> he's a great guy. his son's name is actually daniel. >> did he pass along any advice in making this movie? >> you know, i talked to him very briefly. >> it was just a short meeting. >> very briefly. yeah. >> you got to travel a lot to shoot this. you were all over china. >> yes. >> you went to the great wall. >> i thought making american film, all green screen. >> you were on location. >> we were on location. you really go? yes. we climb 2,000 steps every day,

carry all equipment. and he carried, i carried, everybody carried things. you know, such very narrow role. >> i understand you have your first on-screen kiss. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. oh, that. right? yeah. how did that go? >> that was interesting. it was a little bit weird. little bit weird. you see, our faces were like this close, like this close. literally and then we had to kiss and we had to stay there so the shot was right. and then i'm just sitting here and we're waiting and i'm like, h hey. you all right? >> how you doing? is this over yet? >> yeah. what's going on? yeah. it's kind of awkward. it's kind of awkward. >> you're 11. right? >> yeah, but it's still awkward. >> that's what i meant. this movie opens tomorrow. >> yes, tomorrow.

>> the new "karate kid." jaden, jackie, thanks. up next, some unfinished business. what to do if you're fired and you're in your 50s. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

losing your job can be hard at any age, but how do you cope if you are fired in your 50s? at the age of 51, doreen motten was part after company-wide layoff, now she runs her own business. lee kravitz was fired at 54 and he decided to write a book, "unfinished business." deborah russell is aarp's director of workforce issues. good morning to you all. deborah, if i can start with you. looking at these numbers, and it is over 300% increase in the number of people over the age of 50 who are losing their jobs.

are these people who are opting out? are they being fired? are they deciding they want to retire early? >> many of these people it is really a result of downsizing. the economy has certainly forced many employers to look at talent management and do reduction in forces. so many of these people are unemployed as a result of that. >> what challenges did they face as a result of that? >> the first challenge, just being an older individual who may have found themselves out of work for the first time in many, many years. and finding themselves with the fact that the job search process has changed significantly over that time. >> doreen, you were essentially it was a mutual decision between you and the company that you worked for? >> it was. i was actually relieved bh it all ended. >> you were vice president of marketing at citigroup so it is a pretty powerful job. >> it was. it was. with that came a lot of powerful experience. yeah. it was very stressful job. it was kind of at the height --

or beginning of a lot of the mortgage issues with the financial industry went through. so i think people got wind of the fact that maybe there would be layoffs and -- >> why do you say you were relieved to be let go? >> i started to live. i really started to live. you didn't -- i didn't really have time to think about anything else except the job, like what i wanted to be when i grew up. >> you were on a treadmill or whatever it is. >> absolutely. you know you're moving but you're not going anywhere. so it was kind of a relief for me. >> but you ended up starting your own business, something very, very different from what you were doing. >> absolutely. you know, when you get lemons, you make lemonade. that's what i did. i started a company, we make satin pillowcases, botanical satin pillowcases for the anti-aging and hair care consumer. i love it. it's my passion. i'm broke but i'm happy. >> but you're happy. lee, have you a unique story. you were a real workaholic.

working as is editor in chief of parade magazine. at 54, you're fired and it devastated you. you managed to take the bad news and turn it into something positive. how did you get to that point? >> when i took stock of my life i realized that in working so hard, i'd become disconnected from the people who mattered to me, mainly my family, my friends, and also from who i really was. i knew i had to do something. i had to do some work on myself. so i committed myself to a period of closing circles and making amends. >> one year you took of dealing with, as you put it, unfinished business. >> unfinished emotional and spiritual business. i thanked a teacher who i had changed my life and i never thanked. i paid a condolence call i never made. found a long-lost relative. i did all those things i let slip and in the process i found my truer, better self and really

gained a tremendous amount of energy and compassion. as you say, passion for life. >> i think, though, in the case of these two people, they probably had the wherewithal financially to be able to do these things. not everybody is in that position. >> yeah, i think that's the real challenge. we're finding that an increasing number of older people are unemployed for a longer period of time so the duration is longer. and the financial impact can be significant. so now is the time to really be creative and look at ways -- >> like doreen was. >> absolutely. and assessing where you are today and what you may want to do in the future. >> we thank you all for being here. when i told you in the break i read your book an it is very inspirational. it is wonderful. doreen motten, lee kravitz and deborah russell, thank you all so much. up next, father and son fashions without making your little one look like

this morning on "today's style," father and son fashions. just in time for father's day. it can be hard to resist the temptation to dress dad and the tot exactly alike. but you don't have to do the whole mini-me thing to be in fashion. adam rappaport is here, he's "gq's" style editor.

let's get it done right off the bat, you don't want completely matching outfits. >> dr. evil should not be your fashion icon. >> but you can have a thread of similarity. >> echo what your son is wearing. similar but not exactly the same. >> let's get right to the some of the looks you are providing for us today. the cargos are popular but you've taken a slightly different look for father's day. >> you see a lot of these dads in the big droopy cargo shorts. you're not in college anymore, you're out of the fraternity. this summer we love the plaid shorts. >> kenny and stone, come on down. >> kenny's the dad. stone's the son. kenny kenny goes for the gem, wear a polo who fits. if you work out. >> this madras look has been around for a long time but it is still popular. >> everything comes back. right now we're in the heart of the american, early '60s, late

'50s sort of style at the moment. >> i think they look great. kenny an stone, thank you so much. the next look you want to show us is seersucker. here's another one that's been around for a long time. can everyone pull this off? >> you can but if you're not a southern gentleman, don't try to pretend that you're one. >> john and oliver. >> we dressed them kind of sophisticated, dark shoes, dark tie, very urban. oliver, you don't want to see a kid in a full suit and lace-ups. let him have some fun. we got this blazer, all from brooks brothers head to toe. he can wear the seersucker on his own at beach and where the blazer everywhere for the next few years. >> you guys look fantastic. thank you very much, john and oliver. next we have, this is -- you love chambray. >> shirt of the season, the classic american work shirt where the term "blue collar" comes from. >> jim and nicky. the music is because this is our

executive producer, jim bell and his son, nicky. >> look at pictures of jfk at hyannisport in 1960, that's what he was wearing, boat shoes, rolled-up khakis, land's end khakis on nicky. as american as you can get right here. >> and they're working the sunglasses. bell, by the way, normally wears the pants rolled up. he's a very casual executive. the number of lines that come to mind right now, jim -- >> be careful. remember the previous segment. >> nicky, you look great, man. way to go. jim, thank you. next we've got what you're calling hipster tocool. >> airelle and axle. we don't want to be hipster dad but we need to know our limitations, matt. >> i'm an older dad. how much hipster can i pull off?

>> you're a fit dad but i don't know if i need to see you in the hip hugger skinny jeans. if you're young 30s, go for it. after you've crossed that 40s threshold, kind of be a little bit more self-aware. >> don't try this. don't try this at home. airelle and axle, you guys look great. thank you very much. finally -- is it true you brought your sob here n here. >> i did bring my son, marlin. you want a lollipop? it's bring your son to work day. >> how old is marlin? >> marlin's 2 1/2. we're wearing the gingham dress shirt, very stylish for spring-summer at the "gq" offices. he's doing j. crew jeans and jackets, i'm doing levi's jeans. >> it is a little cut above just the jeans and shirt. >> it is dressy but still has that fun summery punch. >> any rules for people that

they absolutely should avoid other than the complete matchy-matchy? >> kids typically don't like to wear ties. if you've got a 2 1/2 or 4-year-old, let them be a 2 1/2 or 4-year-old. >> if we can take a look at all the father/son looks for spring and summer as we get ready for father's day. guys, thank you all. men and young men, we bresh it. jim bell, come on out. adam rappaport from "gq" magazine. thank you. we're back right after these messages.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am sarah caldwell. a baltimore teenager is recovering after he was mistakenly shot by a city police officer. the officer was on patrol when he saw a pit bull attacking a 14-erroll boy near fenwick avenue and 29th street around 7:30 last night. the officer opened fire, killing the dog, but the teenager was shot in elected investigators are not sure if the bullet ricocheted and went through the dog.

>> time to take a look at the forecast. for that we go to john collins. >> what was left of any fog is beginning to break up and the sun is breaking through.

the last of the weather is going offshore. eventually things will warm up and get hot and steamy by the weekend. rather pleasant day today. the fog, as i mentioned, dissipating. a couple of degrees above average for the season. sun sets this evening at 8:33. tomorrow, very similar day. saturday and sunday, it gets hot and humid. we did see some scattered or isolated thunderstorms. i chance on sunday. -- higher chance on sunday. >> we will