good morning. lightning rod, two of the tea party's most controversial candidates release new campaign ads just one month before the midterm elections. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you have heard. i'm you. >> this campaign is not about my family, it's not about divorces or affairs. >> can either of them capitalize on the anger of voters and win? this morning the candidate for governor speaks out. and the man allegedly attacked by mexican pirates. he was shot and killed she

escaped with her life. this morning she will open up in a live interview. and hot stuff, the daredevils who test fate go down into a live volcano. daredevils who test fate go down into a live volcano. "today," october 20, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm meredith viera. >> and i'm matt lauer. what about that volcano? and you say this is the last known footage of this man. >> exactly. >> this is incredible stuff, the daredevil photographer who took those images is going to visit us later in the show. and the race for governor here in new york is anything but boring. it has to do with this man carl pal dino.

and he promises it's going to be nastier. so why does carl paladino think he should be governor of new york? we'll ask him in a surprise interview. and what's the most comprehensive survey of the sex habits of americans in more than a decade. ann is on assignment so natalee morales is over at the news desk. a u.s. missile strike in pakistan has reportedly killed five german militants. this came amid a terror plot in western europe. >> reporter: u.s. officials say "today" that the terror alert was issued for americans traveling in europe because of a stream of threats, many rooted in pakistan, including european mi militants being trained there. but officials do not want to

panic u.s. tourists traveling abroad. the advice is simply to be careful in public places. and this note today homeland security officials say there's no known connection to plots aimed at the u.s. but they should not be alarmed as they see extra security on am track. they do this every two months, most recently on september 10 and during holiday weekends. contrary to some reports it was long planned and has nothing to do with the threats in europe. and there are no known threats against the united states. sentencing today and a life term for phase sal shahzad. if his bomb had gone off, it would have been devastating. jury deliberations are underway in that horrific home invasion case in connecticut that left three members of one family dead. jeff rossen is in new haven with

more. >> reporter: the big question this morning, how long will the jury take? they deliberated for two hours yesterday in the late afternoon and couldn't reach a verdict so they're back at it today and could go for the death penalty. the lone survivor, dr. william petit back at the courthouse. what's going through your mind right now? >> just waiting to see what the jury decides. >> reporter: he's waited three years for this moment. it was 2007 when prosecutors say two men broke into the petit home, beat william and tied him up and tied his two girls to the bed upstairs. the jury saw video of jennifer petit at a local bank, withdrawing $15,000 to may the ransom. and they heard the chilling 911 call. >> we have a lady who's in the bank right now who says that

their husband and children are being held at their house. if the police are told, they will kill the children and the husband. >> reporter: prosecutors say they sexual assaulted and strangled jennifer petit before burning the house down. this mother and her two girls were killed. now stephen hayes is charged with 17 crimes, six of them capital felonies. if convicted of just one, he could face execution. now william petit waits for the verdict. here's the timeline going forward, if the jury reaches a guilty verdict, especially on one of the capital felony counts, today take a day or two off, and that same jury that decided guilt or innocence will decide whether or not to put stephen hayes to death. then it starts all over with the other defendant joshua co.

police are now looking for a motive. overseas markets are mostly higher and cnbc melissa franzen is at the stock exchange. >> we're a bundle of nerves down here, let's start with ben bernanke speaking in rhode island last night saying the government shouldn't raise taxes or cut spending right now t economy is too fragile. also moody saying that -- and the yield on the two-year treasury here in the united states hitting historic lows. natalee, back to you. and the maker of sun chips is now scrapping those new environmentally friendly packages. consumers had complained that even though the bags are biodegradable, they're just way too loud. the company says they're not getting rid of their idea of environmentally friendly

packaging, they're just looking for another alternative that's not so loud. >> we are off to a fairly quiet start compared to yesterday. there is still didn't result out there. 30% or 40% chance of a rain shower.

othe >> and that's your latest weather. and now to politics. the tea party showed it's power during this year's primary season, but now some of its high profile candidates are attempting to remake their images with the midterm elections exactly one month away. we're going to talk to carl pal paladino, the tea party's candidate right here in new york. some of the biggest personalities and most talked about candidates are trying to deal with impressions that are less than flattering. that was also true in connecticut's first senate debate. where the former head of wwe wrestling linda mcmahon has

closed a gap held by attorney general richard blumenthal. >> reporter: in connecticut a smackdown over money and politics. the superwealthy wrestling executive over the connecticut attorney general. linda mcmahon hit blum on thal for falsely claiming that his military service included time in vietnam. >> he lied about vietnam, what else has he lied about? >> reporter: blumenthal who has apologized before explained again. >> on a few occasions out of hundreds where i commented on it, i described it inaccurately. >> mcmahon said the minimum wage should be looked at. >> she took home $46 million and now she's talking about lowering

the minimum wage. >> you know that's a lie, i never said it. >> and republican candidate christine o'donnell is now taking on those old tapes of herself on tv. >> i dabbled in witchcraft, i hung around people who were doing these things. >> i'm not a witch, i'm nothing you have heard. i'm you. none of us is perfect. but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us. >> another attempt at an image makeover in new york. >> this campaign is not about my family, it's not about divorces or affairs. >> wealthy buffalo businessman carl paladino is trying to change the subject and the tone in his campaign for governor, after this hostile shougt matti match last week with a newspaper reporter. >> i'll take you out? >> you're going to make me out? >> watch. >> and he's acknowledged an affair and a child out of wedlock.

paladino also suggested that an debris cuomo cheated on his wife. >> i'm a builder, i know we can rebuild new york and get our state back on the road to a strong economy. >> and paladino had said these things about cuomo without offering proof. when he's ask to back down, he has not and has not offered an apology. and he says he can spend as much as it takes to get his message out. now with more, here's mat. >> carl paladino is the tea party backed candidate for governor of new york. >> you have seemed to embrace the mantle of the angry candidate, is that what you think voters want right now? >> i don't think it's anger. i think it's people that are very frustrated and i'm just a reflection of that frustration. >> but they're frustrated at the status quo, what they have seen in washington and in state houses across this country for

years and years. isn't part of that status quo anger and rage? srvet it nasty campaigning between candidates that gets people know where once an official is elected? >> we have left that gutter politics. we're interested in talking about the issues. >> how can you turn a corner like that, how can you practice that gutter politics and all of a sudden say that's not me anymore. >> that's reaction, that was started by cuomo. they came out and attacked, attacked, attacked. >> you said this campaign will get nastier, that was a promise. if it's going to get nastier, are you going to participate it in or have you turned a corner? >> if that's the direction he wants to go in. we want to speak issues, we have challenged him to a debate. we're willing to debate every day from now until election day. we want to get those issues out to the people. we want him to answer to obama

care, we want him to answer for the reckless mandates that are out there right now. >> one of the things you have said mr. paladino is that you are going to take a baseball bat to albany. you said i'm going to crack heads and i'm going to change things. those candidates get elected and they go to the state house or the white house and they run into the system and all of a sudden they realize they don't need to crack heads, they need to build bridges. i don't think you're a bridge builder. >> we have been conditioned over the years to think that government in albany is the way government should be, two men in a room. that's not the representative of the republic that the constitution outlined. we have legislators that sit there and wait for shelshell -- >> inmore general terms, obviously there's a lot of democrats out there who don't

like you, it's a democratically dominated state. there are some republicans who don't likeyou, the state chairman of the conservative party said something, and i'm paraphrasing here that if you won the primary, it would be a dark period for the republican party. rick lazio apparently has a low opinion of you. who's your base who's going to help you get things done if you win and go to albany. >> my baseball bat is the people. the people. i have been speaking to the people for the last few months. that's why we had that huge plurality in the republican primary and that's why we're going to have this mandate coming to us from the entire electorate. it's the people and nobody wants to listen to the people. these rulers in albany who have been feeding at the public trough for so long, they don't want to change. >> you have admitted to sending a series of e-mails that people have found highly offensive, there was language and words that were very offensive.

there were character zragss, even of president obama and michelle obama that many found highly offensive. you said that showed bad judgment. you're saying that now when you're running for governor, you didn't when you pushed the send button on those e-mails. >> they want an answer as to why an debris cuomo took a bribe. >> they want to know if the person who's running for governor has good judgment. do you have good judgment? >> i have illustrated that for my entire career. we have ask andrew cuomo to explain his actions when he put his thumb on the prosecution of an debris farcus at hud. >> many think this is going to be a referendum on barack obama is that the way you see it or something else? >> new york state the people are

concerned with a government that's recklessly spending their money, that's overtaxing them, that's burdening them with all kinds of rules and regulations and for sure is not paying attention to the creation of good, fulfilling jobs. i will do that. >> carl paladino who's running for governor of new york. thank you for your time this morning. now to efforts to make cars safer. the government is rolling out a new vehicle safety rating system "toda today, one with tough new standards. tom costello has the details. >> reporter: good morning, meredith, most of us are familiar with the government's five star crash system where cars get more stars depending on how well the cars do. so many cars are doing so well t government is changing the system and demanding even better results. for 30 years the government has been crash testing cars and awarding stars. five stars are the best rated cars, one car puts a car at the bottom of the list. but getting five stars just got

tougher. the government is now adding side pole crash tests, and for the first time using female crash test dummies in it's evaluations. >> if we're raising the bar for safety and we know that there are a lot of women that are driving or passengers in cars, we owe it to them to give them the idea that when they buy a car, they're going to be as safe as males. >> reporter: in recent years many vehicles have earned five-star ratings, now cars and trucks must utilize high-tech crash avoidance systems. systems that warn you when you're departing your lane or about to collide with another vehicle. and a new total overall score ranging from one to five. of the 55 models tested, only two earned a five. 29 cars earned a four, two cars earned a three, and one car

earned a two, the nissan verse a. colorado state trooper eric winn says cars today almost cocoon people in an accident. >> the energy is disbursed through many parts of that vehicle. >> reporter: in 2009, traffic deaths fell to their lowest level since 1950. a total of 33,800 people died last year, that's nearly 10% fewer deaths than 2008 with when more than 37,000 people died and 9,000 death fewer deaths than in 2005. >> technology has played an incredible role in improving our accident fatality rate. >> reporter: and seat belts, today 85% of drivers buckle up. nissan is out with -- testing guidelines are stricter, 2011

model ratings are not comparable to 1990 through 2010 model ratings and it will make adjustments as necessary. experts say you should look at both crash test results, the government's and the insurance institute before you buy a car. it is 7:19 and once again here's matt. just over the border in mexico, parts of that country are under siege, violence is bad and it's getting worse. now americans are getting caught in the fray. coming up we'll talk to a woman who was shot and killed when they were allegedly attacked by mexican pirates. mark potter is in laredo with more. >> reporter: here in laredo, texas right across the border from mexico which is suffering a dramatic rise in drug related violence. it's a problem plaguing many mexican cities and towns, often quite close to the united states.

for the last few years the worst of the violence has been in northern mexico, along the u.s. border with 47 people killed this past weekend alone. in a particularly dangerous attack, a hand grenade exploded in a busy town square in guadalupe, a suburb of monterrey, one of mexico's biggest and richest cities. more than a dozen people including six children were injured in what authorities believe was an attack by drug traffickers. earlier three explosives blew up elsewhere in monterrey. one near a u.s. consulate. this woman says we don't feel safe being out on the streets anymore. since late 2006, when mexican president felipe caldron began confronting the powerful drug cartels, nearly 30,000 people have been killed in a vicious war. and the traffickers lash out at the authorities and at rival georgia gangsgangs -- rival ganr

control of smuggling routes to the united states. in the resort down of acapulco, authorities are still looking for 20 mexican tourists who were kidnapped by gunmen last week and in towns and villages tro s throughout the country, residents are besieged by attacker who is outgun and outrun the authorities. >> intimidation through threats or through violence itself. >> reporter: so far this year, 11 mention c1 11 mexican mayors have been killed. americans aren't immune either, a couple expecting a child gunned down in juarez after a birthday party, a texas teen found dead on the side of a mexican road. mexican officials have arrested and killed hundreds of traffickers reecht s recently, violence here shows no signs of letting up. now for the american couple reportedly chased by gunmen

while on jet skis on the mexican side of a reservoir where we stand now, police say they have not yet found the body of the husband who was shot and killed during that attack. >> mark potter for us in texas this morning. >> and just ahead, we will talk to tiffany hartley about that ordeal, but first it is "today" on nbc.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. time to get that check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> plenty of problems. it kind of a busy start. in parkton, accident involving a vehicle and a pole. we do have lanes closed on a seminary ave due to a downed tree. on the outer loop at dulaney

valley, an accident with the vehicle off the road, very heavy delays leading up to it. inner loop delays approaching 95. if you are going to travel on the west side, you are looking at an average of seven miles per hour. backed up coming out of owings mills. westbound 70 and 29, watch for an accident location. let's give you a live view of traffic in the area of white marsh. a live view of traffic at i-70. searching for a westbound accident. does not appear to be in view here. tony as a check on the forecast. >> better start for us than yesterday. we still have a little bit of a drizzle in some neighborhoods. not a steady rain like monday. on the cool side.

we're going to add the beaten-12 degrees this afternoon. -- at may be 10-12 degrees this happen in. generally cloudy. 30% to 40% chance for rainshowers. temperatures in the upper 50s tomorrow. chance for a shower. much better news going into the weekend. temperatures will warm up and will dry out. saturday and sunday look nice. >> check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. back in 25 minutes.

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7:30 now on a tuesday morning, it's the fifth day of october, 2010. we love that, high above your plaza, the top of the rock in midtown manhattan and down below some soaked people on our plaza. it's been raining for a couple of days here in the northeast, hopefully it clears out for the weekend. just ahead, the hottest video on the internet, no pun intended. daredevils descend into an

active volcano, how did they pull this off? coming up, we're going to meet the man behind it when he joins us exclusively. also ahead more incredible images, never before discovered creatures. plus the new survey that's revealing the startling truth about the sex lives of americans. do we want to know? we'll tell you about it coming up. but we begin this half hour with the latest on the american couple who were allegedly attacked by mexican pirates as they jet skied on a mexican border lake. >> reporter: they knew each other since high school and had a passion for adventure. but 29-year-old tiffany hartley and her 30-year-old husband david could never have imagined how a sightseeing trip would change their lives forever. last thursday, the couple ventured out into the falcon lake reservoir in south texas, trying to photograph an old

partially submerged church in a mexican ghost town. >> they were over the border. >> did you see anybody? >> there are three boats. >> three boats? >> three boats and they came back looking at me. >> three boats and a barrage of bullets. david was shot in the back of the head. and then the ultimate agony, as the ambush continued, tiffany was forced to abandon her dying husband in a desperate bid to state of her own life. she finally reached shore, describing sheer terror in her call to 911. >> are you sure that your husband got shot? >> yes. in the head. >> was he thrown out of the jet see and that he's in the water or something? >> he was thrown off the jet ski and i couldn't pick him up to get him on mine. >> we're close to getting here landing on the water, but she was not hit. >> the falcon lake reservoir is

a unique body of water. the u.s. mexico border runs right through the middle of it. tiffany admits they were on the mexican side. with gun toting pirates becoming more brazen in their attacks. texas authorities don't have jurisdiction on mexican side of the lake. >> we would like to try to retrieve the body. the way things are on the border, we would need to be very well armed to protect ourselves. >> for a couple married a yeaei years, it seems sadly ironic. that their goal was to live without fear. >> tiffany hartley is here with us along with david's parents. good morning to all of you and please accept my condolences, i'm so sorry for your loss. >> good morning. >> tiffany, if i could start with you, could you take us back to last week when you went jet skiing with your husband david.

why did you guys decide to go out there? >> my husband had been doing some research on that old church in mexico, and he loved history and he wanted to go see it before we headed back to colorado the following week. >> in may i know that the texas department of public safety had reported several incidents of gunmen robbing boaters. nay had worned americans about the lake, if you're going to go out there, whatever you do, don't cross over into the mexican side. i understand you and david had even talked about the risks. why did you ignore the danger involved there? >> we hadn't heard anything for quite a while. my husband, being a manager of his -- the company down in

mexico, he had to take care of them and make sure they were safe and make sure i was safe and i know he would never ever put me in a position of danger and we hadn't heard anything of anything going on over there. we had heard about the pirates, but we didn't know, you know, we just hadn't heard anything recently. >> so at what point did you realize that you were both in terrible danger? >> once we started seeing that the three boats were coming towards us and then they started chasing us, and then we just started hearing the fires, the gun fire. >> and then your husband was shot and you were faced with an agonizing decision, you either went back and tried to save him or saved your own life or attempted to save your own life. can you tell us about that moment for you? >> when i looked back after i had seen some bullets hit the

water next to me, i looked back to check on david and i saw him fly over the jet ski and he had been hit. i quickly turned around and went to him and jumped off my jet ski and i had to turn him over because he was facedown in the water and turned him over and he was shot in the head. and that's when a boat came up, one of the boats came up to me. and had a gun pointed at me trying to -- and that's when they left and that's when i tried saving david and getting him on my jet ski but i couldn't get him up and i kept hearing god tell me you have to go, you have to go. so i had to leave him. so i could get to safety. >> and i know that -- they have

not recovered your husband's body or your son's body, dennis and pam, how are you coping? >> well, we're hacking in there. we have had a lot of support from friends here and everywhere. david's friends in colorado are planning a rally to bring david home. that is this friday in denver, colorado at the mexican consulate at 1:00 p.m. >> do you feel the mexican authorities are doing all they can to find david's body? >> no. >> no. >> no. . >> we need to desperate by get on the mexican side of the lake so we can search for him and bring him home. it's like please, everybody, call your congress, call anybody that you can to have them get us over there. he has to come home.

president obama, help us, president of mexico, help us, please. >> this is not something that there's a textbook on to know what we're supposed to do, we have been doing what we have been directed to do by everybody and i don't feel we have been provided the right information to make stuff work and that's why we're pleaing to everybody now, anybody that can help to let us know and to support us and to rally together to get him back home so we can have peace and closure on this and so that never happens to anybody else. >> and now tiffany, the mexican authorities are speaking with a south texas newspaper and questioning your story, they say they found no evidence of this attack or your husband's remains, saying we're not certain that this incident happened the way they are telling us. i want to give you a chance to respond to that.

>> well, i would have to say that, you know, when they -- they know the pirates are out there, we knew that, we knew that there was a possibility of them being there. i believe in my heart that they went back and took him and they're hiding our jet ski, they're hiding him. and we just plea to that we get him back. and when you're looking at the end of the barrel of a gun and wondering if they're just going to shoot you too and wonder if your families are just going to never know where you are, and his mom knew we were there, but it's not anything for david not to call her for a few days. but they're not doing what they need to do to get in that water and find him. they're not getting in the water, they don't have people on the ground, they don't have people looking for him.

and that's why we're pleading that. please. bring him back. >> they can't prove it if they don't look. >> tiffany, dennis, pam and nicky hartley, thank you so much, our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. >> thank you. >> now we're going to make a tough turn and get a check of the weather from al. >> yesterday out west, in the phoenix area, they had some strong storms and some gusty winds, strong thunderstorms forcing officials at the sky harbor airport diverting over 30 flights away with localized flooding, they had dust storms, they've got more bad weather coming in there "todatoday, tak look at the maps, they have a risk of severe strong storms in the southwest again. let's show you on the map, there you go, thunderstorms over arizona bring damaging wind, hail and locally heavy rains and

you can see rainfall amounts anywhere from two to three inches, there could be some flash flooding throughout that >> we are off to a fairly quiet start compared to yesterday. we still have a chance of rain showers and the forecast, but only >> and if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, check out the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. why would anyone walk around inside a volcano? we're going to meet the man behind these remarkable images right after this. you. you know what, tell me, what makes peter, peter ?

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this name of the youtube video says it all. most incredible volcano footage ever. a daredevil descends into an active volcano and calmly walks around as red hot molten lava bubbles all around. the man behind this is volcanologist mr. mackley. i want to start out by saying i have seen this video and i know others have seen it and some people react this way, they say it's too incredible to be real, this had to be done with some kind of special effect or commuter. how do you respond to that? >> well, i take that as actually

the ultimate complement. i mean just in the last few days, the views and comments in that video have gone completely insane, beyond what i would ever imagine. there was 700 e-mail this morning that i woke up to and about half of them went to the point of saying that it's a complete fake and one guy even suggested that i also fake the moon landings. so i take it with a grain of salt. >> talk to me about where exactly this volcano is and how difficult it was to get you and your team there. >> well, probably until today most people in the united states probably never heard of marum, we spent a lot of money on a helicopter. or you walk for eight hours. then you might encounter some of

the worst weather on the planet. this volcano pumps out so much greenhouse gas that it creates it's own weather in effect. so it's not a very nice place. >> you have said that nothing can compare to the mind-blowing rush of being so close to a spectacle like this. i think some people might be watching thinking those would be appropriate words on a tombstone if something went wrong. >> a lot of people might think that i'm crazy, but i have actually been doing this for a long time and i'm still alive so that probably says something. but the biggest danger is of falling rocks, on your rope, knocking a rock loose that's going to hit you at 100 miles an hour. that's the biggest danger. of course the volcano could erupt more violently and all the expectedly and you could also be hit by lightning in the strait.

>> i have been near volcanos or lava fields before, the heat is intense. and i was nowhere as close to that kind of a pool of lava as you were. describe the heat and the feeling for me. >> it's very hard to describe the heat, but perhaps anyone who's been close to a major fire or you know a burning factory or something, kwoyou can feel this incredible ray of heat. any firefighter will know exactly, there's a thing called radiant heat and it comes out from the lava and it's incredibly intense and you have to have the suit and the breathing apparatus. and that suit was made by someone in the fire service. >> for someone who may be watch these images and the footage saying that sounds like a good way to spend my next vacation, what advice would you give them? >> well, i have been thinking about this for a while and i mean, i have been on things like

tornado tours and things like that and i have -- i'm seriously considering trying to make this an extreme tourist venture. i'm sure people would flock to this place to do that. >> well, good luck to you, the video as i said, the images are amazing and we appreciate you spending some time with us this morning. >> no problem, thank you very much. >> jeff mackley and we're back with much more of "today" on a tuesday morning right after this.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> hello, i am stan stovall. time for traffic with sarah caldwell. >> of vehicle in a poll in parkton and middletown road and cooperative road. southbound 140, an accident coming in. senate 6 -- miles per hour on the northeast outer loop. 14 miles per hour on the west side outer loop. 795, delays towards the beltway.

accident involving a bus at 54th and eastern ave. westbound i-70, watch for an accident location. another ad on arundel mills boulevard. crownsville road and somerville, we have all lanes closed due to crashed there. things are heavy in the white marsh area. we will switch over to a live view of traffic in old court. west side delays in place from approaching 795 towards edmondson. >> at least the weather has improved a little bit from yesterday. we have a little bit of drizzle and a few scattered rain showers. not steady light on monday. upper 40's and 50's. we will add 10 or 12 degrees this afternoon at best. it will be a chilly day, with upper 50's and low 60s. the to% or 4% chance for rain shower. -- 30% or 40% chance for a rain

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8:00 now on this tuesday morning, october 10, 2010. we have made our way outside on a rather brisk morning here, it's right around 55 degrees. i'm meredith viera with matt lauer and al roker. the reviews for both books are out "today." >> what happens in the household if one sells much more than the other. >> they each say they want the other one's book to do better

than theirs. such liars. >> speaking of liars, a new survey on sex is out. the results are interesting, do men and women feel the same when it comes to sex? that seems like a ridiculous question and who is and who is not getting the message when it comes to safe sex? we'll tell you about those results in a minute. we have talked about education and education nation, the white house is now shining a spotlight on higher education. we're going to be talking with the wife of vice president dr. jill biden, and melinda gates, the wife of bill gates about that. >> and we're going to get a check of the headlines and natalee is on assignment. >> good morning, everyone. anti-terror police in france is -- u.s. officials say they know of no new threats on american soil. meantime, germany's foreign

ministry is investigating reports that a u.s. missile strike in pakistan killed five german militants including four of turkish descent. police say 24-year-old clifford miller targeted specific people all men as he drove through his neighborhood near the university of florida. he eventually took his own life. police did not reveal a motive. president obama is highlighting the role of community colleges as you heard a little while ago at a white house summit. he said schools are developing an educationed specialized workforce. he says he wants the u.s. to be the world's top producer of college graduates. christine o'donnell declear -- declares i am not a witch. she said in a talk show appearance that she had dabbled in witchcraft as a teenager.

meanwhile candidates for a senate seat tussled in their first debate. and richard blumenthal said his false claims of having served in vietnam are old news. italian officials have called off their search for two american balloonists. they were complete in a balloon race over europe when organizers say they likely hit the water at 50 miles an hour. and 33 miners trapped under ground could be freed by the middle of this month. original estimates had them coming out by christmas, but most likely it will be sometime next week. 8:03 right now, let's go back outside to matt and meredith. >> it's been a long haul, let's keep our fingers crossed here.

it's raining here. >> raining on mr. roker. >> and this cutie here. what this one's name? >> barrett. >> let's sign him up as an anchor. he sounds good. >> thanks a lot for coming down, let's check your weather. pick city today, evansville, indiana. we have got an area of disturbed weather right there in the caribbean, 50% chance of a tropical cyclone forming. this one could come right up the coast, but it could get caught up in a trough and move up the east coast. beautiful weather in the pacific northwest, and from the great lakes to the gulf coast, we have still got more sunshine.

>> we have improving conditions from yesterday, but we are still going to keep a couple of rainshowers and the forecast as we head through the day to day. we head through the day to day. >> and that's your latest weather. when we come back, lisa rinna and harry hamlin talk about their new reality show and their duelling book and their love affair. get a room, guys, we're back right after this.

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place." now they're teaming up together on a new reality show. lisa has a novel named "scarlet." and he's got one "full frontal nudity." . >> the books are making news again. >> they are, aren't they? >> you were honest on your last book, you said i did have an injection in my upper lip in the 1980s. it was an experience you had with a friend of yours and you received a lot of criticism after that. and now we read in "people" magazine that you in august actually had your lip size reduced. >> i did. >> was it because of the way people reacted to your coming out? >> it was really about the journey of our tv land show "harry loves lisa." i really never thought you could do anything about it. you have silicone put in, it's permanent. so during the show, we go down

this path. we go on this journey and i find out there's something you can do and after a lot of things going on i do it. and i do it for me. i do it because i no longer wanted my lips to be what defined me. >> your lips don't define you, trust me about that. but millions of people got tattoos over the last 20, 30 years and finally when they discovered a way to get rid of them, millions of people went in and got rid of those tattoos th they got at the spur of the moment. >> i had no way you could reduce it. >> were you shocked at how nasty people became when you came out and said yes, i did something to my lips? >> i did because i think naive today is bliss. i always had these lips and i never paid attention. i never said it was true. and when i came out to say it, it just opened the floodgates.

>> i fell in love with those lips, i kissed those lips for 18 years and there's nothing wrong with those lips. >> and these books are not going to break apart your love affair, are they? because you're not competing? >> i don't call it a memoir, it's sort of a romp up to the age of 25. >> it's so good. it's so good. >> let's talk about yours first, give you a little bit of love here. the catalyst of this book was when you tried to cross the canadian border, was it last year? and you were stopped. >> i was going to do a job in vancouver and i was stopped at the border because it took 40 years for an arrest that happened in berkeley to get into the computer there. after 9/11, they're all kind of a antsy. >> it was an arrest for things we used to do back in those days in berkeley, but it was a felony

arrest, but it didn't end up to be a felony, it ended up being a little misdemeanor. but it never got into the computer, so they hod to assume that i was a hard core felon and i had to go through criminal rehab and all of this in canada. but it inspired me to go back and think about what happened in that time of my life. and i had to challenge my history of becoming a hard core criminal from age 3 up to 55. and lisa's book is a novel. >> and your book is about hollywood and sex and drugs and good guys and bad guys. >> it's about my coming to hollywood and really about all the people i came across, the good ones, the bad ones and i put them all together. and what's fun about it is you can make them how you want. if you like them, you can make them crazy and nasty and if you love them, you can make them wonderful and vulnerable. >> would you say the main

character is you? >> i had to write from what i know and not really being a fictional writer, i started with what i know. it is me in a sense, but it's me on steroids. >> we took the soup that we created with all the books and our stores and you mix it all up for this tv show that we made for tv land. >> why did you decide to do that, a reality show? >> it's a good question, everybody asks this question. >> we wanted to do something together, creatively, it just so happens that in my life, every time i have ever done a tv show, my wife has been on the same time on a different channel. >> but those are different lives. >> except for when i was -- when you were on "melrose place." >> it was the recession, we're actors, we have to wait for the phone to ring. we're actors and i said let's create a show. we get to be at home with our

families. >> you have two daughter zbhs we wish they could be in it all the time. >> they would like to be in the title. >> we have done this thing, we created it ourselves, we sold it ourselves, but it was a journey, a great journey. >> and it's on tv land, and tv land is the best network for this show to be on right now, bar none. we lucked out with tv land. because they have this huge hit out there with "hot in cleveland" now. >> very quickly, 15 years of marriage, obviously successful, what is the secret? >> i know what my answer is. >> really? >> let's hear it. >> i dig him so much and i think you have to be so attracted to somebody in the beginning because you can so easily deval somebody and live gets so hard. i just dig him. >> no deval situatiuation. and i dig her. and i love those lips. >> he said the right thing.

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those years at a community college and yet you call community colleges america's best kept secret. why are they such a good secret? >> they're a great secret, matt and i'm so excited about the summsu summit today because people are going to learn about community colleges. we bring in companies that are in green technology or health care related fields and what that means is that there will be jobs for americans. and if you want to go to a four-year college, you can come to us for two years and then you can go right into the four-year college. >> do you think dr. biden that community colleges in some ways have an image problem? i remember when i was back in high school, people tended to look down at community colleges and say they were for people who couldn't get into college, didn't want to go to college or something else. is it still a stigma? >> i think that's why we're having this summit. we're trying to say to america,

hey, we have changed and look what we have to offer, we have a great education, so come and take a look at us. so i think things are changing. >> mrs. gates, let's talk about this grant money, your foundation is dedicating some $35 million over five years to community colleges in states with a high proportion of low income families. so what are you goals? >> well, that's right, matt, so many students we have today over 8 million students in community colleges, they are working students, they often hold down a job and they have a child. to they're attending community colleges and the idea is not to have 25% of them complete with some sort of certificate or degree, but to get so many more of them through the system. make it easier for them to get through community college and get a job in the current economy. >> mark zuckerburg who's the

founder and ceo of facebook recently pledged $100 million to the newark school system. is this the wave of the future in your opinion? are troubled schools across the country going to have to go out and solicit for guardian angels? >> i don't think that's the way of the future. i think what he's done is absolutely fantastic because i think he can set new jersey on a path, but i think we have money in the system that can be reused both at the high school level and at the community college lev level. today we spend $2 billion remediating kids. that money can be refocused at the community college level. so we can do lots of things to stimulate the system. >> dr. biden, your family has done incredible things in terms of fill lant by. talk to that person out there who whatted just been through the recession, maybe they lost their job, their home, their retirement savings and maybe

they're picking up the pieces and build their finances again, how do you convince that average person to donate to charity when they see their own situation being so unstable? >> i think we're a generous a economy and i think that while there are many people who needs jobs or need more work than they have got. we also see people in our community who need our time and our help. so i think it's important we give our time, our energy, our money in any way to lift our own communities up and i think community colleges are one way to do that and there's ways to do it in our own communities as well. >> and i think you have done a lot to raise the profiles of these institutions over the last many years. >> "todatoday's going to be a g day. >> thanks to both of you. now to the first ever global census of sea life. it took ten years to complete and uncovered thousands of exotic new species. here's nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: they are some of the newest discoveries from the deep.

places left explored than anywhere else on earth. as much art as science. these wondrous specieses are colorful and exotic and odd. this first of its kind census of marine life is the product of a decade long exploration. 2,700 scientists, nearly a quarter million species, one amazing find after the next. >> scientists are loving it just like we r just the diversity of life, the richness of it, the connectedness of it. they're finding life in the deep ocean in place where they didn't think new species would exist and still they're finding it. >> the darth vader jelly fish, found in the arctic more than a half mile below. and the vampire squid, native to california's monterrey bay.

for scientists this is just a starting point. >> it's just the beginning, it's not the end. scientists are going to use the tools they develop for this exploration and carry on the work for future decades. but based on this census, it's going to be a treat. >> reporter: as one expert explained, this census is like exploring a dark house with a flashlight, just wait until we turn on the lights. for "today," peter alexander, nbc news, new york. >> beautiful. >> just ahead, the new survey that is revealing the truth about sex in america. >> and it seems that the more responsible people are the younger people. very interesting. >> right after your local news and weather.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's get a final check on the morning commute by sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> some of the delays are starting to filter out. middletown road and cooper road, watch for closers of their at parkton. vehicle into a pole there. southbound 140, an accident. you will find slow spots at bellona ave and seminary avenue, where a downed tree is blocking all lanes. take york road as your alternate. another one at 54th and eastern

ave. a bus-involved accident. r arundel mills boulevard, a crash wrapping up. another one at the summerfield turnpike. at white marsh, thankfully, not a whole lot. things are starting to filter out going towards fort mchenry. westbound 50 at the severn river bridge, disabled vehicle. it is in the right lane, so watch for slow spots behind that. >> we are doing better than yesterday. we still have a chance for a couple of showers in the forecast. only a 30% or 40% chance this time. upper 40's and low 50s. we will add maybe 10 to 12 degrees this afternoon. variable clouds. you might get a peek at the sun. chance for a few showers. high temperatures between 57 and 62 degrees. tomorrow, temperatures in the upper 50s to around 60, but it's

much better at the end of the week. dry conditions and sunshine, temperatures in the 70's. >> we will have another update at 8:55.

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we're back at 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, it's also the fifth morning of october, 2010. it's a little dreary in the northeast as it has been for the past couple of days, there is light at the end of the tunnel, though, according to mr. roker and we're looking forward to that. meanwhile out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer along with meredith viera, natalee morales and al

roker. and coming up, what we have been waiting for, what are americans up to in the bedroom. >> the most comprehensive national survey of our sexual -- what do we call it? behavior. and you're going to be surprised at some of these results. about 6,000 people participated from the ages of 14 to 94. also ahead, when you think of your bills, think about saving for retirement, the car payments, do you just get overwhelmed? a lot of people i think right now in this economy is especially overwhelming. how to improve your relationship with your money and psych yourself rich. >> and if you get tired of the same old burger, we have got a burger for you, this is a vietnamese inspireded burger. and you know the burger's got to be good when the chef's name is spike. that just says burger. >> he's won all kinds of burger competition. >> he won the big burger bash

here in new york. >> before we go any further, let's say hi to alley she won the nail biting challenge on the biggest loser. nice to see you, good morning. let's talk about where things are, you started out, you were 322 pounds. >> yeah. >> lost 17 pounds on the rampnc and now you're home, how are you doing? >> pretty good. so far i have lost 85 pounds and just taking it day by day. >> it was you the youngest contestant versus tena, the oldest contestant. you were voted off. why do you think they were against you. >> i think it was a game play move. >> they were more worried about you being competitive? >> she had an injury, so i was the biggest threat. >> this happens to a lot of folks who have lost weight, whether consciously or subconsciously your family members can sabotage you, your

mom left a candy bar on the counter, she knows that's your weakness, what did you say? >> i didn't say too much, but i just think at the time she wasn't ready, but i have talked to her since and -- >> wasn't ready for what? >> ready to help me, to be my support system. but, you know, we have talked and we know that it's going to be a working relationship. >> and it's gotten better? >> and you're now living with your trainer? >> i'm living with amanda rouse and it's been amazing. >> it's important to surround yourself with the people who have the same goals as you. >> exactly. >> you have major health issues? >> i was going have a stroke in three years. >> your mom had a stroke. >> this march. >> and that's what scared me. >> you really work hard. at 14 you had a gastric by pass, so what's your motivation now?

>> i just -- i don't want to have a stroke. i saw how hard it was for my mom and it just terrifies me. it terrifies me. >> i would think every morning when you look in the mirror you must be so proud of the results and eager to keep going. >> well do keep going. >> thank you. >> don't forget you can catch the biggest loser tonight on nbc at 8:00, 7:00 central time right here on nbc. >> all right, al, how about a check of the weather. >> all right, we'll show you what's going on as far as today is concerned. we have a risk of strong storms in the southwest. sunny skies in the gulf coast, mild in the great lakes, tomorrow the rain continues here in the northeast. more wet weather in the southwest. mild in the pacific northwest. nice and mild through the central plains and plenty of sunshine through the gulf.hi >> we are off to a fairly quiet start compared to yesterday.

we still have a chance of rain showers and the forecast, but only >> and don't forget your check your weather any time of the day arre or night, the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. we're going to talk about a survey about the sex lives of america. but first this is "today" on nbc. my dad is the supervisor of a train station and my mom's a teacher. my dad's an auto technician. my mom's a receptionist. i'm not sure i would have been able to afford college without the tuition freeze. while tuition in other states is rising out of reach...

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sexual behavior and habits conducted since 1994. nancy snyderman chief medical editor. >> this is quite a survey, ages 14 to 94 were ask about their sexual habits and i guess the big headlines is about condom use and teenagers seem to be more responsible than older adults when it comes to using condoms. >> i think it's one of the big headlines and the other one is this study is one of the biggest where we have looked at sex and sexual activity really takes conventional wisdom and turns it upside down. in the united states we always assume that people are having sex, that they're older and that teenagers must be having sex all the time. finally we have some numbers to go with it. and what you talked about, condom use is one of the interesting things and that is people who are having sexual relations over the age of 40 are not using condoms as regularly and as responsibly as teenagers.

and if you break it down by race, african-americans and latinos are more responsible than white people. and that's a real heads up for people over the age of 40 who think they can't get a sexually transmitted disease. >> exactly, 70% to 80% of teens used a condom the last time they had it. so they are definitely getting the message. >> condoms have now become part of their sexual education and we start of destigmatized it somewhat. but what does an average 45 or 55-year-old woman think about when she's entering a new sexual relationship, whether or not she can get pregnant. but we forget that sexually transmitted diseases can be just as important and hiv has had little spikes in various communities around the country in the post 60-year-old age group in women. so a real reminder unless you're in a monogamous relationship and unless you really know your partner and you have unprotected sex, you are taking a risk. >> another important finding is that we tend to think that teens

only have sex on their minds, that's all they want to do. but in fact the study showed that among 17-year-olds, 40% of boys and 31% of girls said they have had sexual intercourse, which is lower than you would have thought. >> lower than you would have thought which i think goes into the experimentation of that. many haven't had sex for the last 09 days so. it really goes to the rom"romeod juliet" yet aspect. when a 17-year-old starts to experiment. there's a natural mature ration process. and by 80, 90 and even 94-year-olds were talking about sexual pleasure in this study. so i think we have to take the blinders off and start to look at sexual health as health and part of the sort of animal experimentation that goes along with living. >> and it's an interesting finding when it comes to a

communication break down. 85% of men said their partners climaxed the last time they had sex, 64% of women reported that they actually did and some of these women even reported having pain and i think this is one of the turn it upside down things. so whether or not women say they're satisfied because they don't want to disappoint a partner, whether women fake an orga orgasm, which means they don't want to disappoint a partner. or whether men always think they are better than they really are, you can make your own assumptions, that really says that women and men may be having sex but they aren't necessarily talking about what makes it good for either one of them. >> thank you so much. >> you bet, meredith. >> and up next, how do improve your relationship with money and psych yourself rich. this is "today" on nbc.

i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. his past attacks have been called deceptive, his new attack, false. harris voted for deregulation increasing our electric bills by 72% it's not surprising, harris always sides with the big guys. he opposes cracking down on wall street and supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. harris even opposed making big insurance cover cancer screenings. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us. "today's" money is brought

to you by fidelity investments, turn here. >> we rabach at 8:43, and this morning your relationship with money, people's feelings towards the economy and their personal finances are deterioratindeteri. here's what some people we talked to had to say. >> emotionally money makes me feel crazy. >> yeah, there's no security in it. it's fluid, it comes and goes. one day you might have it, one day you might not. >> my relationship with money is scary and just trying to provide and make that mortgage payment and make that car payment and putting food on the table. >> i feel secure with my financial relationship with money because i never live outside of my means. >> we have a frenemy kind of relationship, obviously i need money to survive but i want to kind of pretend that i don't need it. >> my relationship with money is

complicated, now because i have so little and i have so little because i could have done a little bit better in prior years. >> how co-you develop a healthier relationship toward money. the author of a new book called psych yourself rich, get the mindset you need to build your financial life. i always think you think finances, you think numbers on a spreadsheet or a monthly checking out statement. this is an emotional issue. people, you know, scarey, complicated, insecure. is that a bad thing. >> it's a huge problem. i interviewed behavioral expe s expertsers economists, when we harbor negative feelings with money and about money, what that ultimately does is create a mind trap in your head so that we are unable to make healthy rational decisions. >> and the guy at the end there said that his relationship with money is influenced by the fact that he just lost a lot. but for most people it goes much further back, doesn't it? >> it's rooted in how we were

raised. mom and dad played a huge role in our money relationship. i think it's how they fought over money or how they didn't talk about money, how they delayed their gratification our just showered you be gifts. >> and every major life adds a chapter to that money book, and we have just been through what for some people have been a terribly destructive chapter with this recession. >> absolutely, so money's an emotional mess, so whether we're in a ecession or not, we would still be having this conversation. the risk is if you go into a down economy -- people who go through life, their defense mechanism when they're not happy in their relationship is to ignore it. they don't open up their bills, they don't check their 401(k) statements. >> and the results of that? >> you wake up one day and your house is in foreclosure, you don't have a job and you don't have a plan b.

>> one of the things you suggest to people is if you want to improve your relationship with money and make it healthier, take a trip down money lane, what do you want me to do? >> look at the good -- when you did save up to buy that house, what did that process feel like, what did you do? learn from that, ekt extract from that. a gentleman in the clip that said he lived beyond his means and now because of the job market he's forced to take better steps going forward. >> if you lose a lot of money in a recession you are bound to have some fear. most people find that fear, those money zombies you talked about paralyzing, but you talked in the book about using that fear as a motivational force? how do you do that? it sounds easy but it's not. >> you have to understand where is that fear coming from, and visualize that fear?

what is your worst-case scenario fear? that you're going to lose your house? that you're not going to be able to make that mortgage this month. kind of visualize it and then use fear as a mobilizer and a motivational tool. >> there are a lot of people that just cut way back after very hard financial times and you say it's possible to probably do more cutting expenses? where do you start. >> you start with the basics, where you're living and what you're driving, do you have to sell your car? do you have to get a second job? >> by any means possible? >> you have to -- in every relationship there are compromises. >> this book you're not saying is necessarily going to make people rich financially, rich in a different way? >> rich in terms of financial security, it's not sexy million dollar ferraris and mansions.

if you loses your job tomorrow, you can make that mortgage payment and then some. it's not sexy, but it's security. >> the book is called "psych yourself rich." friday we're going to look at how the recession is forcing people to retire early. so if you've got a question, you can go to our website and file it there. up next the classic burger, but first, this is "today" on nbc. eaks to send jobs over seas. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college.er seas. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college. fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go directly to kids instead of through banks. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message. because it's not about the next election,

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this morning on "today's" kitchen, we're going back to basics. he won the judge's prize at the 2009 new york city wine and food festival's burger bash. he's going to try to repeat friday at this year's events. good morning to you. >> good morning, how is it going? >> it's going really well. you won last time with the obama burger. >> exactly. >> i'm going to be doing another burger from the cookbook, it's a vietnamese burger, it's got pickled vegetables and fresh herbs in it. >> before we get to that, this event is for charity? >> i look forward to this event every year. a bunch of chefs get tonight to celebrate. all the proceeds go to food

banks in new york and stuff. >> what do you call this burger again. >> this is the blazing barn. so we're going to do some pickled vegetables. so we just have a little bit of sugar and some water and some vinegar in here. >> you slice these with a mandolin, right? >> if you don't have a mandolin, find somebody that does. >> you can do knife cuts if you want. they don't have to be perfect. they're going to be pickled. what i like to do is pour the pickling liquid while it's hot. >> why do you want it while it's hot? >> this is best if you hold in the fridge overnight. there we go. >> this is the vietnamese influence here? >> this is the vietnamese

influence? this burger is kind of like the vietnamese sandwich. it's got the vegetables and the spice in it. all you do is cook your burger medium rare, with salt and pepper. >> so no special spices in the burlingtoner. >> >> just a little salt and pepper. really simple. >> you're putting it on a potato roll. >> i love the texture of potato rolls. it's just kind of delicious, it's my preference. you can use a regular roll. just let it steep for about 20 minutes, but usually overnight you're going to get better results. and we have this delicious mayonnai mayonnaise, with a little bit of condensed milk.

>> you guys can only eat if you're going to vote for me at burger bash. throw some fresh herbs on there. >> that looks great. >> and now for your fries you have used sweet potato. >> yes, sweet potato. >> hard work around the "today" show. you work up an appetite. >> i just roast a little bit of brown sugar a little bit of fresh herbs. let them do their thing. >> take a couple of bites there. >> this is your version of a milk snake. >> we usually serve it with wings. >> condensed milks, right? >> you know do a vietnamese milk shake, we have the custard in there, we're going to add a little bit of milk. >> the that whole milk?

>> just whole milk. a little simple serum made out of coffee and stuff. i always add a little bit of condensed milk. >> why? >> just to tone it out a little bit. you can always use a little bit of yogurt or sour cream. >> how's the burger? >> oh! >> that's already actually in the syrup. and we're going to use that garnish. but i like the way you're paying attention here. >> you left something out. >> mix that up. perfect. >> we're running out of time. >> good luck on friday, by that way.

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and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for the last four years, he worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even a bank that took billions from a taxpayer funded bailout.