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>> they are sending that capsule down a half a mile under ground, about one miner per hour being brought to the surface and as you mentioned, the scene when they get to the top is emotional to say the least. >> when the second miner came up, also named mario, he got out of the capsule, and he ran around the crowd leading them in a chant. now they're calling him supermario. >> some of the miners bringing rocks up with them. you would think they would have seen enough of rocks in the last few days. the makeshift village set up at the mine has been dubbed camp hope, natalee morales. >> it is an emotional scene, it

has been a very long and exhausting night, a very long and exhausting 70 days for these families, but this is a scene that is going to be played out over and over again "today" and possibly even into tomorrow. a miracle at the mine, after 70 days trapped under ground, the first miner emerged. just after midnight local time wednesday morning, 31-year-old florencio alvaros. was brought to the surface. the raw emotion is captured by

hundreds of supporters. it's impossible to have a dry eye, as you can see those very first moments, the very first hug, a very emotional experience. and seeing the grown men out there t reporters out there covering this story, everybody's crying. one hour later, the second miner emerged. mario sepulveda embraced his wife. then an unexpected moment. sepulveda reached inside his bag and brought out only rocks. and this miner known as the comedian of the bunch, laughed it up with the president of the chile. this all began on august 5 when the golden copper mine collapsed. 17 days later, a small drill broke through with remarkable news, the miners september a

noa note to the surface saying they were alive. for more than two months the world watched as the miners hoped and prayed for a rescue. above ground, more than 1,000 experts planned the meticulous rescue, while family members gathered at what is now called camp hope, tuesday many of the women spent the last few hours getting ready, having their hair done, putting on makeup. baby esperanza which means hope is waiting for her father. throughout the overnight, almost every hour on the hour, rescue after rescue after rescue. over and over these brave men

won the hearts of people all over the world. 33 miners, once strangers, now international heroes. and as you just saw, the ninth miner just pulled out of that hole. he's actually mario gomez, he's been taken into the triage area where they're going to do a medical evaluation. mario gomez is the oldest miner, he's 63 years old and they had some concern about his medical condition, he does have a heart condition and he has some respiratory conditions as well. they brought him up with an oxygen mask. they put the oxygen mask once again over his face as they sent him to the triage area. all of the miners have been in incredible physical and mental condition. the minute they jump out of that capsule, and some of them have

literally jumped out of that cab suddenly. -- capsule. >> it's so emotional up here, you and natt have been up all night. can you describe the emotions there? >> it's electric, everybody's running on adrenaline. the folks who have been camping out here for 69, 70 days, who never gave up are wired. they are wired. and what i find interesting is some of the family members after their loved ones have come up, because we now have nine miners who have come up, the loveds ones aone s are remaining here to watch the others come up. it's they have bonded the way the 33 miners have bonded. the nation here has unified in a way that rarely happens in any

country. >> and in fact, if our cameraman, carlos, can pan over there, you can see an example of the crowds with each rescue you see there, a show of solidarity, a celebration here, this is what is going on over and over again now with the ninth rescue, next will be number ten and of course this is a very long process. it's going to be a very long day following a very long and emotional night. so clearly everybody's still on pins and needles until number 33 is out, they're not going to breathe a sigh of relief. >> to see the engineers pull this off, but it is working like clock work, everything they said this fenix capsule was supposed to do, it is doing. all indications are that it's working like a charm. >> natalee, as we understand,

the last guy out will be the shift supervise from that day, someone who has become kind of a leader down there? it's interesting because they were all fighting over not who would be first out there, but who would be last and he is leader, luis, osua who actually helped them, who said we're going to ration the food like nobody's business, we're only going to have two spoon fulls of tuna each a day. in all crisis situations, it takes one person to take the helm. and the reason he's coming up last, is like the captain of a ship, he's the last one coming up. >> so many hugs here, meredith, and a lot of thanks to the rescuers and all of the people who have been involved in this really superhuman and miraculous

effort. >> it really is, natalee and kerry in copiapo, chile this morning, in a great moment of national pride. we're going to head outside to the plaza where "today" correspondent amy robach is going to see how it feels inside that capsule. >> with me is bill arnold, he is executive director of the fenix first response. and while we talk about this illustration, we're going to demonstrate what it's like for a miner to get in the capsule. what are the dimensions of this? >> it's around 22 inches on the outside, 21 inches on the inside and just over nine feet tall. >> how does it compare to the cab suddenly they're using in chile? >> the capsule in chile is about

three feet taller, but the inside dimensions on the same. >> i'm going to give it a shot just to give it a real feel of what it's like to be in that cab suddenly. how was it used during that rescue effort in pennsylvania? >> quecreek, we couldn't get the men out through the portal because the mine was flooded so we had to drill a boor hole down from the surface and extract them from the top. >> this is actually a very rare vehicle. worldwide, how often is this used? >> it is. in all reality, it's only been used twice, here in chile and then in quecreek in 2002. the capsule was developed in 1972, specifically in response to a similar disaster. but it was fortunately not used until 2002.

>> it doesn't happen to be used very often, but it's a very safe haven for miners being rescued. >> i can feel the excitement of these rescuers, the same way we did at quecreek. it's a very successful rescue, but they're cognizant that this isn't done until they're all out safely. >> meredith, back to you. and now closer to home, we're now less than three weeks from the midterm elections, candidates in some hotly contested races have faced off in their final debates before election day. kelly o'donnell has the details. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. and today a new face heads out on the campaign trail. first lady michelle obama heads out to wisconsin. there were important races, the connecticut senate race, the

california governor's race and those candidates did not hold back. >> let me answer that if you wouldn't mind. >> reporter: defining the race is simple. republican and former ceo meg whitman. >> my business is creating jobs, your business is politics. >> reporter: veteran politician democrat jerry brown. >> she's been in the bleachers looking at what's happening in government. >> reporter: tom brokaw raised the latest controversy. >> somebody in your campaign referred to ms. whitman as a whore. >> reporter: that was caught on voicemail after brown left a message but failed to hang up. his staff's conversation was recorded. >> we have heard no outrage from you. >> reporter: brown was defense at fir ive at first and then apologized. whitman hit back. >> the fact that you're

defending your campaign from a personal attack on me is not befitting of california, it's not befitting of the office you're running for. >> reporter: whitman had her own controversy, she had employed an illegal immigrant. >> it broke my heart, but i had to fire her. >> reporter: brown added his own. >> after nine years, she didn't even get her a lawyer. >> reporter: turning to connecticut's final senate debate, a nastier grudge match, with a hissing, booing audience. >> dick blumen thal attacked linda mcmahon and to the wrestling empire that made her rich. >> my opponent has not only marketed sex and violence to children, but she actually paid hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby in washington against penalties for sex and violence marketing to children.

>> reporter: mcmahon countered that the wwe provides jobs and became more family entertainment. but also acknowledged there were problems. >> i think there were times when we pushed the envelope. >> reporter: she knocked blumenthal again for falsely claiming he fought in vietnam. >> the people of connecticut knew you, but i think what they know now is that you have great difficulty in always telling the truth. >> reporter: and there will be more debate spectacle tonight with christine o'donnell and chris coons will be facing o s . it is 7:15 and here's matt. according to a new "wall street journal" report, pay is on track to break a record high

for a second consecutive year. jim cramer is host of "mad money" on cncb. >> $144 billion. these are the people who got us into the financial mess, they're making record amounts of muffin while i lost my job, my home and my retirement savings, is it an emotional argument or is it rational? >> it's completely rational. don't forget also that these companies would not be making any money if the government had not bailed them out. >> here's what one business analyst said about this, quote, pay is the 800-pound gorilla on wall street and the gorilla does not want to go on a diet. a lot of these firms say wait a second, if we don't pay top dollar in salaries and bonuses, we lose top people and we can't compete. >> there's 10 million people who

work for a quarter of what these people work for. i cannot believe how outrageous these guys are being. >> public relations wise, you talk to these people on wall street all the time. >> i have known them for years. >> do they also realize that god forbid if a future bailout is needed, the people of this country are going to say no way. >> they're going to make so much money between now and then they don't care. >> are the same people who got us in this mess still working for these firms by and large? >> they're experienced, that're the 800-pound gorilla that demands to be fed. >> what is it they need to do? >> they're going to continue to keep rates low. i think they're creating an atmosphere and ben bernanke is doing a great job which says look, hire someone, don't worry about it, rates will stay low. good man, trying hard.

>> you can catch jim on mad money, that's week nights on cnbc. we have got amy out of the capsule and back to the news desk. we begin with a high profile resignation of washington, d.c. school chancellor michelle reid highlighted in the film "waiting for superman" she is considered by some to be the national face of education reform. rehema ellis joins us now. is this a surprise? >> not at all. in fact it was anticipated that the man who hired her for the job lost his business for re-election last month. she was brought in to make some bold changes in one of the worst school districts in the country and she did. she shut down two dozen failing schools, fired 500 teachers and negotiated a landmark teacher contract. but some people say she was like a bull in a china shop, not paying attention to politics which she said she was not

mindful of and she alienated teachers, parents and voters. if there's more work to be done in this school district, it will have to be done by a new chancellor. a plane crashed into a mountain outside kabul, eight people were on board and it appears none survivesurvived. a man was swept more than a mile after his safely line got unhooked. the obama administration has lifted a ban on deepwater oil drilling, drilling firm also have to meet new safely regulations. george clooney met tuesday with president obama asking that the u.s. work to prevent violence ahead of sudan's january election. clooney said if there's any way to get ahead of this and stop

this before it happens, we better. president obama is related to sarah paip and rush limbaugh. they say both of them are the president's tenth cousins. and in a scene that could be out of the tv show "glee," a high school boy born with cerebral palsy, was allowed to live his dream of a football player, not only getting in the game, but also scoring a touchdown. it is now 7:20, back to matt, meredith and al. good for him.

>> good morning. today we are going to have dry conditions. rain will come in tomorrow. it will be significantly " this afternoon and then yesterday. is in the and that's your latest

weather. al, thank you very much. still ahead, much more from chile where the rescue of these trapped miners is going on right now. more from that emotional scene.

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7:30 now on this wednesday morning, october 13, 2010. that is the latest miner rescued. i'm meredith viera alongside matt lauer. we're going to check in with natal natalee morales in a bit. coming up, "today" investigates just how dangerous your words can be when you don't really know who can see them.

and david arquette opens up about his separation from courteney cox in a surprisingly candid interview. the disturbing new development tied to the murder of an american tourist allegedly by mexican pirates. the mexican police commander investigating that shooting has now been murdered. janet shanlian is in mccowan, texas with more. >> reporter: this story has taken a very dark turn, the lead investigator in the case has been decapitated and his served head delivered in a suitcase to the mexican military. what started as one couple's personal tragedy has now turned into a sign of mexico's escalating drug war and its spillover right here. what was supposed to be one couple's fun day on the water has turned into an international incident, shining a bright light on the escalating violence in the mexican drug war, as the investigation into the murder of david hartley grinds on for two weeks now, grim news tuesday, a

local mexican police commander, the lead investigator on the case was found dead, decapitated. >> this officer was an innocent victim of the ongoing drug wars in mexico. >> reporter: and the escalating war has hampered the search for david's body. they had to suspend the search because of threats from mexican drug cartels who have taken control of the area. david's wife tiffany is concerned about mexico's handling of the search for david. >> until we get some more footage and video or pictures that say this is what they're doing, you know, we're just kind of hoping and praying they're doing what they say they're doing. >> reporter: two brothers were suspected in david's murder. and the documents reportedly came from the same mexican official that was savagely killed. >> again, directly involved with

the supposed identification of the suspect. i believe the death of this investigator is very much linked to the death of david hartley. >> reporter: for david's grieving family, it's just another horrible loss. >> it's just a terrible, terrible, another terrible tragedy adding to what we're going through. >> reporter: david and tiffany's outing two weeks ago was supposed to be their last adventure in texas before heading to colorado. the couple seen here eight years ago at their wedding, happy moments captured on video, now all tiffany has left. mexican officials vow to continue the search, but the family's hopes are fading that david's body will ever be found. >> i think he will not be found. falcon lake will more than likely be his headstone. >> reporter: the murdered investigator is the one who had named two suspects in the case. high ranking mexican officials

said there were no suspects at all and today those same officials are saying this murder is in no way related to the jet ski murders. >> david hartley's wife and his mother are with us this morning. tiffany, let's start with you, this has to be devastated news, first to lose your husband and then to find out that the led investigator on this case has been beheaded. what was your reaction when you first heard the news? >> my heart broke. i can't even explain. i mean i'm grieving him too, the loss of him because i mean i met him, i was sitting next to him through a translator talking to him and you know describing where david was at and i just grieve for his family and my heart just aches for his family because they're now having to go through what we're going through.

and just like everybody says to me, there just aren't any words to explain how sorry i am and how much i hurt for his family. >> does this man's name rolando flores villaga, what are your impressions of him? >> he seemed like he really wanted to help and i believe he was helping us and you could just tell that he wanted to be able to serve his country and he was doing a job that isn't easy over there. especially in the field that he was in. but he seemed very sincere and compassionate. >> are you worried now tiffany that this will have a chilling effect an the investigation, perhaps the mexican authorities will be worrieded about continuing with it? >> i don't know. i don't know. but we do still, are under the

impression that they are going to continue their search and that, you know, they're going to keep doing what they have been doing so as far as you know, seeing the investigation, i don't really think that that's going to happen, but i can't really speak for him, i don't know. >> pam, by the same token -- >> i hope it doesn't. >> absolutely, but by the same token, you have to be concerned that someone else could get hurt in the course of this search for your son? >> yes. i mean, david, you know, wouldn't want anybody to get hurt for him. but it's ---it has to continue that they find people that have been -- that are missing and if they need to -- they need to get control of that area. and it's like i don't want anybody to get hurt an my heart breaks for their family.

>> david's dad has said that he does not believe that his son's body will ever be found. pam, do you remain hopeful that they will find david? >> yes. i stand strong that god will make this happen. it was -- david will come home. >> i think we're all in agreement with that here. we're still standing in our belief and standing in faith that, you know, he will be brought home and we can honor him the way he would want to be. >> tiffany, mexican authorities have said that they would like you to go to mexico to file a formal report in order to have more details about this case. is that something that you are considering? will you go to mexico? >> no. no, i will not go to mexico. they -- we have filled out the paper work that they told us that we had to fill out. we spent 4 1/2 hours after their office and we were assured that they were going to get the paper

work to mexico city to the authorities there and they were going to be taking them to ranosa that same day. but no, i will not go to mexico. >> are you worried for your own safety if you were to go to mexico? >> yeah, we're all under agreement that that is not a wise decision. that who knows what would happen if i do go over there? >> all right, tiffany and pam hartley, thank you very much. we really appreciate you being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. and let's turn to nbc news analyst clint van zandt who's a former fbi profiler. good morning to you. mexican authorities say there's no connection between the death of this lead investigator and the investigation into the whereabouts and possible death of david hartley? what do you make of that. >> i don't know.

we know that this man was the lead investigator, we know that these two cartel members that were identified, this was work by men working for him, investigators working for him. life was so challenged down there, for example, over 50 americans have been killed just the first six months of this year along the u.s.-mexican border. this is a total that may well surpass last year's total of 80 and this terrible method and way he was murdered, decapitation, meredith, this is taking a page out of al qaeda's playbook that these drug cartels have been doing for about the last three or four years now trying to come up with the most grotesque form of murder they can to intimidate authorities and to intimidate the citizens of mexico. >> so is it possible authorities are saying that because they feel intimidate. >> yeah and i think they are. we saw just last week on the "today" show when the sheriff was interviewed, the u.s. sheriff saying that he didn't

want to send people into those waters, they might get into a gun battle, now you have potentially u.s. forces, sheriff, intimidated, the message has been sent to the mexican authorities, to the police, i believe if you investigate this case, you're going to die, you know, few of the homicide of americans this year or any year for that matter are really solved. so the chances of this case being solved with these two alleged members of a drug cartel, remember, these are two main mexican cartels that are fighting each other for control of the drugs that flow into the united states and any american that gets in the way, i'm afraid could meet a similar fate. >> do you think that tiffany is wise not to go to mexico? that she would be in possible danger if she were to go, even though they're asking her to go? >> i think she's making a personal choice right now, but with the murder, with the killing of that lead mexican

police official, i think she's probably making a prudent choice. she's done everything she can, we all want to see this crime solved and her husband brought home again, but again i think the chances are pretty slim since the mexicans took a week before they really mounted an investigation to begin with. >> clint van zandt, appreciate your perspective this morning. thank you very much. now let's get another check of the weather with mr. roker. >> in the rockies, they picked up some snow yesterday, two to three inches of snow. silver thorn, colorado, just north of denver. it's all melted since then, but it's a reminder it's coming. we still have a hurricane to talk about. hurricane paula right now, 100-mile-per-hour winds, a category 1 storm. 60 miles east/northeast of cozumel. and by friday, it's skirting right along the northern cuba coast, but the path has been moving north each run. so this may move a little even

further north than we think. we're already seeing rain from paula make its way into southern florida, key west, key largo looking at rain, we're talking about anywhere from one to three inches of rain across southern florida over the next 24 hours. >> we are off to a quiet but cool start. temperatures in the 80's this afternoon. closer to average >> and that's your latest weather. and up next, criminals who target you because of what you reveal in your online post. "today" investigates the dangers

of social networks sites right after this.

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line, but when you tell your friends or followers where you are, like a vacation or a night on the town, you are also letting people know where you are not and that could be an open invitation to thieves. >> it was a horrible feeling, seeing our video just intensifies it. >> reporter: the burglar is seen here on home security video, stealing two lap tops a plasma tv and other valuables worth thousands of dollars. >> just having your house broken into and things being taken is the fact that someone was in your house. >> reporter: what was even more upsetting, one of the burglars was someone kerry actually knew. >> he lived right across the street from me for 15 years. >> reporter: in fact shaun south was one of her so-called friends. at least on facebook, and though they hadn't communicate in

person for many years, kerry says he knew exactly where she was that night. >> my fiance and i were going out to see a band and we had posted on facebook where we were going and what we were doing so friends could come along with us. >> reporter: thanks to that facebook post, the thief realized her home was empty and pounced. >> you can't trust who is on your facebook apparently. >> reporter: the two men have been arrested and have entered pleas. national new hampshire police recently busted a criminal ring. >> these individual who is committed these offenses obtain this information through social net working. >> reporter: police say the group of thieves broke into at least 18 homes here because figuring out when nobody was home was very easy. >> visibilities of these particular burglaries were posting accounts of what they were doing. >> reporter: experts warn you and your children should be very

careful about letting your online friends know your location. >> i think a social net working site is a great idea, but using it wisely takes a lot of thought and a lot of time. >> reporter: a new concern is rising over checking in, the latest online trend where savvy cell phone users let their online friends know in real time what stores and restaurants they're visiting. >> checking in, the whole notion is to let people know where you are, connecting with your friends, but a bigger thing is that people will know where you are and are not. >> you've got to be careful what you tell the world. >> reporter: the check in trend alarmed boyd van austell who started please rob me.com. his please rob me site was designed to name and embarrass people who were haphazardly letting the online world know they were away from home.

>> if you would say you're checking in somewhere at a restaurant, you're saying your house is not being guarded at this home so people can get your stuff. >> reporter: the website no longer shares people's check ins, the point's been made. >> the warning we were trying to give out, it's easy, it's use common sense. >> reporter: that's something kerry mcmillan had to learn the hard way. >> i think people should see this as a lesson learned. i do not post where my fiance and i are going or what we're doing until after we do it. >> the average facebook user has 130 friends. experts say when using any social net working site you should always consider your audience and be sure to adjust your settings if you haven't already so that you only share information with people you actually trust and know. matt? coming up, david arquette opens up about his separation from courteney cox and his encounter with another woman. we'll hear from him but first these messages.

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that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. your sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> still dealing with the jam packed ride southbound 795 just past owings mills. accident is off to the side. we are still looking at traffic in the red from franklin boulevard to the earlier accident scene. on the out of it just passed belair road on the northeast side, there are police -- there is police activity creating

delays. that stretches from belair towards the harrisburg expressway. inner loop delays towards the hours per expressway and continues towards i-95. 16 to travel on inner loop from 83 to the sunset. heavy delays there. we had an earlier accident cleared up and these delays are starting to dissipate in the public. live view of traffic on 895. going a lot smoother towards the harbor tunnel. live view of traffic on 795. a little bit of relief since last check. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> it is a nice start for us. a little cooler than the last couple of days. temperatures in the upper 40's to around 50 degrees. it is only 43 degrees and parkton at the top of the hour. forecast for today is mostly sunny. cooler than yesterday.

high temperatures today are mid- to-upper-fifties. good chance for rain on thursday highs in the upper 50's and low 60s. it should clear up over the weekend. >> we are back at 8:25 with another live update.

we're back now with more of "today" at 8:00 on a wednesday morning. it's the 13th day of october, 2010. we have got 49 degrees out on the plaza. it's windy, there's a bit of -- out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer along the meredith viera and al roker. >> we know david arquette and

courteney cox announced their trial separation on monday. he talked about the separation, for lack of a better term, sexual exploits since the separation. why he went public, i don't know. >> didn't he say he hopes they get back together? >> that was part of the agreement with the separation, they could see other people. also ahead, what is it like to live with extreme eating habits or eating disorders. there's a new television show that takes people inside that often misunderstood show. we're going to talk to two of the women who were actually featured on that program. plus we have a revealing new interview with the first lady michelle obama and she opens up about why she is so passionate about the arts. >> all right, lots to get to. ann is off, amy robach is at the

news decks. joy and relief are growing greater by the hour this morning in copiapo, chile as those miners are brought to the surface one by one. natalee morales is in the middle in the of that jubilation, a lot of emotion there. >> reporter: a lot of emotion, and a lot of exhaustion on everyone's part. this morning the tenth miner to be brought out, 31-year-old alex vega rescued to cheers and big hugs as you can imagine a scene playing out over and over again here. on day 70, the rescue operation well under way, it had gone without a hitch so far, they have been able to rescue one miner about every hour or so, everything has been functioning perfectly. the first rescue took place around midnight local time. florencio avalos was greeted by

his son and then he was led to the triage area. and mario sup peepulveduepulves practically jumped out of the cab suddenly. after 70 days under ground, these men are proving to the world that faith has carried them through to this very moment as this rescue is well underway. >> natalee morales, thanks for the latest from chile. the afghan army says there were no survivors after a cargo plane crashed. and the search for a 10-year-old girl in north carolina has taken an ominous turn. police now believe zahra clare baker is dead.

her mother is charged with trying to deceive investigators. >> reporter: little zahra baker who uses two hearing aides was reported missing on saturday. but on sunday police arrested alisa baker. police now say baker admits she wrote the ransom note after her 10-year-old stepdaughter disappeared. in the note, police say alisa baker wrote to her husband, we have your daughter and your pot smoking redhead son is next unless you do what is ask. police say this is no longer a missing person's case, it's a homicide investigation. >> outside the immediate family, we cannot confirm that anyone has seen zahra in the last month. >> reporter: a search warrant obtained by nbc news reveals police dogs detected the smell

of human remains on cars belonging to the bakers. >> it had a bad smell to it and there was this red goo all in it. >> reporter: like blood? >> that's what it looks like. >> homeschooled and rarely seen in public, investigators describe zahra's life as miserable. locked in her room for days at a time. an adorable little girl who struggled with cancer and her hearing is now believed to be dead. >> and now here's brian williams with what's coming up on nbc "nightly news." >> coming up when we see you tonight on nightly news, the first lady is hitting the road for the democrats. when you think about it, she's got an approval rating almost 20 points higher than her husband. she's being put to work where she's needed across the country. we'll have that story and more tonight on nightly news. amy, for mnow, back to you.

it is 8:05, for another check of the weather, here's al. >> here's a cutie. how much did he baghdad? >> 1 pound, 14 ounces. >> how long ago? >> it's been ten months? >> how much does he weigh now? >> 20 pounds. >> congratulations, what a great story. all right, ashton, nicely done. let's check your weather and see what's going on, wyff, greenville, south carolina, temperatures will be in the mid 80s. and we got a lot of warmth out west, surface high pressure bringing offshore winds, warm weather for coastal california. san francisco 91 degrees. fresno 92. hotter in los angeles, i should say in san francisco than it is in l.a. rest of the country, chilly here in the north in the 50s and 60s, 80s through the gulf coast, 60s through the plains, on into the rockies. and we have got these ladies.

i need this job, ladies. >> it is a significantly cooler today than yesterday. high temperature of 67 under mostly sunny >> and that's your latest weather, matt? all right, al, thank you very much. when we come back, david arquette talks rather candidly about his separation from courtney cox. we'll talk about that right after this. the grand canyon twice as fast. uhoh. we get double miles every time we use our card.

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♪ i didn't think much of it till i took it apart ♪ we are back at 8:11. just after announces their trial separation, david arquette opened up with surprising detail about his split with courtney cox. >> she may be a cougar now, but to most of us, she'll always be that neurotic friend.

>> i have been waiting my whole life to be engaged and unlike some people, i only plan on doing this once. >> reporter: courtney cox's real life relationship with david arquette was one of those hollywood marathons, 11 years and counting after they first met on the set of "scream." >> do you mind if i join you? >> not at all. >> reporter: arquette to the airwaves with this. >> we had not had sex at that time a month or so. >> reporter: just a day after the couple announced that they were separating to better understand themselves, arquette called into howard stern's radio show to air some of their pillow talk. he was shockingly candid and he says the couple was on a break of sorts. >> i had sex with a girl once.

>> so she's not your girlfriend? >> under the terms of the separation, i was allowed to meet other people. >> reporter: the other person is reported to be jasmine waltz. she was act necused of punching lindsay lohan at one point. >> it wasn't a big surprise to people in hollywood that he might have been hooking up with this girl. >> reporter: will it matter in a possible divorce? most agree probably not. >> it very well could, but from a legal perspective, it has no play. >> reporter: courtney is allowed to play the field too? >> so she's free to see people too, that's what she wanted? >> the star said she wants to be just friends with her spouse. so there is a "friends" curse? the stars on that show only have about a 50/50 chance of living

in wedded bliss. lisa and david just revealed he just got hitched to his long-time girlfriend months ago. as for courteney cox and david arquette both insist they're still friends. whether their break becomes permanent, still up in the air. lee cowan, nbc news, san francisco. >> indicate -- good morning to you both. so let me start with you, on monday they announce the trial separation, they ask the media to show them some respect. the next day david arquette is on the radio talking in very explicit detail about his life, sex life or lack thereof. were you surprised at how quickly he went public with this? >> very surprised, generally when you hear of a celebrity split, what you're expecting is the standard, please respect our

privacy as we go through this difficult time. and there's usually quite a long period of silence before one or the other is willing to talk about what went wrong. and when they do talk about what went wrong, it's usually couched in very vague terms. for him to talk so soon and be so candid is unusual. talking about his other conquests, how it made him feel manly? >> what was his motivation for that? >> if you listen to the many, many thing he said during the stern broadcast. buried in there is he wanted to make it clear that he wasn't cheating. he seemed to want to explain this whole trial separation and he was free to see other people so he wants it known that he's not someone who cheated on his wife. that appears to be the impetus, but of course he wandered into many other topics. >> at one point when he's talking to howard stern, he says

she initiated the breakup right after the anniversary of the 11 years of marriage and said that she didn't want to be his mother anymore. >> a lot of couples go through that, everything is going well, and it comes out that there was some rift around the parent and the child and the child happens to be the partner. and after a while, 11 years they have been together, she may have flipped the script and decided she just didn't want to play that role anymore. and that happens in a lot of cases. and quite frankly, if he'll c l calling howward stern and he's airing this on radio-- >> they had talked openly about getting married, counseling when they needed it, talked about their infertility problems prior to having their daughter cocoa, the fact that they have gone public in this way, does this damage any hope they night have had?

>> they're talking about a trial separation, and trial separations can work, but they need to work on it. they've got to get the help they need and they have got to get down to the business of working through whatever the problems were so they can get to the are root of it. quite frankly with hollywood and all of this supposition swirling around them, it probably won't work. >> thank you very much for your perspective this morning. up next, the often misunderstood world of eating disorders after these messages.

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back at 8:20 now with a look inside the world of extreme eating habits. a new six-part documentary on eating called "what's eating you" follows people who have eating compulsions. >> i can't go through every day thinking of food, body, calories, wanting things and not lets myself have them. >> i will eat out of the trash if i see something that somebody's thrown away that i'm like oh, my god, i want that. i take it. >> jennifer who you see in that clip, is it hard to watch that, you know, when you're practicing those behaviors on television? >> it is. it's embarrassing.

there's a lot of shame that goes with this teach of disorder. >> we touched on the basis of what you're doing and this has been going on for more than 20 years, you binge, you personal, you have been known to take food out of the trash. is there an emotional trigger that you have been able to identify? >> with me, it's kind of no rhyme or reason, it's very random and i think that's why it's very difficult for me to try and deal with this. you know, a lot of this is accidental. >> i was reading about your particular story and i was thinking, well, this is something her family must have been so worried about and then i was surprised that you really kept this from so many people for so long. how did you do that? >> i think a lot of people with eating disorders are very good at that, at being secretive.

i think my family newsom, b but don't think they knew the extent. >> is there something in your childhood that you think is perhaps the root cause of all of this? >> i was teased a lot and i suffered some sexual abuse and later i had verbal and emotional abuse from my grandmother and i think people don't know the trauma that can go along with teasing and bullying, as evidenced by the recent -- >> we have been talking about it so much as of late. mona, you were also a binge eater, you had a lap band back in 2007. i want to show your story and talk about yr situation. >> i want to start with creamy chicken soup. anything that would slide through the bands is called slider foods and that's what i live on. round two, mashed potatoes and gravy.

this is round two for tonight. >> i continued to eat after my food pouch was full. >> the lap band procedure is a major procedure, and if you're going to go through that, it would shock a lot of people that you would circumvent it by eating those so-called slider foods. >> unfortunately, i got the lap band that doesn't stop binge eating, because that need is still there to binge eat. that's why i lost 150 pounds and gained the weight back because i was eating just because of emotional reasons. >> that's what really makes mona a bulimic, she was an overeater, and she was a binge eater, because of the lap band surgery without connecting to her emotions. >> i thought to myself, am i just naivnaive, or does this ha

more often than people realize. >> 10 million people and 1 million males out there have classic an anorexia/bulimia. >> you have both gone through treatment and therapy. was the goal of going on the show to be cured? >> i just kind of want to get a handle on this and i don't want my dirty laundry aired for the world, but i have never received help, and "what's eating you" was a great opportunity. "what's eating you" changed my life because i didn't even realize i needed therapy until i started it. when i first started it, i thought it probably is not going to work. and then probably in the first few weeks, my eyes were just open. i realized that i am just eating myself to death. and this has helped me so much. >> and if someone else is watching and thinking, wait a

minute, this sounds familiar, this might be me, the advice is? >> o >> if you feel that you have an eating disorder, you should seek treatment. >> and the show "wha >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. that's it a final check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> we are tracking and accident at fort mchenry told plaza. one of the lanes is blocked. it is backing up traffic, as you can see there. much nicer right as all of these delays are clearing from the earlier accident. you are tapping the breaks just

prior to the beltway. out of the white marsh area, three miles per hour on average. we do have traffic on i-95, reports 395. that's the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we are off to a quiet start, weather-wise. cooler than the last couple of days. forecast for today, mostly sunny skies. high temperature of around 67 degrees this afternoon. degrees this afternoon. >> we will have another h

bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition.

and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. eaks to send jobs over seas. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. 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, it's about the next generation. right? yeah!!! 8:30 now on this wednesday morning, the 13th of october, 2010. a nice crowd here on rockefeller plaza. and we're always glad that they decided to spend some time with us today. and ahead in this half hour,

what is it like to be in a little kid's world? >> you want to know that? >> we're going to find out. also ahead, we're going to head into the kitchen with our friend mark bitman, he's back with what he calls the best recipe for vegetable soup ever. >> ever? >> ever. and we're going to hear about mib shell obama's love for the arts, she opens up about that. we're going to tell you what she had to say. and it's inevitable, you go to a party and you spill something like red wine or salsa on yourself and you're never invited back. but we're going to show you how to get those stains out once and for all. we're going to go to ko

copiapo, chile, after a series of emotional rescues. now let's get a check of the weather. let's see what's happening as far as your weather's concerned. as we look on today, we're looking at a lot of heavy rain down in southern florida, we expect to see some showers in the southeast, those two lows emerge and create a nor'easter tomorrow. sunshine out west. we're looking at rain in the pacific northwest. heavy rain moves into the northeast tomorrow with showers around the great lakes. but from the plains down to texas, we >> we are off to a quiet but cool start. temperatures in the 80's this afternoon. closer to average

>> and we have got some nice newlyweds here, what a. all the best. >> and you can -- it's a great wedding tradition to check your weather every day on the weather channel or weather.com online did you know that? >> i knew that. >> and another great tradition, willard scott's going to announcement your birthday. >> thank you very much. >> but not yet, not for a while. you're a ways away from a smucker's jar. >> a lot of people go to sanibel, florida. and one of the giants of tourism down there passed away last week. and we love him so much, and our love to his family.

happy birthday. always a pleasure, not many people left to remember in december. edna new of gloucester, massachusetts, 111 years old. attributes her longevity to eating a bag of chips every day and always staying positive. and frances gannon, 103, can't say no to corn on the cob. you should eat all you want in the summertime. only a couple of weeks when it's really good. tom waters of marion, iowa, 100 years old, a vet and still works at the barber. ann stratton of columbia, tennessee. a breast cancer survivor. 100 years old.

and we have lula craig, nebo, north carolina, a teacher of many years and the oldest known living alum of appalachian state university. finally we have walter hanlon of anaheim, california. claims eating a pickle will clean out your system. have a vlassic. >> willard, thank you very much. when we come back, russell brand gets personal in his new memoir. we're going to talk to him. but first this is "today" on nbc.

bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. back now at 7:37 with actor russell brand, best known for

his roles "forgetting sarah marshall jshsz. he's out with a new memoir, "this time it's personal." this book was pretty personal and raw. >> yeah. >> you talked about everything, your heroin use, prostitutes, a lot of stuff. >> this time it's personal is a joke because of the highly intimate nature of the first book. >> oh, i get it. well, the first book was about sort of your rise from rags to riches, what is this book about? >> i think it's a love story about how for falling in love and romance, you can conquer seemingly insurmountable addictions and appetites, carnal appetites. >> and you're being serious when you say this, you fell in love with katie perry? >> it did happen, i remember it

happening. >> you're very personal and private about that. you're going to get married pretty soon. >> we're going to get married. >> and the arctic is the place you're going to get married to india. >> the arctic, india, on a pyramid, on the earth's core. i try to spread different rumors so on the day we can sneak off. >> how has it changed you? >> it's changed me. i've got a lot more energy when i'm on tour, primarily. and i stay out of mischief a lot more. it's really good. it's been quite a devotional for me and lovely. >> do you remember when you met her. >> she threw a bottle at me. it struck me in the head. i received a heeither a head injury or true love in a moment. it's really a true things that happened to me. it may not have happened to you and your partner. >> a couple of months ago you

defended her when she was paparazzi were getting a little too close to her at the l.a. airport and you got arrested. do you regret that? >> so you did what you thought you had to do? >> what have you learned about celebrity, i mean now that you have made it? >> what i think, it's good if you're like me, but when i was a kid, i thought it would solve all my problems. but primely i realized that you have to really love the thing that you do because all those stupid fishy things that come around celebrity don't always satisfy you. >> your mom raised you, your dad left when you were just a little guy and you mentioned in an interview that she never read your first book, maybe it was

too personal for her? >> she had cancer three times. when i was little i had to stay with relatives and i think she didn't read it because it was a bit sad. >> and you talked about some of the awful things that you went through. would she be glad to read this one? >> this is one is a roller-coaster ride, she'll love it. >> what are you up to these days? >> nick nolte, he's a man with a certain amount of pheromonal or aggression. he was using my foot to hoist me, he useded this area of my body as a fulcrum. >> really? >> i was on a high ledge, i expected to assist me by the foot. not by the groin.

i mean obviously it would be more than an appealing idea. but nick nolte has really rough hands. it was a wonderful experience and a very, very exciting movie. but i think it may delay children for a couple of years. >> and the other extreme is the tempest we have you're doing. >> it was an amazing experience. it was an awesome experience. and i got to wear a dress. no one is judge me for that. >> you're getting married, can we expect children pretty soon? >> i've got a job, katie's got a job. >> i have a job, i had kids. >> how many? >> three. >> well done. >> i was out there. >> you certainly were. the book is "bookie wook 2." this is "today" on nbc.

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we can trust. we're back at 8:44. we're talking about comfort soups. mark fittman is the author of the "food matters" cook cook. these are soups that are a whole meal? >> these are soups that are so filled with flavor and great vegetables that you really can make a meal out of them. >> the two such s >> the two suchoups we're going show is bacon for flavor. >> i'm kind of trying to get to the point where meat is the star. >> this is a recipe that you

stole from an old woman in tuscany. >> well, the idea is that you cook, just pretty much ordinary vegetables in batches, a little bit at a time. >> why batches? >> carrots, celery, onions and then you get varying textures so the first batch becomes very, very soft andç the second retas a little bit more bite. >> okay and when you're talking about vegetables here, you're using the last gas -- gasp of summer and a little bit of fall. >> this is a little bit of cabbage and some tom mate toe paste. >> this is parsley, which in here is just wonderful. you're driving the water out of the vegetables and just leaving their flavor behind. >> when we get to the beans, what kind of beans are these? >> they're white beans, they're catalini.

varying textures, at of different flavors, beautiful colors. you're almost done, really, another ten minutes. >> you put the beans in now in? >> i want them to end, but for appearances sake, we can put them in there. >> this is healthy, it's got all the incredible nutrients for flavor. >> this one doesn't have bacon. this one year eating for breakfast, everybody's raging, the best vegetable soup ever. >> move on to the second one. what are we making? >> the second best vegetable suit. it's butter nut squash cut into chunks with apples. >> and how do you like that combination of flavors? >> you get the two different kinds of sweet and the two textures, and onions, and once you roast them, they're also sweet. these are not so secret ingredients. >> but it's bacon. >> enough for flavor.

and then a lot of garlic. and some olive oil here too. >> we're going to roast at pretty high heat for 20 or 30 minutes until stuff has really, really softened. saltpepper, of course. and when you're done -- >> so you're going to add some stock to this. >> take it back out of the oven, a little white wine and sort of stir that up. >> what would you use there? >> i would use anything dry, so pine -- just trying to get everything up off the bottom. and you see things break up by themselves. and then you put a little bit of stock, and a little bit of sage also. >> what kind of stock. >> chicken stock, but any time you use butter nut squash in a soup, you need to use water. butter nut squash and bacon, what could go wrong?

>> some people make it in a puree. but this is not the consistency, you're looking for a broth and vegetable soup. >> you can also put bread in here, but i'm looking for something that's kind of a whole meal. >> from start to finish, how long would it take to cook this one? >> 30, 45 minutes. >> if you wanted to serve this as a meal and you wanted wine to go with them, a lot of people would say white mine, because you put white wine in there. >> but a fruity red i think is just gorgeous. on a cool evening, this soup with a little bit of wine, just perfect. >> the best vegetable soup ever. coming up next, first lady michelle obama, shining the spotlight on america's most promising young performers, but first, this is "today" on nbc.

the power to make careers and in the november issue of "harper's bazaar," michelle obama opens up about her passion for the arts and the next generation of performers. the special projects director.

tell me about this article, the title of it is "michelle obama america's got talent." she's passionate about the arts and young people and promoting the two. >> it's very much in ms. obama's dna, she's very much prior advertised the arts as being very important to her family. and what she wants the white house to be is to be a great forum for all these young performers because at the end of the day they're going to be shaping tomorrow. >> she talks to you about the fact that when she was growing up, something i didn't know, her grandfather played jazz 24/7 and he dad had a lot of artistic abilities too, so it was ingrained in her as a young child. >> her paternal grandfather would play jazz all the time. and her mom would say you need to learn to sleep through jazz, which i found was an amazing image. and her father used to paint before he got ill. it's from her past but she's

bringing it all into the future in where she is now and the forum and the great stage she has in more ways than the one. >> one of the the wonderful pictures is her with a group of dancers, and dancing is something relatively new that she brought in. what was that like? >> it was the first-ever white house dance series that day. and you walk in and there's indian dancer in one corner and billy elliott twirling around in the other. she looked up in the morning and she said there was a dance series going on in the morning. so we have all these dances together and we combine the troops and the bangor motion dance, all these different cultures together, cross cultural exchange. >> she's such an amazing influence on fashion, does she see her role in arts the same way, that she almost has an

obligation to expose people to this? >> mrs. obama is into young people, period, just in what she wears, she can make a designer's career. but her focus now is music. because some of them that come to the white house, they come with -- once they open those doors, and they perform for her, she can make their careers and she's very, very serious about that. >> and she's also aware of the diplomatic role she can play. >> the spouse program and basically the spouses often showcase music and dance to each other when they're away. she was saying when they were in france, she and the president gave a gibson guitar to carla bruni sarkozy. she's undergoing diplomacy in a a different way, but it's no less impactful. >> paul mccartney who sang

michelle and she said when she heard that, she said i can go home now. and i thought, you can, it's just upstairs. >> the pictures of you are so great. >> i was an honor to do it. >> and your first time on the "today" show, many more. >> bring it. >> thank you very much. just ahead, fast and easy ways to remove annoying stains, even red wine.

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