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coast guard how long the rescue will take. and death by lethal injection. that is the punishment for the man who killed a mother and her two daughters. we will talk to the sister-in-law and family friend "today," tuesday, october 9, sister-in-law and family friend "today," tuesday, october 9, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning, i'm meredith viera. >> and i'm matt lauer. president obama has returned to his boyhood home, indonesia. >> the ash cloud could force the president to leave a little earlier than he had planned. also more of our exclusive interview with our former president george w. bush this morning. we'll hear from him on some of

the most controversial decisions he had to make during his time in office. plus, we'll take a close look at cheese. a recent "new york times" article claims the government is behind a big push to get you eat even more of it even though it's not really all that great for your health. so how much cheese should you have in your diet? probably you might want to avoid that. nbc's savannah guthrie is traveling with the president. savannah, it was already a short visit, now that erupting volcano might cut the trip even shorter? >> reporter: we're just hearing this morning that they may have to make the trip a little bit shorter. apparently there's a window where air force one can take off without encountering some of that ash. today the president is having a press conference with the head of indonesia and tomorrow the main event, which was a visit to southeast asia's largest mosque and a speech to about 6,000 people at the university of indonesia. depending on what happens at

indonesia, they may have to take out the visit to the mosque. they say his speech is the top priority. >> what does he want to accomplish? >> reporter: there's no question that it's outreach to the muslim world, it's a trip he began in cairo, egypt. southeast asia, an emerging economy, a place where the u.s. would like to increase trade, so it's part of that as well. >> will he see any of his childhood sites while he was in indonesia? >> reporter: he went to a school about ten minutes from here. so he lived here until 1971, for about four years, came back in the early '90s to write his book and now he returns as president.

>> let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories. good morning. and we begin with a developing story, a massive cruise ship is adrift with 45 money people aboard without air conditioning or toilets. the fire which is now out shut down one of the ship's main generators and the coast guard is now assisting in toei towing ship back to court. are the passengers ve s or crew any danger? >> thank you very much for the question. we just arrived on scene approximately three hours ago. our assessment of the situation right now is that the crew and the cruise ship is not in immediate danger. they are currently in a safe location, 80 nautical miles west

of baja, california, drifting offshore. >> okay. and what about food and water? are there provisions that are being supplied since there's no electricity aboard, are provisions being provided to the people on board? >> yes, ma'am, we spoke with the master this morning and he did report that they are able to provide food and provisions. they also report that due to the fire in the aft engine, there is still no propulsion to the ship. the ship is currently operating on alternate generator power which is supplying power to the ship and all navigation systems and basic services such as sewage and water. that's what the master passed to us this morning. we are currently awaiting the arrival of two ocean going tubs

that have been dispatched from mexico, approximately 90 miles north of our position and we're expecting their arrival this morning. >> is the plan to move people aboard these tugs or are you going to pull the ship? >> right now the plan is to have the tugs arrive on scene and reassess the situation and hook up a tow and actually tow the ship towards ensen nada. right now, with the current conditions and what we see on board the cruz ship, that's not the safest way to proceed. >> we wish you a lot of luck and appreciate you spending some time with us coast guard lieutenant chris johns this morning. a federal investigation into this summer's gulf oil disaster found that bp did not sacrifice

safety for financial gain. also there is word that former bp ceo that -- suspension of all shipments from yemen and somalia in the wake of last week's cargo bombing. back in 2004, the u.s. government rejected a proposal to screen all cargo for threats because it would be too costly. cholera has now reappeared in the capital city. the disease has already killed at least 544 people and sickened more than 8,000. 83% of adults in afghanistan support the taliban. and at the same time the poll is showing a major decline in support for the taliban from

afghan -- the center nonchalantly handed the ball over his shoulder when quarterback jason garza simply walked into the line of scrimmage and he took off with a 67-yard dash to tie the game. give that kid a contract. it is now 7:07. let's go back to meredith and matt.

>> things are pretty quiet at home. the temperatures are in the ford is right now. in a little bit of a breeze, kind of like yesterday. we don't expect precipitation. high temperatures between >> and that's your latest weather. now our exclusive interview with george w. bush, his first since leaving the white house.

his memoir "decision points" comes out today. we talked about the big choices the president made during his eight years in office. mr. president you have remained mostly silent, largely silent over the last couple of years. why did you remain silent? >> well, for two reasons, number one, i didn't want to get out there anymore, i didn't want to get back into what i call the swamp. i'm trying to regain a sense of anonymity. and the other thing i don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. >> he is speaking out now about his own time in office. >> let's talk about waterboarding. >> okay. >> we believe america's going to be attacked again. there's all kinds of intelligence coming n and one of the high value al qaeda

operators was khalid sheikh mohammed and they said he had information, i said found out what he knows. i said are the techniques legal? the lawyers said they are, so i said use them. >> so it did not fall within the -- >> anti-torture act. >> you say it's legal and the lawyers told me, you got the justice department to give you the legal guidance and the legal memos that you wanted. they got legal opinions they wanted from their own people. >> o'he obviously doesn't know. i hope mr. kaine reads the book. he can draw whatever conclusion they want. but i will tell you this, using those techniques saved lives. my job was to protect america and i did.

>> on the decision to go to war in iraq, he says he was the decider. in a conversation i think over lunch that you had with dick cheney in a period of buildup to the war in iraq, he said are you going to take care of this guy or not? first of all i was surprised by the phone that the vice president would use with you, was it surprising to you? >> we had a very frank relationship. >> but was dick chain pushing you to go to war in iraq? >> it didn't matter if he was or not. i am the guy who makes the decisions and i wanted to give diplomat my a chance. >> he's still haunted by the fact that the intelligence turned out to be wrong, and weapons of mass destruction were not found in iraq. >> your words, no one was more sickened or angry than i was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction.

you still have a sickening feeling. >> i do. >> was there every a consideration of apologizing to the american people? >> apologizing would mean that the decision was the wrong decision. i don't believe it was the wrong decision. >> if you know what you know now, you would still go to war in iraq? >> i first of all didn't have that luxury. i will say definitely the world is better off without saddam hussein in power. as are 25 million people who now have a chance to live in freedom. >> in the summer of 2006 as iraq descended into chaos, he made the unpopular decision to send 20,000 additional troops in. >> what made you think that would be successful? give me your thinking on that? >> i wasn't sure what would be successful, but u knew what wasn't going to be successful.

>> the reaction to the surge immediately, one critic called it the most dangerous decision since vietnam. how hard a decision was the surge for you, where does it rank? >> it was a very difficult decision. made easier by the fact that i had met with many families of the fallen who said to me, do not let my loved ones sacrifice go in vain and i really didn't care about popularity. everybody wants to be liked, but as the commander in chief, i was more interested in success than my personal popularity. >> you said that history is not ready to judge you yet. >> that's right. >> it's going to take time. >> true. >> when it does come about, president bush, do you think you'll be judged a judge says or

a failure? >> i hope a success f i'm going to be dead when they figure it out. i'm comfortable knowing that i gave it my all and i love america. >> he's another peace with a lot of those decisions and he will be live in our studio tomorrow morning right here on "today." you can post questions for the president on twitter.com and on our facebook pages as well. now to elizabeth smart's disturbing kidnapping or deal. the 23-year-old took the stand on monday to testify against the man who is accused of taking her back in 2002. >> reporter: it was a haunting story with a miracle ending, a teenaged girl kidnapped from her own bed by a stranger in the middle of the night and then found nine months later. now after eight years, elizabeth smart is telling her story in detail.

slipping into court through a backdoor, accompanied by her mother and sister who also testified about the kidnapping, elizabeth took the stand, but she didn't get to confront the defendant brian david mitchell, after the judge ordered him out of court for singing. a poised witness, elizabeth turned to face the jury before answering prosecutors questions, telling how mitchell abducted her at knife point. i thought i was having a nightmare, she said. it was indescribable fear. she told about being tied to a tree, repeatedly raped and threatened. i would be killed or my family would be killed, or anybody who tried to help me would be killed. elizabeth talked about how she wouldn't eat when he forced her to drink alcohol because i didn't want to be sober for what was coming, she said. in his opening statement, parker douglas didn't dispute her account, but explained his client was mentally ill.

a grown up elizabeth smart was very composed as she talked directly to the jury, telling them about the repeated assault in painful detail about what happened to her when she was 14 years old and elizabeth smart will return here with more testimony at the courthouse later today. >> janet, thank you very much. it is 7:15 and once again here's matt. now to that volcano that's causing the president problems in his trip there. ian williams is in jakarta. >> reporter: good morning to you, matt. indonesia's most dangerous volcano is just 250 miles east of jakarta. for two weeks the mountains has been pushing clouds of ash and fumes high into the atmosphere, forcing airports to close and clearing villages. more than 150 people have been killed and a quarter million forced from their homes around

the volcano, a densely populated part of central java where they believe the volcano has spiritual powers. hospitals have struggled to cope with the injured, many suffering severe burns. some villagers have been reluctant to leave their homes and lifestyle. residents have also been fleaing from jakarta, a city of 20 million people. so officials say the city remains for now outside the official danger zone. it was raining in the area today, dampening the ash, raising fears of another danger, molten mud slides. >> the mud slides could be voluminous and flow long distances down the sides of the volcano. >> reporter: a huge explosion sent ash spilling down the mountain at temperatures of

1,000 degrees fahrenheit. indonesia is one of the world's most active seismic zones. experts fear it could set off a chain reaction. while the president considers his departure plans from indonesia, experts are warning that it is a volatile and dangerously unpredictable mountain. >> ian williams in jakarta for us. straight ahead, a death sentence for the man convicted of a brutal home invasion in connecticut. we're going to hear from the victim's family and six jurors s

still to come on this tuesday morning, michael jackson's children open up for the first time about their father's death and what their lives are like now. also in our studio right

now, six of the jurors in that horrible connecticut murder case. they decided that the defendant, stephen hayes should be sentenced to death. a very hard decision for them to make, it's one thing life in prison. >> we don't give enough credit to these men and women who serve on these juries. >> anding cindy is very grateful for them having to sit through the testimony that's extremely graphic and very, very hard for them. and what are they going to go through now for the rest of their lives having been a part of that. >> we certainly look forward to your conversation with them. and much more ahead on this tuesday morning, but first we go to your news and local weather.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> at the recent improvement to report on the harrisburg expressway.

accident on belfast in the southbound direction, that is now clear. if you are going to get out on guilford avenue, double lane closures and effect for the next month. unfortunately, you were going to have to get used to it. 12 miles per hour. backing up traffic on southbound 795. southbound 95 coming out of the white marsh area. 23 minutes on the west side 10 minutes south on i-95 down to 32. we will give you a live view of traffic at old court. hefty delay on the west side outer loop. not carmel, things are easing. minor delays southbound. >> things are pretty quiet in the weather department did a lot sunshine out there. it will be similar to yesterday.

the winds will kick up in the afternoon. we in the low-to-mid-forties right now. mostly sunny, is the forecast for the day. unseasonably cool, with high temperatures and the upper 50's and low 60s. sunset -- seven-day forecast, we will keep the sunshine. 70 on friday and saturday. next chance for rain will be on sunday. all in all, pretty good. >> check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. we're back at 7:55 with another live update.

li 7:30 now on a tuesday morning, the 9th of november, 2010. we have got nice looking people out on our plaza. sunshine for the first time in a day or so. we'll go outside and stay hi to them in a couple of minutes. meantime, inside studio 1a. first, michael jackson's children speak out. >> we're going to hear from them coming up. and we all know that eating

too much cheese probably could help you pack on the pounds, so why is a group created by the u.s. government trying to get you to eat more of it, even while warning against obesity? in a moment we will talk to six members of the jury and also hear from the victim's sister and aunt and a long-time family friend. but first, nbc's peter alexander has the details. >> reporter: these murders were really as cruel as any in recent memory. from the very start, prosecutors insisted if there was ever a case that demanded the death penalty, this was that case. now here, more than three years after that crime took place, a jury voted unanimously that steven hayes should be put to death. >> i was really crying for loss.

>> reporter: as the verdict was read, an emotional dr. petit learned that one of the killers will be heading to death row. >> i think the defendant faces far more serious punishment from the lord than he could ever face from mankind. >> reporter: dr. petit's faith and courage in the face of unimaginable grief, his wife jennifer, and their two daughters 17-year-old hayley, and michaela, just 11 at the time, brutally killed in the family's home in 2007. >> it's a hole with jagged edges and over time, the edges may smooth out a little bit, but the hole in your heart and the hole in your soul still there. >> reporter: prosecutors say stephen hayes and joshua

komisarjevsky broke into the home for a robbery and tied the daughters to these bed posts upstairs and forced a terrified jennifer petit to withdraw money from a local bank. the house was set on fire, the girls dying from smoke inhalation. doctor petit barely escaped, but as relived those haunting memories every day in court. >> michaela was an 11-year-old little girl, tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by stuffed animals. and hayley had a great future. she was a strong and courageous person and jennifer helped so many kids. >> reporter: sentenced to death on all six capital felonies, hayes who has tried to take his own life behind bars, smiled as the verdict was read.

>> he is thrilled, he's very happy with the verdict, that's what he's wanted all along is suicide by state, since he can't kill himself. >> reporter: but dr. petit says this case was never about revenge and always about his loved ones. >> it's a huge void in my life and our family and friends' lives, i was sad for the loss that we have all suffered. >> reporter: in the last 50 years in state of connecticut has executed just one person, and even though stephen hayes wants to die, the legal process could delay that for years or even decades. and the family is not done yet, they have to given this whole process all over again early next year when the second trial is expected to begin. jennifer hawke-petit's sister and long-time friend are with us now. cindy, you have been by your

brother-in-law's side throughout this entire trial. yesterday after the sentencing verdict, he called it a verdict for justice, but he said there could be no closure here, he spoke about the hole in his heart. how is he and your family holding up and how are you helping each other through this? >> i feel like he and my family are both doing very well under the circumstances and how are we getting through this? you know, day by day, week by week, i think it's just something you have to grow accustomed to and it's not easy. >> do you feel that same hole in your heart that he spoke of? >> yeah, i really do. i think that when, you know, when you miss loved ones and they were some of your only close family members, it leaves a huge hole and i only had one sibling and to have that person gone from my life, it's a huge loss for me.

>> i know that before all this happened you and your parents were against the death penalty, but yesterday, your dad was a minister and said that some people just don't belong on god's earth, do you believe that stephen hayes deserves to death penalty, cindy? >> i think that if anyone deserves the death penalty in this life, probably he does. he did such heinous crimes to my family, i just can't imagine a different kind of punishment for him. i think that life in prison would have been just for of the same of what he had been used to. >> megan, i know that you have known jennifer and cindy since you were little girls, you first met when you were 5 years old. how do you want jennifer and her daughters, michaela and hayley to be remembered? >> i think in light of the last few months and all the attention

that's been paid when they passed from this earth, i would like for them to be remembered, jennifer was happy, go lucky, we looked up to her, we wanted to be like her, she was such a helpful, kind person, hayley was so smart and just starting out on her own and michaela was just starting to bloom. i hope in the months to come we can begin to focus on how they lived, not how they died and continue to work through the petit family foundation and the other charities out there. >> in a moment we're going to be speaking to some of the juror who is worked so hard to try and make sure that justice is served here, is there anything you want to say to them? >> thank you for all your time and effort. we know it wasn't easy. it was not easy information for all of us to hear in the very beginning and we know that it couldn't have been easy for them

and i know it was a difficult job and they served it very well. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. and we're joined now by six of the 12 jurors who sentenced steven hayes to death. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> i can see how affected you were watching peter alexander's speech and then watching jennifer's sister and friend. i just felt, i could see the tears welling in your eyes, what has been the hardest part in all of this for you? >> the hardest part was keeping any emotions at bay and making a decision within the law. >> how do you do that? >> it was very, very difficult. fortunately, i was with 11 other jurors who supported each other and helped us and we helped each

other keep those emotions at bay so we could consciously make a decision within the law. and that's what we did. >> michael, the decision to sentence him to death, took over three days for this jury. it only took about five hours to determine he was guilty of murder. what took so long? what was going on in those three days? >> obviously everybody had their own opinions and we wanted to make sure that we went through this process professionally and we wanted to make sure that we looked at everything. we looked at all the counts, we looked at all the factors, we followed the judge's orders to a t. our emotions is what we wanted to keep out of it. we wanted to make sure that we followed everything that the law told us to follow and we looked at the defense and we looked a it the prosecution and we made a decision based on the law. >> it wasn't the juror s arguin

and -- >> we just let people sit with us and come to their own decision. >> let me talk about your decision, because you have a man's life in your hands, that's a very difficult place to be. >> very difficult. and that doesn't make anything any better. the loss is still there. the families are broken, but we all felt that this was the best way for steven hayes to maybe take a counting of what he's done. when he's by himself with himself, with his own thoughts, that might be the best punishment for him. >> and steven hayes's lawyer says this is what he wanted. he wants to die, this is what he wanted. when the verdict was read, he's looking at you, some people say

he was smiling at the time. what was going through your mind at that moment. >> first of all i don't believe that he does want the death penalty. i do not. this is a possibility, but i think it's remote. i think he's focused entirely on what he can do to best forward the position he has left in life. i don't think that penalty is what he has in mind at all. >> is this a relief now for you that this is over? >> i think, yes, clearly there is a relief that it is behind us. i think there's also, for me anyhow, an unbelievably high level of accomplishment and the ability to work together. needless to say, i'm probably the most senior of the group and i have certainly sat in, lord knows, enough meetings and this

was an unbelievable happenstance is that there was not a single noncivil word spoken during the entire deliberations, for both periods. i mean we -- how 12 people just came together and worked out the problems of taking another person's life and at the same time realizing that our founding fathers gave us this tool to be used with great care and we deliberated in great care. and, yes, we did use this form of punishment. this man has nothing positive to contribute to the face of this earth. >> there was another man that was there every day, dr. petit and my heart broke for him. was he your inspiration every day? >> well, when i had seen dr. petit, i wanted to be able to do whatever i could do, if it was in my power to try to take some

of the pain away from him. while i knew it wasn't in any power, seeing him there, seeing his courage and seeing his strength after everything he's been through, that transferred to us, that we had to be there and do the right thing. >> at the end of the trial, we, the jurors, ask the judge if we could meet with dr. petit and perhaps the family and the judge went way out of his way to make arrangen' arrangements for us to meet in a basement room at the courthouse and that was probably -- if there's a reward for what we went through, meeting the doctor, seeing him, having him just overwhelmed with thanks for us, but my feeling was, can we ever do anything for this man to return to him some peace on this earth, he is singularly got to be probably the strongest man

going. no question about it. and i encourage everybody to back his foundation. >> i think you're all courageous people at all. >> and we should mention the petit family foundation has been set up in honor of jennifer and her two daughters to show the kind of courage they had in their lives. now let's get a check of the weather from al. "today's" weather is brought to you by the 2010 buick lacrosse, the new class of world class. and good morning, everybody, as we look to the midwest, we have got a slow moving system, ahead of it, temperatures anywhere from 20 to 25 degrees above normal, behind it, five to ten degrees below normal, so in salt lake city, they're going to have a high of only 40, st. louis sees a high of 75 degrees today, the rest of the country with this system, we are going to be

looking, behind this front, we're looking at anywhere from six to n >> looks like the weather is quiet this tuesday. the winds will pick up to 25 or 30 miles per hour. we expect mostly s >> and you can track your weather all day long, go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. up next, michael jackson's children speak out more than a year after their father's death, we're going to hear from them right after this. i do a lot of different kinds of exercise,

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michael jackson's children breaking their silence for the first time about their school and memories of their father. >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you, watching this, what strikes me most is just how normal they are considering who they are. regular kids who are making fun of each other and joking around, two of them go to school right in this area and talk openly about making new friends, their dreams and what they miss most about their dad, michael jackson. >> prince michael, hi. >> reporter: the jackson kids as we have never seen them before, paris, prince and blanket relaxed and candid speaking with oprah. >> i kind of think nobody understands what a great father he was. he was the best cook ever. >> he was a normal dad. he was the best dad ever. >> we used to wake up early and walk on the beach. >> after michael jackson's sudden death, they seem to be

adjusting rather well, taking vacations together and trips to the amusement park, a far cry from life with michael, the kids shielded from the public. remember the infamous masks? now prince and paris go to class out in the open with other kids at the buckley school in l.a. >> i guess i was just nervous. >> about? >> everything. they said who's new, raise your hands. and a lot of kids raised their hands. >> and then did you feel better? >> yes. >> did the kids react to who you are? >> my friend, she didn't know who we are until we went on oprah. . >> what happens when people find out who you are? >> she didn't care. >> reporter: his older brother and sister were happy to talk

about their hobbies and their futures. >> video games and sports. >> video games and sports. what do you want to do when you grow zbl grow. >> i would like to be an actor. >> you want to study it and take it seriously? >> i do improve. >> you do, where? >> i used to do it with my dad. >> reporter: the conversation also touched on the day michael died. >> the worst day of my life. >> reporter: and reached back into michael's troubled childhood, including accusations of physical abuse at the hands of his father, joe. >> you might as well admit it, that's the way black people raise their children, you use the strap. >> i would have punished them to keep them out of trouble. >> katherine jackson was also ask in that interview, do you think michael was murdered by dr. conrad murray, she said,

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. piper a check of the mortgage commitments sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> we have a west side accident on the out of up security. we will tell you about that in a moment. it is blocking some lanes right now. 97 and liberty road, another accident coming in.

if you're going to head out on coldspring avenue near the beltway, there is an accident there. the accident at the red approaching reisterstown down to edmondson. the accident is making things worse. full ride from the beltway all the way down to 28. it jammed conditions there. you can see the northeast outer loop is very heavy traffic from belair all the way over towards the harrisburg expressway. speaking of harrisburg, 12 miles per hour is what your dad to from mount carmel down to shawan. watch foreclosures, doubling closures, guilford from summer torpor to lexington. -- from saratoga to lexington. this is really tying up traffic as you make your purchase security. we will switch to a live view of harford. all this volume-related on the northeast side. >> at least the weather is nice

and quiet. we had sunshine out there this morning. starting to pick up again. -- the breezes starting to kick up again. current that occurs in the mid- forties. 43 degrees in parkton. mostly sunny skies. breezy and " conditions. high temperatures range between 57 and 62 degrees. seven-day forecast, looking good into the weekend we will push the temperature up close to 70. the temperature up close to 70. >> to where to get the car fixed. auto service plus is the one auto repair shop that's out to earn women's respect and trust. >> auto service plus. service you can trust. go to autoserviceplus.biz for a location near you.

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you can vote on "today" show come. >> interchangeable bookends. here's the question of the last several years, eight to be exact. prince william and kate middleton, are they getting married? >> i think so. >> are they hooking up? what's going on here. >> i have no idea. we're going to find out the latest, lots of rumors going around, people reading tea leaves, we'll find out what's going on with that. >> also a talented woman who co-hosted the "today" show with a bitter, frustrated co-anchor. that is the idea behind the new film "morning glory." oscar winner diane keaton joins us. we also have a live performance from jackie evancho, this girl has a voice and made a

big name for herself on nbc's "america's got talent" and she's going to be here with a performance. in the news this morning, president obama is in his boyhood home of indonesia this morning which he praised as a modern muslim nation. this trip came after two prior trips were canceled. and this trip could be cut short because of an erupting volcano. a coastal storm howled through maine and new hampshire. power lines were torn down by sleet, wind and freezing rain. >> we do have a standout and it is gold, you see the advertisements everywhere on television these days. gold with another record this morning, $1422 up 30% this year.

a 30-year high, lots of highs here, but keep in mind, it's near 40% higher. 4,400 people aboard the carnival splendor today, an engine room fire has stalled the megaliner. passengers have no telephones, electricity or even toilets. novartis says it will seek approval for a new kind of smart pill. it contains microchip technology will be implanted in patients so that body temperature and heart rate can be sent to a doctor in real time to make sure that a pacemaker is working properly. coming up tonight, a growing trend in this bad economy,

people moving away from consumerism and saving more, we'll show you how some women are coming up with ways to do more with less, our series back to basics continues tonight on nightly news. and finally, a nurse who traps alligators as a hobby now holds the florida state record for catching the longest alligator ever. the 14'3" inch alligator was dragged around for nearly an hour before it was captured. let's go back outside to matt and meredith. >> i thought you had a big mouth, that's a big mouth, right? >> i just get thrown under the bus every day here. all right, ann, thank you very much. let's get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> this is twice in one open, it's a record. under the bus.

and matt's under the bus again. >> revenge is a dish best served cold. >> where are you guys from? >> virginia. >> i like your earmuffs. let's check your weather and see what's happening, pick city today, milwaukee, wisconsin. tmj 4, that low pressure area is spinning off the new england coast still causing rain for eastern new england and parts of northern maine. we have also got wet weather making its way back into the pacific northwest. windy and rainy there, snow through the mountains, the wasatch, the cascades, also up into the plains, record highs into the upper mississippi river valley, >> it looks like the weather is going to be about the same as yesterday. the winds are going to be gusting to 25 to 30 this

afternoon >> where are you guys from? >> rhode island. >> rhode island, all right, you know who else is from rhode island? meredith viera. island? meredith viera. up next, we have rumors

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♪ daisy, do-do a dollop back at 8:09, all the back and forth, will they, won't they? nbc's michelle kosinski is in london with the details. >> reporter: this has been such the topic of speculation for years. remember, william and kate have been dating for nearly nine years now. but recent events seem to suggest that these two young darlings of the global media may finally tie the norknot and ver soon. what everyone seems to really want from prince william is official word that he has finally ask his long-time girlfriend kate middleton to marry him.

the couple were seen positively beaming at a friend's wedding. come called this get together the starting gun for the countdown to a royal engagement. >> my information is that kate and william will be looking to get married next july, the date, the 23rd of july has been penciled in i understand. >> reporter: and royal watchers say the biggest pointer that this is coming soon, scotland yard is looking into a protection officer for kate, which she'll get as soon as william gets around to proposing. >> the fact is, if you marry prince william, a lot will be expected of you, you will be spending the rest of your life in the public spotlight. >> reporter: surrounding all of

this, will kate wear the princess's tiara? prince harry has been able to let his royal hair down, after splitting with his long-time love, he's said to be spending time with a long time friend. some think that maybe prince william will want to do things his own way, maybe even announce his own engagement, maybe even on his facebook page that his grandmother the queen just launched. >> katie niare they are or are they not getting engaged? >> it's very close now, we have been watching everything that's happening in the uk. the meeting at balmoral, that

was a buying deal. and if kate goes for christmas, that will be a big deal as well. >> rumors say they want a more subdued affair. is that possible? >> actually they would like a quiet wedding up in scotland to get away from it all. >> after all the buildup, is the public going to let that happen? >> one thing is the queen loves the weddings, she absolutely does, so she's going to want to make this a big occasion. >> it seems that we're seeing more of william and harry, they're appearing in public more, they're granting more interviews, are they trying to put a more modern face on the royal family? >> that's got to be being more official. i think they're at an age where they almost have to justify their existence now. >> we all know that at times william has been uncomfortable with the spotlight. you write in the book at times

when he has had a hard time of it he goes to the queen, and she was in a unique position to help guide them. you portray a more sensitive side to queen elizabeth. >> none of us get to see this side of queen elizabeth. you have to remember she is a mother and a grandmother and prince william is going to be king and all of the tutelage he has had will have come from the queen. >> you mention this a couple of times. what's the gloss yy posse. >> william and harry call themselves the glossy posse. >> they get together in the basement of one of the homes. >> prince charles allowed them to convert the downstair cellar which should be his wine cellar. >> we mentioned, michelle mentioned in her piece, the on

again off again relationship with chelsea, his girlfriend. are they friends? >> they're very close, you have to remember that chelsea went back to south africa. they're not together. so it's very hard to keep that long distance relationship going. but i tell you, i see them getting back together. they're very much in love. >> didn't she break up with him the last time in a very public way? >> probably as public as it gets. >> as you well know, katie, there's been a lot of books written about the royal family. what do you want people to take away from your book? what's the different take that you offer? >> there's so much about william and kate in this book as well. it's completely unique and you'll get to see a very different side to the princes.

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keaton plays is host of a morning talk show. competition from her co-host is bitter journalist played by harrison ford. >> who's going to say goodbye? it doesn't really matter. >> who do you think the public would rather hear from last? someone who's won every broadcast award on the face of the planet, or the former ms. pacoima. >> it's ms. arizona, in case you missed it, i was miss arizona! >> you're making pictures now? >> when you're watching it, you're saying, oh, i hate myself, of course. what i don't like right now is the fact that i can see myself, everywhere i look, it's me. >> this is what morning

television is like, you know this? >> you have to see -- this is disgusting, get me out of here, fast. >> your character. >> let's talk about her. >> narcissistic, vain, and i hear you have modeled her after someone other than you. >> let me tell you why, because number one, you're younger. do you see what i mean? >> not much. >> but you are younger because i'm 64 and i assume the person that i modeled my appearance after, diane sawyer, is also in her 60s, am i right? >> i believe she is. yes. >> so she's my contemporary. >> but who's the narcissistic person you modeled after? >> me. i don't know how women survive in their mid 60s being anchor women. how many are there?

>> there aren't many, but those who do it, do it very well. >> extremely amazing, and that's what i like about my character, by the way, even though she's narcissistic, she's a hard working woman and she really will do anything for the job. so with that in mind, i feel good about her, i like her, she works hard, i feel like it's important that she -- i hear voices. >> that's called b role. you know about that. >> she will do anything including and i can so relate to this because they put us in ridiculous situations and in the movie, you have to dress up like a sumo wrestler. you love that though? >> i like physical comedy. because when i was growing up, my father was trying to teach me to do everything right, like how to peel the orange, how to cut the apple. and everything i did was wrong, everything single thing and it was frustrating for him and i

realized later on that problem really was a plus. i feel like no one can do my stunts for me but me because i do them the wrong way and the wrong way is the funny way. >> it's been pretty good for you. >> not bad. >> i realize that you have never performed with harrison ford before? >> i had never met harrison ford and it was like meeting mt. rush more. it's not like oh, gee, we're all friends. working with him was a complete, brand-new experience. . it was wonderful because he has the kind of delivery which is slow and deliberate. i pictured him playing dan rather, and i pictured myself as playing no one except that chatty kathy loser type woman who's like balls to the floor.

is that incorrect? >> it's out there now. you talk about being in your 60s, and you play a morning news anchor who's in her 60s. you've been around hollywood for a long time. it used to be called aegis hollywood. >> if you do survive, then you've really done a good job at somehow managing it. i don't think it's any different at all really. i don't think women were protected then and i think actually it's better now. >> better protected in the past. is it better, that's what i was -- i didn't say that very well. >> you said it fine, it's that i need to brush up on my english skills. >> if it's not ts this not the f day for you? >> this is actually as good as it gets, as they say? >> i wonder if you would ever consider co-hosting with me?

>> here's the deal, i don't think so. let's face it, i would have to read, which is hard for me as well. and then i would have to, like, move around and then once breaking news happened, then we have a big problem. because you do the talking and i sit there and smile. no, count me out. >> so never, ever? >> never. >> i put you to the challenge, right now we're going to go to a commercial, but you just have to do a little bit of reading. >> you want me to try now? >> it says viera in the prpter. but now you're viera and you're diane keaton. pretend. . >> "morning glory" opens tomorrow in theaters nationwide. and just ahead, there's a live performance from a contestant who blue the judges away on "america's got talent."

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's get a final check on the morning commute. >> still looking at a mess out there. west side delays continue to to accident on the outer loop and security. it is a mess from the top side on the outer loop over there are around 95 on the northeast side all the way through the west side to edmondson.

timonium and greenspring, we have an accident at j.f.x. 97 and liberty road, all lanes closed. westminster, one is still cling to 32 in washington lane. southbound from middletown down to belfast, much of this due to an earlier accident. hanging on to the northeast side delay is, you will find delays in the city at guilford and double it closures in effect for the next month. looking at slow spots really everywhere you go out this morning, unfortunately. live view of traffic in the area of harford road. the backup continues to the west side and the outer loop. here is the earlier accident scene with earlier congestion to the southwest corner. tony, hopefully you have better news. >> at least the weather is nice and quiet.

it will be breezy again, kind of like yesterday. other than that, there is not a whole lot to talk about. temperatures are not bad. the-to-upper-forties. forecast for today is mostly sunny and breezy and cool. i can but it decided upper 50's and low 60s. nice seven-day forecast. temperatures will be close to 70 by the time we had the beginning of the weekend. >> we will have another update at 8:55. with the $2.50 breakfast combo. get a 16oz. cup of piping-hot seattle's best coffee and a savory new sunrise subway melt built fresh to your order for just $2.50. subway. build your better breakfast.

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it's 8:30 now on a tuesday morning, the ninth day of november, 2010. this is the just astonishing voice of 10-year-old jackie evancho, she captured the hearts of many people. she sings like an angel. most of these people have voices of angels as well. i'm matt lauer along with meredith viera and al roker. there's a government push to get you to seat more cheese. but how will that affect your diet? >> there's an assertion that eating dairy will actually help you lose weight. this morning, she's the

talent behind the humor and the heart of "when harry met salary j. we have got nora effrin in the house. let's say hello to anna wright, she's a contestant on "the biggest loser." your teammate gained weight and you lost weight, and you got booted. >> why did they want you out? >> when i came in late, i had a big target on me in the first place. so to survive as long as i did, i'm surprised and i'm happy. >> so we need to say congratulations? >> yes, you should? >> we should say congratulations for a couple of reasons, your starting weight was 330 pounds. >> uh-huh. >> and what are you down to now?

>> do i really want to say? >> yes. >> i just said 330, you might as well trump me. >> i have lost 100. >> wow. >> does that even compute for you? >> no, actually it hasn't. i mean i'm still going to the store and buying clothes that are too big. it hasn't caught up really, yet, but i'm trying, i'm trying. >> you go to a store and you think, i don't have to try that on, and then it's too big. >> what do you think your chances are of winning the 100,000? >> i think they're good. >> great to meet you, and you can watch "the biggest loser" at 8:00, 7:00 central time here on nbc.

>> looks like the weather is quiet this tuesday. the winds will pick up to 25 or 30 miles per hour. we expect mostly s >> nice to see you, are you having a good time? >> yes, we're having a good time. >> don't forget, you can get your weather any time of the day or night on the weather channel on cable or weather.com. >> we're back in business with our favorite part of the show. take a look if you will, we got

a real winner here. talk about faith, robert reuter. he had a ticket on the titanic, but because he had the chicken pock pox, he wasn't able to board. ruth blackman, 105, attends church every single week and honored with so many awards you can't list them all. happy birthday to you. we have robert whetham of newcastle, wyoming. he hasn't stopped driving. > and we have charles grimm, 100

years old, he does 500 situps each morning. and lorena hook, of portland, tennessee. 103 years old. fourth time to be on the show. and her favorite memory is driving a model t. i drove one once. finally margaret pierce, 100 years old, retired insurance agent, the secret to longevity is having good genes and good luck. that's it, back to new york now. >> willard, thank you so much. is the government sending the wrong message by pushing cheese on us? first this is "today" on nbc.

we're now at 8:38, an

investigation in sunday's more times has declared a conflict of interest. on the one hand it pushes an ant anti-obesity -- david zenzenko is the author of the eat this not that series. joy bauer is a registered dietitian. good morning to both of you. it seems a bit schizophrenic here, on the one hand, the government is saying you got to get healthy and we got to cut down on obesitobesity, on the o hand, the government is saying let's get more cheese into people. >> in this case, it is definitely a mixed message, you've got an agency working at cross purposes and we're literally being drowned in cheese. saturated fat is the number through cheese is the number one

source of saturated fat in the american diet already. so now you run into a situation where, you know, one ounce of cheese is five grams of saturated fat. >> is it perhaps, joy, that the government's initial message was working, they were getting people to actually cut down on things like cheese and all of a sudden the cheese producers very crying and saying we need some help? >> that seems to be exactly what's happening and it's very disheartening because we know for health reasons we need to minimize the amounts of full fat cheese that we're eating. it contains a lot of calories, if you eat a lot of calories, it's going to pack on the pounds. >> you said full fat cheese, do we have to be careful not to lump all cheeses into the same category? >> all cheese, if it's full fat, whether it's cheddar or swiss or mozzarella, it's going to have a problem amount of calories and fat. so you want to minimize the amount of full fat you're eating and consider buying reduced fat

varieties for the house. >> this is not the reduced fat variety right here, this is a dominos pizza. what are we looking at in terms of fat and calories. >> this pizza is supposed to feed six, but the problem is it's 670 calories and 41 grams of fat per slice. it's a day's worth of saturated fat right in one place. >> what bothers you the most about this, joy? >> the good news is you could pretty much order a relatively healthy slice of pizza anywhere. you want to ask for thin crust, you want to tell them to go easy on the cheese and add a vegetable topping. >> this is a six-cheese pizza, maxed out cheese, just like the government ordered. again you end up with half a day's fat per slice. >> this is a kids' meal. let's face it, kids love

macaroni and cheese. this is a curley mac and cheese. there's the reason it's named after the dumbest of the three stooges is because this thing has two days worth of saturated fat. >> for parents out there, joy, how do you come up with a healthier alternative for that? >> you make it at home. the bottom line is restaurant mac and cheese is notoriously bad. if you make it at home, you have full control. >> this cheese penne. you think chicken is a safe bet, but in this case, a penne saved is a penne sa erke earned for y weight decline. >> you have the control of putting on two to three tablespoons, you get that cheesy flavor and you save a lot of

fat. >> this is a grilled chicken. >> and it's also grilled in butter. >> you have the fat from the cheese and it's added insult from the butter. >> try and cut down on full fat cheese in your diet. >> when buying cheese for your house, try your best to get the reduced fat variety. >> up next, nora effron on everything from aging to divorce to technology to failure.

behind some of the world's best loved films is out with her latest book of essays called "i remember nothing" and other reflecti reflections. good morning to you.

it upset me because i relate to this. when you reach a point in your life where you just stop remembering stuff. >> you stop remembering, you're doing this, you're doing this, you're doing this, you cannot believe it and you see people that you absolutely know that you know and that someday you're going to remember where you know them from. you see names coming at you, they're down the road in your conversation, you're going to get to the name of that movie and you are not going to get it and you're going to be going the one with jeremy myers. >> you say in the book that ryan o'neil received a lot of criticism when he talked about being at a funeral and didn't even recognize his own daughter. >> and made a pass at her. i understand because the week before i had been in a mall in las vegas and i saw this woman coming toward me, and i thought who's this woman, i know this woman, her arms are outstretched

and shortly thereafter i realized it was my sister. you might say, well, how was she to know that her sister was going to be in the mall in las vegas, i was meeting her, that's what i was doing in the mall. i know. >> in your last book, i feel bad about my neck was all about getting older. why did you want to go back to that theme? >> you know, weirdly enough, that was about oh, the neck, right, i'm so nostalgic about the days when all i felt bad about was my neck. because sometime in your 60s, it changes and there are other things to feel bad about and one is that you are literally losing your mind, you look okay, you seem to be normal. >> but you're not. >> but your entire life is slowly slipping away and you're so who horrified by the things you do remember. the things -- i met eleanor

roosevelt, i met her. ask me what she was like? >> what was she like? >> i have no idea what she was like. >> what was she wearing? >> i have no idea. there were drapes, this i remember. >> you remember there were drapes in the room. >> there were drapes and i got lost on the state park way. these are the things that are stuck in my head. >> why do you want to share this? because obviously you're light hearted about it as well. there's a message here, isn't there? >> i would like to share while i canhearted about it. but there's a lot written about getting older when you look at it and you go, are they crazy, when they say it's the best time of your time, et cetera, et cetera. it's a little more complicated than that. so i thought it would be fun to write about. >> you do remember that you've been married three times, and your last marriage is a keeper, so people sort of associate you with divorce.

>> i think i do too, i do believe that marriages come and go, but divorce is forever? and that really if i had to identify myself for a huge part of my life, even after i was happily remarried, i would say i'm divorced. i think that happens when you have kids and it's just a fact. there's no slot on the census sheet to quite describe what you are. there's single, there's married, but that thing, divorced but perhaps remarried, there's nothing quite like that. >> will you remember this after? >> i hope so. i will definitely remember your coat. >> i'm memorizing your outfit, black. nora ephron, the book is "i remember nothing and other reflecti reflections."

coming up we have a live performance from jackie

the toyota concert series on "today," brought to you by toyota. >> she is the pint-sized singer with a very grown up voice. 10-year-old jackie evancho won

fan following when she appeared on "america's got talent." jackie, it is great to have you here. good morning. >> good morning. >> have you had any time to relax over the last several months? or have you been going nonstop? >> i've been going nonstop. it's actually very, very fun for me because i'm doing something that i like. >> what was your reaction when you finally were accepted for that program? >> well, my reaction was oh, my gosh, that's amazing. >> was it a bit of nerves? >> yes. >> i have to tell you something secret, i was eavesdropping on you this morning, you were rehearsing and i was listening and it still is hard for me to listen to this voice coming out of this little girl. do people still find themselves shocked by your voice? >> yes, a lot of times people do find themselves shocked. >> i know you love this kind of

music. what's on your ipod? what kind of music do you listen to? >> i listen to pop and all that stuff. >> do you have a favorite artist? >> i have several, one is lady gaga. >> okay, are you going to change for us now? >> uh-huh. >> ladies and gentlemen, jackie evancho. ♪

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>> again, the album is called "oh, holy night" and comes out next tuesday. jackie, thank you so much.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. fire officials still trying to determine what caused the devastating house fire in fallston. sky team 11 captured these images are around 3:30 yesterday afternoon as the flames ate away at the roof of the home. it took crews nearly an hour to get the fire under control because of a lack of water supply. no one was hurt, but it is estimated the fire did $600,000 in

>> now let's take a look at that forecast with tony pann. >> we are off to a quiet start on this tuesday. the winds make it off to 25 or 30 miles per hour. otherwise, mostly sunny. the sunset 4: 57. we are going to lose the win and keep the sunshine. 70 on friday and saturday. the next chance for rain will come up towards the tail end of the weekend on sunday. even then, only 30% chance. >> we will have another weather update at 9:45. update at 9:45.

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