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good morning. into the deep, a lone pilot out of fuel forced to ditch his plane in the middle of the pacific ocean. the coast guard rushing to the scene some 13 miles offshore to rescue the survivor. the rough landing and dramatic rescue, all caught on tape. where is baby lisa? authorities scour a landfill in a desperate attempt to find the little girl as dozens attend a vigil for the baby missing since tuesday. and buzz swirling around the home of paul mccartney.
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reports swirl that he's getting married this weekend. the bride to be makes an appearance on what could be a wedding day, saturday, october appearance on what could be a wedding day, saturday, october 28th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. week to "today" on a saturday. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm tamryn hall filling in for amy this morning. >> good to see you. a few weeks ago, we heard paul mccartney was engaged to american nancy schavell. the wedding could take place as soon as tomorrow. there's flowers arriving, workers putting up a marquis, the bride to be checking on the preparations. that sounds like a wedding. authorities continue
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searching this weekend for a baby girl missing from her crib. friday, they scoured a landfill in hopes for finding any signed of 10-month-old baby lisa. we'll get the latest and the live report, just ahead. in the second week of testimony in the trial of dr. conrad murray wrapped up yesterday, michael jackon's personal physician is charged with man slaughter. on friday, prosecutors played a tape of the interview with dr. murray and investigators. he explains what he did just hour before and after michael jackson died. and remember the movie "open waters"? it was about a couple on a scuba dive when they found out their boat left them out to sea. that nightmare recently came true for two men in florida. all they could do was cling to a buoy hoping that they would be rescued. luckily, help came. we'll get the story from one of the divers and the rescuers. >> yeah.
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they surface and he they look around and the boat has gone. for hours, they were out there. we want to begin with an eventful week in politics as the gop field solidifies the candidates with the voters summit in washington, d.c. and the viewpoint takes heat for what some are calling another verbal gaffe. a lot to get to. mike viqueira is at the white house with more. good morning. >> good morning to you. they said the gop field was going to be settled. chris christie said he wasn't running, sarah palin was out, too. it was down to mitt romney and rick perry. but turmoil has struck this race and it's gotten nasty overnight. that value voter summit happening yesterday. yesterday, a pastor, his name is robert jeffret, he has a large congregation in dallas. he introduced rick perry and he
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introduced perry as a genuine follower of jesus christ. that brought the interest of reporters who talks to jeffers afterwards, you see him there. and he was asked whether or not he thought mitt romney and mormanism was a christian region. no was his answer. he called it a cult. he said mitt romney is not a christian. that dogged rick perry all the way to iowa. he was asked coming out of a rally there whether he believed mormanism was a cult, as well. his one-word answer was no, lester. >> vick, how is romney responding to all of this? >> reporter: it's interesting. it's a microcosm, lester, of the republican race and the challenges that mitt romney is going to be facing. we expect ultimately the social conservative fundamentalists within the republican party were going to be raising this issue, perhaps not this early. mitt romney's choice all along,
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his dilemma all along is is he going to be able to go far enough to the right to gather enough of those social conservatives to win gop primaries and the nomination while being able to come back to the middle and take on president obama and give him a strong challenge that many expect next fall. >> thanks. now here is tamryn. here with political insight is harold ford jr. a lot to talk about. >> grng month. >> let's get to this issue with rick perry. it's apparent that perry introduced that camp to introduce him. what does he need to do to clear the air? >> all of this helps president obama from the outset, too, largely because you have this kind of infighting and the kind of displaying of the worst part of the republican party in the eyes of mainstream america. two, mitt romney, rick perry, any republican needs to focus on what's foremost in people's minds, jobs and the economy, the social issues that generally dominate the republican primary,
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probably not as important. i would say definitely not as important to mainstream americans, maybe important to republicanes and that's base. but the republicans are able to distinguish and differentiate himself or herself on the economy, on jobs and how you get the american economy, u.s. economy growing and prosperous again. that's the candidate that will emerge in the eyes of the mainstream voters. >> you heard mike va carry say rick perry obviously spoke and now mitt romney will follow him. does mitt romney need to address this? you're talking about conservative people who might not understand mitt romney's position. >> he will at some point have to get into this. if i recall in the '08 elections, president obama then senator elections had to address problems about his past during the race and he did it effectively and forcefully. if i were advising him and he's not listening to me, as a
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democrat, i wouldn't do it today. i would focus on what what he wanted to focus on. i would take a minute to make clear to value voters and those in that forum his religion he believes in what he believes in. if he allows this to distract him, he'll give rick perry and his followers what they want. >> we've been hearing a lot about the big donors value holding off. it seems like the field is what it was going to be. rick perry, $17 million he pulled in beating out mitt romney. do you expect these candidates to bring in the double digit figures that they are saying this next quarter that they need to pull this? >> likely. there's a lot of angst, a lot of anxiety, a lot of opposition in the republican party towards barack obama. that will translate into the dollars. as a democrat, i don't look at the individual amount, what do they raise in total? that's what republicans will raise for their individual candidate. i think the real issue for
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president obama is to focus on the economy, jobs, how do you restore prosperity? if he does that, i don't think any republican can beat him. if the economy and jobs doesn't come back t way it should, any of those republicans, perry or romney will be a formidable candidate. >> we heard vice president biden say the same thing, that the gop candidates could beat the president based on those things. >> harold ford jr., thank you so much. now here is lester. >> thank you so much. to the pain and protest on the economy. to the stagnant unemployment numbers, lily luciano is live in manhattan's financial district with more. good morning. >> good morning to you, lester. you know it all began with just a happenedful of protesters, 50 cents right here across them in the new york stock exchange. the demonstrations lasted so
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long, they're hard to ignore. >> occupational wall street. >> occupy wall street, a protest against economic and social inequality has spawned organized marchs in 45 states. in just the last 24 hours, protests from houston to washington, d.c., hundreds took over a los angeles intersection. 4,000 marched in portland and in tampa, demonstrators descended on the banking district. protesters not always who you would expect. >> we to have $100,000 a year salary job. >> buddy lost his job a year ago pb frustration brought him to manhattan. >> to let the government know that the system is in need of repair. >> occupy wall street is historical by comparison. >> the first days of any
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movement is a lot of people showing how unhappy they are at the situation. the anti-war movement. if it lasts long enough and is organized well enough, it could become a mass movement. >> money could help. supporters have dropped thousands of dollars into buckets on the streets that 11 days ago occupy wall street got tax exempt status and quickly raised $50,000, most of it online. >> it is compelling to see how quickly things arhave grown and taken off. what it means is that the burden of responsibility is now on us. >> leaders will need to have a plan to use that cash and harness all that energy before rage can turn to revolution. >> reporter: the september jobs report out, some are optimistic, but here in wall street and across america, lester, folks say it's just not enough. >> thanks very much. as the protests spread across the country, new unemployment numbers kaem out friday. while the u.s. economy added 103,000 new jobs, unemployment
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remains stuck at 9%. for now, it appears the economy is still neutral. what will it take to bring the numbers down? bertha is here with more. this is kind of a -- we are kind of stuck in neutral. >> we're very much stuck in neutral. if you look at the jobs that we saw in september, 45,000 of them were actually verizon workers coming back on the job. they were counted as unemployed in august because they were on strike. so we're really only talking about 60,000 new jobs. if you actually look at the pace of job creation, it's very mixed picture. so we're at a stage where we're not losing jobs, and that's what people were worried about when we got that initial zero jobs for august. that was revised up. we created 57,000 jobs in august. revise dollars up for july. but we are creating about 160,000 jobs, the seven months leading up to last april. since april, we've been creating about 70,000 jobs a month and we
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really need 200,000 to start bringing down that unemployment number. >> do the math a little further. you're adding jobs, if the rate stays at 1.9%. >> you're looking at younger people starting to come into the market and they are among the most affected. their unemployment rate is much higher than it is at the national average and at the level for adults who are already in, those of us who are old, like you and i, those of us who are still in the work tors. so that's part of the problem. but in terms of actually seeing growth, we're not seeing growth. the economy is not growing at a very fast pace. it's all very much in neutral. >> i'll tell you, the number that stuck to me, 6.42 million, chronically unemployment. people have been out of work for a very, very long time. that is so disturbing. >> they have been for a long time. and the problem is that companies are reluctant to hire. about a fifth of those who were hired were temporary workers. right now, a lot of companies
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are not confident that this economy is going to continue to move forward so they're not ready to pull the trigger and make full time hires. because they don't make full time hires, as those of us who are in the workforce, we are not so confident that maybe we'll keep our jobs. we don't spend as much. there isn't as much demand for these companies to really force them to say, okay, i've got so much demand coming in the door, i'm going to need to hire more people. >> are they holding their breath waiting for the political situation to become more clear as far as tax policy and how far government intervention is going to go? >> that's part of it. part of it is that gridlock that we have seen in washington. last summer's debate over the debt ceiling made a lot of businesses sit back and wait it out and see what was going to happen. that certainly is not helping the situation in terms of confidence. >> bertha coombs, great having you on. thanks very much. once again, here is tamryn.
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right now, controversy surrounding a test men undergo to test prostate cancer. >> experts familiar with the issue are the surprised by the federal panel recommendation against routine psa screening for healthy men. >> there have been several studies looking at prostate cancer screening. the majority of those studies have failed to show that prostate cancer screening saves lives. >> at the heart of the issue is prostate cancer issues. it can be deadly and more over, the psa test often finds the less dangerous kind of cancer. >> psa testing results in overtreatment, meaning patients who often wouldn't need intervention are getting intervention. >> as many as 1.4 million men are estimated to have been
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overtreated, often with serious consequences include impotence and consequences. >> you can't go in. now you're all wet. >> some people are furious with this latest recommendation. drew cox learned he had prostate cancer after a psa test and got treatment which he believes saved his life. he works with an organization that advocates testing. >> without the psa test, no one would ever though. in my instance, i had no symptoms. >> most doctors emphasize that screening is appropriate for those with symptoms, a family history or those who want it after discussing it with their doctor. >> i don't think we should be criticizing any man who wants to be screened. i don't think we should criticize any man who chooses not to be screened. >> experts agree they need a screening tool to distinguish between deadly prostate cancer and the less harmful kind. and until scientists find that, they predict the controversy will continue. robert bazell, nbc news, new
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york. it's now 15 minutes after the hour. we want to get a check of the morning's headlines. a pilot trying to fly a small plane from california to hawaii got to within 13 miles of the big island before crash landing and it was all caught on tape. check this out. the u.s. coast guard had to rescue this 65-year-old unidentified pilot after his twin engine plane rain out of fuel on friday and he had to ditch it in the pacific ocean. the coast guard was waiting and a rescue swimmer helped pull the man into a hovering helicopter. the pilot has some minor injuries, but otherwise, he's okay. start looking at holiday travel now. the cost of an airline ticket could go up as much as $100 if the obama administration's new security and departure tax is approved. some of that money could get to the transportation security administration, the tsa. one change that may help consumers, though, is airlines will have to give fair quotes in full, the same way it's done in
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europe. the criminal trial of michael jackson's doctor wrapped up its second week. friday, the jury heard from conrad murray on audio tape-recorded two days after jackson's death. murray said the day jackson died, the singer was begging for sleep medication. murray maintains he gave jackson a small dose of propol, not enough to kill him. we'll have more on this in our next hour. the ongoing listeria outbreak in cantaloupe has caused the worst food poisoning toll in nearly a decade. the outbreak has sickened at least 109 people and led to 23 deaths in 23 states. 300,000 cases of rocky ford brand cantaloupes were recalled in september. the fda has not yesterday identified the root cause of the outbreak. a museum dedicated to arnold schwarzenegger has been unveiled. the movie star and former california governor unveiled the
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statue of himself friday as a young body builder at his birthplace. hundreds of fans visited the museum named arne's life. finally, when a massachusetts church needed to raise $30,000, 12 men from the congregation came one a plan. they got naked. the men, ages 64 to 87 posed in the buff for a calendar that shows them with strategically placed perhaps, as you can see. in addition to razing money and having fun, the men wanted to show another motive, they wanted to show older men and aging bodies are still a march inventory to behold. tamryn, that calendar is available online. >> i'm leaving right now. i have to stack up. >> kind of like the arnold statue. >> my favorite is the guy with the venice -- oh, no, that's my guy right there, banjo man.
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>> bill offered to do that calendar. >> we could make our own calendar. >> no, let's not. let's not and say we did. let's see the forecast. it's hot and steamy somewhere. >> not our calendar. let's talk about texas. this is where we've been in a horrible drought. this is one of the wettest weekends we've had forecasted in a long time. it's not good if it washes out your weekend plans. we desperately needed a big rainfall event like this. oklahoma into west texas, heavy rain. developly that will shift into dallas, ft. worth, san angelo, abilene, wichita falls. we could pick up as much as 5 inches in some areas. that's as much rain as we've seen all year. in the middle of the country, all the warmth we had is heading to the east. it >> good morning. what a beautiful morning it is. this is what sunrise looked like with that very quiet water out
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there. clear skies. wet weather this weekend, 83 with thunderstorms in miami. that's your weekend forecast. lester. >> bill, thanks. this morning, the world continues to mourn the loss of apple's co-founder, steve jobs, who was laid on rest on friday. one testament to his impact and anecdotal reports of his trademark black shirts increasing in sales since his passing. but another tribute being sent around on maces and ipads across the globe, a commencement speech at stanford university in which he reminds us all how to be great. >> your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone
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else's life. don't lez the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. >> reporter: camille remembers the moment she first heard steve jobs. she was graduating with an mba from stanford, heading down a path to the corporate world. but jobs' advice kept coming back. >> the only way to do great work is to love what you do. so she listened to jobs and her own heart. >> i absolutely remember this. that's how i jumped off the cliff to do what i love, you know? >> reporter: it led her toind ya, a small village where life exists on less than $2 a day. she took her tech background and co-founded empowering, giving kids not only cell phones, but a way to earn benefits like food and medical care for their families by checking in on a phone app when they go to school. >> we want to give them incentives around great behavior like having perfect attendance. >> so the goal is big enough, even steve jobs might be
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impressed. >> we have this grand dream that we can end poverty and that's the only reason i'm doing this. >> reporter: almost 5,000 graduates heard steve jobs speak that day. the worst of one man soon spread well beyond this stadium, in ways even the great visionary could never have imagined. all the way to the next generation. >> they are the people that are going to change the world. i'm not going to change the world the way they are and they are amazing. >> and now, as you graduate to begin anew, i wish that for you. stay hungry, stay foolish. >> reporter: steve jobs' legacy, to the ipod, ipad, iphone, add the inspiration he provided to others. for today, kristin dahlgren, nbc news, palo alto, california. >> i've listened to that speech a couple of times over the last few days. very compelling. >> and he was able to see his words inspire people. so often, we remember people after their long gone and their
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still to come on "today," the son of farrah fawcett in trug trouble again for drug abuse. the latest in the struggle to get clean. plus, the latest in the search for a missing 10-month-old baby. this as police says her parents ar cooperating with the investigation. >> good morning. i'm jennifer franciotti.
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it is 7:26. here's a look at some of our top stories for you. one person was taken to sinai hospital after an accident in northwest baltimore. sky team 11 was over the scene at the intersection of park heights avenue and peekny road. the firefighters union said three crew members were called to the scene to assist in that rescue. initially accused abducting her friend's baby, a howard county woman is in the clear this morning. authorities are now calling the situation involving tiria mow neek williams a domestic incident when we are told she will not be charged. she was the subject of a police search after the 16 month-old disappeared in her care. the baby was later found unharmed. >> a case of arson. fire investigators say the location had been devoured by flames before. it was called in as a tree fire.
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crews were able to knock down that fire in a half-hour, and there were no reports of injuries. >> feam family and friends gathered to remember former ravens player brown. brown was found dead in his harbor east home late last month. the medical examiner determined that he suffered from undiagnosed diabetes and died from catoacidosis. >> please stay with us. we will check your forecast as we will check your forecast as soon as we com
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>> good morning. what a beautiful morning. gun this morning, it looks like the weekend is going to turn out nicely. high pressure over us. no radar echos over us. lots of rain down in florida. big storms in the central part of the u.s. with the high pressure overhead, can't get near us. take a look at the current conditions outside. sunny skies. humidity is up. barometer is way up. at the moment, the winds are calm. during the day today, we'll have lots of sun once again. very pleasant. low humidity. variable winds becoming southeasterly. less than 10 miles per hour. 73 to 78 for the high today. a couple degrees warmer than it was yesterday. and we look at the seven-day forecast. sunday looks like a good one too, as well. tuesday we pick up clouds. by tuesday night into wednesday, we pick up a rain chance. >> thank you, john. thank you for joining us. we'll see you again in 25 minutes. have a nice morning.
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we are whack on this saturday morning, october 8th, 2011. it's a beautiful fall morning here. meanwhile, back inside studio 1a, i'm tamryn hall filling in for amy on assignment. meanwhile, a desperate search continued for a 10-month-old baby who disappeared from her crib. >> on friday, the search for baby lisa entered its fourth day. the search started just hours after the child's mother said
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police accused her of being involved. coming up, we'll have a live report from kansas city finding out where the investigation and the desperate search continues. then the can rad murray trial continued on friday. michael jackson's doctor described his version of what happened on the day the king of pop died. and love me do. love reports swirl around london as the beatle will die the knot with his famous girlfriend. we'll show you the activity in london. it's a third marriage for sir paul and we'll ahead there for the latest and get an update in a few minutes. >> that has to be a wedding or a birthday. >> it has all the signs of a wedding. >> but first, it's back to rehab for son of farrah fawcett. now a judge is giving o'neal one more chance to get off drugs and save his life.
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>> reporter: redmond o'neal needs counseling rather than jail time, but the judge didn't go easy on the 26-year-old in court on friday. >> you have very serious issues. >> he insisted on a promise if o'neal that he would rise to the promise of treatment at a new rehab facility. >> i know i can do this. i've been struggling lately, you know? i haven't dealt with my mom's did he tell death. i'm suppressed it. of course i want a chance to change my life, you know? i've never had a life. i don't know what living is. i want a chance to be somebody, to not be all that [ bleep ] ryan o'neal and farrah fawcett's kid. >> o'neal admits he fell off the wagon in rehab and is used another patient's cell phone to buy drugs. he has been in and out of trouble for drugs since his teens. substance abuse runs in the family. o'neal vowed to clean himself up before his mother's death two years ago. he was in rehab then, too, but
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was allowed out to attend her funeral. mother and son's devotion to each other was clearly seen in farrah's story, her documentary of her battle with cancer. >> redmond, my boy, i also always be there. >> redmond o'neal will be back in court next month where doctors will deliver a progress report and the judge will decide if this troubled young man is really trying to turn his life around. time now to get a chem check of the weather. bill karins is out on the plaza. >> i know you have some texas ties, this is a small little football games in texas today. >> texas is going to win. >> texas is going to win. the last time i talked to someone in oklahoma, they were ranked heavy favorites today. >> that's okay. >> good luck today. let's talk about this forecast. a lot of people this weekend will be doing football. a lot of people will be out there. they're expecting as much as 1
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million people to head to the peaks of northern new england today. it will be gorgeous, a lot of sunshine. this is a peak weekend there. we're near the peak if not at the peak through the great lakes, minnesota and wisconsin. now we're starting to get the aspens turning in the rockies, too. they're still on the trees, though. middle of the country, nasty weather and storms. only the pacific northwest is where we're dealing >> good morning. we have sunshine this morning. dry conditions over us. storms to the south and west. we'll stay way away. our forecast calls for plenty of sunshine and high temperatures in the 70's. and arizona, 79 in phoenix, that's cool by your standards.
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and if you have big weekend plans and you want your hour by hour forecast, you can always get that at weather.com. lester, tamryn. still to come, where is baby lisa? police conduct new searches as they question her parents' willingness to cooperate. and stranded at sea, two men left behind by their scuba diving tour boat. how did they survive? that story, coming up. ♪ ...harvested the same... ♪ ...and roasted the same as our other premium coffees. ♪ it only makes sense it would taste the same. so, try it for yourself. buy a pack of 100% natural starbucks via® ready brew. we promise you'll love it or we'll send you a bag of starbucks coffee. it's the starbucks via® taste promise. look for it at starbucks stores and where you buy groceries. here's one story. [ regis ] we love to play tennis. as a matter of fact it was joy who taught me how to play tennis.
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kansas city will begin a fifth day of searching for 10-month-old lisa irwin, but they say they're no closer to finding her or figuring out who took her from her crib. this as questions continue about whether lisa's parents are fully cooperating with the investigation. jay gray is outside the family's home with the latest for us. jay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, lester. yellow libbons laced around whatever they can be here at lisa's home. a sign of support for this community that, like police, continues to look for the little girl and answers about what happened here. >> let them know that she is loved. >> dozens gathered in kansas city overnight to say prayers and light cams. though at this point in the investigation, little light has been shed on why 10-month-old lisa is gone or where she might be. >> we're just trying to show support for her and show her there's people out there that dare for her. >> reporter: police bare caisse cades have been taken down, but
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yellow taped returned to her home friday because she has not. family members wrapped the neighborhood in yellow ribbons, hoping for any sign of what happened to the little girl. >> it's hard with the lack of leads. it's difficult, you know? what do you do? nobody is sleeping, nobody is eating. >> lisa's dad, jeremy irwin, showed up briefly at the house, he never went inside and after just a few minutes, drove off without saying a word. though earlier, he did talk with matt lauer and said he's willing to take a polygraph if police ask. >> i'd be willing to do whatever it takes to bring my daughter, lisa, home where she belongs. if that's what it takes, that's what we can do. >> yeah. if you can -- >> reporter: friends are still passing out flyers with lisa's picture and a plea for any new information in the case. while investigators, just two doors down, look through paperwork and show those papers to and talked with a neighbor for more than an hour.
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it was another day of little progress in the case. fbi agents sifted through a local landfill and police with metal detectors scanned the family's backyard. though they point out both searches were little more than shots in the dark. >> sitting around, trying to think of everything we can possibly do. the idea came up, there's no reason in the world why we wouldn't try it. let's try it, you never know what you might find. >> to this point, though, they've found nothing, including baby lisa. >> and while jeremy irwin says he will take a polygraph if asked, lisa's mom, debbie bradley, apparently already has. in fact, she says police tell her she failed that test but won't say why they believe or what she is lying about. she says that she insists she still has no idea what happened to the baby or where lisa might be right now. lester. >> jay gray this morning, thank you. here with more insight is nbc news analyst and former fbi profiler clint van zant.
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good morning. good to see you. >> hi, lester. >> the mother says police told her she failed the polygraph test and according to her they tell her she's a suspect, as well. is it a question that she would be the only one without an alibi? >> that's the question right now, lester. police, fbi, they always go to the last person with the victim, the person closest. they stashate that person's alibi and then they move on to the community looking for in this case the kidnapper. it appears at this point law enforcement is little challenged by the mother's explanation of the events of that night and, so far, they haven't been able to come up with anybody else as a potential suspect. so she still has to be eliminated. >> and what are the odds that this is, in fact, a stranger abduction? and if it is, is there a window that is narrowing in terms of the odds of finding this child? >> reporter: well, i think in both. i think the vast majority of cases, lester, when we have an
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infant abduction, it's someone who is trying to replace either a newborn infant or they told their husband or boyfriend they were pregnant. they had to come up with the proof. this is a 10-month-old girl. she's 2 1/2 foot long, 25 to 30 pounds. obviously, she's not going to pass as a newborn. and the story of the abduction where someone in the middle of the night, the one night that the husband happens to be working late, somebody comes through a window, not the baby's window, another window in the house, walks through the house, finds the baby, carries the baby into the kitchen, picks up three cell phones, turns on all the lights in the house and walks out the front door, i think that's challenging from law enforcement. could that happen? of course it could. but right now, the balance is let's find out if the mother had anything to do with it. and lester, you and i and everybody else, we want to see a parent could never do that to a child. well, the answer is yes, they could, but an unknown offender could do the same thing.
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so we've got two parallel investigations. does the family know something about it? it's that an unknown offender who has happened to find this one house in the middle of the night where the husband wasn't home and no one heard what went on, could that have happened, too? those are the challenges. two tracks to go down, neither track so far has led to the baby. >> and we've all covered and watched enough of these stories to know ultimately the family has to be questioned. it is part of the process. the parents appeared on the "today" show on friday. they answered some pretty blunt questions including one from matt on whether they suspect each other in lisa's disappearance. i want to play that. >> jeremy, when you look at debbie, do you have any suspicions that there's anything she's not telling you relating to the disappearance of lisa? >> none whatsoever. none whatsoever. we've been -- we've been asked that millions of times and there's no doubt in my mind that
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she had anything -- there's no way. she couldn't have had anything at all. >> and databaseby, the same question for you and jeremy. do you have any doubt in your mind that he hasn't told you something? >> no. he's a good father and he's a -- he's good to me and he loves her. and everybody loves her. but no, there's no way. >> now, clint, the police say that the family is no longer cooperating. they disagree with that. but they did acknowledge they kind of get fed up. he said he reached his boiling point with the questions. i would imagine there is a point, you know, if you're not involved that you get tired of the finger booel being pointed at you. but is there anything in that tape you saw there, anything about your ans actions that you question? >> no. i know you have to be careful trying to read things in the body language. you would hope the couple would support each other. and lester, the only thing worse
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than losing a child, i think, is being accused, maybe falsely accused that you had something to do with it. but right now, here we are, five days later, the story of the abduction seems very rare that something like this would happen. they haven't come up with any similar things in the nearby community. nobody has reason to take this child that they know of. so law enforcement has to continue to hammer away at the family until they're convinced they had nothing to do with it. in the meantime, lester, there's 300 investigators out there. so they're doing more than just interviewing the family. they're looking under every rock, they're looking at child predat predators. they have obviously gone through the landfill. but this is one small child. there are almost 900,000 people reported missing every year. this baby is important as every other child who may be reported as missing. we've got to find out what happened to her, too. >> we certainly hope that lisa is found safe and sound very
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shevell is a quiet affair. this is the same place he and linda mccartney wed in 1969. and the reception seems to be taking place just down the road in mccart know's home. photographers have snapped party essentials being delivered. >> i think what he's kind of looking for is a traditional sort of british-type wedding, you know, something where, you know, he now feels his life is on track. >> the former beatles relationship ves always been closely watched by fans. tragically, almost 30 years of happy marriage came to an end when his soul mate, linda, lost her life to cancer. both events highly focused in the media spotlight. the third time around, it's unlikely to be played out in the media to the same degree. >> nancy is very subdued. she's not a media type at all,
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doesn't want the cameras in her face. >> it's said this time around mccartney's children of his first wife approve of nancy. low key, the big day may be, but the former beatles fans will no doubt be out in full force to wish the couple a happy romance. the uk tabloid newspapers seem certain tomorrow is the big day outside the house of paul mccart thee here, there's a company delivering furniture and other things that seem to be set hosting for a big party. there's a dozen photographers trying to get a claims of whatever they can be find. mccartney's spokesperson is being very tightlipped about this. it looks like it's set to be a big party here tomorrow. >> champman, thank you very much. the day i'm filling in, i could have been at a wedding. i'm sure they invited me.
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there's been some bad singing on this couch this morning because we're talking 1980s. the '80s had a pretty bad wrap. the worst song of the decade of rubic's cubes and leg warmers produced is the number one hit, "we build this city." >> that's what "rolling stone magazine" riders said. there were others that made the top ten. wham's "wake me up before you go, go." and even "mickey."
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>> good morning, everyone. i'm lisa robinson. it is 7:55. police are calling a vacant house fire a case of arson. they say the building was empty because it had been devoured by flames once before. firefighters were called in on a tree fire. crew fires were able to knock it down in an hour and there were no reports of injuries. >> one person was taken to sinai hospital after an accident in northwest baltimore. sky team 11 was over the scene at the intersection of park heights and pinkny road. firefighters were called to the scene to assist in the rescue. >> also a head-on collision in cecil down near route 1 near green mount road. there is no word on what caused this accident as well. >> family and friends gathered to remember former ravens player
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true. high pressure sitting over pennsylvania keeping all the stormy activity away. in florida they have had rain for several days. texas can use the rain, but eventually, longer term, this high moves out, and this moisture is expected to come up from the south and a storm approach from the west. that's going to take several days. the weekend forecast is a good one. this is the columbus day weekend. so even though you don't all have a day off, here's what the weekend will look like. today 76. tomorrow 80. lots of sun. we may pick up a few clouds on monday, columbus day, because it looks like it will be a nice day otherwise. 78 the high. longer term forecast by tuesday into wednesday. tuesday increasing clouds. wednesday and thursday rain chances. at least even with the rain the temperatures will continue in the 07's for highs and 50's for lows. >> thank you, john. thank you for joining us. we'll see you back here in 25
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minutes. we are back on "today" on a saturday morning. it's october 8, 2011. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm tamryn hall. cycled week of the trial with jurors hearing in dr. murray's own words what happened on the day pop star michael jackson died. coming up, we'll get more of what he told detectives including jackson's final words to him. >> then a secret from the happy marriage from a wives perspective. 200 wives of he age, space and
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status. all of them offer advice of saying happy while staying true to their man. >> they probably say things like let the man lay on the couch and watch football. >> i read it and i don't recall that. >> not at all? >> football was not a chapter. >> they call it happiness, huh? go figure. plus, a precious video that had a few of us in the office in tears yesterday. it's a little girl getting a birthday present from her mom and dad, one that she really, really wanted. her reaction was everything it should be from everything from a little kid and her parents got it all on tape. we're going to show you how it all plays out. it's an internet sensation. >> your heart will melt when you see this little girl. >> first, let's get a check off this. good morning, tom. >> good morning. a small plane ran out of fuel and had to ditch it in a
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small plane off hawaii's coast. he was coached on a crash landing in choppy seas. the pilot wasn't seriously hurt. he was trying to fly solo from california to hawaii and got within 13 miles of the big island. the nation's unemployment is still stuck at 9.1%. the september jobs report sent the clearest signal to date that the crisis may last through next year's election. the economy added 103,000 jobs last month. more than what was expected but far less than what's needed to reduce the up employment rate. the economy is trumping voters this year. mitt romney is still on his defensive over his religion. mike viqueira is live at the white house with more. >> good morning, tom. this is something that mitt romney as a candidate is going to he to deal with social conservatives american the republican party if he's going to have to win the republican nomination. he just didn't expect to have to
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deal with it this soon. they're in front of the value voters summit. it happened over the next few days and yesterday in washington. and yesterday, the pastor of a large dallas congregation who knows rick perry and produce introduced perry, said the following, mitt romney is not a christian person. mormanism is not a christian religion. reporters caught up with him, asked him, rick perry, if he thought that mormanism was a cult. perry's one-word answer, no. >> mike viqueira live at the white house, thank you. the corporate protest that began on wall street three weeks ago is sparking similar demonstrations across the country. what's the mood there this weekend? >> good morning, tom. protesters here are starting to call for more organization. they're splitting into work groups to make sure that all of
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their needs are provided for. now, in terms of the businesses and residents, that's another story. while some businesses are saying that they're getting calls from around the world to buy food for the protesters, that they've seen their sales increase up to 40%, others say that protesters are using baskets and flooding and that they're not buying a thing. so there's definitely an exchange of opinion here. now, many are calling the protesters vague. they're saying that they don't have one solid purpose. the protesters say it's their diversity of opinion that's driving the change to come and that's what they hope for. >> lilia, thank you so much. prince harry has crossed the pond and is now in california for the final training exercise of an apache helicopter. the exercise, called crimson eagle, involves handling the aircraft in mountainous and desert conditions and taking part in live hoofire exercises. how special is this?
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a little girl is going to disney land, but first she has to wipe her tears. 6-year-old lily was overwhelmed with her mother surprised her with a backpack filled with disney toys for her birthday. but when her mother said they were leaving that today, lily's reaction was pricely. >> we're living today to go to hisny land. >> you're joking. >> no, i'm not joking. >> are you sure? >> yes, we're going. >> what an amazing moment. lily, as we mentioned, is only 6, but it's going to be very hard to top that surprise in her lifetime. that's the latest. it's now 8:05. back to tamryn on the plaza. >> oh, my goodness. altogether, that was the cutest video. let's check in with bill karins with the weekend weather. you company top that. >> i can't, but i'll try. >> go for it. >> here are the states we get@of birthdays, a lot of just marrieds. we don't get a lot of these. we're having a baby.
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now, the date is march 29th. we've got a little ways to go. second trimester? >> yes. >> so now you're making it public? >> yes. >> so you're going to find out boy or girl? >> we are, november 1st. but this is the announcement. >> in the northwest, we're having a weather pattern change. we needed the wet weather from oklahoma to texas. and for the northeast, that's where it's finally drying out. we are watching stormy weather, though, continuing there in texas. some people are going to be rained out, but this area so desperately needed this wet weather. it's hard to really complain when we' >> good morning. what a beautiful morning it is. this is what sunrise looked like with that very quiet water out there. clear skies. lots o
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i'm always a sucker for a lady in a nice hat. happy birthday to you. back to you, lester. >> bill, thanks. now to the latest in the conrad murray trial where he was charged with man slaughter of michael jackson. for the first time, the world heard dr. murray's version of what happened when the king of pop died under his care. >> reporter: as the world was mourning the death of michael jackson, dr. conrad murray was leaving the hospital, caught on surveillance cameras. police would question him two days later. >> we understand that you had been spending some nights at the house. >> not some nights. i spent every night. >> oh, every night.
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>> murray told investigators the day jackson died, the singer was begging for sleep medication. >> i looked at the time because i asked him if he is day, shd be productive, he would have to get up. and he said, just make me sleep. it doesn't matter what. murray said jackson was nervous about missing rehearsal for his upcoming tour. he said i can't function if i don't sleep. they will have to cancel it and i don't want to have to cancel it, but they will have to chancel it. so i -- i agreed at that time that i would search over to the propofol. >> murray maintains he gave jackson a small dose, not enough to kill him, and that jackson wanted to inject himself. he asked me, why would you --
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why did you want me to push it? i love to push it. you know, it makes me feel better. it's great. >> the first time that milk was used on him, was it your idea or was it his idea? >> it was his. >> legal experts say playing the tape on a friday is strategic. prosecutors are trying to use dr. conrad murray's own words against him, hoping the jury will spend the long holiday weekend thinking about it. for "today," jeff rossen, nbc news, los angeles. here to offer her insight, beth caras. >> good morning, lester. >> listening to this tape, it sounds like a man who has nothing to hide. what stood out in your mind? >> well, there are a lot of inconsistencies in this statement. the jury has heard from witnesses which is contrary to what he told police. this was an interview. it wasn't an interrogation.
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he was not a suspect. this wasn't even a homicide investigation. they thought michael jackson died accidentally or maybe by natural causes. maybe the pulmonary embolism that conrad murray suggested to the detectives in this interview. the autopsy reports were not in, it wasn't finished, toxicology wasn't in, anesthesiologist report wasn't in. they didn't know what they were looking for. so when he says i gave him propofol, they're like, what is that? and he says it's a sedative that can be used for anesthesia. quite the contrary, it's an anesthetic. the inconsistencies are the timeline, for example. he says he was out of the room for two minutes and found him a little before 11:00 a.m. nonresponsive. not true. he was on the phone for about 47 minutes and he found him at noon, not 11:00 in the morning. the prosecutor is sure to point out many things to the jury, little things like he told the
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er doctors, i don't remember the medicines i dpaf him. i don't look at a watch. i don't have a watch. throughout the interview, he said he was looking at his watch. you need to consider the source of this information. it's not entirely truthful. >> and you were in the bedroom, beth. can you get a sense of how the jury was reacting as they listened? >> yes. i was sitting there the entire time. the jurors were transfixed looking at their tripanscripts. there wasn't much to look at in the courtroom. they were following the transcripts closely. michael jackson's older sister got upset at one point and she walked out of the courtroom with another younger woman who might have been her daughter, i'm not sure, and she went to the well of the courtroom very close to the jury and got the judge upset. he said i'll not have people interrupting and walking through the courtroom like that.
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he was very upset, but it was too late. she was gone. and that was at the point in the interview where conrad murray was talking about all his recess tafb methods and that is not borne out by what the witnesses who testified already said about the resuscitative efforts. >> how do you think the judefen is going to deal with these inconsistencies? will they put dr. murray on the stand? >> that's the big wild card. i expect that they will try to avoid putting him on the stand. but here is the big thing. the smoking gun in this case is whether or not an i.v. drip was set up. he puts him under with 25 milligrams. that's just like ten minutes of sleeping. you wake up from propofol. you need a slow drip to keep you under. he's denying that he did it that night. that's what the defense is going to say. the interview isn't absolutely crystal clear at that point. he says he used to give him a slow drip.
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the prosecution says that slow drip malfunctioned. he has enough to have cut his stomach open and perform just general surgery. that bottle poured into him and the defense is going to say, no, no, that's not what happened that night. michael is responsible for giving it to himself. >> thanks so much. >> my pleasure. still to come, women tell all about how they stay happily married. . so you earn 50 percent more cash. if you're not satisfied with 50% more cash, send it back! i'll be right here, waiting for it. who wouldn't want more cash? [ insects chirping ] i'll take it. i'll make it rain up in here. [ male announcer ] the new capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. what's in your wallet? sorry i'll clean this up. shouldn't have made it rain. sorry i'll clean this up. hershe y's bliss.i'll clean this up. one square inch of incredibly smooth rich chocolate. one square inch of joy...
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a new book out this week is revealing detailed and sometimes shocking confessions. it's called the secret lives of wives. women share what it takes on make a marriage work. we spoke with three women, each with a different background. >> humor was the key. >> my marriage was one of the funnest experiences you could have ever had. he looked the way i liked to have somebody look who i was going to be married to. he found me very physically attractive. and that stayed with us until the day he died at 91. i think a good marriage has to have a lot of sense of humor because george was very funny in bed. you have to have a sense of humor, you have to have flexibility, you have to ride with it. and you have to, of course, have good sex. >> donna chapman williams dated her husband, shawn, for 15 years and had two children together before they decided to get
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married ten years ago. >> even though when we lived together, we weren't really married, we always still knew we would be together. being married just feels more permanent. it just feels real now. >> gayle watkins, married for 44 years to her husband, stan, in 1984, gayle went to italy solo for the summer when she was accepted to an art program. for the good of her marriage, she's gone back every summer since without her husband. >> i always have something fresh to bring back to the marriage. the six or seven weeks away in italy was just great. >> the time apart, she says, revitalizes her marriage, inexpires her artwork and helped identified her as a person. >> we haven't seen each other in a long time and it makes us more affectiona affectionate. >> iris is the author of the secret wives of lives. i love this. you say this is for any woman who is married and they want it to work or a woman who is
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thinking of one day getting married. >> yeah. i interviewed 200 women from all walkses of life. it's a mosaic of stories that run the gamut, from a swinging couple to a couple that's been together for 70 years. the happiest, most fulfilled women have a sense of passion and purpose in their own identity outside of marriage. >> now, you also weave in your own personal story of marriage which i think a lot of people would wonder how you make it work. you take off summers from your husband. we're talking six weeks or more. how do you do that? >> one of my favorite chapters in the book is called separate summers. i say to my wives out there who maybe their husbands like to go on three-week golf vacations and they want to go with their girlfriends to greece or take a pottery class back home, you don't have to be twined together as one. women in their early 90s are the fastest growing segment of the population. so many of us could be married 40, 50, 60, 70 years.
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let's talk about newlyweds. the myths of american marriage for so long is that it's happily ever after. although our culture for 30 years or so, we've had a 50% divorce rate. that divorce rate is now dropping to 43%. people are marrying later and maybe they don't have and they should not have and they certainly will not have when they read this book which is a great guide for newlyweds unreal expectations that someone else can make you happy for the rest of your life. >> yeah. you say there's no gold standard and you also are honest when you say, listen, there are days i wake up in love with this guy and there are nights i go to bed not so in love with him and that's a big part of it. >> there's a fine line between loving and loathing. i think that's why this book has struck a nerve is because people say thank you. i don't have a perfect marriage and i'm so happy that really nobody does. and if i do one thing with this book, i want to liberate everybody to create their own
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marriage based on their own financial and emotional needs and not believe there's a gold standard marriage toward which we should aspire to. there is no perfection in marriage. there is marriage. >> find what works for you and hopefully it will last. >> well, and that it's mutually understood between you. i don't want people judging my marriage. i do like some time apart. i think when you take time apart, you will see that the grind of the ordinary, the tepid state of long marriage is way hotter when you're picked up at the airport by a smiling, handsome husband who you've missed and you longed for. >> well, it's a very interesting book and some incredible insight. iris, it's a great pleasure. the book is called "the secret lives of wives." you can read an excerpt on our website.
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it is 8:25. here's a look at some of our top stories. one person was taken to sinai hospital after an accident in northwest baltimore. sky team 11 was over the scene of park heights avenue just after 5:00 friday afternoon. 23 crew members were called to the scene to assist in that rescue. >> initially accused of abducting her friend's baby, a howard county woman is in the clear this morning. authorities are now calling the situation involving tiara mow neek williams a domestic incident and we're told she will not be charged. the 16 month old disappeared while in her care. the baby was later found unharmed. >> a building devoured by flames once before again caught fire. it is suspect as a case of arson. it was called in as a tree fire. crews were able to knock it down in half an hour.
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high pressure. storms to the south and west can't break into it. it will take a few days for any of this, the front out west or the disturbance down in the south to get close to us. they will eventually. not this weekend. this weekend looks great. like today's forecast. much like yesterday, just a little warmer. 73 to 78 for the high. sunny. by pleasant we mean low humidity again. winds southeast at 10 miles per hour or so. you look ahead at the seven-day forecast. sunday looks like a good one, too. sunny skies. a high winding up around 80 degrees. it is almost like summertime. then monday a few scattered clouds but still a nice day with a high in the upper 70's. cooler on tuesday, because we're going to pick up clouds. tuesday into wednesday and thursday moisture from the south comes up and increases rain chances. >> thanks, john. thank you for joining us. "11 news saturday morning" continues in 25 minutes. see you then.
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we are back on this saturday morning, october 8th, 2011. we have a great crowd joining us and a beautiful sunny morning on rockefeller plaza. thank you to all of you for coming out. i'm tamryn hall filling in for amy robach. i've got on short sleeves. there's some people with shorts on. other people have on full coats. it's your birthday. happy birthday. >> this is that time of year that it's cold in the morning and you're shedding the jacket throughout the day. >> remember in school when that happened? remember that jacket i bought
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you? i don't know. >> we have a lot going on. people talking about incredible stories, people lost right out of sea. >> this is a movie that was patterned after real life, too. this was about a couple of guys that go out on a scuba diving trip. they resurface at the appropriate time .they're like, where is the boat? it was a tour boat. they were stuck out there for about 2 1/2 hours with sharks in the water. rescue does come along. we're bog to talk to one of the divers and the two folks that came along for the rescue, as well. >> hopefully best friends for life. >> amazing story. >> it is. and when you normally think of archaeology, you may think of indiana skroens. but there's a new way to uncover ancient cities and trey es anie. we'll show you how it's revealing history's hidden secrets. >> you always have a nice chute on. do you wear juice? >> believe me, within ten
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minutes of finishing this show, i will be home in my jeans. >> maybe you or someone you love needs to visit the fashion police. we took it upon ourselves to find a few offenders. i love this, jean makeovers and show you how big of a different the right and wrong pair of jeans -- and i understand. they say for a woman, buying jeans in a swimsuit, the two hardest things. >> you need someone who can look at you and talk to you honestly. >> no, did on look big in these jeans? no, thanks. i don't want to know. but first, we want to remind folks of something we started this week. it's called "today's" tag sale. all the anchors here took items from our offices and put them up for sale on ebay. this is a vase thatbass that i in my office. >> so this has been touched by you, the magic of your fingers.
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>> i even signed it down here. it saz have a jazzy today, lester holt. >> and amy put up a stylish coat. she has a great leather handbag up for bid, you see it there. and jenna is selling a leather motorcycle outfit. that's amy's. >> that's not a motorcycle outfit. >> that's amy's stuff right there. i've never seen a pink motorcycle jacket. but that's amy's stuff. and jenna is selling the leather motorcycle outfit she wore on one of the crazy adventure stories she's done. >> the bidding is still going on for all of us. head to our website, today.com, the bidding ends sunday night. don't wait. again, all proceeds go to the salvation army. >> wow, you've got a lot of bids going on there. >> very nice. let's get a check on the forecast. >> check it out. >> that's good money. >> that's big money. >> wait until you find out how
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much i really paid for this. >> bill is standing by for us. not bad at all. let's break tour your weekend. over in the middle of the country is where we have the stormy weather. that's going to stay in place. it's not going to move that much. if you have rainey weather with you today, there's a good chance tomorrow is going to be similar. the eastern half of the country is nice two days in a row. the exception this weekend is in the northwest. it's in areas of florida and texas and oklahoma that you'll deal with pretty much the worst of the weather and >> good morning. we have sunshine this morning. dry conditions over us. storms to the south and west. we'll stay way away. our forecast calls for plenty of sunshine and high temperatures in the 70's.
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snow as we went throughout this past couple of days. that's a look at your weekend forecast. lester. >> bill, thanks. now to that story of survival on the open seas, two divers left behind by their tour boat, miles offshore, no rescue in sight, all they could do is cling to a small buoy and hope. first, nbc's mark potter that's hr story. with the afternoon fading and the seas getting rough, two scuba divers who were ready to go home got a horrible shock. >> we come back up to the surface and looked around, 360, and couldn't see a thing in sight. there was no sign of a boat, no sign of anything. >> paul cline was paired with a spanish tourist for a scuba trip on this boat from r.j. diving ventures on miami beach. but when they surfaced, that boat was heading back to shore. >> we just couldn't imagine that
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they had taken off without making sure we were on board. >> paul thought of his wife and six kids. he also thought about a terrifying movie he'd seen called "open water." where two divers, also abandon at sea, were attacked by sharks. >> are you okay? are you okay? but with the seas getting worse and hope fading, they got the break of a lifetime. >> i saw them off this side. >> monique augden was on a yacht passing by. >> i jumped up and ran in, stopped the boat, stop the boat, there a diver who needs help. >> the captain quickly turned the boat around to the great joy of the divers in distressed. >> i asked one of the divers and he said he saw a great sense of relief when he saw us coming. >> floating three miles from shore, the divers were very fortunate to have been seen. >> i feel very happy to save their life in a way, but i feel
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very lucky for them that we were passing so close to them, just a few hundred yards further away, we would have missed them. >> the owner of the dive boat says that he's shocked by what happened and the veteran captain of the dive boat was shaken by what happened. as paul and his family are most grateful he is still alive. for "today," mark potter, nbc news, miami beach. >> joining us now is paul cline along with the two good folks who rescued him, monique and allen ogden. paul, my goodness, this is the second dive of the day. you were paired with a spanish dive buddy because you have to have a dive buddy. you were told to come up in an hour, right? >> yes. >> tell me the moment you look up. >> we got to the surface. at first, you look around in which direction the boat might be. so we did a couple of 360s and it was stunned disbelief.
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>> nothing on the horizon? >> nothing. >> what was your first thought? they had an emergency or what? >> after you get over the initial shock, if there's an emergency on board, they may have to leave. that was our first assumption is that there must have been an emergency and that it was just a matter of time until they would be back. >> every one of us who heard that story thinks of the movie "open water." we showed a clip. you knew about the movie, did your thoughts go to that, as well? >> it's hard not to. once we found the buoy that we were attached to, we were real close together. and so you sort of bump into each other and whenever you felt somebody bump into your leg, you had to look down. >> you were thinking sharks. did you see sharks? >> did not see sharks. >> monique, what did you see? >> i was sitting on the back of the boat with my daughter and i was scanning the horizon. and i saw two divers 150 yards out. >> were you guys waving? >> yes, they were waving. they had like a warning, a red
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warning tube that they were waving and you had a whistle and you were -- but it was just obvious. there wasn't a dive boat and there's always a dive boat when a dive flag. so i knew that there were divers in distress. >> so you told the skippers to stop the boat. >> right. >> and adam one helped pull them aboard. >> yeah. when i saw it, i was shocked. i looked out and saw two divers and the seas were really rough. i knew immediately something was wrong. and i knew god put us there for a reason that day. so we turned the boat around and went over and approached them and they were just obviously very, very, very upset. >> but you've seen divers before, but there's usually a beat nearby and some sort of flag or signal. there's no boat around. >> nothing. >> is your first question, hey, guys, how did you get here? >> yeah, i think i asked. i yelled, what's going on? and he said they were stranded, you know? >> paul, the last question, tell me about the conversation with the captain on the phone
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afterwards? >> well, he gave me a call the next morning i think after he was alerted what happened. he was very apologetic. so the question i had for him is how could it have happened? there's a process where they check your name off as you come out of the water and our names were checked off and we obviously didn't come out of the water. >> let's hope they improve the procedures. i'm glad you're okay. >> me, too. you're not going to get back in the water, are you? >> not in the immediate future, that's for sure. >> okay. thanks very much for being here. glad it worked out. we'll back in a moment. but first, these message eps. ♪
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now to an archaeological break through with more that sounds like star trek. >> michelle, good morning. >> good morning. who isn't fascinated with ancient egypt? what's amazing now is that archaeologists are using the top of huge ingenuity, things like nasa satellites to find the ee xwiptan pe ana aa aan egyptian were built with hands. this is egypt where a lost world could lie just beneath your feet. the challenge, finding it. but now an american archaeologist has discovered an
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entirely new way of discovering. >> this is a house that's about 3,000 or so. >> by looking at the desert from space. nasa satellites, using infrared light pick up differences in density that your eyes cannot. >> this is a potential pyramid. >> and the results are astounding. this is the baron desert outside the ancient city of kanas, a favorite place of indiana jones. but in infrared, you suddenly emerge the buried outlines of hundreds of houses, roads, even huge monuments. >> just the tant liedzing jennings of the hints of a pyramid complexion. >> in some ways, we can compare the remote sensing to what indiana jones did with the crystal in the map room. it shows us exactly where to go. >> the discovery channel is
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about to air a documentary showing how these images are leading to real sites that archaeologists had no idea was there bearing untold treasure of history. >> did you hit the jackpot? >> i feel like i hit the jackpot. >> other technology is working, an enormous boat was found with ground penetrating radar. it surely would have entleled the ones who built these wonders and hid them well. using only hand tools, the ancient egyptians were able to carve these pits into the limestone 20 feet deep and 100 feet long, covered up by these dozens of limestone slabs, each one weighing 18 tons. as difficult as that is to find, now a new vision. >> but satellite and you see things buried underneath. and to start excavating that, it's wonderful. >> reporter: from far above the
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earth, what lies far below. >> you know, incredibly, archaeologists think that between 70% and 90% of all of egypt's treasures are still buried. by the way, that documentary we mentioned, egypt, what lies beneath airs tomorrow night on the discovery channel. >> thank you so much. that is fascinating. >> isn't it? it gives you goose bumps. up next, today's fashion police track down some dreadful dem and help people get a jean makeover. but first, this is "today" o
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two women find the right pair. >> i have serious jeans issue. i tried gold, light blue, i've tried white. >> for some people, we say white is okay after labor day. the whole thing for you, never. we're looking at a acid wash here. that's dated for more people. we're looking at tapering at the ankle, which isn't a very northern style. this is doing nothing for the booty here, brian. he has a cute butt. i'm going to go for a darker wash for you. we're going to keep you with the slim fit, but a little bit more of a boot cut, a little wider at the bottom so they look a little more current. yay! we have a winger. these are perfect for you. the wash is great and is it's got that vintagy look to it that you like. the length is perfect, yes. so you have a butt. oh, my goodness, we found your butt. thou, do you see the difference? >> i do see the difference. this versus that. >> yes.
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>> i have the world's biggest collection of ill fitting jeans. >> you have a great figure that you're hiding underneath all this big, bagginess. going to help you and we're going to get you in some great jeans that you're going to feel fabulous in. >> outstanding. >> let's go. >> something like this would be great for you, a nice, dark wash. and a little bit of a flare to them. okay, shelby, let's see it. you look so great. wow, she's even strutting her stuff. you look so fabulous. you're a hot mama. you really are. >> now, with these jeans, i feel more like a hot mama. i feel slim, i feel great. >> the ones i'm wearing i feel are a little snug and they're showing off a little too much curvature. in they're a little bit mom jeanish, shall we say, on her. >> i feel like i'm older and i have to be careful which style of jeans i wear at my age.
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>> your jeans aren't working with your curves as well as they could be. i'd like to put you with a nice flare style to help balance you out. we want to go with a mid rise so we want to bring the rise down a little bit, something a little darker, but maybe a little bit more of a current style. >> perfect. >> what do you think? >> perfect. >> sounds good? let's go. let me see. oh, my goodness. they look so good. these are perfect, exactly where they should come. very appropriate rise for you. the length is perfect. and you just have a little bit more of a flare at the bottom than in your old jeans, so it's creating this hourglass shot, which we love. you look longer. >> not mom jeans, just a great mom. >> my family had said, go get some new jeans. >> dad, i think you need jeans. >> wow. >> you've never owned a pair of designer jeans. >> they used to be the "in" look. >> dave walked in in a big pair
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of baggy acid washed jeans. they're doing nothing for you. and the wash is a little bit dated. and we're going to put him in a pair that actually fits him, straight legs. we're going a little bit of a darker wash and he's going to look much more trendy. his family is going to be proud. this is great. this is dramatic. >> i think my wife is going to be quite surprised. >> let's do a little twirl. >> okay. >> very nice. he's even got the little shaking going on. my work is done, for now. >> and jenay, good morning. good to see you. mission accomplished. >> mission accomplished. >> can you really find the perfect jean? >> you really can. it's important to pay attention to your body type. it's important to pay attention to the wash of the jean. generally, a dark wash is the most classic and the most slimming for the average person. but if you pay attention to the whisking, the placement of the
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pockets, you don't want them, you know, for women, too large and too wide because that can emphasize your behind. there's all these things that come into play. >> there you have it. four people. mission accomplished there so we can believe. >> exactly. and you can get them tailored, as well, for the perfect fit. >> thank you so much. i love that. the pain was so frustrating. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means i can feel better and do more of what i love. [ female announcer ] lyrica is not for everyone. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior, or any swelling or affected breathing or skin, or changes in eyesight, including blurry vision,
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psychology surrounding lame excuses. >> plus, the secrets of an nfl rep. we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. thanks for watching. >> initially accused of abducting her friends become a hard county woman is in the clear this morning. authorities are now calling a woman -- calling the situation and it -- a domestic incident and you will not be charged for it she was the subject of a police search. the baby was later found unharmed >> police are calling a vacant house fire in woodlawn a
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case of arson. the building was empty because it had been enveloped by flames before her the fire broke out just before 3:30 on friday morning on lockhearn drive and was called in as a tree fire. there were no reports of any injuries. family >> and friends gathered to remember orlando brown. his colorful was held yesterday in prince george's county. -- his funeral was held yesterday in prince george's county. the medical examiner said he severed from on diagnosed diabetes. he will be laid to rest in south carolina. >> up next, dr. kim hammond has answers to your pet questions. inspire a lifelong love -- love of learning. the author of this book is here to tell you how. >> we are looking at comfort foods that might surprise you. >> it will be another one of
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