back now with more of "today" on a wet thursday morning, 27th of october, 2011. a little cold rain as we put a damper on out in the plaza. it's been raining steadily so thanks for them for stopping by. >> every single one of you will be on television when you come in on a rainy day. >> no doubt. six or seven times. i'm matt lauer with ann curry and savannah guthrie. coming up in this half hour are today's professionals taking on

a host of hot button issues. >> they're here ready to offer their opinions. one of the questions we're debating today is weight loss surgery okay for overweight kids? one group of researchers is considering this option for children as young as 11 years old. we'll get into that debate. and a new survey finds one in three people have had an affair with someone in their office. fishing off the company pier is what they call it. >> not me. >> star jones, donny deutsch, and dr. nancy snyderman will tackle that and more in today's professionals. okay. also ahead when some major banks recently announced they'll be charging for debit card transactions a lot of people got angry and are now thinking about taking their business somewhere else. we'll help you get some advice on how to ask the right questions and switch to a better bank to suit your needs. then a little bit later on we'll have bobbi thomas here to help us save money with affordable jewelry items pulling double, sometimes triple duty, can be mixed and matched. >> what is that? >> i think it's a belt.

>> i thought it was a skirt. >> hopefully not. >> very short. >> that would be rather revealing. >> anyway, some of the jewelry pieces are pretty lovely. >> good ideas. let's check the top stories with natalie morales over at the news desk. >> good morning, matt, ann, and savannah. good morning, everyone. a stunning revelation from the wife of admitted swindler bernie madoff. rug madoff tells "60 minutes" she and her husband tried to take their own lives by taking pills after he admitted stealing billions of dollars in a huge ponzi scheme. she later said she's glad they didn't die. bernie madoff is serving a 150-year prison term. according to a report in the "new york times" in an e-mail from prison madoff, himself, acknowledged that suicide did cross his mind. leaders in europe agreed during the night on a plan to reduce greece's massive debt. a plan that requires banks to take bigger losses. french president nicolas sarkozy says the results will be a huge relief worldwide. a new study may reassure anyone who has lost weight then gained it back.

blame it on your hormones. researchers studied people who had lost at least 10% of their body weight but one year later they found that hormones that urged the body to eat were even higher than when the study began. queen elizabeth must prefer her local british fare. she is currently on a tour of australia where this morning in perth she visited a school for aborigines and they offered her a bowl of piping hot kangaroo stew but her majesty took one whif, remarked that it smelled tasty, and then passed on the dish. probably a good move. and a remarkable ending to a two-month search for a family pet that escaped from his cage at jfk airport here in new york. jack the cat is now back. good morning, tom. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. the legend of jack the cat starts here at the airport and it stretches all over the world. largely because of social media but also how unlikely it's turned out. veterinarians we spoke to say

most domestic cats wouldn't survive two weeks lost and trapped in the ceiling of an airport. jack the cat's done it for two months. behind this sheet a cat with a remarkable story fights for his life. no photographs allowed. doctors' orders. >> he is critical right now so we're trying to stabilize him. i'd say it's 50/50 right now. >> reporter: the veterinarians treating jack the cat don't know how he is alive. jack spent 61 days lost inside of this terminal at new york's jfk airport. tuesday night, jack the cat slipped out of a ceiling tile and into a customs and border patrol room. >> they've been looking for, continuously, every day, they've been committed. this is a beautiful day. >> reporter: but it's been an emotional two months for jack's owner, karen. on august 25th karen was flying cross country out of jfk. she secured her cats jack and barry in carriers to be put in cargo on her flight to california.

>> i was shocked in the most negative way where i couldn't believe that american airlines had lost my cat. >> reporter: jack disappeared without a trace. the search and story led to a facebook page and 17,000 supporters to keep pressure on the airline. when jack emerged this week he was noticeably thinner and dehydrated. jack now needs a feeding tube but karen is confident he'll make it back to her. this time likely in first class. >> the very last thing i want to do is fly him under the plane. i want him in a sherpa in a seat in front of me between new york and california. >> reporter: as of this morning, jack the cat remains in critical condition. his owner karen was told not to fly back to new york because jack will need several days to recover. american airlines says from the get-go they were committed to finding jack the cat and they've offered to fly him home but it's likely the last thing that cat wants to see is another airport. natalie?

>> unless it is first class as karen said. all right. tom llamas at jfk international airport thanks so much. we look forward to having jack some day here in our studio. here is al in chicago with a special guest. >> hey. we are really honored to have the mayor, rahm emanuel, joining us today. >> thank you. >> mr. mayor, you know, chicago's known for a lot of things -- architecture, its culture, and good eating. but, you know, you have really set about addressing a problem called food deserts. tell me about that. >> well, first of all it came out of -- i read the report university of chicago 2006, understood it. i was campaigning and i ran into a young couple, could have been neighbors for amy and myself, and she was a doctor, an emergency room, two kids in the car and they had driven five miles to get to a basic grocery store which is, within a mile of our house amy and i have five options.

they had to go five miles for one option. and it just stuck with me that what i take for granted is wrong. hounchts >> how do you change that? >> the bottom line for corporations, making money, we align with the bottom line for the city which is job creation and economic development with healthy eating. brought all the ceos together of walgreens, walmart, aldis, save a lot, jewel, dominic's. brought them together, gave them all the data, that exists in the food deserts on income basis, population density, etcetera, and i said come back in two months and if you show me you're willing to invest in the food deserts i will treat all your stores as one zoning request so i used my regulatory capacity to speed their process. i don't have money but i have regulatory authority. they came back the other day. we announced three dozen stores will now go into the food desert area. walgreens and aldi have agreed with a memo of understanding they're going to buy urban

agricultural products grown here in the city of chicago, moving it through the distribution -- >> so coming into the urban section. >> yes. urban agriculture, 50 plus people employed. we got 2,000 people that are going to be employed in our neighborhood giving healthy options to families that never had it except forre either as michelle obama said the other day, a gas station or a fast food or a liquor store. now they'll have real grocery stores, fresh fruits and vegetables. now that's an opportunity. parents have to show responsibility and make sure their kids eat right. >> all right. good job. mayor rahm emanuel, thanks so much. >> thanks so much. >> we appreciate you stopping pp >> good morning everyone, give yourself a couple of extra minutes. looks like the rain will be with us through the morning and the afternoon as well. otherwise cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 60's.

and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> all right, al. thanks. this morning on today's professionals, our opinionated power players are breaking down the latest headlines and stories important you to. star jones is an attorney and author. donny deutsch chairman of the advertising agency deutsch incorporated and dr. nancy snyderman nbc's chief medical editor. good morning to all of you. nancy, we'll start with the medical issue. some researchers in england are experimenting with the idea of giving obese children as young as 11 this weight loss surgery and it's very controversial. what's your take on it? >> what's interesting is there is some science to show if these children are morbidly obese that they have high blood pressure, kidney disease, heart disease, and they're going to die, that a gastric band, some way of minimizing the amount of food they can get in their stomachs works. now, is it a cure-all for not

pushing yourself away from the table? no one is saying that. these are the kids who are at high risk of premature death. >> donny, you said if you think it is controversial then kids shouldn't get it period. >> no. i think you have to distinguish. obviously if it is going to save a life or there is a real health issue that's one thing. we have to be careful parents don't start using it for they're taking the kids to mcdonald's every night, the kids are stuffing their face and not doing the hard work of losing weight versus an end all surgery at a very young age. >> there have been cases where kids or adults haven't quite met the weight maximum to get it and so they eat up in order to get the surgery. that is a no-no. >> there are serious side effects. star? >> honestly, l arethere are emol effects to weight loss surgery. when i had gastric bypass in 2003 emotionally i couldn't handle what was happening to my body. i was devastated. i could not emotionally wrap myself around it. >> what do you mean?

>> i couldn't wrap myself around how somebody so smart was so dumb and was so fat and could not handle herself in an eating situation and became obsessive. and so my mind, i was 300 pounds in here for a lot longer than i was 300 pounds here. it's too bad thaw don't get emotionally healthy on a pr schedule. >> based on your experience does that make you more or less inclined to think children are ready for that? >> emotionally no child is ready for what i went through or adults go through but physically if it's going to save their lives, i'd have to go along with nancy. >> but i don't want to see these spoiled kids who just are, parents are not disciplining them as far as food. oh, yeah. let's get a surgery just like a nose job when they're 16. >> it's not an easy answer. office affairs. one-third of all those surveyed recently admitted to having an intimate relationship in the work place. i want to be clear. this is not meaning married people. these are single people who meet someone at work. i call it fishing off the company pier. >> you know what?

>> that's good. >> one of the things i'm most proud of is the families that started at my agency. the most natural way for people to meet if you think that's what you do with most of your working hours and you have a shared interest with someone is the work place versus a bar or party. as long as they're not married it is a wonderful way to meet. >> it's all wonderful and swell until it all falls apart and then you've got this toxic situation at the work place. >> but you're working next to the person that you used to be doing on monday night and it's friday night. >> as a man i'm insulted you have to reduce it these sexual terms. how about love? how about intimacy? >> it becomes, it can also lead to a sexual harassment issue. >> yes. >> because it's an uncomfortable -- and also it becomes an uncomfortable work environment, which is an element of harassment. >> can i add one more fact? apparently 35 to 44-year-old range those folks were more than five times more likely to have had one of these relationships

than the 18 to 24-year-olds were. >> yes. >> my biological clock is ticking and you think why not? and you wonder if life has passed you by. you've already had multiple partners. i'm not surprised by it all. i wonder if one-third is a little off. >> once again, it is a very controversial thing but as long as it's not -- boss supports it is very natural. >> i feel like there is a love affair going on between the three of you but it is platonic and professional. >> there is an affair. it could be star and nancy, me and star, me and nancy. what is your guess? >> i'd say donny and donny. let's get to our next one. sorry. it's a good one. friends over husbands. this one didn't shock me either. millions of married women said they'd rather spend time with their girlfriends than husbands. researchers find women think their girlfriends are much better company. >> imagine you talk to a woman and you get a noun, a verb and sometimes pronouns and adverbs. it is quite stunning. >> oh, that's not fair. >> you have whole thoughts. >> i mean, i'm not married but

i've been with my guy now for almost five years. and i'd much rather have a date with him than go out with a girlfriend. i'd rather talk to my girlfriend, gossip with my girlfriend, share with my girlfriend but i want to spend time with my man. >> a woman or a man who wants to spend time with their friends even more than their spouse doesn't mean they don't love their spouse. they may have shared interests. >> i agree. >> women friends have -- >> i tell you one thing you guys are not there yet, when children start going through school, you start as a married couple arguing about their grades, what was packed for lunch, schedules. the reality is it's easier to get a break and talk about things outside of your family with a girlfriend. it's always kids, kids, kids when you're married. >> in this study women said they preferred to go shopping with their girlfriends because they trust their friends' advice more and they don't have to pretend everything is cheap. >> it's true with men also. nine of ten i know, doesn't mean they don't love their wives and have a great marriage, on a given night or afternoon would rather be with their friends. >> this is the popper scooper

lawsuit. this happened in fairfax county, virginia. a lawsuit or excuse me a criminal case misdemeanor against a woman for failing to clean up the dog's poop. >> they found her not guilty. >> not guilty. is this the highest use of our judicial resources? >> it is really what makes people hate lawyers. somebody would actually take this case to court and then we'd have to waste resources and then the court would have to make a decision. and we have, you know, a man on trial for killing michael jackson. so you have these two cases and that are in the news right now and we have to focus on the pooper scooper. >> i'm always amazed human beings are willing to follow an animal and clean up its excrement. that stunned me. it's just amazing. >> i have somebody who built a big business on that. >> you know what's fun bit thny the lawsuit? they were considering bringing in some of the dog's poop as an exhibit. >> that is one reason we have a deficit. >> there is nothing wrong with

poop. >> okay. then finally, from the ridiculous to the absurd, are arm pits the new sexy? apparently if you look at some of the covers on the top magazines lately it's like armpits all over the place. we can show you some. >> why don't you two show us? >> no. i knew you'd say that. >> here it is. >> i hesitated to wear this dress because i thought if they put my arm up -- >> i almost changed. i don't want to show my armpit. donny does want to show his armpit. >> is there no limit to to you? is there no limit? >> what do you think? are armpits sexy? >> whatever works for you. elbows, armpits, breasts. who is to say what is sexy? >> magazines are all photo shopped. >> if somebody thinks an armpit is sexy god bless. whatever works for you. >> all right. star jones, donny deutsch, and dr. nancy good to talk to you. >> solving world problems. >> thank you. from poop to armpits. a new low. >> after that affair i just don't like you anymore. >> no, donny. take it back.

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>> right. there is a website called find a better bank.com that will walk you through step by step, give you some names of banks that might work for you. but find the bank first before you close the old account. really important. >> before you close the bank account you say, take a look at your last three or four bank statements. what are we looking for? >> we're looking for transactions where you didn't physically do anything to make it happen. so any sort of automatic transaction, so many people are banking online these days the risk in switching banks is that some of these auto transactions get lost. so you want to isolate every single one of them and understand how that happened. were they on your debit card? did you ask your bank to reach in and swipe out or your biller to reach in and swipe out the money? make a list. >> your bill pay. and one of those you say then is once you go through the statements then you want to make sure to cancel recurring payments that you may have already signed up for. >> this you can do just through your online bank. you go through and you just cancel all of the ones that are happening every single month or

every single quarter. it's the quarterly payments that mess people up. >> okay. this one is tricky. the auto payments. a lot of people are getting direct deposit into their bank accounts so something to really consider and again don't close that other account until you have got this settled. >> leave some money in it just in case things get mixed up. but these are the transactions where you've said to your health club or somebody else, go ahead. reach into my bank. pull out the money. in order to move those, they are going to -- the new bank may want -- the biller may want a canceled check. they may want a routing number. they may want your signature. so pick up the phone. call them. ask them what they need in order to make this happen. it's a little more labor but it's not difficult. it's just tedious. >> how long should you keep your old bank account open as well? >> well, it is as i said these quarterly payments that mess people up so i would keep it open at least three months to make sure that you go through one of those quarterly cycles. >> i know there's a lot of help out there, these switch kits now and also online sites you can take a part of as well.

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dreams to the naive. >> you're a victim in all this. >> reporter: and even the girl next door. >> just because i live it in a nice house doesn't mean i live a nice life. >> reporter: msnbc goes under cover with the fbi in michigan rescuing the young and the lost caught in the grip of sex slavery in the motor city. >> thanks everybody for coming out. as you guys know today is the kick off for operation cross count country. >> reporter: today much of the underground sex trade has moved off the street corners and on to the internet. >> is this kim? >> reporter: investigators begin the operation by browsing the online ads and setting up dates. >> calling to see if i can get some company. >> these are run aways that we'll make the team aware of tonight. >> reporter: this fbi special agent is the victims' specialist. >> they end up running away maybe at the bus stop. the pimp looks at the bus stop,

says oh, she looks like she needs to eat, needs some food. offers that. less than 24 hours they're working for the pimp. >> put your hands on top your your head. >> reporter: the male suspect is quickly cuffed in the parking lot but inside the room the investigators make a troubling find. do you have anything with your name to know here? >> no. >> reporter: a very young looking girl with no identification. >> how old are you? >> i'm 19. >> reporter: the suspect outside is a little more willing to talk. he provides police with a first name for the girl. >> who is she? what's her name? >> the [ bleep ] told me alicia. >> alicia. what's her last name? >> she didn't say. hey, man, hey, she told me she was 19, so, you know, like i said. >> how old are you? >> i'm 34. >> what's your connection with the guy out here? >> i don't know who that is. >> reporter: for now, alicia will admit to nothing, not even after detectives point out that the room she's in has been paid for by the male suspect under arrest in the parking lot. >> so you don't know the fwi

outside, right? >> no. >> then how come this is in his name? >> i don't know. >> you're protecting what, the pimp or what? >> i'm not protecting nobody. i just don't know. >> you're protecting that guy right there? >> i'm not protecting nobody. i'm protecting myself. >> do these girls consider themselves victims when they come in? >> many times they don't. that's your initial hurdle when you're asking them to tell you about what's happened to them they don't want to. they want to protect the pimp, whoever is exploiting them. they have nowhere else to go. for us to say to them we want to get you out of this life, i don't know that they necessarily believe us at that point in time so it's going to take some trust and gain that trust from them to say we're really here to try to help. >> joining me now are edward price detective sergeant for the michigan state police and kevin perkins fbi's chief of the criminal division. good morning to both of you. good to have you here. >> good morning. >> let me start with you, detective. we saw in that weekend you guys actually were able to get four girls back off the streets and very important, great work that

you all are doing there. but yet we see over and over again they defend the guys who put them in that situation, the pimps. why is that? >> yes they do, all the time. a lot of times it's because the pimps threaten the girls. i've seen it where girls have been burned with cigarettes, tied up in basements. they've been beaten with whips, rubbing alcohol poured in their sores. a lot of times girls also feel that they're in love with the pimp and they don't want to turn him in sort of like you're in a domestic violence situation. >> you peel back the layers as you get to hear the stories of these girls. some of them are the girls next door it turns out. right? i mean, these are some girls from the suburbs who are ending up in this lifestyle. how is it happening? >> quite a few now are from the suburbs. it's not just an inner city problem. like you say, once you do peel back the layers, what you find inside is a child who is scared, who's been hurt in the past. most of the girls -- abused a lot. >> most of the girls we deal with at some point when you sit down and talk to them, you realize they've had some kind of

sexual abuse back in their life when they were younger. >> so it leads them down this inevitable cycle of abuse once again. and, kevin, you oversee the crimes against children with the innocence lost initiative. and there are 26 bureaus who are doing exactly, or task forces doing exactly what we saw in detroit. is the threat to children increasing now because we are seeing exploitation increase online? >> you know, i think the internet is there to make our lives easier across the board for everything we do. unfortunately, this is one of the darker sides of it where it makes it more accessible and easier for individuals to exploit. and for our point it's all about saving these kids and getting them back into shelters and off the streets. >> what is it that parents need to take away from this? what is the growing threat to children across america? >> the growing threat, particularly as it has to do with the internet, is for the children to be monitored. you have kids at home. i have kids at home. you have to know what they're doing, who they're talking to, and what activities they're conducting online. >> what is the message then for

the men who are buying or selling these kids online? >> the message is we're not stopping. we're coming after you. we've been doing this since 2003. we've convicted 850 of these folks, seven have gotten life without parole. these are stiff sentences and the cross country six stay tuned. it's on its way. >> all right. i hopefully will be joining you for that as well. thanks so much, gentlemen, again, for being here. we appreciate it very much. edward price and kevin perkins. meanwhile to let you know "sex slaves motor city" airs this sunday on msnbc. switching gears, innovative jewelry for under a hundred dollars right after this. of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both

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good morning. >> good morning. >> well, how do they do that is a factor in this segment. these jewelry options are really cute and very practical. >> versatile and all about getting more bang for your buck. i really love finding things and we can start off with unique earrings. i loved these from leah sophia. these earrings are actually four earrings in one. >> so you buy them like this but you have all these different options. >> they come like this with the additional stud so you can wear the sparkly stud or the flat stud and then the jacket, this little thing that hangs comes off. you can separate that and you get four different looks. if you're traveling or a girl on the go at the office and you wear the stud to work you have something for your dinner right in your purse. >> very practical. this is cute. you can change out the colors. >> these enamel charm hoops are by hidalgo. you can have four different styles, white, black, turquoise, decide to do just the simple hoop at work or even a little change of a set. i love those options. you get more bang for your buck. >> these are my favorite on the table.

>> i think these are so great. every woman loves a stud in more ways than one. >> well, bobbie. >> these studs are great because they have little jackets and you can put either the white gold jacket or the yellow gold and as you can see these on air the rose gold. again, it lets you mix your metals, change it up. >> really changes the look. this is for those who have clip ons but sometimes people don't have the pierced ear and the clip on can hurt the lobe. >> a lot of women e-mail about their situation saying i don't have pierced ears and i hate clip ons. this is an alternative from lisa dora. these slip on which is so great. you just take the hoop if you look really closely and then you slip it on to your ear and it's meant to hang just inside. >> if you have your hair down in particular you wouldn't even notice. it looks kind of cool. >> it kind of is cool and a really smart idea for women who don't have pierced ears. i love that. they're all affordable. >> next is reversible jewelry. this is great. >> i was excited about this. this is steel by designs reversible omega necklace. you see this is gold right now. if you flip it over you have a

silver option. so these are, you know, really great again so you can mix metals. these pendants are from max and chloe. if you're someone who gets in the rut of wearing the same pendant every day if you look closely at this bead it is gold plated on one side but you flip it over and it's silver. >> and we can mix metal colors. >> you can mix metals but if you want the versatility is really great. i love this idea from goody. find this at the drug store. how many of your girlfriends wear their hair down around their wrist? so this is actually an elastic for your hair but if you wear it around your wrist it's now decorative and it's meant to be sort of a jewelry and hair band. >> looks like little bangles. >> andpensive at $5 and they make the head band version that if you slip it down it can be your necklace. makes your function fashionable this is cute. you pop up different colors into these? >> i loved looking for interchangeable collections. these are by chameleon called

jewel pops. you'll notice in this compact they're little pops so you can collect these and you invest in just one base like the earring or the ring and these actually will pop right out of the earring base. >> so you buy the big base and then you can kind of collect the charms as you go. >> this is a really cool company called switch gear so if you buy just this, this is a whole kit and you can break it down into all of these styles. >> wow. >> so you can pick different types of kits but you can have your diy to your heart's content all day long. this was a great find. unique crecreations. they sell the earring hoop which you can wear plain or purchase any color gem or stone and collect them over the years to have your only personalized kit. >> this is great for those who travel because you have all the different options. >> and such a great gift for the holidays coming up. you can personalize things for people as well. >> collars is your next category. >> this is really making a comeback. we're seeing the lady like trend so all different kinds of

collars. this stiffer collar and embellished peter pan collars are back. it's a great way to change the neck line of blouses you already own. there are so many blouses in stores right now too that are embellished that instead of investing that you can just buy the interchangeable color. i love these. h & m, top shop. >> if you want to not buy a whole new blouse you can do this. >> if you have a white blouse at home and you just add a scarf you might already own or you could go to american apparel and get a twisty type scarf but you'll see it makes the chic bow. i even love these. just hair barret bows. >> in the '80s we'd put this in our hair. >> i think they're still selling them for hair. i love this western inspired trend. >> i saw this in tucson, arizona. never went out of style. >> but tips for your collars. this is actually on the shirt. >> about 30 seconds left. we have to show off some of this. you are wearing this idea. >> i love overlay pieces and so this belt happens to be from

bcbg and what is great is that it can completely transform my dress i have on. >> i thought that was part of the dress. really cute. >> you can wear this over a little black pencil skirt. i love these body chains. they're only $24. it totally changes the look of the blouse. it can be worn as a vest like you see it or just a statement necklace. >> you are saying you can put it on or put a jacket over it. >> put it on with a blazer or t-shirt. everything here is on our today show.com website. >> great ideas. bobbie thomas, thank you so much. as bobbie said if you want more information check out her style buzz on today.com. just ahead spook-tacular getaways for halloween. first th

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