good morning. medical watch. dr. conrad murray placed under 24 hour monitoring at the los angeles county jail overnight, just hours after being found guilty of causing mnl's death. michael jackson's death. this morning, exclusive reaction to the verdict from michael's sister, rebbie jackson. totally fabricated. herman cain goes on a late night talk show and fights back against startling new allegations of sexual misconduct, and he's planning a major news conference today. why did his accuser wait 14 years to come forward? we'll ask her in a live interview. ♪ where in the world, where in the world is matt lauer ♪ and destination unknown. we lost saw matt leaving namibia, africa, on a

four-wheeler. where in the world is he now? we're going to find out together. "today," tuesday, november 8th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm ann curry. matt's arrived safely at the secret destination for day from of where in the world, a place 24 hours ago he didn't expect to be in. he'll explain when he reveals his location in just a bit. we want to now get to that verdict in the michael jackson death indication. in a moment we'll talk exclusively to jackson's sister rebbie. first nbc's jeff rossen is covering the case in los angeles. jeff, good morning. >> hi ann, good morning to you. conrad murray is waking up this morning in the l.a. county jail and he's so upset they put him on a 24-hour medical watch.

his lawyers asked the judge to let him out on bail. the judge said no, called him a risk to the public and had murray led off in handcuffs. for the first time conrad murray on camera, angry and emotional describing michael jackson's final moments. >> we the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, conrad robert murray guilty of the crime of involuntary manslaughter. >> reporter: gasps in the courtroom but conrad murray didn't even flinch. suddenly the man michael jackson trusted with his life was a convicted felon, responsible for michael's death. >> justice was served. >> it's a great feeling. >> reporter: and michael's fans cheered, too, celebrating in the streets, but prosecutors weren't done yet. >> at this time your honor the people ask the defendant be remanded into custody. >> reporter: the judge agreed. >> dr. murray's reckless conduct in this case poses a demonstrable risk to the safety of the public, public safety demands that he be remanded.

>> reporter: and there he went, straight to jail in handcuffs, to spend his first night behind bars. murray's california medical license, that was stripped away, too. >> i just thank the jury and our sympathies go out to the jackson family at this time for the loss that they have suffered. ♪ >> reporter: over the past six weeks at times it felt like michael jackson himself was on trial, the defense painting the pop star as a desperate addict, using dr. murray to get drugs, a down on his luck has been with a bizarre lifestyle. >> everything about him is sick. >> reporter: cameras were given exclusive access to murray's defense team. >> thank you. i love you, lord. >> reporter: and even access to conrad murray himself, during the trial, behind closed doors, all for a documentary, "michael jackson and the doctor" airing later this week on msnbc. murray opening up about his star

patient. >> he really could not sleep. have you ever seen the "thriller" image when he was made up? he looked that hysterical. >> reporter: for the first time on camera, murray describes what happened inside michael's bedroom the day he died, blaming jackson's body guard for the chaos. >> i told security to get the kids away from there, get the kids away from there because i did not want them to see their father getting cpr. >> kind of ushered them out and said, "kids, don't worry, we'll take care of it. everything is going to be okay." >> and he says, "doctor, doctor, what happened? i need help." i'm doing cpr, mr. jackson is not breathing. call 911, i need you to call 911. >> we have a ja here that needs help and he's not breathing.

>> in addition to me doing cpr, chest compression, and trying to resuscitate this patient, i'm controlling him on the 911 call. how old is this patient? 50. get the [ bleep ] over here. get here. i need you to come. come on. help me. >> reporter: the body guard says he did all he could. it isn't all anger from murray. he gets emotional, too, discussing his close relationship with michael, like kindred spirits. >> he said "of all my life, i have found one friend which is you, dr. conrad." >> reporter: murray says they both grew up with controlling fathers. >> i think in some ways there were mirror images of our lives, especially did not have the full appreciation from our fathers.

he had a dad that never hugged him, never hugged his own children. he lived a life written in 100 years of pain. >> reporter: even if murray's intentions were good, the jury didn't seem to care, guilty and now it is the doctor who faces years of suffer. so here's what comes next. murray will be sentenced november 29th and the judge has full discretion here. he can give murray anything from just probation up to four years in state prison. legal experts say the fact that the judge sent him right to jail on monday not a good sign for murray at sentencing. michael jackson's oldest sister rebbie jackson was in the courtroom for the verdict and joins us exclusively. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> describe your emotions upon hearing the verdict and anything that michael jackson's children may have said about it. >> when i heard the verdict, i thought i was going to feel as though i got a tremendous amount of relief, but i felt really

numb and not only that, i started crying profusely. >> do you know why? >> i guess because the reality of what had transpired really hit me at that point and even though he passed a few years ago, going on into the third year i think, the problem with it was that it sort of just brought everything back to reality, and it was so much. it was just tremendous. >> prince, paris, blanket, did they say anything? >> i hadn't seen them, because when i left the court, they were still in school. we went back to my mom's home, but i'm sure they feel a lot of relief in relationship to him. >> we have a video clip dr. murray did a few weeks ago with savannah guthrie. i want to get your reaction on the other side. let's listen. >> reporter: do you remember his final words before he died? >> it was probably i don't know, but probably when he was

pleading and begging me to please, please let him have some milk because that was the only thing that would work. >> what do you want to say about the effort by the defense to paint your brother as an addict who contributed to his own death? >> well, my problem is that i have with the entire theory or the situation was the fact that the doctor took an oath in being a professional. he performed something in a private setting, you might say, that is giving, administering propofol, which is wrong, so no matter what the situation was, he was wrong because he's not supposed to do that. >> was your brother to blame at all in contributing, in your view, to his death? >> i don't think so, not at all. i don't think so. >> you're not sure. >> not at all, i don't think he contributed to the death, i don't think so, no. >> but will you acknowledge that he did, was addicted to medications? >> he had addiction to

prescription drugs, i do know that. >> dr. murray is now in jail, he could get anything from probation to four years in prison and sentencing on november 29th. what do you think should be the penalty? >> well, i'm going to leave all of that in god's hands. i do know that because of the law that has recently been passed i understand the jails are overcrowded so he's supposed to get up to four years but i have been told that he might just get house arrest. i don't know. and it's sad, because my brother is gone and nothing will bring him back, that's for sure. >> dr. murray said he loved your brother. do you have any sympathy for him at all? >> no, i don't, not in that way i don't because if you love someone you'll do what you think is best for him, not what you think they want to you do. >> how are michael's children now, two and a half years after his death, how are they doing? >> they to be very honest they seem to be functioning fairly well. they're in a new society you might say arrangement

interacting with people in the public and enjoying their lives as best they can. >> that's good news, rebbie jackson. thanks for being with us this morning. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me. much more of our exclusive interview with dr. murray friday. see "michael jackson and the doctor" friday night 10:00 p.m. eastern time on msnbc. we'll make a turn now to politics and the newest claim of sexual misconduct lefrld against gop front-runner herman cain. a fourth accuser came forward monday. we'll talk to her in a moment. first nbc's kelly o'donnell is in washington with details. >> good morning, ann. the latest accuser said she wanted to put a face and voice to the other women who have also claimed that herman cain committed some kind of sexual harassment against them. now this woman had not filed a formal complaint but she came forward with some specific and even graphic details about what she says happened when she spent time with cain. cain made a campaign stop on

late night tv. >> all things considered, i'm still alive. >> reporter: herman cain with host jimmy kimmel. >> the feelings that you have when you know that all of this is totally fabricated, you go from anger, then you go, you get disgusted, because there's not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations. >> reporter: that was just hours after sharon baialek provided a lengthy account saying cain groped her 14 years ago. >> he suddenly put his hand on my leg, under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch. >> reporter: in 1997, bialek had been let go from an education foundation tied to the national restaurant association, where cain was president. she says she knew cain and wanted his help to find a job.

her attorney is gloria all-red. >> instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, mr. cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package. >> i said, "what are you doing? you know i have a boyfriend. this isn't what i came here for." mr. cain said, "you want a job, right?" >> reporter: late monday night his campaign lashed ought at bialek calling her "a woman with a long history of severe financial difficulties, including personal bankruptcy." meanwhile, the lawyer for another accuser who had filed a complaint and received a settlement was pleased bialek spoke out. >> her allegations are similar to the incidents that my client suffered, not exactly the same but similar, and to me it shows a pattern. >> cain says he will fight back with a news conference this afternoon, where he will be in phoenix, and we already get a sense of what he will say, his campaign is saying, that gloria

allred the attorney is a democratic activist who is celebrity seeking and make the suggestion that opponents somehow convinced sharon bialek to come forward with false accusations he says with a potential of somehow making money. allred says bialek has not sold her story. >> thank you so much. sharon bialek is with us along with other than allred. >> good morning. >> first address your response to the mccain campaign calling you "a woman with a long history of severe financial difficulties and personal bankruptcy." you have filed for bankruptcy twice. is your coming forward a part of any kind of financial motivation? >> absolutely not. and you know what? i had spoken to gloria about this before. there were no skeletons in my closet. i told her that this may come up and i expected this. this is what happens. it's not about me. i'm not the one running for president. >> but it's also important to

know she could have sold her story. she like millions of americans has financial difficulty, up front about that. >> point taken. >> she wants to tell the truth. >> did anyone with the other campaigns encourage you to speak out? >> no, absolutely not. i came of my own volition. >> why after an event you say happened 14 years ago are you only coming forward now? >> there's a variety of reasons. number one, ann, when this happens the first reaction is you're embarrassed. number two i had a boyfriend at the time, we discussed it briefly although i didn't share the details with him and he said it's going to be one of those he said shsh she said things. these were the late '90s. unfortunately we're still not where we should be in these types of cases so for those reasons. >> you're absolutely sure he used the words "you want a job, right" those were his exact words? >> yes. >> the mccain campaign as you know has since disputed this, saying in a statement, "all allegations of harassment

against mr. cain are completely false. mr. cain has never harassed anyone." what is your reaction to that? >> i think maybe mr. cain's definition of harassment might be different. maybe he doesn't feel he harassed them. >> gloria, does this technically qualify as harassment? sharon no longer worked for the national restaurant association? >> she may have had rights nonetheless because she was seeking his help getting a job. the real question is, ann, should the public believe the word of four different women, two of whom filed claims of venti sexual harassment and received settlements for them or the word of one man who has a motive to deny. >> here is another question being raised by the right. the question as you heard in kelly's report that this is a part of partisan politics that you, gloria, just before the california election for governor you held a news conference with republican meg whitman's fired housekeeper who was an illegal

imgrant and she lost the election and you've contributed thousands of dollars to barack obama and hillary clinton. so is this a politically motivated effort on your behalf? >> absolutely not. the last big news conference i did in new york was against congressman, democratic congressman anthony weiner. my client said he should resign, he sent her sexual messages and that was one of the reasons he thought he should resign. i've also criticized president clinton when he lied to the american public. if a man commits an injustice against a woman, sexual harassment which by the way is no joke although apparently herman cain wants to make it a laughing matter, then i am going to speak out against them if they're democrat, republican, libertarian, or no party at all. >> all right, gloria allred and sharon bialek thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i know this is not the last we'll hear about this. now let's get a check of the weather from mr. roker. al, good morning. >> good morning, ann.

we have pretty incredible storm chaser video. we'll look at that coming up. we've got severe storms today ahead of this system. there is this video where a storm chaser gets a little bit too close to this system and all of the sudden his car gets flipped. fortunately nobody injured in this but it was only a matter of time before something like that happened. here's where we've got the risk of strong storms from houston up to st. louis, ahead of the system, behind it unseasonably cold air. showers, tornados possible ahead of the system, rainfall amounts from three to five inches of rain from oklahoma city up to joliet, innoise. behind it we're talking anywhere from three to six inches of snow through the central plains and upper midwest over the nexpe >> good morning, it will turn out to be another beautiful day and then the fog will burn of shortly and sunshine is expected in the afternoon and a high temperature will be 68.

>> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> announcer: where in the world is matt lauer is brought to you by the capital one venture card. >> i couldn't find him. >> why don't you use this? >> oh, yeah. >> all right, al, thank you. for the second time this week, it's time for us to ask, where in the world is matt lauer? ♪ where in the world, where in the world is matt lauer ♪ ♪ show me a sign, give me a clue ♪ ♪ drop me a hint and tell me something new ♪ ♪ it's a global mystery ♪ mystery ♪ you've got to watch and see ♪ where in the world, where in the world is matt lauer ♪

>> good morning, everyone, ladies and gentlemen. it's nice to see you and i'm sure you've been spending a large portion of your free time over the last 24 hours pondering the clue i gave you before leaving namibia. i want to tell you the truth here because we flip flopped our entire itinerary due to weather. i wasn't planning on being where i am this morning until later in the week. i hadn't completed the clue so i relied on our executive producer jim bell to write the clue. if you love it it was mine, if you hate it, it was his. down to the control room in new york city, the nerve center and check in the control room. >> this was on short notice. don pardo might say it is a pin in earth and blue sea, its cup runneth over, high in the sky, where the best things can be free. >> all right, so where in the world am i. >> i spent a lot of time think being this and i'm knocking myself now. i want you to know don pardo

once guest starred in the "simpson" episode made after a movie in which a reverend sings a song about a volcano in cracatoa, which is on an island in the ocean. >> i know it's not studio 8h but i'm thinking maybe gibraltar. >> natalie? >> i think i know the answer because i have been there, you are in andora. don pardo is the host of "jackpot" so he is the riddler. the clue, what was the clue, a pin on earth in blue sea, is an anagram, in quotes. if you unscramble it, that is the iberian peninsula. its cup runneth over high in the sky the pyrenees mountains it's cup runneth over a lot of world

cup events, skiing, the tour de france goes there. >> you better be right natalie after all that. >> many things are free because it's politically free because it is a principality, and in between spain and france. >> okay, let's move on to day three of where in the world is matt lauer. >> where are you? >> i'm going to tell you, jim bell, is she right or wrong? >> she's close, matt, but she's wrong. >> no! >> that's right. you are wrong, because i am this morning in -- >> seasons are changing. >> madrid, spain. i am in madrid, spain, and based on that clue, if i didn't know i was sitting here, i wouldn't know i was sitting here, but anyway, i am in madrid, spain, which is the capital city of spain. it is the cultural and social hub of this country. also it tends to be geographically centrally located so it makes it the heart of spain as well. let me tell you about my

location, i'm in plaza maiyor, it's stunning, about the size of two football fields. you can fit 100,000 people here. if you look along the edges, the sidewalks you see great cafes -- hi -- and bars and traditional stores and i like it here. ♪ i will tell you that. take a look at this. ♪ i took off from namibia and landed in the episode of "glee" but you're looking at the fla men co, traditional dance being performed by one of the best schools in the area, this is

called "the love of god" and you're looking at a portion of the fla men co. much more dancing, food and fashion and even going inside the palatial home of a woman making a lot of headlines, the dutchess of al bba, 85 years ol married a man her junior. she let us inside a palace she uses as a home in madrid so it is a full on fiesta of day two of where in the world is matt lauer and natalie, very, very close but no cigar. >> thank you so much, matt, so exciting. >> i still don't get the clue. >> come on, move on. we're back with much more. >> what's the clue?

so folks in new york we have a lot to get to on a tuesday morning from madrid, including

most importantly, natalie is going to continue to try to explain how she thinks she came up with the answer to this clue. >> i was so close. >> that should take about an hour and a half. back to you guys. >> plus a live interview wit >> live, local, late-breaking - this wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning, i am stan stovall at 7:26. you up to date if you're traveling next few minutes. our second accident of the morning on southbound 95 approaching the beltway, we are down to 11 miles per hour and that stretches back to i-395 prior to the beltway southwest. on the beltway and the inner loop approaching green spring, there are 3 like -- right lanes)

that delay stretches back to prior to liberty. the outer loop that bellaire road on the northeast corner has another accident. southbound i-95 is looking at delays out of the northeast and much of that is due to the accident on the outer loop as you make your way on the beltway. we're just getting word of a new accident on the inner loop prior to the tractor trailer fire. within that delay in the northwest corner. let's see if we can say it. yes, it is off to the right shoulder on the inner loop at park heights. the delays stretch back prior to liberty. the left lane only is squeezing by. 95 of the bell with southwest is the pace which is eight mess. and that is the latest. >> good morning. the weather is quiet.

there is fought out there but it is not quite as thick and widespread. it will finish out pretty quickly. the forecast for today is mostly sunny skies and after we get rid of the fog, it will be gorgeous this afternoon with high temperatures in the upper 60's, about 10 degrees above average. beckoning clouds tomorrow and dry during the day i chance for rain showers tomorrow night into thursday. highs will be in the 50's friday but it will be dry. but it will be dry.

♪ welcome backxt where in the world is matt lauer 2011. it is tuesday november 8th, 2011, and you are looking at the beautiful plaza mayor in madrid, spain, and i'm sitting now at one of the many cafes that line this beautiful plaza. guy's got to eat. it is now what, about 1:30 in the afternoon in madrid, 7:30 in new york, and that's where ann curry is back in studio 1a. ann, good morning again. >> matt, we're so envious looking at you in the plaza. this was an unexpected destination even for you. you mentioned yesterday of the

weather. how hard was it to switch gears and make the switch? >> it was a big deal. we always worried about weather at our second destination. it can be iffy. we told producers in other locations to be ready. i would imagine people in madrid had a minor heart attack when they got the phone call yesterday morning before the show that in fact we were coming here. hats off to them and the flight crew as well that had to complete completely change the flight eye ten rear, they waived the $50 fee which saved nbc a fortune. from innamibia we took a 9/11 hr flight from madrid, about 4,500 miles, nonstop, which is great, we didn't have to stop for fuel, got to love those hybrid jets. we have now flown about 25 hours in about 11,700 miles and we have just begun.

we've got three more days to go. coming up from madrid we'll talk about one of the most talked about women in the last world or so, she's the duchess of alba, remember her, twice widowed billionaire, 85 years old and recently got married for the third time to a man 26 years her junior. she has a palace in madrid, a home she uses. we'll see her vast art collection including she has one of christopher columbus's original maps of the americas. it's an amazing sight. >> we have somebody here matt who loves mystery, that's president bill clinton with a new book offering his ideas for turning around the economy. we'll talk to him about that and the current presidential race. we also have other famous arkansasians, the duggars here with their 19 kids and they have a big announcement as we have

before so we'll get to that. >> here we go again. let me show you a little bit more about where i am, madrid is a city of 3.2 million people, the third largest capital in all of europe and madrileos love to take advantage of the streets here and they do it at all hours of the day and night. the grandeur, the legacy, european by location, but uniquely spanish in spirit. ♪ this is madrid, sprawling and splendid. established as spain's capital almost 500 years ago, it's the country's largest city, and one of the greenest capitals in europe. there are more than 40 urban parks. cosmopolitan with distinct neighborhoods. >> it's a melting pot.

madrid, people from all around spain and from some other places in europe. so you can find a kind of diversity on the streets. >> reporter: its pulse, l la grande villa, its heart points to del sol, the geographical center of spain. locals dine on cheese, iberian han, vermuth, local apperitif is served on tap and don't rule out exploring the city after dark. the spaniards here are nocturnal, embracing a love of night life and socializing. >> you can go for dinner in madrid probably by 11:00. you may get out of dinner by sometimes even 2:00 in the morning, and that's the moment that the night starts. ♪ >> reporter: dancing 'til dawn and then chopping for churros,

fried dough dipped in hot chocolate. madrid's national past time soccer, or football as it's known here. real madrid is the most successful soccer team of all-time, its home stadium, its face, christiano reynaldo. the other passion? bull fighting, a tradition steeped with honor and controversy. ♪ flamenco's fast footwork moves to the sounds of the spanish guitar. and some of the most famous art collections in the world are all minutes from each other, el el prada with its star painting by velasquez, and lorena sophia, madrid's modern art museum where you can see picasso's

>> it's an old city, old country with a very venerated spirit. madrid is a very live city to me. madrid is life. >> and because madrilenos tend to stay up later than a lot of people they get started later in the morning but plaza mayor is about to pick up in the pace behind me. ann have you spent much time in madrid? >> i was in barcelona the last time i was in spain and i always wanted to go to madrid. you look like you're having such a good time. >> it's nice. we'll show you around more as we continue throughout the morning, check out food and also the fashion of spain and we've got a lot to get to. >> sounds good. thank you so much. we look forward to that. now let's get a check of the weather from al. >> announcer: "today's weather" is brought to you by daisy cream. a dallop of daisy is a way to

make good food taste better. >> you wish your dad and today is your >> there is a little bit of thought in some neighborhoods and it should burn off and it will turn out to be a nice day with mostly sunny skies expected with high temperatures in the upper 60' >> and that's your latest weather, ann? coming up next, former president bill clinton on his fix for the economy and the presidential race, plus much more from matt in madrid. first these messages.

we're back now at 7:41, with former president bill clinton. the nation's unemployment rate now stands at 9% with 14 million people out of work and president clinton is offering his proposal to get people off the unemployment lines in his new book "back to work: why we need smart government for a strong economy." whether president good morning. >> good morning, ab. >> "back to work" is a prescription for economic renewal. is there anything that could be done right now that is not being done that could spark the movement towards creating more

jobs? >> yes, but it won't bring us all the way back. let me explain what i mean. what happened to us was we had a financial collapse and a real estate collapse. if you go back 500 years, when countries do this, it takes a long time to get over, sometimes five to ten years, sometimes even longer. so i wrote this book to try to explain how we can beat those odds, but there's no instantaneous fix. i think the president's proposals on the payroll tax cuts for employers and employees would help and i think they should pass. then i think we have to get the money going in the economy again, which means you have to get the bank money released, primarily that's reforming the mortgage crisis, get corporations to invest back in america again. there's $4 trillion in banks and corporations that could be invested here, and that would take the world out of the financial crisis. >> the question is, whether to get them to invest that money. you compliment the president on some of his policies but i want

to point out you also point out a number of mistakes made by president obama and the democratic party, including not making a stronger case for efforts to stabilize the economy in 2009, failing to craft an effective national campaign message to counter the tea party's anti-government rhetoric of 2010 and bungling their response to the country's debt by not choosing to raise the debt ceiling in 2010 when they had a democratic majority in the house. why offer these criticisms now in this book, are you considering them fodder for the republican party? >> first of all, no. well probably because this is the second you question you asked me proves the thing i said in the book. the first thing i said is what happened to us politically and economically, conflict makes better politics and cooperation with news better economics. the book lavishly praises the administration's economic and energy policy and the second question i get asked is this. this is the way america works. >> but do you criticize the

president. >> well first of all i made a mistake as it turns out on the debt ceiling, because i didn't think it was subject to the filibuster. turns out the white house told me, gene sperling said they tried to raise the debt ceiling and senator mcconnell said he wouldn't do it unless they caved to all their demands. on the other thing we made the same mistake when i was president in 1994, we didn't run a national campaign. so the debt, the tea party line basically was the only thing people heard, but i think that the important thing is what are we going to do now and what works best in real life is cooperation, not conflict, and so we got a big disconnect between where our politics have worked, conflict works, and the way our economics works. if you look at silicon valley, if you look at san diego, where they had the human genome center and one nobel prize winner in

the city, 100 computer simulation companies, cleveland clinic and the cuyahoga community college are training mid career people with high school educations who have lost their jobs and are desperate to go back into health care work. pittsburgh switching from steel to nanotechnology, all of these places you got the government and the private sector working together. that's what works. >> you say cooperation. i want to play you a clip, because it's not the only thing i think you've said that has worked. in 1992 there was a presidential campaign video in which you talked about something else. i want to show you that video. >> we've got to put our own house in order and restore the middle class, reduce poverty, bring this country together again. i've got a fine national economic strategy for the short and long run but in the end a plan is just a piece of paper. to make it change lives you need leadership and vision and action. that's been the work of my life and that's why i'm running for president. >> first of all, how cute were you and your hair hasn't changed but number two, number two, you talk about vision there and

leadership. so what is president obama's vision on the economy? >> he wants to work, he wants it to work for everybody. he wants to have broad-based prosperity, shared prosperity, growing middle class again, not the kind of growth we had in the last ten years where almost all the income gains went to the top 10%, most of that to the top 1% and you had median income declining as it still is. poverty rising, that doesn't work. to build a shared economy, with shared prosperity, you have to have growing jobs, and until you get job growth, until you get economic growth, we can't balance the budget. i don't care what you do. they're finding that now in the uk. you can cut spending, you can raise taxes, do whatever you want. if you can't balance the budget until we grow this economy again. >> i want to know what you think about this, because when you look at the president's disapproval rating on the economy, it's 57%, according to the latest poll. you know, you often speak of your wife's extraordinary gifts.

do you ever think that the country would be better off if she had won the presidency? >> i don't think about it. >> you don't? >> no. >> why? >> because i deal with the world as it is. i think he's done a better job than he's getting credit for. i think he now has a congress that doesn't want to do anything with him, and until the american people send them a signal that they want to send the tea party republicans a snaignal they wan cooperation you're going to have trouble and it's unfair to compare president obama adversely to me. they're talking about my last five years as president, the proper comparison is what happened to me in 1995 in my third year, same thing that's happened to him. we went through the same thing, not much happened. we fought and there were two government shutdowns, and the voters decided they agreed with the approach i was taking. the congress got the message, then we started working

together. so there hasn't been an action-forcing event yet. you can see by this book i essential i agree with his energy policy. we've lost manufacturing jobs every single year in the eight years before he became president. we got a chance to get them back again. he's got a good export strategy, a great idea for the infrastructure bank that puts private money and public money together. this book is about how to do this. it's not about politics. his politics will improve when the economy gets better but the american people need to send a signal to congress they want them to work together. not that he's right all the time or i was right. they have to work together. >> all right, well clearly you want us all to work together so we can get back to work and bill clinton, thank you for caring so much about america to write this book. >> thank you. i do. >> the book again is called "back to work." and still ahead, matt's back to work in madrid, including a rare look inside the duchess of alba's palace there, right after

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ann, see that beautiful building with the frescos behind me? the royal family used to have apartments in there. now it's the city council building, kind of like town hall. couples come here to get married, sometimes 10 or 12 each and every day, ann? >> matt that looks beautiful. looking forward to more and exclusive announcement from the duggar family coming up after

your local news.

>> >> live, local, late-breaking - this wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning, it is 7:56. time for a check on your morning commute. >> is such a nightmare out there. we are dealing with accents i-95 and on the beltway. those are backed up. southbound 95 southwest has a leg closer due to an accident for the delays stretch back to the 895 split through the fort mchenry tunnel. on the inner loop approaching green spring, we have a tractor- trailer fire still taking a three right lanes. those delays stretch back to

baltimore national pike. the backup is creating a slow go on southbound 795 out of owings mills. toward the beltway around 29 as well. watch for an accident at marysville. the outer loop is affected. at east avenue and avondale road, there is a bus accident. here is what it looks like in park heights. some lanes are closed approaching green spring because of the tractor trailer fire. that is the latest on traffic. >> there is still a little bit of fog out there in some neighborhoods but it is burning off quickly. 44 degrees at the airport and after the cool start, it will be

a beautiful afternoon. mostly sunny skies and a high temperature will between -- will be between 67-70 degrees. the next chance for rain will come in wednesday night into thursday.

8:00 now on this tuesday morning. it's the 8th day of november, 2011 and matt's week-long trek around the globe is in full swing this morning. he is in madrid, spain, as he told us earlier this morning, city that's roughly the size of chicago with the population just smaller than los angeles and we're very excited. he looks very happy there. >> a beautiful day it looks like. >> by the way the hat is working for you. >> thank you. we're going to tell you more about these hats a little later in the show. you see a lot of guys around here wearing these. by the way in the city they will party for just about any reason. they love a good festival here. they are actually if we go back

into plaza mayor, they are building an altar in the center of the square for a festival they're holding tomorrow, shoulder to shoulder some 5,000 people expected here in the plaza for the festival of the virgin of alma dandena, the patron saint of madrid. this is not related to that, this is last month when they marched sheep through the streets of the city of madrid, an annual migration of farm animals from the north to the south. can you imagine what it must have been like to be in madrid as all of the sheep came through in. >> kind of like the running of the bulls. >> exactly like the seals at pelican point yesterday. peter alexander will join me in madrid, take us for a tour of plascia royale. it's enormous, 1.5 million, as in million square feet.

it is twice the size of buckingham palace. you could put three of al roker's apartments inside that palace. and peter is going to take us for a tour in a little while, guys. >> lucky peter, lucky you and lucky us to see the reports. matt i want to mention to you that if anyone has got a question, they can go to today.com and matt will look at the questions and try to answer as many as he can coming up in our next half hour. but we also had coming up in this half hour we've got making room in our studio for the duggar family. >> oh, boy. >> they've arrived, mom, dad, 19 kids and two grandchildren, and they have a big announcement to share with us this morning. >> they could use that plaalaci in spain. star, donny and dr. nancy, aka "today's professionals" will

be joining to us take on today's hot topics. >> first to the news with natalie. >> good morning, everyone. michael jackson's former doctor spent the night in jail under a round the clock medical watch. a judge ordered dr. conrad murray held without bail after his conviction monday for involuntary manslaughter. murray faces up to four years in prison when he is sentenced later this month. republican presidential candidate herman cain says he will address the latest accusation against him during a news conference today in arizona. earlier on this program, sharon bialek said she had nothing to gain by going public with her allegation that cain groped her 14 years ago when she sought his help finding a job. last night appearing on "jimmy kimmel live" cain said there is not an ounce of truth to any of the accusations. and now to that unfolding child sex abuse scandal at penn state. nbc's ron allen has more from pennsylvania. >> reporter: good morning to you, natalie, it is a scandal

that has rocked the campus and nationally renowned football program. joe paterno today holds his recognizely scheduled press briefing but most of the questions today will not be about football. three high profile penn state officials face charges, a sexual abuse scandal centered around former assistant football coach jerry sandusky, accused of sexually abusing eight boys in their early teens, one as young as 10, one allegedly attacked in the showers at a football facility. disadvantaged boys involved in a charity sandusky founded. >> sexual abuls of a child is a horrific offense. failing to report sexual abuse of children is a sear use offense and a fine. >> reporter: prosecutors say they knew of complaints but did not alert authorities and allegedly lied to a grand jury investigating. on campus, shock and anger. >> i had a sense of pride about

the university and the building and everything else and now i look at it and i see corruption. >> reporter: prosecutors say coach paterno, one of the biggest names in college football, is not a target for now. and that he reported an alleged attack to his boss, the athletic director. authorities say the bottom line is that when school officials were aware of such serious complaints, someone should have called police. >> this is not a case about football. it's a case about children who have had their innocence stolen from them and a culture that did nothing to stop it or prevent it from happening to others. >> reporter: all three men charged in the case maintain their innocence, all three are free on bail. investigators are asking for more victims, if there are any out there, to come forward so there may be more cases, more charges, and more arrests. natalie? >> ron allen in state college, pennsylvania, thank you. despite their bitter rivalry, both in and outside the boxing ring, muhammad ali says

he will always remember smoking joe frazier with administration and respect. frazier died at the age of 67 after a brief bat well liver cancer. 40 years ago he became the first fighter to defeat ali. for a look at what is trending today our quick roundup what has you talking online, three decades after e.t. phoned home the white house says there is no credible evidence of extra terrestrial life on earth. the office of science and technology denies there's been any government coverup of contact with aliens. no more party in the usa for britain's prince harry. he's in the tiny town of gillabend, arizona for his final stages of the helicopter training course. there's only one bar and the dads won't take too kindly to the ladies man. this took an entire year, 288,000 jelly beans to create

this video for "in your arms" that has wracked up thousands of hits in just two days. truly it is remarkable, beautiful. 8:07, let's go back outside to al with a check of the weather. that's a lot of jelly beans. >> next time a video made with peeps. here is a cutie, who is this? >> this is brooklyn. >> where are you from? >> new orleans. >> that's close. brooklyn, new orleans. how old is she? >> 7 months. she's a new yankees fan. >> all right, very good. we could use them. hi, sweetie. let's take a look and show you what's going on as far as your weather is concerned. buffalo, new york, news 2 on your side, morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, 63 degrees, got a pretty nice day on tap in the east, temperatures in the 50s in new england.

60s and safety into the mid-atlantic states and the gulf coast, 20s and 30s back to the rockies and the western plains. rain moves back into the pacific northwest later today, risk of strong storms missouri to texas and parts of louisiana. snow on the back side of that system, gorgeous day in the southeast, high surf advisories thanks to what we have is subtropical storm shawn off the coast, not causing any problems, just >> good morning, it will turn out to be another beautiful day and then the fog will burn of shortly and sunshine is expected in the afternoon and a high temperature will be 68.

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america has watched the duggar family grow, and grow, and grow on their tlc series "19 kids and counting." well now they're getting ready for the new season, and a big year ahead. michelle, jim bob and all 19 children and two grandchildren are now joining us this morning. we actually don't even have room for everyone to sit on the couch. good morning, everybody. >> good morning! >> michelle, i'm almost a little afraid to ask. you have a big announcement this

morning? >> we do. we're excited, we are expecting our 20th child. yes! yes! we are due in april, and just thrilled. >> i don't know how it happened. no. >> but were you planning for a 20th? was that the goal? >> you know what? this is the farthest apart we've gone. typically 16 to 18 months apart so we were thinking it might be our last, and that was kind of sad. we were enjoying the grandbabies. they're precious, and so we are just so grateful to god, so excited. >> i'm a mother of two, and with all due respect i know how demanding it is. as all of our viewers know every child is with all of our needs so with all due respect, why isn't 19 enough for you? >> well, we always have the motto in our house there's always room for one more and they are such a gift. we are so grateful for each one

of them. >> what about your house? you have enough room, jim bob, for all these kids? another kid? >> yes, we just had one that got married and had his own family now and we made room for another one. >> i see now that's how it works. does that mean that this is it? >> well, i guess we'll wait and see. we would love however many the lord sees fit to give us, so at this point we are excited about this one coming. >> we didn't want to stop on an odd number. >> okay so let's talk about something a little more serious. you're 45, i understand, years old. >> yes. >> so what about the issues that that may raise in terms of making sure that you have a good healthy pregnancy. are you talking to your doctors about that? >> definitely, yes. and ironically, i got a birthday elliptical, and so i have really enjoyed getting to spend about an hour every about five or six days a week on my elliptical and we've kind of jokingly said i

think mom's in better shape now than she's been in a long time, cause i've enjoyed doing that and trying to eat right and make wise choices and all those ways. >> what do you guys think about all this? >> i think it's wonderful. >> we're excited. >> it's great. it's really going to be awesome, i think our two little ones are already overjoyed when they have aunts and uncles around and i think it is unique when you have an aunt or uncle that's younger than you are, but i think mckenzie and michael are going to be very excited to have a playma playmate. >> why are you boys smiling? are you happy about this? you're grinning ear to ear. you want a little brother or sister again? you do? oh my lord so an even busier house. how do you afford having so many kids? it's expensive. >> a few years ago we went through a financial freedom

seminar and we got out of debt and stayed out of debt. it's freeing, maybe even our government needs to work on trying to get out of debt. >> adding a little politics to all of this, use the duggar family plan. >> save the difference. >> thank you for being here. it's a big schlep to bring all of you to the studio. we appreciate seeing all of you and good buck with that pregnancy. thank you so much >> thank you. >> we want to mention you can catch the season finale of "19 kids and counting" tonight on tlc, and part one of their world tour on sunday. speaking of world tours, still ahead matt sinks his teeth into madrid's tastiest foods, we're so jealous, coming up right after this. on has left you nowhere to go. when you've lost interest in everything. when you've had one too many days feeling sad or anxious... aches and pains, fatigue. when it becomes hard to ignore that you need help.

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>> i was watching you snow, excuse me sand skiing in namibia. it said we need you in spain tomorrow. >> you've had a chance to do things few people get a chance to see. >> we did. we wanted to visit the royal palace. we know so much about will and kate and everything that goes on in britain but little about what happens to the spanish royal family. we went inside the palacio real and see the palace of the duchess of alba. here in the heart of madrid a ceremony that blends tradition, modernity and honor. spain's changing of the royal guards celebrate this is country's flourishing royal family. the revered king juan carlos and his queen, sophia, head up the longest ruling family in the history of spain. distantly related to that other royal family to the north but while britain's royals are often

fodder for the tabloids, few here would ever say a critical word about spain's house oof boe bo bourbon. >> they're respected and admired royalty. able to give a good image outside spain internationally and to be a unifying body. >> are in 2004 spaniards were mesmerized by the first royal wedding hosted on the country's soil in more than 100 years as prince flea pay the 6'5" olympic sailor and heir to the spanish throne married princess latifiyah, former news anchor. their prized palace, today it only hosts state ceremonies. still the 2,800 rooms post an eye popping ensemble of magnificent treasures from the grand staircase to the throne

room with ornate clocks and chandeliers and walls covered in crimson velvet. perhaps only one other spanish palace can compare. hidden alongside madrid's busy streets this is the home of spain's eccentric 85-year-old billionairess, maria del rosaria victoria eugenia francisca fitzjames stewart. you may remember her civil service wedding last month to a civil servant 26 years her junior. >> this is the palace's library. >> where they keep the family books and and this of their dressers, first trance ligs in a spanish of the bible, first edition of don quixote. >> reporter: christopher columbus' first handwritten map of the americas dating baaing to

1492 as well as signed letters and this log of all those on board that momentous journey. upstairs, a dizzying display of art highlighted by these works by the spanish artist goya, famed 18th century portraits of the duchess's great, great, great, great, great grandmother. it's almost as if beethoven wrote a song just for you.. >> that's exactly what it is, yeah. >> reporter: also in this room, napoleon's desk, the french emperor's nephew married into the alba family. this is still a private residence where the duchess's oldest son is and multimillion-dollar paintings share space with family photos. a rare collection that even a king would envy. one room the guide said impossible, we heard birds chirping apparently the duchess has a great affinity for exotic

birds. >> mystery. you think you know a lot about spain and madrid? >> let's see what you got. >> we'll put peter's and your knowledge to the test with a couple of facts. take a look. did you no he that spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world 21 continents and the caribbean owe specially speak spanish. "tilting at windmills" meaning to attack imaginary enemies comes from don xquixote, by cervantes, remains one of the top ten best sellers of all-time. the oldest restaurant in the world still in operation is in madrid, called casa botin and opened in 1725. if you ask for a tortilla, expect a popular omelet made with eggs and potatoes.

the most famous mouse is not mickey, rather el ratocito perez, the tooth fairy. when we come back >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's check on the morning commute. >> it is terrible out there. if you wanted to get there on time, you have to leave yesterday. there are delays everywhere. one accident is gone southbound 95. down to 24 miles per hour. as stretches back to the fort mchenry. thiall lanes are not open and

the tractor-trailer is off to the side. on the outer loop, speeds around 20 miles per hour approaching reisterstown down towards 95. southbound 95 is backed up. watch for an accident at ridge built boulevard and route 27 in mount airy. in parkville, we have an accident. some heavy delays on the north side and eastbound 100 at snowden river parkway. this is 95 south at o'donnell street. that back up because of the earlier accident. we switch over to traffic on 95 at the beltway southwest. easy up against all lanes are now open, thankfully. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> it will be a nice one today. all the fog is burning off and we will see plenty of sunshine.

46 in westminster. mostly sunny skies and a high temperature between 65 and 70. the next chance for rain is wednesday night and thursday. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you for joining us.

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we're back now, 8:30 on a tuesday morning, the eighth day of november, 2011, you're looking at the san miguel market here in madrid, spain, on day two of where in the world is matt lauer. this is a hot spot here in madrid. people come here for all kinds of delicacies and we'll walk inside in a second. first say hi to some americans, philadelphia on board. good to have you here.

have fun in madrid. >> thank you. >> come on inside and look at some of the beautiful mushrooms, fruits and vegetables, we'll look at ham and cheese and olive oil and wine and all that good stuff. big tour coming up. ann, natalie and al i believe are back in new york, guys back to you. >> how are you doing, matt? thank you so much. i'm salivating thinking of all of the things available in madrid. also coming up we have a special guest, we have the author steven king in the house and he has written what i think would be best described as an historic fiction, an historical thriller about a man who travels back in time to try to prevent the jfk assassination. really compelling subject matter. we'll find more about it coming up. >> one of my favorite authors. trfgz are back, we've got star, donny and dr. nancy in the house, they're going to weigh in on everything from the verdict in the michael jackson case, dr. conrad murray case, to whether

kim kardashian should give back her 20.5 carat diamond ring. >> all right. anything else? >> i got nothing. >> how about the weather? okay let's show you what's going on. you'll see for today we're looking at a nice day today, plenty of sunshine up and down the eastern seaboard. a risk of strong storms over the gulf coast into the mid mississippi river valley, showers in the pacific northwest, high surf advisories along the southeastern atlantic coast. tomorrow rain in the central great lakes with snow in wisconsin. another gorgeous day up and down the eastern seaboard. sunny and mild from texas into >> there is a little bit of thought in some neighborhoods and it should burn off and it will turn out to be a nice day with mostly sunny skies expected with high temperatures in the upper 60'

>> check your weather any time of the day or not, weather.com or on cable. tomorrow is a last chance at getting a shot at visiting one of the amazing locations matt is exploring on "where in the world" we are sending a lucky viewer and guest to one of the five soexs, now one of the three locations matt will be visiting. to enter head to our facebook page or today.com before 2:00 p.m. eastern time. >> excellent. >> thanks so much. let's go back to madrid, where matt's got more to show us. hey, matt. >> all right, ann, thank you very much. if you've watched the series over the years we like to eat a little and drink a little and then we like to eat a little more and maybe do a little more drinking. andre cerabbo is a tour guide in

madrid, taking us inside san miguel market. nice to see you. good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> when we come here we talk about ham. why is that? here is ham behind us. >> it's the best in the world. spanish and portuguese both are the best in the world. it's a unique breed to these two countries and the best quality belotta. >> a little saltier than american ham for example, right? >> probably. >> yeah, probably. also here, by the way look at some of the beautiful displays that they have here in the market. locals and tourists alike come by here to have lunch. >> see how marbled it is because of the diet, acorns, that fat is liquid, it's healthy, and it produces a very interesting flavor. >> melts in your mouth. seafood is big here also. >> well, madrid has the second largest seafood market in the

world, only after tokyo. >> some people here consume a lot of seafood in their daily diet? >> a lot. >> paella is very popular. i'm a cheese boy and this is heaven if you like cheese. how much a part of the diet is this? >> big chunk. big chunk. there are 80 different spanish cheeses, 80, and probably the best known is the manchero because it's unique to spain. they use a ship called the manchera ship unique to this country. >> is it expensive here? >> it depends on the quality and the age, how long the aging has been. in this case it's about $13 for two pounds. >> it is a little expensive. we have some people spending money and doing shopping here but i want to show you, look at the olives here. why are olives so important here and why is olive oil so good

here? >> matt, this is, spain is the largest producer of oil in the world. 262 varieties of olives, and for example to give you an example, one province in spain produces more olives than greece. greece is the third producer in the world. one province. >> and people here when they shop for olive oil they shop for it the way we might consider shopping for wine, they look for subtle qualities in the olive oil. >> you have olive oil that goes from $3 a bottle to $170. coming from olive trees that are 1,000 years old. >> they take it very seriously as you can see. andres, thank you so much for the tour. we appreciate it. we'll have much more ahead from madrid on day two of where in the world but first this is "today" on nbc.

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imagine traveling through time, back to the infamous day in dallas from president john f. kennedy and his wife jacqueline were stepping off air force one, smiling and shaking hands with a cheering crowd and going for a short drive downtown not knowing lee harvey oswald was waiting. what if you could do something to stop the assassination and kennedy lived. that's the premise of the novel "11/22/63." steven king good morning. >> good morning to you. >> this is a blockbuster, on the front of it, big massive book you see this picture of the newspaper that ran after jfk was shot and on the back of the book i think we have a graphic that shows what could have happened, that he escaped assassination. >> jfk escapes assassination, right. >> you say it so could have been the second story. >> it was so close, lee harvey

oswald was this disaffected loaner who felt he should have been famous. he spent time in russia, came back to the united states, expected press to greet him at the airport when he touched down in dallas, and when there was nobody there, he was very angry. he was a wife beater. he wasn't a guy who was very well organized, and he ended up getting a shob at the texas school book depository before kennedy was scheduled to go to dallas, and he just happened to have a position on the sixth floor, and it's almost like he won the devil's lottery. >> i'm marveling at just how much you know about this. this speaks to your having done tremendous research to do this book, and you're not -- you're a man in a position who doesn't have to do that. what was the obsession? what sparked the inspiration, what inspired you to this story? >> just that the kennedy assassination happened at a time

when america was at a crossroads. there was vietnam. there was the civil rights movement that was taken place at that time. there was the cold war. a lot of things were happening, and kennedy was coping with those things with a lot of what he called great viga. he had a lot of line and charisma, and when he was killed, things changed and it's impossible to not wonder what would have happened with vietnam with the racial relations in americans, what he would have done, had he lived and the other thing that interested me is the echoes between the kennedy administration and the obama administration in the sense both young men who hadn't had a lot of political experience who vaulted to national prominence, beautiful wives, beautiful children, and also that whole component of people who feel almost hateful toward those people. >> so enter then your tone in which you introduce us to the

character jake epping, a high school english teacher, uses a time bubble to go back to 1958. he lives a number of years until that fateful day, november 22nd, 1963, but he lives it following oswald and marina oswald and to sort of rest your book on this, you had to sort of buy into the idea that oswald was the lone gunman. >> right. >> what convinces you? >> right. well, i read a stack of research materials that were about as high as i am, and you know, i'm doing the book tour thing, and the conspiracy people will show up because they're very wedded to the idea, and norman malor said one time it's virtually impossible for to us believe that one man did this and changed the whole history of the world. that's what still boggles my mind. so it's almost easier to believe that there was a conspiracy, because then at least you get a sense that somebody had a plan,

that this was a planned event, this murder of the president, but if you believe that one man and one place could change history, then everything sort of becomes meaningless, and people don't like that. >> after 56 books, over four decades, nearly four decades, most of those books being about horror and suspense you're now moving or this book is definitely a departure. it's a historical fiction, historical thriller. no less than janet maslin of "the new york times" writes mr. king pulls off a success stained high wire act story telling and trickery. he makes the story work. is this what you're heading towards? >> i don't know, but maybe i ought to buy janet maslin a porsche. that was a great review and i've been fortunate with this. you know, the research stuff, it has to be as close to right as possible, because there are a lot of people watching, a lot of people are going to read the book, and you know, i want to do my job. i wanted to do my due diligence

and i wanted people to feel like they were there. that was important to me. >> you do. steven king, janet maslin i'm sure would like to have a porsche but thank you so much. the book is called 11/22/63. you'll be back talking to kathie lee and hoda. coming up next more from matt and madrid on day two of where in the world but first this is "today" on nbc. ♪

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when you come to a place like madrid, you expect to see very stylish people and the young lady i'm talking to now knows a lot about style. first of all she was born in venezuela, grew up as a neighbor of mine actually no new york and now lives here in madrid and has fashion in her dna. her mom is famed fashion designer carolina herrera.

carolina herrera bias, you have an apartment here? >> right there. i love the people, i love the food, i love the energy, the excitement. as you see, look where i lived at first. it's full of people and i love it. >> people i think back in the states think of fashion, carolina, they think italian, french, maybe the spaniards don't come right to mind. why are they wrong? >> i don't know. i think the spaniards are maybe more classic. the spanish woman when you see her in the afternoon going for a stroll she's very well dressed. so i think that may be seen as too conservative. they have a great sense of style. >> you don't see people here the locals walking around in sweat pants and jeans as much. it's important to them to put themselves together. >> i think so especially for the afternoon stroll or the afternoon tea, everyone looks pretty well dressed. beautiful >> let's talk about some traditional items that you'll see the people here using and wearing. these fans people think they're just movies, they use these here. >> all the time.

i use these fans in the summer, i use them if you go out at night in a very hot night or for a wedding. and there's all sorts of hand painted, jeweled aonicos, simple ones you buy at the street. >> it's not pretent, to walk around with this, they're functional? >> very functional. zb>> espadrills, people line upo buy these. >> i line up and my brother lines up when she comes. >> why are they so popular? >> they're comfortable, low ones and high ones and designers high-end designers have copied espadrills also what are some of the iconic names of spanish fashion? >> manolo blanec and valenciaga, a very well-known idol to many designers everywhere else and

there's a valenciaga museum now. >> a lot of the guys are wearing the hats. >> goros, very typical and women wear them, too. i wear them all the time as well. but they're very typically spanish. you see men walking around morning, afternoon and night wearing their goros. >> something that adds a little color to the segment, you're married to a bull fighter. >> yes. >> is he a big celebrity in this country? >> he is. he's a fourth generation bull fighter but he's retired now. so he doesn't, i don't go through the, my husband -- >> what was that like? were you married while he was actually -- >> no. >> i don't know how a wife goes through that. >> i wasn't, i met him the day he retired. i was at his last bull fight. >> did he retire for you? >> i wish. >> that's not the way it happened. >> no. >> do you miss new york at all? you spent a lot of time in your childhood and -- we lost some

abinicos. do you miss new york at all? >> i do, i go every other month and i love spain. i'm happy here and my children are here. >> pleasure to see my old neighbor from new york city. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. when we come back a clue for day three of where in the world but first this is "today" on nbc.

♪ all right, we're back here in plaza mayor here in madrid. this is home to a lot of artists, a lot of them take to the streets here and create things for tourists and people going by. we have fernando tiazon one of the best artists in all of madrid and working on what he calls his masterpiece for the last couple of years, and he has agreed, folks, to unveil it for us live on the "today" show. so fernando, if you are ready would you show me your masterpiece? oh, my goodness. fernando, you have outdone yourself. it's beautiful. >> thank you. >> i told you, where is the elvis? remember i said i wanted elvis in there? not in it. thank you so much. it's great to have you here. guys, we're having a good time

in madrid. now comes the portion of the show where we actually get to hand out the gifts. i know you like that. >> where we have a good time. >> yes! >> so what we are going to do, we have got three gifts. these are beautiful gifts for you, and i hope you enjoy them. the first i will tell you that they are being modelled by one of the most beautiful women in all of spain, this is miss international. look at you. you are gorgeous. >> thank you so much. >> and what is your name? >> alejandra. >> it's great to have you here. and the first gift you are going to show us is for ann and it is this beautiful shawn that is in red and black. >> i can see you in that. >> hand embroidered. >> i love it. >> i can see you, ann, wearing that at the company christmas party this very year, sportin' that, what do you think? >> it will be a command performance and i will do it. it's stunning. boy, and she wears it well. i'll try to wear it as well, matt. thank you so much.

>> all right. next we have something for natalie, all right, and if you would also display that, please, that is one of the abenicos. >> love it. >> used by a lot of people. carolina herrera bias showed us that. this was hand painted purchased in a store in puerta del sol selling the fans since 1858. >> wow! >> wow! it's beautiful, thank you. >> i also see you at the christmas party in the corner workin' that thing. >> can we see if miss international can come to the christmas party? >> al! careful, al, all right? >> calm down. >> finally, al? >> yes. >> for you, as you know spain won its very first world cup in soccer last summer, right? >> yes, absolutely. yep. >> it was a huge deal here. real madrid is the most popular football or soccer team here in madrid in all of spain and look

who we have here, peter alexander. >> wow! >> sportin' the outfit. >> he gets peter alexander? >> nope, he gets the outfit. you get to take this. >> worn by peter alexander. >> and i'm going to wear that to the christmas party. >> that's right. >> the stockings for christmas, you're all set, al. >> goallllll! >> exactly right. >> thank you. >> matt, that's really nice of you. >> all right, well i'm glad you like it. let me give you a clue. i've got it right over here, this is for day three of where in the world. write this down. >> okay. >> "it may seem a bit unlucky, but we've moved ahead without you as we take an "l" to welcome you to this bridge over dry land." >> oh what the "l." >> the "l" is in new york city.

we're going to ponder that one. >> we'll work on it. >> quick question for you. in this country we use the word hispanic. what does it mean in spain? >> they see that as someone from latin america. they consider themselves madrilenos first, spanish second, europeans third. they think hispanic is someone who lives in latin america. in united states we use it as it a generic term. >> thank you so much, matt. we're very >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. the mayor is hoping to win her first elected term as mayor. her challengers include a republican and armond gerard.

voter turnout is expected to be a bl

>> welcome back. and the fog should be burning off pretty quickly. we will have a nice afternoon with mostly sunny skies. high temperature between 65 and 70. 70.