♪ we're back with more of "today" on a wednesday morning. it is the 23rd day of november, 2011. sometimes it's easier to get people into rockefeller plaza than to get them to leave rockefeller plaza. we just had a great half hour of music from justin bieber and usher here outside, and these fans are still not headed home, which is okay. they've been here for three days, what's another day among friends? i'm matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and savannah guthrie. >> coming up, talking about some pretty important news, basically what the best advice might be if

you're traveling today, going by air or road, there's a lot of worry about the weather and so we're going to get some good information and talking about the weather which you'll be talking about as well. >> before we get to that, a very important holiday tradition here at "today," this monday, we are kicking off our 18th annual "today" show toy drive to give gifts to millions of children who live in poverty and need. celebrity also be helping us collect your gifts for needy kids so bring toys, books, clothing, school supplies, any great gift for a kid up to ang 18. >> drop off your gift at the nbc store at rockefeller plaza or go online at today.com and find out how you can donate. >> let's make this the best year ever. >> we've got a lot of help to start it off because we've got the new york yankees ace pitcher and cy young aword winner c.c.

sabathia with wife amber, and children. you've brought cool stuff, not only your family, what else did you bring with you? >> toys from major league baseball licensing group from oreo sports toys. >> this one, show them. we got the creatures. >> cardinal. >> fabrique innovations. >> we're excited to be a part of this. >> that's awfully nice. you guys have a family foundation as well. >> we do, called the pitch in foundation. amber and i started in 2009 and we look to enrich the lives of inner city kids through sports is and education. >> good news, you guys are going to be staying here in new york? >> thwe are here. >> very nice. a special moment, justin bieber said hello to her and she's still smiling about it. he touched her hand.

>> we're hosting an mlb fan cave hosting an event for the pitch in foundation and i might be santa. >> because you wouldn't fit as an elf. >> happy thanksgiving to you all and thanks for your help. >> happy thanksgiving. >> natalie is standing by with a check of the headlines. >> all right, thanks, guys. once again let's get to your travel forecast this thanksgiving, because millions of americans are heading home for the holidays today, nbc's tom costello is at reagan national airport with the latest on what to expect for flyers. tom, good morning. >> natalie, 42 million americans are traveling, 90% going by car, about 3.5 million going by plane and guess who just walked in who is on his way to thanksgiving. chris matthews is here. >> i'm going to nantucket. >> nantucket. >> yes. >> which is appropriate for you. >> it is, we have those roots and i think joe biden is up

there this time of year. >> good luck with the flight. >> we'll do some reporting. >> reporter: he is one of 3.5 million americans flying today across the united states. we're going to be watching very closely the weather especially on the east coast and the west coast because we do expect to see some weather delays especially in the new york area, also in the philadelphia, northeast area and the corridor, maybe along all the way down to atlanta and also watch the west coast very closely. fly.fa fly.faa.gov has great website information and the airports, how they're doing, whether they're affected by delays. if you're driving the rain could be a problem especially on i-95 and the corridor up the northeast corridor, so good luck with that. natalie, back to you. >> pack some patience, wherever you're going today. tom costello you never know who you're going to bump into at reagan national. >> reporter: never know. three college students detained in cairo accused of throwing fire bombs at security

in tahrir square. the death toll rises to at least 38. tens of thousands of protesters are calling for an immediate end to the military government. three decades after the drowning of actress natalie wood, los angeles detectives reexamining the case of reportedly spoken with one potential witness for the first time. marilyn wayne says her boat was 90 feet away from the yacht when she heard a drowning woman calling for help. wayne never saw natalie wood in the water but says police should have interviewed her 30 years ago. we're learning about two new child sex abuse allegations against former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky. the "harrisburg patriot news" reports two cases under investigation are the if, to involve alleged victims who are still younger than the age of 18. if they're found to be credible, it could raise questions about why authorities waited until the end of a three-year grand jury investigation to arrest sandusky. the failure of the deficit

reduction super committee was a hot topic at last night's gop presidential debate in washington, d.c. republican hopefuls sparred over how deep to cut the national defense budget in a bid to reduce the deficit and repair the economy. and this is one turkey that little emily will remember all of her life. tech sergeant dennis davis, dressed in a turkey costume to surprise his daughter, he even took questions from the class as little emily still had no idea and finally he dropped the disguise and embraced his daughter, knowing that her dad was home and safe emily could get back to looking forward to one thing. >> turkey. yummy, yummy turkey. >> not daddy dressed up in the turkey costume, that's for sure. great story there, it is six minutes past the hour and let's go right now to al for a check of the weather, right across the way. >> thanks so much, natalie. we've got a lot of weather to talk about. we start in the pacific northwest, heavy rain, mountain

snows, rainfall amounts, anywhere from one to three inches from northern california, into the pacific northwest, with heavier mountain snows and the cascades. airport delays in seattle, portland, san francisco. now we move to the east, up and down the i-95 corridor, rain from florida, all the way up into new england, with heavier snow, moving up into bangor, we're talking some areas picking up 6 to 12 inches of snow or more, and one to two inches of rain along the coast. airport delays, boston, new york city, newark, philly, d.c., atlanta, it will be for gusty, >> another possibility of showers as we head towards this afternoon. it will drop into the 40's in

♪ money makes the world go around, the world go around ♪ this morning on "today's money 911" answering all of your questions about selling, saving and spending. jean chatzky, "today" financial editor and author of "money 911" and sharon epperson and courtney reagan, cnbc correspondents. >> nice to see you. >> jay in ketchum, idaho. >> i own a condo worth one-third of what i owe on it. my mortgage is 30-year fixed at 3.35%, auto i'll current on my bills, have good to excellent credit but as a proprietor of a small business severely affected by the economy in the past several years my income has been dramatically reduced and mortgage payment is now 75% of my take home pay. this has become a stressful hardship. what do you see as my options and what do you think i should do? >> jay, do you know if your loan

is a fannie mae or freddie mac? >> it is a freddie mac. >> excellent, great, great news. you are a good candidate for the h.a.r.p. program, a program under which you should be able to refinance that loan to current rates, to like 4%, maybe even lower than 4%. call your lender, tell them you want a h.a.r.p. modification and be persistent. they're still getting their systems in place to do these things but this should work for but >> happy thanksgiving, jay. let's go to stephanie from valencia, california, and on the phone with us. good morning, steph. >> caller: good morning. >> hi. your question? >> caller: yes, i purchased various etfs for my i.r.a. account and doing pretty well. i was wondering with the drastic rise and falls in the market, if i should sell off enough shares to realize my gain and then repurchase more shares of the etfs when there's another dip in the market. >> first of all, sharon, what is an epf, etf i mean?

>> exchange traded fund. stephanie, you never know when if the market dips you'll realize another gain. you may not. it may dip further. you want to see if these are investments that really fit your financial goals. if they do, if it's an etf that right now you'd buy again if you had the chance, just don't sell right now. keep that etf but if there is an asset allocation mix you want to have that may mean selling some of this and buying something else, maybe this is the time to sell it but you just can't time the market. don't try to time right now. >> thanks so much, stephanie. we appreciate that. >> it's okay, i got it. >> e-mail, bobby, dayton, ohio, "my husband and i purchased our first home in 2007 with 30-year mortgage and a 6.5% interest rate, we refinanced last year to a 15-year mortgage and 4% interest rate, we also pay biweekly to help minimize the amount of interest paid over the life of the loan. with the mortgage rates at an

all-time low, should we refinance again?" >> this is a great thing for me, i know a couple of things about the dayton market there. she's taking advantage of the lower rates and paying biweekly, two payments of $600 a month instead of one of $1,200 saves you thousands of dollars and a lot of time over the life of the loan. i understand why it's enticing to possibly want to refinance again. that being said there is a cost to doing so. typically 3% to 6% of your total principle it will cost you to refinance. you want to be careful, do homework and a little bit of math, typical rule of thumb unless you can save 1% of that interest rate, probably not worth it at this point. >> got time for one more, we go to sharon on the phones, she's calling in from columbus, ohio. good morning, sharon. >> reporter: good morning. >> your question? >> my question is, on april 22nd my employer of 25 years filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy and i lost my job and health care as

well as my commissionable sales. i got a new job the end of may but it's on a commission basis and i'm running at an $11,000 debit. unfortunately, i had a fall the end of october, and fractured my ankle and i've been unable to work for the next eight weeks, and i applied for a mortgage loan modification, but was told they wouldn't consider me until i defaulted for three months. this is something i'm definitely not wanting to do, but i have a mortgage -- >> let me get jean on here. >> don't default. don't listen to them when they say you have to do that. go back to your lender, ask again, ask about the h.a.r.p. modification i talked about before and realize, this is only an eight-week window. you want to do whatever you can to tied yourself over that period without defaulting on your loan and without pulling money out of your 401(k), if you can help it. >> happy thanksgiving, good luck, sharon. thank you so much. jean, sharon and courtney, thank you. have a great thanksgiving. >> sure, you too. up next, marlo thomas is

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>> i couldn't figure out why he just kept crying. he would throw up. he was really sick. >> reporter: after a few doctor's visits, one immedia pediatrician was determined to find the problem. >> she kept feeling husband hid and asking him questions and decided to send us to a local hospital. >> reporter: a ct revealed a mask, doctors didn't know it was a tumor or brain defect. they told the family at carson's age nothing could be done. >> i can't describe the feeling that i had as a mom. and i didn't want them to take him from me and just can't imagine losing him. >> reporter: after two months of tests, doctors did a biopsy, carson was diagnosed with nodular meduloblastoma, a type of brain cancer. he was referred to st. jude. >> there was nothing you could do for a birth defect and they told me there was something we could do, we would go to st. jude and he had a 30% chance of

survival. >> carson had a specific type of megaloblastoma and we recognize this particular tumor is common in infants, but the outcome for these patients is very good. >> reporter: after the tumor was removed, carson's parents had a tough decision to make, should they allow radiation to maximize his chance of survival? >> we knew that radiation was so hard on babies, because their brain's not developed. >> reporter: carson was given a type of radiation that focused on the tumor alone, while preserving most of his devel developing brain. >> we decided that we could work through any cognitive problems that it caused. we just needed to make sure we had our carson. >> reporter: after treatment, carson developed at a slow but steady pace. his twin brother, cameron, was a huge part of his recovery. >> he had to keep up and figure out what camson is doing. he learned to work and took first steps and now we laugh and say he doesn't know how to walk. he runs everywhere he goes.

>> reporter: despite the amazing progress, more challenges were ahead for carson. earlier this year, a routine mri revealed a second brain cancer. >> i just lost it in the halls of st. jude. >> reporter: the cancer turned out to be meningioma. >> those tumors are characteristic of patients who have had exposure to radiation therapy and most instances curable by surgery. >> reporter: this time radiation was not used. >> pediatric oncology is evolving always. >> reporter: carson bounced back quickly from the surgery. he gives credit to st. jude's. >> take some yucky, yucky stuff out and make me feel better. >> reporter: his parents say that although the radiation may have caused the second tumor, it also very well may have saved carson's life. they don't look back on their decision to allow it. >> as hard as it was going through it, i don't know if i would change anything.

we just never could imagine that he would do the things that he's doing today. look our little smile's back. >> marlo thomas from st. jude's research hospital. it's complicated, radiation saved him and now we have this tumor. what should people take away? >> they need to know that is the standard treatment for megaloblast megaloblastoma. we went from a 30% cure rate to 70% cure rate. the second brain tumor was cured by surgery. you have to take that risk. he's an honor student. his brain is functioning. he's doing twl. with leukemia we stopped in 2000, quit using radiation and developed drugs that were good enough to cure the leukemia without the radiation, and that's what we're doing now, developing new drugs through our genome project to find better

drugs so someday we'll be able to remove a radiation from brain tumors and we're also building the only proton beam radiation therapy unit considered just for children on st. jude's hospital campus so we're really moving to try to do everything we can to eliminate the side effects of radiation. >> carson's smile spreads the good work of st. jude. >> and he's on the honor roll so that brain is working. >> marlo, great to see you. happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. still ahead, the top tech gifts for women but first these messages. ct rates side by side to find you a great deal, even if it's not with us. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually, we invented that. it's like a sauna in here. helping you save, even if it's not with us -- now, that's progressive! call or click today.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. >> after a soggy start to the day, possibility of showers into the afternoon. we reached a high this morning with 64 in baltimore. temperatures will be dropping out in the later half of the day. mid-50's. windy as well.

♪ beautiful, to remind you, tomorrow on "today," the 85th annual macy's thanksgiving day parade, kicking off the holiday season with giant balloons and floats and marching bands and of course, the one, the only santa claus. i'm going to be along the parade route for all the excitement, along with matt and ann joins us this year for the first time. >> yes. >> it's all beginning at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, right here on nbc. >> weather will be nice, the balloons are going to be fine. >> a little breezy but shouldn't cause any problems.

coming up in this half hour if you ask a woman whoo wha she wants for christmas and she says a boy toy don't ablarmed. it turns out many women are asking for girls that usually top a man's wish list like an ipad2, iphone or wii fit. coming up we'll show you some of the hottest tech gadgets for the ladies on your list. if you want to branch out from turkey this thanksgiving, how about brazed short ribs or polenta with veal and chicken? the scottos are here, doing thanksgiving dinner italian style. >> their polenta i could climb into a vat and eat my way out. >> that can be arranged. >> my gosh. we're also ringing in thanksgiving with our special concert series, and a performance from 17-year-old superstar justin bieber out on the plaza. >> we've still got bieber fever. we're not well yet. >> i think all of the kids still do, too. al has a check of the weather again for us. >> absolutely, we look ahead for your weekend for friday, first of all we're going to start with

the parade, looking at great weather, sunny, breezy, temperature low to mid-40s, northerly winds could gust up to 20 miles per hour. not a big deal. friday sunshine up and down the east coast. rain from texas into the central plains. saturday, sunny again in the east with mild weather, mild through the southwest. the rain moves into central great lakes into the gulf, moves to the east on sunday, sunday! sunshine along the coast and some rain and wind continues in the pacific northwest. that's what's going on in the country. here's what's haco >> we had a round of heavy rain this morning. it is dropping into the 40's in western maryland. >> that's your latest weather.

>> we want to welcome a guy who puts the man in man's best friend, john o'hurley hosting the national dog show since 2002. >> nice to be here. >> ten years. >> can you imagine ten years. i've been visiting you for the past ten years as well as doing the show. during that time it's been a decade now, we've had some 20,000 dogs march through the arena, we've introduced 23 new breeds, we crowned ten champions, it's really been a great piece of entertainment. it's been wonderful. >> this is eli. >> a special dog, not only was one of the top show dogs over the past ten years but now the ambassador to the show and recently we received the first lifetime achievement award from the akc because this dog has done some extraordinary things, one of the last living dogs down at 9/11 on the search and rescue efforts down there, has sired some grand champions of his own and it's just been a wonderful dog and lived out the last few

years as a therapy dog doing work with children in the cancer wards. >> my vote as top dog. what do the judges look for year after year? >> there's a cuteness factor, that's the thing that you certainly enjoy from your seat at home but there is a written standard for each breed and only the judges can really understand that. you have to put your hands on the dog to see that it conforms to the standard that has been written for the dog. so the dog is not competing against the other dog. it's really against the standard written. >> you have new breeds. >> six new breeds including one called the mexican hairless but it begins with the letter "x" and it's shol etsquintley. i have to sound like ricardo motelband. >> one elaine, huh? >> elaine, do you have any idea what happens to a butter based frosting after six decades in a poorly ventilated british

basement? as your punishment, you're about to find out. >> he could go on and on. do another one! >> john o'hurley, always -- >> appearing on broadway. >> we're celebrating our 15th anniversary of "chicago" the musical, longest running american musical if you're here before christmas i'll be on stage every night. >> john o'hurley, thank you so much. the national dog show is tomorrow at noon after the macy's thanksgiving day parade here on nbc. good to see you. >> you bet, thank you. coming up next, move over, men, we've got the top tech gifts for women, coming up right after this. oh, ha. the target 2 day sale starts early friday,

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this morning on "today's holiday gift guide" the top tech gifts for women. what women want most this holiday season, a list of the most popular gadgets. kelly wallace is the chief correspondent for ivillage. >> tech, tech, tech, that's what they want. >> good thing because there are a lot of great tech toys out there for men and women. so let's get right to it. apple of course is on everybody's list this year once again, ipad. >> women have a love affair with their ipad, thin, light, you can take it anywhere, great for the kids, too, good and bad. good if they're playing educational games, bad if they have it and you want to be on it yourself. they take over. >> they take over my ipad. iphone 4s. >> state of the art camera and you say text my question and tell him i'll be late, the administrative assistant we all need. >> mac air book. i'm wanting this right now. >> honey if you're watching,

christmas. the lightest mac book yet, fits in any purse or bag, take it anywhere. >> amazing how little it is. >> ipad touch, more than 320 million sold to date, over 20 million songs, 500,000 apps and video calling. check in on your gal pals and kids. >> next is the reader category, two great options here as well. the new kindle fire is setting the reading world on fire as well as all its other applications. >> it is. this is amazon's brand new color tablet. over 18 million movies, tvs, shows and apps and your viewers have a chance to win one as part of the ivillage holiday sweepstakes. go to ivillage.com and find out more. >> make sure do you that. next we have the nook tablet in color. >> this is barnes & noble's kindle, the fastest and lightest one to date, similar to the kindle, more memory here, a little more expensive but guys, you buy one of these and i think

they'll score points with the ladies. >> women want surround sound entertainment systems as well. >> guys you don't have to take the women in your life out to the theaters. it's at home, surround sound, 2d, 3d viewing, video streams, makes the dvd player seem so 2010. >> true. okay now this is, you know, i look at this as a kid's toy but tell me about it. >> remember how we talked about the moms, kids on the ipad. this is a leap pad leapfrog, the hottest tech toy for kids, gets them off the ipad, over 100 games and also a video player, video recorder and camera so they can take pictures. >> that is amazing. speaking of games, we do have the connect xbox 360 here. >> and the wii fit plus. you think of these for the kids but moms, women want them, too, gets them off the couch, gets them fit, having fun. let's start with the connects.

>> am i the girl in the long socks? >> i think you're probably good at this. >> this is videoily after never see again i'm sure. i'm flawless. >> i'm really bad. >> i don't know what i'm doing or how much time we have left. ♪ >> maybe i should wear that when i do the news next, right? ♪ put my hands up >> over quickly here, i think we're actually out of time but. >> wii fit plus. can you jump on there fast? >> i have to jump on fast. follow along, guys. i'm hu hooping. >> shake your body. >> am i doing this? right, okay. >> you're a pro at this, natalie. >> i feel like i'm not doing anything. can i turn around this way and look at the kament rahs. kelly wallace, thank you so much. happy thanks giving. i'm still going, cooking italian style with the scottos family.

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sauce. this is what we start with, i have my carrots, onions and fennel. i sauteed it. al, would you help me? >> sure. what do we have? >> veal and chicken. i precooked it, so it's easy, you know, when you're on television, you can't do anything. th everything. then i'm going to put my tomato sauce, and this usually cooks -- i'm putting some hot pepper there. >> a little spice. >> and some salt. >> when do we throw the garlic? >> right now, al. >> yes! >> i'm putting everything in. you know, my kids call me mrs. more, because i never have enough. i never have enough. >> take your time. we're here until thanksgiving. >> we need more time, mrs. more. >> this is a woman who gave birth to you! >> it's all about television now though. >> i'm finished. this is what my polenta looks

like. >> pour it over. and now it's anthony. >> another alternative to not having turkey. >> although i love my turkey but this is good. >> we debone the short rib. rebrown them off, okay. we're going to use the same pan, a little prosciutto, carrots, celery, fennel, add that all together. we're going to let that brown quickly. once we've done that, short ribs back like this. >> fantastic. >> then we need a little orange zest, lemon zest and a little red pepper. and then we'll add, go ahead. that's barollo, whatever you like and a beef stock, you want to cover three-quarters of the way, and put this in the oven for an hour and a half covered at 350, then an hour after that, uncovered. tomato sauce, yep. >> okay. >> you'll cover this.

it's going to be fork tender, mashed potatoes or polenta it's unbelievable. >> talking about pork pen dtend we're making tira misu. >> after hearing grandma yell at me all morning you need a pick-up. you add the mascarpone cheese into the bean egg yolks. you want to fold it into the bean egg yolks, jen if you could help me, please, add two or three scoops of the heavy cream. >> okay. >> into the bean egg yolk. >> all right. >> you want to fold that together. >> all folding. don't stir too hard. fold it. good folding. then what happens? >> jen? >> that how it ends up looking? >> that's the finished product. >> after a lot of whipping it looks like this, and you soak

your lady fingers in two tablespoons of sweet marsala wine and espresso and lay them out and spread the love. >> we're running out of time. how long do you put that in the oven? we are out of time. how long is that in the offen? >> you chill it, not in the oven. >> then that's why i don't cook. >> savannah guthrie, everyone! savannah guthrie! >> not cooking. coming back, justin bieber in concert. happy thanksgiving. >> let's put the polenta in the fridge. ♪

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talking about hoda and kathie lee. >> the smell of the tira misu coming out of the oven. but first here he is, justin bieber, singing "never say never." have a great thanksgiving. ♪ ♪ get your hands up, get your hands up, y'all ♪ ♪ i never thought that i could walk through fire ♪ ♪ i never thought that i could take the burn ♪ ♪ i never had the strength to take it higher ♪ ♪ until i reached the point of no return ♪ ♪ and there's just no turning back when your heart's under attack ♪ gonna give everything i have, it's my destiny ♪ ♪ i will never say never ♪ i will fight

♪ i will fight 'til forever make it right ♪ ♪ whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground ♪ pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, up, up ♪ ♪ never say never ♪ ne-never say never ♪ ne-never say never ne-never say never ♪ ♪ i never thought that i could feel this power, i never thought that i could feel this free ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ i'm strong enough to climb the highest tower ♪ ♪ and i'm fast enough to run across the sea ♪ ♪ and there's just no turning back when your heart's under attack ♪ ♪ gonna give everything i have cause this is my destiny ♪ hands up, let's go! ♪ i will never say never ♪ i will fight ♪ i will fight 'til forever

♪ make it right ♪ whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground ♪ ♪ pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, up, up, up ♪ et? ne-never say never ♪ ♪ i will never say never, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ i will fight 'til forever ♪ whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground ♪ ♪ pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, up, up, up, up ♪ ♪ never say never ♪ ne-never say never ♪ ne-never say never ♪ ne-never say never ♪ never say never ♪ ne-never say never ♪ ne-never say never >> get your hands up! ♪ ne-never say never >>what kind of goldfish sandwich are you?

i'm a pb and j goldfish sandwich. yeah, me too. i'm a tuna fish goldfish sandwich! that freaks me out! yeah, me too! [ male announcer ] baked with the goodness of fiber or whole grain. goldfish bread!