good morning. breaking news. dangerous wildfires in the east force evacuations and temporarily shut down amtrak trains. as the powerful storm system spawns tornadoes and damaging hail in parts of the south. and the threat of even more fires and twisters is not over. chaotic scene. the frantic 911 calls the moments after that navy jet plunged into an apartment complex in virginia. >> i see a ton, a ton of smoke. there's black, black smoke just billowing and billowing out. >> it's not a terrorist thing is it? >> oh, my god, all those old people. oh, my god. >> this morning, more of those chilling tapes. and springing into action. a 13-year-old takes control of a school bus after the driver suffers an apparent heart attack.

we're going to hear from that young hero "today," tuesday, we're going to hear from that young hero "today," tuesday, april 10th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm ann curry. >> and i'm david gregory. matt is off again this morning. we don't often think about this tinder box conditions here in the west. but emergency crews dealing with fast-moving wild fires all across the east, including this one that drove people out of their homes on long island here in new york. >> that's right. and this is the scene in manorville, long island this morning. dry and windy conditions have red flag warnings extending from new york all the way to the deep south. to al is going to have the new warnings straight ahead this morning. >> also ahead, we could learn as early as today if charges will

be filed against george zimmerman in the shooting of trayvon martin. this after the special prosecutor announced on monday that she will make the decision, and she'll do it, not a grand jury. and zimmerman is now breaking his silence. coming up what he's now saying about how the shooting has impacted his life. then a woman charged with stalking "30 rock" star alec baldwin all around new york. but she says there's more to the story. so we'll have a little bit more on this. >> that's right. and then something that will get the attention of a lot of women. because there is new groundbreaking treatment, we think, to erase cellulite. we're going to tell you about a new procedure some doctors are calling revolutionary. and i know i perked up the ears of all the women who are listening. let us now begin with those wildfires here in the east, and the dangerous storms in the south. al roker is upstairs tracking it all for us. good morning. >> good morning, ann. as we look over manorville, long island, you can see, there's still wildfires burning out of control over 300 acres on fire right now, and this is just one of many fires going on

throughout the east. in fact as we take a look, milford, connecticut, last night they had to suspend amtrak service because of these flames. in fact, you can see how widespread they are. those flames getting close to the amtrak problem -- the amtrak situation. amtrak suspending service between milford and on into new haven. as we go back to long island. several homes, at least one commercial building damaged by fast-moving wildfires. in fact, staten island has fi d wildfires going on. firefighters treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation. in new jersey, a fire threatening several homes. the blaze began earlier today in burlington county and looks like 25 homes being affected there. as far south as florida we're talking about dry conditions in central florida, no rain in sight. at least 20 wildfires are going on. three of them are at least 100 acres in size. here's what's happening. we've got a dry conditions low level of humidity, windy conditions between low pressure

off the shore and one up in to connecticut. i should say up in canada. and that's making for red flag warnings. that means, we are looking at fire conditions from new york city all the way down to greenville, as far west as parts of western kentucky. and then we've also got frost and freeze warnings. so we've literally got fire and ice stretching from minneapolis on into charleston. we've got a lot going on and we've got tornadoes to talk about in a risk area that got affected yesterday. we'll have more on that coming up. david? >> al, thanks very much. in the news now, george zimmerman is breaking his silence in the trayvon martin case as we move closer to a decision on whether charges will be filed against him. nbc's kerry sanders is once again in sanford, florida, with the very latest. hey, kerry, good morning. >> good morning, david. the special prosecutor could announce her decision as early as today. 28-year-old george zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin 46 days ago. for the past 19 days, the special prosecutor and a team of state agents have been

investigating. trying to determine exactly what happened that rainy night here in sanford, florida. special prosecutor angela corey's office issued a short statement monday that read, in part, state attorney angela corey has decided not to use a grand jury in the trayvon martin shooting death investigation. and cautions, the decision should not be considered a factor in the final determination of the case. >> by not going to the grand jury, she's decided this is a decision she can make, and it's going to be a decision she can justify without needing any cover. >> reporter: the special prosecutor has but two options. announce charges, or let stand the initial state attorney's office decision to let george zimmerman go free because he was in fear for his life, and stood his ground, as florida law allows. >> it's entirely up to angela corey to decide what she believes the evidence shows and she knows what the law is. if we're reading it the same way she does, she's going to decline to press charges.

>> we want an arrest. we want a conviction -- >> reporter: trayvon martin's family joined for weeks now by national civil rights leaders and a team of lawyers says they believe the special prosecutor will conclude the law is on their side. >> so we believe that she will charge george zimmerman in this case and we believe that he will have a chance to prove his case and prove his self-defense theory to a jury. >> reporter: and what does george zimmerman say? he's not talking. but his lawyer confirms to nbc news that this is his new web page. with an american flag backdrop zimmerman writes, i was involved in a life altering event which led me to become the subject of intense media coverage. as a result of the incident, and subsequent media coverage, i have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family, and ultimately, my entire life. zimmerman also posts a link to donate, and writes, i'm grateful to my friends that have come to my aid. never questioning my integrity or actions.

and any funds provided are used only for living expenses and legal defense. >> zimmerman is still a walking man. he's free. >> reporter: after an emotional city council meeting monday night, participants had varying opinions of zimmerman's request for donations. >> everyone is entitled to a defense. >> if i was innocent and i knew i was innocent, i wouldn't be soliciting anything. >> about 50 protesters had a sit-in at the police department on monday, and that forced the city to close down the police station. but then a price. several were invited inside to take a phone call from the special prosecutor, who promised them a thorough and fair investigation. david? >> all right, kerry sanders in florida for us this morning. kerry, thanks very much. >> all right, now let's get a check of the rest of the mornings's top stories. we've got natalie morals es at the news desk. >> good morning, everyone. in north korea, nbc news has learned this week's rocket launch is set to go, which has

the u.s. and other nations on edge, for what it could mean. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel remains in north korea and joins us once again from the capital of pyongyang. richard, good morning. >> good morning, natalie. from a very rainy pyongyang. north korea says it will not only go ahead with this proposed rocket launch, but says it is in the process of building even bigger rockets. this proposed rocket launch is fraught in international condemnation. particularly from the united states and south korea, which say it will only further isolate this nation. even china and russia are calling on north korea not to do it, saying it is a violation of u.n. security council resolutions. but today, here in yong pang, a north korean official said this country will not respect any u.n. security council resolution that violates north korea's sovereignty. airlines that operate in this region have said that they will change their flight trajectory

during the rocket launch to avoid the rocket. >> all right, richard engel reporting for us in pyongyang once again. thank you, richard. the city of virginia beach has released a frantic 911 calls that were made after a navy jet crashed into a residential area destroying dozens of units in an apartment complex. >> a plane just went down off of 24th street. >> we just had a jet explode. >> it isn't a terrorist thing is it? >> ma'am, right now it's an airplane that crashed, okay. that's all we know right now, okay? >> amazingly no one was killed or seriously injured in the crash and the navy is compensating residents whose homes were destroyed. and it's helping them find long-term housing. the two men accused of going on a deadly shooting spree in predominantly black neighborhoods of tulsa have confessed, according to police. officials say jake england admitted to shooting three people and alvin watts confessed to shooting two. three of those victims died. the suspects are being held on more than $9 million bail each. the winner of the mega

millions lottery ticket sold in maryland has come forward to officials but the winner wishes to remain anonymous and is believed not to be 37-year-old mirlande wilson. the baltimore resident had attracted nationwide attention when she claimed to have the winning ticket. well she later claimed to have lost the ticket for her share of the record $656 million jackpot. and two seventh grade boys in milton, washington, are being hailed as heroes when their bus driver lost consciousness behind the wheel, they then sprung to action. 13-year-old jeremy ran up, grabbed the wheel, steering it to safety, and performing chest compressions on the driver. >> i turned it to the right, put it on the side of the road, took the keys out of the ignition, bus started slowing down, i'm like oh, someone call 911. i was just thinking about, i don't want to die. >> and another student helpe bring the bus to a stop, and others called 911. no students were hurt. the driver was hospitalized. now, in case you're wondering

how a 13-year-old knows his way around a steering wheel, well his little secret is out with mom. apparently she lets him move the car around the driveway to give it a wash. but he says shhh, don't tell his dad. we would never do that. i think dad would be proud of him, actually. >> you just told the world. >> there you go. >> natalie, meantime let's get a check of the morning's top stories from a man who is a real man because only real men can wear pink. >> that's right. there you go. and we've got more severe weather to talk about where they saw some yesterday. oklahoma, just outside of oklahoma city, woodward county seeing some severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes. and, in fact, we're not going to see that video right now. but let's show you the map, and see exactly what's going on. our risk area, northern texas, and parts of louisiana. the main threats, damaging winds but we could see a couple of tornadoes develop again out of this region. look for rain from northern california up into the pacific northwest coast. and we've also got beautiful

weather throughout the southeast. rain does develop interior sections of new york state, on into northern upstate new york, and new england. breezy conditions through the western great lakes. >> good morning. we will start out with quiet conditions. the clouds will build up into the afternoon. it will be a breezy day. 20% chance for a rain >> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, al, thank you. now to politics and the presidential race and ongoing battles in washington. and here to talk about it all is representative paul ryan of wisconsin. he's the chairman of the house budget committee, and a rising star in the republican party. congressman ryan, good morning.

>> good morning. >> rising star, perhaps, is an understatement. you've endorsed mitt romney. if asked to be his vp, and pulled -- and told you would be only asked if the thought was you would help the republicans win in november, can you really say no? >> i haven't given enough thought to answer that question. it's never come up. the way i look at this is, it's somebody else's decision. it's months from now. i'm busy trying to do my job in congress. so, hopefully as i cross that bridge i'll make that decision then. but i haven't given it the serious kind of thought with my family that i would need to. >> you say it's never come up. are you saying it's never come up in any conversation whatsoever with mitt romney. >> correct. >> hmm. >> he has to get the nomination, first. >> you think there's some doubt about whether -- >> no, i don't. but i think he has to go through the process of nailing it down. i think he has to deal with that. >> you pent some time with him when he was in wisconsin and a lot of time actually with him. is he a man you could work with? >> absolutely. >> why? >> i've actually really grown to like him quite a bit.

i think he reminds me of sort of an enest, upper midwest person. the way i see mitt romney is i believe he has the exact kind of leadership skills we need to get this country out of the mess we're in. out of the debt crisis we're in. i think he has the principles, the courage, the skills, and i think he's going to do what it takes to get this country out of a crisis. >> you're a darling of conservatives. conservatives have clearly shown that they've not been ready to embrace him. what's their problem? you know -- >> i think it's because he was the governor of massachusetts, which is a fairly liberal state. he had a democratic legislature he had to work with so he had to make compromises. but if you actually look at what he says, what he does, who he is, his experience in his life, i think that speaks very well for conservatives. and i think he's going to be a great standard-bearer for us in the fall. >> meantime you say you haven't even thought about being on this ticket. >> i haven't given it serious thought. >> and yet president obama in his discussion seems to be really almost running against you. talking about your budget, being a trojan horse. i mean, how do you explain this?

>> you know, we've gotten kind of used to this verbal tantrums from the president. to me it's a little more petulant than presidential. >> why is he targeting you? >> i think it's because we're actually offering solutions to a debt crisis where he isn't. so i think we -- our existence and our solutions point out the fact that he hasn't offered any solutions to these problems. and we want to confront debt crisis before everybody gets hurt. before we have a crisis on our hands. and i think because we've offered these principled solutions and he has not, he's trying to use this kind of rhetoric to distort away from his failed record. >> you talk about solutions. 6 course your budget was passed last week by the house but the senate's not going to pass it. the president's not going to sign it. so what do you want most to come out of this exercise? >> i want to fix the problem. i want to give our kids a better future. i want us to pay off the debt. so what we thought we would do is we would pass our version of what we think the solution is, the law requires the senate pass their budget as well. but they've decided for three years now, over 1,000 days, not to even budget. i -- it boggles my mind that we're not going to be passing

budgets when the biggest crisis confronting this generation is a budget driven crisis. >> let me ask you about this because the center of budget and policy priority, you're smieing because you know about this. says 52% of the savings in your budget would come from cutting programs for the poor. that between 8 and 10 million people would be kicked off of food stamps. that you would cut medicare by $200 billion, medicaid and other health programs but something like $770 billion. where is the empathy for this budget? >> not only do i take issue with a lot of their analysis and their numbers, spending in all of these programs still increases under our budget. you have to remember food stamps quadrupled over the last decade. so what we're saying is we have to bring spending to a more sustainable rate of growth. and we can't keep spending at the pace we are on otherwise we will have a debt crisis. >> do you acknowledge that poor people will suffer -- >> no. >> under his budget. >> no. >> that you have shown a lack of empathy to poor people in this budget. >> quite the contrary. our poverty rates are the highest in a generation. one out of six people are in

poverty today. the president's policies are not working and we're advancing pro-growth policies to get people off of welfare and onto work. what we want to do is replicate those successful strategies that worked in the late '90s that were not applied to these other welfare programs to get people on to lives of self-sufficiency from welfare to work and we're proposing reforms and transitions that do that. we just don't agree that throwing more money at failed programs works. we want to reform these programs so they actually achieve the result of getting people on the lives to self-sufficiency. >> i could talk to you some more but i'm out of time. congressman paul ryan a pleasure to meet you in person. it is now 7:17. now here's david. >> ann, thank you. a new study out this morning raises questions about the safety of routine dental x-rays. according to a report in the american cancer society's journal "cancer" people who frequently receive them are at an increased risk of developing the most common diagnosed brain rumors. dr. nancy snyderman is nbc's chief medical editor. she's here this morning. >> hey, david. >> so what kind of tumors are we talking about and how worrisome are they?

>> they are the most common brain tumors. they are benign, but even if you have a benign tumor in the wrong spot it's bad news. and we know that the most common environmental cause of these is ionizing radiation. that's the kind of radiation you get in x-rays. so this really looked at people who got a lot of dental x-rays, so kind of bite wings where you put the little thing between your teeth and something called a panoramic view, where they do an external x-ray. and they found that people who had those bite wing x-rays were two times more likely to get menagenomas than people who had this kind of x-ray you're seeing now were almost three times more likely. >> and kids often get the bite wings, right, on an annual basis? >> yeah, that's right. you know, used to be that there was more radiation with each of these x-rays. and we've talked about it on this program that more and more kids now have bad teeth and are getting root canals. but dentists are saying, look, is it time to re-evaluate how often kids get these? one to two perhaps a year for little kids and should decrease,

and frankly, you only get tooth x-rays if you think you need them. if your child has perfectly healthy teeth and there's no reason to warrant them then don't do it. dentists are really up front on this. >> how do we as consumers and parents, what kind of conversation do we need to have? >> the first thing you should say is look i heard about the report. i know the risk is still low, the radiation is low, but does my child need it? and if so, how can we minimize it over the years? overall you're still going to need them periodically. like everything else in life we want to minimize the amount of radiation just to minimize the problem overall. >> all right. helpful new information. dr. nancy, thank you very much. it is 7:19. once again here's ann. >> all right, david, thank you. it could take months before we know what killed famed artist thomas kinkade. the so-called painter of light who faced a number of legal and financial problems in recent years died unexpectedly at his home on friday at the age of 54. nbc's mike taibbi is in a kinkade gallery in northridge, california, with more on this

story. mike, good morning. >> good morning, ann. how are you? you know, one critic snipped that thomas kinkade's genius wasn't as an rtist, but as a marketer. but even with his artwork in millions of american homes the self-styled painter of light had hit dark days recently. battles with booze and bankruptcy and a personal life that was no match for the idealized world he created and that his fans love. >> this is the first picture that we got right here. >> reporter: debbie and russ spend time every day enjoying the 20 kinkade paintings in their california home. >> all we know about tom is that he was a great artist and we really loved him. >> he definitely enriched our lives. it's brought our family a lot closer. >> reporter: it doesn't matter that most art critics scoff at kinkade's dreamy soft edged cottages and street sheeps. like sherbet says new york art critic brienne walsh. >> it does go down easily. it's prettyly colored and a lot

of pastels. >> hello, everyone, this is thomas kinkade the painter of light. >> reporter: and whether he was marketing limited edition reproductions of his disney series or norman rockwell inspired freeze frames of americana he stuck to a plan for decades with an audience in mind. >> i have found that certain of the foundational values, faith in god, home, family, these are the things that everyone's hungry for. >> reporter: but in recent years, things turned ugly for one of the richest artists in the world. he pled no contest to a drunk driving arrest. his high school sweetheart wife and the mother of his four children left him. and lawsuits by franchise owners and former employees painted a picture of a flawed hero, drinking more and more, say some who knew him. >> alcohol compounds your problems, and he just was in a downward spiral. >> reporter: and behaving crudely. even, said one of kinkade's former vps in a deposition, urinating on a statue of winnie the pooh. none of that will deter his legions of fans who've embraced him and now mourn him as part of the family. >> we have our way of thinking

about him, and he's touched our heart. and that's how we feel about tom. >> reporter: even a critic who wouldn't pay a penny, let align $5,000 to $15,000 to buy a signed kinkade reproduction understands why millions do. >> people want to come home and have an image that makes them feel comfortable. and happy. and thomas kinkade provides that. and he is not at fault for doing that. >> there was a woman named amy pinto who dialed 911 last friday. she told police that she was kinkade's live-in girlfriend and that the painter had died peacefully in his sleep. she also said later that he suffered from a heart condition but that won't be confirmed until the autopsy results are released. by the way at galleries like this northridge gallery, since his death, kinkade works have been going through the roof. orders for them have. ann? >> all right. mike taibbi, thank you this morning. still ahead will the husband of a mafia executive found dead in her car face charges in connection with her murder? an investigation. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

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7:30 now on this tuesday morning. it's the 10th of april, 2012. it is a gorgeous start this morning for our crowd here in manhattan. really nice day, behind us. coming up ahead, enjoy this while this lasts. inside studio 1a i'm ann curry with david gregory who is joining us for matt this morning. >> good to be here. it's always fun. thank you. >> anyway, coming up just ahead the latest on the woman who's been charged with stalking alec baldwin. >> she was arrested outside of his new york city apartment. this morning we're actually getting a look at the e-mails that she allegedly sent the "30 rock" star and we'll get to them in just a moment. >> okay, also, pay attention women. i'm not going to look at you because we're going to be

talking about cellulite. we know it affects between 80% and 90% of women. it doesn't go away with exercise or diet. but there is a new procedure that some doctors are calling revolutionary. it's promising to erase the dimples for good. we're going to get details about it all coming up in a little bit. and also the queen is bestowing a big honor on camilla parker bowles. the question now, as a result being asked, is how she finally stepped out of diana's shadow. we're going to have more on that. and william and kate's double date with pippa and her new boyfriend. >> i have been gearing up, because i'm going to be handling "today's professionals." >> yes. >> if i can do it. >> they're in the house. among the topics that we're going to get to this morning, actress ashley judd taking a stand against comments made about her quote/unquote puffy face. that set off accusations of plastic surgery and facial injections and she has something to say about it. and so do they. >> i bet they do. i hope you have armor on this morning. we begin this half hour with the mystery surrounding the murder of a successful marketing executive. a family handyman has been

charged with the crime, but are investigators now going after someone else? nbc's craig melvin is in grosspoint park, michigan, with details on this. craig, good morning. >> ann, good morning to you. jane beshar met a gruesome death. the mother of two was found strangled inside her abandoned mercedes. her husband bob has maintained his innocence from the beginning. but there are reports this morning that he led a dark double life and may have even been involved in his wife's death. inside his ritzy grosse pointe home, his future is in question. >> robert besh ar ra, his children are treading water in a lake full of sharks. >> reporter: it's a horrifying, bizarre case. that shocked this affluent detroit suburb. it started in january when jean beshara, mother of two, was found in this detroit alley, dead, inside her mercedes suv. the successful marketing executive had been strangled.

days later police named bob beshara, her husband of 26 years, a person of interest. >> we -- we loved each other. >> reporter: while their marriage wasn't perfect, beshara insists he would never hurt his wife. >> the fact that maybe the person of interest is unthinkable to me, that they think i could harm my sweetheart. >> reporter: then a strange twist. family acquaintance and handyman joe gibbs reportedly confused to the gruesome crime and said bob beshara had paid him cash, and this old cadillac, to kill mrs. beshara. >> you're under arrest for the murder of jane bashara. >> police didn't confirm the confession but he was charged with murder. he's mentally disabled, according to reports. experts said that could complicate this case. >> it's definitely a hurdle for the prosecution to deal with a handyman who has psychological issues. >> reporter: and another problem, questions now swirl

about what some call bob bashara's sordid double life, allegedly involving the underground world of sado masochi masochism. he denies the allegations of an s&m lifestyle. >> i don't want to get into that because i have my children to worry about. >> reporter: as for the murder, the mystery remains and prosecutors did not confirm nor deny a potential arrest. >> there's a number of ways prosecutors can look at this, but the point is, they don't have direct evidence. >> reporter: with each passing day, the saga takes its toll on the bashara family. >> he's not doing well. he's got two children that are devastated. >> again, prosecutors are not saying much about more potential charges. only telling nbc news that the investigation into the murder continues. meanwhile, after that handyman joseph gibbs, he will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he is competent to help in his

defense. he is expected to be in court next month. ann? >> all right, craig melvin, thank you so much for your reporting on this story. it is now 7:34. here's david. >> ann, thanks. now to a real-life drama for actor alec baldwin. a 40-year-old actress has now been charged with stalking the "30 rock" star and ordered to stay away from him. nbc's maria schiavocampo has the story. >> david, good morning. she reportedly showed up here at alec baldwin's new york apartment building trying to get into his home sunday night. that's when police were called and she was arrested. this after she had allegedly been stalking the actor sending him e-mails and text messages and following him all around the state. now alec baldwin does admit the two had dinner to the at least once but says after that things spiraled out of control. for genevieve sabourin the third time was not the charm. she was arrested outside alec baldwin's new york city apartment building, allegedly the third time in two weeks she had shown up unannounced and

uninvited to see the actor. according to the new york police, baldwin told them she had been stalking him, sending him hundreds of e-mail and voice mail messages in which she professed her love for him, and also asked for money. >> stalkers definitely come with the celebrity territory. you know there's a line, there's a limit. he's entitled to his safety just like the rest of us. >> reporter: baldwin told please sab ouren had shown up at his home in the hamptons on march 31st. the same romantic weekend that baldwin, who is 54, got engaged to 28-year-old yoga instructor hilaria thomas. she will be his second wife following his highly acrimonious divorce from kim basinger. according to baldwin, she was on the property for ten minutes before leaving. days later sabourin appeared at an event he was hosting in new york city. baldwin told police he asked private security to escort her from the premises after which she fled.

they did reportedly know each other. meeting on the set of the 2002 box office flop "the adventures of nash." she worked there as a publicist and baldwin made an appearance. still her mother says she never mentioned the actor, telling the new york daily news she did not talk about him or say anything special. and that she went to new york to find work as a comedian. but there's nothing funny about these allegations. sabourin has been charged with stalking and aggravated harassment. >> the difference between stalking and aggravated harassment is about the number of times, or number of attempts that someone tries to get at somebody. in a stalking type of case you have certain events that put the victim into fear for their life. >> reporter: now nbc news has obtained texts from some of the e-mails reportedly sent to baldwin and they include this, i need to start my new life with my new name with my new career

in my new country help my newly husband, you. and also i leave you now, please, alec come and pick me up now. she was arraigned monday. she pled not guilty. the judge released her on her own recognizance and issued a temporary order of protection for baldwin. david? >> mara, thank you very much. we want to switch gears, get another check of the weather from al. >> "today's weather" is brought to you by advil. make the switch to advil now. >> and good morning, everybody. we got a nice morning here. a few clouds, nothing too terrible. but there's smoke over parts of long island right now and that's because we've got some wildfires going. mandatory evacuations throughout parts of eastern long island, around the riverhead area, as these fires burn way out of control. maybe for the next couple of days. so we'll continue to follow this store very. as we show you what we've got going on for today, we're looking at temperatures that are in the 40s and 50s in new england. 60s here in the northeast. 80s down through the gulf coast.

80s and 90s in the southwest. 60s in the pacific northwest. we're looking at wet weather along the pacific northwest coast. risk of strong storms in northern texas, on into northern louisiana. wet weather with some snow in some of the upper elevations throughout the eastern great lakes into upstate new york. u >> good morning. it will be a breezy and cool today. a mixture of sun and clouds. about a >> and that's your latest weather. david? >> al, thanks very much. up next, the new treatment that could have women saying good-bye to cellulite once and for all. that's right after this. ♪

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with details. >> well, ann, as you know there are all kinds of treatments and creams that claim to get rid of cellulite. but some doctors say this new procedure is unlike anything they've seen before. and we got an up close look at how it works. you're looking at the latest tool in the fight against cellulite. it's called cellulaid recently approved by the fda. doctors use a tiny laser to target cellulite under the surface of the skin. dr. bruce katz participated in clinical trials at his new york city office. >> for the first time, with one simple treatment, we get long-lasting results, very safely performed, and quick recovery. >> reporter: the procedure begins with a local anesthetic so the patient is awake the entire time. once the area is numb, doctor katz inserts a tiny laser under the skin. it's a three-step process. the laser heats the skin and actually melts the fat.

then it cuts through the bands that pull the skin down to create the dimpled effect. finally the laser heats the skin to enable the growth of new collagen, which the company says increases elasticity. >> usually in several weeks, you start seeing a response. the valleys go away. >> reporter: after the procedure dr. katz says the patient may experience soreness and bruising. most can go back to work the next day. the company says the results can last one year or more, but it's too early to measure the long-term effects. >> we think it's possible that it may come back as people gain weight or stop exercising. but i think if they stay clear for two years, we will get lasting results for many years to come. >> reporter: 35-year-old joanna is a physician's assistant in queens new york. she had the procedure in the fall of 2010 as part of the clinical trials. the result -- >> amazing. it was really -- it was awesome, actually. it was nice to actually look in the mirror and not feel so

self-conscious about something that had bothered me for probably 20 years. >> reporter: buzz about cellulaid is already spreading. harbor's bazaar takes a closer look in its may issue. >> the data i've seen is certainly the most impressive data i've even son cellulite treatment ever. it is what we call game changer in the business. >> reporter: for joanna, cellulaid was the answer to years of insecurity about her thighs. >> they're dimple-less, which to me is perfect. >> so ladies i know you're all wondering. what does it cost? dr. katz says cellulaid is about $2500 and up depending on the area you want treated. ann? >> all right. natalie morales, thank you. well dr. bruce katz, director of the skin and laser senter in new york is joining us along with dr. nancy snyderman. good morning to both of you. so first of all we should say that cellulite is not a disease. it's something that's a common, normal characteristic of between 80% and 90% of women? >> yes. i think when we talk about the

word cure, i guess i'm approaching this as a cancer surgeon. i always think it's not cancer. we don't talk about cure, we talk about long-term results to a cosmetic problem. >> that's right. and this treatment, we just got an idea of how it works. can you give us a sense about how long we think it's effective and why we think it might be effective beyond maybe a year or two years? >> well, we've been doing this for about two years now. and we think if the cellulite hasn't come back in two years it's probably going to be pretty much permanent. but we have to wait and see because that's only been our experience so far. >> mm-hmm, this procedure is invasive, it requires anesthesia, local anesthesia. are there side effects, nancy? >> well, it's very safe. there are other techniques that have been fda approved they just haven't worked very well. that means long-term results haven't been so great. but today, i so to say most cosmetic procedures are unbelievably safe. local anesthesia, very minimal risk. infection rate, hardly anything. the biggest risk, frankly, is people may not think that all

their cellulite has gone away. >> the worst side effect we've seen is minimal bruising and swelling. >> and that's temporary. >> and nothing else. >> so i'm not worried about the safety thing. i think the big question for women is, is it worth it for me, do i really want to change? and then the cost. because this is not going to be covered by insurance. >> right. not covered by insurance. $2500. i just heard. >> minimal. >> minimal. because that's just for what, doctor? >> that's usually one area. but if you compare it to current treatments where you have to come back, six, eight or ten times, the cost is pretty comparable. >> when you say one area, do you mean the thigh or one point in the thigh. >> the thighs. one area is the abdomen. the bust is another area. >> you could spend $8,000 depending on where you're carrying it and how much you're carrying? >> or upward. i think it's important for women to remember that cellulite really is a part of a woman's anatomy. whether it's heredity, aging, hormones, the skin is connected to the muscle with these little fibrous bands. a little bit like our mattress

and one of those buttons, and then fat cells get caught in between. so liquefying the fat, cutting those fibers -- >> that's very important. >> you know, the whole idea is to sort of smooth out the skin. >> because it's not about whether you exercise enough, it's not about your diet. >> skinny women can have cellulite. >> i've had triathletes and marathon runners who have cellulite and we've treated successfully. >> the thing is, is it worth it for you? and if so make sure you're going to someone reputable and you've done your homework. >> dr. bruce katz and dr. nancy snyderman thank you for helping us do our homework. still ahead, a woman whose given birth 15 times but s only has four kids of her own. we're going to explain. but first, these messages. when we got married. i had three kids. and she became the full time mother of three. it was soccer, and ballet, and cheerleading, and baseball. those years were crazy. so, as we go into this next phase, you know, a big part of it for us is that

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one woman, mirlande wilson, said she had the winning ticket, but no one, including her lawyer had seen it. press conference is just about to begin. we will bring you the very latest live as you get it it it will be live streamed on our website, wbaltv.com. >> here is a check on the morning commute. kind of busy out there and in terms of the delays. we will see what is going on in terms of accidents. nicodemus road, friends and boulevard, still clearing in reisterstown. southbound 95, let's give you a quick look at traffic. harford road, backed up from belair road all the way over towards dulaney valley. here is what it looks like a west side from the ramp from 795. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> quiet start this tuesday morning. a little bit on the chilly side.

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8:00 now on this tuesday morning, the 10th day of april, 2012. we have made our way outside on a really nice morning. 51 degrees so far today. and you know, it looks like it's going to be a really pretty day which we're going to enjoy everybody because i understand some rain might be coming. we'll find out about that from mr. al coming up. meantime i'm ann curry alongside david gregory in for matt this morning once again. so nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> and the aforementioned al roker. are you ready for "today's professionals"? >> i am. we've got some hot topics. the question of ashley judd and her appearance. also this high school in texas

has this policy about whether you can be hired based on how much you weigh. if you're going to have a play date for your kids do you need a legal waiver? these are the hot, burning topics. >> it would be upsetting if somebody asked me for a legal -- >> i think it's a little off-putting. you know. right? >> exactly. get to the bottom of that. also we're going to meet a woman who has gone over and above the call of duty to help families who are infertile and she's basically called a super surrogate. she has delivered 11 babies for other families and also four more for her own family. so, we're talking about a woman who's been very valiant trying to help other families. >> that's for sure. >> and then a little differently we want to talk about mr. ricky gervais. she's going to be stopping by coming in tomorrow. we're going to check out. he's got always something fun to say. he's always got somebody on edge. >> i have a feeling it's going

to be us tomorrow. anyway, that said let's get inside and get a check of the mornings's top stories for natalie morales at the news desk. >> good morning, everyone. we begin with the threat of more dangerous weather today, after fires and strong storms swept through several parts of the country on monday. at least two tornadoes were reported in oklahoma, and very large hail caused damage to parts of oklahoma and texas. meantime, fast-moving brushfires are burning across parts of new york and new jersey, including one that drove people out of their homes on long island. red flag warnings are posted from new york to the south, because of dry and windy conditions. in norway the man who confessed to the mass killing of 77 people last july will face trial next week. a new psychiatric evaluation has found him to be sane. radioactive particles have been found in the waters off the california coast from laguna beach to santa cruz. that's according to a new study that finds the radioactive materials were released from japan's fukushima nuclear plant

after last year's earthquake and tsunami. scientists say the levels of radioactive iodine found in kelp likely pose no risk to humans. but can affect marine life. an update now to a report story we brought you last month about violent cell phone theft. this morning the ftc is announcing a new agreement with top wireless carriers to disable all cell phones reported stolen. in effect making the phones worthless to thieves. as we reported, it's a move the wireless industry had previously resisted. carriers are expected to make the change over the next six months. now let's head to wall street and cnbc's mary thompson is at the new york stock exchange for us. what are we watching today? >> well, natalie, today investors are hoping that stocks can end a four-day losing streak as earnings season gets under way. aluminum giant alcoa kicking it off when it reports the first quarter results after the bell. the energy administration reporting that gasoline prices fell for the first time in eleven weeks and and the white house plans to push its case for

the so-called buffett rule named for billionaire investor warren buffett. it would ensure that all millionaires pay a minimum tax rate of 30% on their income. back to you. >> mary thompson at the new york stock exchange. thank you. and now for a look at what's trending today, our quick roundup of what has you talking online. a picture perfect dale. facebook's purchase of the photosharing service instagram for a whopping $1 billion is buzzing across social media. it's the largest acquisition ever for facebook, and nets the ceo some $400 million. ashley judd is a top search on google after she blasted the media for criticizing her puffier face, setting off rumors of facial injections, and plastic surgery. judd, who says her appearance is the result of steroids for a long cold fired back in the daily beast slamming the reports as nasty, gendered and misogynistic and our professionals will tackle that. and they wanted a real-life re-enactment and it appears

they're getting it. a memorial cruise retracing the "titanic's" journey 100 years after it sets sale has been delayed by gales and heavy seas. the m.s. balmoral was battered by 30 foot waves as it crashed the irish sea with one passenger saying there's a bad feeling on board. it is due to dock in new york april 19th. hope it makes its way here safely. 8:05 right now. let's go back out to al with a check of your weather. >> today's weather is brought to you by trifexis. learn more and get exclusive money saving offers at trifexis.com. >> and we've got a birthday girl here. what's your name? >> emily. >> and you are 11 today? >> yeah. >> where are you from? >> california. >> a nice birthday present for you. happy birthday. and let's find out what we've got for you. our pick city of the day, just happens to be la crosse, wisconsin. nbc 13, sunny, cool, and look for temperatures in the 40s today. as we go across the country,

some heavier showers and thunderstorms firing up in texas. we've also got some wet weather making its way from northern california coast on up into the pacific northwest coast. later today, starts to make its way into central california. risk of strong storms, northern texas, into much of louisiana. wet weather with some snow, upper elevations upstate new york. and we've got breezy conditions alon the western great lakes. and we've got -- where's that guy back here? we've got a young mr. t. in training. what's your name? >> austin. >> very nice. i like the mohawk. and you're 7 years old today. what's your name? >> caylee. >> nice to see you. all right. too cute. >> good morning. we will start out with quiet conditions. the clouds will build up into the afternoon. it will be a breezy day. 20% chance for a rain

>> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, al, thank you very much. stand by, al, because we might have to jump in and rescue david gregory because he's going to take on "today's professionals" coming up. he's going to ask about all the hottest stories including when it's okay for a man to cry. hopefully they won't make him cry. but that's coming up right after this. all multivitamins give me the basics.

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makes the fantastic leap from being sick or gaining some weight over the winter to a conclusion of plastic surgery? star, is this a go girl moment? >> it is an actual go girl moment. what i admire more than anything is that she didn't just take on the tabloids. she took on the so-called legitimate media. ashley said just because -- you know, that main stream media as our girl sarah palin would say. just because it's reported by somebody doesn't make it legitimate. and legitimate news sources just glommed on to the, is ashley, you know, the latest victim of surgery gone awry. >> nancy, you look at these celebrities all the time. >> right. >> they do make money off their looks and pick them apart. but she does look different. >> i think she's stunningly beautiful and whether she's onster oids that gave her a little bit of that moon face or whether she had something done, i have to say, i don't even care. i know she's out there. i know she's a public figure. but she didn't ask the world to comment on her face. i say leave her alone. >> personally i think ashley is beautiful. having said that it's the same thing with jessica simpson last

week and the pregnancy. when your trade is your public image and your beauty and your public persona you're going to come under scrutiny. it's like a hedge fund billionaire -- >> i get that. >> who trades stocks for a living. he's going to be under more scrutiny when it comes to trades. i've got to stop feeling bad for these celebrities. >> but she wants to be known for her acting, too, not just because her skin is puffy. >> by the way, her appearance has also been what's made her successful. i think she's beautiful -- >> but being unfairly criticized, being called everything but a child of god is another. >> and misogynistic? you think it has nothing to do with gender. >> this say pretty hot topic. obese need not apply. a texas hospital has instituted a hiring policy, if you have a body mass index of less than 35, 250 pounds, if you stand 5'10", the policy goes on to say that you at least have to have that body mass index. if you're above that you can't be hired, and then, fit with a

representational image of the job of a health care professional. >> we knew this was coming. >> yes. >> so there are famous places like the cleveland clinic that will not hire cigarette smokers. they'll put you through cigarette cessation programs, if you can't kick the habit. they're not going to hire you. why? because you cost them money in health care costs. obesity was the next hurdle >> but you're also representing the cleveland clinic which is fighting heart disease and fighting -- >> here's the problem. it's against the law to discriminate against fat people because it falls under the americans with disability act. >> not necessarily. because everyone who is considered fat or obese, unless they've been qualified as a quote, disabled person, only michigan is the only state in our country, six cities are allowing you to have protection for simply being obese. unless you've been classified as disabled because you've had heart disease, because your thyroid is acting up, are you not protected. >> donny, what about the representational part? does this make sense? >> it's interesting. to me when people were coming to

the agency they were coming for a certain persona. people -- it was important to me that people were stylists, not physical appearance but part of the brand we're selling. when you're selling health, and you have a 5'5", 250 pound person, that's not good for that brand. and on top of that, people are paying more, every person who is obese, i pay more in my health insurance. >> that's right. >> so i'm not trying to discriminate, i'm saying as a business, if i'm coming there and you have an unhealthy person. it's a doctor who smokes, you go, what is that? >> increasingly in hospitals these jobs are physical jobs. you need good news, good backs, you're moving other people. >> let's keep moving the marines facebook fire storm. this is very interesting. you've got a marine facing discharge for posting disparaging comments about president obama on facebook. this is a marine sergeant called the president quote the domestic enemy. said he would not follow some orders he deemed unlawful. he and his lawyer rps saying, look, this is him as a private citizen saying this on facebook. in fact there is no privacy, especially when you're in the

service, donny, it's a chain of command. you can't do it? >> you are in the military. there is a chain of command. shame on him. i think that -- to me, it was very sad, it was very tragic. this is not a man i want fighting for our country. >> he definitely has a different view though over whether this should be a privacy -- >> if you're in the military, your ability, your right to say certain things goes away the day you sign those papers. the president is his commander in chief. >> his boss. >> he need not agree with everything. but that's his boss. >> and especially when it comes to following certain orders. that's the one thing that you're not allowed to do. and maybe our technology -- >> but facebook gives him a private corner. >> not at all. every two weeks we do a segment. once and for all, facebook is part of the public domain. you've just got to put that in your head. >> he couldn't write an editorial op-ed in "the new york times" or "wall street journal" and say those things. even though our laws haven't caught up to technology, he can't do it on facebook either.

>> very important issue, lastly, which is when should men be allowed to cry? i cry when the dry cleaning comes home. i cry all the time. i'm going to put that out there. >> he cries after every segment. >> but bubba watson, he wins the masters, and -- >> he didn't just cry. >> he didn't just cry. no, no, this was -- >> he was sobbing. >> this was sobbing with his mom. but it was a moment. it was really a moment that he'd won. too much, too much? >> i don't know. i mean, you know -- >> he won the masters. >> look. you know -- >> nobody -- most people hadn't heard of him. he's come -- >> it's a real moment. >> it's real. look, i cry "pride of the yankees" always at the end. >> it's movies. movies. i mean. what guy doesn't cry during "rocky." >> there's not a woman on earth who has a problem with a guy having an emotional moment like that. good for him.

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daughter. she took my an hour and 15 minutes to deliver. my second daughter took me 30 minutes and the last two took me 20 minutes. >> reporter: maybe the depth of her experience has something to do with her. she was preparing to deliver her 15th baby when she met her recently. yes, number 15. >> according to the family i do get a little cranky towards this end part. >> reporter: the reality is, only four are hers. at 47, the north dakota woman is a gestational carrier or suggest gatt. this is the 11th child she's carried for someone else. >> when you see those parents' faces. when they see that ultrasound for the first time, and they see that heart beat beating or they get to hear that heartbeat beating, that's priceless right there. >> reporter: there's no biological risk. she is implanted with a fertilized egg or eggs. >> those parents are the actual mother and father.

and so the mind-set for you at that time is, you know, you're handing them their child. >> reporter: for this mom, it's truly a labor of love. and while some gestational carriers can make upwards of a quarter million dollars, she brings a fraction of that. >> we did not go into this to make money. you know, we went into this so that families could have the experience of having their own children. >> reporter: dan an jody found her by word of mouth in 1998. doctors told jody she couldn't conceive a second child despite the couple's desire for more. meredith agreed to carry for them and delivered in a big way. the weggis now have 12-year-old triplets. >> i love her. and i just -- there's not words to explain how i feel about her. >> reporter: olavson says ig pregnant so much has not limited her own family's activities.

still she says, this baby for a couple in south dakota is likely to be her last. >> i am officially retiring the uterus. >> reporter: meredith just gave birth to that baby just about two weeks ago. david, she says it's her last but we're going to check back with her in a couple of months and she if she sticks to that. >> all right, janet shamlian, thank you so much. now to the royal duchesse who just received the highest of honors from the queen. michelle kosinski is at buckingham palace with more on that. michelle, good morning. >> hi, david. not only william and kate celebrating a wedding anniversary this month. so are charles and camilla with the queen we stowing the duchess of cornwall with her highest honors of personal service. camilla has quietly endured quite a bit over the years. she's been called the other woman in the press, and says dinea called her the rottweiler. long seen as tearing apart diana's fairy tale marriage to prince charles. but now, seven years after

camilla married charles, the queen is calling her a dame grand cross of the world victorian order. the highest of personal honors. camilla has certainly been a dedicated royal. often at the queen's side when she's not accompanying prince charles. one day petting baby farm animals. another acting as adviser to the newest duchess, kate. the prins have come to love camilla and increasingly has the public. >> there's no doubt that her popularity and approval rating have raised very much so since those dark days of princess diana. >> reporter: but could there be another duchess in the family one of these days? for spring break, william and kate formally kicking back on the french slopes family style with mrs. middleton, james middleton, pippa, and wait, who's that? none other than the earl george percy. heir to the fantastically wealthy dutchy of north

umberland, pal and newly parked love interest. if the romance is real the other middleton sister could find herself not only a duchess as well, but also calling an enormous castle home. and yes, having a flashback, harry potter fans. the 1,000-year-old estate is in the movies also known as hogwarts. >> hogwarts is no longer. >> witch craft and wizardry, some believe pippa has already bewitched its future owner, george. those two reportedly dated back in college and she should know from her sister that even as a princess or a duchess it's not always all luxury all the time. on the way back from that ski holiday, william and kate flew the extremely no frills budget airline easyjet. david? >> all right, michelle kosinski, thanks so much.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. some answers as to who holds that it megamillions jackpot ticket. kim dacey is live from maryland lottery headquarters with information. >> the winners were modest and humble but by their stroke of luck when they came in yesterday to claim their winnings. there were three winners, who wished to remain anonymous. one is a woman in her 20s, another a man in his 40's, another a woman in her 50s. they all work in the public school system in maryland.

one is an elementary schoolteacher, another a special ed teacher, and other works in administrative support. they pulled their money and bought three tickets each. one of them was the winning ticket. once they realize that they had the winning ticket, but they put it in a safe contacted a financial adviser and a lawyer. they planned to go to europe, pay for houses, at modest things pretty much more live at noon. >> wonderful news. we will see what is going on on the roads as you head out. delays southbound j.f.x. 19 miles per hour. getting very happy there. quick look at traffic or ford. we will switch over to a live view and the area of old court. west side and delays. >> nothing going on at weather-

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8:30 now on a tuesday morning. the 10th day of april, 2012. not a bad start to this day. the sun is shining. 52 degrees now. lots of happy people in our crowd. this is the way we like it. i'm ann curry alongside david gregory, in for matt. al roker, and coming up one of our very favorites is here. go that's right. carole king. the legendary songwriter, singer is here. she's going to be sharing a

long-awaited memoir. remarkable story about a career, writing such great songs. but also a dark period in her personal life. we're going to talk to her about that in just a minute. >> so i got to go to a baseball game last night to see the mets and my washington nationals. didn't quite turn out the way i was hoping. the point is maybe i'm thinking about baseball and so is john grisham. he's got a new book out about baseball, that he's wanted to write for 20 years. it's a fascinating story. i'm going to talk to him about it in a couple of minutes. >> very cool. and you know and love mariska hargitay from "law & order: svu." she's here. she's here to talk about another role that she had. also the heartbreak that she felt after losing out on an adoption when the baby's mother changed her mind. >> that's right. >> get a little personal this morning. >> and also her program which is coming back. that's right. but first can we say hello to you guys, christina applegate.

from the hit comedy "up all night" about a couple adjusting to parenthood. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> you guys are so good. what do you attribute this connection you make with the viewer? >> i think in this experience of parenting. >> well, we're living it. >> personally. >> we live pretty much every moment that you see on there either comes from our life, personally, or from the writers' lives, who also have very young children. so -- >> yeah, any time you see kind of stress on our face, that's all real. >> all real. >> that's happening. >> you get to do it at work, as well. >> you might as well just shoot our house. >> so we've got the season finale coming up. >> yeah. >> tell us about it. >> what can we tell? >> nothing. >> -- right? >> there's a lot of tears in this one. there's a lot of laughter, don't get us wrong but there's a moment at the end that is -- >> there's a lot of laughter through tears. which is great, too. you're laughing the tears, you

can -- >> and you don't know why you're laughing. >> it's great. >> i think -- >> i think you will cheer. i think at the end you're going to -- >> and it's going to be like a -- >> small clap. >> small clap. >> yeah. >> what about arrested development, is there going to be a movie? >> thank you, al. >> you must be so hard to work with! >> he is. he is. >> we're about to start making arrested development mini series and writing the movie this summer. >> wow. >> and everybody is talking about anchorman two and if you'll reprise your role. >> i am so hoping i'm going to be in there. i mean, i can't see -- >> will ferrell, come on! step up! >> will ferrell is one of the worst people in show biz. not a lot of people know this -- >> he's the worst people in the world. >> he's one of the worst people

on the planet. >> he's not very nice. >> she's coming after you, will. >> i'd love to and i'm sure it will all work out. i'm very excited about that. >> i was so excited when i saw that. because we've been waiting for that for eight years. >> i'm sure -- >> every newsman in america. >> that's right. >> our guy -- >> christina applegate, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we're going to tell you that you can catch the season finale of "up all night" thursday night at 9:30, 8:30 central time here on nbc. and get ready to go yeah, yeah. anyway we'll talk about that. >> all right let's show you what we've got for you. first of all for today, risk of strong storms, texas, also parts of louisiana, wet weather northern coast of california, into the pacific northwest. and then for tomorrow, few showers here in the northeast. slight risk of strong storms. western texas all the way up into oklahoma. rain from southern california along the coast all the way to the pacific northwest. nice and mild through the gulf

coast. sunny and cool as you get into the upper great lakes. >> good morning. it will be a breezy and cool today. a mixture of sun and clouds. about a >> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you very much. look who's who? we get to say hi to the latest eliminated from "american idol". glad to have you here. sorry about the elimination. we've seen this pattern here. you did great with the judges. you did great reviews, and yet the pub link didn't vote for you. where's the disconnect? >> i think my style of music, you know, it's just so old

school that it just not really is appreciated nowadays. i hope i can bring it back later on the season. >> do you think the younger viewers of the show didn't maybe connect with you in that way. ? i know you have a really high, falsetto voice, do you think that style didn't really connect? >> i think falsetto is really looked down upon nowadays. i really want to bring that back, you know, r&b and soul but it's just fallen you know. music needs to come back to where it was. hopefully i can be one of the newer generations to keep it going. >> j. lo was fighting for you but couldn't bring the other two judges along. you thought you could have fought a little harder to persuade them? >> somewhat but they already saved me once. even though i did get cut i'm just grateful for the time i did have on there. you know, i'm happy for the accomplishments i made, not what i didn't do. >> speaking of, you've got amazing things coming up, and your voice, in fact, attracted an idol of yours. >> yes.

>> and he wants you to perform with him. >> right, yeah. >> that's great. >> he told me he wants to work with me. >> that's fantastic. you also have prom coming up. >> yes, i do. >> wow, that's fun, too. >> so -- >> do you have a date yet? you want to pick someone from the crowd? >> thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> all the best in your future. >> thank you. >> up next, a woman who knows a little bit about music, carole king. the legend is here. she's going to talk about a new book, some of the personnel demons she battled along the way, as well.

back now at 8:39 with the legendary singer/songwriter carole king. she's out with a memoir opening up about her famous songs, highs and lows of her personal life and the people she's met all along the way. it's called, what else, "a natural woman." carole king, good morning.

>> good morning. >> you're smiling already. >> i'm smiling because i didn't have -- >> you know but the idea of sitting down and over the course you say for 12 years thinking about your life, and writing about yourself and your life, i mean, people say that writing a memoir is incredibly illuminating. what did you learn about yourself? >> oh, my gosh, i learned so much, really. a lot of this book is context. i sort of had the overview of why did i actually do the things that i did? and why did i choose the men i chose? and you know, i really kind of go in to that with an overview, as well as writing from inside. >> how well does carole klein found herself talking to record executives when she was just 15 years old? >> i met alan freid. i wanted to meet alan freid, the legendary disk jockey. my father was a new york city firefighter. he had the badge which could get hem anywhere and allen freid gave me the advice to look in the phone book and call record companies and go meet. and i was like, somebody can have success, why not me.

which is a motivating thing in my life. it's like somebody can accomplish "x" or "y," why not me? >> why not you? and that allowed you to have a lot of chutzpah that carried through all the days of your life. and you -- you write about not really necessarily though wanting to be the star. you wanted to be the songwriter whose songs were heard. so, what was your reaction when you first heard aretha franklin singing "natural woman"? >> in three words? oh, my god. and that's exactly how i wrote it. it was just an amazing thing. and as a songwriter, that's what gives me the greatest joy is to hear artists take it to the next level, the level i can't. i can't sing like that. i can suggest how to sing like that. which i did in a demo. i made a demo for her with jerry and you can kind of hear the elements in the demo. there's an album coming out in a couple ways, april 24th, called the legendary des.

they did a lot of the demos capturing this time. >> right. which is a good map to how the songs emerged eventually. and you know, over this book, we hear about your loves, your losses, you married twice, you had four kids. >> i actually married four times. >> four times, okay? >> yes. hope springs eternal. >> and you had four kids. i got that right. and it was the relationship you write about that had to be painful to write about you say without warning he struck with his right fist, he hit me hard, as if we were in a boxing ring except he wasn't wearing gloves and he wasn't in a boxing ring. what did you learn in your life about why a woman stays in an abusive relationship? >> well, the writing of this story. i wasn't sure i was going to include it in the book. but i wanted people to understand, people who go through that, mostly women, but some men, that you're not alone. this is a phenomenon that can even happen to somebody like me who was successful, natural

independence and what i learned is it's a really bad dynamic and it's very hard to get out. and i put a box in the book that actually says, here's where you can go to get help and it's right there. so that was really the main reason why i included this story. >> hmm, and -- and in trying to help other people, clearly, in doing that, and it seems to evoke what seems to be a theme at least i would guess from this book i mean, when you look at the black and white photographs of you as a young woman, having children at such a young age, making tapestry of your most successful albums even today the word that comes to mind is evolution. what makes you so open, constantly -- >> before i answer that. i just want to clarify because i don't want anybody to think the wrong -- the name of the man that was the abusive husband was rick evers. it was not jerry guff and it was not charlie, and it was not the fourth husband. having said that, i really want to make that clear. >> sure.

>> the evolution is just something that happens with age. you know, i've just turned 70. and i really feel the evolution. i finally felt the calmness. because people have said, you should write about your life for a lot of my life, because i have such an interesting life. so it was only until just before i was 60 that i had just said, okay, i'm ready to embrace this stage of my life. and that's my current stage of the evolution. >> you have had more than 400 compositions recorded by more than 1,000 artists, you've had 100 hit singles, many, you've got five grandchildren a life clearly as we see in this book that is as rich as a tapestry. how do you want to be remembered. how do you want people to think of you and what you've done with your life? now that you've looked back on it? >> first i want to say one word to everything you've said. attitude. and it's how i want to be remembered. my goal every day is to try to

be a good person. to try to do kind things. to try to make the world a better place in the ways that i can. and if i have influenced one person in a good way, that's good enough. >> and i think that's what we feel when we hear your name. >> oh, thank you. >> and when we read your book and hear you play with james taylor, this is your life. carole king, thank you. >> thank you. >> and the book is called "a natural woman." and of course, her album is coming out. she just mentioned in a few weeks. it's a collection of previously unrecorded songs. meantime coming up next, john grisham on trying something new in his latest novel. we're going to hear all about it. but first this is "today" on nbc.

back now at 8:47. john grisham has written 26 books, selling over 275 million copies worldwide. many of them, of course, legal

thrillers. but in his newest novel "calico joe" he tackles one of his greatest passions for the first time and that's baseball. john grisham. great to meet you, and good morning. >> the pleasure is mine. happy to be here. >> so "calico joe" -- i want to jump right into it because i love the tension in some of the characters. you have calico joe, joe castle, who is the wunlder kind of baseball. he's the hot rookie breaking all the records. there's a young buy paul tracey. he's watching for him. he's pulling for him. but he's also the son of warren tracey who is this hard-drinking, hard-partying pitcher for the mets, and this is what -- paul is in the stands rooting for his idol but was also rooting for his dad, then warren the dad, threw a fastball that would change their lives forever. >> and here we go. >> here we go. >> and it bounces back. it's cubs/mets 1973, and paul was telling the story 30 years later. and he traced the lives of all three of these men and what that one pitch did to all of them. so it's a pretty sad story. but it's also a very, very compelling story. >> what drew you to what is a

story about baseball but also a story about redemption and a tough relationship between a father and son? >> i wanted to write a baseball novel for many years. i actually wanted to write two. one for kids and one for adults. and i've been thinking about that for a long time. i never had the story. and i had no idea the story would come together in one book. and when i finally got the idea for the novel, started playing around with it, it just got better and better and better. and when i started writing it, it -- it came together real fast. >> these are, in part, and i got to talk to you about this before we were on the air, you are known for your legal thriller, they're masterpieces, but you also make time to do something that's kind of closer to where you grew up. >> yes. >> some of your passions, including baseball, which was a dream, right? >> sure. well, yeah, and over the years, i think once i wrote, i don't know, a dozen legal thrillers i started asking myself, can you write something else? that's all you can do? and i think it's probably pretty natural for a writer and so i started doing other types of books. i've written two books about football. comic novel about skipping

christmas. a collection of stories. you know, just stuff. i have a lot of ideas but i was always searching for the baseball story. and i read an article many years ago about b-ball, in 1967, and i was a fan of tony's because he played for the red sox. and he got hit in the eye by a ball, and ruined his career. and he died very young. and the guy who threw the ball, and tony, never got to meet and talk about it. and it was a bean ball, it was an accident, but they never got to sit down and talk about that one pitch that changed their lives. >> in this book, in this story, they do -- >> don't give away the whole story. the whole plot. >> but what can you say about that? >> well, they do get the moment. 30 years later, they finally meet because of the young boy who is now, you know, 41 years old. and he wants his father to face the reality of what he did many years ago. to finally, for once in his life, stand up and say, okay, i did this, i was wrong, and i -- and i want redemption. and that's what drives the whole

story. >> the book is "calico joe." it hits bookstores today. john grisham, thanks very much. >> my pleasure. happy to be here. >> up next, mariska hargitay on her devastation from a failed adoption, and her future on "law & order: svu."

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sound. ♪ and mariska hargitay has starred as detective olivia benson for 13 seasons on "law & order: svu" and she's proven time and again that no one is better in the interrogation room. take a look. >> then we tell the d.a. the truth. that you were scared. maybe he threatened your family. >> okay, okay. >> probably the d.a. now. once they get involved it's out of my hands. >> you tell them i'm thinking. >> you don't have time to think. you're at a crossrod es right now. you've got to make a decision. >> okay, okay. >> and if you make the right decision, i will go to bat for you. >> okay. i'm backing away from you right now. i don't even want to be in the same room with you if you're yelling. i get scared myself. and also what's really new this season is your character, olivia benson, gets to have a love interest, named harry connick jr. i mean, there's nothing wrong with that. let me tell you. and does he get to stick around

for a bit or do you know? >> you know, he came on for four episodes and we just had so much fun. this next episode, tomorrow night's episode, which is truly one of my favorites, is about coerced confessions. >> oh. >> and unfortunately, there's a little -- some legal problems, and really creates a problem for harry and i. >> uh-oh. >> so you'll have to stay tuned. >> the plot thickens. >> meantime, speaking of a plot, this is the third time you've had an episode, or a season without christopher meloni. >> yeah. >> that's got to be weird. >> it's really weird. and you know, it was really hard in the beginning. but i have to say, you know, we have a new show runner this year, warren light and amazing new cast mates. we have danny tino on the show and it's been amazing and really fun and re-energizing to do the same thing that you've been doing for 12 years, and with a whole new freshness to it. i new take on it. it's been really fun. and the amazing guest stars.

harry connick is just nothing shy of genius. in every way and so hilarious and funny. >> that would be enough to have you -- >> just that. >> but what you're -- but you're so happy and it's got to be these kids. i've been hearing all about this good housekeeping article in which it was devastating when you had your first you were trying to adopt and you found out that you know the baby that you had sort of fallen in love with wasn't available. but talk about your life now. what's happening with you? >> my life is really good. it's just so full of joy. i, you know, the babies have come, and it feels like, you know, nothing short of a miracle. and i feel very blessed. >> because it's -- it -- you know, you've adopted -- you adopted one. >> yes, i adopted my daughter amaya and then andrew sort of, like a miracle, came out of the sky, and it was sort of a shock for us, and it was so beautiful. and you know, i think that the good housekeeping thing, it was so, i love talking about

adoption. because i'm -- i think it's the greatest thing on the planet. and it's, i think any time you embrace life so fully, so wholeheartedly, there are highs and there are lows. and what i said in the piece was, that the process is -- takes you on a ride, and the end of it is the better than any pot of gold that you imagined as a child. it's just sheer -- >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. after controversy and rumors, the winners who will split the maryland lottery have come forward. they work for the school system

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