we're back with more of "today" tuesday morning, 19th day of june, 2012. you've been treated to a sneak peek performance to "bring it on" that's going to be hitting broadway. some great singing and dancing.

>> great set of pipes there. >> more on that musical coming up in the next hour. i'm matt lauer with ann curry, al roker and tamron hall. coming up a mistake a mom made that had her going to extremes, right or wrong. >> she was cleaning out her son's wrong when she recycled his own computer -- old computer, only to find out he had hidden his savings, $300 inside. >> in the tower. >> exactly. that led to a frantic search, with help of employees at a recycling center. that was terrific. we'll tell you what happened in the next half hour. >> rock stars do it, so do professional athletes, even many of our own team, what am i talking about? twitter and facebook. obviously the rage these days. matt helping justin bieber now he's the king of twitter. >> two tweets. >> king of receiving tweets. you've only sent out two. >> justin sent one.

>> if you've waited until the last minute and you don't have justin bieber to help you, we will tell you how to get involved in social media. >> who likes free stuff? well, there's no better place to get freebies than on the internet. we'll show you how and give you examples of some great free stuff or just about almost free stuff. >> better than good. >> it's great because it's free. that makes it great. >> sound like that dog in the bacon commercial. >> i'll get it myself but i don't have thumbs. >> go inside natalie standing by at the news desk with a check of the headlines. >> good morning to you guys once again. good morning, everyone. the child sex abuse case of former assistant football coach jerry sandusky could go to jury by the end of this week. the defense faces a last minute decision where to put sandusky on the stand. friday prosecutors called a final wit, the mother of one of

the 10 alleged vehicle. she testified her son cried and wanted to stop going to sandusky's home for unspecified reasons but she made him go anyways. prosecutors released the jailhouse phone calls between george zimmerman and his wife as they allegedly attempted to hide money contributed for his defense through their website. zimmerman facing a second degree murder charge in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen trayvon martin. the records show on the day of zimmerman's arrest contributions to his website surpassed $75,000 in a single day. the former rutgers university student convicted of spying on his roommate with a web cam was released from jail this morning. dharun ravi served 20 days of a 30-day sentence. his roommate tyler clementi committed suicide after his encounter with another man was streamed live by ravi. officials say he will not be deported to his native india. police searching for a man

caught on tape vandalizing pablo picasso's woman in an armchair at the museum. the vandal fled the screen after spray painting on the painting. experts got to work immediately and they say the painting has an expert diagnosis. days after her son jack revealed he was battling multiple sclerosis, sharon osbourne showed her vulnerable side an her show, "the talk." >> he's doing really, really good. i want to thank everyone for all their goodwill. >> and the wife of rocker ozzy osbourne was able to pull herself together and said crying doesn't help. it's all the good vibes and positivity everyone has been sending jack's way that the help him the most. a new british study of obesity and its strain on the

global food supplies say americans account for almost one-third of the world's body weight even though we make up only 5% of the population. researchers say if every country had the same level of obesity seen in the u.s., it would be like having an extra 1 billion average-sized people on the tournament. olympic torch runner made an unscheduled stop during his leg of the relay through northern england. he hand the the torch to a security official so he could then propose to his girlfriend who was standing in the crowd. he got down on his knee to do it. after getting the answer he wanted, david took back the torch and continued his run with maybe a little more spring in his step after all. how do 5,000 ducks cross the road? well, by waddling right through traffic, of course. this farmer had to get his entire flock to a nearby pond trotting three-quarters of a mile through busy streets and byways. the farmer said it was a quacking success.

he didn't lose a single one of his feathered friends in the journey. remarkable. five minutes past the hour. let's go back to al with a check of your weather. >> that's a lot of ducks. >> don't say it. peking duck. >> yum yum. where are you guys from? >> california. >> having a good time. >> yes. >> marvelous. good to have you. good to have everybody here. let's see what we've got for you today. first of all we've got the heat out west. temperatures approaching 120, palm springs, phoenix, tucson. and it extends to the east where we're looking at afternoon highs tomorrow and thursday. near 100 from d.c. up to boston. it will feel like it's over 100. severe storms possible from norfolk, nebraska, all the way up into northern wisconsin as the system makes its way to the north it's bringing a lot of rain. probably airport delays and anywhere from one to four inches of rain in central, into northern minnesota. that's what gointa

>> good morning. we have some low cloud cover this morning. sunshine will break through the clouds. >> that's your latest weather. natalie. >> al, thank you. now to one mom who truly went the distance when she made an innocent mistake. dorothy was cleaning her son's room and ended up recycling the 12-year-old's computer only to then find out that he had his life savings, over $300, hidden inside the computer tower. after a frantic search of the recycling center, the money was eventually found. the question is how far would you go to right a wrong. dorothy is here with her son max and the manager at the recycling

center in new jersey. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> dorothy, i know a lot of parents have done the same thing. you waited a weekend to throw it away or recycle this computer tower. when did you realize, then, that you had made a very bad mistake? >> well, max was away on a boy scout trip for the weekend. so when he came back on sunday, he was sick. he went to lay down and started screaming that his cpu was missing. so that's when we realized. >> max, can you show me, where did you hide the money in the tower here? >> well, i had a cup, like a coffee cup, that i had more money than the wallet actually, hidden in there. then my wallet in a plastic bag. >> why are you hiding your money? >> hiding it from my twin sister drew. >> nice. so you had to find the sneakyest

place to hide it. when you found out this was missing, what was your reaction? >> i was really upset that because it's all my money. i was upset it was missing. i was kind of mad at myself. a few weeks before, i told her that i had my money in there. she told me she was going to recycle it. i didn't realize it was so soon. >> he told you the money was hidden in there. >> but life gets in the way. get it out, you know. >> it's dirt y, you want to get rid of it. so you're making frantic phone calls as any mom would, to try to locate. what did you do and how did you get connected here with jimmy. >> well, it was a series of phone calls. it's funny, because i spoke with a lot of women answered the phone in different departments. they would go oh, let me connect you to somebody. everybody was willing -- very willing to help. >> they knew you were a mom in distress. this is your son's boy scout money, boy scout camp money.

>> yeah. i finally got in touch with the superintendent of sanitation. he said, let me make some phone calls. it's an outside vendor. >> jimmy, i can only imagine, you've got 10,000 computers, parts in the warehouse you're now looking through saying how can i find this one old cpu unit. how did you go about tracking it down. >> i received an e-mail from the new york city department of. put a team together. they were all sympathetic. they looked. we were disappointed. we couldn't find it. we were very happy for max's mom that she went the distance to recycle, so we wanted to go the distance to try to help out. so after a little while, damien wilcox, one of the employees came up to me and said jimmy, jimmy, jimmy, i found it.

found what? i found the boy's money. >> like a needle in a haystack. >> an organized needle in a haystack. >> we called max's mom, she brought him down. we took them on a tour of the facility, showed them how recycling. we just wish more people would recycle like max and his mom. it's a good thing. we wanted to go the distance as much as she did. >> max, dorothy, did you guys ever think you would get the money back? >> i never thought we would get the money back. i thought it was gone forever. >> now, are you off to boy scout camp now that you have the money? >> actually this year we already had paid for it but i was saving that money for next year's camp. >> all right. dorothy, i guess we learned an important lesson as parents. what did you take away from this? >> i guess to follow through. follow through. >> you made the right wrong or the wrong right. that's the important part. good to have you all here and

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technology expert is here. katie, good morning. >> justin bieber stopped by and helped matt get an unusually high number of people following him. >> he has an unusually high number following them. justin bieber and lady gaga have higher than the population of australia following them on twitter. just to put that in perspective. bieber 23 million, gaga 25 million. australia, 22 million population. >> that's unbelievable. everybody seeps to be on the twitter other than recording artists. >> one group we love, we're in the middle of nba finals, 67% of nba players are on twitter. so much in fact, tomorrow they are having social media awards ceremony just for the nba. twitter has absolutely grown substantially. >> "today" show on twitter. we're on twitter. >> that's right. >> youtube videos, very addicting. we can waste a lot of time. how much time are we spending

watching youtube videos. >> believe it or not over 3 billion hours of youtube videos are watched every single month on youtube. >> who is counting that. >> 500 years of video on youtube, 700 videos shared on twitter every single minute. you know how you can get sucked in. you start watching one -- >> exactly. >> what is the longest video on youtube. >> that's my favorite. the longest actual video, this guy counts to 100,000. >> that's got to be exciting. fantastic. >> if you want to sit through it, siphon out from time, it's three days. >> how many pages. >> crazy. >> put you to sleep. next factoid has to do with facebook and its popularity. it's worldwide but some parts of the world use it more than

others. >> i call facebook the ultimate time burglary. we all know too much about that. 80% of monthly active users on facebook are outside of the u.s., which i find an interesting statistic. according to neilson, americans spend more time on facebook than any other u.s. website. i think we are all equally guilty of that. how many times a day do you check your facebook page. >> i don't know. i'm not on facebook. >> twitter more than facebook. >> it's hard e-mails from people who want me to join linked in. go away. >> >> you're a good connection. linked in is a huge professional. >> professional social networking site. >> i'm on a network. i don't need to network. >> people need your help, al. come on. stacking a business card from each linked in member, it would reach five and a half mt. everest's tall. put that in perspective.

161 million active users on linked in. every single day they are growing at a rate of two new members per second. >> where are they coming from? >> they are coming in droves. >> real quick. flickr. >> 125 images uploaded to flickr every minute, more than 3 million every day. that pales in comparison, facebook, 300 million every day. >> a lot of wow. >> we can actually bore people all around the world. >> we're smarter because of you. al loves your linked in resumes. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13 -- >> how to get free stuff and get him to stop counting, send him your linked in resume right after this. about how older people are becoming more and more antisocial, so i was really aggressive with my parents about joining facebook. my parents are up to 19 friends now?

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>> what qualifies as chunky bold. >> big. if you're a petite girl like we are. you want something closer to your neck like a choker. if you're more well endowed, larger, bustier, larger, monochromatic. these go well on everyone, red from banana republic. >> do you wear with spaghetti straps. >> wear with anything. these two you can take from summer to fall. >> i love that. we all love espadrilles, comfortable. >> i've been wearing them for a long time. my grandmother used to bring them back from spain. these are not your grandmother's espadrille, platform, high heel. day to evening. these from jessica simpson, love them, pop of sunshine. >> you're walking around, don't want to feel like your wobbling on stilettos.

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this morning on today's home, elegant outdoor dining. show you how to add a touch of class to your summer entertaining. susann susannah, good morning. >> good morning. >> what is your one rule of thumb creating an outdoor space for not a lot of money. >> form and function. it should be stylish. there's no excuse anymore. used to be for the old days, perfect for the outdoors but

yucky, blah. or very, very expensive and stylish. now guess what, there's tons of affordable options that could even be inside they look so glamorous. they are meant for outside. some could be either-or. everything here under $200. i can't believe it. >> you really want to design that way, design for indoors. >> think of it as an outdoor rug, even if you have a tiny terrace or luxury of having a big space. think of it as a room, accessorize it, have fun wit. make it an extension of your house and style. >> the rug. >> look at this color. this is an outdoor rug. i cannot believe the sophistication of these colors, normally you think blue and white, green and white, get away from that and do a little surprise. this could be in your bedroom. >> this can take the wear and tear, last throughout the rainy seasons. >> you know what, if you live on the east coast and starts to get intense out, bring it inside. but everything here is so affordable. if you've had it for two seasons. >> this great bench.

where did you find this? >> this is home goods. you and i were talking about teak. >> looks so expensive. >> look at the details. this could be outdoors, in your entry hall, a great sophistication. >> accessorized with these outdoor pillows. >> restoration hardware, super stylish. these could be indoors often your sofa. >> i love this pop of color. >> i have this in my home indoors. how great for extra seating on the side of the sofa. have fun wit. it doesn't have to be the boring wicker option. recycled, powder coated, perfect for the outdoors. love love love. >> sturdy, too. >> absolutely. >> speaking of sturdy, we have a great area you've created. smaller perhaps outdoor patio. >> first, this rug.

i love it. this very jazzy zebra pattern. i love it. it's rare to find an outdoor rug circular. great for a circular table. this from pier one. so fabulous. actually folding. we were folding it before. >> these chair. >> so substantial. >> usually with folding, rickety. i love the elegance of this. look at this pattern. if you only have a small porch outside, look how great this would be. >> i like how it's painted. >> all unbreakable. look at this melamine. >> not going to break. >> not going to break. >> look at this, looks like flatwater. >> love this bamboo flatwater. i love these, use them for indoor dinner parties. fun. >> napkins.

>> go with cloth, don't go with paper and paper plates. make it elegant. so much better for environment. can you reuse it. >> outdoor lighting. >> i think a lot of people don't think you can put something like a chandelier outside. >> create a mood. this is all weather wicker. this could be over your dining room table. yet how great for the patio to hang and have instant mood. >> storage outside. >> i love again. a lot of times we have a lot of people over. what do you do about extra seating. crate & barrel. beanbag chair. how great to have a bunch around a fire pit. >> great for kids. >> fabulous for kids. i love this. so unexpected in black and white. >> finally from pottery barn. you know how outside we need to put all our trash or towels look. at this. super sophisticated this bin. what a great way to hide stuff and store stuff. >> beautiful. beautiful settings here. want to take it outside and put it at my home. thanks so much.

great job. >> my pleasure. >> coming up next, if you plan to dine al fresco, a great summer pasta in today's kitchen. first this is "today" on nbc.

this morning on today's kitchen, what's for dinner. pasta with summer vegetables. a light dish, perfect for hot weather. executive chef right here in new york city. a mouthful, so is this dish you're making. why is it such a great dish, so much in the way of fresh vegetables. >> fresh vegetables, super light, great for vegetables. >> you could probably substitute whatever you have coming out that looks good. >> that's the great thing about this. whatever comes out of the garden, super delicious and super fresh. >> start off with you like fresh

pasta. what type. >> this is sem li na. no egg. for the summer months keep it lighter. >> if you can't get fresh, still okay to use it. >> difference in cooking times. >> three times as much. >> three times as much for the box. let's get started. >> drop the pasta into the water. >> how much water do you really need when you're boiling pasta. >> you want to give the pasta enough room to swim. >> hey, it's doing the backstroke. >> you like separately to kind of pan roast your vegetables. >> that way all the vegetables maintain their own integrity. distinguishing all flavors. >> what are you starting off with here? >> onion, micro plain garlic. >> nice. cook that down for how long?

>> thirty seconds. spet until the aroma is present. >> i'm sweating now. >> cherry tomatoes. >> just want to break them down. a nice acidity for the pasta. >> separately. >> eggplant. >> so sweet. >> what else would you do? what else kind of convenient table? >> in the fall, you could use cauliflower, winter squashes. in the spring, peas and fava beans we just finished with. you know. >> how long is this going to cook for. >> about two minutes. >> once we got that going. we're just about there. >> add a little bit of pasta water. >> a little bit -- >> create the liaison, a little body. >> even though you're italian, speak french. >> you know, we all have our roots somewhere.

>> i like that. okay. once you're done, pull this out. >> just about there. a splash. >> so you're adding it into this. >> right into the sauce. like one of the tricks with making really good pasta getting a liaison, the quicker the bubbles, the strong eer emulsi y emulsificati emulsification. >> natalie and tamron. >> fantastic. >> a little butter and olive oil. >> fresh herb. >> a little basil, oregano, parsley, pepper. >> a little something back here in the back. >> come on over.

>> back here. >> wow. >> come on back, chef. >> what is this over here. >> this is house made ricotta with beans, pecan pest, a, parsley. >> nice. >> in house cure you're on meat. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having me. >> coming up, kathie lee and hoda along with joan rivers. fasten your seat belts. >> local news and weather. #f#f#f