good morning. from hot to hotter. you thought yesterday was a scorcher? many place in the east today it's going to get even hotter. in some places more than 100 degrees. al will tell us if there's any relief in sight. >> and word is one of jerry sandusky's own children is going to testify against his father. today the case goes to the jury. >> an unspeakable tragedy. an exclusive interview with the woman who lost her three young girls and both of her parents in a christmas morning fire at her home. >> at any time when you opened

the window, did you get a glimpse of any of your girls? >> donna badger speaks out for the first time today thursday, june 21st, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and ann curry, live from studio 1a from rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, independent ann cure cu curry. >> and i'm matt lauer. . coming in today all i wand to say was ick. >> al is monitoring things up on high. he's taken off his jacket.

>> already. and it's early for that. >> also, we've told you over add over again about bullying in schools. most of the time it involves kids bummying other kids. we'll show you a disturbing video that shows kids bullying their adult bus monitor. the bullying was relentless, it was cruel and went on for 14 minutes. this morning that bus monitor, a grandmother, will share her story with us and tell us what has become an outpouring of support for her. >> and prince william is turning 30 today. happy birthday. we'll head to london to see what he's got planned for the big day. >> al is up at the top of the rock this morning. good morning. >> good morning, ann and matt. it's breezy down here but down 70 stories on the ground, it's another story. look at these temperatures, record highs yesterday, newark, 98, hartford, 97, houlton,

maine, they're not used to these temperatures, 90 degrees. temperatures are going to continue to climb. you ain't seen nothing yet. it's just going to get worse. for kids too young for school, the first official day of summer brought a welcome excuse to play in the park. at yankee stadium, some fans just couldn't stand the heat so they got out of the ballpark. >> i decided to do the first five innings and call it a day. the heat is to awful. i might just sit in the house under the air conditioner and relax. >> record highs all along the east coast. >> i had my business clothes on earlier to go to work and hi to get out of them. it's way too hot. >> scorching heat means challenges. senior citizens always a primary concern. >> check on your neighbor, especially seniors, and those who have chronic health

conditions or special needs. maybe sure they're drinking water and staying cool. >> a lesson learned the hardware at a north new jersey high school. >> two students were treated for heat exhaustion during graduation. back here in new york, heat to make a southerner swoon. >> i thought i could handle any kind of heat as a texan but this is unreal. i've been sweating all day. it's really unlike anything we have at home even. >> all along i-95 this heat is going to be relentless. let's take a look and show you in philadelphia they're expected a high of 99 degrees. let's call it 100. the record is 99. we're talking about upwards of 30 million people will be affected by this heat. here's what's happening. big area of high pressure, this "boston herald" high, jet stream to the north. we are looking at record highs with scorchers from boston to

d.c. washington, the record is 98. we'll probably break that. philly will probably see 100, 99 in new york, let's cal it a century mark and boston the record is 95, we'll see 98. today frontal system back through the mississippi river valley, 70s and 60s there, 90s, 100 along the coast. by saturday that front moves through, temperatures drop 10 to 20 degrees, boston in the 70s, and into the southeast as well the other story coming up in 15 minutes, the massive flooding that happened all of a sudden in sleu duluth, minnesota. people say it hasn't been this th bad in a century. >> today is a crucial day in the jerry sandusky sexual assault trial with the prosecution and defense making closing arguments and jerry sandusky decided not

to testify in his open defense. michael isikoff is at the courthouse. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. it was jerry sandusky's day to finally explain himself. instead he chose to remain silent. what led up to that decision may be one of the bigger stories in this trial. jerry sandusky arrives in court today to hear closing arguments and then begin waiting while the jury decides his fate. wednesday tensions were high inside the packed courtroom where it was widely expected sandusky would take the stand. but then his lauer "the defense rests rests." when sandusky entered the courtroom, he looked some baernd chastened. sources tell abc news that prosecutors warned the defense if sandusky testified they would

call a rebuttal of a surprise witness, his adopted son matt. the courses say the son contacted prosecutors after the trial began and was prepared to provide damages testimony about what he saw. asked about his reasons for not testifying, a source close to the defendant said there was no one factor that led to the decision. >> in this case there were real reasons for sandusky to testify, including the statements he made in the bob costas interview and in the love letters to one of the victims. >> reporter: during the trial, eight alleged victims testified they were sexually abused by sandusky in multiple locations. wednesday the defense called two witnesses who participated as children in second mile charity programs. both spoke warmly of sandusky,

describing him as a father figure and mentor who never did anything inappropriate. >> both my parents are deaf. he used to call me up every day and give me dictionary word. state police and prosecutors questioned him four times about his experiences. i thought they wanted me to say something that wasn't true. they asked me the same questions in different ways to see if i'd slip up or whatever. but on cross-examination hilton acknowledged to the chief prosecutor he was not told what to say about sandusky. now prosecutors and defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments this morning and then after getting instructions from the judge, the jury will begin deliberations to decide jerry sandusky's guilt or innocence. >> michael isikoff, thank you very much.

savannah guthrie is this morning's legal correspondent. >> good morning. >> had the defense put jerry sandusky on the witness stand, the prosecution would have called as a rebuttal witness his own adopted son, matt. why didn't they call him anyway? >> that is the question. and to be honest here, we're just reading the tea leaves. we don't have full information. the couple of possibilities as i see it. number one, it may be that matt sandusky had evidence or testimony that would have on been relevant if sandusky had testified and opened the door to it. it wouldn't have necessarily been direct evidence that relates to the accusations in those case, those ten alleged victims. that's one possibility. the second possibility is that sandusky did have information about his father that relates to one of the charges in this case but made some kind of deal with the prosecutors i don't want to testify unless my father gets on the stand and says x, y or z. it would be unusual for prosecutors to make a deal like that but it possible. >> in the end it's a moot point

because none of that happened. before we talk about closing arguments, let's talk about the pace of the trial. this has sped along. generally speaking how does that impact a jury? >> in some sense it makes their task easier. we saw the john edwards case where jurors listened to four weeks testimony, it was incredibly complicated in terms of the law. this is not difficult. they are sizing up the credibility of akccuseraccusers. >> i'm sure we're going to hear more that they were told what to say by the prosecution and there was financial motivation. >> it's the strongest argument. it the only argument that addresses the fundamental challenge for the defense. how do you explain the volume of witnesses? this defense tactic says the

investigators planted the seed, they coached these witnesses, they cross-contaminated. it the strongest defense argument. we'll see if it works for them. >> we'll see those closing arguments today. savannah guthrie, thanks very much. here's ann. >> now to the latest on george zimmerman. this morning his defense team released new documents related to the investigation. we have the latest now from sanford, florida. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. george zimmerman charged with second degree murder remains in solitary cell here. there has ban gradual release of information in this case. most released by state prosecutor. now the defense is releasing some of the was in gathered if those initial days of the shooting death of trayvon martin, including interviews with george zimmerman accused of second degree murder. there are audio interviews,

written statements and there is an interview with a specialist from the police department which was recorded on video as well by an expert who is doing what's called a computer voice stress analysis. >> i didn't have my phone in the pocket i thought hi it in, i had it in my jacket pocket. i reached for my pocket and reached for my phone and he punched me in the nose. somehow i ended up on my back, he ended up on top of me and he just kept punching my face and my head and i was screaming for help and he told me shut the [ bleep ] up. i kept yelling for help. i got a little bit of leverage and i started to head up and he took my head and slammed it into the concrete several times. >> the interview with the

computer voice stress analysis lasts one hour and 11 minutes. now, after he talks about the fight that took place, then he talks about the shooting and how george zimmerman was reaching for showing that he had a gun in his waistband. >> he like sat up and looked and said "you're going to die tonight [ bleep ]" and i saw him take one hand off my mouth and slide it down my chest and i just pinched his arm and i grabbed my gun and i aimed it at him and fired one shot. he kind of sat back and said "you got me, you got it," something like that. and i thought he was saying that he heard the shot and that he was giving up. >> reporter: george zimmerman said he later discovered that trayvon martin took that one shot to the chest and died right there.

police officers according to his statement showed up very shortly thereafter, had him put his hands on top of his head, still with the gun tucked now back into the side waistband there, took him into custody, took him in handcuffs and this interview that we just saw was recorded almost 24 hours to the moment that trayvon martin was shot and killed. the release of this information is a lot more than just that but this is the essence of george zimmerman's story finally and hearing it directly from his words and not filtered through any other source. >> all right, thank you so much for giving us this breaking story. >> let us get the rest of the top stories from natalie over at the newsdesk. >> good morning. u.s. attorney general eric holder face as legal battle after a panel that voted along

party liens cited him for contempt of congress. >> reporter: the white house is exerting executive privilege for the first time in the obama presidency. serious allegations from house republicans. >> there's no question in anybody's mind that's been involved in this investigation that the attorney general has been stonewalling this committee. >> reporter: democrats called this a political witch hunt. >> i am offended personally by your calling the attorney general a liar. >> reporter: the house oversight committee says eric hold are should be cited for contempt of congress. >> it shouldn't have come to this. nobody likes doing this. >> reporter: the committee wants to know who approved a botched gun operation called fast & furious linked to the killing of a border patrol agent.

holder called the contempt citation an election year tactic. while the justice department has provided thousands of documents, holder says by law he cannot turn over everything. the white house stepped in asserting executive privilege. >> i think that if mr. boehner takes this to the house, he will be seen as one of the most extreme speakers that ever took charge of a house. >> reporter: house republicans say there is still time to resolve this if holder will give them more documents. if not, speaker boehner says the full house will vote next week to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. natalie? >> thanks so much, kelly. >> some scary moments in the ska as a plane traveling from newark to denmark was forced to make an emergency landing in maine on witness night.

the plane was carrying 242 people when the cockpit filled with smoke. passengers and crew were checked for smoke inhalation with bu no injuries ro reported. >> now let's head to wall street. courtney, good day to you. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. the fed will not add asset purchases to its balance sheet like many traders had hoped but it is going to extend operation twist where they buy longer dated government bonds in order to keep interest rates low and it leaving the door open for further action should economic conditions deteriorate. today, though, the market likely looked past the fed, instead focusing on developments out of europe and a fresh batch of u.s. economic data including a number of americans filing for those unemployment benefits. natalie? >> courtney reagan, thanks so much. >> and alec baldwin had nothing to hide last night on "the late show with david letterman." he addressed his tuesday morning run-in with a photographer denying he threw any punches.

>> they want to you take a punch or push them -- >> nobody got punched by the way. >> and i said that from the first -- >> if i punched hip, i would be in jail right now and rightfully so. >> if he didn't prove he was no boxer, at least he proved he wasn't wearing any. to show how much weight he lost, he dropped his apparently oversized khakis. did we need to see that? >> just thinking about david letterman's view of that. >> exactly. >> his perspective was a lot worse than ours probably. >> in the meantime let's go back to the top of the rock and find out what al has to say about the nation's forecast. hey, al. >> some other areas have been suffering with extreme weather. first of all, duluth, minnesota saw over 15 inches of rain in some places in less than eight hours. it's estimated 10% of the city's sidewalks have been destroyed.

so they are going to be feeling the effects of this for a long time to come. and now as we head down south to the gulf, can you see we're looking at an area of disturbed weather in the northwest caribbean could been debby within the next 48 hours. there in the gulf we're not sure what that's going to mean. we have been seeing a lot of wet weather down through southern florida. it going to continue today with, again, anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain during the day today. and we have more rain making its way up through the upper midwest. they may see more rai >> good morning. high temperature in the upper 90's to around 100. he index between

>> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you very much. >> for those of us who remember the day he's born, it's hard to believe but today mark as milestone for britain's prince william. he's turning 30 just months after his bride hit the big 3-0 herself. michelle is at buckingham palace with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. now the prince and wife, catherine, have both entered the decade of their 30s with another big year ahead of them. this is not just symbolic of growing up. it is very concrete as he inherits an enormous sum of money. he's the future king we watched grow from the very beginning. diana's first born, the almost impossible adorable toddler, his first day of school and first brushes with public life.

then the devastation of his mother's loss. an unforgettable slow, stoic walk behind her casket. and of course this fairy tale marriage last year to his beautiful long-time love. today william has matured into a young man and is much respected for his modesty and dedication to service. >> the adulthood for preeince william has cemented him as a proper grownup. >> reporter: as a rescue pilot, he has saved lives. brother harry joked william is becoming middle aejed and boring and he will spend in big birthday quietly. reportedly kate has planned a dinner with their closest friends. but on this milestone for william also comes a fortune, the remainder of diana's estate

set aside for him, said to total a around $10 million after taxes. he's said to have been receiving some of that five years ago, $450,000 a year. their combined waealth, $46 million. >> he's not a lavish spender. he tries to live off the money from his father. >> reporter: it's possible with william's windfall, they might buy a country home as a private retreat. which brings up when we might see these two cuddling something in their arms which is not a puppy. the palace wouldn't say how much prince william will inherit today. it would be as much as $15

million. prince harry will receive the same amount when he turns 30. matt? >> michelle, thanks so much. >> coming up, the exclusive interview with donna badger, the woman whose mother and three children were killed in that horrific fire on christmas day. how has she survived the last six months? she speaks

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line. >> getting busier by the moment. an accident coming in in roseville. be careful there. otherwise, speed at around 30. this is continuing towards the 895 split. mccormick road we have an accident just in. another one still clearing on 795.inner group priloop on east on i-70 from 29-32. a quick, live look at traffic. we will update you at 895. no. on delays through the construction zone with the right lane closure on this bridge. here is what it looks like on hartford road. pretty typical spots on the northbound side. the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> one more day was smoking hot

temperatures. that will cool off over the weekend. already uncomfortable. 85 downtown. 78 of the airport. dew point still in the upper 60's. you will feel that when you step outside today. hazy, hot and humid. heat index between 100-105. slight chance for a thunderstorm this evening. scattered storms tomorrow with the cold front. that will close off over the weekend.

7:30 on a thursday morning, the 21st day of june 2012. it is a scorcher in central park and the rest of the east coast as we're in the upper 90 degree range. first full day of summer and things are going to heat up even more tomorrow when country music star kenny chesney brings his rocking music to the plaza for our friday concert. there's the plaza where this evenings are cooking. these people have been standing out there for a couple of hours. it's a bit close out there. inside the studio it's a lot cooler. i'm matt lauer alongside ann

curry. coming up, this is a video that is hard to watch, but it's harder to listen to than to watch. >> it show as group of middle school students bullying their bus monitor with cruel insults for 14 minutes straight. take a listen to what they said to her. >> you old troll. >> it happened earlier this week and it had many people wondering how could kids be so cruel? this went on and on, matt. it's pretty sobering. >> and what we have just told you or showed you is really the complete least of what's on this team. i mean, these kids are merciless. there's the woman they were taunting and we're going to be talking to her in just a little while. let's begin this half hour, though, with that story that horrified people across the country. the connecticut woman who lost her three young daughters and her parents when a fire engulfed their home on christmas morning. madonna badger has never spoken

publicly until today. in an exclusive interview she tells her story of unimaginable loss, profound courage and also her own search for the truth. >> do you find yourself in the middle of a day, madonna, saying, wow, the last five minutes i laughed a little? or i was able to smile? or it wasn't in the front of my mind, maybe it was in the back of my mind for a while? do you have those moments? >> yes. and at first -- the first time i smiled or the first time i laughed, i felt so bad, you know. >> guilty? >> yeah, of course. >> but also still looking for answers about what happened six months ago at her stately home in stanford, connecticut. her three daughters were there, 9-year-old lilly, and the twins, grace and sarah, aged 7. her parents, too, both retired. her dad loved to play department store santa. >> he would come home and tell

us all the stories, you know, of all these children and what they had said and how much santa loved them. >> what was he like as a grandfather to lilly, grace and sarah? >> you know, he was amazing. >> reporter: then there was madonna's new boyfriend, the contractor who had renovated her home. all of them together christmas eve. >> the girls were so excited and we started a fire in the afternoon, you know, got ready for christmas. gracie decorated the dining room table and i had all those little candles, you know, that you turn on, not the fire kind but the -- to be safe. >> what time did the girls go to bed? >> i mean, it was pretty late. i want to say 9:00 or 9:30. and then we went upstairs and mike read "the grinch who stole

christmas." gracie had already kicked me out by them. grace had a very kind of set way that she liked to go to sleep and lilly and sarah slept in my bed. and so i laid down with them and just chatted and talked and, you know, told them i loved them. >> once the kids were asleep, madonna and michael wrapped presents for several hours. >> back to the fire for a second, fireplace. the last log was put on the fire at about 8:00 in the evening. >> right before dinner. >> one of the stories that came out the day after this fire was that your girls had thought, wait a minute, santa's not going to be able to get down the chimney if there are ashes and embers in that chimney, we've got to get those out of there. is that what happened?

>> i don't know where that came from. >> it's not the truth? >> no. >> but she says michael did sweep the hearth at about 3:30 a.m. >> mike started cleaning up those ashes, put them in a brown bag. >> are we talking about ashes or are we talking about embers? how would you describe what he put in that bag? >> i saw them as ashes that were in the front of the fireplace, but i know that i watched him take them with his hand, the shovel, and put them into the bag. i watched him put his hands in the bag. >> so he's putting his hands in the bag now to feel -- >> to make sure there's nothing on fire in the bag. >> and you watched him do that? >> oh, yeah. >> so the ashes in that brown bag were then placed where? >> they were placed on top of one of the plastic bins that we had brought in, and that bin was then placed in the mud room.

>> a long night winding down. >> so we had a piece of apple pie and we sat on the sofa. the fireplace is here and the christmas tree was over here and all the presents were there and the stockings were there. and then we went to bed. and as i was going up the stairs, i saw the plastic box there on the floor and i saw the bag on top and i remember thinking to myself i should put that outside, i should put that outside. and then i remember thinking, no, but i watched him put his hands through it. >> so you thought there was no danger? >> no danger. >> about 4:00 a.m. now, she and mike went to sleep in separate rooms. >> my bedroom was on the second floor in the front of the house and my two guest rooms basically

were also on the second floor. so i'm asleep here, my mom and dad are asleep here and mike is in the back left-hand corner all on the second floor. and on the third floor were three little bedrooms and grace claimed the turret and those three bedrooms with all pink and white and -- >> perfect little girls rooms. >> that's what i thought. >> she slept for less than an hour. >> i woke up and i was choking. couldn't breathe choking. and then i realized there was a fire. >> as you woke up choking, madonna, because of the smoke, did you hear smoke detectors? >> no. >> did you hear smoke alarms, anything going off in that house? >> nothing. it was silent. i got down on my knees and i got out the front wind open because

i couldn't breathe at all and now i'm on the front porch so the porch of the house went around the house and so i had to make a decision because the windows there were my mom and dad's windows. so i had to decide do i go in and save them or do i go save my children? and so i ran the other way to save my children and the house had scaffolding -- >> from the renovations. >> on the outside of the turret. so i scrambled up the scaffolding to get to grace's window and i opened that window and the smoke that hit me, it was just the blackest -- like an ocean.

it was twirling and there was embers and all kinds of stuff in it and i kept trying to hold my breath and put my head in and i did that like three or four times and i couldn't get in. i couldn't get in the window. and i'm just screaming for somebody to come and help me. then i saw the fire trucks coming. and then mike fell out of the back window, the back bedroom window and he was running around the house and his eyes were shut because they had been burned shut and he was running all around the yard, you know, screaming jump to me, jump to me, girls where are you? and that's when the fireman dragged me off the porch. >> so at any time when you

opened the window, did you get a glimpse of any of your girls? no. no, it was so black. it was the blackest smoke i've ever seen. no. if i could have seen them i would have gone in. i mean, it's impossible to describe how it is that you can't go in and save your own children but i couldn't get through that smoke. i couldn't. >> did you ever hear your mom and dad? did you yell to them? >> oh, yeah, i mean, i was screaming so loudly. they heard me a block over. >> you were taken to the emergency room, as was mike. can you describe the scene? can you describe what you remember lying on that bed in the emergency room? >> i mean, it was, you know, it was so real. and i'm just yelling and yelling and yelling and yelling, you know, where are my parents?

where are my babies? where are my babies? and they're like we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, ma'am, we don't know, we don't know. >> she says it took three hours before a doctor gave her the news. >> she took mike's hand and she took my hand and put them together, you know, and she held them and she said your three children are gone and probably your mom and dad but we don't know that for certain. and then, my god, i couldn't believe it. and i said please, please, please let me call somebody, let me call somebody. >> her children and parents dead of smoke inhalation, she called close friends, she called her ex-husband, the girls' father. >> i said bring everybody. the children are gone. my mom and dad are gone, there's

been a fire, just please come and help me, you know, because i was just -- i was so scared. >> ten days after the fire she smoke at the funeral of lilly, grace and sarah. how did you show up there? how did you manage to eulogize your daughters so soon after their death? where'd you find the strength? >> i don't know. i think it was all god's grace. i have no idea. >> my little girls are not gone from us entirely because my girls are in my heart. >> but even in her grief, questions. why didn't the smoke alarms go off? >> my understanding was that i had an operable fire and smoke alarms. >> you tested the wired smoke detectors? >> yes. >> why this memory from the morning of the fire? >> i ran to the edge of my house and i looked down to the left

and there i saw a little bit of flame but mostly just sparks, sparks, sparks everywhere. >> and above all why was her horse torn down the day after the fatal blaze? >> i need to know the truth. >> i want to tell you that the lilly, sarah, grace fund has been set up in honor of the badger girls to support the arts in underfunded public elementary schools across america. the information is on our web site on today.com. we'll have more with madonna badger with brian williams on "rock center" at 10:00. here's al. >> thanks so much. as we show you what we have for tomorrow, a slight risk of strong storms along the southeastern and mid atlantic

coast. rain in the pacific northwest, heavy rain down in florida. as we move on into saturday, more heavy rain if florida and it continues at 3 to 5 inches, sizzling conditions through the southwest and gulf coast and on sunday we're expecting more showers in the pacific northwest and still more heavy rain in southern florida. most likely we'll be seeing >> good morning.kend in parts of he'd advisory in effect from noon until 10:00 p.m. high temperatures will be around 100. a slight chance fo >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> al, thanks very much.

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you can. eastbound 50 right at the river bridge woulyou will be delayed due to an accident wrapping up. no. on delays in place due to the construction and steel bridge. take 95 as your alternate to avoid it altogether. northwest corner of the beltway pretty heavy down toward edmundston. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning, everyone. off to another hot and steamy start. 85 degrees in downtown baltimore. dew point running in the upper 60 to around 70. relative humidity at the airport of 65%./ the heat index today will be around 100-105. slight chance we could see a thunderstorm top of this afternoon, but most likely in the mountains. probably not run baltimore. heat index effect until 10:00 this evening.

high temperature 92. back into the 80's over the weekend. 87 on saturday. 85 on sunday. we will keep going o

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online. >> we want to talk about this video that's gone viral on the internet. >> we were talking about it before. it is so disturbing. it shows a group of middle school students on the school bus verbally abusing the school monitor, the bus monitor, the woman who is a grandmother, for 14 minutes straight. some of the things they say to her are just shameful. there's been an outpouring of support for this woman. she's going to join us. we think parents should take this video and show it to their kids and have an honest discussion with them about bullying. we often think about bullying kid to kid. this is kids to an adult. it's horrific. >> whatever happened to respecting your elders. on a much lighter note, steve

carell is starting by. we love him. he stars in a touching and funny moving "seeking a friend." >> let's get inside and get a check of the top stories. natalie is at the post there. >> good morning, everyone. more record highs are expected today in parts of the northeast on this first full day of summer. for the second day in a row heat advisories and warnings are in effect from virginia into maine with temperatures at or above 100 in some places and with the humidity it will feel even hotter. >> closing arguments in the child sex abuse child of jerry sandusky. the defense rested wednesday without calling sandusky to the stand. the jury did hear from eight of his ten alleged victims. >> jack osborne appeared on "the

talk" with his mother, sharon and talked about how his m.s. symptoms were gradual at first and then became more dramatic. >> what i'm learning is one week i'm fine and the next i went blind in my right eye. it's a completely unpredictable disease. >> did you get the vision back in your rye eye? >> it's back about 80%. >> the diagnosis came a week after the birth of his daughter. >> and larry ellison has bought 90% of a hawaiian island. >> and snooki is sticking close to her roots when it comes to baby names. if the baby is a boy they'll go with lorenzo but if it's a girl she'lling called giada. >> and an angry bird caught cast

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middle schoolers cruelly taunting the bus monitor. more than a million people have seen it on line. we'll speak to karen klein in a minute. first we go to craig in rochester. >> reporter: good morning to you. karen klein is in her late 60s, is hard of hearing. she's worked with kids much of her life. the video showing what some of those kids subjected her to on that school bus. those videos have been viewed more than a million times. and it's got a lot of folks talking and asking some questions, some serious questions about kids and civility. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: watching these videos makes you cringe and wince. most parents would never expect their children to act like this on their way to school. this community just outside

rochester is reeling from three separate videos that show a group of middle school students mercilessly taunting a bus monitor. at one point they made the 64-year-old cry. >> i was trying to just ignore them, hoping they would go away and it doesn't work. trust me, they didn't go away. >> reporter: karen klein sat and endured it. now the grandmother of eight is still trying to come to terms with what happened. >> it's like it wasn't me, you know? it had to be somebody else, not me. i can't believe it happened. >> reporter: at in news conference wednesday, school officials promised punishment. >> we can say that students found to be involved will face strong disciplinary action. >> reporter: the videos have gone viral and they've also struck a cord with many concerned about how today's children behave and what it means for society. >> you're powerless watching this.

you want to be there to say something and you can't. >> it's upsetting this goes on in the world today. >> reporter: experts say parents may be reaping what they sew. >> i think what's wrong with kids today are what's wrong with adults today. we're not setting the importance of cultural rules, that you treat each other with decency and respect, that cruelty is wrong and punishable. >> reporter: there's been talk of criminal charges but klein doesn't want that. instead she'd prefer is serve as a simple lesson. >> i do hope the parents see this, not just kids and they can talk to their kids and tell them to be a little more respectful. >> reporter: both the police and school district are going to continue their investigation. no word on when and if charges will be filed. meanwhile there's been an outpouring of support for karen klein. one web site alone has raised more than $115,000 to send her

on a dream vacation and help with retirement. matt? >> craig melvin, thank you very much. karen klein is at home in rochester, new york and jennifer hartstein, a parent and adolescent therapist is with me in the studio. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> karen, i saw this video for the first time this morning and it's one of the most upsetting and depressing things that i have seen in a very long time. the way these children treat you on that bus. and i use the word "children," there are a lot of other things i would like to call them. have any of them come forward to apologize to you? >> i don't know -- i don't know what to say. i don't -- i want the boys punished but i don't know how. it made me feel really terrible,

but i will get over it. i've gotten over everything else. >> karen, did you have a longstanding, hostile relationship with these children or was this more of an isolated incident? >> there were more times than i thought that they were picking on me. they'd mock out my hair, they'd mock out because i wore hearing aids. they just could be really nasty. >> i was watching this and i was amazed at your self-restraint, the fact that you did not jump up and yell and talk back to them, that you sat there for this amount of time. how did you manage to do that? a lot of will power. because i'm not usually that calm. just ask my kid. >> i just want to explain, karen, to our viewers that you

were a bus driver for a long time. you've been a monitor on the school bus for i think about three years. and i'm not going to say how much they pay you but it's not a lot of money and you do it because you want to make sure kid are safe to and from school. i'll tell you what i think about them now, i think they're narrow minded monsters and i think their kids should be ashamed of them. what would you like to say to those parents? >> i'm sorry that your sons acted the way they did. i'm sure they don't act that way at home but you never know what they're going to do when they're out of the house. they should have been taught to respect their elders. no matter who it is. >> karen, there has been an

enormous amount of support for you after this video went public. there's been an outpouring of support and people have even raised money for you. i believe it's about $100,000 so that you can go off and take a nice vacation. how do you feel about the reaction to this? >> i am amazed. i'm so amazed. some of the nicest -- i've got i don't know the nicest letters, e-mails, facebook messages. and it's like, wow, there's a whole world out there that i didn't know. it's just really awesome. >> i don't know you. i'd love to meet you. i'd love to have you here in the studio one day, but as a parent let me apologize for those children because what they did was despicable and i thank you so much for talking to me today. >> you're welcome. >> jennifer, this is just bullying, plain and simple. >> it is plain and simple

bullying and it's bullying in a way we don't generally think about it. it's elder bullying and it's not something we talk about. we don't talk about how kids talk to the adults in their lives. teachers face this in their classrooms with students all the time. we know on the buses this may happen. the problem as she pointed out is what's the policy in reverse. if she does say something back, she gets in trouble. >> i would like nothing more than to saturday names of these kid on national television and give their addresses and let them see the kind of abuse that they dished out to this woman. ecan't do th i can't do this. how should the school handle this? >> there is an investigation. there was an article that came out that said if she's feeling threatened, they can bring criminal charges against these kids. >> i'm going to go home and show this video to my kid, the ones that are old enough to see it. it might be a teachable moment.

>> it absolutely is a teachable moment. we're talking about bullying, we're talking about let's get back to kindness, a kindness curriculum. >> thank you, jennifer. we'll be back after this.

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character of the woman who leaves you when she finds out the end of the world is coming and you actually film this part of the movie on your wedding anniversary? >> yeah. our 16th wedding anniversary. >> what was that look? >> i hope it wasn't foreboding in any sense. it the last scene we shot. it's the first scene in the movie. and she shoots me this look and i would love a freeze frame of it because it's scary as hell. and the director even said, wow, have you seen that in real life before? and i have and i hope never to again. no, she's great. it was fun. it was actually really fun because we got to work together. >> may you never see that look good. meantime you gave the commencement address at princeton. >> i did. >> what did you tell them? >> i told them -- it was just for fun. it was class day. it's a light eer version of

commencement, the day before commencement. in essence i said you are young and because of that you are wrong. >> and with time you'll get right. >> i got pretty much that same response when i did it. it was very tongue in cheek. >> it's interesting because you wanted to go into med school, you wanted to become a lauewyel. you found the ability to do not what you wanted to do, what you should do? >> i was filling out a law school application and my parents said is this what you want to do? i couldn't answer the essay question of why do you want to be an attorney? i couldn't answer why. they said what would you like to do, what would you join? we made a list and acting was one of them and we went from there. >> i'm glad you made the right

choice. steve carell this morning. back after this. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. 8:26. let's check on the commute. >> still dealing with some delays. an accident southbound 83. watch for delays. mccormick wrote, an accident clearing in cockeysville. in rosedale, pulaski highway, watch for a crash and delays on 95. the north and west side continue to be slow. eastbound 100, for a crash and another at the severn river bridge.

here's a quick live look at traffic. 895, earthbound delays of up to the construction zone at the steel bridge. looking at west side slowing in the northwest corner beginning at 795 and continuing down towards edmondson. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. john collins has a look at the forecast. >> i think you got the idea. we're already 83 at the airport. humidity is up. northwest wind and very light. all the storms of a way to the west. pretty powerful in parts of missouri. big area of high pressure is sitting over us. temperatures 95 to 100. hot and humid. take it easy. a little bit of relief tomorrow. we could see a decent chance for

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>> there's any number of things that determine between first and second. >> it's the pursuit of perfection. ♪ tonight we are young >> 8:30 now on a thursday morning. it's the 21st day of june 2012. we have a crowd enjoying the heat here in new york city and so are we. we're having a little fun with the group fun. the new york-based band has had a huge hit recently with their

song "we are young." the group is here to play it live for news a few minutes. i'm matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and natalie morales. what do we have coming up? >> we have a one-on-one with the creator of "west wing." he's now turning his signature style to the tv news profession. so we're going to hear about that. >> and then we think he's the pits and we mean that in the nicest way. mark bitman is going to show us how to cook with peaches, plums and nekt reasons. i would take a bad nectarine over a good plum any day. it's a heck of a fruit. >> i agree. remember the adorable punky brewster? now that actress has grown up. she's a very popular mommy blogger. she's going to be in front of

our professionals. good luck to her. >> and. we should tell you the opening ceremony of the london olympics, 36 days away. a lot of our athletes competing in trials over the next couple of weeks, including olympic superstar michael phelps. and we're joined this morning by one of the women behind the great man, debbie phelps is his mom. >> hi, you guys. >> how are you? >> i am great. how are you, matt? >> i am great. are you more nervous than michael? nothing to be nervous about. are you nervous with this amount of time left to go before the games? >> i'm excited. >> not nervous? >> i can't get nervous because he has control of everything. i just sit there and watch. kind of. >> he has said london will be the last olympic games for him. you have said you kind of like brazil. >> i do like brazil. but, you know -- >> if you've never been -- >> michael told me he will send me there on vacation. he will not swim there.

no convincing him. >> we should mention we had a chance to sit down with michael not long ago in baltimore, you were there as well. at one point in the interview diwith him, i asked him about you. can we play a little of that? >> absolutely. >> she has been there every step of the way, good times, bad times. she always puts in her two cents, she has the right to. she's my mother. sometimes you don't always want to hear it but she has that right. she's supported me through everything. i mean, it's -- she's my mom. i love her to death and she's the most important person in my life. >> what are you going to say after that? >> very exciting, very meaningful. >> why are you here in new york today?

>> i'm here today to meet with mommy bloggers about underage drinking and a healthy lifestyle. and eight great program they have called ask, listen and learn where they are influencing parents to talk to their children about drinking and also to live a healthy life. go to asklistenlearn.com and find out more about it. >> debbie phelps, all the best luck in the trials and in london. >> thank you. >> and i'll offer to teak to you brazil. >> good morning. all arou he'd advisory in effect from noon until 10:00 p.m. high temperatures will be around 100. a slight chance for

thanks a lot, al. coming up next, a hearing from the oscar winning creator of "west wing," aaron sorkin on the new show "the newsroom" coming up.

on sunday aaron sorkin, the oscar winning writer of "the social network" and creator of "the west wing" will debut "the newsroom" on hbo. savannah guthrie sat down with him for an in-depth chat. >> aaron sorkin has become one of hollywood's most celebrated

screenwriters thanks to several celebrated hits and that signature style. >> my name is andrew shepard and i am the president. >> some of the most unforgettable lines. >> when the president stands, nobody sits. >> were born at the fingertips of screenwriter aaron sorkin. now he's on to something new, "the newsroom," a romantic comedy set in the world of cable news. >> can people hear me in there? >> you still feel nervous? about this premiere you'll beer in sflous. >> o-- you'll be nervous? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: his role is not based on any real life news man. >> i want to emphasize it's a

fictional character. i've spent time in a lot of newsrooms. the show's got one foot in reality and one foot in this kind of romantic wishful film and fantasy. >> reporter: like everything sorkin does, expectations are high. he's the rare hollywood celebrity who got famous for writing. his work instantly recognizable for that trademark fast talking, fast walking style. do you ever write something, look at it and think that's so sorkiny? am i being too sorkiny here? >> that's not the word that i use. i use the word it's bad. that's just bad writing. >> sorkin is exacting, requiring perfection from himself and the actors who must deliver that dense dialogue like it rolled off the tongue. >> both of my guys are identifying the failure of the cement mixes. >> the actors love you or they

hate you with all of those words? i mean -- >> it seems like they enjoy -- i mean, you'd have to ask them. i don't want to speak for them. our scripts are about 25 pages longer than most hour-long scripts because there are a lot more words. >> you have ever been paid by the word? have you thought about putting that in your contract? >> no, i haven't but i have to call my agent. >> his success rocketed after "a few good men" became a blockbuster movie. but for years sorkin hid a private battle with drugs, culminating in his infamous 2001 arrest for cocaine at a california airport. >> i've always wanted people to know me as the guy who writes those things and not know the real me. and when i was arrested, it felt like we were drawing back the curtain on, oh, the guy who is writing these things is a crack

addict. >> reporter: sorkin got sober and said he stayed that way 11 years. his next venture, to write the movie about apple founder steve jobs. >> one of the hesitations i had was that it was a little like writing about the beatles, that there are so many people out there who know so much about him and who revere him. >> reporter: but the project he's most proud of of is his 11-year-old daughter roxy. >> she's very funny, very smart. she's thriving in school. she's just starting to watch some of of the things i've written. i want her to like it and i'm worried she's going to be a little bored by it. i'm worried that she's going to worried she's going to hurt my feelings if she doesn't love it. >> it's so aaron sorkin. it's a little neurotic. >> a little bit. >> does she smooth out those edges, though, a little bit? >> she smooths out everything.

it's very simple. i feel like i'm exactly where i'm supposed to be doing exactly what i'm supposed to be doing. >> for all his success and famous line, he said if he had a chance to write "a few good men" again hereby would write it differently. >> one of my favorites. >> i know, but he would do it differently, if he could. >> can you see more of savannah's interview on "rock center." >> coming up, cooking with

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york times" magazine. he's the author of "how to cook everything basics" cookbook. good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> the techniques we're use can go be used for all of the fruits i'm mentioned. >> everything you mentioned could be treated the same way. everything we're doing here, you can throw in whatever your favorite stone fruit is. >> what are we going to start with, peaches or nectarines? >> peaches or nectarines. the white ones are white peaches. and we have plums here, too. >> you she's them in half, use the knife to go around the pit or the stone and you're taking them out easily and now you're grilling they in what was. >>. >> this is a grilling technique. we're doing this indoor but this works wonderful on a charcoal grill. >> always leave the skin on like this when you're grilling it?

>> i like to. you can always take it off. it does help hold it together. >> and that's all, a little butter, a little sugar. >> a drizzle of honey, a little lemon. any of that is good also. >> next you're going to show us how to make a chutney. is there a definition of chutney -- >> no, it's like saying jam. we have cherrys, nectarines mixed together. >> when you're cooking with fruit like this, do you want it to be very ripe or would you prefer to cook this when it just before ready? >> what's great about both of these you is can use them pretty

unripe. ripe fruit is nice, it has more sugar. >> in this we have cherrys and what is that? >> orange juice, ginger. this is kcurry powder and a little bit of clove for spice. you took them until they meld. >> you have raisins you're going to add to this and then -- why wouldn't you cook the raisins in there? >> you don't want them to plump up too much and the nuts, you want them to stay crunchy. you wind up with this gorgeous chutney or you can think of it as jam or come poet. >> if you go to mexico, los angeles, brooklyn, other exotic places like that, you will often see people selling on the street

a fruit salad with any combination of fruit but also in it they put sugar, they put salt, chilli powder and kcayenn and with the fruit it's great. >> mark bitman, a great idea for stone fruit. >> up next the band fun is here

yea the toyota concert series on "today" brought to you by toyota. >> it has been a great year for the band fun. their hit single "we are young" spent six weeks on number one on the build board top 100. their latest release is called "some nights." good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> describe this year you're having. >> i think it's been surreal would be the best word to use. we've been doing this for such a

long time. all of us have been professional musicians for about ten years and we've had like a nice cult following so for it to take off the way that it has more recently has been surreal. >> more recently as in december when you were featured, your work was featured on "glee" and since then it has just been chock-a-block, a crazy time. when you heard "glee" was going to feature your song, what did you think? >> it means so much to us to partner with things that are particularly satisfying and "glee" is a great show with a positive message that speaks to people all over the country about great things. it was an honor. >> you're touring. have you a lot going on. you look a little exhausted because you don't like being up at this hour of the morning. but, andrew, is there something about this fast rush that you remember most about? what's the memory from all of this time that you'll take away?

>> i think one of the most important things that i'm going to remember is just like getting to share these little moments with my best friends. even if it's a dinner or waking up at 5:15 to be here today, all these things are just that much more special and memorable and getting to take pictures and stuff like that. it's nice to have people to share it with. >> cool. we're excited to hear you this morning. gentlemen, thank you for being here. ladies and gentlemen, fun. ♪ give me a second, i need to get my story straight ♪ my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the empire state ♪ my love is waiting for my just across the bar ♪ my seat's been taken by someone asking about a scarf ♪ i know i gave it to you months ago ♪ i know you're trying to forget

but it's between the subtle things ♪ i'm trying hard to take it back ♪ so the bar closes and you feel like falling down ♪ i'll carry you home ♪ tonight we are young, so we set the world on fire ♪ we can burn brighter than the sun ♪ tonight we are young, so we set the world on fire ♪ we can burn brighter than the sun ♪

♪ now i know that i'm not all that you got ♪ ♪ like i said i just thought maybe we could find a way to fall apart ♪ ♪ but our friends are back, so let's raise a toast because i found someone to carry me home ♪ ♪ tonight we are young, so we set the world on fire ♪ ♪ we can burn brighter than the sun ♪ ♪ carry me tomorrow tonight, just carry me home tonight ♪ ♪ carry me home tonight, carry

me home, carry me home ♪ ♪ the moon is on my side, have i no reason to run ♪ ♪ so someone come and carry me home tonight ♪ ♪ i can hear the choir so if someone could come and carry me home ♪ ♪ tonight we are young so let's set the world on fire ♪ hey, we can burn brighter than the sun ♪ ♪ tonight we are young, so we set the world on fire ♪

♪ we can burn brighter than the sun ♪ ♪ so the bar closes and you feel like falling down ♪ ♪ i'll carry you home tonight [ cheers and applause ] >> that was the band fun. thank you so much, guys. >> good morning. 8:56. the search continues for whoever drove a baltimore teenager to fields in baltimore county and shot and in the head. he was found on old frederick road. the boy was airlifted to shock

trauma. trauma. police are

>> good morning. the area of high pressure centered over the storms way to the west. the storms are not a big issue today. the heat index value is over 100. take it easy.