security breach. a commercial pilot wanted for murder steals a passenger plane from an airport in utah. he crashed before takeoff and then took his own life. now the fbi is investigating and questions are being raised about whether airports across the country are secure enough. breaking her silence, kerry kennedy faces a judge on charges tied to her car crash and reveals what her doctors believe was the cause. >> it was not by a sleeping aid but by a complex partial seizure. >> this morning, more of how she explains her bizarre behavior before and after the accident.

mystery sochltd we now know the real story about this couple captured by an amateur photographer. what they want you to know and what they don't today, july 18th, 2012. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> good morning. i'm savannah guthrie. hard to fathom this actually happened. the pilot who stole the plane in utah had been on the run for four days after murdering his girlfriend in colorado. >> the 40-year-old had to scale a razor wire fence to get on the property. then he got into a plane and began to taxi before hitting a terminal wall and several cars. remember, he was a pilot. coming up we'll get the very

latest on the investigation and tell you how close he came to taking off. >> also ahead a lot of people will be interested in this story. for the second time in recent weeks a new weight loss drug has won fda approval. it's a combination of two pills used to treat other conditions. as with many drugs there can be serious side effects and we'll talk about them straight ahead. >> part two of our exclusive interview with sir elton john. this morning he'll open up to what led to his one and only trip to rehab and why his life could not be better now. he'll take us inside the chapel he built on his property in london to remember some of the friends he's lost. >> of course we've seen katie holmes out and about now tom cruise that come to visit with his daughter suri for the first time since his split with holmes. more on that story. >> let's begin with the alarming incident at the airport in utah where a murder suspect was able to steal a commercial airplane. nbc's miguel almaguer is in st.

george. miguel, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. the st. george airport is small. there's only about a dozen flights in and outfit here every day but this is where that pilot, who is suspected of murdering his girlfriend was found dead after a botched takeoff attempt. >> a skywest plane crashed into the parking lot around a bunch of vehicles. >> reporter: the skywest commuter jet, a popular plane, was forced out of the air tuesday. inside police discovered the body of murder suspect and skywest pilot brian hedglin. >> in the plane with an apparent self-inflicted head wound. >> reporter: overnight monday, detectives believe he used a rug to scare a barbed wire fence and walked up to the skywest jet, that seats 50, hedglin pushed

open the always unlocked cockpit door, fired up the engines and began to taxi away from the terminal. >> his left wing on the aircraft clipped the jet bridge, probably making it inoperable. >> reporter: hedglin didn't get fire. he tore through the wall airport security fence and rammed the plane into several cars. >> he would have gotten able to take off from the runway and get airborne. in a sense in this particular situation it's good he clipped the wing. >> reporter: with the engine running police say hedglin shot himself in the head. his girlfriend christina cornejo was found dead inside her colorado home. shortly before the murder hedglin was arrested for harassing cornejo. out of jail, and on a $10,000 bond, hedglin was named the prime suspect. >> they have some suspicions he may leave the area, this

included skywest. we know he is a pilot with you, you may want to deactivate his access card, which they did. >> reporter: with a home in colorado, authorities don't know why hedglin fled to this airport in utah. a commercial pilot turned suspect who was on the run but never made it off the runway. the airport here has reopened. airport officials insist that this airport is safe and secure, that only a trained pilot who knew how to fly a commercial jet would have been able to make their way onto the plane. police are working with the fbi in this case. matt. >> miguel almaguer, st. george, utah, miguel, thank you very much. let's get a check of today's top stories. natalie morales at the news desk. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. more violence in syria where a suicide bomber struck the national security building in damascus. senior officials from bashar al-assad were meeting at the time and the country's defense

minister was killed. the ncaa is declaring no penalty is off the table for penn state including a shutdown of the university's legendary football program. meantime there is mounting pressure on the school to remove a statute of the deceased joe paterno in the wake of the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. they will make a decision on the statute's fate in several days, this as a small plane flew over reading "take down the statute or we will." the suspected gunman who opened fire near university of alabama is lengd to a nearby shooting. seventeen people were injured in tuesday's shooting. about an hour earlier police say that gunman shot a man at a home several miles away. 44-year-old man turned himself into police. he now faces 20 criminal counts included attempted murder. a hotly anticipated weight loss pill is heading to the

market. they have cleared it for those overweight with a second condition like high blood pressure or diabetes. more on this coming up in a live report. fed chairman ben bernanke returns to capitol hill after giving a bleak outlook on tuesday. courtney regan at the new york stock exchange with more. courtney, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. markets will definitely be listening very carefully in what ben ankle has to say in his second day of congressional testimony. on tuesday his somewhat dour commentary gave investors hope further monetary stimulus may just have to be on the table. that helps push stocks higher for the second time in three sessions. investors will be parsing through the details of a number of earnings report from bank of america, ibm, ebay and american express. back to you. >> thanks. days the 94th birthday of former south african leader nelson mandela. former president clinton

celebrated at his home on tuesday. mandela, former peace prize winner spent years in prison for fighting equality in south africa. it has been known as mandela day and people around the world do charitable acts in his honor. the days of linsanity are over after they didn't patch the three-year $25 million jerry lin. he tweeted his thanks and called it the best year of my life. turn it back over to matt and savannah. >> you mentioned nelson mandela's birthday. it is also one nicholas roker's birthday. >> how old is nick. >> nick is double digits now. >> we may have a shot. >> celebration in the studio. >> happy birthday. >> let's take a look and see

what we've got for you. got a change coming in our weather in the northeast. we've got heat wave, heat advisories, excessive heat watches and warning. heat pushes down temperatures cool ahead of the front, 100 behind it, in the 80s. good news is cooler air, bad news, risk of severe weather ohio to the northeast, strong storms, showers, thunderstorms, maybe one to three inches of rain before it's all over in the next 24 hours. >> another hot day, this time even more humid. high temperatures in the upper 90's to the low 100's.

>> and that's your latest weather. savannah. >> al, thank you. now to big concern facing organizers of the london olympics with nine days to go to the opening ceremony. the company contracted to provide security says it will be unable to deliver enough guards and lawmakers there are not happy. nbc's michelle kosinski is in london with this story. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, savannah. you might think what could be more important than security for olympics once you have the venues. for this to come up now, this security company only has half the number of guards ready forces the government to fill that troubling gap. guarding athletes now being done by soldiers and police scrambled from around the uk because the security company g4s, third largest employer just figured

out it cannot meet the target. of the guard they agreed to provide, they admit to having only half that number ready. tuesday 300 were needed and the company turned up 38. british lawmakers let the ceo have it. >> a fiasco and shambles. >> inexcusable. >> a shambles isn't it? >> it's a humiliating shambles for the company, yes or no? >> i cannot disagree with you. >> ceo says he only learned july 3rd that g4s will fall way short. what happened? >> it was an incredibly logistically challenging. >> in june they talked about a system called just in time phasing saying it would have been an advantage to have everyone trained months in advance but that was neither practical nor cost effective. many people who wanted to work at the olympics, complained they went through interviews and training didn't hear back for

months. newspapers caught guards snoring at sites or not doing well. it is reassuring to police the military police are stepping in. >> those in charge doing their job. >> heck of a show. >> reporter: olympic organizers emphasize they are confident. >> this has not, nor will it, impact on the safety and security of these games. >> reporter: yet even now g4s expects to be paid a more than $90 million management fee. >> you think you ought to? >> yes. >> i find that astonishing. >> reporter: the bigger question how many g4s guards will show up at all. more military will be needed. >> you can't guarantee how many will show up on a day, you can't be sure, can you? >> no. >> reporter: the company says this was an unprecedentedly large and high-level contract and couldn't handle it. got more than 100,000 applications. now it's vowing to reimburse the police and military. keep in mind there's still more than 10,000 additional military

and security personnel that have already been lined up to help guard the games. savannah. >> all right. michelle kosinski in london, thank you. roger cressey and nbc news terrorism analyst. good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> this has us scratching our heads. right before the game. you need 300 security officials and 38 show up. what's your gut on this? how serious a security issue is this? >> it's stunning incompetence. for most spectators, it's not going to impact their experience of the for major venues there will be tremendous professional security. what you'll probably see is long delays, long lines where they will fall short with a number of staff. any venue of priority and importance, it's going to be fully secure. >> you mention inconch tense, they trained security that will show up, doesn't give you confidence they will be ready and prepared.

>> between metropolitan police and miller, that's the level of professionalism people should remember will be there. i think these g4s guards will be doing some screening, certainly looking at bags and things like that. clearly the london organizers and police and miller are going to have to deploy an alternative plan here. the point has always been on the hardened sites, olympic venues, the level of security was not dependent on the g4s officials but real professionals. in other venues, what we call softer targets, large public facilities, the lack of guards like the g4s guards is going to cause some concerns. >> london, of course, is a major metropolitan area that's dealt with terrorism concerns for years. how confident are you in the city's ability to handle these concerns? is most of the security in terms of cameras and electronics and things we don't see? >> savannah, london is one of the most secure cities in the world. it's on par with new york in terms of level of capability and

experience. because of what they have had to deal with. i think the targets some people worry about, certainly they are completely secure. again, these soft target areas are the ones you have to worry about. u.s. officials don't see any type of organized, sophisticated threat right now. what they are worried about is the individual, lone wolf or something like that, who decides to take advantage of this massive media spotlight on london in the next couple of weeks. that's what they are going to be looking at. i think the security situation, what they have deployed, is going to get them through it. >> good to get your perspective this morning, thank you. 7:15,000. here is matt. >> presidential race speculation growing mitt romney is getting closer to deciding on his vice presidential running mate. nbc's peter alexander has more on that and the latest from the campaign trail. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. if mitt romney is going to announce his vp pick this month he has to do it soon. he heads overseas beginning at the olympics. his staff is going to go to

great lengths to keep any possible decision a secret. listen to this, "new york times" reports romney campaign is even considering using a decoy, two sets of planes, two separate rollout locations, for example, to try to keep the selection from leaking out. all this as the candidates keep duking it out. >> it's good to be back in austin, texas. >> reporter: a democrat hasn't won the lone star state in 30 years but president obama hoped to win over the hearts and wallets of his fellow supporters. >> if you're willing to knock on doors for me, make phone calls, mobilize and organize, we will finish what we've started in 2008. >> i'm convinced he wants americans to be ashamed of success. >> reporter: in pennsylvania tuesday a fiery mitt romney accused the president of being anti-entrepreneur. >> to say steve jobs didn't build apple, that henry ford didn't build ford motor, that papa john didn't build papa john

pizza. >> reporter: romney's surrogate john sununu tried to hammer on the same theme. >> the men and women all over america who have worked hard to build these businesses, it is the american way. >> reporter: but sununu may have overshot his targets. >> i wish this president would learn how to be an american. >> reporter: team obama quickly pounced writing the romney campaign has officially gone off the deep end. >> i probably was a little bit too harsh there. that's not the best choice of words but the message was clear. this president doesn't understand the american free enterprise system. >> reporter: the romney campaign is also fueling new speculation about whether they will reveal a vice presidential pick, who will it be, already naming two members of his running mate's staff. even romney dropped a few hince. the people i've worked with over my career have been people who have the capacity to lead, and in some cases people who provide perspectives and skills that i may not share. one of the presumed favorites former minnesota governor tim

pawlenty downplayed the guessing game on msnbc. >> in contact with governor romney from time to time but this week i'm focused on some yard work and business things. >> reporter: this morning even batman is being dragged into the campaign fight. while it's been in production for years, the villain in the batman movie has a familiar name, bain. >> do you think it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire breathing, four-eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named bain? >> reporter: that's rush limbaugh fired up. speaking of vice presidential candidates john mccain raised some eyebrows when he explained four years ago why he picked sarah palin over mitt romney saying she was, quote, a better candidate. on tuesday mccain took on reporters angry that his words were twisted around insisting he meant palin, matt, was the best fit for his campaign. >> all right. peter alexander on this story. thank you very much.

18 minutes after the hour. once again, savannah. kerry kennedy speaking out about the crash on a highway that led to her arrest. following her arraignment kennedy blamed her erratic driving on a partial seizure. craig melvin has details on this story. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. kerry kennedy was arrested, police say, after they found her slumped over the steering wheel in her white lexus suv. this morning behavior before and after the accident, she says is caused by a previously unknown medical condition. >> i have never had any history of drug or alcohol abuse. >> reporter: tuesday kerry kennedy pled not guilty to driving while impaired. according to the police report, she was swaying, slurring her speech and she couldn't stand on one leg when she was arrested last week. >> i remember getting on the highway, then i have no memory

until i was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer was at my door. >> reporter: frantic 911 callers north of new york city complained about someone driving erratically then leaving the scene of an accident. kennedy had slammed into a tractor-trailer. >> i want to apologize to the driver of the truck who i apparently hit and to all those i endangered while driving my car last friday morning. >> reporter: on the scene the 52-year-old said she offered an explanation to police, a sleeping pill. >> i told the officers that it was theoretically possible that i had mistakenly taken an ambien rather than a thyroid pill earlier that morning. >> reporter: but kennedy now says she's seen doctors who ran a battery of neurological tests and offered another explanation. what's called a complex partial seizure. >> my doctor said this is the only seizure i've ever had. they assure me with robust

investigation and treatment, i'll be able to live symptom-free. >> reporter: dr. stephen lam who has not treated kennedy says a seizure could be responsible for what happened. >> they can spread to the brain causing confusion, disorientation and passing out. >> reporter: although they have not released blood and urine tests, kennedy says tests done by her doctors were negative for drugs or alcohol. >> the tests found no drugs or alcohol in my tem at all. >> reporter: kerry kennedy is the daughter of the late robert f. kennedy and ex-wife of new york governor andrew cuomo. prosecutors are also waiting on the blood and urine test to decide how to proceed. meanwhile a judge ordered kennedy to fingerprinting by state police and ordered her to undergo evaluation by a substance abuse agency. she's due in kaucourt in august.

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as more information becomes available. let's send it over to sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> that is a serious situation that continues in phoenix. what to expect on old york road, it is shut down completely at paper mill road and carroll wrote. take jarrettsville pike and manor road as your alternate. middletown road in freeland, we have an accident. another one in this city at 25th and barkley's street. delays on 95 out of the northeast and on the west side out of 795. light street shut down at baltimore and lombard the next three weeks. pike, a taletional mig end of that delay. 83 and timonium road, not seeing delays here. harrisburg expressway is in great shape. ava, over to you. >> temperatures starting off in

the mid 80's. low-to-mid-80's across the lower eastern shore. eat and humidity making things still worse today. we have a strong chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon. watch out for that later today. storms are likely to be isolated. we have a chance for storms this afternoon and even tomorrow and friday. as the cold front leaves the

games of the olympiad. starting next week it will become our home for the duration of the olympics. matt is going to be there live starting monday and the rest of us are going to head over on wednesday. the music is put us in the mood. are you getting limber? >> you're right. the music. how can you not get excited when you hear the music like that. it's a bit of a nightmare to pack for. it's three weeks, i compared all summer things, lots of tank tops and capri pants. now the weather is rainy and chilly and i don't know what i'm going to bring. >> hardly any room for your

spandex. >> there will be some of that over there. meanwhile we'll talk more about the olympics later. just ahead in this half hour, a new weight loss drug has won fda approval for the second time in a month and just the second time in 13 years. it produced dramatic results in clinical trials but there are some concerns, as with a lot of drugs, about potential side effects. we'll be talking about that coming up. also ahead former teacher and pro cheerleader accused of molesting an underage bow. she's been under house arrest. she's talking about the case and why she's blaming it all on gossip in a television interview. some answers about the photograph taken by an amateur photograph in washington, d.c. we now know more about the story. it's not really what you think. more on that. we begin this half hour with tom cruise, reunited with his daughter suri for the first time

since his split with katie holmes. mara schiavocampo is in manhattan. good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. cruise and suri spotted at the hotel. he's in the city for some quality time with his daughter. after being seen all around town with mom katie holmes, suri cruise is now reunited with dad. tuesday tom cruise arrived in new york city after wrapping his latest film for his first daddy daughter visit after reaching a divorce settlement with holmes almost two weeks ago. also in town cruise's sister seen in an elevator at the hotel with an arm full of stuffed animals. >> tom had to go and wrap up a movie so he couldn't be here until now. he's smart. he'll go out there with his little girl and put on a happy face. >> reporter: 32-year-old holmes is settling in new york. she filed for divorce in this

state. according to news suri has been enrolled in a famous catholic school with famous alums like lady gaga and the hilton sisters. she was seen at a gymnastic class in the city. it took just 11 days to reach a settlement. holmes got primary physical custody of suri so cruise's visit to new york will likely be the first of many. >> tom cruise will probably make his home in california. he's a movie star. making movies is what he does plus his other two children are there. i'm sure he'll fly in to see suri. >> reporter: since filing for divorce june 28th, holmes made public outings with her daughter, taking her to the zoo and out for ice cream. makes it clear that besides the split both parents plan to be hands on. >> this is about their child. they are going to make it as easy as possible. katie holmes is an excellent mother, tom cruise is an

excellent father and they will put suri first. >> reporter: reportedly holmes and cruise haven't seen each other during the visit. >> mara schiavocampo, thank you very much. let's get a check of the weather with al outside. >> thank you very much. where are you guys from. >> st. louis. >> chicago. >> st. louis. >> all right there. you've got a chicago sandwich. let's go further west, arizona. want to take a look at some lightning over phoenix, arizona. look at this. that is pretty vivid stuff, see that as storms make their way through the region. all right. as far as the rest of our weather is concerned for today, continue out west, got a slow moving upper-level low. we've got flood watches in effect from yakima down to bend, oregon. keep an eye on this. slow storms may produce flash flooding. risk of storms in the northeast and atlantic states.

heat continuing in the west. 103 in st. louis. minneapolis will probably break its string of temperatures over 85 degrees. right now 23 days in a row of 85 >> another day with the st. heat and humidity. highs in the upper 90's to the low 100's. '6mtd '6. now to a "today" exclusive, sarah jones charged with sexually abusing a teenager boy opened up about the case against

her. jeff rossen joins us from covington, kentucky, this morning. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning. this is a pretty big story around here. it's making national headlines, too. sarah jones, not only was she an nfl cheerleader but also a popular school teacher. she taught english at a local high school in kentucky. prosecutors say while there she was actually having sex with one of her students, a teenager boy. this morning sarah jones is opening up for the first time in an exclusive interview. right now she's under house arrest, so we had to go to her. >> i have an ankle bracelet i have to wear, so i have to keep this on me at all times. i'm not allowed -- i can't walk to the mailbox. if i go to the mailbox, it will start beeping. it's called a violation. >> reporter: sarah jones has been a prisoner in her home for 17 weeks. first of all how are you holding up? >> taking it down by day. that's how you have to get through these things.

sometimes minute by minute. >> reporter: before this she was cheerleading captain for cincinnati bengals and taught english at this kentucky high school. but prosecutors say she was having a sexual relationship with one of her teenager students, and they charged her with first degree sexual abuse. >> captain of bengals cheerleader. hell no. >> reporter: sitting home all day awaiting trial sarah admits she tortures herself reading every news article and posts about her. >> the biggest thing, they don't know me. >> reporter: she pled not guilty, only had sex with one man, her ex-husband but wouldn't discuss the details of the case. >> reporter: what was your relationship with the boy? >> at this time it's not something we're going to discuss but we're going to discuss it at trial. >> reporter: did you ever have sex with him? >> that's not something we're allowed to discuss at this time. >> reporter: she does say this was high school gossip.

>> out of control, started by -- it was the alleged victim's ex-girlfriend. >> reporter: a lot of people are watching this saying prosecutors wouldn't have brought a case against you unless they had solid evidence you did this. it's more than just a rumor. >> i agree with that. there's evidence out there doesn't mean it's going to be damaging or hurtful towards me. >> reporter: looking at a list, prosecutors say 9,000 pages of evidence, text messages, facebook, photos, call logs. >> just because there's 9,000 pages doesn't mean every single page has something that is going to prove this case. >> they don't have a single one corroborating witness, a confession, an admission, videotape, audiotape. they can't prove that there was any type of sex with the alleged victim anywhere. >> reporter: and there's a twist here. the alleged victim, that teenager boy, is sarah's longtime family friend.

she says he'll testify in her defense. >> his parents are willing to testify in my defense. we are all going to testify. >> reporter: you come off as very confident. are you dying inside? >> yes. i mean, if we're going to do an honest interview, i am. i call my parents on a regular basis and i say, okay, talk me through this. what can i do this? what can i do to get through this minute? >> in fact her mother is also charged with evidence tampering. she's pled not guilty and sat down with us. >> reporter: prosecutes say you covered this up to protect your daughter. >> no. i didn't. it's very devastating. once a mom, you're always a mom. i don't care if they are two or 12 or 22 or 52, you're always their mom and they are always your child. >> reporter: today sarah is studying for the lsats and her lawyer has hired her to be his paralegal. win or lose in court, sarah told us she loses.

>> i can't wait to get married and have kids and start a life. that's the most devastating part. i can't imagine getting on the internet and reading the comments and seeing the things about their mother like that. >> reporter: we called the prosecutors here in kentucky for comment. they told nbc news, we will do our talking in court. they will have that chance in october. that's when the trial is set to start. by the way, savannah, i mentioned just now that sarah is now working for her lawyer as a paralegal. we're told she's actually writing some of her own motions in this case. she pours through that evidence at the office every single day. >> jeff rossen in covington, kentucky. the side effects of a breakthrough drug that just won fda approval. later, how did a 12-year-old boy die from scraping his arm during gym class. his parents open up about the warning signs they say were missed in an exclusive interview but first these messages. break .

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test. back at 7:43, for the second time in a month the fda has approved a prescription weight loss day called qsymia. will it work for you and what are the side effects. dr. raj, an nbc contributor and madelyn fernstrom, diet and nutrition editor. good morning, ladies, to both of you. qsymia is a combination of two drugs, one used to suppress appetite, the other for seizures. how does the combo pill work? >> it's to actually bathe the p brown in two kinds of signals. phentermine is a stimulant that reduces appetite, reduces hunger

signals. the other for seizures. people were losing weight. by suppressing brain activity so you don't get seizures it reduces appetite. something in low effective doses gives a one-two punch to give you that combination. >> talk about trials, 37,000 people studied, some took a placebo. >> actually 3700 people. >> all right. 3700. okay. >> what they found was the majority of people had weight loss between 6 and 9% of their body weight is lost, which is considered significant when we're talking about weight loss drugs. >> were they also dieting and exercising but only with the pill. >> absolutely, dieting and exercising, something to be used in conjunction. >> doesn't replace. lifestyle is key. it doesn't take away your appetite all together people want. expectations have to be reasonable. it will help to moderate this. a lot of people actually lost more than 10%. so when you have an average, people did a lot better and some

people did less. >> it also did reduce by the way, blood sugar, high blood pressure and cholesterol. >> back in 2010, this drug was submitted to the fda for approval. it was rejected because of concerns over side effects. it was resubmitted last year. what are the side effects people should be concerned about if they decide they want to try this. >> part of the side effects profile, two different things, the stimulants, phentermine, increase in heart rate. this is a big concern, one big issue. on the other side is the issue of birth defects. something in pregnant women or thinking about being pregnant, the issue of cleft pallets or lips this is big. modest side effects, dry mouth, nausea, feeling out of it, these kinds of things as well. >> talk to me about who might be an ideal candidate for a drug like this? >> this is not for the casual person who wants to lose 10, 20 pounds. this is approved for people obese, a bmi of 30 or significantly overweight.

bmi of 27 with one other weight related condition, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. these are the people taking it. you should not have it with a recent history of heart disease or stroke because may increase and certainly not for pregnant women. >> when we're talking about fda approval, how quickly will this be readily available. >> probably the end of the year, last quarter. in fact, it's going to be out sooner than the drug approved several weeks ago belviq that will not come out until 2013. by the end of the year you'll have this. this is not for you even if you meet the criteria if rur not willing to do a lifestyle effort. talk to your doctor to be sure. there are a lot of side effects here. >> they always say nobody should think a pill is a magic bullet for weight loss. >> we've been talking for years about diet and exercise. we have an obesity epidemic. clearly that's not enough for people. can this help, potentially,

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. >> still kind of busy for motorists around big area. old york road is shut down between paper mill road and carroll mill due to the accident in the area of old york road. new crash, in to us on the city. light st., baltimore and lombard, water main breaks continuing for the next three weeks. here is a live view of traffic.

we will update you on today's in the area -- delays in the aea. southbound, there are delays from 175 down to 32. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. ava as a check on your forecast. >> boy, is it going to be hot today warm start to the day, hotter in the afternoon. feels even worse than it fell yesterday, and yesterday it felt pretty bad. we do expect at least a thunderstorm in the area this afternoon. could be on the strong side. we have to include that chance. slight risk for severe weather all the way down to d.c. and baltimore and the northern part of the eastern shore. you don't have to cancel your outdoor plans, but any storm

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we're back now, 8:00 on wednesday morning. it's the 18th day of july, 2012. let's be honest. yes, it's really sticky out here in new york. actually feeling that way throughout much of the east coast as we're enduring a bit of a heat wave. these people are bearing it. if they stick around for 48 more hours -- >> partying on the edge of the hollywood sun. >> exactly. they will be listening to the music of the pop rock band putting on a concert on our plaza in the 8:30 half hour. if you're in the area, come down. the temperatures should be a little more manageable. >> 71 degrees.

>> not too bad. out on the plaza this morning i'm matt lauer with savannah guthrie and al roker. coming up, more of our exclusive interview with sir elton john. he talks about what led to his one and only trip to rehab. you'll hear about his hopes and dreams for his 2-year-old son zachery andalk about whether more children might be in his future. also ahead, we've got a story that will break your heart a 12-year-old boy from queens scraped his arm playing basketball in a gym. four days he died from an infection that was not diagnosed at the emergency room or his physician, according to his parents. we'll talk to them about what they hope to share so no other parents go through this tragedy. >> they are brave to be on the show. >> later on a lighter note, two natalies, natalie coughlin and

our natalie. talking about the olympics and her interests away from the field, the organic farm. she could end up being the most decorated female athlete ever. >> no question about that. speaking of the other natalie, let's go inside and get a check of the headlines from natalie morales. >> good morning matt and al, savannah, everyone. the brother-in-law of bashar al-assad was reported among those killed today in a suicide bombing in the syrian capital of damasc damascus. also the defense minister died in the blast. the fbi is investigating a security breach at a utah airport. officials say commercial pilot brian hedglin suspected of killing his girlfriend friday scaled a fence in utah. police say hedglin climbed into a 50-seat commuter jet and crashed trying to take off. he was found dead inside the plane after apparently shooting

himself. the tsa does not require airports to maintain fulltime surveillance of their perimeter fences. at least one aviation security expert said it might be time to revisit that issue. the obama add manage unveiled a $1 billion plan today to unveil an elite core of teachers to boost science, technology, math and engineering. mitt romney who campaigned in ohio today accused the president tuesday of being anti-entrepreneur. the chairman of the london olympics said a security firm fiasco would have no impact of safety on the games. g4s acknowledged tuesday only half of the 10,400 guards it agreed to provide are ready. the gap will be filled by extra army troops and police officers. now for a look at what is trending today. a quick roundup of what has you talking only. miami rapper pit bull will soon bring the heat to alaska. the walmart store in remote kodiak, alaska, won a pit bull appearance getting the most likes on facebook.

pit bull had this internet campaign. >> i heard that kodiak, alaska, has the most likes, due to someone who thinks she was playing pranks. to someone who thinks it's a joke -- >> he says he will go to alaska. deadline.com reports a sequel to pixar's 2003 classic will splash in the theaters in 2016. it's not clear if ellen degeneres and albert brooks will return to voice the main characters. this shot for shot remake of beyonce's countdown is impressive. didn't know you could get down wearing a full body sleeve. take a look. ♪ ♪

♪ >> well, apparently he named his snuggie blue ivy in honor of the queen baby girl as well. 8:05, back outside to savannah, matt, and al. >> i'll never look at a snuggie the same way again. >> when is the last time you looked at a snuggie. >> did you pack a lot of snuggies with your spandex for the olympics. >> matt has pajama jeans. >> good one, al. >> let's see what we've got for you as i inch away from matt. anchorage, alaska. pit bull is not going to anchorage, he's going to kodiak. sunny, mild, 69 degrees. we've got plenty of showers and

thunderstorms firing up along the front from the plains all the way into new england. lots of rain in the gulf coast, nothing heavy. a few showers make their way into the pacific northwest. okay. you want to do it. >> another hot day, this time even more humid. high temperatures in the upper 90's to the low 100's. >> and that's your latest weather. matt. >> al, thank you very much. coming up next, a 12-year-old boy dies after suffering what seemed like a simple scrape in a gym class. did doctors miss some key signs.

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close to his little sister kathleen. this spring rory scraped his arm playing basketball in gym. four days later he died of toxic shock syndrome. >> that night he was fine. he did his homework, went to bed. a little after midnight i heard him in the bathroom throwing up. so i went in. he was screaming with a pain in his leg. he said, it's my leg, mom. it's my leg. >> the next morning his mother, orlaith, said she took him to the pediatrician. >> he was it's a stomach virus making its way to new york. i've seen it before. you need to take him to the emergency center and have him rehydrated. >> at the memorial center he was given fluids and released. in the morning his parents called the pediatrician again. rory had a fever of 104. >> she said give him tylenol with motrin back-to-back. >> later on that evening his skin started to go very black.

we took him to the nyu emergency unit. >> and then they were all around him. finally i got this doctor to talk to me. he said your son is very ill, seriously ill. i said how ill? he said gravely ill. >> bacteria had gotten into his blood and in effecting his body. >> doctor, you've got to run first. we said, this is it, what is it. he came back and said, i'm sorry, we lost him. >> the stauntons said after his death they learned he had been discharged the first time from the er before his blood test came back. they said the blood test revealed a potential warning sign. nbc news reached out to the pediatrician but she declined to discuss the case. the nyulangone medical center

said, our deepest and most heartfelt sympathies go out to the staunton family. we have already implemented corrective actions to address the delivery of care to our ed patients. we have extended several invitations to the family to meet with us when they are ready. >> the week before rory died, we wrote down what kind of pizza he wanted. the final week we picked out what kind of coffin. that shouldn't happen. >> they are here with their attorney, good morning to all of you. we want to express our condolences. i think everyone's heart goes out to you. i know it's not easy to be here. it strikes me you are two parents who did everything right. you took your son to the pediatrician, took him to the er. you were given an assurance, this is a stomach bug. orlaith, do you feel the doctors were set on that diagnosis? >> absolutely. they were absolutely set on the diagnosis. the pediatrician said she had

seen this. this is going around new york city, despite the fact that i had showed her his skin. she noted it as marked and blanched. despite the fact both rory and i said to her he has a bad pain in his leg. forget about the vomiting, it's his leg. she sent us to nyu medical center feeling very confident this was a stomach bug. she had seen it. so i had visions in my head there were hundreds of kids suffering with that. >> i'm sure you were relieved to hear it was a stomach bug. >> absolute we were. >> he came home, still sick. i want to be clear about his symptoms. i know part of the reason you're here is to help other parents. what was he telling you about how he felt at that moment? >> he was in agony. he was in pain. we started calling the pediatrician the next morning. quite a few times we called her. when eventually she called back,

give him more medications, get liquids into him. we said you're not getting it. he's not moving on the couch. the reason we have come public today, and it's not an easy thing to do, to have your son -- one of the things i had to do was go down and pick up the records from the hospital. the front page on the record, rory staunton expired april 1st, no parent should have to do that. >> what do you want your message to be to parents? what do they need to know? >> first of all, i want them to know rory was a wonderful child. he was kind. he was a real child of the world. he was very interested in international affairs. he had flown an airplane.

he was just ready to take off in a life that he was so enthusiastic. but what i want parents to know is first of all they need to be aware of sepsis. i had no clue what it was until rory got sick. also that emergency rooms don't actually -- rory was discharged. they did vital signs 12 minutes before he was discharged. all the signs had gone up. they never communicated a single thing to us or the pediatrician. >> very quickly in the next few seconds, what are the next steps, the recourse. >> we welcome nyu's statement here which, of course, came three and a half months after rory died and after this family went courageously public. the measures that need to be addressed are systemic. there was no communication whatsoever between pediatrician and hospital, between hospital

and parents. the fact is that some of the blood tests were ignored even before rory was discharged. >> it's a story that is a cautionary tale and one that everyone is so sympathetic to. orlaith and ciaran, thank you for being here and for telling us about a very extraordinary boy. >> we have his website. parents who need to know -- i don't want any other parents to have to sit here on your couch and that's why we're here today. no other parents. they should see this website and see how there will never be another rory staunton. all we have left are headstones and memories. no parents should go through that. >> thank you for your courage. thank you. i appreciate it. we'll be back right after this. people with a machine. what ?

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who is out with his new memoir, "love is the cure." his struggles with addiction, family and a very special place outside his home outside of london. ♪ i'm still standing >> as the world first learned of a virus called hiv, elton john seemed to be at the very top of his game. an international superstar building his legend. ♪ >> but behind the facade was a deeply troubled man consumed by addiction, his life in a downward spiral. ♪ >> elton sang at his friend ryan white's funeral. he said ironically it was because of that day, so filled with loss and pain, that he's alive today. he saw himself on tv. >> i looked like a bloated white gray haired old -- it was horrifying.

>> you've seen pictures of yourself around that time and video of yourself. do you think it was more about the setting than the actual image? >> the way i was feeling deep inside, it was enough to wake anybody up. ryan white inspired me to change my life. if there was ever a message -- and in life you get messages -- this was a message from wherever. it's like, you clean your life up or you're going to die. your ept tat will not be good. >> he was treated for alcohol addictions and bulimia. it was his first and only time in rehab. he says he's been sober every since. >> how many times have i done an interview with someone who has been to rehab six and seven times and they continue to fall into the same traps. why did it work for you so well? >> i was so fed up with being the person i was. to actually wake up in the morning at 6:00 and clean your room. it was like boot camp. it was flashy. it was a hospital in chicago. there was no televisions.

there was no nothing. i'd say at 43 i learned to live my life all over again by taking different steps. it's a miracle i'm talking to you right now. >> do you think because you were so able to turn your life around after that one stint in rehab that you have become impatient with others who have failed? >> not at all. >> i've heard you. we've done interviews. you've been harsh with friends of yours, billy joel. you were tough on him, on the air with me. >> he was angry about it. he wrote me, you shouldn't judge people. who are you to judge. i said it to hope it would get through. we haven't communicated to it. he's the kindest man, tal ended songwriter. great artist. if he called me and said let's go to lunch together, i'd go in a flash. tough love. i'm sorry i said it.

>> elton said he found love when he gained sobriety. he's been with his partner 20 years. they we had in a civil ceremony in 2005 and have a son together through a surrogate. zachery was born two years ago on christmas day. >> being a father to zachery seems to have even opened the possibility of more children. >> absolutely. >> is that because you want to embrace more children or you worry that zachery grows up without a brother or sister. >> i'd love to have more children. also zachery being a child of a famous person is hard. i would like him to have -- when he's four and starts going to preschool. kids will say, you don't have a mommy. we know that. we talked about this before we had zachery. we said there's going to be consequences in having a child when you're two gay parents. i want him to have a brother or sister to go to school with him, so he can have someone to play with. >> they are still going to ask questions about why you don't have a mommy. >> of course they are and we'll talk to him about that.

it's going to be heartbreaking to grow up and not have a mommy. he's so happy. i've never seen a more contented child. you'll never see more condepartmented people than david and i. >> elton took me to a special place at his home, a chapel he built for loved ones. >> for my grandmother, friends that died from aids consequently so i can come in here and pay respects to people i lost. evelyn lauder, inspiration, breast cancer. versace, elizabeth taylor. i babble my prayer. over here we have diana. and then it starts with a list of people that died of aids. >> freddie mercury. there's ryan's name. >> it's nice to come in here and remember my life. there's nothing better than a

church or a chapel. >> do you ever pray? >> i do, yeah. i pray for my son every night, that he's going to be okay. >> what's your biggest hope for him, for zachery? >> he lives -- grows up to live in a world that's much more tolerant. i'm always an optimist. i think things have changed. we have to respect each other. our religions, our color of our skin. we just have to learn to be a little more simpatico. >> you've evolved quite a bit, haven't you? >> i have, and it couldn't be better. my life could not be better. i am the most blessed person in the world. ♪ >> i have the greatest career, the greatest son, the greatest partner, the greatest family, the greatest friends. i have nothing to complain about, but i've worked hard at it. you don't get anywhere in this world without working hard. ♪ how wonderful life is

when you're in the world ♪ >> by the way, we reached out to billy joel regarding elton's remarks. he declined to offer a comment. by the way this one >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's get a final check of the commute with sarah caldwell. >> closures in phoenix -- if you're heading out in baltimore county along old york road, shut down between paper mill road and carroll mill. take jarrettsville pike and manor road as your alternate. light street is shut down between baltimore and lombard due to the water main break repairs. if you're heading out on the west side, 25 miles per hour on the outer loop. washington boulevard and

montevideo court, we have an accident. volume heavy on the west side outer loop beginning at 795, continuing towards edmondson. we'll show you what it looks like on any kind at the fort mchenry. you will find delays out of the toll plaza. no problems to report that the keybridge. ava has a check on your forecast. >> 90 degrees downtown. 83 in catonsville, 83 in cockeysville. unbelievably warm start to the day. cotter into the afternoon. just as hot as yesterday. feeling worse when you factor in be humidity. it could feel like it is 105 later today. actual temperatures in the upper 90s to low 100s. keep in mind the chance for a thunderstorm. that eventually brings relief. until it passes by, a chance for

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when i was little going to the olympics, it was always that american flag on the side of my cap. if i do the best i can do, i'll be proud of myself and hopefully make my country proud. 8:30 now on a wednesday morning. it's the 18th day of july, 2012. it's a warm morning here in new york. we're happy to be sharing our day with all the wonderful fans with very large thumbs that gathered on our plaza. more on that in a moment. in the meantime i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt lauer,

savannah guthrie and al roker. how to keep fabulous getting older. >> talking about fashion tools you can use to help you look a little younger. also some of the five things that you should have in your medicine cabinet as you get a little older. >> all right. then coming up, u.s. swimming great natalie coughlin going for another medal. she has 11 medals already for every event she enters. she's trying for number 12 in london. coming up we'll talk about her role on the team, introduce my to some painful training methods. >> she's unbelievable. >> a little later, talk about an amazing find. did you collect baseball cards when you were little? who didn't. a rare baseball card collection worth an estimated $3 million. they found it in a relative's

attic. >> wish something like that would happen to you. >> security detail back there. we are really excited to share some news this morning. our facebook fans have now officially hit 1 million fans. 1 million of you like us. folks on the plaza are wearing t-shirts, got the big signs. we're so excited to have this many facebook fans. we've learned more about our viewers from this. >> texas, you've got the number one group of fans or the biggest group of fans on our facebook page. >> outside of america, australia where you were born and egypt where hoda kotbe was born. >> some of our favorite music n musicians, lady gaga, adele, michael jackson. >> "twilight" saga, "dirty

dancing." you like us, we like you. if you want to be a fan, go to facebook page and like us. >> tomorrow we want 1 million and one. >> we're going to show up at your house, whoever it is. >> mr. roker, how about a check of the weather. >> like everybody has left handed gumbies out there, pokey. for today a risk of strong storms in the northeast, mid-atlantic states. a nice, moderate day in the pacific northwest with some rain. look for the sizzling conditions down south. for tomorrow, the sizzling weather continues out west. got a risk of strong storms in the mid ohio river valley. expect wet weather stretching into the mid-atlantic states. sunny and not at hot in the >> another day with the st. heat and humidity. highs in the upper 90's to the low 100's.

of course when you've got crazy weather like that, check it on the, weather.com on cable. >> our natalie catches up with the 11 time olympic medalist and finds out what it takes to be an olympic swimmer. first, this is "today" on nbc. wheeeeeeeeeeeee! whee! whee! wheeeeeeeee!

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medalist natalie coughlin will go for gold in london. she's the first to admit her road to the gold went off script. our natalie caught up with her. >> she qualified for the relay, this after she was bounced at the trials in the 100 meter backstroke by star teenagers. in these games natalie says she's taking on a new role. she's a fierce competitor and a determined athlete now staring down her third olympics. she grabbed gold twice in athens. in beijing she became the first american female to win six medals in a single olympic game. natalie coughlin is going for gold once more in london. >> i will embrace that role of being a leader. the relay is the first day. i'll go from that relay and from there help everyone else as much as they need or want.

>> at 29 natalie is the veteran of this team. a relay race win would give her a dozen medals tying her with jenny thompson and torres as the most decorated female olympians. she trains six hours a day six days a week at the university of california, berkeley. >> third olympics compared to first olympics, do you train any differently? >> i train differently just because i'm older. >> and wiser. >> wiser. much wiser. i train differently because i need to focus on recovery more. i have way more power than i ever did eight years ago. >> natalie took home gold in the last two olympics doing the backstroke. >> how do you do the backstroke, i tried it a couple of times, not only do my hands hit the wall but i get water up my nose. how do you keep that from happening. >> i use my upper lip.

it's not the most attractive thing ever. >> you have to have a stretchy upper lip to get it up there. >> i have a flat, squishy nose. i think that helps. >> i joined natalie for dry land strength training. >> is it agony for you or kind of a continuation of what you're doing. >> it's really, really hard but a different hard. you know, at least in the weight room i can talk to people. in the pool you're very much in your own head. >> her dry land training helps her build strength and mimics her movement in the water. i learned firsthand how it feels to lose big to natalie coughlin. >> same weights here, right? >> same weights. >> natalie versus natalie. who wins. >> ready? go. that's it. there you go. get the push. good, good, good. there you go. there you go. double hop.

good. >> wait. >> get some training. >> spending the day with natalie coughlin you realize why she's considered a normal olympian. she has interests unrelated to the pool. after beijing she took nearly two years off. she turned heads wearing only body paint for "sports illustrated." she danced with the stars. she married long time boyfriend ethan hall. they live on an organic farm where she grows her own produce and raises chickens for fresh eggs. >> this is warm, because it's fresh. it's not warm from the heat but because it came out fresh. >> here you go. >> natalie whipped up an organic breakfast for two, kale and eggs. >> healthy. >> you could eat a chocolate

cake. >> after the games she says she's not ready to retire. >> i really have no idea what i'm going to do, if i'm going to continue to swim after london or not. i'll definitely take some time off. >> time off, maybe kids. >> time off. maybe a lot of time off. i really have no idea. i would love to have kids at some point. i haven't even thought about it. i'm so busy with my dogs and my chickens. i'm sure kids are probably a lot harder than that. >> for now teammate michael phelps has a big postgame plan for both of them. >> 30th birthday, any big plans? that will be when you get home, right? >> i know michael was saying he wants to combine his retirement party with my 30 in vegas. i don't know if vegas is really what i want to do, that sounds like a little too big for me. i'll definitely have a big celebration. >> well, natalie needs one more medal to tie as the most decorated female olympian she'll

get that shot in the 400 relay. she could be used in another relay but likelihood is -- if they want to give her that opportunity to make history, but it's a remote possibility. >> al and i both agree after watching that little sled pushing thing, she waxed her side of the floor. >> she put a little glue on yours. >> not at all. >> we want a rematch. >> she's amazing. a really good person. >> by the way -- we wish her luck. speaking of the olympics, kick off our live coverage monday in london. the rest of these folks will join the fun on wednesday. we look forward to it. younger and fabulous, look younger, stay fashionable and stay healthy but first this is "today" on nbc.

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we're back at 8:52, one of the most exciting finds in the history of sports card collecting, cousins were cleaning out a family home when they found a box containing 700 rare baseball card from 1910.

their estimated worth, $3 million. carl and carla are along with us along with chris ivy of heritage auctions. good morning to all of you. a dream come true. everybody's dream come true. a family home. a grandfather lived there, you lived there. you were tasked with cleaning it out. it was like being frozen in time. >> my aunt was a bit of a pack rat. nothing left the house. when my grandmother passed away, nothing left the house. she maintained the home until she passed last year. >> when you found the box in the attic, describe it. what was your first reaction when you opened it up? >> it was under a couple other boxes. a dirty black box. brushed it off and opened it up. there was a collection of cardboard in there tied together by twine. i said, carl, what's this? it's not stamps on it, but it's exciting.

>> you're baseball fans and you knew what baseball cards these days looked like. you just weren't familiar with what some of them looked like in 1910. did you recognize days like ty cobb, cy young? >> we drug them out of the attic where we had better light. definitely baseball cards, cy young, wagner. they are here but not right, abnormal. we set them aside thinking we'll look at them later. >> you actually sent some of them to heritage auction in dallas. >> right. >> you mailed these cards. are you crazy? did you put them in the mail? >> actually overnight fedex, insured. >> i would have followed them, been down there with them. when you saw them, chris, what was your reaction? >> amazement. we look at these type of things every day. when we opened up this box with these untouched cards over 100 years old we were just dumbfounded. >> different categories are going to be auctioning off.

one set contains 27 cards. you validity at $400,000. tell me about that set. >> $400,000 plus. that represents the finest example of each card known. it's the partial set and the number one set known. >> then there's the onus wagner card in incredible condition. >> on a ten-point scale, graded ten. the fame famous wagner is the cousin 10206. about 75 known in the world. it was graded an eight and last sold in 2007 for $2.8 million. >> lastly a collection was made to several different background colors. tell me about the last group of cards. >> that's some of the duplicate cards. they are represented in green and orange colors. those represent the highest graded examples for each of those cards as well. >> twenty people, cousins and stuff, going to split this.

what are you going to do with your portion? >> college if you said. >> not a bad one. that's great. carla. >> a little home remodel. >> a dream come true. you're going to have people running to their attics all day long. thanks, guys. we appreciate it. we'll put information on the website. we're back after your local news. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. one man is recovering after being shot in the back in south baltimore. city police responded to the 3000 block of run road just after 10:00 last night. they found a male victim suffering a gunshot wound to the

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