>> so it begins. >> welcome back to more of "today" on this tuesday morning, february 5 th, 2013. inside studio 1a, i'm willie geist alongside natalie morales, al roker and tiffani thiessen. more importantly and more current, she co-stars in the hit show "white collar" on usa network. new episode tonight on usa at 10:00, 9:00 central. great to have you here. we'll keep you busy. we've got wild animals. >> love that. >> we'll go upstairs and cook. >> love that.

>> and trivia game for you. >> an opportunity to be killed and also you get to eat. >> we're reliving the '90s so this should be right up your alley. >> and there's a 12-foot python over there. >> i want that right here. i do. >> what's it like being on "white collar"? >> it's great. it seems to get more and more exciting every season. and i say this all the time. i truly am blessed to work with the nicest people in the business. and we get to work in your city. >> so how dreamy is matt? >> natalie was saying she gets lost in his eyes. >> so do you, willie. >> it's impossible. >> watch the promos. >> throw up your hands and give up. >> it used to be all about my blue eyes. now it's his. whatever. >> need gps just to get by. >> the show just renewed for a fifth season.

big success. there's a plot little bit. >> basically an unlikely partnership between an fbi agent and a con artist and how they work together to solve the white collar crimes. >> you play the wife of the fbi agent. >> who has a sort of soft spot for the con man? >> she's the voice of reason on the show, seeing both sides and constantly trying to make them work even better. it's a marriage really. they're married as well. >> speaking of a marriage, you're also a mom, married. and you have the 2 1/2-year-old daughter. >> i do, harper, yeah. >> how hard is that to balance it all? i'm sure you get that question all the time. >> as most moms do. there she is, my little peanut. adorable. >> so cute. >> she is cute. >> looks a lot like you. >> she has a good mixture of both my husband and i, which is kind of fun. you know what? she has been coming to new york and traveling since she was 6 weeks old. she doesn't know any different. i like to have her with me all the time. if it's a short trip, i keep her

home but she comes to us with new york every time we come. >> and she's sparing you the terrible 2twos you said, so far >> she's been good but i hear that the threes are harder. >> totally. >> we'll have a different conversation next year. >> little summer fun. >> she's a feisty little one, too. >> you can see a new episode of "white collar" tonight at 10:00 on usa. tiffani will help us out with our take three. new jersey governor chris christie last night was on with letterman for the first time. he says he has long admired letterman and doesn't mind all the fat jokes that letterman has endlessly made. >> i've made jokes about you, not just one or two, not just ongoing, here or there, intermittent, but -- >> i didn't know this was going to be this long.

>> break for the donut because the interview was so long. >> i love it. >> he says, look, if the joke is funny, i laugh. even if it's about me. he pulled out a couple of jokes from dave's past shows and read them out loud. he defuses all this with humor. he is aware of the problem, as you talked about. >> a lot of us who struggle with weight feel that the best defense is an offense. you can laugh at yourself before others laugh at you, then you kind of take some of the sting out of it. >> interesting. barbara walters, you remember the interview she did last year when she asked if he was too fat to be president. he took issue with that. >> well, sure. that wasn't a joke. >> it wasn't a joke. >> and he says he's healthy. his blood pressure is where it should be. >> and those are the things that are most important. >> it's a personal decision. and when -- if he decides he's going to do something about that, he will do it, given he -- this is a guy, you can tell, when he makes up his mind about

something, he does. >> funny is sexy, i'm sorry, at any size. >> there you go. >> he has talked over the years about all the diets he has tried. i guess he just -- he knows he has to deal with it, but he obviously has to find what works for him. >> he does work out. he said, despite that work, he worries about what he eats. but there are real questions. if he wants to be president, he is viewed nationally as the leader of the republican party. i think if he didn't weigh what he weighed right now he would be talked about as a shoo in for the nominee. >> it worked for william taft. >> it did. couldn't get him out of that bathtub, though, could they? >> there are down sides. that's why you have secret service now. >> yeah. >> is that what they're there for? >> come in with a couple of tubs of butter and there you go. >> oh, no. oh, no. definitely secret service. >> exactly. take two, talking a little beyonce. turns out it wasn't exactly her

fault, the blackout. although i think we should keep pushing that narrative. good for her, she shut the lights down at the super bowl. >> it wasn't as if they had half-time shows before. >> she was so good she shut the lights out. >> it was lights out. >> she announced plans for a new tour called the mrs. carter tour. she has been very private. sean carter, jay-z's real name. she's calling herself mrs. carter. feels like she's getting a little more public. >> little bit. >> a lot of people get to see them more as a couple. >> it begs the question of changing your last name if you're well known or not so well known. some women prefer to keep their maiden name. >> i changed my name literally, legally, but professionally i kept thiessen. >> i'm the same way. >> on my driver's license it

says tiffani smith on it. >> i changed my last any time to geist. >> what's the value? beyond the obvious of keeping thiessen professionally? do you ever think about going with your married name professionally? >> i honestly didn't, because i have had it my whole entire life and that's what people know me for. >> once you build a profile and work so hard to get to be known as that person, it's really hard to take your spouse's last name. although in my case, my husband really wanted me to take his last name. so legally -- >> legally, i did. absolutely. >> would you change it if it was a better last name? >> maybe. there's a lot of smiths out there. >> why didn't you take your wife's name? >> my wife's maiden name was sharkey, which i think is a great name. willie sharkey. i probably should have gone the other way. >> there's another bill geist out there. >> exactly.

>> you should drop willie and just go sharkey. >> sharkey. >> forget the first name. >> just sharkey. >> guys can do it, too. we talked about this before. out in l.a. they're doing this a lot, find a combo name, right? >> i'm going with the full rebrand. i like that. >> sharkey from now. >> shark boy. >> take three is a good one. it's about parental control. is it okay to post naked pictures of your babies on social media sites? we're talking about pictures of the kids getting out of the bath or something a little artistic, perhaps. >> no. >> this is a big conversation on our "today's" mom's blog. you say no, al? >> no. >> not at all, ever? >> very protective. >> no, no, no. >> i don't even post my kids' photos on facebook and all that. there's too many unknowns out there. >> i just think anybody -- you shouldn't do it. you know, there are too many people out there and it will be out there forever. >> kids not clothed.

>> it's one thing to send it to your parents, grandparents. >> absolutely. >> keep it internally? >> potty training, here it is. >> with the college coach when he had it on his phone, that whole story was -- i have some of that stuff on my phone. >> that was a bizarre -- >> where's my phone? where's my phone? >> exactly. >> but i felt bad for him. that was a private -- that's his phone, but -- >> you're talking about minnesota college football coach who had pictures and video of his own children. >> taking a bath. >> turned in the phone to tech support at the school to fix something else, and he was actually charged with child pornography. he was cleared later. >> he was cleared but lost his job. >> and now he has that stigma. >> tiffani will stick around. we're going to handle some animals in a moment. first, natalie has the headlines. alabama boy rescued monday after a six-day hostage standoff has gone home from the hospital. authorities stormed the bunker

where he was held. jimmy lee dykes, also suspected of killing a bus driver, was found dead. a camera was used to monitor the activity in the bunker and decided to move in when they felt the boy was in imminent danger. president obama is hosting separate white house meetings today with business and labor leaders to discuss immigration reform. on monday he took his push for tougher gun laws on the road, appearing with police officers in minneapolis to highlight that city's progress against gun violence. and last night, the president signed a debt limit bill that temporarily suspends the cap on federal borrowing and delays the possibility of default. a renewed effort to protect our nation's diplomats overseas, the senate approved a $1.1 billion bill that would beef up security at u.s. embassies around the world, transferring funds no longer needed in iraq. the bill comes in the wake of the deadly terror attack in benghazi, libya, last fall. it now heads to the house for approval. japanese investigators say the battery that overheated on a

boeing 787 dreamliner last month in japan showed evidence of the same chemical reaction that caused battery overheating on a dreamliner in boston. all 50 of the 787s in operation worldwide have been grounded, but on monday boeing asked the faa for permission to resume test flights. incredible triumph over adversity for skateboarder tommy carroll, who is completely blind. he lost his sight to rhett nal cancer at the age of 2. his only prosthetics is where his eyes used to be. he started skating in third grade and hasn't stopped since. he says he uses his hearing to orient himself as he moves around the skate park. although he sometimes fall, he always gets back up. the worst he has ever done, he says, is chip a tooth. pretty amazing. if you're still feeling stuffed from your super bowl pig-out session, imagine how this guy feels, that is e

competitive eating champion kobayashi. he beat his previous record by about ten seconds. i don't think i would look at a pizza again after that. >> i keep thinking pepto bismol. >> he does it all, hot dogs. >> very strategic about how they place them in their mouth. >> dip the dog. >> wet the bun first. >> how are those cheerios this morning? >> cold pizza. >> natalie, thanks. al, how about a quick check of the weather? >> let's see what we've got for you, starting off with today. on the satellite, wet weather down through the gulf coast. another storm moving in through the pacific northwest. couple of clippers. one exiting the northeast, another coming into the great lakes, bringing snow there later on tonight. mountain snows in the northeast. look for showers in the gulf coast. plenty of sunshine along the southeastern atlantic coast. fog in southern california today and southeastern texas. >> good morning.ing on around

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this morning on "today's" call of the wild, animals facing extinction. julie is busch gardens and sea world representative. good to see you. >> glad to be here. we have an endangered species in our lemur. this is an animal that is found only in one spot in the entire world and who knows where that is? >> madagascar. >> all hail the new york giants. >> hello, king julian. >> these guys are one of the largest species of lemurs. unfortunately, they need forest s. they need trees, which will produce large fruit. they're basically fruit eaters and leaf eaters and 90% of madagascar has already been deforested. and also, unfortunately, they're hunted because they're a very

poor people. that's one way they get protein. it's hard to imagine that anybody would certainly want to harm this type of animal in any way. but there are things that we can do. >> what's that? >> learning about -- that's not really polite. >> no manners, sorry. >> all lemurs do that when we get together. >> and ensure that we don't buy tropical hardwood. that's where they live. at least we don't get that illegal logging. we want to buy sustainable wood. and don't buy rosewood, teak and mahogany. that will help. >> natalie's favorite. >> you guys, squish together a little bit. >> head coming right to me. >> right to you. >> keep it coming. keep it coming. >> look at the size of this animal. >> you're going to have to hold your end up. >> you have to hold your end up.

>> i don't like snakes. >> she's actually from sea world in texas, one of our ambassador animals that kids get a chance to meet as well. >> wow! >> kids learn that snakes aren't as frightening as they seem to be. >> how much does this one eat? i want to know how much this eats. >> that is actually a constrictor. he doesn't have any venom. this one in particular is about 12 feet long. he eats something as large as a rabbit or something like that. but in the wild -- >> what's up, doc? >> in the wild, they grow to be 20 feet long and thick around as a telephone pole. they can eat wild boar and deer. they actually can come unhinged. >> why are they facing stipulation? >> that's a great question, al. they're hunted both for their skin, for their meat, for pet trade. all those types of things. and, of course, habitat loss.

they live in southeast asia. many of those forests are getting cut down. there's no place to go. i was in cambodia in december, working with an organization called wildlife alliance. they just rescued 60 of these animals and we released them back into the wild. it was actually a great experienc experience. >> we have an african brown horn bell. >> hold your arm out. put your palm up just like this. and we're going to call tuffs over there on your left-hand side. come on over here. >> come on. >> he is a very large bird. spends most of his time on the ground. and here he comes. >> there he is. >> whoa! >> yes! >> awesome. >> wow!

>> look at that bird. isn't that impressive? >> look at the eyelashes. >> they actually do eat meats and things like that. >> oh, look at that. >> mice that they find, insects. they go along the ground and try to find all the different types of little things that they can -- anything that they can find on the ground. >> they look pretty primitive. are they? do they go back centuries? >> they are prehistoric. >> prehistoric, yeah. >> let's get the groundhog in there. >> i want his eyelashes. >> i know. >> beautiful. wait a minute, my time isn't up yet! actually having a hard time in the wild because they don't prere produce very often. after all those endangered animals, we should bring something that's not, right? this is our own little north american groundhog. they're very, very common. but they're also very beneficial. they aerate the soil. >> they predict the weather. >> that's right. so he is important to have around as well, just like all of

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>> this is a wbal tv 11 news in baltimore. >> it will not be a perfect day for the parade, but we don't expect precipitation. seasonably chilly. high temperatures expected in the 40's. it will feel a little cooler than that. chance for rain or snow on friday.

♪ it's the super bowl ad you probably didn't see, nor did you want to. will ferrell, locking lips in a commercial for old milwaukee beer, airing in only three cities, sherman, texas, ardmore, oklahoma, and glendot, oklahoma. it's kind of the paragraphody of the go daddy. pretty cool. i'm al roker, along with willie geist, natalie morales and

actress tiffani thiessen, hanging out with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> did you have to kiss him? >> i did the movie "ladies man." >> tiffani will be sticking around to play a little game of tv trivia through the decade. who knows, tiffani just might be the answer to some of the questions. we've got "white collar," "saved by the bell," "90210." let's practice really quick, which beach club did the gang work at over the summer? >> i know this. do you? >> no. >> girls against guys again. >> got it. >> also ahead, the scottos will make your life easier with delicious one-pot meals. we'll join them in the kitchen.

before we get to all of that, let's get a check of the weather with mr. al roker. >> starting off with today, a little snow activity in the northeast. clipper will bring snow to the great lakes later. showers down in the gulf coast. for tomorrow we'll be looking at more rain and snow in the pacific northwest, heavier rain spreading from texas all the way into the panhandle of florida. look for some snow showers hanging around the northeast and the great lakes. plenty of sunshine and mild, making your way into the southeastern atlantic coast. sunny and cold through the mid ohio and mississippi river valleys. that's what's going on around the country. >> good morning. a clipper storm when through last night. there could be a leftover snow flurries this

>> and that's your latest weather. natalie? >> al, thank you. with student loan debt on the rise, princeton review and usa today take a closer look at college costs and compiled a list of the best private and public schools for the money. senior vice president of the princeton review and author of "the best value colleges." welcome back, rob. >> thanks for having me back. >> good to have you here. we're going to talk private and public schools. when it comes to value what do you look for? >> we started with 2,000 different undergraduate schools and put them through 30 different academic costs and financial aid were the three big buckets. but weren't making their family's mortgages pay for their future. >> good to know. at number five, university of california, los angeles. >> perennial princeton review

favorite. but it's a big school, 26,000 students. when we start to think about the average cost, $23,800. real cost of attendance. >> in-state tuition. >> for a california kid. minus average freshman grant, money they don't have to pay back, $16,100, bringing the cost down to $7,700. >> the college of william & mary, number three. the new college of florida in sarasota, michael jordan's alma mater. talk about a bargain. how much of a bargain is this school? >> $17,400 minus $12,900 average freshman grant, $4,500. lined with gold, chapel hill. >> you just have to get in if you're out of state. >> which is hard, no doubt. >> the same thing with number one on that list. biggest bang for your buck is university of virginia, again. so public school. what makes this the big public school bargain? >> spectacular value. we start to look at the numbers. we bring it down to $3,400 for

an average student coming from virginia. >> private schools really quickly, pomona college in clairemont, california. students love it there. it's a beautiful campus. >> oh, yeah. >> princeton university, no connection to princeton review, williams college in massachusetts and number two, harvard college. we should mention. and number one, for the private colleges, swarthmore college in pennsylvania. how much are students paying here when you consider how much aid they're being granted? >> swarthmore, a big sticker price, bringing it down to about $18, 00 for the average student. so many schools, as you mentioned, are giving out 100% of the student fees, not forcing them to take out dollar one in student loans. >> they can use some of that aid to travel overseas is this. >> study abroad programs, experience for learning within the states as well. these schools are love letters when it comes to financial aid and not forcing a student to

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risotto is done with italian rice, chicken broth. you have to do tender loving care. >> it takes a lot of time, too. >> it takes a lot of time. you have to stand by the saute pot. this is our star this morning, italian wedding soup. that has been in our family for years and years and years. now every wedding, italian wedding soup. and we even begin valentine's day in the restaurant with italian wedding soup. of course. so we start with our onion and our garlic. we saute. >> nice and brown. >> and then we do celery carrot squash. any vegetable. >> can you quarter them any size? >> i like it diced. it cooks faster. and then you put your chicken broth in. this is two quarts. you let it stay a while. we can't let it stay too long. these are my meatballs. again, the meatballs are done in the soup. they're half chicken and half

veal and a little grated cheese and pepper. soup shoulding boiling when you put it in. it cooks about ten minutes, that's all. it's bite sized. valentine's day, you know. you can't chew too much. >> there is garlic in there. you have to be careful. >> no, no, not in the meatballs, no! just in the foundation. >> right, right, right. >> and as she pointed out, this is okay for a second wedding. >> are you married, will? >> i am, yes. >> okay, forget it. >> we were going to have it at the restaurant but now forget it. >> i was going to cook you a pot if you were getting married. go ahead, go on down. >> all right. what's next? >> what's next? >> i love short bread. >> one pot. we have this on valentine's day at fresco. i brown off the short ribs. using all the gristle, garlic

and onion, cook that down for a couple of minutes. add a little beef stock. >> beautiful. >> take a little bit of that red wine you have there, please. >> okay. >> thank you so much, sir. and then we'll let that settle down for about -- we'll put the beef back in, i apologize. cover it for about half an hour, 45 minutes. let it simmer. you go back. an hour before you serve this, add all your vengetables. cover again one hour. sorry. cover for one hour, salt and pepper. >> so an hour after the vegetables? >> an hour and an hour again. >> after the vegetables. >> absolutely delicious. >> i love short ribs. >> here is the deal. sausage, peppers, onions, potatoes, classic. >> you got me here. >> even though it's one pot it still takes a bit longer to cook than any of these other dishes. >> okay. >> i brown my sausage.

i use my oil from the sausages now to cook my onion. so the idea is you cook each thing individually and now i will do the peppers. and once everything is done, we'll also do the potatoes, another round. my family took up all the time, so we probably won't get to the peppers. >> it was the wedding soup. >> don't you love family businesses? >> i'm going on my second wedding. mom told me no meatballs. >> oh, take out the meatballs. >> i swear, willie -- >> spent all the money on the first wedding, i'm taking the meat out. anyway, put everything back in the pot. ba balsamiv vinegar to give it a little sweetness. >> looks gorgeous. >> it tastes even better the next day. >> you can make sandwiches out of that. >> you have done it again. fresco by scotto, with the first

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new dove color care. keep the color vibrant, keep the feeling. this morning, we're going to put our friend, tiffani thiessen to the test. replica of the save by the bell diner. we really went all out on this one. it will be tiffani and natalie versus willie. >> i have an advantage. >> i get sharkey. >> first question, which actor -- >> hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! whoa! what is going on here? >> how are you, sir? >> can i just say hi real quick. >> can you believe this is happening? >> oh! >> you broke the -- >> i make an entrance. listen, al -- >> yes, sir? >> presidents call your name, vice presidents shake your hand. you don't have to host anymore. you get to join willie.

>> all right. thank you, sir. >> all right. >> and we're getting rid of al's question, just to be fair. hey, we're going to play "today" tv trivia. are you ready? >> we're ready, sir. >> multiple choice questions. wait till the last answer is read and then buzz in. which '70s tv family had eight kids? was it -- wait till the last answer to buzz in. >> sorry. >> my office now, al. okay. the brady family. a. b, the bradford family. c, the pat ridge family. d, the bundy family. now. al? >> the brady family. >> no. >> the partridge family. >> no. the answer i have is the bradford family. >> oh, yeah. >> that is no score for anyone. >> that would be "eight is enough." >> we're off to a great start. >> yes, we are. >> on the senior slapstick '80s comedy "golden girls," why did sophia move in with dorothy,

blanche and rose? was it a, she lost all her money, b, she gambled her house away, c, her retirement home burned down, d, she was lonely? answer now. >> tiffani? >> c. >> that is correct. >> wow! >> man. >> yes, sir. >> that is a mom. >> i get really competitive. >> that's a mom for you right there. >> i am not a good loser. >> willie, you've got your work cut out for you. >> claire danes is now famous for her portrayal of an unhinged cia operative in the hit series "homeland." what '90s tv show did she get her start on? >> a. >> that is correct. what the heck? we didn't need those other answers. oh, somebody might know this one. on "90210." >> i'm a big fan. >> so am i.

where tiffani played the lovely yet conniving valerie in the later seasons, what was the name of the gang's popular after-school hangout? willie wants the answer. >> the peach pit. >> changing the rules. >> forget about it. >> we can do whatever you want? >> you can do whatever you want. natalie, for you, whatever you want. >> oh, thank you. >> which melodrama used the following tagline, lying, cheating, stealing, sechlt duction, backstabbing betrayal? >> melrose place or, as we call it, the fourth hour. >> i'm going to skip one question and dog to this. the theme song for "saved by the bell." i know, so sorry. became quite popular withids si i singing along as it aired. i'm going to play a portion of the song for you. when the music stops, buzz in and give me the next two lines.

♪ i give myself a look i'm just in time to see the ♪ >> here it comes. ready? ♪ i know i'm in a mess but my dog ate all my homework last night ♪ >> huh? >> riding low in my chair. >> you know this? >> i don't know it. >> he won't know if i'm there, i can hand it in tomorrow. >> tiffani is only four seasons away from "saved by the bell." >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc.

big thank you to dennis haskin but especially tiffani thiessen.

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