monday morning, february 18th, 2013. a chilly february day here in new york city. i'm willie geist along with al roker, natalie morales and special coost steve harvey, inside. >> inside. >> it's really fun, steve. >> this is amazing. you should try this more often. >> no kidding. especially in february. >> it's like 5 outside. how cold is it out with the wind? >> it's 18. >> 18. >> a couple of degrees. >> but the windchill, it feels like -- >> that's what i meant. >> there you go. >> including the windchill. you should know that about me by

now. steve, before we get into our take three, we're just talking about what you're doing right now, how busy you are. your talk show is great. you're doing family feud. >> every morning. >> do you eat, sleep, bathe? >> no, none of that. just get a lot of cologne and make it work. >> you smell great, by the way, too. >> thank you. i care about every minute of the day. people ask me how do you do all of this? i care about every single minute of the day. you can get a lot done if you just keep it on track and work it right. "family feud" is great. it's probably the best thing that happened to me to propel me into mainstream america, that game show. >> what's your approach on that show? you have richard dawson making out with all the ladies in the '70s. what's the stooev harvey approach? >> i just try to have fun. families that are there are excited to be there. of the 500 some episodes i shot, a family has never canceled. they're excited about being on

tv. they got a chns to win a car, a lot of cash. and that right there, if you feed that back to them, they feed it back to you. and then i don't have to write any jokes. the people's answers are the jokes. makes my job pretty easy. >> you get to play the straight man. >> exactly. >> is that double windsor? it almost looks triple windsor. >> a lot of people are worried about that. >> you haven't is succumbed to thinner tie thing? >> i don't think that's what's happening. that's a european look. i'm a big guy. you have a little more stealth built. it works. >> that's what we call it. >> the wider knots if you wear a vest because you can use more of the fat end of the tie, but no vest, i would have to go thinner. plus the wide knots look better with the spread collar. >> there you go. >> i knew steve would probably have the best. >> fashion tips from steve

harvey. >> that's right. >> you can wear your vest. >> not doing too bad, al. little help from steve harvey. our first take, golf with the president. president obama spent the weekend, at least yesterday, playing golf with tiger woods at the floridian golf club. they met in 2009 though this was their first time playing golf together. white house prohibited media coverage. not a single white house reporter was allowed inside to see what was happening but tim r roseford tweeted president has arrived awaiting tiger woods. one of the most prominent golf writers found his way into the club. not a bad way to spend the weekend, steve harvey, playing golf with tiger. >> apparently the president did very well, shot in the 80s. >> that's a great day for me, in

the 80s. i'm a bogey golfer. that's my dream foursome. i would love to play with the president and tiger woods. >> and who is the fourth? >> i'm not going to have a fourth. >> okay. >> it's a threesome. >> probably have some secret service guy next to me, watching me, my background check was a little weird so ride with me. it's kind of hard to play with the president. >> i think you would get by. >> how far we've come with tiger woods. coulyou imagine a couple of years ago the president being seen alongside tiger woods? it wouldn't have happened. >> i think forgiveness is in order for everybody. everybody has to be forgiven so they can correct it and move on. i'm okay with it. he's not that -- plus he was making $1 billion, you know. what did he have, 12 chicks? i was disappointed. >> wow! >> okay. >> more money, more chicks?

>> you should be in the 40, 50 rang range. >> as steve harvey said, make every minute count. >> and every dollar apparently, too. >> okay. on that note we'll bring in a little booze. do we have the booze? i think we do. for our take two. >> willie is a very happy man this morning. >> i'm a bourbon man. are you a drinker? >> no, just red wine. >> red wine, okay. maker's mark, i guess we're doing shots. didn't realize it was going down like this. >> is this neat? >> you may have heard this story last week, announcing it would dilute its whiskey from 90 proof down to 80 proof. because of the backlash online -- >> water it down? >> the whole supply because they were selling out. it was too popular. >> what? >> there was this outrage online that said you cannot cut into my booze three percentage points.

set the nation ablaze about their whiskey. now the company has gone back and said you spoke, we've listened. we're sincerely sorry we let you down. we're going back up to 45%. there never really was any watered down booze. some cynics are saying this is the most brilliant marketing ploy of all time. >> true. i agree. >> oh, yeah. >> i noticed nobody took a sip. are we not there yet? >> are you kidding me? go ahead, willie. >> not a bourbon kind of guy? >> no. i drink, this show is going to be real different. >> let's get kathie lee and hoda down here. >> cheers. go for it, willie. >> i think it was a gimmick. if you water it down, it takes more to get the effect so they sell more. >> right. >> true. >> that's got to be the concept behind it. they're not trying to help us out. >> they're trying to help themselves out, yeah. >> water it down and charge you the same amount. who is going to go for that? >> that's why nobody went for it and they decided not to go for

it either. >> go ahead. >> you're not going to take a sip? >> go ahead. >> whoo! wow! >> that's good stuff. >> you drank that whole thing? this is going to be an interesting hour, folks. >> hoda and kathie lee hour. >> who drinks this? whoo! >> you never worked with our director, joe michaels. >> you like that? jet fuel, right? >> i'll save this one for joe. >> we should point out that maker's mark is not from the prop department. it's from my office and it is half full. >> not a lie. >> that explains "morning joe." >> part of it, yes. let's move on now to take three as the burning goes down our chest. >> down your chest. we got some research out just the other day. parents actually, one in every two of them on facebook admits now they're only on facebook to spy on their kids. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> 43% of parents say they check

their kids' profiles every single day. this comes from education database online who polled a bunch of parents. anybody surprised at this? >> you have teenagers at home. >> yeah. >> are you on facebook because of them? >> i check everything. my sons can't lock their doors. they didn't pay for the door. >> true. >> i just walk in. there's no privacy in my house. me and your mom got -- i check everything. i think you have to. today's society is too much stuff that they can get at your kids with. and without some type of guidance, it could get out of hand. >> do they know you check the facebook? >> i think so. i don't really care. >> are you stealth? >> no, i'm not stealth. pull up your facebook. i don't know how to go online half the times. they probably have a fake page they're showing me or something. >> you but know that they've got a fake page. that's pretty good. >> al, do you check facebook? >> yes. >> you do? >> yes, i do. >> have you talked about it with your kids? >> especially my oldest. sweetie, you can't be doing

this. this lives online forever. we've had discussions about it. >> you said they're too young. >> yeah, thanks goodness, but, you know -- >> it's coming. >> what you have to concern yourself with as your popularity and fame increases, your children become a target for people out there trying to get at your kids from different ways for a fast buck. that makes it doubly tough. >> true. you have to be careful. >> have either of you guys seen something online with your kid that you said, whoa, i've got to go talk to my son or daughter about what they're posting? >> yes, i have. >> 25-year-old woman befriended my son on facebook and set up to meet him at the mall in a food court. >> i think that was my daughter. >> and my wife found out about it and i had to do everything in my power to keep my wife going to the mall. >> to meet her. >> yeah. that's what it was going to be and the harvey name would have been all over -- we would have

been in "enquirer." nobody even get that is anymore. what's the new magazine, "national star"? >> it's hard to keep track. >> moving on. >> time to get a check of the headlines. life trouble bid addiction and domestic problems has ended in an apparent suicide for country music star mindy mccready. the mother of two suffered a single gun shot wound to the head sunday at her arkansas home. her boyfriend's shooting death in the same house last month is also being investigated as a possible suicide. mccready hit the top of the charts in the '90s with "guys do it all the time" and "10,000 angels." oscar pistorius has canceled all upcoming races, including an appearance in iowa this spring. spending his fifth day behind bars charged with the murder of his model girlfriend reeva steenkamp. south african media is reporting that steenkamp was first shot in

pistorius' bedroom then through a bathroom door. they report that the woman's skull was damaged and that a cricket bat is being examined. the vatican raised the possibility that a conclave to choose a new pope could take place earlier than mid march. pope benedict, who announced he is stepping down for health reasons, was greeted by a crowd of 50,000 on sunday. a journalist who last saw the pope said benedict appeared to have gone blind in his left eye. danica patrick became the first woman to nab a top spot for any race in nascar's premiere circuit, winning the daytona 500 pole sunday with a lap topping 196 miles per hour at the international speed way in florida. she says she was raised to be the fastest driver and not the fastest girl. a new study out today finds preschoolers who watch

educational tv are better behaved than kid whose watch violent shows. research published in the journal of peeds says it corresponds to what the children watched and not how many hours they watched. 25 years after the bruce willis first "die hard" movie "a good day to die hard" took the top spot at the box office, $25 million in sales. he's still got it. "identity thief" came behind in a close second and nicholas sparks novel "safe haven" came in third. heavyweight champs mike tyson and evander holyfield were reunited this weekend. the two men, as you may remember, forever linked when tyson bit off part of holyfield's ear during a fight in 1997. seems like all has given now. good friends. >> i was going to say -- >> i didn't want to go there.

i knew you two would. >> barbecue sauce. >> ear-licking good? i don't know. gosh, that's terrible. >> moving on. forgiveness. >> if they can move on from biting off the ear, i think we all can. >> when bruce willis first did "die hard" ronald reagan was president. >> how good was that first movie? >> yippie ki-oh. >> a little bit more of this. bite that puppy right off. >> no, we won't. you have two jobs to go back to. three counting the radio. i need this. i'm going to pause right now for a check of the weather. >> announcer: "today's" weather is brought to you by soma intimates, your new bra destination. >> let's see what we've got for

you before we head into the make er's mark. we've got another system coming across the plains that will bring anywhere from three to eight inches of snow from the plains into the western great lakes. beautiful day here in the east if you like windy, cold conditions. sunshine down into the gulf coast and southeast, we're looking at rain, though. central gulf on into the mid mississippi river valley. more rain in the pacific northwest. dense fog along the california, southern california coast and we're expecting plenty of sunshine in the central rockies. th >> good morning. it will be cold. wind chills running in the single digits and teens.

by the way, willie was in florida this weekend. take a look. we've got some video of willie right here. >> exciting. what have we got here? >> oh, we don't have it. never mind. >> what was it? >> here it is. there we go. >> oh, yeah. >> willie! >> see what i mean? >> little maker's mark. >> too much of this guy and that's what you end up with. al, thanks, i guess. up next, the latest jeopardy team tournament champ. we love this guy. the best final jeopardy response ever scribbled down. he is with us right here after this. ds card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone but her likes 50% more cash, but i have an idea. do you want a princess dress? yes. cupcakes? yes. do you want an etch-a-sketch? yes! do you want 50% more cash? no. you got talent. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on every purchase plus a 50% annual bonus on the cash you earn.

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17-year-old leonard cooper is enjoying newfound fame as jeopardy's team champion. not so much his win as to how he won that has everybody buzzing. a lot of people are calling this answer for final jeopardy the best answer in the show's history. take a look. >> the subject is military men. this is the clue. on june 6th, 1944, he said "the eyes of the world are upon you." now we go to leonard cooper. he is looking pretty happy. why? did he come up with dwight david eisenhower? >> no, i didn't. >> you didn't? some guy in normandy but i just

won $75,000. you did, indeed. >> leonard cooper, good morning to you, man. >> yeah. the man. >> great answer. how did you know you were going to win, though? >> it wasn't a sure thing. the kid on my far right could have caught me, if he had gotten it right. the kid was 14, i think, a freshman, in ninth grade. he hadn't had u.s. history yet. i didn't think that he was going to get the question about history when i saw the category military guys because even in the turn he hadn't been getting a lot of the military or american history questions. >> wow! sizing up the competition. >> we're going to play our own game of jeopardy right now. >> it's all on you. it's all on him. >> no, it's not. >> yes, it is. >> we didn't rig it like that. which president was the only one to be elected twice but not in a row? was it --

[ buzzer ] >> grover cleveland. >> yeah, it was grover cleveland. yeah. >> very good. >> all right. >> we're doing great so far. >> when you say "we." >> you mean leonard? >> me and leonard. >> i was actually going to give you a multiple choice. >> i don't think that's going to be happening a lot. >> i wouldn't have even needed to know a president. which president gave camp david its name after his father and grandson? >> eisenhower. >> dwight d. eisenhower is correct. that's an old person answer. >> that's good. tied 1-1 now. >> question three, folks. here we go. which president once got stuck in the white house -- >> i didn't see that. >> william taft. >> right there. >> got stuck in the tub and they had to use butter to get him out. my kind of guy. >> oh, okay. okay. that's a little unfair, folks.

>> come on, leonard. we can do it. >> weight question, al roker. unfair. here we go, number four. which president's secret service code name is renegade? >> yes, sir? >> nixon. >> no. >> no? >> can we hear the other choices? >> george bush, barack obama, john f. kennedy, richard nixon. >> i'm going to go with president obama. >> that would be correct, sir. >> wow! can we double down? can we triple down? >> which president briefly kept two bears of pets on the white house lawn? >> thomas jefferson, james monroe, andrew jackson, chester arthur. >> james monroe. >> jackson. >> you can't give two answers. what is that? >> thomas jefferson.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> chilly president's day, police will not have snow or ice. high temperatures either side of 40. seven-day forecast, it gets a little pompey the next few days. rain in the forecast tomorrow.

speaking of headlines, one of the helicopters flying above us dropped down a couple of papers. thought we might catch you up on what happened this week. the pope resigned. oh, lord. >> oh, wait. okay. here's something fun. north korea successfully laun launched a nuclear -- no, never mind. >> no, no, no. >> hey, this is interesting. okay. you guys think you might have it bad? but do you have it worse than 4,000 stranded on nightmare cruise? that is about us. >> that's us. >> "saturday night live" a couple of nights ago with its look inside that doomed carnival cruise ship, disheveled cruise

director. we're inside studio 1a. i'm willie geist alongside natalie morales, al roker and special guest steve harvey. are you a cruise guy at all? >> no. i don't like eating from buffets. >> really? >> i have a tough time. >> most of the people are shorter than the sneeze guard. >> excellent point. what else is coming up this half hour? last week was all about love for valentine's day. when the love isn't there anymore, when do you say enough is enough? >> ouch. >> we kill it quick, huh? >> there you go. easy and inexpensive meals if you can't afford it because you're divorced mapped out for the week from sonny anderson. the newest toys you'll be hearing about in the months ahead. >> before all that, let's get a quick check of the weather from al. >> we are looking at sunny skies here. it will be chilly and windy. wet weather from the central gulf up into the mid mississippi

river valley with snow into the northern plains. wet weather in the pacific northwest. tomorrow we're looking for that wet weather to make its way to the east. frigid conditions back to the plains. look for snow in the pacific northwest and expecting rain along the western coast. and that wet weather extends all the way up and down the eastern seaboard with snow in northern new england. >> good morning.ing on looks like the weather will stay quiet for this holiday. we will expect plenty of sunshine. >> and that's your latest weather. steve? >> announcer: "today's"

relationsh relationships is brought to you by kcadbury. this morning on "today's" relationships, the right time to call it quits. couples therapist is director of training at drexel university and elizabeth lombardo is a psychologist. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> i've had a lot of women ask me through the years how to get their boyfriend to pop the question and all. but we're actually here, talking about some of your experiences based on counseling. how often do you find that problems arise in marriages before people even get to you? >> steve, you know, what i say is that people like to plan their weddings but they don't plan the marriage. what i see in the practice is that people come to me and they've got a lot of questions but they don't want to broach those questions because they feel like that's going to end the relationship. you've got to ask those questions on the front end so

you don't have problems on the back end. >> what kind of questions are you talking about? >> ask questions about finances, about how many children you're going to v you want to ask questions about even what lifestyle you want to live, whether somebody wants to go back to school. all of these things. and even your sexual preferences. i know it's morning tv, but that's important. >> many people often don't know when to end a relationship. and there are some clear indicators leading up to that moment you both say. what should you be looking for? what are signs that this relationship cannot be fixed? >> if you are unhappy more than happy, that's a sure sign to get out. if you're anxious. if you don't feel good about yourself in the relationship, that's telling you that this isn't right for you. >> i also would say if you've exhausted every possible healthy way to salvage your relationship and it's still not working and the person is not willing to help you, that's a problem. if you have these deal breakers and every deal breaker has been broken, that's a problem. >> yeah. >> what else? what are the other signs? i heard you say when it comes to

comparing a person. >> right. if you're constantly comparing your spouse or your partner to someone else, you probably should be with someone else, because you're looking at that other person and you're saying, this person is better. your spouse or your partner is never going to live up to that. either change your perspective or change your relationship. >> what if you're the one who is the problem, though? if your always comparing the person that you want to be with but -- >> absolutely. >> one of the things i find is that when people themselves are unhealthy, their relationship is unhealthy. they see negative in their partner. so address your own happiness. address your own self confidence. >> elizabeth talks about happiness in her book. no one else can make you happy. we have to be responsible for our own happiness. that partner is not really responsible. they can contribute to t you have to do the work in a relationship. it requires work. it doesn't happen overnight. >> thanks a lot. really appreciate the insight. coming up next, four days of budget meals right after this. [clucking].

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>> that's it? >> 20 minutes cooking time. we're starting with lemon sole, making our own bread crumbs. four slices of white bread in here. al, if you just want to add in the ingredients, we've got walnuts, parmesan cheese, little bit of lemon zest. that goes in. little bit of olive oil over the top. close it. pulse it. that's going to go right on top of the lemon sole. really quick sauce of just lemon juice, little bit of butter, caper, garlic. right over the top, that would be the bread crumb topping right there. >> can you use another fish with this? >> you actually could. tilapia. >> white fish? >> it's nice and thin, cooks fast. 400 degrees, 20 minutes in the oven. it's done. while that's in the oven cooking, chards into a pan with olive oil and garlic, saw today it up. >> little fennel there? >> yep. >> really easy to do.

fajita strips that you can get at the grocery store. something to marinade. more surface space. go in goes the thyme, cumin, garlic powder. put this on the grill. as it's grilling, make the soup base. it's very easy to do. i'll get that together for you, natalie. little bit of onion, olive oil, salt and pepper. you're going to sweat down our mushrooms shall add in crushed tomato, pickle ed jalapeno. little bit of garlic there. you add in beef stock over the top. this only takes 20 minutes to get nice and thick and yummy. and that's when you're going to add steaks back into the pot, cook it down. you have steak soup right here. >> that looks good. frozen t och with tortilla. >> crumble some tortilla, little

bit of scallions. >> if you like it spice. >> i that's tuesday. 20 minutes. >> let's move to wednesday. >> let's go back to wednesday. >> this is steve's dish. >> yes, this is you, steve. i'm trying to keep it healthy even though i know you're doing this liquid thing, which is so crazy. >> that's okay. >> get yourself a chicken breast and go right through the center. >> i can't do that. >> just butterfly it. >> i can't put my hands down there. i can't do that. >> you can do it. >> it makes it a lot easier to accept the marinade a lot faster and grills faster. it will only take four minutes on one side. you go in. marinade is just honey, little bit of yogurt, mint, oregano. >> mint or lemon zest? there we go. flip it. >> thanks to the lovely giada de laurentiis pans. >> this is really nice. >> it does work. >> it works really great. it really keeps the chicken from

sticking. >> the key to flipping chicken and burgers is -- >> giada is not here this week, is she? >> it will release for you, steve. >> i flipped it too early? >> you flipped it too early but it's okay because you're looking fine, you have a suit on and everything. >> can we get to thursday? >> yes. >> separate pan. hoarding sheep -- not hoarding. herding sheep. shepherd's pan not a pie. everything you enjoy in the shepherd's pie but in a pan. poe t potatoes, nice and crisp, beef sauteed with vegetables, peas and carrots. add some flour to thicken with beef sauce and you have a nice shepherd's pan. >> could you do like fwround turkey if you wanted to make it lighter? >> totally or ground chicken as well. all in one big pan. you're good to go. this is nice for thursday, the end of the week, less dishes. sit on the couch and enjoy t for friday order a pizza and watch

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comin soon to a store near you, hottest toys from toy fair. more than 1,000 companies showed off their new product at the massive trade show that just wrapped up. stephanie oppenheim is here from toy portfolio with her choices. >> classics with a twist. you both remember hot wheels, right? this is new and make mees happy because i love hot wheels, too. you're able to make your own hot wheels. pick your color wax, put them in. seven minutes later after it's totally cool, it will emerge. >> are you serious? >> like a press and a mold? >> and you're good to go. >> this is a car painter? >> car maker. there we go. marble runs i love. this is from happy, new

accelerator. this is the type of toy that gets handed down from generation to generation. it's an open-ended puzzle. you can work on this together. a good one for vacation days like today. >> drop it in here, that's it, huh? >> there you go. you can make it however you want to make it. >> all right. >> that's a little pricier. this is from hex bugs. they now have little extra -- now that they will go down the tracks and up the tracks because of it. >> vibrating, is that we're doing? >> yes, hex. there we go. very cool. now conception toys -- >> hey, hey, hey, you know the money you could make with this? >> steve! it's a children's segment. >> let me bring you over to barbie land. >> come on, man. >> they call them toys. >> whole new category thanks to

lego. very barbie-esque mega blocks. you can see the difference here they light up. led lights which make them loads of fun. >> wow, what is this? >> mind storm. probably give him a little something to eat. there we go. and you could build an introduction to robotics. >> start -- lot of fun. 17 different models of that. also pricey but a wonderful way to introduce your kids. i don't know. what do you think about spy toys? this is a lie detector. put your fingers on here. who wants to try? >> for real? >> yeah. this works like a real lie detector. >> want me to try it? >> hook it up to your ear over there. >> the ear? >> it will tell you here whether -- are you having fun? it will move over to truth. >> this is the most fun i've ever had in my life. >> we're going over to the -- >> let me get that.

>> over here, more from spin master. >> well, it worked. >> it worked. okay. this is like what i call the james bond section. here you go. little camera in here, 36 0 degrees. you don't want your little brother or sister coming into the room. you have the laser defense system. >> come on, really? >> which will sound. there we go. >> really quickly, as we go out -- >> they're good to go. this one, hold it on the bottom of your hand. and these are from spin master. they should be flying. yes. >> indeed. >> mine is flying. >> there we go. >> whoo! >> well, they should fly. >> mine was flying. >> these are prototypes. there we go. there we go. they're motion activated. we keep batting it around. >> i like that. >> very nice. i apologize. >> no, no, no, that's okay. this is "today" on nbc.

boys and their toys. >> steve harvey show iing us ho it's done. >> you can catch steve harvey every day on the talk show. there's nowhere you can't catch this man. >> where are you not? >> that's really great. >> that's right. kathie lee and hoda are on today. meanwhile, kathie lee and hoda are at the universal city walk in hollywood. first your local news and weather. have a great day, everybody. >> bye. thanks, steve. >> thank you. thanks for having me.