welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning, february 20th, 2013. i'm willie geist along with al roker, natalie morales and jenna hager. coming back for take three. >> i think david gregory wants to take part in this. >> of course he does. >> not leaving. >> he wants to improve on the man purse. >> oh, look, he's squeezing right in. >> just toss it in here. >> we've got you. do you want to go back in on the man purse or do you feel like we've covered that ground? >> i know where you're coming from. >> let's ask natalie.

joe, your husband, what does he carry? >> he has like a briefcase bag. >> anything with a little strap on it? >> it has a small handle on it. >> a handle. >> not a strap? >> not a strap. and it's not something that is a makeup bag size. >> wow! henry? >> he does not carry a murse. >> wait till henry has a child. he will have a lot of gear back >> jenna is part of the younger generation, knows how this stuff is evolving. >> that's true and men of your generation are okay with a binky on your pinky. >> that one i -- >> i have no problem with that. >> i'm wearing glitter on my hand at the moment. >> you did get very glittery. >> it goes well with the man purse. >> those are al's nuts from the last segment, little bit on my

li lip. >> we'll see you sunday. >> why don't you go get ready for "meet the press"? >> nice talking to you. >> wow! >> where did we go? >> where did we go? >> i don't know. i really don't. when you're that tall, the air gets thinner. and i think you lose consciousness. >> let's move on. >> how about our take three? >> yes. let's go to our take three. our take one, this is a real story. postal service apparel, cash-strapped united states postal service has announced plans to launch, get this, a new line of all weather apparel and accessories next year. premium department stores called rain, heat and snow. >> because who knows weather like they do, right? >> postal service gear. >> get the shorts. >> if you want the shorts or hat, it's up to you. i don't know if you can get that stuff. it's not going to plug the hole in the budget but, hey, why not? reband a little bit. >> make a cute halloween

costume. >> halloween? i don't think that's what they're looking at. >> i would wear that. >> they'll have a women's line coming out. >> anything that can save handwritten letters. i'll buy a murse. >> they have those big bags. >> that's a man bag. >> that's a man bag. >> i don't know that a lot of people associate the united states postal service with fashion. >> if they could do it in a fashionable way. remember u.p.s., people were wearing u.p.s. hats and jackets. it was a trend for a while. >> got a cool winter jacket, i'll throw one of those on. >> go out and deliver people's mail. >> i think that's against the law. >> i was going to say. take two, this hits close to home, since we have a baby bump on the set with us. this is the royal baby bump for kate middleton. she showed up in public, first

event since she's had sickness. got of lot of attention for her bump. great britain's best-selling authors, hilary mantel. >> yes. >> said the following about kate middleton, quote, kate middleton is a shop window mannequin with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore. she went on to say she was made only to give birth. >> wow! >> things like jointed doll on which certain rags are hung, talking about kate middleton and that her only point and purpose is basically to breed an heir to the royal throne, making her sound like -- >> nice lady. >> forgive my ignorance. do we care what hilary mantel is saying? do we know her? >> she wrote that book that has to do with royalty and she has her clearly. there was such backlash in the

u.k., even prime minister came out and said this is absolutely ludicrous and ridiculous, that kate is an incredible ambassador for the country and royalty. >> freedom of the press. you can say what you want even if you're an idiot. >> that's the problem, sadly. sadly, when you sign up for roles -- she didn't even sign up for it, but marrying somebody. i was born into it. you sign up for a role where you were criticized. i was never called a mannequin. maybe that's because i don't have the figure that she has. she looks good. >> you're doing all right yourself there. >> you wear that bump well. this is fascinating. take three. it's called the you're not invited to my wedding alert. apparently people are doing this now. you have to draw the line. >> what? >> let's say where you're having the reception, it holds 100 people. we've all been through this, who to invite and not to invite. >> for economic reasons. >> a lot of people are reaching out to the people who are not invited as well as those they're inviting and saying, listen --

>> you didn't make the cut. >> you didn't make the cut. >> sending a noninvite? >> sending a noninvite. >> you are not not invited to our wedding. >> over text messages? >> text, e-mail. jenna, you're not invited. >> that's harsh. >> ridiculous. slightly narcissistic, that people would care if they weren't invited. do you know what i mean? >> right. i don't think it's meant to rub sand in it. >> i think it does. >> you might be invited but here is why i can't invite you. >> why not call them and say, listen, i'm really sorry, i would love to have everybody there but unfortunately i have to make some cuts. >> what kind of a world do we -- this has been going on for years. >> i think people understand, exactly. they understand if they're not invited. >> frankly, some of those people are relieved they're not invited. >> let me give up the weekend that i could really enjoy myself and come to your wedding. come on. >> do you ever give out those invites that you really don't want the person to come and they say yes and you go, oh!

>> now i know why you asked me to lunch. >> and you said yes. >> oh! no. >> why did i ask? apparently that's what people are doing now. you're on the b list. good talking to you. our bonus take, we showed these to you yesterday, anchor cartoon makeovers, from the new iphone app called i made face. we asked you by poll which of our cartoon characters looked the most like us. we got some of the photographs, some of the pictures that came out of the i made face app. you didn't believe that one whatsoever. natalie did a little better. al, they really liked yours. >> al's is great. >> oh, al, that's -- that looks like you, the cartoon version. >> our winner, i'm told, is david gregory. >> i have to agree with that one. >> oh, yeah. >> come on. >> he won 60% of the votes. you got 21%. >> he looks like a character out of archer. >> he does.

he does. >> wow! that's almost a dead match. >> it is. >> if you put the camera down a little bit you can see the animated man purse. >> and a baby bjorn. >> take that little bag and parade it around? >> he does. >> i've seen him. >> walks into a meeting with the man purse. >> it's a good way to get credibility. >> i think there's intervention. now we have a check of our headlines this morning. chilling testimony in a south african courtroom today in the bail hearing of oscar pistorius, the athlete is charged with the valentine's day murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. one witness heard an hour of nonstop fighting before then hearing gun shots. another claims to have heard shots then screaming, and one more shot. the defense says that the first witness lives too far away from pistorius' home to be credible. meantime, pistorius' legal team

is firing back after police say they found testosterone and needles in the runner's bedroom. the defense says police found an herbal remedy that is not a banned substance. rescuers are searching for a missing person this morning after a huge explosion and fire in kansas city. a gas main break touched off the explosion at a restaurant during dinner time last night. the blast engulfed an entire city block. it was so powerful it could be felt blocks away. more than a dozen people were injured and several were taken to local hospitals. police have identified the gunman in a deadly shooting spree in southern california. officials say a 20-year-old student, ali sayed, went on a rampage, killing three people, wounding several others before turning his gun on himself. police are still searching for a motive, but what caused sayed to go on a killing spree that spanned several counties and several carjackings. general john allen is retiring. he got caught up in that e-mail

scandal that brought down cia director david petraeus. he is stepping down to focus on family health issues. president obama praised him as, quote, one of america's finest military leaders, a true patriot and a man i've come to respect greatly. the vice president is generating some buzz after a facebook town hall chat with parents magazine. in a discussion focusing on joe biden's gun control efforts, he gave some frank advice on self defense. >> if you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun. you don't need an ar-15. buy a shotgun. buy a shotgun. >> the vice president says he has two shotguns of his own at his home in delaware. just out this morning, we're getting the first look at dan brown's latest book jacket. his new novel, as you know, is called inferno. we revealed that on the "today" show a short while ago. it brings back his character, robert langdon of da vinci code

fame. this time he will be trying to translate the literary piece "dante's inferno." at 15 years old, the sea otter is learning a new trick. to help him stay in shape, zoo keepers in oregon taught him how to shoot some hoops. that's a dunk, my friend. >> not just shooting hoops. >> he has the technique. >> two hands. >> you're up-to-date right now. with that, mr. roker, you have a check of the weather? >> let's see what we've got, big storm system making its way out of the west. cold, high pressure building in from the north and a very vigorous jet stream, lot of gulf moisture. the combination makes for a lot of snow. we've got winter weather advisories, winter storm warnings, even ice storm warnings stretching from california all the way to western new york, where we can expect anywhere from six to 12 inches of snow. really, right in the center of nebraska, we could be looking at

up to 24 inches of snow. on the other side of this system we've got severe weather to talk about. look for severe weather for much of texas and over the next five days, we could see anywhere from five to seven inches of rain from louisiana all the way to the carolinas. >> good morning.ing it will be a breezy and today today with a mixture of sun and clouds. expect a high near 38. >> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thanks a lot. coming up next, best beauty buys for 10 bucks or less. back after this. to do the things that i wanted.

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this morning on jill's must haves best beauty buys for $10 or less. contributor and editor for people in style magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> that was huge, a lot of people loved that. now you're talking about beauty buys. >> i thought why not do beauty for $10 and under? as we move into spring, hopefully sooner, we can move spring weather sooner rather than later, starting with our makeup bags. we all beat up our makeup bags. you see it a lot, use it every day. you don't have to spend a lot of money. from over 21, this is great.

for $3 to $10, these are at walgreen's. even if you're traveling, as you are now, every week, this is a great version. >> makeup bag, perfect tochlt some beauty products, these are from h & m, right, they have a new line? >> it's been there a couple of years. i've never really seen their beauty line. look at all this great stuff. beautiful eye shadows, lipsticks, lotions. also makes for a great gift. all of these are great if you want to sort of put it together. i love these for spring. they're for your hair. it's also a pin. actually matches perfectly. >> freshen up your wardrobe a bit. >> $2.95 to $9.95. i'm going to give tips on how long you should keep everything. my mother has everything in her closet, doesn't like to give it up. lipstick, about a year. if youf had a lipstick about a year, move on, get it out of your beauty closet and start over. >> a lot of people think i'm not spending a lot of money, the quality will not be as great.

>> that's not true. not always the case. a lot of times you're paying for the designer. i use lip glosses daily. it's easier when you're spending $2.95 to have more of them. >> from drew barrymore called slather only at walmart. >> i love her, drew barrymore. exclusively at walmart called flower. she sort of curated and invented her own products from products she already knows about. she sort of reengineered them. $4.98 to $8.98. also a gift if you want to package it together. using moisturizer or foundation up to a year, you should sort of start over. i love that you sort of want to use this as a line. it's so pretty. also you open your beauty closet, it should be pretty. i love the way this looks. >> very chanel-ish in a way, right? this is another great line that has beautiful colors, nyx cosmetics. >> great colors for spring. you'll see a lot of brights.

if you are going to experiment with bright colors you may only use it once and not love it. this is a great way to do it, $7 to $10. nyxcosmetics.com. eye shadows about two years, gloss about a year. make sure you keep that in check. >> perfume, perfect for on the go as well. >> also for your makeup but i love these, sex on the beach, gingerale, all different scents. $10. also a beautiful gift. this is two for one, last thing for your makeup bag from sephora. one side is a glitter, the other side is a color and it's scented. we always have to have scented nail polish. >> you'll be smelling your nails, okay. >> and for kids. >> these are the new spring colors as well. >> $8. wanted to introduce them. i picked -- actually use it, bond with whomever. leave things up in the air for spring. those are new.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> fairly quiet, but the winds will be chilly. winds will gust over 20 miles an hour. it will feel like it is in the 20's. and the snow flurries left over this morning will dissipate shortly. dry de tomorrow, still chilly.

according to a report in the journal of neuro science the most unpleasant sound in the world issy knife blade being scraped across a glass bottle. that is considered the most unplsant sound in the world. up till last week. now it's "welcome aboard your carnival cruise, nice to have you all aboard." >> jay leno and the late-night boys getting alot of laughs off that. >> that's right. >> ouch. if you're technically challenged, like some of us -- it says willie there. >> how did that get there? >> i don't know. >> character assassination. >> tech expert mr. mario

armstrong here to help us with some questions you guys sent in. and then we are getting unbuttoned with a bunch of girlfriends. easy there, guys. we'll chew on everything from getting a job after kids to date night with your husband. >> what's the unbuttoned part? >> that's the name of the segment. >> got it, got it, got it. >> you know. >> like unplugged. >> sort of. but with a bunch of ladies. it's like a girlfriend's guide to -- >> every guy's dream. >> all right, al. before we go too far down that road, let's get a check of the weather. >> yeah. absolutely. looking at today, a lot of wet weather down in the central plains, snow in the rockies. that's all heading to the east. it will make a mess. we're looking for heavier lake-effect snow squalls, lake ontar ontario, lake erie. and then for tomorrow, a risk of strong storms from eastern texas into mississippi. look for icy conditions in the mid mississippi river valley. heavy snow in the central plains, rain in the pacific northwest. sunny and cool, midatlantic states down in florida where it

>> good morning. a breezy and chilly start on this wednesday morning. a mixture of sun and clouds. >> and that's your latest weather. natalie? >> all right, al, thank you. time to get unbuttoned now with some of our favorite girlfriends. dr. lisa thornton is a pediatrician. rachel campos duffy is a political pundit and heather khan is a journalist. morning, ladies. >> morning. >> ready to have some fun? >> yes. >> let's tackle first issue and date night or heather, as i believe you call it, save the marriage night. how important is it in a relationship? let me start with you because

you did say you call it save the marriage night. >> not that our marriage is in jeopardy. >> right. >> but 20 years later, five young children later, it is an absolute must in our house. and i think it took me a while to learn that especially when i was working full time with my first three children, i would feel guilty going out, leaving them. i thought that evening time should be children time. and then i get out of the kitchen, i felt sexier, more interesting, more engaging. we would catch up on what was important to us and all the troubles and worries kind of melt away. if you don't take care of the foundation of the family, which is mom and dad, it could crumble. >> what about you, rachel? >> i couldn't agree more. i can tell in my marriage when we don't do it that things start to happen. like we feel more like business partners and we don't feel like lovers. and, again, i think you're absolutely right. i think it's a really good thing as parents to remind ourselves it's good for our kids to model

good relationships and to keep that spark alive. >> and you schedule it once a week? do you go every week? >> i wish i could. my husband's schedule is very crazy. we do try. i wee got away a little bit. >> you say no on the date night. why is that? >> for me, my life is so scheduled already that one more thing is just one more thing. it's like oh, my gosh, now i have to plan this date night. it's got to be perfect. we have to have a happy ending. for me, i just enjoy -- my kids are a little older. my youngest is 12. we can be at home alone. we enjoy just catch iing up on couple of our tv shows that are kind of just our that we watch together or watch a football game, which i don't understand and my husband explains to me. it's wonderful and bonding. that's how we do it. it's very -- >> as long as you're still bonding. >> it's not a fancy thing. i live in wisconsin. i'm going to fish fry. it doesn't have to be super

planned out. it can be like let's leave early and go home and watch tv or watch a movie. >> we need to lower the bar on what's perfect. it can be anything. >> what about a night of sleeping in, though? isn't that -- in fact, cal berkeley found that couples who slept well together tend to have better relationships, tend to communicate better overall and i think that's key. everybody is rested. >> everybody at home might be surprised. it really does refer to sleep. >> right. >> shut eye. not that kind of sleep. >> i think when we're both well rest ever rested we are more able to take on the world to deal with teenage issues that come up and toddler issues because we run the gamut at our house. i do find that when i get into bed, my eyes tend to close quickly anyway. >> but it is good. >> everybody can meet the world really feeling good and, you know, you don't get the snarky things that come when you're a

little too tired. >> irritable. >> it's hard, though. i've got six kids. >> i don't know how you do it. >> my husband is gone a lot. they sleep in my bed. >> six kids in your bed? >> the bottom three or four will come in and kick me in the head and i get peed on. >> wow! >> feeding your personal soul because so often we are so over tasked, multitasking and taking care of everybody else's needs. what do you do to kind of get back to yourself, hel heather? >> i thought of the world guilt before. that's my nature. >> aren't we all? >> we're not all. we actually talked about this earlier. you're really good about not feeling guilty about it. i've had to grow into that role. what i realized is that i've become a more grown and seasoned woman as mother and wife, if i don't do things for myself to nurture my soul or naughty little pleasure of a tv show or plunging my hands into the garden with the kids and the dog, something i love, i can't

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back now with part two of our unbuttoned. all right, ladies. we're talking now about women, when they step out of the workforce, when they decide to stay home and raise their kids. are they giving up an opportunity? is it hard for them to go back to the workforce if they want to get back to those jobs? some of you have dealt with this very issue. heather walked away from a job as a journalist to raise her kids. >> i felt like i jump off a speeding train. i worked so hard navigating through little teeny tv markets and got my dream job at boston at the tv station that i grew up watching. little did i know as much as i loved my career when my third baby was born and i looked at her, i had a life changing moment, an especiallyiveny a ie

need to be home. i did continue to work part time so i could hopefully launch myself, eventually. and i'm ready now to come back to work. >> rachel, you said moms make the best hires, right? >> i think they absolutely do. it's a good thing to keep your fingers in the pie if you think that's something you want to do. everything has its trade-offs. i was pursuing a career in television and just really came to an epiphany where i thought i could live without having that amazing career. i didn't, for me personally think i could live with being 50 and having missed those moments. that's a personal choice and that's what's so great about the era we live in where staying home and choosing to work is a choice, but i think you can do a lot of things at once now, with technology. >> true. >> working from home. it's not impossible. >> and a pediatrician, what you're doing every day is so important. like you said, you love it. you have no regrets. >> i never stepped back. i worked full time my whole

life. i have three children. you know, i think that for me it was just who i am. i'm very true to who i am. i spend time with my kids. it's funny because it feels like people who say you're a stay at home mom or working mom, like the working mothers never see their children. >> not true. >> i said to my 20-year-old when he was younger, do you wish i had stayed home? he said why, you're around all the time. for my children they understand what i do is important for me. it does feed my soul, what i do for a living. i think it's important and i love it. one of the great things is if you have the choice -- many women do not have the choice. they must work. >> that's true. >> my mother had to work, my grandmother worked. i'm from a culture of women who worked. it doesn't seem awkward to me. if you step back and do nothing for ten years and then try to step back into the workforce, that's very, very difficult. and so i think what we're hearing everybody saying is that if you keep your hands in a little bit so that when it's time for you to move back in, you've got something you can do that you've got a skill set that you can share.

>> finding ways to network yourself. >> networking is not that hard. last week i was at school and met a dad who had come to a valentine's day party at school. even the television world. we were networking while we were serving conversation hearts, we were having our own conversation. >> it is interesting that there's a cultural component as well. highest percentage of at-home moms are miss panics. i think there is a lot of cultural component as well. >> good discussion, ladies. we'll have to keep this going. thank you so much, lisa, rachel and heather. >> thank you. up next, we'll get to some of your tech problems with solutions. but first these messages. ♪ [ jen garner ] what skincare brand is so effective... so trusted... so clinically proven dermatologists recommend it twice as much as any other brand? neutrogena®. recommended by dermatologists 2 times more

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to stream content on my tv? >> this is a great question. you're right. back in the day -- you know this, it used to buffer and buffer and buffer and streaming video never worked well. getting online content from the web, in this case to his television set. >> right. >> a lot of options are out there. things like the apple tv. >> sure. >> which is great. you can also do other cool features like share videos wirelessly from your phone to your television. you have the bots, that are very inexpensive. you may already have something in the house like your gaming console, x-box, sony playstation or your blu-ray player may have smart tv capabilities. >> there's also the other parts of that like netflix, hulu. >> that's right, amazon, all those other providers and most of those are available on these different types of devices but there's no subscription fee for the devices. you pay a subscription for netflix or -- >> for the content.

>> for the content. >> boxes and boxes of photographs. what to do with them now in the digital age. how do we consolidate all that? >> you want to preserve these. >> sure. >> memories and stuff. >> it they're going to physically fade. >> they are going to physically fade. a great scanner, flatbed scanner like this epson here, great colors, great resolution. you also want to have something that's simple and easy for you to use. look for ones that have some restore coloration, software embedded in it to make sure the images -- >> from roy in detroit, 3,000 picture, most in albums, would like to put them on to a usb stick. is there a quick and easy scanner that will put it on to the usb? >> get it to the computer and then get it to the usb, that's the fastest way. start with a great quality scanner, get it to your computer and move those files to the usb stick. >> what about all the stuff you've recorded on your phone? these videos. >> yes. >> a lot of folks have these

great videos. but again a lot of it is all stuck on the phone. >> it is all stuck on the phone. i want to make sure i mention something, don't shoot vertical video. >> horizontal. >> yes, vertical video is a problem. i saw a lot of kids at my son's recital shooting video like this. years later they're going to want to play that on a tv. it's going to show up -- >> black bars. >> just like this on the tv, vertical so shoot it horizontal. >> from rachel, the next question -- gloria in dover, delaware. how do you get those videos from your phone to your computer? >> for the iphone, you connect your cable and you go right to your computer. then you use i-photo. a lot of people think it's itunes but it's i-photo. you input the video into it. once you're in, you see on the screen, that box i have here, look for those images that have

a video camera. these are photos. these are still photos. these are actually video. once you select that, you can import that to your computer. and then you'll have it backed up. >> import relatively quickly, a little bit longer than a photograph? >> yeah. it all depends on how long the video is itself, too. >> one more quick one for you, dan in minnesota wants to know do i really need anti-virus software for my mac? you get offers for these all the time. do you need it? >> you should always have some type of anti-virus protection. it never really happen but when it does, it's a big deal. >> apple itself just got hacked. >> yeah. so when it does, it's a big deal, but it never really happens. one i recommend is intego. if you have tech questions go to today.com and submit them to mario. we're back in a moment. first this is "today" on nbc.

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