>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybody. one of hoda's faifrlt days. >> september 22nd. >> and it is my first husband's birthday and debby boone's as we well. and my first husba desmond thompson. >> i like it. >> and we are having comments on social media because people are so kind all of the time and

wondering why i am not wearing my wedding ring so is soon after w k tai y it t i got back from the giants' game h honoring my husband and anne mere ra ra and i got someth h and something went right across my face and it was a bumblebee that stung me and i immediately took my ring off, because i knew that i would never get it off. and there is makeup on it. and it is infected now and i have to go to the doctor, but thank you for the kind and lovely concern, so pleased with uves. oanyway, that is why. and so a great show, and new show called "scream queens" and only jamie lee curtis starring in it.

>> it is like "mean girls" meeting prom girls. and so we will also have joan lunden. and she has a new hairdo. >> she is fantastic. >>a w y see it, she looks like pink. i love it. she looks like pink. >> very chic. yes. and elvis is duran, and we adore elvis, and i promise you he was here two weeks ago and he was here for artist of the week, right? >> yes, this young girl 19 years old, and she was noticed in 2011 when she posted something on the youtube and she was singing jesse jay's "price tag" which is a great song. ♪ money money money ♪ forget about the price tag >> and she has a norah jones kind of sound. >> and now her new video has 4.2 million tunes.

♪ >> well, she has grown up, and she has a beautiful voice. oh. we are going to be meeting her in a little bit. >> and joy bauer is here, too, and she is going to be transforming cheesy en chill law das to joyful food, and she is going to tear us up, and all under 400 calories so great. >> and we had some fun from the producers of "ellen's" staff, and we didn't know what we were getti getting into, and they wanted to do a skit, and then they told us it was involving getting into a bed. >> with strangers. h hoda has done it a lot of times, but i never had. >> and yk, t rela g aas you know, i have not seen

this in advance, and so is i apologize in advance. >> kevin, oh, no. >> where is my shirt? >> where are my pants? >> what happened last night? >> i have no idea. >> i hope we didn't post any pictures. >> oh, no. >> oh, no. >> are those yours? >> yep. >> yep. >> that is not bad. >> that is a cute one. >> oh o, no. >> let's just go to the montage. ♪ >> i'm never drinking again. >> oh, my gosh, me neither. >> neither are we. mimosas, anybody? >> oh, oh, oh. >> oh, no! >> god. she had on a bodysuit by the

way, when we were chuting that. >> my mother is watching, and your mother probably is, too, and anyway, we will do anything for el llen and we just proved . >> and you know what they have, the strap things -- >> tan lines. >> but not from going to the pool, because i don't do that, but the leotard, because when you walk outside. >> but still and thelines. > yes. >> one day after winning the emmy. >> yes, the blind auditions for the new season for "the voice" kicked off yesterday. >> and gwen stefani is back. and now instead of doing the blind auditions and the first in singing, we are with the coaches, and seeing the first in singing, and we have to decide if we want to accept them. >> so what do we have to do, sit here blind. >> no, we have to watch and play along with the coaches. ♪ one two three ♪ one two three ♪ one two three

♪ going to my new town ♪ i want to scream ♪ i want to live ♪ like it doesn't exist ♪ i want to scream from the destiny here ♪ >> what! ♪ i want to open up my eyes ♪ because i'm just holding on for tonight ♪ ♪ on for tonight >> oh, wow! >> good for him. >> four-chair turn!

>> he is off. >> and it would have been six. >> and when he went to thi patyñsaid, he has a beautiful voice. >> and adam was the last to turn the chair and he chose adam as the coach. i wonder if the one who plays so hard to get is the one you want. >> and hody, there is a girl on the show called koda, and that is what regis calls hoda. ♪ ♪ i'll be hard to get >> come on now, bring it home. ♪ bring your sweet love >> come on now. >> i am going to tweet for her. >> all right. we have news on sophia loren, and she is 81. >> yes, turned it this week.

>> and this is not the headline, but the headline is that she is now modeling for dolce and gabbana. >> look at her. >> it is a new shade of lipstick and bright cherry red called the sophia loren number one. >> which we all agree is better than being called number two. if there is a second one, because this is so pop ular it will be interesting what they come up with. >> sebeautiful. >> and she is a natural, and she is womanly, and you know. >> and don't you love how some of the businesses are using the kind of older women, and i think it is a cool thing. >> i'd like to think that i'm just not old enough. >> we are getting there. wait for us, we are on the way. all right. >> benadryl is doing some weird stuff to me today. >> and who do you think should perform in the super bow bea now it is the 50th anniversary and everybody is talking about who it should be, and some people saya mars is coming back. >> and he just did it.

>> and some people want cher and change.org has started a petition. >> and cher would be a great choice, because she is just like sew f sophia in that she has how many decadni a s still kicks it just like crazy. >> and now, amanda, one of the producers had a great idea, and she said, it is an anniversary for the super bowl for sure, and why not have the people come through the decades and do a match-up. >> maybe doris day from the '50s. >> maybe she could. >> kay serra serra, i would love it. >> how about britney spears? >> and of course, taylor swift could kick it. >> and she could do the duets with each person, and what about if taylor with elton john and taylor with the stones and chicago. and then all of t way to now.

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i love the movies. she is a golden globe actress who made her mark in hollywood three decades ago as the original scream queen. >> and it was 1978 when she burst on to the scene playing a doomed babysitter in a scary movie called "halloween" and then the sequel, and now there is a tv show playing homage to the show called "scream queens." >> and jamie lee is going to play a character that she is the head of a sorry ti targeted by a serial killer, but it is one sor

rerror -- sorority that she hates. >> i didn't like the dean so i snuck in and dropped a battery into her bathtub, and so take the off your glasses. >> you missed the first line where she says i hate sororities and i hate you. >> and you read the script and said, "i'm in." >> well, i got the script and i did not read it for three to six months before we started shooting. and everybody would say, how is the new show. >> well, it is like "mean girls" meets "halloween." >> well, it is like, "mean girls," and based on the sorority e-mail that went around and a real sorority president writing to the sisters, and it

is vile and it went viral and it opened up the door for the writers to go, oh, this is how people talk to each other, and like, this is really how people communicate with each other. >> it is sad, isn't it? terrible commentary on the world. >> yes, but so many sad commentaries of the world, and we have to wake up to it. >> and why not exploit it? >> and why not highlight it for the comedy value, and maybe, you know in the dialogue, and then in the discussion, you can then parse out the things that actually can be sociological changes versus just the norm. >> and speaking of having fun and you went to the comic-con and the first one going there. >> yes. >> in san diego? >> yes. >> and you brought down the house, and nobody does it in one line, but you did. >> and well, they asked me a question about being there, and i quipped with no disrespect to activia, but i did quip that said, look, i have been selling

yogurt that makes you poop for seven years, and i'm happy to be here. and i have been happy to have that job and until theyt decided to have somebody else to have that representative, i was happy to have that product, and it helped people, and people told me it helped them and i was able to stay home with my family and it was my job, but this on 5:03 which is 2:03 my time, and you know, i woke up to this day, and you know, i will start to cry here on your tv show, and you know, we have been working on the show for a long time, and today is being born, and i will have to tell you that if you don't think that i am so grateful at 56 to have this job at this moment in my life when as i said, i have done advertising for people, and i have done some really terrible

movies and tv shows to live my life and i woke up this morning weeping at this moment in any life, at this moment for me. i thought about my mom, and, you know, i just, it is life, on life's terms, and i'm just grateful, so, so deeply grateful. [ applause ] >> don't you think it is gratitude, and people are not thankful for happy for anything anymore. >> well, i am. and i woke up this morning, kind of feeling great, and i thought, wh is happening right here, right now for me. >> we love you, jamie. that is so great. and "scream queens" and getting e phenomenal reviews and premiers tonight on fox. >> two hours on fox, and it is a great, great show, and you will have a blast. >> i am sure. >> all right. i like the crown. >> do you want to explain it? >> well, my friend of allison robins of allison robins wine

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walls." >> and 1.5 million hits on youtube. >> and pronounce the name, because we are have two different versions. >> alexia car-ra. >> well, she is canadian, and we are not letting trump build a big wall between here and canada, because we want more of her. >> and we saw you with the jesse jay cover. >> when you sang it, did you know that you would explode? >> well, not this early on in life, because i am only 19, and i did not expect it to be so soon. >> and what caught your eye, elvis? >> like you, on youtube and she said it best, one day doing the covers on youtube and the next she is on "today" show with

kathie lee and hoda. and it is like a lightning bolt for you. >> and listen to words of the the new song in a few minute, and it is so relatable and being anti-social and nervous in the crowds. >> and you are at a party, and you don't want to be anywhere but there. >> and you wrote it, right? >> yes, with this guy named sebastian cole. and shout out to you. >> and the best thing that you can learn right ow of the bat is to share with the people who get you there. and i wrote it when i was -- and no, that guy helped you the write it. good for you. >> and we had alexia on the radio show, and the response was bigger and better than people who have been doing it for a long time. >> okay, elvis. >> and when you see her and hear her, you will see what i am saying. >> and you are going to be singing the song here with us in a few minutes, here, here. >yes. and then dinner and dessert for under 400 calories?

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hey, brittney. >> good morning. temperatures expected to warm below average today. we're also seeing cloudy skies and isolated showers closer to the poconos but dry in philadelphia, 65 degrees. our humidity is at 56%. wind speeds will stay breezy out of the northeast, 13 miles per hour. there's a look at the showers i was telling you about and you can see the cloudy conditions. highs around the area today at 74 in philadelphia, same thing in allentown, low 70s for pottstown. vai? thank you, brittney. today is the last day of class for a week for students in the philadelphia school district. students are off for yom kippur as well as thursday and friday for the papal visit and the superintendent announced schools will remain closed on monday after the pope returns to the vatican. you can count on nbc 10 for your coverage of the pope's visit to the u.s. rosemary connors and matt will report from washington, d.c. starting tomorrow and cydney long and katy zachry will pick it up from new york on thursday. just tap the nbc 10 app for everything you need to know about the papal visit.

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we are back with television personality and author joan lunden who first revealed that she had breast cancer last summer. >> and since then she has fought a very public disease and becoming one of the leading advocates for women, and first, here is a look at her journey. >> reporter: it has been over a year since joan lunden was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> it is is a shame that you is to deal with something that almost takes life away to appreciate it more. >> reporter: she spent almost nine months with a disease that she shared with her fans. >> i am trying to build up the stamina. >> and her mammogram was clean, but then it was picked up by an x-ray. she had 12 rounds of toxic

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if we told you that you could have dinner an dd dessert for under 400 calories, you wouldn't believe it. >> but we challenged joy bauer to do it, and to turn this into joy food. >> well, chicken enchiladas from

santa fe, new mexico, and she and her husband love fattenning oowey gooey cheesy enchiladas, so with this, we will use everything that people have. so you have a slow cooker, and really busy in the morning, put in four chicken breasts. >> okay. >> half a cup of sals f o garlic and taco seasoning mix, homemade or pact, and put the lid on and low at eight hours. and when you come home, you have the makings of the chicken. so this is my favorite part.

you break it up, and it comes out like the most flavorful part. and also, you can put it in the fridge for sandwiches or salas s or whatever, but now we will do the assembly, and for 30 e pop the tortillas into the microwave because they will be more flexible, and then you are going to be adding a little bit of -- >> what is that? >> enchilada sauce. and put the chick en in, and thn roll it up. i do about a quarter cup of chicken. >> roll rit up. -- roll it up. seam down, and do a little bit more of the sauce. >> cath, you want to try a part of it. >> and the reduced fat cheese and in the oven at 350 for 15 minutes, and your family will think that you slave and the new calories, two of them only 313. >> it is delicious.

>> i know it is going to be. >> and yours has cheese and yours doesn't. and carrots, carrots. >> and a little bit of the time, but we are making the rice crispy treats. >> and this is the challenge from janell in virginia. and this is the version of 140 calories for one. instead of stick butter use three tablespoons of whipped butter a melt it with four cups of mini marsh mel lows instead of the rice crispies, and instead of the rice crispies, i am putting in pop corn to drive down the calories and mix up the volume. so mix it around and by the way, if your hands are sticky pressing it in there, and a ine a roohepr, g >>atheu hody. >> the original is 140 and my version is 80. >> two carrots, and you are on a roll. >> yes, thank you. >> and you can also eat the

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>> and good for her. we have dorothy carter from coburn, virginia. >> and i have right here in my hot hand roberta guardnear, north kingstown, rhode island. and who is last, kath? >> it is patty wright from shelbyville, kentucky. >> way to go, pat! >> congrats to everybody. >> if you want to enter for the next week's prize, you have to do it every week. for the complete list of rules, go to klgandhoda.com. and tomorrow, we will h have suze orman. >> and will forte. >> and nine-time winner cloris leachman will be here. >> and loosey tuesday. >> i will start spanking hoda. >> i don't like it. i don't like it.

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