>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from and a fun day monday to you, everybody. november cyber mop. hope you had a really fabulous and blessed thanksgiving with your friends and family. it is all about shopping, it seems to me today. >> so was friday. so was saturday. when saturday was small town -- small business saturday. you're right.

>> tuesday. cyber tuesday. >> cyber monday is going to be cyber tuesday and cyber wednesday. >> thank you. look who's with us today in our kitchen! >> he's got an eggplant or something. >> now he's shining up his eggplant. there used to be a word for that. >> all right, marcus. we have a great way to kick off today's buzz. we teamed up with "people" magazine for our second annual beauty awards. we'll show you today the best hair products from the drugstore. very important. >> why are we showing makeup right now? >> it is all the best-of. this week five chefs are cooking up a dish they say that they would make if i came to

wine and food festival, always wonderful fun in greenwich. these fantastic were there for it. i just hosted -- moderated a panel with all of them. i asked every one of them -- we know what you do at your restaurants. it is all fantastic and when you make on the "today" show. but if you were invited just personally to come to your house, what would you make for me to represent who you are and what your home is and every answer that i said, you guys, let's do that one week. so we put it together. we've got everybody coming all this week. marcus is heading it out. >> i am. i'm super excited. i'm going to do a cocktail, then a little fish. >> darling picture of you and your wife and your little boy in "people" magazine. >> how cute. >> super great thanksgiving for me and my wife. >> awesome. he's so beautiful. what's his name?

>> beautiful! >> beautiful. >> yes. >>. are you already broke after black friday? i'm not. >> i didn't. >> no, no, i didn't. we'll show you how to make some extra money for all your gift shopping without leave your house. and our favorite things are later. >> oh, my gosh. you had tons of family and fun stuff. we had family and friends from michigan and florida to stay with us for a few days. i don't like to play games. any kind of games. we just played games. we had such a good time and it was a nice mix of our traditions with theirs. they have everything on thanksgiving. they have the thanksgiving turkey but they also have a ham and a tenderloin. >> they like it do it big. >> very midwest. do it all! so we did it all. of course cotes and cass were home. that's all i care about. i might as well say my favorite

weekend. harvey weinstein has been a friend of mine for many, many years and he's always been good to me. good to me. i hated "pulp fiction" so i said it on the air to regis. the next day i got a basket this big from harvey. i've never met him before saying, i'm so sorry you hated "pulp fiction." so did my mother. he said but here are some things that she loved and i hope you will, too. so classy. we've been friends for a long time. he sends me occasionallys there is a movie out locally right now but is going to go full, full nationwide next week. it's "lion." with dev patel, nicole kidman and rooney mara. it is simply stunning and you'll sob your eyes out. it is so moving. that's all i'll tell you about it. >> love it! you know what else? went to see "allied" yesterday. cody had seen it before, he's my

he took me and his girlfriend, erica. last night, if you've never seen mel gibson's movie "patriot," it was an unbelievable one. years ago. but does it stand out. >> you had like movie palooza. >> and cody got me hooked on "the crown." i've never binge watched anything. i was bleer ary-eyed. it is all about queen elizabeth and prince philip. i kept saying how much of this is b wow! the intrigues of court and the crown. highly, highly, recommend. >> is it on pbo? >> net flishflnetflix. i think every episode costs like $7 million. you cannot believe the attention to detail. >> on netflix? i'm going to watch that. >> tell babout the little show you put on. >> i had my nieces and my mom and my brother and his wife and everybody at my house. we did all the things. it reminds me of how much i love new york when your family's

rockettes. this was just in the hall at 30 rock. tom brokaw and lester holt. random sighting. tom's daughter sara was there and their son. we were at the thanksgiving day parade. the kids kept screaming can you see me, san today? last year santa looked the other way. it was very depressing. this year he yelled and screamed and looked. there's joel. we ended up doing so many things that you do in new york. we had a great thanksgiving meal. >> you've got more room now >> you know what i did? i have the same table, i just bought two extra chairs and shoved them in. how about that! >> you're a mathematical genius. >> i couldn't believe --- how awesome it was. >> how about you get a table with a leaf? >> but i never have people over. that's the most people that i'll ever have in my case. >> unless you have a table that expanded. >> maybe. my nieces every morning when we woke up, we would raise the

so we decided that was going to be the curtain and we were going to do a broadway show. so i got my guitar out. horrible. and we sang and we did this -- they go -- ella kept saying, can anybody see us? i said look at all these windows. some freak is watching us right now. >> wonderful. >> we had such a great time with the whole group. there's -- we went and saw "wicked." we did -- the rockettes -- >> you're the best aunt in the world. >> we wen you haven't been, please go. look at my video. i just took this. >> which is illegal. >> it is? >> yes. >> well, watch it anyway. >> they do this every year and it never gets old. >> then it went all crazy. >> i love it. it never gets old. you might have seen it 100 times. my niece, i took her ever, every year. my kids, too.

do it anymore. then they start having kids. lease let that be before i die. >> every time you go, it is different. yeah, you're going to have grandchildren. by the way, congratulations are in order for kathie lee gifford. >> why? >> how many followers do you have on twitter right now? >> i guess -- a million. thank you, everybody. >> where is the confetti! >> what does that mean? >> it means lots of people are paying attention to your tweets! be careful. >> m just tweeted me, i'm so proud of you -- you did it without one nude picture. i would have lost followers if i'd have done a nude picture. we need a great story today. tell this one, hoda woman. >> we need to give a shout out to this guy in illinois, a guy named jim ford. he's been a repo man for more than 20 years. his job is to repossess cars. okay? so he had to repossess one day a

stanford kipling and his 70-year-old wife, patty. jim found out this couple was sinking deeper into debt and that was because they had to pay so much for their medications. they only had $30 left until their next social security check. but the kiplings understood that jim had to do a job so he took the car. there they were without their car. so it really bugged jim. a lot. >> i bet he sees everything, too, in his line of work. you know? >> he's probably seen the best and the worst. he decided, you guys, to s he wanted to raise $3,500 to pay off that car. not only did they raise that $3,500, they received $17,000 in donations from more than 400 people. here's what jim did. jim repaired and detailed the buick, he delivered the cash and a thanksgiving turkey to the kiplings. stan said it was like hitting the lottery and patty says there are very good people out there. >> there are. there are.

>> love that story. god bless jim. i couldn't do that job. i couldn't take someone's things. i'd go broke. >> just keep it. we lost a good friend. i've known her many, many years. she was one of the first people you meet when you went out to hollywood. florence was everywhere. the lovely fror florence henderson passed away on thaiv get to make my living this way and be with wonderful people. she was a half-full type person. >> she did everything you could imagine in show biz, including anchoring a whole hour. she did so many wonderful things. most people i remember her from "the brady bunch" and how you really did learn life lessons. it was just so funny you learned about things.

ever to host the "tonight show" when johnny carson took off one time. >> congratulations. just so you know here, just three days before her death, she was in the audience at "dancing." which shows you just how -- >> cheering on marcia. >> she didn't like ill. >> they said it was a fast illness. they thought she would be in and come out and just get over it. and she didn't. >> wow. >> her manager told thes our love to her family. i'm going to do a quick favorite thing. imanticipate dying to see "lion." can i tell you what it is the time of year for? these are called satsumas. i'm just going to tell you because i want someone to try them. zach, please come forward? >> i'll try it, too. zach has never turned down everything. >> so true. just bite it and please do

mm. >> that's the emotional face you give when you eat? when i eat, i show it. but they're sugar sweet. it's that time of the year. it you can get setsumas, they are a type of citrus. it is the delicious. it is the time of the year. >> they're delicious. thank you, sweetheart. something new for "star wars" fans. find out what had tinseltown talking in "today's buzz." and more right after this. p

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>> happy to have you here. >> talk "star wars," shall we? >> yes. the new trailer for "rogue 1" the "star wars" story came out over the weekend. people are flipping out. the first time a stand-alone movie of "star wars," coming out 16th of december. about three weeks away. all new characters with the exception of darth vader who makes an appearance is. i'm excited about the new droid you see in this trailer, and really reminds me that vibe. >> i was that for halloween once. >> yes, she was. >> people will be lining up for this and people expecting about $130 million opening. >> how would this compare to the last "star wars" movie? >> not the business of the last one that was mammoth and part of the overall main -- >> had harrison and it had carrie. >> but this is going to be huge. >> talk movies. weekend box office. how did things do?

loved it so much. loved the music. lin-manuel miranda, a great female character, by the way, not looking for a man or boyfriend. >> saving the world. >> fabulous. >> and it made $81.1 million, if that number holds, the number two thanksgiving opening weekend of all-time behind only "frozen," which made $93 million a few years ago. huge. "fantastic beast" a great million. the news unfortunately not all good, because warren beatty, his first movie in 15 years called "rules don't apply." i really liked. a great old hollywood -- >> what happened? >> people didn't care. made $2 million over the weekend. >> in wide release? >> very disappointing. i felt bad. did an interview with warren and

the movie but the audiences did not. >> he worked very hard for that there's no rhyme or reason -- you know "star wars" is going to do -- you'd think an interest in seeing -- >> sad. because i want hollywood to make more movies like "rules don't apply" that are differ and new. >> how about "allied"? saw that yesterday? >> i liked that. >> i didn't hear good things about it. my son in the film world said, mom, you're going to like it. >> not a huge blockbuster, hollywood movie with some romance and some intrigue, can't go wrong with that. >> maybe because brad has not really been 3r0e6789 promoting it. >> true. >> selena gomez made news? >> decided to take time off, deal with health -- panic attacks, sides of lupus. came back on the amas and did her first instagram post. most followed on instagram in

days with a great picture of her and her fans talking about what a rough year it's been and she needed to take time off. i think people are happy to see her back in a good way. >> she handled it so well. you and i talked about this so many times. young kids get into a situation like that. take a break. go back and get in tough with yourself. she's a deeply spiritual girl and you can see he's healing. >> when she made the speech at the amas, courage. >> got a great reputation. >> you can go now. you're a sweetheart. come see us again. all right. about to surprise or fan of the week. could be you, but maybe not. >> unlikely. then, never, ever have a bad hair day again. putting the best hair products to the test, coming up, right to the test, coming up, right after anyone with type 2 diabetes to the test, coming up, right after knows how it feels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts.

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store products. right? >> this is so great, because everything is well under $10, and unbelievable products. we're going to show you the best of the best. you'll see why, because this is a spa party with a lot of our friends. >> okay. >> cheers to the second annual awards. >> cheers! >> start with something that's a little -- flipping the switch a little bit, because this is tresemme. this one, and this is conditioner before shampoo. >> you put the conditioner in, leave it on a and this is really great for people with fine hair. because it's voluminous. gives you more body. for people whose hair is dried out with shampoo, laura said it's great, to put condition other than the end, then the shampoo and then the -- >> at the end. >> then the conditioner. that really helps to -- >> conditioning. >> this is under $6 for each one. >> got it. >> great. you've been using this a couple of months.

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in olive oil and then put this machine on. can you do that? >> yes, i can. i would like to. on. >> perfect. you can cook! >> we've got it. >> that's all? >> turning into puree and then add in a little bit of spinach. this is so delicious. we have spinach -- with our beautiful -- puree. >> eggplant puree. >> this could be a hummus dip, use for chicken. use it with fish. >> you're adding the spinach to it? >> absolutely. we're going chef. come on, come on! >> okay. >> so mark murphy. >> mark murphy is coming. >> alex. >> and michele mishon. >> and evelyn. >> look how you just flip it like that. >> exactly. it's my job. i'm a chef. i should be able to do that. >> you cook it um like that. >> yes. >> that's chef 101. isn't it? >> boom! and halibut on the bone. >> looks so good!

we're going to do a little glaze. olive oil and a little bit of sweet soy. garlic and dill. just put that in. >> garlic and dill. >> kind of glaze that on top of the halibut. this is going to caramelize. that's how you get that golden -- see? >> oh, yeah. >> yeah. >> this is the type of food that i grew up with in sweden. very simple, on the bone, boom. just kind of cook it, with a little bit of butter. >> both sides, do you? >> yeah. normally start with some olive oil and add in the butter and >> glaze. come on. >> how many on each side, sweetie? >> i would say two teaspoons. >> how long do you cook it? >> four minutes each side. >> four minutes. >> because we cook it on the bone, right? it's going, the fish is going to stay juicier and -- taste. >> oh, my gosh. falls right off the fork. >> come on. >> get outta town! >> not you, marcus. >> got to get involved. >> and -- >> yes! >> wait, wait.

just right. >> how good is this? >> there you go. and then you have the eggplant underneath. right? >> it's crazy good. >> hold on. >> healthy! >> a perfect dish and not that complicated. >> you're going to have it -- >> oh -- >> in my restaurant. marcus, in national harbor, opening at mgm. >> marcus, delicious! this is truly delicious. to get these recipes go to today.com/food. need extra cash for the long o leaving your house.

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author and expert is here to share tips with you. >> hi. >> people love it when you come on, concrete advice. >> exactly. i've done it all myself. these are all things to do to make money now. >> do it! >> make thez bucks. >> first one is a phone. >> cell phone. >> weird. >> what you want to do, take surveys at home on your couch while you're drinking wine or watching tv or whatever you're doing at night. a swagbox.com is great website, app t online doing cyber monday shoppi shopping. >> they want your feedback? >> you get points. trade them in for gift cards. >> cash, turns out to be buying pow power. >> right. getting out of debt a few years ago, only way, got $550 to spend for christmas that year. >> a blessing. >> inboxdollars.com. >> great.

a neck tie? >> a neck tie. >> okay. >> this is mystery shopping. okay? you can be a mystery shopper this time of year and make money right now. so there's a great app called the field agent app. say you go a home improvement store, get a notification, there's a shop to be had through the app. go take ten pictures of this display and make $4. >> wait. they tell you where to go? you take pictures? >> tell you where to go, what to do, take search. on my website i have a websites to go to that are legit ways to do mystery shopping to make money right now. right this minute. it's fun, too. >> oops! >> the ladies fell over. they were fighting before we came out. >> veronica? >> this is becoming a toy tester. >> yes. >> lots of companies want your opinion for toys.

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how excited are we? kicking off our 23rd annual toy drive, spreading holiday cheer and giving to kids across the country. collected 2.5 million toys for kids this year. >> just started! collected over 430 million dollars worth of gifts and today we are giving a generous donation from -- drum roll, please -- >> all: hashtoy trucks! >> general manager, how are you? you're back. >> i'm back. >> so glad. this is a brig treat for everybody every year. >> yeah. a holty tradition over 50 years and giving back is part of that tradition and something we've gn

about doing everything, too. very generous people. >> yes, thank you. donate thousands of trucks every year. happy to do it again this year. >> this guy saddle new. isn't he? >> two for the price of one. >> yes. s-toy truck and dragster. lights and sounds and really when you pull it back, let it go. >> showed you us the other day on the air, yes. >> how many are you giving? >> 5,000 this year. >> fantastic. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> enjoy. fun to see kids play. >> w >> thank you again. starting this thursday, celebrity elves collecting toys in the plaza. come down in person or donate on amazon.com/ed it, details go to our website, hodaandkathielee.com. and tomorrow, lauren graham and kelly bishop.

>> kayla: who are the other flowers from? >> roman: from ma. she brought them out earlier. >> kayla: well, she shouldn't even be out of bed, not with that cough. >> roman: hey, come on. you know ma. she won't take no for an answer. she insisted i bring her >> kayla: i can't believe it's been a year already. >> roman: i know. amazing. you know what i try to focus on, was just how lucky we were that we had him back for a while, even though it was... way too briefly. >> kimberly: thank god he had that time with his family, huh?