>> is this morning, find out why these two talented stars are making front page news and be prepared for the funniest videos and singers that caught the coming up now. [ music playing ] >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's" take with al roker, tamron hall and billy bush live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to "today" billy bush and al roker and tamron has changed her views. >> oh, come on. >> you went out of here seconds ago to change shoes.

negative way. >> the other looked like it skreels, i thought you would be wearing thigh high boot zbhs i ran out. >> i love it al has an opinion. it screams high thighs. you went out and got some. are you two married and i don't know it. >> we're tv spouses. i have two tv husbands. >> the reason why he knew tha rage. i got these, you have al roker's wife, fashion icon, deborah roberts. i don't encourage googling people. google deborah roberts' fashion. >> coming from you, high praise indeed. >> remember a couple years ago, she war dress for the white house correspondent dinner. it was so beautiful. i was sneaking up behind her to touch it, it was creepy. >> it was. >> i'll move on. >> the amazing thing i notice

it only takes a half hour in the morning. people might assume you looking like that the way you come out every day, it must take forever it takes no time and do you it yourself. >> we are launching something special, i did take something a few minutes ago in our dressing room, doing my hair and makeup, 20 minutes. hit a record there. we have something really exciting coming up, it vf involves fashion. >> i am wearing my monday suit on a thursday. on mondays. i'm a little bloated. i always go hard on the weekend. truth be told. i have my dark shirts and blues. >> at any moment, is there a voice that might say, i don't know if we want to go there. then another voice comes in and goes, you say it. you just go ahead and say it. >> he doesn't have that. he doesn't have the guy. >> you know the outfit. you feel looser. >> monday eye cream you gave it to me for my birth die, by

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charitable events at night. hard working person. >> i am looking at al's instagram, why didn't i get to eat that last night? >> i have been asking that, ten years i have been asking. >> here's the thing. i love the "new york times" cooking hour. >> you do? >> i want to try it out. >> you get an e-mail, the beginning of the week, sunday, ten things we're cooking this week. i usually make at least two things every week from this. this was zimmers chicken wit lovely wife. i did the whole roast can ca califlower. >> our executive producer, oh, blah blah blah blah. she actually did this. like that. and so it's weird to watch her

deborah comes home from work t. hours the discussions. you are fighting. yes. >> did you cook like that when they were smaller? >> yes. >> the teenagers are out of the way. >> same thing. i'm very blessed. my children eat etching. very adventurous because we didn't. look, they'll knock down chicken nuggets and a corndog with the best of them. >> there is always room for that. by the way, that "new york times," i went to that at a it was thanksgiving, it was always in my house. but my father-in-law, my wife's dad, comes and he always carved the turkey. >> what's up with that? >> i was feeling particularly masculine. i said not this year. not in my house. i will carve that turkey. i got to do it right. she is judgmental, critical. >> you know, this is going-on-out over the air? >> it is handsome and powerful. i get this app.

so i was ready. i studied, studied, i went there. i did it. i thought i nailed it to perfection. he comes in over my shoulder and says it's too thick. come oranges then it was a little bit of -- it got ugly from there. >> anyway, while we talk about. that yesterday i did something else. i have an employee workout program. >> what does that mean? >> my assistant you want to exercise, exercise with me t. classes are free. i don't know if have you spin classes. >> i can't do spin. it's hard. we should point out your family is not here every day with you. that's why you are dragging julian. >> what was that? >> we'll see. >> where were you looking? >> the beautiful back lighting system, it's unbelievable. >> people say it's like cult, once you do it, you are in it. >> it's therapy on a bike.

man that burned you? everyone is letting out these feelings. >> we did it on the plaza, we dade huge, we broke a record raising money for charity on the cycle thing. my butt hurt for like i kept telling you. >> you need gel pads. >> speaking of. >> i'd rather be embarrassed. >> speaking of back sides. >> speaking of gel seats, kim kardashian has t his name has been banned. >> by the way, this is the last time we're showing this guy. >> highway has some greatest hits out there. he went to try to kiss will smith on the lips. will myth almost dropped this guy. >> i can't tell you, if someone did that to me, i would still be looking for them. >> this is last week when he picked up gigi haddid. >> you see how scary that is?

>> to me, that's assault. >> it is. >> this is his latest here. >> he got one more. he ran up, got kim kardashian. he tries to kiss her on her bottom. >> how about the body guard with the boater? >> it never fell off. what is the motivation for this guy? >> i don't know, they should have probably pounded him a couple times. fancy jeans, there he goes. >> he tried to kiss her legendary -- news confirmed kim reached out to french authorities. she will file complaint and probably sue the guy. >> charge him. put this guy away. >> anyway, it's a deplorable line of wompbrk. >> how do you make main off that? >> bizarre. up next, one of life's biggest mysteries solved. the back street boy versus

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when they do their reunion thing. >> it's sweet. >> probably each generation has their boys. jackson five. i love the all white suits t. muscle shirts, everything. >> 9.5 million albums sold t. lead single. they're now admitting t. guys are admitting. they have no idea whathi is about. in fact, it's a pointless song is there they didn't write it, right? >> it's max martin. maybe that explains it. they're swedish. >> you know the theory, if you put 30 monkeys in a room with typewriters, you end up with something. >> no, this the a hit, al! >> it doesn't make sense. it makes no sense. >> they actually agree it

alternate version that did make sent. they listened back and said the one that makes sense isn't as good as the one that doesn't. >> what does it mean? >> is this a breakup song? and i love you song? you are my fire, the one desire. believe me when i say, i want it that way. but we're two worlds apart, can't reach to your heart when you say that i want it that way. >> i totally understand it. >> tell me why. >> she wants it her way. so he said, you are my fire, my often you, believe me when i say i want it that way. >> nothing but a heartache. ain't nothing but a mistake. i never want to hear you say. >> he never wants to hear i don't love. >> you your one desire. i know it's too late but i want it that way. this is confusing. >> want it that way you do. sense you must make. boys of back street.

>> okay. so alec baldwin is going to be trump this year on "saturday night live. request itself. >> this is his wheel house. go on, talk about it. >> yes. yes, nothing new to me, just roll the video. epic. epic. >> maybe not a lot tuning in. >> it will be big. >> biggest day but of "snl." i will guess for a new season in ten years. >> i think you are right. i think are you right. baldwin has hosted this show 16 times, more than any other person in 41 years. this is the 42nd season. think about that. 42 years. >> i love how animated he is. >> it's amazing. like a 90-minute program live every week, it has been on this

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this is an nbc news special report. here's matt lauer and savannah guthrie. >> it's 10:30 here on the east coast, 7:30 out west. this is an nbc news special report. unfolding right now in hoboken, new jersey. a new jersey transit train crashing into the terminal there. at least three people confirmed dead, more than 100 others injured. we're told that a number of them are critically injured. >> this of course happened at the height of rush hour earlier this morning. we're already seeing images of terrible destruction. witnesses are speaking out this morning and sharing stories of chaos and panic. >> everything was typical.

there wasn't enough space for everyone to get into the first car, so fortunately i was stuck in the middle. myself and about six other people were in between the cars. we approached the station, and the train just felt like it never stopped. it didn't slow down. it didn't -- it didn't brake. i mean, i don't know for sure if it didn't brake or what was happening. so as soon as the train just kept going, there was -- the people started yelling. and the people that were standing in between on the other side, on the second -- in the second car, getting ready to come out of that door, were thrown on to our side. a young lady actually that was thrown from that, her legs caught between the doors just as soon as it was about to make that full stop. but we were able to pull her up fortunately, and the gentleman

people, but he had a gash in his forehead. he hadn't known he was bleeding. i didn't fall, fortunately, because there were people in front of me. >> you can hear the fear in her voice. one of the survivors. at least three dead, 100 injured in this train crash this morning. >> and that view from above gives you a really good idea of what this situation is. this isn't a through station. this is a terminal. these tracks come to an end at that specific point in hoboken. if a train comes in and does not track, in this case right into the terminal building. >> while we're already hearing these differing accounts of how much, if any, the train had slowed, let's go to our correspondent rehema ellis, our correspondent. what are you hearing? >> good morning. we're standing in what police are calling a staging area. i can see the waiting room of the terminal where that train crashed into. there are emergency vehicles

responders are all around, trying to secure this area in terms of getting the injured away from the area. as you've pointed out, witnesses, some of them, passengers on this train were able towalk walk away, others w not. i spoke to one woman in the third car of the train. she said it happened really fast. she said everybody in the third car was jolted. some people were standing because they were about to get off the train. and she said it was crazy. and crying. and she said she was able to brace herself because she was still sitting, so she put her hands on the backseat of the seat in front of her, and she was jolted in place. she was able to walk away from this. her concern, she said, is that so many other people may not have been able to walk away. the first thing she did when she got out of the car, she said she called her loved ones to let

grateful for the fact she was able to walk away from this, savannah. as she pointed out, so many others were not. we are still waiting for a press briefing here. we're told a short time from now, officials will give us more information on the extent of this accident. we don't know how fast the train was going, but we do know that it was approaching this terminal because this is the last stop, as matt was saying. this is where people are to get off. some of them were standing, and that made it even worse. that the people who were in the front car -- remember, she was in the third car. she felt that people in the front car may have taken the biggest of the burden in terms of the injuries. savannah? >> and there may have been people on the platform as well right there. ra h rehema, thank you very much. >> tom costello going to look at the investigation side. obviously first they take care of the injured, then figure out what happened.

engineer survived the impact, would be to talk to that person. >> that's absolutely right. what was he or she doing? were they paying attention? what did they see? was the equipment operating normally? i got to tell you, i've ridden this train many times. i used to live in new jersey and took that train into manhattan. to come in that fast into hoboken station i find to be rather strange because normally you crawl into hoboken station. it's a very slow snail's pace. so fast that it literally rammed right into the station and caused such terrible structural damage and of course so many people injured and potentially killed. we do also know that this line on new jersey transit does not have that automatic braking system called positive train control. that's been a big issue, as you know, for the last dozen years or so following major train crashes, really, from california to new york. but on the new jersey transit

so clearly this will probably ramp up the discussion about whether that should have been in place. but you have to wonder, why would the engineer be realizing as he or she was coming into that station and having presumably done this many times before, that you've got to slow down. there are many warning signs and speed signs. >> and by the way, nobody on the platform that we've heard from -- we heard from a witness a second ago -- said there was any horn blaring or warning from that train. priority would be to speak to the engineer, if that is possible. also, these trains have what is referred to as a black box, don't they, tom? >> they absolutely do. on many of these trains -- now, i cannot speak to specifically what equipment was on this particular train. but many trains do have the equivalent of a black box that allow them to immediately know the speed, whether there were any brakes applied, what the speed was coming out or going into a turn, all of that is going to be critically important.

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talk about it. >> this is such a classic broadway play. was it something you thought, i got to do this? >> it was a no brainer for me. jack o'brien our fabulous director called me last february i believe yeah, it was all i could think about. >> they called it vulgar in 1988. one ve view said it was a vulgar play. of course, that was 1988. has it evolved or story? >> it's the same stuff. in terms of the language, it was shocking. tennessee williams said it was the play that uncorsetted broadway. because of the subject matter and the language. >> it's the chicago criminal

story. how does it endure? why does it endure? >> i think it's a massively constructed play, a three-act play, which they don't do anymore. certainly, there was the charles macarthur, i don't know if we said that the writers that came from this world. so it's a very authentic, gritty feel and yet george s. kauffman what is the it's an incredibly funny and satisfying piece of theater. >> this thing a critique of the media, bureaucracy, it still holds up? >> absolutely, like any great piece of art, it reflects shot. >> 1978 when you first worked together? >> that's right. >> same guy, are you sitting

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tries to get passengers who may have been injured, get them help and to assess exactly what happened and the extent of the injuries and the damage. >> and rehema, i want to say, i am being told this where many tracks come to an end. so it is truly a terminal and when you say that train didn't come to a stop, it would have had nowhere else to go but off the end of the track and right into that terminal build something. >> that seems to be exactly the ways here, i'm not on the scene, what i can see is chaotic. people have been forced to not go into the area, including me,

run as fast as i can into the area be you you are right. it's an area where the trains, they converge here, coming into the train station. it's the new jersey transit commuter train. it is above ground and the train just didn't stop and plowed right into that passenger terminal. >> obviously, traveling at a pretty high rate of speed based on the damage we are seeing. i also want to bring in tom costello. he covers transportation for us. to happens is the ntsb, they send teams there quickly? >> reporter: that is right, immediate concern is evacuating all of the injured, treating the injured and trying to determine what happened. this will become a federal railroad investigation as you suggested and then the ntsb in cooperation with the federal railroad association. one big concern is this train and this system have positive

our initial suggestion from a federal authorities is there is no positive train control. you may remember you and i could have had 18 months ago that occurred on a stretch of track and the train derailed in an excessive speed. it's essentially an oumt u all breaking system. it breaks the train if the engineer fales to do so as the train approaches the course, some s zone or slow down zone and in philadelphia, we have 200 plus injured and eight dead. we are hoping that we don't have anywhere near that scenario here. but the immediate concern that federal radio authorities have had for years is the slow rollout of this all breaking system. why have various systems been slow to put it into effect when

and in this early federal authority there is no no positive train control on this track. >> keep in mind, there would have been people on that train and standing near that platform. this could be mechanical error, human error. too soon to rule out anything including a potential deliberating a. again the investigation will come after the rescue operations take place to find out who may be trapped on that platform and our thanks to tom costello and rehema ellis. we will have the latest on msnbc and nbcnews.com. most of you going back to regular scheduled programing. i'm matt lew lauer in, no this has been an nbc news special report. ? new life attracts sometimes ? ? all at once ?

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