this morning on's today's take, how to make your home the scariest on the block this halloween and weirdal jankovic. all that and more coming up right now. this is today's take, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. i'm al along with tamron. billy bush not with us today as you're probably aware, part of that "access hollywood" taping with donald trump.

for his role in that conversation, pending further review. let's turn to last night's debate where that 2005 tape played a big role. >> it sure did. a candidate. you see him coming out. >> we knew i was on live msnbc yesterday at 4:00 from st. louis. we've been told right before the debate that off the top, the tape would come up and hillary clinton would b first and here's that moment. >> you bragged that you have sexually assaulted women do you understand that? >> i didn't say that at all. i don't think you understood. this was locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. a poll hissed to my family and the american people. yes, i'm very embarrassed by it, i hate it. it's locker room talk and it's one of those things.

that bus 11 years ago, you did not kiss or grope women without consent. >> nobody has more respect for women than i do. >> you're saying you never did that? >> i said things, frankly, you hear these things are said. i was embarrassed by it. >> well, according to the cnn/orc poll of debate watchers, clinton won the debate 57% to 34%. but look, it's probably in the eye of the the pundits who do this. that includes nicolle wallace who was on our program earlier who work on campaigns. they believe that what we saw last night didn't move the needle, this was about shoring up the base at this point. we know that independence and those undecideds still have four weeks to make that decision, although early voting is starting. in reality, the overall view of that debate last night was that

>> i think one of the things that i felt uncomfortable with, my son, nick, who's in eighth grade, i'm sure a lot of kids across the country, their assignment was as a social studies or current event project, watch the debate. and i felt badly that this is what they had to watch. especially for the first 10, 15 minutes. as we said, they didn't even shake basic civility that's expected didn't happen. and then, of course, the topic matter for the first ten minutes or so was cringe worthy. >> the lack of a hand shake did not bother me as much given what i think we all agree, was a very difficult moment in this country. what does it mean to be political and i -- your son is 14. i was walking in today thinking about all the kids watching the news coverage. i said this to you. i don't at this point believe

should watch cable news. i don't think that -- i think there's obviously american history -- >> what does that say? >> listen -- >> i'm a little older than you. that was part of your current events home work. >> yes, you'd get an asitement. >> you watch the debate. >> of course, of course. >> your parents never had to worry. at this point i feel like you almost have to have a seven-second delay as a parent to be able to have your kids watch this november 8th there will be conversations that you can have about what we've witnessed, whatever the country decides that day. we're still americans. we are still here to make this country a reflection of who we are, all of us. >> yes. >> so i mean, i don't have children and these are one of those times that i just look at parents and say, you're doing god's work every day, because there are land mines out there

this point. four more weeks. that's what i think. >> you never thought there would be have to be a rating or a debate. so news on a different front, much to the chagrin of every other football team in the national football league, brady's back. >> brady? >> tom brady. that's right. first time since being banned four games for his role in the deflategate scandal during 2014. remember when that was the big deal? oh,he >> when things were simple. >> we were worried about whether the footballs or deflates. >> tom brady while he was on this suspension was in italy. i saw pictures with he and his beautiful wife, gisele bundchen and their family hanging out. they won 33-13. i should put sidebars, the dallas cowboys also won. >> and the giants lost. wipt, never mind. >> there's only one america's team. every time i say that, you tweet

we could not help but notice an adorable picture of gisele. this is adorable. this is family tv. are they dressed like frozen? >> yes, that's frozen. el elsas. >> halloween, right around the corner, we haven't talked about what we're going to do. as i said, one of my nieces wants to be a unicorn. she has that onsie, the unicorn onsie. tweet me if you know where blinking shoes exist, she's 9 or 10. the other wants to be raven from a disney show. >> "not so raven". >> she wears a black hoodie, dark hair. when i said it before, everyone seemed to know. >> or is that on victorious? >> that's what i think. >> that's on nickelodeon. i watch too much tv with my children. >> i was on amazon for an hour

>> goodness gracious. that's a cute picture. >> a lot of people have been wondering who will be the next bond. >> i wasn't. who was wondering that? >> i was. >> daniel craig is bond. >> he is bond. but when he was asked about it at the end of the last movie, he said he'd rather slash his wrist. >> because it's so hard. >> when he was filming "specter." he was exhausted. if you've seen this now he's saying, hey, look, i have the best job in the world doing bond. if i were to stop doing it, i'd miss it terribly. i lo of this job. i get a massive kick out of it. if i can keep getting a kick out of it, i will.

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>> you love you, our viewers! so many of you have already written me saying it is team titans from cartoon network. that's the costume. and this is what my niece wants to be. >> this is what raven looks like. >> thank you so much. and then -- oh, my god, courtney thompson and others telling me where to get blinking shoes on amazon. >> crowd sourcing your niece's costume. >> this poor lady told me get my hair out of my eyes.

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>> what? >> "dead pool." >> i saw "dead pool" per his recommendation. i was on a plane. this was me. where do you have those shield things so people on the side of you -- >> it's a romantic comedy. >> it's a boy in his pajamas running around finding love. it is not! speaking of love, the thing that's making me so happy lately ine ic beyo solange, she is so talented. her first album called "a seat at the table." get in a hot tath abath and lis. number one on the billboard 200. they now become the first pair of sisters to earn number one albums at solo artists. other siblings who achieved the feat -- before you answer, i can

it's michael jackson and janet jackson. this one i never understood. rapper master p and his brother, silk the shocker. did you know that? silk the shocker and master p did the same thing. it's incredible. go to any party and ask that question and bet $100 and no one will be able to answer it and you will walk out with $100. i believe that. beyonce posted a cute instagram of a beyonce barbie pushing a doll-sized version of her sister's album. their mom, recalled a young solange when she walked through a mall with her friends. platform shoes and braids down to her butt and she didn't care. she was basically saying, sometimes you have kids who walk to the beat of their own drum or have to find their lane. >> listen to your kids.

different but you knew they could do something special. >> make your bed. no. be yourself. there you go. you'll find your way. for those of us who travel a lot, i love this story. from "business insider." tips for travel directly from flight attendants. for more attentive service on the plane, you think the front is the way to go. hand an item to passengers at the front of the plane because everybody wants stuff. >> they don't give you free food anymore. banana? >> hey. if you're hungry. if you're in a hotel, it's lard to keep the drapes closed. use the clips on the pants hanger in the hotel room. just clip them together. >> i like that. >> and, if you can't make it to the complimentary meal at the

inns, ask if they can pack you a brown bag lunch. sometimes they will do that for you. >> would they? i would imagine they'd say that's why we have restaurants. >> a lot of places are very nice. >> i love that. just ask and you shall receive. >> this one is a little -- if the hotel sheets aren't creased, don't sleep in them. odds are they've been slept in before. >> i just stayed -- i won't name the hotel -- butn i went into a hotel. i'm pretty sure the bed hadn't been made -- >> because there was somebody still in it. >> i got so scared. i looked under the bed. it was like some horror film waiting to happen. i looked under the bed. i went back down and said, hi, i'm so sorry to do this, but i think my room -- somebody's in there. i don't know what happened but the bed wasn't made. >> how about a palate cleanser.

10-month-old cub at the zoo. >> that's our moment. zen! right there. >> that reminds me of a couple of other polar bears. >> who? >> take a look. taking the plunge. >> that's us. me, al and dylan dreyer in chicago, in january. the polar plunge. we took one. >> you were so graceful. >> how can you be graceful? >> this was for special olympics. >> i was in chicago this weekend. i'm telling you, i was walking do ten years, rather. you are like the mayor of chicago. every other person asking about al roker. how much they love you. >> well, thank you. love chicago. hey, let's take a quick look, show you what we have as we start the week off. wet weather in the pacific northwest. they have another storm later in the week that will donald trump three to five inches of rain. showers out of northern new england. rest of the country looks pretty good. nice and toasty in the southwest. chilly start to the northeast, new england and the great lakes.

rest of the country as far as your actual sky conditions, good news for our friends down in the southeast who are digging out from hurricane matthew. from hurricane matthew. plenty of . good monday morning, everyone, yesterday's rain now off to the north and east. in its wake sunshine and a breeze and gusty wind throughout the day. wind advisory for gusts occasionally 40 to 50 miles per hour. temperatures in the 50s to near skit. and no raven and that wind will subside through the evening. in fact it is a cool overnight tonight. temperatures falling back into the 30s. low to mid-30s in many of suburbs. overall the seven-day forecast is quiet, milder on thursday. is quiet, milder on thursday. >> and that is your latest forecast. thank you, sir. next, we're getting into the spirit of halloween with some diy decor, ideas, for your

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can you believe it? just three weeks until halloween and we have some do-it-yourself decorating ideas to get you in the spirit of nnaen ann marie, three weeks. we know people get into what do you have for me? >> the first thing you've got here, this was a real show stopper. we're calling it our swarm door. we painted all these little animals green, then we attached them to something. it's called like a hardware cloth. >> we only have three weeks. can i paint all of these things in three weeks? >> you can spray paint them all at once. or have your kids each paint them individually. hang the thing from your door. at the end of the season, take

next year. >> that's very cool. >> moving inside, our pillow decoration. you don't have to buy halloween pillows. just use pillows you've already got. we've made big duct tape stickers. regular old duct tape. stick it to a piece of parchment paper in strips like this. it makes it really easy to cut. we did bats here. we did tentacles . something? >> you can just find a picture of the bat on the internet. i mean -- do whatever shape. this is the finished product. once it is done you basically just take it off, it turns into a big sticker. you pull it off here. stick it straight on to your pillow. >> after you're done can you take it off the pillow? >> yeah. you can go back to your regular pillow. just like that.

this. it's so cool. >> this is so fun. take faux fur that's cut just to about the size of your table legs with a little bit of space to go. you kind of make a big, long, fur sleeve. >> it is like a leg warmer for the table. >> like a leg warmer for the table. just glue it on the inside. you take your toes, sandwich them in. these are a great thing for kids to do. them on themselves. this is how you put it on the table so it kind of looks like a little sasquatch sleeve. >> after halloween your kids can run around with these and frighten each other. thank you so much. that's awesome. she'll be back with more diy ideas in our next half-hour. also coming up, grammy winner weird al yankovic is bringing his special brand of humor to tv. we'll talk to him about his new show after your local news. ?

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the four-time grammy winning king of musical parody's weird al yankovic has spent four decades making all of us laugh like "tacky" to the hit tune "happy." >> al's out with a new animated series called "milo murphy's law." it is about a young man who lives as if murphy's law is inescapable. >> hi, milo. >> hi, melissa. >> i'm just going to stand back here. >> good call. >> what is all of this, and what is the "j" word?

out loud. >> huh. it is one of those heavy-duty bungees they use to tie stuff down at construction sites. hey, where did you get the -- >> ahh! >> weird al yankovic, good morning. >> the "j" word is jinx, by the way. >> by the way, you are impressed with our wall of al. >> i have this in my exact house. i feel at home here. >> it is you as an animated cartoon. what took so long? >> i've been doing a lot of voiceover work in animated cartoons over the years. it was something that felt right up my alley. milo murphy, even though he is the personification of murphy's law, he is a very up person. >> you radiate positivity. your energy just sitting here talking to you. four decades of parody songs. i said i know the lyrics to your

of the songs that you've taken away from. >> me, too! >> do you have a favorite parody? >> oh, they're like my children! i like that one, around that one, and that one. >> every celebrity says that about their work. is there one that is an ear worm that occasionally gets stuck in your head. >> i usual go with "white and nerdy" because that's the most au au i lived it. didn't have to do a lot of research. >> you star in your own cartoon. you sing the theme song. how cool is that? >> it's pretty cool. there is a lot of music throughout the series. it there is a lot of music and it is a lot of fun. >> so you have your own theme song for your shows. we can parody your song.

being fat. you got to get permission to do these songs. michael jackson said, go ahead? >> there's actually a document. there is a contract with my signature next to michael jackson's signature saying we are the co-writers of "eat it." >> really! are you serious? had. >> absolutely. >> when you make your >> i don't generally i don't record the song. i basically have a pitch of a concept like here is the song title, here is the idea, this is what it is going to be like. in the beginning it was hard to get a positive response because nobody who knew this weird al kid was. but i have a track record now. people look as it as a rite of passage. >> it is. it is. >> most folks who do these parodies, it is like one and

four decades. which is brilliant. did you have any idea that you would be still doing these? >> nobody did. i certainly didn't. it was difficult for me to get signed to a record deal in the early '80s because traditionally and historically, novelty music and parody music is the domain of one-hit wonders. people want somebody who's going to have a long career. that's the real irony, like a lot of the people that were big in the early '80s, aren't still around so much anymore. >> you've outlived most record executis. >> i am looking at your -- doing michael jackson's dance moves. this is physical. this is not just you walking through with a few lyrics. >> i'm boneless boy. >> you had to learn some dance moves. >> well, it is conviction. i'm not a dancer, obviously. but it's the conviction i bring to it is what's funny, i think. >> weird al, so good to see you

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you can use those to line up your walkway. >> i really love this door. so terrific. then a nest of spiders? >> yeah. these are spider nests. these are tights. inside they are stuffed with stuffing and glue the spiders on the outside. creepy. >> next we've got this, we're calling our bug infested table you can -- we glued these spiders down. you can almost use these like bug confetti. this is a great way to dress up if you're having people over for dinner. halloween is on a school night this year. >> this is so cool. >> snakes? >> the snakes. we love these. these are just paper. you press a line into the back, score the paper. then when you pinch it, they kind of start to curl up into

>> these guys. >> these are just pompons. a big pompon, a small pompon. we glued them to floral wire. you can kind of wrap it around anything. you can wrap these legs and hang them from like a lamp. you can do a bunch of things with them. >> put some of those jelly kind of bugs. make them extra squishy. >> last, but not least? >> we're cal mobile. these are just embroidery hoops. we painted them black, and cut out these wings. our template is on familyfunmag.com. >> what i like is, this is not that scary. some of these decorations, the demon babies -- ooh! too much. >> i have friends who got

we've talked about it pretty much they need a disclaimer in front of their home. something for everyone. from the sweet halloween to the creepy halloween. >> ann monique, thank you so much. i'll saunter on over to the weather map. nothing too scary. it is a kind of a nice, long weekend coming up. the week ahead though, we are looking for some wet weather making its way through the northern plains and also could be some mountain snows as well. eastern third of the especially for our friends in the southeast who are recovering from hurricane matthew. more strong storms through the great lakes on into the mid mississippi river valley. another storm coming onshore in the pacific northwest. heavy wind and rain as we get toward end of the week. sunshine up and down the seaboard. mid mississippi river valley looking a bit on the west side. starting off chilly in the east for this week, also in the plains. midsection of the country looking pretty darn warm. then we start to warm up here in

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we're back now with "today food." farmers all across the country are harvesting their best fall produce. . so this week we're going to show you how to use all those amazing indi claiborne -- the vegan food blogger behind sweet potato soul. she's got two recipes, one sweet and one savory, that you can use making sweet potatoes. good to see you. >> good to see you again, too. >> i was so thrilled when i saw this. my dad, rest his soul, used to make cinnamon buns. there was nothing better than opening that door to our apartment and smelling those --

>> but you have a secret ingredient. sweet potatoes. >> that's right. and these are vegan. we aren't going to use real eggs. we're going to use a flax egg. we've got vegan butter we're using. >> that's actually really good for you. >> very good for you. high in omega-3s and everything. it also helps to hold these together. the first thing i like to do is start with ground flax seeds here. just add some water to this for a couple minutes will thicken up and will become an egg consistency. just like that. then over here we've got some earth balance which is vegan butter. doesn't really matter what brand. vegan butter around some soy milk. we just want to melt that together. that is going to go into our flour mixture. yes. and in addition to that, we're going to also add some water, of course it is very important to add your yeast because the yeast

be chewy and be the right delicious flavor and texture. just throw that in there. exactly. and a little bit of sea salt. exactly. a little bit of sugar. and of course, you can't forget your vegan aid. flaxseed. >> what's the secret to making sure your dough rises? >> well, definitely you need to make sure that your liquid that goes is in warm yeast because it needs to be able to activate it. the sugar also has to be in there because that sugar is what feeds the yeast. then you've got to knead your dough. kneading the dough is what's going to help the gluten develop and it is going to be nice and chewy and the right texture. >> can you overknead? >> you can overknead. you don't want to go for too long. i do mine for about three to five minutes. >> remember, tamron, you can't be too kneady. >> can't be too kneady! >> you can need a lot of dough

here and let it sit for about one hour. we're going to give it time to rise. it is going to double in size. that is what this is. it is doubled in size. now, while you are waiting for that to double, you can make the filling. for the filling we're going to use some brown sugar and some cinnamon. al, if you want, you can stir that up. another alternative to the brown sugar is you could use coconut sugar or you could mix them. coconut sugar is lowern glycemic. it's very tasty. >> does it taste like sugar, al? or like coconut sugar? >> it is a little different, right? >> yeah. >> mm, yeah. that's fantastic. >> keeping it real! he's honest. >> he's being honest. we're going to stick with the brown sugar. >> today is brown sugar today.

after that dough is risen, you are going to lay it out on a nice flat surface. roll it flat just like your daddy did. all right? and of course, you probably did this also with your father. you got to paint that vegan butter on. >> what's in vegan butter? >> blend of oils. >> vegans. they make it out of vegans. >> no. >> oil, is it different like vegetable oil? >> it is nonhydrogenated. so it is different from margarine. supposed to be a little healthier. sprinkl of course we have pecans. i think it is really important to have the pecans in there for nice texture. also flavor. >> i'm going to roll that up, cut it up. >> yes. roll it very tightly. >> where does the sweet potato come in? >> we are going to make that for icing. add your powder sugar. gets a little messy. >> it will end up looking like this. then the glaze. >> how about you pour that on there. >> okay.

>> i would double this so you put extra. >> yes, absolutely. >> it ends up looking like that. >> the recipe for the sweet potato mac and cheese is on our website as well. go to today.com/food for these sweet and savory recipes. we are back in a moment. i can't tell you how great this

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