because whether i'm working with republicans, democrats, or independents, i'm standing up for new hampshire. this morning on "today's take" kevin hart is here rg proving once again why he's the raping king of comedy. then we'll rock out with onerepublic taking our stage with a new song. plus one of the dangerous places on earth. >>nnouncer: from nbc news, this is "today's take" live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning. it is october 12th, 2016, a lovely crowd of people hanging out there. i'm tamron along with carson and dylan. al -- >> how is al? >> he's doing great. so al is in recovery from his knee surgery, we know.

>> the first thing i did when i got up this morning. i went on instagram and he posted a video of him doing fine. >> he wanted to stay awake through it so he could put it live on facebook. >> he even also wanted to inspect it. can we show that now? of al and he's got -- they're getting -- he's got the gown on and he basically is like i need to check out the room. what room is under. >> listen to al. >> how are you feeling? >> i'm a little nervous. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> they just offered you some sedation. >> i wanted to see what the room looks like first. >> yeah? >> then they can knock me out. >> i think i want to do it this way. >> no, go back.

>> he wanted to see the o.r. do you want to check it out, see if there's any trap doors? >> when i had my wrist surgery, they sedated me in the o.r. they strapped me down and it was like put a thing on this arm and a thing on this arm. oh, my gosh. before i can even panic about what's happening next, i'm out. >> my mom just had shoulder surgery similar to the one al had a couple of years ago. she's sitting there and the anesthesiologist is like -- i completely out. i was sitting there when she came to. how you feeling, lady? what happened? what did he do to me? >> my dad at thanksgiving, he did the same thing. >> my favorite guy, your favorite guy is doing okay. we'll have more updates for you on that. meanwhile, what have you been up to? >> so we've been -- do you know what ghosting is? >> on the internet? >> on the internet it's a thing if you're dating and you're dating somebody and they just disappear from your life without any explanation.

didn't have this in california, but here on the east coast they have a thing called ghosting where your kids get a bag like this, a brown bag, and you fill it with candy and then you take it to your friend's house and you -- when i was growing up we called it ding dong ditch and we did it every friday night. now it's relegated to october. you give candy. >> ring the bell. >> and then you run. >> this is not halloween? >> so there's candy in something else. >> there's like this little ghosted poem that says late last night we left you a treat. the tradition is fun, we hope you'll repeat. take the ghost and pin it on your door to let others know you need ghosting no more. now it's your time to pass along the surprise, two more families. gather some treats and deliver them soon under two nights under the moon. >> do you leave this note? >> you can print the thing out.

door. >> ring the bell and leave. they don't know it was you. and then they have to go within 48 hours and ghost more people. >> is there good candy in here? >> yeah, it's good stuff. >> i'm going to ghost you guys. >> see, i grew up in the middle of the woods. nobody ever even came trick-or-treating or anything. >> it's fun because it's infectious and now the kids are like who are we going to ghost tonight. then they get involved and they're watching the door to try to catch somebody ghosting. >> i like that. >> it's taken over our >> chocolate cake because have you heard, this may be the new sensation. a study that chocolate cake is better for you for brunch. chocolate may be the new staple. the new study says eating sweets in the morning is better than night because your metabolism rate is higher. so cocoa, dark chocolate, associated with health benefits, your cognitive memory. i gave you this cake because i

>> so i'm sitting there on the cou couch, boscoe is like what in tarnation is going on. you can see i was slouched. i was holding my plate kind of like this ready to eat and then -- oh, my gosh. i can't do it because i was a little more slouched there and my dress is slippery. but there it is. >> look at that. that moment hit me, i could just eat. >> you know what that moment is called? being a dude. being a guy. you were just a guy in that moment. >> the other day we were in the studio and dylan was doing weather. i looked over and saw her and your face, you had this look on your face. what's going on? this baby was really -- the baby was jumping around. >> and it's different from the kicks i had in the beginning. any first-time moms we're kind

thing. instead of these kicks it's rolls and elbows. >> have you seen it? >> i could see it. she was across the room. >> you could watch it go from over here? >> did it freak you out? it freaks brian out like crazy. >> when you see an elbow make a move like that, trying to keep everybody out. >> he thinks it's going to bust through. >> it's a reminder that you're rounding third and heading home. month. >> thank you for clarifying it for us. >> thank you for letting us know how mother nature works. from mother nature to technology, there is a device that will help moms like dylan even more trying to learn to balance the plate on the belly. it's a device that will let you check, listen to this, check your cell phone and feed your baby at the same time. so i think this is a gag. our team says it's real. they are trying to start a

so -- do you think this is for real? >> yeah, it looks real. it looks like it could be a real thing. >> is that just to kill time while the baby is eating? >> kids don't walk anymore in this country, they're on hoverboards. >> it's called swipe and feed and it solves one of the biggest problems, of course, checking your e-mails and trying to feed the baby. it's a kickstarter device. we hope to get our hands on it. if it's real, we want to see it in person. >> baby gift for dylan. >> i just want to turn off my ph f beginning. >> you have to, right? >> use your phone at night and then put the noise machine on using your phone too. >> you mean turn it off like connecticut to the world. >> just disconnect. >> you're going to lose your phone. my phones have it for pokemon go. your phone is no longer yours once you have kids. >> what is the kelly clarkson dance challenge? >> i don't know exactly. somebody said that she put down this gauntlet and she was starting it and it's part of the diabetes dance.

challenge. people dance for 23 seconds, i guess. so she and her daughter did it and posed the challenge. take a look. >> all right, here we go. are you ready? are you ready to dance? okay. whoo! yeah. here we go. it's coming in. >> so i guess you have to -- shake it, kelly. >> oh, look at river. 23 seconds is the dance challenge. i guess you have to dance to the song "push it." oh, you can do any song. >> these charitable things are getting better. it started with the ice bucket challenge and then the pushup challenge and now all we're doing is dancing. i think it's headed in a good direction. >> are we ready to dance? >> silence.

>> you're probably the only one who can actually dance here. >> come on, come on. 23 seconds of dance. are you ready? come on. kevin hart is here. please, kevin hart, help us. come on. >> i thought i was doing a tease? >> come on, come on. come on. >> what about my tease? >> it doesn't matter. kevin hart is here. you're the only way carson will >> come on. >> okay, here we go. up next, halloween is around the corner. so guess what ben affleck's son is going to dress as. and the one and only kevin hart. >> raising money for diabetes. look at it, he's doing good. >> get that baby bump away from me. >> the

. >> for this big moment involving the character from -- what's the guy's name? >> oh, dylan mckay. >> you've never seen it? >> i've never seen it. >> it's funny because people think i was named after dylan mckay. >> was that luke perry? >> yeah. >> luke perry who just turned 50, by the way.

>> where did you go for like 15 minutes? >> i was told kevin hart. i just love the guy. >> so ben affleck, halloween coming up. you might think his kids would be set up to want to do his batman, right? most popular costume. according to ben, that is not the case. take a look at what he told our sister network about his son's costume. >> my son told a friend of his who's your favorite superhero and he said his favorite superhero was flash. they said wha a batman is just my kid. >> how cool to say that, it's just my dad. >> we're going to check in with al. >> al is alive. >> i'm alive, yeah. >> how are you feeling? >> i just had my first pt session and i'm done for the next couple of hours. i have another one coming up.

so actually i wanted to do it last night, but we got done a little too late. but so far so good. >> does this recovery so far feel better, al? do you feel better now than you did the last time on the other knee? >> well, you know, it's hard to compare the two, because there is no comparison with childbirth. but i think t pregnant again is because they forget about the first time. any time there's a traumatic experience, i think you tend to forget some of it, at least i do. but we're having a great time and my daughter, lela, this was her first teddy bear. this is sammy. she brought sammy to me so that was kind of fun. >> that's what made it all easier, right? >> so sweet. >> yeah. little sammy.

>> i am taking visitors, yes. >> we'll come by. >> come on by. >> are you taking pain killers? >> you betcha, yeah. anything i can get. although the interesting thing, the technology they use, i didn't go under a general anesthesia. i went -- i had a sedative and then a nerve blocker that was injected into my knee that blocked the nerve and local anesthetic so you come out -- i was awake like five minutes after they were done. >> wow. >> will you do the weather on nightly from the hospital room? >> yes, i can do that now, so it's fantastic. i don't think that's going to happen. >> did the room live up to your standards? we saw you saw the room. did you get the room you wanted?

and it's a lovely room. i'm very happy. hoda sent some lovely flowers, so it's a nice thing, it's a good thing. >> we love you so much and everybody is looking for the next update on social media so get some rest. >> we're doing a piece on this whole thing, and i forgot to tell deborah that a crew was going to be meeting us. so she was dressed down a bit. >> might. might want to mention that. >> luckily i was going in for surgery or i would have ended up in the hospital anyway. >> feel better, al. >> bye. >> thanks, gang. >> love you. >> bye, uncle al. >> oh, he's got a teddy bear.

crush turns 50, what do you psychologically go through. >> and i realized when i had a crush on him, i must have been a lot younger than him. >> i remember when my dad turned 50, oh, my dad's older. but look at that, he looks great. >> and the weather? >> we are talking about the weather in the southeast where we do have still that significant threat of flooding, especially down near lumberton, north carolina, where the lumber river is going to stay above flood stage through and then finally it will drop below major flooding but we're still going to see residual flooding after that. same goes for the neuse river. it will take possibly through the weekend before we start to see improvements with flooding in that area. we have category 2 nicole, a hurricane that is now approaching bermuda. we'll see conditions deteriorate there. we could see 4 to 8 inches of rain and possibly 4 to 6-inch

>> danielle: happy wednesday. good morning to you. temperatures pretty close to where weshould be for this time of year. lotsof sunshine on the way today. tomorrow that changes. we increase thelo with the showers tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon r heading into tomorrow evening . sunshine heading into the weekend.

writing and for everyone from beyonce to adele. >> first, take a look at his incredibly remarkable career. ? it's too late to apologize ? >> singer-songwriter ryan tedder had nothing to be sorry for after his band, onerepublic, burst onto the air waves with their debut single nine years ago. onerepublic followed their debut

as the band exploded with hits like "love runs out" and "counting stars" off their third album "nativ ? back when we were kids ? >> now ryan is rocking out once again with the band's newest album "oh my my." >> you actually haven't slept in

that by all the incredible work you've done. you did most of the tracks on the road? >> yeah. it does have an influence. we recorded one song in soapaola. some were done in london with a british feel, some were done in california with a sunny kind of feel to it. it influences it for sure. >> did you have a favorite >> we had santa gold, we had cassius. peter gabriel. i met him last summer in london. we started talking, had tea and dinner and that turned into collaboration. i sent him a couple songs and said if you like any of these, please -- i didn't expect to hear back and he said i love the song a.i. >> what does he do? >> he wrote the second verse. he wrote this entire gorgeous

atro and sings the whole second verse. >> ten years together, onerepublic, what makes the magic here? what makes it work? >> i think we're still having fun. this album "oh my my" is us having fun. if you're not having fun, if you're doing something creative, it's time to hang it up. >> we've all seen where bands start to fight. and after the break the drugs broke them up. you never had those problems. >>ug kids. bad idea. >> you guys have done such a good job. >> don't date each other's significant others. >> that never works out. >> seems like a good idea at the time. it always back fires. >> you work obviously, as we saw in that piece, with so many other artists. give us a little bit on some of them and we'll start with taylor swift. >> taylor is -- taylor brings more overall skill sets to writing sessions than anyone

the song she wants to do the night before. you walk in, sit down, hey, how ds it going, let's go. she's not sitting around thinking is this a hit, is it not. it's in her dna. i don't know any writers that really think that way. i don't sit down and go, okay, counting stars will be an hit. we don't think in algorithms. whatever i took in over decades of listening to music is what i put out. and taylor is the same way, but she walks in and just bangs out a song t record. >> and adele would be similar? >> they're actually quite different. beyonce is super lyrics, so you can tell by her last couple of records, if the lyric isn't her life, she's off it. adele same way. but adele also, if she wasn't adele the singer, she'd be adele the songwriter, one of the best writers in the world. >> lets hear tonight. tell me with that.

movie. i'm not a big cryer. i cried the better part of two hours, both joy and sadness. will smith, ed norton, on and on. one of the greatest casts. >> so a small indie film. >> it comes out christmas day. i saw the movie. they said do you have an idea of what you could do, adapt one of your songs for this. we did an adaptation, a bunch of back and forth with the director and let's hurt the night and >> i saw -- you are going to sing the song? >> i saw your shot with willie geist and you cooked lunch for everybody? he's raving about how good your cooking skills are. >> i used wagu. >> he's joking. >> i want to thank ryan very much. he has a new song coming up in a few minutes. first we'll meet a couple of people who perform some of the most daring rescues in the world at some of the most dangerous at some of the most dangerous places on the planet.

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and this is real. what you see, we didn't something that wasn't -- >> sam, you're the pilot, you're at these extreme altitudes. first of all, it's it like to fly a helicopter in those conditions? >> it makes it just a little bit more difficult than in a flat, level area. in the high altitudes, the performance of the chopper gets less. you have more wind, icy conditions, you have different conditions, that makes it difficult. you don

taxi flights and then you continue. >> simon, the first episode starts off with you descending nine stories down into a crevice to rescue someone who was trapped down there. what is going through your mind? are you even processing what you're doing? are you nervous at that point? >> just the thing, the tripod that lowers you, there's no guarantee it's even going to hold you. >> i mean, this is climbing. we are never there is always a little bit of risk that we take for sure. what you see in the show is more dangerous, but we still manage and do a lot of managing the risk and like making it the most possible secure way. >> and you actually got to meet the man you rescued at the end of that episode and he didn't remember really anything that

people you rescue? >> i mean for us it is the best outcome we can have, somebody comes back, and many times people, they die. and for this specific rescue, for us, this is a big, big plus that somebody comes back. >> the footage is absolutely thrilling. if anybody out there is a thrill seeker, you're lucky to have these guys in the air around you if god forbid congratulations. >> thank you so much for being here. you can catch them in "the horn" when it remeres on red bull tv on october 17th. and i'll do weather now. that's my other job. >> if anything goes wrong, we'll send the boys over. >> if i trip and fall, i know i'm in good hands. let's take a look at what's going on across the country today where we are looking at beautiful weather across the northeast. really a delightful day, temperatures in the mid-60s. we've got this cold front moving

scattered showers and storms but minneapolis/st. paul drops about 25 degrees from yesterday and that cool air extends >> happy wednesday.could morning to you. another cool morning, temperatures in the 30s and 40s. low 60s along the coast this afternoon. upper 60s inland. should be this time of year. lots of sunshine on the way. tomorrow that changes. we increase cloud cover. could see showers are morning and tomorrow afternoon into the evening. sunshine heading into the weekend. "counting countless number one hits, onerepublic sings one of their onerepublic sings one of their if you suffer from a dry mouth, then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. onerepublic sings one of their but did you know that the lack of saliva

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double means double. >> announcer: the citi concert series on "today" is proudly presented to you by citi. >> grammy nominated brand onerepublic is ready to rock our studio with a song straight off the brand new album "oh my my" here is onerepublic. ? when, when we came home ? ? worn to the bones ? ? i told myself this could get rough ? ? and when, when i was off ?

? you came to me and said that's enough ? ? oh i know that this love is pain ? ? but we can't cut it from out these veins, no ? ? so i'll hit the lights and you lock the doors ? ? we ain't leaving this till we broke the mold ? ? don't walk away, don't roll your eyes ? ? they say love is pain ? ? well darling let's hurt tonight ? ? ah ooh ooh ?

? worn to the bones ? ? i told myself this could be rough ? ? oh i know you're feeling insane ? ? tell me something that i can explain ? ? oh i'll hit the lights and you lock the doors ? ? tell you couldn't before ? ? don't walk away, don't roll your eyes ? ? they say love is pain ? ? well darling, let's hurt tonight ? ? if this love is pain ? ? well darling, let's hurt tonight ?

? you hit the lights and i'll lock the doors ? ? tell me all of the things that you couldn't before ? ? i won't walk away, won't roll my eyes ? ? they say ? well darling let's hurt tonight ? ? if this love is pain ? ? then honey let's love tonight ? >> our thanks to onerepublic. they have got another performance coming up with kathie lee and hoda. we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. this is "today" on nbc. ?

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>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in ? we were ? hello, everyby. it is wines day wednesday, october 12th. also yom kippur. holiest day in the jewish calendar and we want to wish all our jewish family and friends a holy, holy holiday today. and that's kenny chesney and pink's "setting the world on fire." >> i love collaborations. kenny chesney and pink. a good one. >> a pretty good show. >> who's here?