this morning on "today's take" get ready for double the fun with a couple of hot properties. drew and jonathan scott. then we'll celebrate a christmas of many colors with jennifer nettles and ricky schroeder. plus winter trends, all coming up right now. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's take" live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> i'd rather look small and al look small. >> welcome to "today" on wednesday morning, november 30th. >> we're battling. >> so here's the deal. we've got, of course, the scott twins, the scott brothers, jonathan and drew hanging with us. >> what are the problems here? >> normally this is not the way we'd sit, tamron would be on the

music? whenever the music stops we're going to sit. >> the scott brothers are really tall. they're as tall as the christmas tree on the plaza. >> drew has got to go downstairs. >> she didn't move. >> she has on a tight skirt. here's what happened. originally al was here, scott brothers here and i'm here. i walked in and said to our executive producer who's next to them. >> it makes it sound like she normally doesn't watch. >> you're fun size. >> but i feel better looking tiny than having al -- you're an average height man. >> a little below average. >> can we just get a phone book for al. >> how tall are you fellas? >> 6'4". when i wear my stilettos i'm more around 6'6". >> when did you get your growth

>> i remember in grade eight we were small and getting picked on in school. by the end of grade eight we shot up almost a foot and nobody picked on us anymore. >> you know how to make them look normal size? put them next to the rockefeller christmas tree. tonight we are going to light that up. 83rd annual lighting of the rockefeller center christmas tree. it's a 94-foot norway spruce from coney island, new york. about 50,000 lights, l.e.d. lights, ge lights, on of wire. >> oh, wow. >> which is pretty impressive. >> i thought i put up a lot of lights. >> do you? >> i do. >> how tall is your tree? >> well, it's our tree. almost 20 feet. >> y'all live together? >> we have a big place in vegas. >> we did a reno. we have a slide coming off the second story. you didn't see that? >> no. >> al comes over all the time. >> i know, it is a party. speaking of parties, we've got dolly parton tonight, garth brooks, trisha yearwood, the

you were talking about your decorations, i think we've got pictures. >> can i see? >> we like to do very classy. >> that's your home? >> in vegas. >> we sold our own places and got this place. our parents come down from canada. the whole family gets together. we usually have about 15 people staying at the house. >> look at those doughnut wreath things. >> you can't eat those. >> this is my question, so we're on the road filming all the we only get home for about ten days at the holidays. is that too much work to put into just being there for ten days? >> no, because it's two of you and so you can split the work. >> i don't do all that work. i'm the dad who sits on the couch and then i'm like -- i dictate. you do this, you do that. >> that's every mom in the country. the whole family gets involved, does one ornament and mom does the rest. >> in my house that's what happens. i got the ladder out and the kids are a little older. it's like you will come down

this. we're going to play music, you're going to drink hot chocolate and you're going to get in the spirit. >> ho freakin' ho. >> in 15 minutes, they're gone. >> my mother is the same way. she wants the christmas tree up and then as soon as we open our gifts, it's got to go, done. my mother does not play. the tree has to come down the minute the gifts are open. >> we use a fake tree now because we don't want to chop down. when we were real trees. >> we've got a squirrel in the house because my dad brought the tree home and there was a squirrel in the tree and we could not get it out. >> you got a tree and you guys would plant the tree. >> afterwards. >> you cut it down outside, we dragged it in, needles everywhere. there was a squirrel that got loose. it was in the tree. >> how do you plant a cut tree. >> not that tree. in the early years we would get them still with the root system and then plant it. >> i want to go back to the squirrel thing.

how did you get the squirrel out? >> it was going in behind book shelves, flying under the sofa. we thought as kids this was the greatest thing ever. jonathan wanted to keep it. >> it was jumping from like the cabinets and my mom was freaking out. >> did a moose get in there too? >> this is canada. you've got moose coming through there and we don't have a very big igloo, right? it was crazy. >> i like pranking jonathan so that was my rooms. >> that's your new show. >> we're in new orleans. we've been going to new orleans for years. it was only three and a half to four feet this alligator that i put in his home. >> only? it's an alligator. >> i hear this rustling in the closet. i turn around and there's an alligator. i'm thinking because i've done projects where we find raccoons in walls and rats. is this a new orleans thing that we find gators? it turns out it's a prank. >> this house has been sitting empty for 11 years.

because of the devastation of kaert. there's another episode tonight and hoda is on it. >> we've got a clip of something else. >> what channel is this on? >> hgtv. who doesn't know hgtv? >> for those who may not have seen it. boy, somebody has got a big ego. of course everybody knows where we are. >> we have something that can bring their owing owe back under control r so ryan gosling, take a look at this one. it's a high." >> don't do it. >> this is ryan looking so dapper. but it's not about ryan. take a closer look. keep going. >> oh, wait, wait. >> in the back. >> that's drew and me. >> the two kids as tall as trees at age 7. >> when we first met ryan, that was us. we were on "breaker high." >> and there you go. and there you go. you look like don johnson meets

>> in wardrobe they say this one? this one? dance, dance. >> they would tell us to come down and bring our own wardrobe, bright, bold colors and these miami vice-looking jackets. >> what year was that? >> that would be back in the '90s. >> so you guys were like child stars. >> we were actors before we got into hosting. we got into real estate as a way to fund our creative endeavors because we didn't want to be struggling actors. so we've been at it since we were 18. >> that's amazing. >> if you had been here yesterday, you could have joined we have. our "today" show team holiday lunch. we went to t-- >> it was delicious. >> i'm not get the invite. >> hoda, kathie lee, willie, savannah. >> what's funny, on your plates. you know how you can blow up things on instagram. for some reason everyone ordered fish, including dylan who normally goes straight for the rib eye. savannah, she doesn't eat pasta

she ate the biggest plate of meatballs and spaghetti and her theory is, listen, i get to go in now because after i have the baby in a few weeks, i'm getting tight and right. it was so awesome. thank you to them and thanks to matt for hosting us. you, dr. oz today? >> check your local listings, dr. oz was kind of amazed at my knee surgery and wanted to talk about knee surgery. >> is that your knee, the brown one oe >> they kept the part? >> but it's interesting talking about -- you know, i've gotten a lot of folks who are -- have been inspired, which is very nice, but some folks who are a little upset to say i'm glamorizing the knee surgery because i came back so quickly. and everybody heals differently. >> that's what i think when i see that big scar on your leg. >> people who neglect things or let things go or don't do what

>> you worked hard to recover. >> i couldn't even tell you which knee that it was, so the surgery went well. >> and last night you were at the unicef snowflake ball. >> unicef continuing the tradition of helping kids around the world. it's a great night but this is elias, my date. i took a fashion risk and wore this outfit and now i'm on this fashion blog daily and is it yay or nay. left the event and i'm in the car and all these tweets start, hillary clinton, hillary clinton. i was down the street, gone. hillary clinton comes in. i had my limit. it was like 9:00. and i leave at 9:00. >> i thought you were going to say people thought you were hillary clinton. >> i'm mistaken for her all the time. >> it happens all the time. >> i had a limit. it's like when the sports fans, you think your team is losing and you get in the car and turn

girl. >> so there was no murmuring or buzz in the crowd? >> not that i heard. but katy perry, congratulations to you. >> i'm sorry, you're not on the list. >> elias, her news producer, stayed. >> no, he did not. >> and got a picture with hillary clinton. >> congratulations to katy perry. sorry i missed it, though, but i was there in spirit. up next, you're used to seeing them all done up on the red carpet. now four of hollywood's hottest stars are going au a new calendar. so we'll show you the pictures and talk about this trend that continues of not being too made up. >> they're beautiful anyway. >> they're beautiful anyway. anyone with type 2 diabetes knows how it feels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. but what if you could turn things around? what if you could love your numbers? discover once-daily invokana?. it's the #1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c.

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we are back with more of "today's take." and we've evened out the height for your viewing pleasure. shorty and tiny, aka drew and abdul-jabbar is here with us. >> you can't laugh at your own joke. >> you obviously don't watch our show. >> al carries a laugh track of his own voice and presses it. the lenldsary calendar is out with big-name celebrities like you've never seen them before. they're telling us no air brushing, completely unretouched. so here for your viewing pleasure. that's nicole kidman, that's beautiful.

uma thurman. that's gorgeous. julianne moore. she's stunning. >> that's why i did not do the calendar. >> you guys have been on magazines and all that. do you say, hey, air brush. >> no. i never use -- >> the only difference is we're scottish and so we're basically translucent and so i have them give me a little colo cheeks in, a little color. >> al, do you air brush? >> not that i -- well, i've been on the cover of "field & stream." >> air brush the fish on the hook. >> exactly. i've never been, not that i know, air brushed. >> something new to try. put it on your bucket list. speaking of makeovers, the white house, holiday makeover. this is exciting. we actually were asked if we would come down and do it and

house? >> what? you didn't tell me the white house called. >> our friend egypt sherod went down and it's absolutely gorgeous. >> we have military family members joined the first lady for the obama family's final christmas tree. we've seen the official tree that goes inside the blue room. the first lady got choked up. oh, my gosh, talking about this last christmas in the white house. >> as we celebrate my family's last holiday season in the white house, i'm we first came here to washington. we promised to open up this house to as many people from as many backgrounds as possible. and we truly wanted to make the white house the people's house. particularly during the holiday seasons. and to all the military families, those of you who are here today and all those around the world, i want to once again honor you for your service and

this nation. it's a love that my family and i share along with you. it has been such a complete pleasure to support you in this time. so i want to wish everyone a happy, healthy holiday season. >> i love her. i'm going to follow the obamas around and offer to do their christmas trees every year. >> they have a house now outside the d.c. area so maybe you won't turn them down for that. wreaths, 63 christmas trees. this year a new addition, 56 lego houses. >> that's cool. >> one for each state and territory. >> before you go to weather, what is garland? >> kind of roping. >> like a long skinny christmas tree that wraps around a bannister. >> so it's the green thing. >> people always make it out of popcorn. >> but it's always the beads. >> okay. things you need to know.

our weather, because we've had some severe weather out there. in fact we're talking about the storms down in the southeast. we had over 74 tornado and wind damage reports. of course that stretched 550 miles. we've got strong storms again today with tornado watches stretching from louisiana, including new orleans, all the way up to knoxville. we're going to be watching this very closely over the next >> wren: well, through the morning >> through the we see spotty light showers by late morning into the lunch hour. similar situation. but as we head into the mid to late afternoon, we look at widespread showers, and it's going to be a soaker system again. temperatures, mild if not above the average highs, in the low 40s and 50s. patchy fog, and tomorrow morning, the lows not much higher than the highs, and

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brother versus brother, brotherly love it or hate it, property brothers at home on the ranch or the scott seed. >> love it or hate it. >> that is correct. >> one for tamron. here we go. number two, true or false. drake was once our basketball coach. tamron. >> false. >> that's true actually. >> actually it is true. in the celebrity all-star game drake was our coach. >> al gets the point. wee >> he's a really good guy. >> i'll put a good word in for you. >> true or false. we had a top 40 song on the billboard country music charts. >> true, i remember that. >> bonus points, what was the song? >> working 9 to 5. ? hold on, hold on ? ? >> oh, you guys have it. these producers are on it. >> that's a beautiful video.

>> we have a new song released in january. true or false, one of us is a member. international brotherhood of magicians. >> true. >> that is true. in fact to prove it -- >> oh, my goodness. >> did you see that? out of thin air. boom. they just had to look at the nerdy brother. >> where are my pyrotechnics. >> question number five. we bought our very first h >> a. >> 18, he's right. >> you bought a house at 18? >> right out of high school. >> i remember reading about that. >> he knows this boss he's basically our brother from another mother. >> something went wrong. >> before we were on tv, we did all of these except for one. name the one we did not do. clowns at kids' bitter day parties, b, underwear models, c,

>> you go for it. >> c. >> scuba instructors, that is correct. >> you were underwear models? >> obviously. >> cut to the picture of the underwear modeling. >> the reason they weren't scuba divers, when they would go down 20 feet, they were still above the water. >> this is the finale question. >> al is winning? >> even our mom has a hard time telling us apart but there's one way that she says she can always spot the difference. a, jonathan has darker hair, b, drew is slightly jonathan uses bigger words, or d, drew has a deep laugh. >> drew is slightly taller. >> that's not right. >> my mom says jonathan uses bigger words. >> thank you, mother. >> al wins, but the side part is you get the tool kit. you have to makeover tamron's face. hey, coming up, gather around the tv toejt. right after the tree lighting,

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the great dolly parton is at it again with another tv special that's going to be a holiday classic called "dolly parton's christmas of many colors circle of love." >> last year nearly 16 million of you tuned into "coat of many colors" and tonight is the next chapter in her young the entire cast is back, including ricky schroeder and jennifer nettles who plays dolly's parents. take a look. >> you can't be mad at me. >> get off me, you big lug. >> look at me, woman, you can't be mad at me. >> i've been folding these clothes for half hour and you come in here covered with grease from head to toe. >> the bible says don't let the sun going down on your anger, and it's getting dark, so you

>> heating things up. jennifer nelttles and ricky schroeder. >> i do that same move when i come back to the construction site. >> his girlfriend is like go shower first, go shower. >> how are you? >> obviously you're back, "christmas of many colors." i'm excited. i saw the first project but dolly wasn't in the first project but she's in this one here. without giving anything away, what can you tell us about? cameo appearance as the painted lady. if you know anything about dolly's store e, she readily shares that the painted lady is the woman in town after whom she fashions her style even today. she plays a part in part of the miracles of the show too. >> incredible too. there were so many kids involved in the show as well and they always say it's always a little leery working with kids and twin brothers, but what was it like having so many kids around? >> goodness, it was -- it was great having their energy, but

kids -- there was nine of them running around. >> it was like herding cats. >> so they were all different ages and all into different things. i would just give them sugar and i would just be their best friend. >> he was the one. >> i was the one to go bring candy because i wanted to be popular so here's sglaecandy. >> so you wanted them on your side. >> they can deal with them later when they're miserable, but right now they need sugar. >> you were a child actor as well. were you able t advice when they were on set with you? >> olivia is such a hard-working young girl. i got to get pretty close with her. i just got to be friends with her and let her know that she needs to ask for things when she needs things. she needs to speak up. if she needs a break, if she needs a drink, if she needs rest, she needs to learn to find her voice. >> she's a sweetheart, she absolutely is. i did a christmas movie and i shot in the middle of the summer, hot, and you have to wear coats and thick coats.

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"today" contributor lillian vasquez is here with five trends to get you looking and feeling so hot. >> i want to look hot. liliana, nice to see you. >> good to see you guys. >> we'll work on you guys in a minute but we have to start with the ladies. >> always ladies first. >> so you've perused through the racks and put some things together based on celebrities. >> women are always asking what are the trends that i can inject into my closet to update my wardrobe? we're starting with one of my favorites, which is white boots. >> my favorite, too. >> so kendall jenner rocks them all the time. veryee casually. come on out. >> come on out. >> so here we have our first look which is one of my favorites for the season. >> love it. >> any time you can wear a black boot, you can wear a white boot. . you say that about the coats all the time. >> at our launch party for your style blog, i had white boots on, little short white boots. i love them. >> these are under $50, available at boohoo.com. the critical thing is the jean. you want to make sure it's a crop jean so you can show off the boot.

first puddle? >> don't wear them on a rainy day. >> go out with a gentleman. but here's a bigger issue. this is the disclaimer. if your blue jeans are really blue, they may rub off on the white. i'm going to just warn you now, so be careful. >> good point. thank you. >> all right. >> right. next up we have a pleated makes skirt. victoria beckham wore this a few months ago. your dan is showing us how to wear it for the holidays. this is the perfect alternative to a sequin look for the season. so feminine. this one also under $60 available at asos.com. stoll. beaded shoes and she is holiday party ready in a flash. >> glamorous. >> winter is coming. >> then brightly colored pants. women always default to black pants. january jones is showing us how to do a bright-colored pant. this is how to do it the right way, as well. again, very festive for the holidays. these pants are available at top shop. i love that they're crop because you can always show off that leopard pump. just make sure you don't do a

because you don't want to color block. you want a mix of print and texture. >> this is exact same as the home space so i love it. >> festive and the pants, even though it's cold, you have to suffer. your ankles have to be cold. get some leg warmers after you're done with the party. this looks hot. thank you. >> last but not least we have two very stylish brothers giving us a little style. here with a collared blazer and printed sweater. so this is our version here. so i love this colored blazer here, a li c macy's. and that sweater from forever 21, under $30. this is the way gentlemen do style for december. >> that's the pretty christmas sweater if i've ever seen them. ugly christmas sweaters, and pretty christmas sweaters. >> that looks so nice. would you guys look that? >> that's based off your look. >> can i just take this from you now. oh, after, after. >> we're going to get you guys into a room. thank you so much. great looks, i love it. al, let's get a check of the forecast since we're now dressed for the weather. >> that's right. we've got some severe weather to

the gulf coast. severe storms especially down there. snow back through the rockies and the plains. high surf advisories in southern california. for tonight's tree lighting rockefeller center starting at 7:00 on nbc stations and nbc at 8:00, 59 degrees, showers and thunderstorms possible. and then as you can see we've got more drier weather coming into the east. mountain snows out west. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your >> wren: well, through the morning hours w >> through the morning hours, we see spotty light showers by late morning into the lunch hour. pretty similar situation. but as we head into the mid to late afternoon, we look at widespread rain showers, and it's going to be a soaker system again. temperatures, mild if not above the average highs, in the upper 40s and 50s. patchy fog, and tomorrow morning, the lows not much lower than the highs, and wrapping up at 8:00, we're dry.

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i did it. you can too. ? ? >> announcer: the citi concert series on "today" is proudly presented to you by citi. >> it's the group made up of incredible artists who have a list of hits between them. first kevin glenn, mark mcgrath of course, lisa love gave us 90 hits. >> also "american idol" finalist, tony, constantine marules, sam hollander over here, 20 top 40 hits. they put their talents together to create an album called "welcome to our christmas party." i have your song in my head now.

the fact this goes to charity. >> i'm so proud. it brings you cheer but also brings a lot of heart. a portion of the proceeds goes to music cares, which is the charitable arm of the grammys which we all know. they also partnered with musicians on call which brings musicians into hospital rooms to create this fun merrymaker sweatshirt and all of the proceeds goes to musicians on call. >> we're proud to have you perform, the supergroup. let's hear it. christmas spirit. ? it's the greatest holiday ? ? good will and peace on earth ? ? finally they don't seem so far

canes ? ? old friends are back in town and once they're home it's just like nothing's changed ? ? so hurry up, santa start that sleigh ? ? it's only merry in your heart ? ? and you're feeling nicer than you thought ? ? when the day is made of wishes ? it must be christmas ? ? oh, oh, oh ? ? oh, oh, it must be christmas ? ? oh, oh, oh ? ? colored lights are all aglow ? ? last-minute shopping you

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>> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. thank you so much. i feel like it's christmas now. they're going to stick around, guys. more with kathie lee and hoda. get the shirt, celebrate christmas. we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc.

we ar our 23rd annual toy drive is under way. if you can't be here to donate in person, you can donate online all thanks to our partner, the nice folks at amazon.com. lori richter is public relations manager there. good to see you. >> good to see you too, al. >> you guys have always been terrific for us. why is it so important for you guys to be part of this? >> despite the best intentions, sometimes it can be hard to find the time to give back to those in need during the busy holiday season. so we're making it really easy for people all across the

"today" show toy drive right from the comfort of their own home. just go to amazon.com/today. add as many items that you want, complete the checkout and we'll get your items to charity. >> what else you donating? >> 250 of these fire hd tablets. this is the kids edition so it's perfect for children. we're donating 250 of them to charity. >> that is so nice. thank you so much, lori, we really appreciate it. you'll make somebody's christmas very merry and bright. to all the f thank you. don't forget, starting tomorrow we'll have surprise celebrity guests on the plaza to help collect toys in our 8:30 half hour. you can bring a special gift or donate online at our friends amazon.com/today. website has all the details. we'd like to thank tiny and

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>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. wow, everybody! it's our favorite day. it's wines day wednesday and hump day, november 30th. >> yes, it is. >> look at our three hunks. >> every day's wednesday. >> piece of chicken, right? >> come on. >> it's really going to be fun. just -- ours until the lighting of the rockefeller tree, which you know -- >> christmas special, hoed da i part of tonight.