>> announcer: from nbc news, this is today's take with al roker, natalie morales, and willie geist. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on a friday morning, october 18th, 2013. >> before we get to our main topic -- >> yes, sir. >> natalie, you shop a lot online. >> yes. >> more than you bargained for. >> i had a true confession to make. remember we were talking about the survey that a lot of us do things online and don't want others to know what we do online. i said i was guilty of shopg

online. >> just shopping. >> for clothes. my husband will walk by and i'll minimize the screen quickly. yesterday i'm shopping online and looking for a specific dress from a certain designer, female named designer. >> sure. >> so i put in a search for the name of the designer.com. i'm not going to give you the name because what it lead me too was live porn. >> live porn. >> and who happens to walk by me right in that moment, my husband. >> who is thinking, all right. >> not only am i now caught shopping but i'm shopping and watching porn at the same time. >> you are the greatest wife in the world. >> meanwhile, this was a well-known designer and you put the name in there and you're like this is unreal. >> so what did you order? >> and then i tried to minimize it -- i was trying to get rid of it and it kept popping up and i kept hearing the noises in the background. and my husband is like the fbi

is going to show up at our door right now. i'm like i'm blaming you. >> as you pointed out, it was a multicamera shoot. very nicely directed. >> different homes at the same time. >> wow. >> so now i'm really guilty. >> the funny thing is you have so many details about what you saw, i don't believe that you minu minimized it that quickly. >> no, i was trying to get rid of it. >> it took 40 minutes. >> then it would take me to another couple and another person. >> that's fun. >> oh my gosh. it was unbelievable. unbelievable. >> but i think when you start taking notes. >> i was like maybe my computer is infected. >> it is now, with something. >> so i'm upstairs in hoda -- >> hoda's dressing room. >> i was on hoda's computer. natalie says i swear type in the name of this designer so i did and sure enough. >> live. >> wow, live.

it is live and -- >> a lot of people at 9:00 in the morning doing things they shouldn't be doing so explicitly. >> grocery shopping. >> let's move on. >> right. >> cleaner topics. >> yeah, this doesn't sound that clean. according to the wall street journal there's a new trend, food makers are eager trying to win over men who are doing more and more of the grocery shopping. they have coined the term called manflunec manflun manflunecers. >> christina. >> how much is milk? >> expensive here. $5 or $6. >> you're buying the organic kind. >> i do all of the shopping. >> you do all of it? >> yeah, yeah. i think we -- >> you do the cooking too. >> i do the cooking too. but you have to look at, i don't

know last year's calendar to find a time deborah went to the store. >> deborah, you can respond if you'd like. >> it's all good. i like doing it. >> they say because more and more men are doing the shopping and the cooking as well that they're starting to size up certain portion sizes like meat or produce, things that would attract men to the produce or the meat they want to size up a little bit. >> they're changing the labeling and packaging. >> larger portions, darker color schemes. >> live porn on the back. >> that works nicely. >> twisted and sick. >> it is. >> you set us on a course this morning. >> i had to share because i still feel so guilty. i need a shower. my computer needs a shower, clearly. >> we need to scrub that computer. >> i'm interested in your take on this. should you offer a pregnant woman a seat. seems like an obvious answer.

but a pregnant british politician was forced to stand for 40 minutes. >> she is seven months pregnant. >> she is britain's equality minister. she arrived late and stood during question time while hundreds of other politicians sat. >> so they know she is pregnant. >> they know. >> they know her condition. it's very visible. >> there were a lot of tweets and reacti to it over there. one reporter said quite remarkable that no one offered her a seat. shocking lack of manners and decency. swenson did tweet later about to get on the tube. seat offers welcome and not sexist but i was happier standing at prime minister's question section today. every time i get on the subway and a woman gets on and she is pregnant, i always stand anyway because i don't need a seat. >> what if she is not pregnant or does have the baby. >> i look at the guys sitting there, get off your rear end. >> this is the way i was raised.

one of the things my dad said is if you see a woman come on the bus or subway you get up and give them a seat. >> that's just a woman. people with kids or lots of packages. i'd rather frankly be standing up than sitting sometimes on a new york subway. >> me too. but you know what happens, everybody is lost on the subway. they have the ear buds in, they're reading a book. >> they're digin'. >> more on digin' in a moment. >> just get up. >> it's just common curtesy. >> okay. how about eye contact. are you into eye contact? >> we talk about this. we have a lot of studies on appropriate eye contact. >> for our next segment. >> speaking of, making eye contact willie. >> according to a study, eye contact makes you less likely to win an argument. it flies in the face of what we have been told. a new study, participants watch videos of speakers expressing controversial opinions. the result, people less likely

to shift their opinion when speaker made direct eye contact. i think it's direct constant eye contact that's so creepy. >> when you don't look away. >> when you never blink. >> no negotiating when you're intense eye contact. >> i think it creeps people out. >> my kids, we do that a lot. we have staring contests. who can blink first. it's silly. but we enjoy it. >> don't be weird and stair the whole time. >> right. >> look away. >> look away. >> like if somebody isn't listening to you, if they're staring you do, you feel like it's not registering. >> they're just waiting. >> waiting for their open. >> so i was distracted earlier. >> a wonderful, sweet young lady walked in wearing a costume for halloween that a lot of us are like, wow. but apparently there's question about whether we're taking sexy too far. >> we are. >> in the halloween costumes.

>> so there's one website where you can dress up as a sexy pizza for example. >> pizza. >> are you all right wearing that? we haven't put you in a bad spot. >> no, of course not. >> you look good in it i will say. >> that's a spicy meatball. >> you never thought what. >> pizza could be sexy. >> i guess it can. carrot too. >> corn on the cob. >> first i thought it was a p parody but on the website there's no parody about it. >> it's kind of cute if you think about it. >> sexy bathtub. what the heck? >> that's a shower and the shower head i guess. >> wow, that's terrible. >> i don't see that one at all. >> okay. moving on from that but you look

great. >> thank you. >> digin'. >> digin' is the word we all launched. al, you missed it that day. >> i did. >> but the world has been digin' every day. >> i'm being dragged along. >> al is coming around on digin'. the popular daily news letter the skim included the word in it's morning e-mail today. quote of the day, digin', that's the lead on their news letter today. >> soft g. >> soft g because it's way better than bacne. try using it in a sentence, just not sporadically. >> i think it's going to happen. i feel good about digin'. >> do you? >> and the oxford dictionary responded to us and they said well if it catches on and people are using it, we would consider it. >> ifs in there. >> a lot of ifs. >> we have to beg people to start digin'. >> but people have did not digin' since we launched it on

friday and i have seen it on my twitter feed every day. >> tens of people. >> tens of people floating around the world. >> keep digin' folks. we believe. >> get us in the dictionary. >> you and the captain can make it happen. >> how about weather, al? >> how about it. >> let's see what's happening as far as our weather is concerned. a beautiful day today. things looking great. plenty of sunshine and out west, look at that, showers and thunderstorms down through the gulf coast. so we're going to be looking at that making its way through. we're also expecting to see plenty of wet weather making its way -- is this supposed to go the other way. >> there you go. we've got beautiful weather along the eastern seaboard. mid-section of the country we'll be look at wet weather. we do see a slight risk of strong storms in the central part of texas. west coast is where we're looking at spectacular weather today. 76 in los angeles. 74 in san francisco.

that's your latest weather. >> one of our viewers had a similar experience to natalie while searching for her son on dick's sporting goods online. >> how could that possibly go wrong. >> she is digin'. >> people were late. not like we need to do that. >> coming up next, your ticket to hollywood.

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don't say anything. it's interesting as to why she would say that and the editor of vanity fair says she forced our hand. we're going to run this story. we don't know what the story is about. >> how is it forcing his hand? >> you know, it just seems like the sort of very insidery hollywood feud. >> gossip. >> and people looked ativanty fair to say you're being much tougher on celebrities. it might have people very scared. >> they have done that in the past. >> right. they talked about the troubles that brad pitt's movie had. they talked about tom cruz and scientology. they're real journalists and they probe and ask real questions and it could have people scared. >> she couldn't get to one friend quickly enough because jay-z is on the cover this month. >> jay-z is his own man. he is still going to do his vanity fair cover. so i guess that message didn't get quite through.

>> she is moving into the lifestyle area and recently martha stewart had something to say, basically, a back handed compliment. >> and i love martha for that. she is always like i'm really the queen of this and that's basically what she said. she said gwyneth is pretty and creative and i've never eaten at her house or hung out with her. i'm sure she wants to be a lifestyle person wbut i'm the oe that started this. let's get it straight. not a lot of people in love with gwyneth right now. >> here's number one on today.com, the booty call seen around the world at this point. >> yes. >> kim kardashian. >> bootylicious picture. >> i like how we blur. >> i know, al, in that picture it actually looks like she has a

wedgey which is not sexy at all but she just has -- she has a lot going on. >> you think? >> she has her own zip code. >> but the best part is her boyfriend kanye west tweeted heading home now. >> in capital letters. >> all caps. >> that's a good one. >> good response. >> if you look at the picture again someone tweeted out does kim kardashian live in the back of a sushi restaurant. >> i was wondering where she was too. >> zac efron has a romantic comedy that will make you scream, all of us together now, awkward. >> awkward. >> what's going on here. >> the movie is that awkward moment and it's about modern dating and hot guys in new york. what's interesting about this is zac efron started with high school musical, right? very bubble gum, all american. this trailer which is like, you

know, nc-17 almost is crazy. f bombs, c bombs. >> wow. >> we have a very blurred friday. >> what's happening in this photograph. >> i can't really tell you all the details but let's say he popped a little blue pill and was having trouble using the facilities. >> four hours of trouble. >> they popped a blue pill he and his friends but it's going to get a lot of buzz because one of the co-stars will surely be in the award season race with his movie. so they're ramping up the buzz right now. >> real quickly "12 years a slave" opening up. >> talk about oscar buzz. that's the movie to see. if you're not doing anything this weekend go see this movie. >> hard to watch. >> hard to watch but important to watch. >> a free black man gets captured and resold into slavery. >> grim stuff but great direction. >> all right. always great to catch up with you. >> thank you.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> great start the weekend, with plenty of sunshine. highs between 63 and 68 degrees. small craft advisory will be in effect on the bay. winds out of the northwest at 15 knots. 21 knots. plenty of sunshine as well. 68 tomorrow. 30% chance for showers later in the evening.

welcome back to today. >> wow. >> there we go. now we're in the spirit right now. the reason we're in the spirit is because we asked you earlier this week -- are you still eating the reese's pieces? >> i am. >> over here, our orange room staff put out this big bowl. >> you can't stop it. two or three. >> let me get in there real quick. >> we asked you to send in your elaborately decorated home. >> boy did you show up. >> look at this. people are going nuts this year. >> i love it. >> one highlight -- >> scariest house there is right there. >> how about aaron o'brien's

home, 22 hand carved pumpkins. 22. >> and the orange lights. >> beautiful. >> nicely done. >> let's head north to our friends in canada. >> that's freaky. >> yeah, all the decorations homemade. it's her third year doing this. halloween display is not as popular in canada as in the united states. >> so she is the only one on her block. >> either that or it's something out of the walking dead. >> keep sending in the photographs. good work. >> send them to #orangeroom and we'll put them up. >> we appreciate them. >> let's check in with our orange room staff. how is digin' doing. >> doing all right. six tweets a minute. >> just the beginning. >> this is just the beginning of a ground swell that's going to bring digin' no america and the world. all right. let's show you what we've got

going on. saturday, sunny skies through the northeast. rain down through the southeast up into the ohio river valley. out west, you'll be spectacular and then as we move ahead, sunday, sunday you're going to be looking at a gorgeous day up and down the east coast. rain down in central and southern florida. southern texas as well. again, outwest, gorgeous stuff. the first flakes flying across northern minnesota on into wisconsin and the up of >> 63 in the mountains. we get temperatures in the upper 60s in ocean city as well. and that's your latest

weather. let's head back over to willie and natalie. >> we'll take the baton. thank you, al. >> if you are thinking about buying a new home, maybe hitting a new open houses this weekend, well, you'll have a lot of questions. >> he is here with the five must ask questions before you make that offer. good to see you again. >> yes, you too. >> let's talk a little business here. what kind of fees can i expect if i'm going out and looking at open houses. >> any buyer can expect to have an appraisal fee. you should incur an inspection fee. it's not mandatory but every buyer should get an inspection and there are closing costs. if you have a realtor could be negotiated and put into your loan. >> how much do i owe the realtor? >> realtors we don't charge up front. we get paid on commission at the sale or purchase or the home. >> right. >> so as a buyer don't get discouraged thinking i have to come up with the money for my realtor. they only get paid on

commission. >> also keep that money in mind when you're putting an offer in on the home. >> correct. >> how long do i plan to live on this home is another question you need to ask yourself. >> yes, every buyer should want to know how long am i going to be here because if you're going to be in a home forever, it's my dream home, my family, we're going to live here and die here and pass it to my kids, you may want to look at a shorter mortgage, a 15 year mortgage or even 30. if you're going to be leaving that area soon, you're in transit you may want to take a larger mortgage, actually, a 30 or 40 year mortgage and stretch your payments out that way you're paying cheaper monthly fees because you will get out of there soon. >> what about adjustable rate mortgage? >> yeah, if you're going to be there awhile, you don't want an a.r.m. you want as much principle as possible to pay it off. if you're looking to be more

aggressive and you're moving jobs then you can take an a.r.m. because you'll be selling soon. >> a lot of times there's things you want replaced by the seller. what kind of negotiation can you enter into about fixing things? >> typically as a buyer you won't talk to the seller. either your attorney will talk to the seller's attorney or your agent will talk to the seller's agent. thing you can expect, your roof, water heaters, anything to do with the foundation, major appliances, major things you can get negotiated. >> so that's fair game to say i want you to replace the roof before i buy this place? >> you can ask for anything but the seller is looking to make their best deal also. you really want to stick to your major appliances. >> okay. now another big question to ask is how can i tell if the home i want to buy has good resale value? this is if you're not planning on being in the home for a good

time. >> yes, very good question. if you want to know if your home will have good resale value, look at comparable homes in the area and what they sell for. a lot of us are caught up looking at what the house down the street is listed for which means nothing in our business. we use comparable homes based on what other houses in your area are actually selling for. >> location, square footage, all of the comparable numbers. >> location, square footage, bedroom count. does that house have a pool, garages, all of those things matter. >> all right. the best dressed realtor we know. >> he really is. snazy. >> got to coordinate. >> if you have home buying questions, here's your opportunity to tweet them with the #homebuying 101. she going to stick around and answer them coming up. >> coming up next, the toys your kids will be begging you to buy them for the holiday. award winning

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kids. stephanie is here. good to see you. >> our favorite time of the year. >> this is the crew. >> we have been playing with toys all year. looking at a lot of toys. we have over 100 toys this year. something for every budget and every age. the first grouping here are toys for toddlers and sitting up babies and this is often the hardest area to shop for because it's hard to find things age appropriate. and this is right on target. it's a very easy toy for making something happen. it's got a little bit of music but not too much. >> elephants. >> yeah, he's in the fisher price car which is wonderful. great for going in and out. it has a shape sorter and also the beginning of a pretend setting and you want to encourage them to pretend going on an imaginary run for pizza or something like that. that's how you build language skills.

>> this is from playskool and the balls pop out. our kids walked away with it. but they pop up. >> we're just losing kids. >> i love it. >> now you two dads know the very hungry caterpillar. >> sure. >> this is a gam based on that. the idea here is to throw the fruit at the caterpillar. now, 3-year-olds are going to walk over to it and put it on. >> that's what i would do. >> but 4-year-olds enjoy the active play of doing it. >> if you're looking for a doll this season, i love these dolls from toys "r" us. they celebrate being girls. they're not trying to be older than that. they're all going to paris. it's a multiculture collection. they're $39 a piece which is really great. >> a lower price point. >> yeah. so we have a lot of those dolls on our list as well. but really high quality. here is building. one of the best areas we looked at this year. now, this is a basic lego set.

a lot of people when they go to the building aisle they buy the biggest box and for a beginning builder that's the wrong place to start. start with a small set like this. it's a really interesting build if you're a real lego expert. different ways to open. >> and by the way, if you're the parent of that child, you're going to help -- >> that's what i love about parents. this is a very parent-child project to do. >> but you're not going to be overwhelmed. >> exactly. >> these are cool. >> this is from mind storms and mind wear and we have lots of actual marbles. so this is very cool. it's an open ended puzzle you can do in lots of different ways. the colors appeal to boys and girls. >> which is very important in building these days. >> right. we want girls to be building because we want them to have the same skill sets as boys when they get to harder math and future engineers. crafts, always fun. >> make your own. >> i dreamed of this toy when i

played with hot wheels with my brother. you can make your own. you pick the color of the car you want. again, a parent-child toy. but really fun to do and then sam is working on flower color lights. and it's really what we love about it is its battery operated. there's different types of lights to have as well and it's a nice room decoration. >> my daughter would love that. that's the cool one. >> what is over here? >> these are the toys that keep on giving. this is heads up. the kid versus to balance their -- you can try one too willie. >> good. >> the idea is to balance and you're going to add different -- and you're going to add more books to the top. it's what i call the doolittle toy. >> there you go. >> games that keep on giving. >> and we didn't lose one kid. very impressive. all right. stephanie, thank you so much.

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in today's kitchen we have a dish that packs a lot of flavors. robert irvine has been spending the last 25 years cooking his way across the world. >> now he is heading to sin city and inviting you on board the restaurant express which is his latest cooking show where they try for an executive chef position in las vegas. >> good morning, robert. >> good morning. >> you're going to show us an express recipe. >> with today's life style we're so busy that this is a dish that can be done well in advance. put in a plastic container and put in the refrigerator and pulled out whenever you need it. >> okay. sounds good. >> tomatoes in here. >> it's halibut. >> we have pumpkin, great nutritional value, onions and tomato in there. a little bit of white vinegar. >> okay. >> here's the cool thing.

>> this makes the kick. >> that gives the acidity. so we have celery leaves and fresh horseradish to give us a kick. >> right. >> most of us throw away celery leaves. you say keep them. >> keep them. that gives it that great flavor. so while that's doing it's thing here. i've got halibut cut into small pieces. we do that so it cooks really fast and, al, you know, we like golden brown. a little bit of cumin. a lot of people don't use it and pepper. >> delicious. >> so we turn it over because we want seasoning on both sides. >> want it seasoned, yeah. >> halibut you can buy at any grocery store. >> absolutely. >> my daughters -- >> any particular oil you like? >> i use grape seed oil. it's better for you than olive oil. it gets to a higher flashpoint and has no flavor. >> so you're tasting whatever you're cooking. >> you're tasting the fish. we're not doing this all day. a lot of people break the sere and that caramel golden brown

look gets ruined. >> let it sit. >> let it sit and let it do it's thing. you can see the edges of the fish starting to brown up a little bit. we have let me juice, salt, pepper, and a little oil. corn fritters if you want corn fritters. food is supposed to be fun and it's supposed to be functional. >> look at that. >> and it takes seconds. by the time we have done this -- >> any other fish you like? >> well, i love doing it with salmon also i. has a lot of fat in it. good fat and i like to eat food like that. my daughters love this. they do the prep the day before. i get them to dice things up and get them in the kitchen and involved. this can be done the day before in a plastic container in the refrigerator. >> and i bet it's even better

the next day. >> it's better because the flavors melt. you can do this not only on the fish but we can do it on sandwiches. we can do it -- >> in less than two minutes it's cooked, right? >> done. >> people overcook fish a lot. i know you don't like when people overcook fish. >> i don't like it. a little bit of jam on there. we can use this on sandwiches also. it's not just for fish. >> just make a big thing of this and use it as a condiment. >> look at that. >> how simple. how easy is that? >> these are corn fritters. >> yes. >> these look so good. >> perfectly cooked on the inside. love it. robert irvine. great to see you. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc.

all right, a digin' update for you. >> this is huge. >> i have big numbers for you. >> i'm here. >> let's go inside the orange room. as of right now, more than 5200

mentions in the last hour. >> 10 tweets per minute. >> wow. >> but since last thursday when natalie and i invented it on national television. >> well, let's give the producers credit. >> with the help of our producers. >> it was a team effort, 762,000 facebook mentions. >> but we need to get this into the lexacon. >> movies, tv. >> i feel like there's a chance. think about all the words that get added every year. some are ridiculous. >> bacne. >> you're going to start using it on the weekend? >> that's what we're leading with tomorrow. >> digin'. >> so we have that and in addition, a little base jumping. >> who is? me? >> not me. you'll never see me base jump. but we're seeing more and more. they'll jump off in west virginia and we're going to be there this weekend. >> crazy. >> there you go. >> wow. >> i'll be digin' about that. >> i'm not doing that. >> thank you, erica. see