maybe a scattered shower around some point friday. the bulk of the day dry. clouds and breezy saturday with low 60s. highs back to normal and sunshine on sunday. >> just repeat that through the end of the year. >> the "today" show is coming i next. >> that's what's happening today in new york. good morning. breaking news. external influence. the crash of that russian plane now says it was not caused by technical problems or human error. so why did it suddenly break apart killing all 224 people on board? we're live in egypt. >> breaking away. the republican presidential campaigns meet without party officials and come up new rules for future debates. their demands ranging from requiring opening and closing statements to the temperature in the room. now it's the rnc's turn to respond.

rare and revealing interview. brad pitt and angelina jolie sitting down together to talk about sharing the screen, their family and her difficult health decisions. >> it's just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter. she was doing it. or her kids and doing it for her family so she had -- so we could be together which was -- trumped everything and anything. and crowning achievement. >> inside corner. the royals 2015 world champions! kansas city pulls off another stunning comeback to win the world series, a title thee decades in the making giving fans a reason to say all hail the royals today, monday, november 2nd, 2015. >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today" with matt lauer and

studio 1a in rock fler plaza. good morning and welcome to "today" on a monday morning, a sad day in new york and joyous mornin g out in kansas city. >> for everybody who watched the world series, it was on late and what a comeback. >> can't blow leads in the ninth inning. much more on the came coming up in a little while as we congratulate the royals, but let's start with our top story on this monday morning. what caused the plane to break up over egypt's splinlsa killing ale 222 people on board. a top official with the airline is out with headline-making claims this morning. nbc global correspondent bill neely is in cairo. bill, a can you tell us. >> reporter: good morning, matt. we know now that there was no distress call from the pilot and that the plane broke up mid-air. beyond a lot of theories and very few facts. the kremlin says terrorism cannot be ruled out and the airline says a mechanical impact

s the cause. what does that mean? it's a mystery above all for all the relatives for all the those on board. coming home on a plane in a into their home city, the bodies of 144 people who left russia for vacation in egypt. this is where they died, but why is still a mystery. the debris so scattered investigators say the plane broke up in mid-air. the tail found three miles from the cockpit amid the poignant reminders of the lives lost. they are searching for clues and ruling out nothing. >> one of the things that you can't rule out at this time is whether or not there was an explosive device of some sort on the aircraft. >> reporter: a group affiliate with isis said they downed the plane, but their claim has been dismissed by russian and egyptian officials. the airline says no technical fault could have caused the crash, only a mechanical impact on the plane could have caused

but the jet had an accident once before. its tail damaged landing in caopiro 14 years ago. it passed inspection six months ago in ireland. the airline says the incident didn't affect the plane's safety. in st. petersburg a second day of mourning. they know russian charter airlines have a poor safety record, but they know, too, their country is bombing syria s and they have been the victims of terrorism before. so for now all eyes are on the black box flight recorders recovered from the scene. they are ilk examined in cairo. the voices and data on those most likely to unlock this mystery. and although terrorism isn't tabeing rul out, officials here in cairo and in russia say the most likely cause is a technical or mechanical failure that caused that catastrophic break-up. meanwhile here in cairo, the bodies of more of the victims are being returned to their families in russia today. matt, savannah?

>> bill neely in cairo on this story, bill, thank you very much. >> now to the race for the white house. an upheaval within the republican party. side-stepping the rnc, the campaigns came together for a closed-door meeting and agreed on a list of future demand for a future debate. we'll talk about the impact of an already wild race in a movement first to nbc's peter alexander for the details. peter, good morning. >> reporter: that list of demands will be sent to the tv networks hosting the upcoming tv debates by the end of the day tomorrow. to be very clear, an unprecedented meeting with the campaigns grabbing back the reins pushing the republican national committee aside even as the rnc tried to end any revolt, announcing its own new point for debate negotiations. it may be one thing all 14 republican presidential campaigns can agree on. they are frustrated with the current debate system and going forward want more control. >> these debates are to highlight the differences in

philosophy between the candidates. >> i know that harry truman couldn't get elected president with explaining united states of america's health care plan in 30 seconds. >> reporter: after last week's widely criticized cnbc debate, the rnc suspended next february's nbc news telemundo debate. following a nearly three-hour closed door meeting late sunday without the rnc in attendance, both compromise and disagreement. sources attending the meeting tell nbc news the bush campaign wanted the spanish language telemundo debate reinstated by a representative for donald trump threatened t boycott this. draft letter obtained by nbc news shows some of the campaign's demands. both opening and closing statements. equal time or equal questions to each candidate. another requirement,andidates may not be asked to raise their hands to answer a question. and while the debate may be heated, the room has to be kept cool, below 67 degrees. top republican lawyer ben ginsberg. m>> i mean, what happened happened, and so you often have

to make course corretions, and now it's time to make a course correction. >> reporter: meanwhile, after last weeks's uninspired debate performance, jeb bush is vowing to step up his game. >> look, i know i've got to get better doing debate, and i -- i may -- i'm a grinder. i mean, when i see that i'm not doing something well, then i reset and i get bet sneer but for now he's sticking to his guns, again attacking protege turned rival marco rubio for his poor senate attendance record. >> if you're elected to serve, you should show up and vote. >> reporter: rubio again refusing to take the bait. >> i haver tremendous admiration, i said that at the debate. >> right. >> you're never going to hear ye bad mouth him. >> reporter: there's real urgency here. the next debate is now just eight days away. the trump and carson campaigns, of course, may have the most leverage. together they combine for a majority of republican support as trump's rep told the room, according to sources inside, we don't want anyone on stage because all they do is take potshots and throw punches at mr. trump, and i don't need that. matt and savannah.

let's bring in nicolle wallace, msnbc analyst and former white house communications director for george w. bush. good morning. >> getting fun. >> i know. just fascinating the dynamics here, so the candidates versus republican party leaders, right. what's really going on. a vote of no confidence in the rnc. >> a wish to return to the way it used to be. the campaigns used to have a greater say and certainly in the general election and you guys know this. in the general election both campaigns, the republican and the democrat negotiate through their debate commission directly with the networks so this is -- this is a smart move by the campaigns to try to have more say but the notion that you can get a front-runner campaign like donald trump and an underdog campaign like bobby jindal to want and need the same things out of the debates is where they are going to go astray. >> yet, even as you say that i kind of expected to wake up this morning to some stunning demands. >> right. >> game-changing demands. >> right. >> thermostats. >> these are tweaks. >> yeah. >> but here's the thing. we're sort of talking around the edges of it.

at the core is a massive generational distrust with the mainstream media and it bubbled over in the debate last week and ted cruz on the stump in iowa this weekend talked about a litmus test that i've never heard before in my life. he said no one should moderate a gop debate who doesn't plan tot vote in a gop primary. >> or hasn't. >> i don't know how they would ever enforce that and to me where republicans need to be careful is these debates are serving a lot of the candidates very well and in my life i've never seen more republicans on the airwaves of mainstream media outlets from town halls and late night and daytime and taking great advantage. >> isn't the bottom line, blaming the media is a longtime winning strategy? >> it is because you can always find an example where it's legitimate and where they have to be careful is not to overplay this hand because they are the party behind them. >> chris christie says, on the other hand, if you can't handle a couple of tough questions or even what seemed like biased questions, how are you going to

take on a general election against someone like hilg hill? >> that's right. hillary clinton clint's folks are saying we don't get any favors from the media so the frustration goes both ways but republicans are hoping to bring it back to more even footing. >> by the way, speaking of politics lester holt will have an excluszive interviewhwith the president on "nbc nightly news" and more of that interview tomorrow on "today." more information on that u.s. cargo ship that sank e t of the bahamas during hurricane joke i don't know. th ntsb says the ship appears to have landed upright on the ocean floor. images captured by sonar appear to show the "el faro" in about 15,000 feet of water. remote-controlled subs will now dive almost three miles down to confirm those findings. 33 crew members died after that disabled ship vanished on october 1st. and now to that dramatic finish of the wor.d series overnight. kansas city royals captured the team's first title in 30 years, and willie is here with all the highlights. wow.

>> good morning, guys. they did it again. w york mets starting pitcher matt harvey shut down the royals for eight innings, and as he walked to the mound to finish the game in the ninth, it looked as though the series would head back to kansas city for game six, but then as they have done time and again in these playoffs, the royals rallied. another night, another comeback. >> unbelievable base running by eric hosmer has tied it! >> kansas city tying the game with two runs in the top of the ninth inning. >> the royals have fought back the entire postseason. >> then three innings later the royals rallying once again. >> colon delivers into left! >> to take the world series title. >> inside corner. the royals 2015 world champions. >> for fans in kansas city it was a w ld series win 30 years in the makisg. >> i kept saying to everybody

don't count them out. it's exciting. more exciting this time. >> let's go, royals. >> because all the young fans get a chance to see a win after all these years. >> while back in new york mets fans were stunned. >> i'm a little disappointed. >> it's tough to be a mets fan today. >> kansas city came back in all four of its world series wins, including after game one on tuesday, briefly went dark twice because of technical difficulties. >> we have lost -- we have lost our picture. hi. we're having some technical difficulties. >> the royals went on to tie that game in the bottom of the ninth inning, eventually winning in the 14th. >> the royals win game one! >> last night they went 12 innings, setting up mets fans for another heartbreaker. >> there's always next year. >> world champions. >> while in kansas city the royals are the kings of baseball. we are the champions >> that party is probably still going on. there's a parade now scheduled

for tomorrow in kansas city for the world series champions. new york city talk radio, sports is always exciting. this morning it's going to be a little more so because. decision that mets manager terry collins made to send harvey out for the night. harvey asked for the ball and collins gave it to him and that will be talked a lot. >> between that and the giant football game. >> they will be going on. >> a lot to talk about. >> oh, my gosh. >> willie, thank you. in other news this morning, an e. coli outbreak has closed dozens of chipotle restaurants on the west coast. so far at least 22 people have become sick, but health officials are expecting that thumb to grow while officials are investigating. >> 44 stores have been closed as a result. officials believe the source is likely a fresh food product that was shipped to the stores. >> all right. let us get a check of the weather. we've got a warm week in store here in the east. mr. roker. >> we do. first we've go the to get through really wet weather, and, boy, has it been raining all

take a look at video. crazy stuff. flooding, all kinds of problems. we don't have that video. okay. let's just go to the maps and now we do have the video. you can see amazing rescues that took place all weekend long, upwards of 20 inches of rain falling in that area. the good news is it's done. the bad news is it's moving on to the southeast. atlanta, probably going to be airport delays in there, and, in fact, we'll be looking at flash flood watches and warnings stretching from florida all the way into north carolina as the morning wears on. this pushes through during the afternoon on into the evening hours and on into tuesday morning. locally heavy downpours. atlanta, charlotte, montgomery, alabama, all being affected. rainfall amounts between today and tomorrow, we're talking about upwards of 3 to 4 inches locally between georgia and on into north carolina. the heaviest rain will be between 8:00 and 3:00 this afternoon. that's what's going on. we're going to get to your local fore attention kmart shoppers- bluelight specials are back! every single store...

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a tha w you very much. want to talk about a loss being felt across washington and also in hollywood this morning. natalie has more on that. >> hi, good morning, guys. former senator and republican presidential candidate and actor fred thompson died on sunday at age of 73 following a ten-year battle with lymphoma. born in alabama, thompson first made headlines as an investigator during watergate. >> the but on january 21st -- >> dominating senate hearings as minority council. >> are you aware of any devices that were installow in the executive office building office of the president? >> yes, sir. ea>> from there he worked as an attorney and lobbyist. it was when he was asked to play himself in a movie based on a high-pro le whistle-blowing case that a new passion emerged,wacting. standing at over 6'5", thompson began a go-to for authorities for "the hunt for red october." >> keenior captains don't coming to this decision without having thought it through. >> in 1972 heawas elected to u.s. senate taking al gore's

seat when he became vice president. after nine years thompson left the senate returning once again to acting, starring as district attorney arthur branch on nbc's "law & order." >> we can't let a criminal extort his own freedom. >> after five years on the iconic show, thompson jumped back into politics in 2007. >> i'm running for president of the united states. >> all right. there you have it. >> his presidential bid was unsuccessful, but his influence, fwhoet hollywood and in washington, still looms c large.wawith news of his passing, politicians an actors feeted their condolences overnight. in a statement thompson's family said, quote, he enjoyed a hardy laugh, a strong handshake, a good cigar and a healthy dose of humility. fred was the same man on the floor of the pnate, the movie studio or the town square of lawrenceburg, his home. thompson appeared in over 50 movies and television shows over the years, and is the only sitting senator to ever take a full-time acting job.

towards the end of 2002 and he left the senate in january of 2003, but what a storied career he had, both on and off the screen. >> you think about that, started as a lawyer, becomes an actor, leave acting go into politics and leave politics and go back into acting and leave acting to run for president. >> incredibly successful in all of them. >> exactly. >> legend. he'll be missed. >> natalie, thank you very much. coming up, an uber driver attacked by a passenger. the violent confrontation all caught on camera. plus, a power struggle inside the catholicchurch. the series of leaked documents that has the vatican on edge this morning.

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good morning everyone. rook looking at the cross bronx. i'm darlene rodriguez. grief counselors will be at a bronx school tended by a little girl who was killed by an out of control car on halloween. tracie strahan joins us from the scene of the accident in morris park. tracie. >> reporter: darlene, we've seen a steady stream of people coming to the crash site to pay respects to the people killed here. there was a candlelight vigil just last night. she was killed along with her grandfather, lewis and 24-year-old christian lack a who was also killed. parts of the out of control car remain at the scene. police are probing whether or not the driver behind the wheel suffered a medical condition. back to you. >> tracie strahan in the bronx. thank you. we'll take a look at the morning commute with lauren scala. >> thanks, darlene. uptown train service restored in brooklyn. but delays on bb and n trains.

two accidents on 208. southbound on cedar hill avenue and then another just past maple avenue that's been out there for quite a while. we have an accident off the eastbound l.i.e. to the grand central parkway in the right lane and one eastbound by metropolitan avenue. back to you. >> thank you very much. lauren. we'll be right back with chris' forecast. starting out with a lot o clouds. filtered sunshine this afternoon. a high of 66. low 50s. look at the next two days.

sunshine tuesday, wednesday. 70 tomorrow. 72 wednesday. late shower thursday night early friday. upper 60s to low 70s again p cooling down by the weekend. highs in the 60s by sunday. chris, thank you. brad pitt and angelina jolie sit down with tom brokaw and talk about faith, family and their new film.

7:30 now. it's monday morning, the 2nd of november, 2015, and a nice start to the workweek here in new york as we gaze at the view from the top of the rock. >> reall beautiful. >> very nice. >> statue of liberty in the worldcom ground. here are the stories making headlines right now. the republican presidential candidates are trying to seize greater control of future debates. representatives met in private last night without representatives from the rnc to map out demands. among the changor they want tol see, an equal number of quesi'tions to each candidate and

>> an e. coli scare has led chipotle to close dozens of locations. at least 22 cases have baen linked to restaurants in washington state and oregon, and the number could grow. chipotle says it is working with health departments to determine the cause of this outbreak. and the kansas city royals are world series champions this morning defeating the new york night. it's the royals first title since 1985. congratulations to them. let's start this half hour with the disturbing incident that was caught on camera. this happened in newport beach, california. an uber driver forced to fight back after being attacked by his own passenger. here's nbc's gadi schwartz. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: with a dashcam video rolling this uber driver takes a violenteback seat pummeling. >> grabbed my head and trying to smash it against the window. >> reporter: from the get go driver edward caban had a bad feeling about this trip. >> very aggressive and is swearing at me, just fading in and out of consciousness.

>> reporter: he says his rider refused to put on his seat belt and could t give clear directions and kept passing out. >> at that point i decided enough is enough. >> reporter: here's what happened when caban tried to tell his passenger that the ride was over. >> get out my car or i will call the police. >> you [ bleep ]. >> reporter: suddenly he was getting punched from behind again and again. you can see the passenger trying to slam his head into the glass. finally caban is able to click off the safety of his maye . >> turn around and i emptied as much of that spray a i could into his face until he got out of the car. >> within minutes police are there arresting the rider benjamin golden who was vomiting from the pepper spray. >> i didn't want him to get away. i've lost so much people on people like him. people like that take the food right out of my mouth. >> reporter: uber says they have banned the rider from ever using the service again but caban says his days of driving for uber are

over. for "today," gadi schwartz, nbc news. changing topics now, the vatican i bracing for fallout of two new books, run exposing alleged corruption and fighting within the catholic church. keir simmons is here with more. >> reporter: is ahere a power struggle around the pope, a leak from inside the vatican from someone it seems with an agenda because only people who would have access to the documents are inside the vatican. sabotage at the vatican declared an italian news magazine as the pope braces for the publication of not one but two damaging books. "merchants in the temple" is based on a leaked vatican document. if the vatican were a company they would be in chapter 11 and heads would be rolling from all the mistrust and financial abuses. pope francis has strongly spokeou

out against corruption, but before he became popehi book published by the same author documented corruption and intrigue. a scandal that became known as vatileaks and now tensions over the direction of the catholic church are surfacing again, with many asking why these leaks are appearing now. >> but the fact is that the pope has suffered from what one could call a series of unfortunate events. >> reporter: pope francis has introduced controversial changes opposed by some of the more conservative church officials making marriage annulment less bureaucratic and encouraging forgiveness for the sin of abortion and declaring if someone is gay and he searches for the lord, who am i to judge? but this week's second book "avarizia" is set to expose bitter internal battles over tn" future of the church. that book which will only be

the details of pope benedict's resignation there. will be some worried people in the vatican until the book is published which is later this week, guys. >> brushing up on your italian, keir? >> exactly. thank you very much. let us get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> well, guys, big changes temperature-wise over a large part of the country. this is with the jet stream last week, warm out west and cooler here in the east and the great lakes, but watch this. during this week we watch the jet stream kind of flatten out, especially here in the eastern two-thirds of the country. cooler than average out west and las vegas out in tucson, but much above normal temperatures from chicago on into parts of kansas city, new york. it's going to be 70 degrees by wednesday and 73 in macon and 73 in nashville. chicago, you'll see a high of 72, dallas 77. we've got some pretty good snows, mountain snows and cascades in the rockies out west and windy and wet weather there, but here in the east we're looking at gorgeous weather, the exception, of course, being the

southeastern atlantic states with heavy rain there. last al, thanks very much. 56 degrees in the city. one of the warmer numbers out there. 52 in long branch. a lot of 4lys in the suburbs, especially to the north and west. there's the rain. edit stays underneath us. passing offshore. the northern edge brings cloud cover our way. it thins out to the north and st. some clouds this morning giving way to filtered sunshine a bit later. . 70 and sunnyho tomorrow. 72 on wednesday. maybe showers late thursday into early friday. cooler by the weekend. get your weather any time you need it. go to weather channel on cable at wet are.com. >> al, don't bury the lead. that is big week for you. >> rokerthon-2-almost here. >> attempting to set at guinness world weather by doing wet in all 50 states and kicking it on friday in hawaii.

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we're back at 7:41 with some explosive claims about what life is like inside the church of scientology. they are coming from former member leah remini. well, nbc's kristen dahlgren is in los angeles. what she's saying and how the church is responding. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, guys. yeah, leah remini is one. highest profile church members to leave, so there's a lot of interest in what she says about the secretive church, including her claims of punishment after she criticized tom cruise. in an interview on abc's "20/20" actress leah remini recounts how she once expressed concern over tom cruise's behavior. >> he was like forcibly kissing katie. i said hey, get friggin' room and i was writt up for that. being critical of tom cruise is being critical of scientology itself.noyou are a person who is anti the aims and goals of scientology. you are evil. >> reporter: "the king of queens" star had been a

years old when her mother first nintroduced her o the church but in her new book "trouble-maker" remini describes the trouble she often suffered after the wedding of tom kues and katie h lmes when holmes complained to churchthorities about her behavior. >> if you can assume if you say something critical to the church you will be written up, husband, wife, mother, daughter. it's what the group does to regulate itself. >> reporter: katie holmes released a statement in response to remini's claim. i upset having upset leah in the past and wish her only the best in the future. remini says the cruise wedding weekend was also marred by church attempts to recruit her friends celebrity couple jennifer lopez and marc anthony. >> maybe i was barring that road for them. i was sent to florida for re-programming for three or four months >> reporter: interview is the latest public controversy for the church of scientology on the heels of the documentary "going clear" released earlier this

members speaking out about the ligion and the church is nys fighting back against remini. in a statement to nbc news staying in part her repeated ethical lapses and callous treatment of other led to an ecclesiastical review which resulted in her being expelled. she new regurgitates the tired myths that the church has repeatedly debunked. the church also denies remini's claims about jennifer lopez claiming it was remini who was actually disrespectful to lopez. they also emphasized, guys, their global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs. >> all right, kristen. thank you very much. >> coming up, pop superstar ariana grande, we'll take you behind the scenes as she unveils her brand new single. >> up next, one of the wildest finishes to a college football game you'll ever see, and why

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we're back now at 7:48 with the end of a football game you really have to see, really strange, dylan. >> the amount of laterals in this play alone were just incredible, but misti/duke came came to a wild end with riami's incredible game-winning kickoff return, but now it seems that it all may have been too good to be true. take a look at this final play. >> laterals. they practiced that on wednesday. >> going to expire on the game so this either goes or it doesn't doesn't. >> ball still alive. >> lateral. get behind. it still alive. >> duke doing a nice job staying all over.

>> he's got blockers. >> they got blockers. they have got a lane. >> and then he goes all the way. the officials took a full nine minutes to review and finally determine the touchdown stands. miami wins the game, but social media wasn't having it. take a look at some of the video and images that started circulating pointing out several errors on the play, this moment in particular where miami's running back appears to be down. the acc eventually agreed saying the last play was not handled appropriately. both officials on the field and in the replay booth have been suspended for two games. >> whoa. >> get this, the game results still stand. even though there are no plans to overturn the game, we have stirred up some conversation on twitter asking if it should be. head to today's twitter page to weigh in. what do you guys think? >> i started watching the play and i went to lunch and i came back and they were just getting over -- i know you can't overturn a result, but there were clearly some real bad mistakes made there.

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it's 56 degrees out on a monday morning. i'm darlene rodriguez. expect more traffic than usual today when president obama pays a visit to our area. the president's trip begins in newark with a stop at a halfway house for ex-convicts. he'll take part in a -- then he heads to manhattan for a fundraiser. the white hall street subway station clo es for a 9-month repair project. during that time, crews will be fixing some of the damage caused by hurricane sndy. commuters can still access the station from the white hall street entrance or the staten island ferry terminal building. let'?take a look at the morning commute with lauren scala. >> thanks, darlene. we have delays on southbound bd and n trains. we also have delays on uptown 4 and 5 now. northbound 2 and 3 trains running express from franklin to atlantic avenues. new jersey commuters getting on the -- 78 westbound in the local lanes before route 24. that's really backing things up.

back to you, darlene. >> thanks, lauren. partly sunny mild today. 66 is the high. tonight patchy fog. 52 degrees. mostly sunny tomorrow, high of 70. wednesday a few clouds. 72 is the high. thursday 68 degrees. we'll be back in a half hour

it's 8ea0 on today. coming up brad and angelina, the hollywood super couple opens up sharing the screen for the first time in a decade. dealing with health struggles in the spotlight and how married life has changed them. >> every three months i'll say, honey, i think i should learn how to cook. >> but really she can't. she has no business in the kitchen. >> plus, not what the doctor ordered. do you really need a physical every year? you might be surprised at what

doctors are saying. wake up, maggie >> and we'll kick off your week with performance rock legend rod stewart, today, monday, november 2nd. >> we're here in newdlork city for the new york city marathon! >> i ran the new york city marathon. thi'm tired and i want to be n the "today" show. >> celebrating my 18th in the big apple. >> we love matt lauer. i want to be the next savannah guthrie the. >> after 0 years we've taken the crown. let's go, royals! >> it's 6:00 now on a monday morning. it is the 2nd day of november, 2015, and take a look at a huge crow in the plaza but also stop

marathon medals around peopy 's cks. our congratulations to all the people who ran in and completed the new york marathon on sunday. nicely done. >> very well done. >> they are still standing. >> turn around and nobody is here. >> okay. >> a lot of medals, awesome. coming up, halloween is over moving on to thanksgiving. chef curtis stone is here to tell us how to make the ultimate juicy turkey. >> looks good. >> that look, really good. first, let us head inside. natalie has a check of this morning's top stories. natalie, take away. good morning. the russian officials say the black boxes from saturday's russian jetliner that crashed in egypt are in good condition. remains of most of the 224 people who perished have been sent home to russia, and an official with russia's metro jet airline insisted today that technical problems could not have caused the jet to break apart in mid-air. instead, he blamed an e ernaho

impact on the plane. meantime, the kremlin says it is too early to rule out terrorism. republican presidential campaign aides held a three-hour meeting on sunday night to discuss changes they want in the format for future televised debates. a draft of their demands includes both opening and closing statements and equal time or equal questions for each candidate. the bush campaign also pushed for reinstatement of the cancelled spanish-language telemundo debate but rump campaign threatened to boycott. > a 28-year-old woman is recovering this morning after she was bitten on the leg by a shark sunday while weight wading into the shallow waters off of coco beach florida. other beach-goers called 911 and dragaed the woman out of the water. it was 259th known shark attack in florida this year alone. the widespread use of mobule devices by children may be erasing the digital divide between low income and middle class families. in a survey of low-income minority parents, 97% said their

children use mobile devices. most sarted beforo they were a year old, and by asp4, 75% of the children had their own smartphone or tablet and could multitask and about one-third of the parents say they have used a mobile device to put their children to sleep. well, here in new york, more than 50,000 athletes hit the road on sunday for the 45th annual new york city marathon. temperatures were in the 50s and providing almost ideal running condition. on the men's side stanley biwat of ken crossed in 2:10 and mary tatana of kenya won her consecutive new york city marathon in a time of 2:24. congratulations to them and to all the finishers. dramatic video this morning of a sky diving adventure gone terribly wrong. take a look this. happened in peru. can you see the sky diver dangling from right underneath the plane at about 10,000 feet in the air.

apparently his jumpsuit got stuck on the plane's steps and he was up there for 30 minutes while they figured out hat to do. event lit sky diver wis akle to cut himself loose with a knife and he landed safely, suffering only a cut to his hand. >> wow. >> that had to be the scariest ten minutes ever while he was hanging up there and stuck. >> can't even imagine. >> reason number 4 million. >> not that you needed another reason. >> why get out. >> natalie, thank you very much. up next, the scientific explanation for why cats always seem like they ar out to get you. and in a rare an candid interview brad pitt and angelina jolie open up about their health choices, the impact of the

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. all right. 8:07. we're back with what's trending today. >> time for trending and a big story this morning. i love cats. do you like cats? >> i have a cat. >> did you know that your cat is trying to kill you? >> i knew iti >> i figured that. >> so that is the new research. listen to this, guys. headlines everywhere. your cat may really want you dead and research says your cat may be thinking of killing you. what is it all about? >> this is research from scott land and the bronx zoo. they compared the personalities of domestic house cats are four different wild cats and found similarities like aggression and neurotic behavior and from that some researchers have concluded that if your house cat species were big enough it would want to call you. >> mimi loves me, i think.

>> cats my cat is like a puppy dog. >> not trying to kill me. >> at least she doesn't wan me dead. >> that's cool, what would you do if someone you worked with closely turned on you selling details of your private life for everyone to see? that comes up because of a situation involving tiger woods. the man who served as his caddy for 13 years has now written a book. steve williams split from the tiger camp in 2011 in the fallout from some of the scandals that were surrounding him. in the book, he says tiger has a temper. he treated him like a slave. he says he used to throw the clubs and felt bad having to -- anyway, he goes into a lot of things, but the question remains if you're a team and a caddy and a professional golfer are a team for all those years. >> sure. >> should you ever go out and write a book and reveal things like this? >> i don't know.

it's something that kind of inks about it and why now? i don't quite get that either. >> his whole career was sort of based on this team with tiger so -- >> like he's profiting ton now. >> i think it's in bad taste and by the way for all his ups and downs and flaws and whatever, tiger made this guy a lot of money. >> absolutely. >> and some could say the other way around, too. i don' know. i think this is a thumb's down. >> just not way you go. >> let's do medical news. do all of us -- i'm like let me twitch topics, let's talk about the doctor. do you go to the doctor every year for a physical? >> yeah. >> no. i don't either. >> i'm terrible about it. >> always told you're supposed to go every year whether you do or not and now a growing number of doctors say not so fast. ey argue for some people the annual exam may be ouatated and actually drain an already strapped medical system. now, this has divided the medical community. one doctor said a yearly checkup is a great way to reaffirm the patient-physician relationship

so who should get yearly checkup, anybody overweight, family history of type it's and parents with hypertension. >> i don't even have a primary care doctor. >> i don't schedule an appointment and tend to go when things are not right and do the checkup at this point. >> we tend to go to lunch. have a nice lunch. >> you guys go together. >> by the way, would you look at this. >> all right. now to the best celebrity halloween costumes, and your backstage pass with arian grande. >> yeah. we are -- >> i was going to introduce you. >> i got excited. >> she's got a lot to get you. so much halloween stuff to get to. still talking about halloween this morning. you guys, of course, had people talking all weekend with your take on "peanuts." >> the wha kind of feedback were you getting? >> creepy. >> matt again as a woman creepri >> always creepy. and on saturday the weekend gang, we channel the the stars

of "the voice." i was adam levine, if you can recognize me on the left. >> gwen was played by our own carson daly and erika was blake shelton. there's pharrell played by sheinelle. she got into the dance spirit and willie played a spot-on carson daly. we weren't the only ones -- >> that's good. >> he does look like him. >> and we weren't the only ones dressing this up year. just when you thought we were all done with "frozen" taylor closed out her last show dressed at ola and idina ment l as elsa and beyonce and jay-z and their doubty blue ivy went from the characters of the 1982 comedy "coming to america." >> good one. >> katy perry decided to drop th mike by literally dressing up as an oversized microphone and can you guess who this is is dressed up aspirins? >> no.

for a second, but that is lebron james. >> that's the tallest prince ever. >> didn't stop with the costume and sang some of prince's biggest hits "purple rain" and "when doves cry." >> you'll love this, al. >> jessica rabbit played by heidi klum. >> doesn't even look like her. >> she's not bad, just drawn that way. >> wow. >> the whole transformation. >> that's crazy. >> incredible. >> spot on. >> she always goes over the top for her halloween costumes. that awesome. you know who else loves halloween. ariana grande, her favorite halloween and got into the halloween spirit while giving nbc's morgan radford a backstage look at her latest concert. >> there's no question ariana grande has got our focus. snows focus in mind >> reporter: performing for a packed house at the iheart radio theater in los angeles, the 22-year-old singer proved there's nothing spooky about her new single.

so you just performed this for the first time live. >> yes. >> reporter: and within minutes it was already trending worldwide. how did that feel? >> the it feels crazy. when i got off stage it was like there were a million people watching on snapchat, that's a new record and there's a trending thing and i'm like i hope it was great. i'm like i hope it was good then, yeah. it's surreal, crazy. so many eyeballs. >> reporter: with a combined 80 million followers on instagram and twitter, the focused singer is telling folks exactly what's on her mind one post at a time. you wrote a pretty incredible essay on the double standards facing women and the focus on their personal lives. how do you think that double standard plays out? >> well, i think it plays out in the fact -- well, in many different ways. i mean, women are a million times more compared to one another. they are more questioned about who they are dating and it's almost as if the most important significance or relevance who they are attached to. i think there are more important things to focus on.

>> reporter: ariana is focusing on a lot these days. >> it was an amazing year. i worked really, really hard and i got to be part of some really special things, and i'm very grateful to be working and living my childhood dream i guess, you know. >> reporter: and speaking of dreams, you surprised us all with an incredible duet with coldplay at a global citizens festival. >> oh, thank. >> reporter: that was pretty spectacular. >> that was surreal for me. >> reporter: ato other surprise collabos we should come to expect. >> wouldn't be surprises. >> reporter: got to the share them. >> it's brewinon like brewing, bubbling. it will spill over really soon though. >> and that's your "pop start." >> thank you. >> mr. roker. >> all right. let's take a look and show you what we've got going on for today. we are looking at wet weather out west from seattle all the way to san francisco and mountain snows as well and some rain from atlanta on into raleigh as we make our way through the afternoon hours into

the southeast and mid-atlantic states. it's also going to be warmer than usual throughout a good swath of the country. 90s in southern california in the southwest and 80s the through texas and 80s on into the southeast and 90s in central florida. we are looking for more heavy rain through the southeast, mid-atlantic states, and that's as far north as it gets. plenty of sunshine through the great lakes. again, mountain snows as you get through the cascades and on into the northern rockies. wet weather and windy conditions through southern california. th . . . wunshine mix today. more filtered sun as we get to the afternoon. very comfortable starting out in the 40s and 50s. low 50s tonight. 30s, 40s, suburbs, patchy fog and high arn 70. it is low 70s with sunshine on wednesday. clouds later. a couple of sho mrs at night. 68. mild friday at 71. eezy, cooler saturday, low

50s. back to the 50s on sunday. >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> all right, al. thank you so much. it's been a little more than a year now since sue of the biggest superstars n hollywood brad pitt and angelina jolie got married. >> nbc's tom brokaw recently caught up with them. tom, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, good to l be back. we got together with the newlyweds of the iconic sun setter to hotel in los angeles not too far from their home. i talked to them about their new marriage, how they have rewritten the celebrity guide book on managing fame and life's obstacles especially for angelina have brought them closer together. despite their worldwide superstardom, they sometimes seem just like another married couple. mr. and mrs. jones or smith. so now you're a married couple. you know, seas certified, and angie told me shortly after you got married she thought maybe she should be a more conventional wife and mother and

thought about cooking. >> he looks at me because like every three months i'll say, hone, i think i should learn how to cook, don't i? >> yeah. >> and -- >> yeah. i just humor it but she has no business in the kitchen. >> their domestic life aside, turns out the way this celebrity couple celebrated their nuptials was by going back to work together on the screen for the first time in ten years, a film produced by our sister company, universal pictures "b"?the sea." >> what's cooking, good looking. >> reporter: in which angelina not only stars, she's the writer, director and producer. this is a much different film than request mr. and mrs. mrs. smith." >> the a little bit. >> we were joking at one point, this is like the beginning and this is like ten years later. this is what ten years of marriage will dooto you. >> the do it. >> stop! stop! >> reporter: i don't want to

film "by the sea" by i think a lot of fans and other movie-goers will be a little surprised by some things. here you haveione of the most secure marriages in hollywood and this is about the two of you in a deeply troubled marriage. s this a big risk on your part? >> well, i think, one, i'm counting on the audience to know that if it was close to us at all we could never make this film. it's because we're actually very, very stable and these aren't our issues. >> blowing you a kiss. >> i'm blowing you one back. >> reporter: "by the sea" which seems more like a european art film than a traditional hollywood blockbuster is a deeply personal project. it was inspired by her own bereavement and grief after dealing with her mother's eight-year battle with cancer. >> i can't say what the whole familiar is about, but a lot of the film is when i went to visit my mom in the hospital when she found out she had -- she hn' cancer the first time. had to have her ovaries removed and very upset and feeling like

this was taking out her parts that were female and there was a woman down the hall who was wailing, and i later found out it was a young woman who had not had children yet and that put everything into perspective. >> reporter: angelina's mother, the actress, was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1989 at 49go and died in 2007, this following the deaths of angelina's grandmother and maternal aunt also because of cancer. a few years ago a blood test revealed that angelina carried a mutation of the brca-1 gene giving her an 87% risk of breast cancer, a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, so in 2013 she had both breasts removed and underwent reconstructive surgery emerging as a beacon of hope for women when she told the woe d. >> tell, i feel wonderful, and i'm very, very grateful for all the support.

meant a lot to me. >> reporter: have you been stunned by the reaction to this, and are there parts of it that are worrisome to you? >> you never know what a reaction is. you have to just make the choices you make in life had. i made the choices i made because i b ieve they were right for me. >> reporter: then in march of this year while she was editing "by the sea" her doctor called with news that another blood test showed she could have signs of early ovarian cancer. she called brad right away. >> i was out in france and angie called me, and i got straight on a plane to return. seeing my wife have to be her strongest and knowing that it's the scarest estiest kf news is terribly moving and not being there is a horrible feeling. >> reporter: together they faced the crisis and though tended up she did not have a full-blown tumor, she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. throughout the ordeal, her

>> we had some of the same nurses, some of the same doctors the doctor that did my ovary surgery was my mother's doctor. my mother had aid to her promise me you will take angie's ovaries out and so we kind o got together -- both had a big cry and she said i promised your mother and i've got t do this. >> reporter: less than two weeks after her procedure she wrote an op-ed piece for the "new york times" to make other women aware of what they might expect if they face the same issues. in and leona's case, despite hormonal replacement therapy, her ovarian surgery brought on an early onset of menopause. >> every woman is different hen they go through menopause and every woman -- i didn't know how emotionally it would be, i knew the breasts would be physically changing and the ovaries is more your emotions change and your hormones changing but it's different. you feel different. >> reporter: for brad angelina's

surgeries and medical challenges these past few years have been inspirational. but she had to make big decisions did double mastectomy and then about having her ovaries removed. how did you see your role in all of that? >> support, whatever's got to be done to keep the family together and keep the family together as long as possible is going to be done. no question it's a scary decision and there's many things that can go wrong and many different directions, but it was really led by her dedication this is what i've got to the do and this is what i'm going to do. >> reporter: did you have an appreciation of the emotional part of it? >> i just remember there was no vanity to my wife's approach it was mature. it was an excitement to where this is our life and we're going to make about it. there was a strength in, that just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter. she was doing it for her kids and doing it for her family so she had -- so we could be together which was -- which trumped everything.

>> i think for as much as he speaks about my strength, i knew that he made it very, very clear to me that what he loved and what was a woman to him was somebody who was smart and capable aas cared about her family, that it wasn't about -- not about your physical body so i knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where i was going to feel less of a woman because my husband wasn't going to let that happen. >> reporter: and in the long run angelina now thinks that her experiences might help others. >> many of us will have cancer. people all die and so to -- to face these issues together and speak about them and talk about what it is to be human i think can be a beautiful thing. >> as you know, hollywood is not my natural arena, but the fact is i'm very taken with these two because of their honesty. they didn't try to in some way to engage me in a way that would improve on their careers.

important to women all over the world quite honestly, and they were going from here, by the way, pack to his hometown of springfield, missouri where he has a compound on a lake, spend the week with his aunts and uncles and other people and retreat to their very private lives except when they have something important to say, so hats off to the two of them. >> hollywood might not be your thing but people your strong suit and it was a great interview. >> i do admire their honesty, and what she does is going to be critically important downstream to young women coming of age and not being afraid to make the decisions that are very hard. >> and showing how to make them with such grace as well. tom, thank you very much. we should mention, by the way, their move "by the sea" from our sister company universal will be in theaters on november 13th. coming up we'll change gears and g ready for the upcoming holiday season. curtis stone will help us talk turkedey. his recipe for the ultimate bird. dylan. and antonio -- can ys say your name.

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good morning, everyone. 8:26. looking at the george washington bridge. it is monday morning, november 2nd. i'm darlene rodriguez. grief counselors will be at a bronx school to help a little girl run down by a car on halloween. a candlelight vigil was held which the child and a 24-year-old man lost their lives. they were trick-or-treating when a car jumped the curb and hit them. investigators are looking into the possibility that the driver had a seeds yur. take a look at the morning commute. here is lauren scala. we have delays on the danbury branch for metro north. another problem on 95 northbound after the state border, an accident that shuts down two lanes. delays heavy northbound on the connecticut turnpike, 287 and southbound because of rubber necking. back to you. let's check the weather. partly sunny, mild, 66 degrees.

tonight, patchy fog, 62. tomorrow, mostly sunny, high of 70. wednesday, a few clouds. 72 is he high. thursday, sun and clouds, a late shower. mild on friday, 71. coming up on the "today" show, clever uses for everyday items. the surprising way mayonnaise and wax paper can help you

8:30 now o this monday a rntrg. it's the 2nd of november, 2015. a beautiful morning out here on the plaza. shaping up to be a great week. it's monday morning and it feels good. >> yes. it's going to be even warmer as we get into the week.

>> yeah, i love that. >> really. by the wa., the unmistakable voice you may hear in the background, that is rod stewart. his voice first discovered at a train station, actually playing harmonica about five decades ago. he's now out with his 29th album. >> wow. >> and he's going to percorm for us in a little while. >> all right. and we just celeb te the halloween, of course. >> yes. >> and now we're already turning our attention to thanksgiving. all month long "today" food has your holiday needs covered and we'll get hings started with curtis stone who is making the best turkey ever. got to get the bird right, right. >> centerpiece. >> and what's going on in the weather? give us a little preview. >> what's going on as far as week ahead is concerned. we're going to start off with some decent weather in the northeast but a lot of heavy rain in the early part of the week in the southeast. mountain rain and snow in the pacific northwest. that moves into the rockies in the mid-week period and going to look at more wet weather in the southeast.

mid-atlantic states and northeast looking goodaso are the central plains and in the latter part of the week more wet weather making its way to the gulf where they do not need it. rain in the snow in the pacific northwest and showers making their way through the great lakes and on into the norheast. th al, thanks very much. pretty comfortable out there. 57 in central park. getting into the 50s in white plains, morristown. gradually warming things up. still, a lot of cloud cover. watch the clouds thin out for sunshine. more sun to the north. more clouds to the south. beautiful tomorrow. plenty of sunshine. better yet wednesday at 72. a cohple of showers tonigh early friday. still mild. we cool it down over the weekend. 50s by sunday. hand that's your latest weather. don't forget a time you need that weather go to the weather channe on cable, weather.com online. guys?

coming up, antonio banderas on bringing a minor miracle t life on the big screen, but first on

we are back now at 8:35 with a story that captivated the world's attention. 13 men trapped underground in a chilean mine for 69 days despite very long odds they all survived and five years later the ordeal s been made into a new movie called "the 33" made by antonio bairdias. >> i am crazy. i'm completely out of my mind.

daughter. and a wife, and you have a wife and aebaby on the way. >> antonio banderas, good morning. >> good morning. >> what a story. on the one hand we all followed this and we know how it ends, but the movie really delves into what is happening and the human story there. did it feel like that to you? >> absolutely. we have movies where we know about the outcome and the story ally tells the nuances, the subtleness of the relationships of what happened there. it's very important, and the story is just giving us simple but essential stories of our life itself. >> you play a character named mario who became known as super mario because he seemed to be

i know you got to the spend some time with that. >> how was that? >> it was great. gave me a lot of data about the situation and the event itself, you know, and they found basically a survivor, a man that seems at the ery early stages in his life, to struggle really, really hard to survive and life gave him after all an piportunity to use all of that knowledge, bills to save 32 people. >> i should mention this wasn't exactly filmed on some air conditioned soundstage somewhere in hollywood. >> no. >> thse were pretty grueling conditions of the tell me about them. >> yeah. we were kind -- kind of miserable. we were shooting in mines, in real mines in colombia in two places. and it was, you know -- it was very good for the movie and very bad for us actually. >> you say you dropped some weight. i mean you guys -- >> we had to do that. >> we spent 14 hours in

the mine and we had to fake actually it was very hard in reality what it was and at the same time we were breathing all the time this methane gas. it was, you know, tough conditions, but it adds realism to the story, that's what we were looking for and at the same time made us understand the conditions in which not these particular miners and this particular event but miners in general and workers in general, sometimes they are obliged to work. >> yeah. and it's a testament to the human spirit for sure. >> definitely. >> mntonio banderas, congratulations on the movie. thank you. "the 33" opens on november 13th. coming up next, curtis stone spices up your holiday season with a new take on turkey and on "today's take" a look back at all the fun we had playing the "peanuts" and charlie over to you.

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we're back at 8:40 with "today's" food and the start of our month long series the ultimate thanksgiving. >> all month we're featuring recipes you search for most online so naturally we're starting with the centerpiece of the hole day, the turkey. chef curtis tone is here with a unique take on the traditional bird. curtis, good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm going to go and i've been in here four times, this is the best turkey i've ever had in my life. >>n you've already taste it had. >> i've had four slices already. >> how did you do it? >> if you want a juicy succulent turkey the key is brining it. let me show you how we do it. i'm going to do a cpjun spice turk they year which has onion powder, garlic powder and paprika, thyme, oregano, cayenne pepper and black pepper. >> sounds like a lot of ingredients. any shortcuts you can take if you wanted to. >> you can cheat and buy a cajun spice mix. i mix that up and then i'm going

to use this a couple of diffbrent times so the first ing we do is take about a third of a cup and we dump that into some hot water, into our hot water goes the spice, some sugar, a little salt -- well, not a little salt, a lot of salt. >> this is thanksgiving, go wild. >> this is just to season the bird and like beer like every good australian does so thg anksgiving, if you get the right spicas, the other thing i love about this cajun mix, you bring that up to a boil. the -- the beautiful thing about this particular spice mix it gives you a golden brown finish an i feel like we see that so often. once this is dissolved, you know, you want to achieve it yourself. >> we've got our tasters downstairs ready to dig in on this. >> we echo your sentiments, the best tourkey ever. >> this is unbelievable. >> i want to east this. >> best, best, best. >> getting a lot of yes votes. >> as soon as your sugar and salts dissolve, i'll going to eat. pick it up and add it to cold water.

water and y u end up with a beautiful cold brine. you don't want at hot brine so excuse me, go on, matt. wasn't going to make you do that. good work. >> this way or this way. >> doesn't matter. >> you'll see once that cavity fills up, basically singh that from the inside out. >> get in there. >> and then it's time to stuff it. so that stays in the brine for about 12 hours. stick the wholeithing in your refrigerator and 12 hours late they are happens and then you get yourself some onions and bell persons and celery, you know, basically whatever veggies you've got laying around get stuffed right into the cavity of the turk to, a little bit of thyme and we'll go ahead and tie that up just like this, and the reason you are tying it because you want it to cook evenly and keep the legs together so it means that the breast and the leg w are g doing to kick >> you put it in the oven, had you often do you baste this thing? >> that goes in there. >> got your baste over here

which is the rest of your spice mix and have a look at this gorgeous golden col l and then it comes back. you need to cook it until an internal thermometer reads 165, 170 degrees. >> mm-hmm. >> okay, and then of urse to carve you get this beautiful succulent turkey. >> curtis, i'm telling you, not kidding, best turkey i've ever had. happy thanksgiving. >> you are not kidding. >> could you put the bread stuffing in the cavity. >> stuff it with whatever you like, little bit of vegetables, bread delicious in there. >> 12. >> and the gravy is really good, the graves >> i do, and if you stick around i'll make that in thbae next hour. >> we've been drinking the gravy. >> never seen matt pig out this much on any cooking seg sglnt bestst turkey. today.com/food. >> coming up next, a special performance in studio 1a from the legendary rod stewart, but,

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rod has brought to his fans over the years. mr. stewart joins us now. rod, always good to see you. >> i couldn't be better. >> you look good. >> thanks. >> you took a 20-year break from writing music and came bhak in 2013 in time. must have been something about getting back out there and doing that that kept you invigorated because you're right back tat. >> i was doing the american song book for ten of those years so i wasn't sitting on my bum and then i brought the back out and it realized how many songs i had to write so the book was the catalyst. >> i like to read reviews sometimes. other times i think it's a bunch of gibberish but let she try these on you. >> re they good in. >> pretty good. someone twleet this album is age appropriate. another review said it feels true to who h is today, an entertainer who is happy to reveal part of his heart because he knows there's an audience out there who cares. does that resonate with you? >> resonates big time. that's exactly what the album

singing age-appropriate songs i suppose, most of them. >> 50-plus years in the business. if you look at business of being a recording artist what's the biggest change today versus when you started? >> well, i would like tonbecome into the music business now, so discouraging, but the biggest change it's not the same business as it was a month ago and two years it's changed so much. >> technology. >> technology and records don't sell like they used to. i recorded all the album at home and it was a wonderful experience. instead of going into a studio, you know, spending thousands and thousands of dollars to get a bass drum sound, it's really a ti -waster so that's a big difference for me. >> we've been doing these interviews and every time i see you i want that outfite and i can't pull that off. you always look great. you like clothes, don't you. >> always have. >> what are you going to sing

for us this morning? >> a song called "love is." as if i know. >> you've tried. >> i've tried. >> rod stewart. pall and so you come to me with your questions on a subject on which i'm well-versed though i'm still as dumbfounded as the first time i found her it's either a blessing or a curse although i cannot offer solutions it would be reckless of me to try cause it's mystified man ever since tame began but hold on to your hat and i'll try low is like a burning arrow it can pierce the coldest heart love it warm, love is patient and the craziest thing you'll

ever start so crazy i recall when i was a young man a day i'm never allowed to forget there was a girl that i met who yo i dreamed i would wed forever our lives entwined she said you gotta stop worrying about the future you know we're far too young fortuhat i wanna spread my wings like a llow in the spring i never saw her pretty face again love it life, love it yearning it does ot boast, b speaks the truth love it fair and knows no boundaries and the craziest thing you'll evergeid

i wish you welln all of your travels and i hope what you're searching for it will hit you like thu er when you find one another and stay in your rms forevermore love it like a four-leaf clover it does not boast but speaks the truth love it blind, love is ender and the craziest thing you'll ever do so crazy

one more time, one more time. >> rod, thank you very much. >> still got it. oh, my gosh. his voice is still strong. >> absolutely. we're in november now. >> yes. >> time for our annual no-shave "today" campaign. once again we're joiningeguys all across the country by setting aside our razors to raise awareness for men's health and willie is here to help us kick it off. guys, how you doing? >> matt, looking pretty good. >> and al just from the weekend. a number of groups will be promoting facial hair for good causes. this morning we introduce you to one of the firsts started by a family that wanted to pay tribute to its beloved father and husband. as you see beards sprout across america during the month of november, you might wonder where

>> if you go to our family page. >> one place is in the suburban chicago home of the hill family. when matt hill lost his battle with colon cancer in 2007, his eight children decided they just had to do something in his honor. how do we get from i want to pay tribute to dad to the shaving thing? >> a lot of cancer patients undergo chemo and they lose hair so we grow our hair for those that are losing it and then the money that you would have spent on hair removal is then donated to the cause. >> six years ago in 2009 eldest sister rebecca started the no-shave november movement with a friend raising $2,000 in the fight against cancer. can you all believe the way this has grown from what $2,000 the first year to well over a million last year in. >> i can't believe it. definitely crazy. >> it's a team effort involving the entire family. we spoke with matt's widow sharon and her children kristine, thomas, aaron and his wife caitlin.

spread out across the country, but communicate and coordination using video chat. >> 13 out of 15 committed. >> at 16 thomas is the youngest hill. he's barely even shaving yet, but he's fully involved. what do you do every day to keep this movement? >> i come home from school and check online for all the bracelet orders and i pack all those up and have to go to the post office and ship them out and later i'll go online and check for support e-mails because i'll also respond to those, help people out and make sure the donations are coming in, no one is having issues and helped my brother design the wednesday sglit it raises money for cancer research by selling t-shirts and bracelets and it also provides fund-raising pages where participants gather pledges throughout the month. as the group has grown over the years, no shave has attracted pardoners in like rogue ales and spirits in oregon.

with yeast found in its brewmaster's beard and donates the sales to no-shave november where i'm sure it tastes better than it sounds. for will hills it's all a tribute to one man. what kind of man was your dad. >> an amazing guy, kind of mole rod el that people hope to have. >> every second i was with him, wanted to help, be with his kids and even when i was sick. he was like how are things at home so are you helping out? >> he was an amazing guy. >> what would matt think? >> i'm sure he would be extremely proud, extremely because that's exactly what he did day in and day out. he was just giving, giving, and i think he would be extremely proud. >> as they ready for what is now their busiest and mushiest month i asked how we're doing. on the "today" show we're been inspired by no-shave november. some of us pull it off better thraan others. i would say i'm on the low end of that spectrum. if i can get a little feedback

and you let me know if i'm helping orouting your cause with your beard. >> i think that looks pretty good. >> better than mine. >> definitely better than mine. >> boy, yours must be terrible. >> next year. >> i think it definitely exemplifies what no shave is, a little patchy. however, we do give points for creativity. >> okay. >> "a" for effort, is that what you're saying? >> a-plus for effort. >> a little patch set best thing i've ever heard about one of my beards, by the way. >> patchy geist. >> that is a great family, and this really is, full-time jobs of their own and coming home at night and working on this for their dad. >> no-chafe november, as i call it, how to look 70 years old for

share your pictures with us good morning. 8:57. it is monday morning. november 2nd. i'm darlene rodriguez. jury selection begins at the trial of sheldon silver. he stepped down as new york state assembly speaker after his arrest in january. he is accused of accepting nearly $4 million in payoffs and kick backs and disguising the payments as legal fees. he climbs he has done nothing wrong and prosecutors are misinterpreting the law 66, the high tonight. patchy fog, 52. tomorrow, most le sun any, high

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this morning on "tod 's take" oscar winner sandra bullock on her new movie and the one man who has changed her life. then, brad and angelina open up about their marriage in an exclusive interview. and we're talking turkey with curtis stone who is cooking up coming up now. >> from nbc news this is "today's" take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" it's

monday morning, man, got a big crowd ringing in november, november the 2nd, 2015. inside. i'm willie along with al and natly. tamron has the morning on. al, your morning jam is? >> "lay it all on me" but rudimental ft. ed sheeran. >> i like this song. i don't think i've heard it before. where have i been? >> hits one. >> what i listen to. >> god to love the sheeran. dancing right now in kansas city. >> sure are. >> royals have won the world series and came back again and won in 12 innings last night here in new york city and beat the mets 7-2 after trailing 2-0 heading into the ninth. yeah. it's the first world series title for kansas city in 30 years. they won in 1985 and tied up here, a good throw home gets the.runner.to>> oh, wow. >> but well wide. that's the tying run that sent it into extra innings. >> i've got to tell you watching

last night the whole controversy with terry collins and mattk. harvey. >> right. >> he pitched a great eight innings and did not want to come out. >> and they pulled him. >> kept in him, unfortunately. >> that's one of the things as a manager. do you listen to your gut or your player? >> pitched great for eight innings, usually you bring in the closer and wanted to send him back out there to close the game. once he walked that first hitter a lot of people are saying it's time to take him out. >> yes. >> but then the rally started. kansas city tied it up and won it in 12 innings. 7-2 was the final so the series does not go back to kansas city it's over. parade in kc tomorrow and the mets, they wanted more out of this but they have a young team with great pitching and they will be back. >> and it was a terrific season. >> it was. >> they started out, nobody was quite sure and then, boom. >> they brought hope back which is great. >> good time. >> groat job, mets, appreciate it the. >> we wes. the "peanuts" characters. >> we creatured out america.

>> one comic strip, one "peanuts" character. >> yours creep the me out. just your ears and your head. >> i can't remember the website the. but there was a website that listed us in the order of creepiness and charlie brown was number one. >> number one. >> you know what the problem was in hindsight, amongst other things, the "peanuts" characters had big heads and little bodies and with the costumes we had little heads and big bodies and everybody did a fantastic job. all of our folks and all of our technical planners just fantastic. >> it's funny, i'm just seeing with all the cute little effects and everything. >> did a great job. >> terrific. >> actually the best c iracter was dylan as the kite. >> on roller skates. >> "weekend today," "the voice," you guys nailed this. you as carson, take a look. >> i haven't seen this. >>e wow. wow. >> hey, guys, welcome to the blind auditions of season nine of "the voice."

my name is carson daly. the seventh tv show i've hosted already today. my doctor says if i'munot on television at any given moment i'll die. got a very special show, a full lineup if you want to get right to it. >> you are really good at getting the mannerisms down. >> that was really good. >> i studied carson -- carson was sitting right awho is from me dressed at gwen stefani. >> very disturbing. >> makes a good woman. >> sorry, carson. >> oh, man. that's just not right. >> yoidre awesome. >> and look at dylan as adam levine. >> sheinelle was pharrell. >> sheinelle, pharrell. >> and erica as blake shelton. >> not even close. >> that ain't right. >> that was good. >> you were awesome. >> thank you very much. >> got right down. >> you and your family -- >> our town goes nuts during halloween. i think because it's saturday it started probably around 2:00 we had kids already.

3,000 pieces of candy. i know because i went to the store twice to refill. hi to reload. >> when we were kids, my parents just would send us out because we lived in the projects and would you dump -- after you got your haul you went out and started replenishing the candy jar. >> my kids are at school. i did take some of theirs and dump it. >> ooh. >> they won't know. >> is that a picture of luke dressed as obi-wan. >> and joshed a kilo wren. >> this is my husband as a ghost. >> he goes crazy. >> your husband went as in-in out burger and on the back it says eat if you dare and there's little hands and body parts. >> you aren't kidding. you guys go all out. >> you town goes crazy. >> it is. >> i like how you festoon your home with candy corns.

>> i put the candy corns everywhere. and you guys had a great ekend. deborah ran the new york city marathon, congratulations. >> ran with the abc news relay teach >> yeah. >> and they -- they had a great time and came in at the end there. she had a great time, doing like 10:00 miles. >> great, fantastic. >> so impressive. >> such a nice day and always so inspiring. >> i know. >> i love standing at finish line and seeing all kinds of people cross the finish line. >> and people from all over the world, too, and all over the country. i was standing at 97th and fifth waiting for my sister-in-law and her husband to go by and i saw an awesome moments and there's two working security and someone from the nypd, an officer and woman was running and she was struggling there. it was mile 23, and these two offimacers broke security as you can see in this picture. peeled off and threw her arms around them and just gave her a little nudge, i don't know, for a block or so and then they came back to work. >> that's incredible. wow what, a moment.

firefighter running which is impressive on his own but he was wearing his gear. >> no way. >> i couldn't get close enough to see what fire department he's with. maybe someone is watching and somebody can tell us. >> extra 30 or 40 pounds, maybe closer to 70. >> wow. >> last hour we heard such a great interview. tom brokaw sat down with brad and angelina promoting their first film together in ten years "by the sea" and they talked about everything from their marriage. they got married a year ago and how angelina's health problems have brought them closer together as a family. in march of this year she had her ovaries and globian tube removed also following having the mast exmembers after the brca-1 gene mutatio . she's what she told tom. >> there was no vanity to my wife's approach. it was mature. it was an excitement to where there is her life and we're going to make the best of it. there's strength in that.

in life that -- that makes you tighter, and she was doing it for her kids. she was doing it for her family so she -- so we could be together. it trumped everything. truffled everything and anything. >> i think for as much as he speaks about my strength, i knew that he made it very, very clear to me that what he loved and what was a woman to him was somebody who was smart and capable and cared about her family, that it wasn't about -- not about your physical body, and so i knew through the susgeries that he was on my si and that this wasn't something where i was going to feel less of a woman because my husband wasn't going to let that happen. >> i love that. >> make such a powerful team. she saiis absolutely. they also talked about married life and one the things they came up with, i guess angelina joked like she felt she should cook a little bit more at home and, you know, brad i guess is not too into her cooking. >> oh, brad. >> so now you're a married couple. you know, it's certified, and --

after you got married she had thought maybe she should be a more conventional wife and mother and thought about cooking. >> no, no. >> he looks at me because like every three months i'll say, honey, i think i should learn how to cook, don't i? >> yeah. i just humor it, but really she has no business in the kitchen. >> boom. >> she can do other things very well. "by the sea" produced by our sister company universal pictures. >> can i just go on record by saying i would listen to tom brokaw read the phone book. >> that's correct. >> you know. >> true. >> god bless him. i'm so thankful that he works with us. >> i love tom brokaw. good interview, too. watch the whole thing at today.com. al, you got a look at the nweather? >> what if he had been a weather man. >> you'd be out of a job. >> i'd be out of a job. >> and we could listen you do weather all day long and you'll be doing that soon in rokerthon. >> starting that on thursday, 50

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>> extremely human. she's -- she struggles with a lot of issues, you know. she struggles with addiction, mental health issues, but she happens to be absolutely brilliant at what she does which is she can manipulate situations for her garngs her win or for someone else's win or whoever else hires her. >> stand up on the level, come on, you, bigger. this role? so many famous political rove. did you look at one? >> i went and the lived with karl rove and he's amazing and said if you're going to do it do it right. i'll show you how i won for bush and going to show you everything. >> bunked up him? >> really nice guest room. it wasn't like camping, it was gaslamping. you know, sadly you didn't have to do much studying because we're surrounded by it every day. >> yeah. >> you just -- you just see people who are manipulators, who are brilliant manipulators. >> going through every quote he's ever given, every person he's ever met and vote he's ever

made and look for ways of using it against him, fanned anyone has any qualms about this, thinks it's wrong in some way you come and talk to me, okay? we feel such pressure to excel and be successful, and i think what we're selling and deeming full is just completely off the traffics. i think when you get to the end of your life you say, wow, i spent so much time worrying about achieving this monetary success or being seen this way amongst my peers and being respect the and in the end you go i don't care. >> listening to you even talk right here feels like you have such great perspective on your career. >> i have absolutely none whatsoever. i'm an actress and i'm full of crap, and it's early and i'm lying. and i'm eating french fries. >> have another fry. >> that's the only truth right now i? ay that because every time i hear you speak or read an interview but you talk about ur son and how your career decisions will impact him. >> yeah. >> i don't hear about how it's

>> i've had a pretty interesting and fortunate run. >> you are the man! >> thank you. >> i'm starved and i'm armed. don't mess with me. >> you threaten my son, you threaten me. >> you know, i've been really lucky, and a lot of it has to do with luck so i work hard. i love what i do, but my whole life was working, that's all i had, in hotel rooms and suitcases and i loved it and i didn't have a home. i've been given a great gift with being allowed to be his mom. that's probably why i work every two years. >> houston, do you copy in. >> we had "gravity" an unexpected whirlwind beautiful little gift, you know. no one expected it. my decisions are purely ba ed on am i going to have an amazing lifetime experience, and that's based on whether louie is happy or not. >> go, go, go, yes. take it, yes. >> hold it.

>> the bus chase scene, how to put this gently. it culminates in a moment. there's a full moon over la pat. >> la paz looks best when there's a clear sky and full moon. i like to call it a blue moon, and we had full, full moonage, you know. sometimes your best fa forward is not the best way to enter t sleave a room. sometimes -- sometimes the exit is better than the perspective of the person exiting. >> and when people seat movie they will know exactly what they are talking about. enjoy the fries. >> thank you so much for splurging. >> you'll have to see "our brand is crisis "to understand that cryptic conversation about the full moon but i think you get the point. coming up next, the surprising uses for everyday items and we put them to the test right after this. to the couple who set aside the whole day to sell their old car

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of times to get a nice long strip and the wax from the paper will lubricate the blades so that it will glide over the can easily the next time? that's very cool. >>a there's that. wax paper can also help save the mnant cans of paint you have. >> this is my favorite tip and it's because we've all been there with house projects, have half a can left. before you store t.trace theilid on to wax paper and cut yourself a circle and then you're going to floatit on top of the paint and it's going to prevent that layer, that thick layer on top that when you mix it back in that will leave you with chunks and an unevenmazing. how did you know? >> that's what we're here for and find the tips out for you. >> once we have the paint and dripping for the paint and a use for may nanz. >> you can get these drips off the tile, try them when they are wet, a little dab of mayo on the corner of your dry cloth and you'll swipe and what's happening here is the oil from

oil in the paint because oil and oil -- >> breaks down. >> they attract one another so you're breaking it down. >> that's pretty cool. >> nice and easy. >> does that work with latex-based paint. >> most paint has oil in it unless you're using a water-based but, o course, the trick get it while it's still wet and this is for your hands, too, which is great. >> little manicure. >> exactly. >> so when you don't have time for a full manicure, dip your hands in there, use mayo from the fridge. it's got oil. >> really hydrating. >> leave it for five to men minutes or apply it to the cuticle if you want. it will leave your nails super soft, hydrated and, you know, you don't have to head out to the salon. >> and then you can make a sandwich. >> what are we doing with the chowk. >> rocks locks, outdoors, bike locks and instead of reaching for a lubricant that can trap the dust and debris and take a piece of chowk, scrape the side of the key and you're getting all that

dust in there and the chalk is going to act as a drying aent so that when you get to open the lock it glides out easily. >> put one in here in the you'll lock. >> you can. do the key first and turn it a couple of times. the first thing to try before reaching -- >> explain this to me. a jewelry box here. >> chalk is porous so it's naturally absorbant which means that it can stop silver from tarnishing, so throw a piece or two in your jewelry box or your grandmother's silver for your entertaining and it's going to keep you from having to use elbow grease. >> place it in there and replace it every couple of mintz land keep it kind of shiny. >> you're kind of a genius. >> can't take all the credit. >> tamron, nice job. halloween is over and time to start think ng about thanksgiving, and curtis stone, we can smell it don't be envious, be envied re thvlon colorstay gel envy in just two steps, i get what i want. salon-quality base and color then diamond top coat for extraordinary shine and life-resistant wear.

live look at the hamilton bridge. good morning. i'm michael gargiulo. major traffic delays expected when president obama visits knew arc. he is expected to stop at a halfway house for ex convicts. it will take place in kri justice reforms and he is expected to attend a fund-raiser in manhattan. later on this evening. partly sunny, mild, 66 for the high. tomorrow, patchy fog, 62.

tomorrow, mostly sunny, 70. wednesday, warmer, 72. thursday, late clouds shower possible. 68, friday. still, 70s again. coming up on the "today" show, the women behind the viral leggings are not pants, public service announcement. that's true. we'll have another local update in 30 minutes. in the meantime, have a great start to the week. find over 1,000 special stories at hospital for special surgery.

taking a look at the headlines, and e. coli outbreak has shut down dozens of chipotle restaurant on the we coast. at least 22 people have become sick from e. coli, but health officials are expecting that number to grow while they investigate the cause of the infection. the chain has closed 43 locations in washington and oregon. officials say the source is likely a fresh food product that was shipped to the stores. investigators in pennsylvania and new jersey are still trying to figure ogh who put needles into candy bars that were handed out to trick-or-tr jaeaters. at least four children received tampered candy, but hankfully no one was hurt.

whether the candy was altered by a person passing out halloween treats or by someone at a store or the manufacturer. a growing number of prominent doctors, scientists and government agent sig ficance around the world are urging parents to limit the amount of time their children spend on smartphones. they warn the phones emit a form of radiation similar to a low powered microwave oven. cell phone providers say they follow all fcc guidelines but those standards were developed nearly 20 years ago. critics say they are outdiscriminate dated. some sad news this morning, former senator and actor fred thompson who is died. he served as a u.s. senator for eight years and ran for president in 2008, but many will remember him from his role as a district atto ney on the show "law & order" and for movies like "hunt for red october" and "cape fear." thompson died from a reoccurrence of lymphoma. he was 73 years old. movie-goers were apparently scared away from movie theaters

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northwest, cascades as well, the sierra. wet weather in california where they need it. as we get into the mid-week, more rain and wet weather through the southeast. gorgeous here in the northeast, new england, on into the great lakes. snows moving into the rockies and the northern plains. sunshine along the west coast and as we get into the latter part of thesweek a ot of wet weather down through the gulf again where they do not need it. they have been getting slammed from texas on into louisiana, mississippi and alabama. that extends all the way up into he upper mississippi rivers off to a good start on this monday. a fair amount of cloud cover early. we get some occasional filtereded sun out there, specially this afternoon. high temperature, nice and mild at 66. some 30s in the most distant suburbs. 40s, most nearby suburbs. plenty of blue sky and sunshine. wednesday, 72. a few clouds later thursday. leading to a shower later in the day. more likely at night. 71, friday.

>> and that isour late weather. now to two social media stars, nash greer and cammon dallas. national, king of vine with devote the fans watching his six-second videos like this one with his sister which has been viewed more than 20 million times. you can call me green beans >> green beans. >> meanwhile, carpal ron has attracted more than 271 million followers across all his social media accounts in luding vine with items like this. >> that's a keeper.lithat one was really good. >> now you can catch both of them in a move called "the outfield" a coming of age story about high school seniors who play ball in pier yeah, illinois. nash, cameron, good morning. >> kings of vine, shall we call you. for people who don't yeally get what vine, is why do it? what is it about vine that you guys love so much?

connect with people and especially the youth and when vine first came out a year ago we hopped on it and decided to make video. >> connect with the youth, you're the youth. >> just a fun activity. do it because it's fun. >> can you tell us a story in six seconds. >> you can tell a story in whatever amo nt of time that you can get something on a camera. that's 1,000 words. >> might be a little hard to tell a longer line, but, you know. >> a lot of people making vine but sdroent 27 million followers like what you have. what is it about what you're doing that's caught os. do you think? >> for me personally, if you look at way social media is set up, like we both have a lot of followers on vine but they are also distributed among youtube and instagram and twitter and napchat and when there's millions of people that you can talk to and access that easily, like for me personally, like i say, just being honest and being myesself and t t kind of like helps me i guess talk to -- to people and get followers. i can't really explain. >> hard to explain.

>> then you see somebody like james franco redoing your thing. take a look, pretty good of this >> the royals. bee. >> green beans. >> and we'll never be royal. >> how did that make you feel? >> it's cool. blessed. >> okay. >> we're going from six seconds to almost two hours. >> transition. >> tell me about "the outfield." what's the movie? >> want to take it. >> it's about three kids who are best friends and they have grown up together and everything and it starts the beginning of the season and goes until the end of the season and they are seniors in high school committee kind of like a coming of age story. we're all kind of becoming men and it follows our journeys and our ups and downs and just teaches really cool lessons throughout whole thing. >> and how like your decisions when you're that age kind of form and shape your future. >> yeah. >> and that's a big year for kids, you know, like seniors in high school, like the classes and decisions you make then

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>> pause t'at picture would live forever forever forever. gravy. first of all, you start after you finish the turkey. >> use the same pan that you cook the turkey in, that's the most important thing. see that all in the bottom. >> i'm fond of that. >> a little bit of thyme goes from there. >> i've removed the stuffing from the turkey. if you didn't want to eat this which i love, but can you throw that into the gravy as well. >> onions and celery. >> and peppers. >> i'll turn it up a little higher. you want to cook all of this cookness out. if you wanted to use a little wine now is the time to pour it in. >> and there's our chicken stock. >> the grid shows you the chicken stock, butter, flour, oregonno, garlic powder and ill the ingredients there. >> you literally cook this down and you just grape all those bits off. bring it up to a billy, right, and then you're going to strain it through a strainer so you end up with this beautiful looking sauce. if you want to take the fat off you can. >> but you don't have to. >> don't have to.

there's lots of flavor in hered mo'tve over here to a separate pan and we'll start with the roux which is basically how we'll thicken the sauce. equal quantity of butter and flour. doesn't matter how muchcoou use. >> just start whisking that? >> i reserved a little bit of the spice mix because i did a cajun turkey so some of thgat spice i throw in there as well. >> that's got a kick, it's delicious. >> isn't it great? >> and then you take the chicken stock which has been reduced down with the sauce that's in the pan and once this stuff starts to bubble and you see it happening now, tweak it up ever soin slightly more then you go ahead and pour this good stuff in, just a little bit at a team and it will thicken up almost straight away and if you keep whisking it you can keep pouring that in a little like would you make a white sauce. >> meantime, great cranberry. >> or just dump it in like that. >> different take on not only

>> what's thanksgiving without cranberries. beautiful fresh cranberries into a little bit of water. i've got some dried figs which are also great. throw those in whole and dump in the sugar and a little bit of flavor. original zest and some cinnamon, that all goes in -- >> not those. >> that's an alternative. >> if you wanted to do something it comes down to this, perfect for the thanksgiving turkey. >> our judges. >> i love the fig, never had that before, it's great. >> can also do a thanksgiving or holiday kind of snack with a little blue cheese on the bottom of the toast with some walnut. >> sweet, savory. >> curtis, thanks so much. for these recipes and more thanksgiving ideas head to today.com/food. coming up, got her big break with a single "the story" and now brandy carlitle is out with som tei'm phil mickelson, pro go. er. my psoriatic arthritis caused joint pain. just like myrmoderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and i was worried out joint damage. my doctor saidr

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love as you grow i mi e-ssed the dates when i was just a kid my fear became my shadowings i swear it did where is your heara i call home wherever is our heart i call home hough your feet may take you far from me, i know where is your heart i call home you made me feel like i was always falling always falling down without a place to land somewhere in the distance i heard you calling oh, it hurts so bad to let go of your hand wherever is your heart i call home wherever is your heart i call home though your feet may take you far from me, i know

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of when i come home, when i come home oh, god forgive my mind there's a road that's long and winding, it hollers home i'm calling home oh, god forgive my mind oh, god forgive my mind when i come home when i come home oh, god forgive my mind oh, god foregive my my mind when i come home when i cost home wherever is your heart i call home wherever is your heart i call home though your feet may take you far from me, i know

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