good morning. slippery slope. bp's stock value drops 16% in a single day, now off more than 50% since the start of the disaster. is one of the world's most profitable companies headed for bankruptcy? new video of joran van der sloot introducing himself to the woman he is now accused of killing in peru as the fbi admits he was given $25,000 in a sting operation just days earlier. this morning investigators are looking into van der sloot's possible connection to two more missing women. and ay, carly. california republican senate candidate carly fiorina caught on an open mike making a joke

about her opponent's hair. >> lauder saw her briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says -- god, what is that hair? so yesterday. >> and her campaign is calling it nothing more than small talk "today," thursday, june 10th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning, i'm meredith vieira. >> we are in day 52 of this disaster in the oil. now bp's stock has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade. >> consider this -- back on april 20th it was trading at just over $60 a share. on wednesday it closed below $30, that's more than a 51% drop. some on wall street fear bp's stock will keep losing value. we'll have much more on that and

what it means to those whose lives have been impacted by the disaster. also a dramatic new underwater look at the toll that spill is taking on the environment. we'll talk to a man who dove into the gulf waters to take these images straight ahead. new home video of 15-year-old josie ratley's recovery after a brutal attack. for the first time a 13-year-old girl charged in connection with that case is speaking out. kayla manson pointed ratley out to her alleged attacker, a 15-year-old boy but she says there is more to a story. this morning manson is here for an exclusive live interview. this morning, ann currys at the news desk for us. good morning, everybody. on this day 52 of the gulf oil disaster, president obama is meeting with the families of the 11 workers killed when the rig exploded. he is also getting an update on the spill and clean-up effort. meantime, as bp tries to stop this leak, its stock dropped 16%

in u.s. trading on wednesday. cnbc's trish regan now joins us with more on this. trish, how much trouble is this company in? >> it is in a lot of trouble. people are talking about potential bankruptcy in this situation. look at where this stock price is. it's lost more than half of its value since the spill happened 52 days ago. it is a loss of $82 billion, ann. it's now sitting at a 14-year low. and the reason folks are so concerned about this company is because the administration is talking about lifting the liability caps in terms of what bp would have to shell out to cover all these problems. now typically they would just be responsible under the 1990 oil act. they would just be responsible -- pollution act, that is -- for the costs associated directly with the spill. however, the administration is talking about lifting those liability caps so bp would be responsible for all the costs associated with this spill so essentially bp would have to cover any workers that lost their jobs as a result of the

moratorium. they'd be responsible for those wages so you'd be talking billions and billions and billions of dollars. and investors are worried that the company just, frankly, doesn't have it. so it is really taking its toll. people are questioning whether this is going to in fact mean bankruptcy. they're certainly questioning the company's going to in fact give that dividend. so a lot weighing on bp certainly this morning. >> it is amazing when you consider this company was considered something that could not fall. trish regan, thank you this morning. iran remains defiant this morning a day after the u.n. voted to impose new sanctions. iran is saying that the sanctions are like annoying flies. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is now standing by with more. andrea, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these new sanctions are not as tough as the u.s. originally wanted but the administration compromised in order to get iran's long-time supporters, china and russia to sign on. now the question is whether the sanctions will work. the security council's 12-2 vote was a rare show of unity capping

months of intense diplomacy. iran is being punished for trying to hide an illegal nuclear program and accelerating its production of nuclear fuel, fuel that could eventually be used for weapons. >> this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government, and it sends an unmistakable message about the international community's commitment to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. >> reporter: the new sanctions include a ban on iranian nuclear and missile investment abroad, a ban on conventional arms and ballistic missile activities, new procedures to inspect suspicious cargo to stop the smuggling of equipment to iran, tighter restrictions on iran's international banking. after the vote, iran's u.n. ambassador was defiant. >> no amount of pressure and mischief will be able to break our nation's determination to pursue and defend its legal and inalienable rights.

>> they know this resolution will bite and that it is a major blow to their ability to pursue their nuclear weapons and proliferation activities. >> reporter: iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, called the resolution valueless and said it should be "thrown in the waste bin like a used handkerchief." this morning reports out of russia say they'll freeze a contract to sell missile systems out of iran. >> andrea mitch this will morning, thanks. today a u.n. tribunal sentenced two bosnian-serb army officers to life in prison for contributing genocide in 1995. they are the first defendants sentenced for genocide by the u.n. tribunal so far. a brutal attack during the night in afghanistan where a wedding party was bombed killing at least 40 people near kandahar and wounding more than 70. children are among the dead. the bride and the groom survived. delta airlines is apologizing for sending two

children to the wrong destinations. it blames the paperwork mix-up for sending an unaccompanied boy to cleveland instead of boston and sending a girl to boston instead of cleveland. the two finally ended up in the right cities. at&t says a security problem exposed e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 users of apple's ipad and among those said to have been exposed, some big names in finance, media and politics, including new york city mayor michael bloomberg. at&t says the problem now has been fixed. and celebrating in chicago. last night the blackhawks won the stanley cup with a 4-3 overtime win over the flyers. it is chicago's first nhl championship in 49 years. kiss that trophy a kumt of times. 7:07. back over to meredith, matt and al. al, i'm thinking about your

are. a good thursday morning. the sun is shining once again over washington. temperatureseses in the upper 60s to near 70. a nice summer morning.

plenty of is up shine and a warm day and a touch of humidity with a high near 87. your extended forecast into the weekend with bright sunshine and less humid with a high of 84. highs near 90 both days over the weekend. >> that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you. now to more on the disaster in the gulf. bp says additional ships are on their way to the leak site as engineers try to increase the amount of oil being captured from that blown-out well. nbc's anne thompson is in venice, louisiana with more. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. today president obama will meet privately with family members of the 11 men who died on the deepwater horizon rig and parish leads from the effected areas will testify before congress to remind the nation that this crisis grows worse with each passing day and there is no end in sight. when you see helpless

oil-covered birds and porpoises try to make their way through water coated with sheen, it is easy to forget people are victims of this oil spill, too. >> it's scary. >> reporter: dominic brought no inn his final catch of shrimp wednesday, the last process at this seafood house. it closed and dominic's shrimping days are over. for how long, he doesn't know. >> fixing to lose something we had for a long time. got all this money invested in a boat and don't know what we're going to do with it. >> reporter: the emotional pain of this disaster reverberated all the way to capitol hill. >> we are tired of being dumped on in the gulf! >> reporter: actor kevin costner, an investor in a technology he says could help clean up the spill, testified before a house committee. >> i'm dying to see anybody that cleans up oil in any kind of response on the scale that i'm talking about. >> reporter: over in the senate, there was bipartisan focus on the most basic information.

>> i'd like to get a little better picture about the flow, how much is coming out. >> reporter: bp says it captured 15,000 barrels of oil tuesday with a containment cap. but with lots of screwcrude sti escaping, the government is still trying to get naum ber. >> i think we all had estimates, some people were disappointed when they were changed so show me the numbers. >> reporter: this is what the oil looks like from below the surface. these disturbing new underwater images taken by an associated press reporter. here you can see the softball-sized globs of oil and a green haze, a dim view of a dark crisis. now adding to the problems down here today, the weather. the temperature in venice will be in the high 90s and it is going to feel like it is somewhere between 110 and 120 degrees, and that could pose

grave problems for those clean-up workers wearing those very hot hazmat suits. >> as if things couldn't get worse. anne thompson, thank you. rich matthews is the associated press photographer who went scuba diving in the gulf to take those underwater images of the disaster. he joins us now. rich matthews, good morning to you. >> good morning, meredith. >> you actually took two dives. the first one you were about 20 miles from the oil spill itself. tell me what you saw when you went under with that camera. >> you know, the oil was as thick as i had's ever seen it. i was not prepared to see as much oil beneath the surface as i saw as anne's story just reported, they were softball-sized globs of oil hanging as low as maybe 15 feet below the surface, and it may have been even deeper but that was as far as i felt safe going since i was in the water by myself. >> you wrote about it and said you were actually scared. >> you know, i wasn't worried about long-term health effects

but i'll admit that once you dive in that water by yourself and you get under water and are having trouble seeing, my nerves were on high alert. again, i just felt i had to be safe and not go any deeper. i'm not worried about long-term effects because the exposure was a relatively short time for me. >> did you see any sea life in that dive? >> not out there, not on that dive. i did see a few dead jellyfish, a few small bay fish. i'll also stretch out in the open water 1,000 feet deep you wouldn't expect to see a large amount of sea life there. >> you then went on another dive with a couple other divers, this was off of an oil rig that's about 40 miles from the one that actually exploded. and in the first 30 feet of your dive you found no life under the surface. what would you expect to find normally? >> well, normally the second that you splash in around an oil rig there's so much sea life that fish will come out and

check you out and, yes, you're right, that for the first 30 feet, there was literally nothing. even if the corals, we dropped down right beside the rig, normally you'd see crabs and things, small crabs, we saw very little life that first 30 feet. i don't know if that means things have died off or just moved, but it is certainly not natural. >> then below that you did see sea life but you also saw something you referred to as -- i apologize to those folks eating their cornflakes right now -- you refer to it as green snot balls. what did you think that was? >> again, i'm not going to stretch my credentials here. i'm not a scientist. what i can tell you is a long-time diver and the two gentlemen that dove with me are much more experiences than i am. none of us had ever seen it. it wasn't algae, it wasn't natural. it kind of disappeared as we reached out and touched it so it was something that should be there normally.

>> very disturbing. thank you, rich matthews, so much. 7:14. here's matt. there are several new developments this morning tied to the arrest of joran van der sloot. did the fbi miss a chance to nab him for extortion? nbc's michelle kosinski has the latest from lima, peru. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. this case in which truth seems to be stranger than fiction just gets more complex by the day. now you have colombia investigating the disappearances of young women while van der sloot was there. you have aruba and the u.s. hoping information comes out to solve the natalee holloway case, and now you have the fbi explaining why they didn't arrest him in aruba when they say they caught him in the act of extortion from natalee holloway's mother. in the latest video to emerge from joran van der sloot's arrest, he looks exhausted, defeated, had just been caught in chile, about to be paraded

over and over again for the world to see in peru. but it was weeks before the brutal beating death of student stephany flores in van der sloot's hotel room here that the fbi was pursuing him from the u.s. they say in april, he reached out to an attorney close to natalee holloway's mother and promised to finally tell what really happened to her daughter back in 2005, including where her remains are. in exchange, investigators say, for a quarter of a million dollars. but mom called the fbi. she wired him $15,000 and a meeting was set up in aruba monitored by the feds where the 22-year-old roefing poker player was handed another 10 grand, cash. days later he was off to south america where fate would have him meet stephany flores as a cat know poker table in lima. here they are, newly released surveillance footage, gambling together and they leave during what would be some of the last moments of this young woman's

life. so why was he not arrested on the spot in aruba? the fbi now in a statement says the case was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der sloot left aruba, not due to any fault on the part of the fbi or the u.s. attorney's office. federal sources tell nbc news they first wanted to see if van der sloot's information about natalee might solve the case. his latest story, that he and his father, who died of a heart attack in february, had buried natalee near a construction site. he claims she died after falling and hitting her head on a rock. the fbi insists the money van der sloot was paid and which may have paid for his trip to peru came from natalee holloway's mother and not taxpayer dollars. but checking out his story took time. ultimately investigators say proving to be merely more lies. by then, van der sloot was gone. in peru, the press has been buzzing with new details each day, quoting police sources as saying van der sloot hit

stephany flores in the head with a tennis racket at least six times, so violently he broke her neck, allegedly telling interrogators he became enraged when she found information on his computer revealing him as the suspect in the natalee holloway case. newspapers claim he considered taking her body in a bag to put it in the ocean, but was afraid and that he was found to have cocaine and marijuana in his system. strangely, precisely five years after natalee, joran van der sloot is in custody accused of murder, just in a completely different case. so here you have natalee holloway's mother desperate to solve that case after so many years, possibly unwittingly funding joran van der sloot's trip here to peru where now all this has happened. and colombian authorities are interviewing people there looking into the disappearances of two young women ages 20 and 21 who liked to spend time in casinos just to see if there might be some connection to this case now. matt? >> michelle kosinski in lima for

us this morning, let's bring nbc news analyst in, former fbi profiler, excuse me, cliff van zandt. cliff, good morning to you. as you hear the circumstances here surrounding this fbi involvement in the case, the two payments to joran van der sloot, first $15,000, another $10,000 in aruba, take me through it. does any of it surprise you? i know you have strong opinions on this. >> no, it doesn't really. i think from day one when natalee disappeared, i think those closest to the case -- as you know, i was down there for nbc. i interviewed one of the others, the investigators who knew sander slow the, his personality, his actions and lies were all consistent of having something to do with the disappearance of natalee holloway and that same type of personality is something that we felt should be watched over the years because he was capable of any type of untoward action against others. >> however, though, so first he gets a check for $15,000, or

it's sent to him. then in aruba, $10,000 more. you're hearing the questions, clint, people are saying why didn't the fbi arrest him right then? was this a jurisdiction issue? >> yeah, matt, i think first of all, people don't understand, the fbi internationally, once i get outside of the united states when i was an fbi agent, i had to work with local authorities. the fbi has no authority to arrest someone outside of the u.s. and its territories. you have to work through the local authorities. the arubans and the dutch and the u.s. authorities all cooperated in this investigation. then they had to pull together the elements of the wire fraud and the extortion. they had to attempt to verify the information, realizing we're trying to find out what happened to natalee holloway, as well as lock in these violations that he allegedly committed, present it to a grand jury, get an indictment, then extradite him back to the united states. that doesn't happen overnight. >> real quickly though, are you

surprised that there wasn't more surveillance kept on van der sloot? in other words, how did he manage to get away from that payment in aruba and end up in south america? >> well, for the last five years there hasn't really been a big surveillance on him. we know that he always goes back to holland, he goes back to aruba. once he got indicted he could have been extradited. with 20-20 hindsight we could say, gee, that money may have been used to take him to peru. but for the last five years we don't know of a criminal offense, much less a violent act that he's committed so there was no way the holloway family, the arubans or the u.s. government could have predicted this terrible case would happen, and the bottom line was they were trying to lock in the elements of the extortion in a wire fraud, perhaps you'd have to flip him on the holloway case and bring this thing into fruition. finally bring this person that so many feel may be connected to natalee's disappearance to justice. >> there are a lot of moving parts.

clint van zandt, as always, thank you very much. 21 after the hour. here's meredith. >> now to that open mike incident for california republican senate candidate carly fiorina. take a look at what she was overheard saying just before a television interview on wednesday. >> lauder saw barbara boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says -- god, what is that hair? so yesterday. >> that's the risk of those open mikes. you never know. >> i can only imagine what would happen if someone -- oh, my gosh here. >> zip it! just ahead, investigators expand the certainly this morning for 7-year-old kyron horman. why has his family yet to speak out? we'll talk to the sheriffs heading up that case. we'll talk to the sheriffs heading up that case. but

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just ahead, the 13-year-old charged as an accomplice in the

text rage beating of josie ratley speaks out for the first time in an exclusive live interview. plus, is many being withheld from your paycheck and you don't even know it? the warning if you have any debt at all, after your local news and weather.

good morning. it is 7:26o this thursday, jub 10th, 2010. one happened on marcie avenue in oxen hill. human shot three people outside an apartment and all 3 three are expected to be okay. the police are looking for a man who shot three men. one is this critical condition and they are not related.

>> i'm chuck bell. 70 degrees and patchy fog, but much warmer than yesterday. highs in the mid- to upper 60 skz sunshine and low humidity and highs in the mid 80s. >> it has been a tough one. bp parkway jammed and the problem with the accident on the interchange. eastern avenue and on top of that a dog was running around. the dog was running around on the loose. jammed all the way while they were trying to still get the dog. let's check 66. 95 and 395 all loaded up this

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7:30 now on a thursday morning, the 10th of june, 2010. you're looking at the view of new york city from the top of the rock, about seven stories above our crowd here on rockefeller plaza. a hazy today. tomorrow we'll have a summer concert with rascal flatts performing out on that plaza for another energetic crowd. meanwhile inside studio 1a, i'm matt lauer alongside meredith vieira. just ahead, a good reason to take a look at your paycheck the next time you get it. >> absolutely. if you owe any type of debt -- credit cards, student loans, child support -- collectors could be taking money out of your paycheck and you might not

even know it, in some cases you weren't even told they're about to do it. what you should look out for just ahead. also ahead, new video of florida teen josie ratley out of the hospital and back home more than two months after she was nearly beaten to death at school over a text message. coming up, the latest on her recovery and this morning for the first time, the 13-year-old girl charged in connection with the case will speak out in an exclusive live interview. and also a programming note -- tomorrow on "today" we'll have an exclusive interview with the parents of gary coleman. they will be here to talk about coleman's tragic death, his legacy and also share the reaction to those deathbed photos taken of their son. that is gary coleman's parents tomorrow, only on "today." but we begin this half-hour with investigators in oregon expanding the search now for 7-year-old kyron horman. we'll talk to the investigators heading up that search in just a moment, but first, nbc's janet schamlian is in portland with the latest. janet, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you. this has been an unusual missing

child case in a number of ways, including the fact that the parents have not appeared publicly to appeal for their son's safe return. as you indicated, the search is continuing today and it is intensely focused on a half-mile radius right around this school. it's been almost a week since 7-year-old kyron horman went missing from this portland elementary school, his last picture proudly posing by a science project in a "csi" t-shirt. it was last friday, and still no word whether directives believe it was an abduction. no sketch or description of a possible kidnapper has been released. >> we want this to come to a quick conclusion. we want to find kyron and we want to get him home. it has our total focus. >> reporter: unlike so many missing child cases, kyron's parents have not gone on television mavging a plea for his safe return. why aren't these parents talking? >> i don't really know at this point. i know that they've been fully cooperating with the investigators. they've been in contact with the prince.

here at the school so they are definitely participating in the search and the investigation. >> reporter: wednesday, the family did release a written statement read by a sheriff's deputy who's been staying with them around the clock. "we need for folks to continue to assist us in our goal. police search your properties, your cars, your out buildings, your sheds." >> reporter: captain schultz said the family did not appear alongside them because they want to keep the focus on kyron, not them. his stepmother says she last saw kyron had been posting regularly on her facebook page but the page was mysteriously taken down yesterday. meanwhile, sheriffs officials deny a search warrant was issued for the horman's home but were more cagey on other investigators details. >> was evidence presented to a magistrate? >> i'm not commenting on any of those questions. >> reporter: crews from every county in oregon are arriving today to help search and research a half-mile radius around the school, much of it dense and forest like, as a

community holds its breath. this case has certainly captured the heart of this community, as well as official. many of whom are working around the clock to try to bring this little boy home. matt, back to you. >> janet schamlian in portland, oregon for us this morning. as janet mentioned, that expanded search for kyron horman gets under way today. sheriff stan staton is heading up those efforts. gentlemen, good morning to you. let me just ask, are you basing this new expanded search on any specific information, any tip that you've received over the past five or six days? >> we're billing off of everything, including the tips that came in. but this is also to expand the search operation and the distance from the point that -- last-seen point of the missing child. >> i'm sure a lot of people are applauding this expanded effort, but you may also get some questions as to why now, why didn't you have this extra

manpower in place earlier in the investigation? >> we had a lot of manpower going into this initially. we had about 532 searchers employed. we had air support that came in to assist. we also utilized tracking dogs and bloodhounds in this process. and we've worked it consistency and as i said, we started from the center point. this is a missing child. and when you look at the terrain that surrounds this area, we've covered from the center point going outward approximately 2 to 2 1/2 miles covering every piece of ground. to this point we've also done door-to-door checks with every resident in this specific area up here, and we've been following up on every lead that's come in. so we've been employing our searchers in that effort. and at this particular point, it is now building off of the original search which is a

standard philosophy and technique that we use and we are going to be expanding out from that point and recovering the areas that we've already searched. >> guys, i want to see if you can maybe help me address something that more and more people are starting to talk about. i think it is important to put it in perspective. the fact that this family has decided not to step in to the spotlight as we've seen other families do in the past. i want to make sure we don't attach any suspicion to that behavior. that is their choice. but having said that, are they fully cooperating? are you getting everything you need in terms of cooperation from kyron's family in this investigation? >> they've fully cooperated with us in every effort. they've been consoling each other. we're respecting that. at some point in time i'm sure that they are going to step forward and they're going to be reaching out to the community, but right now they are allowing us to expand our efforts. we're keeping them informed and

they've been very appreciative to this point. >> i know that because of the terrain you're going to be dealing with, you don't want untrained people out there looking. so obviously there is a lot of interest in this young man, a lot of people hoping for his safe return. what can people do to help, if not take to the fields around that school? >> we would prefer at this point to have the trained people in the surrounding terrain, but we're also going to be employing volunteers in addition to the search and rescue efforts. they're going to expand beyond this point. >> guys, i know you have -- go ahead. >> adding to that, matt, is that the public can really be aware that there's flyers. we're looking for tips. any information that we can employ in this search from the public is very critical. that's what the public can do right now. certainly if they're not trained, they're not prepared, it really would hamper professionals on scene.

>> guys, good luck. a lot of people so interested in this young man. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for the help. let's get a check of the weather now from al. good thursday morning. i'm chuck bell. we have the bright sunshine back at this time washington area. 71 degrees right now. 69 degrees in rockville and

gaithersburg. 72 degrees in menassis. the forecast for thursday, plenty of sunshine and it will be a warm and a tough humid. drier and slightly less humid for tomorrow. qñp1 >> and that's your latest weather. up next, garnished wages. is money being withheld from your paycheck without you even knowing it? what do you need to know right after this. ñ 0 0 000 0 000(?(?(;(;(?((?(?(

we are back at 7:42. if you have suddenly seen less money in your paycheck, we may have the answer. collectors are now targeting people's wages to recover delinquent debt. here's nbc's george lewis. >> reporter: sabrina of chandler, arizona is a single mom who found herself unemployed

and got a couple hundred dollars behind on her credit card debt. >> so i did let it go. but for me, i understand i obviously have to talk take of it. >> reporter: arizona justice of the peace john ore says people in debt have to stay on top of the situation. >> a debt doesn't go away because they ignore it. in fact, in many cases it simply gets much worse. >> reporter: that's what sabrina discovered when she found money missing from her bank balance. unbeknownst to her, debt collectors had won a judgment against her and garnished her account, and with interest and penalty fees, her debt had ballooned to $2,500. >> i was afraid. i had fear in my chest, my stomach was sick. i was -- i became very emotional. >> reporter: thanks to the recession, wage garnishments are up all over the country, but especially in arizona where they've risen 121% in the last five years. the foreclosure crisis has gotten a lot more attention than the ballooning numbers of

garnishment cases. >> most of the time people get garnished without any prior warning of the fact that their money is about to be taken. >> reporter: attorney marshall meyers took up sabrina's case and discovered that the collection agency had failed to properly notify her that she was being sued. >> and that runs afoul of notions of service and notice and due process. >> reporter: sabrina won her case and will get her money back, and her creditor will have to pay the legal bills. but many debtors are unaware of their legal rights. >> there are some creditors out there that are absolutely taking advantage of many families. >> reporter: a lesson sabrina learned the hard way. for "today," george lewis, nbc news, phoenix, arizona. >> jean chatzky is "today's" financial editor. good morning. first off, this wage garnishment, it is totally legal and sometimes there are very good reasons for it. >> in many cases you see people coming after money that's owed for child support, things like that, student loan payments.

but this is different. these are credit card bills that people are coming after and that this is an increasing trend. >> this lady in this piece we just saw complained she was never notified about the suit against her. >> it is a big problem. i spoke with the ftc and they said in many, many cases people just are not receiving that due process. they're not receiving the notice and the ftc is going after these people, as are attorneys general across the country. but if you don't get notified there are steps that you can take. >> creditors would argue we do notify people and they just don't show up at court. >> well, the process servers themselves are a problem. in some cases they are dumping these notices. so you do have to be careful. if money is starting to be taken out of your paychecks and you were not notified, go to your employer, ask for copies of that documentation and then you go back to the court and you start to make your case. >> if fighting the wage garnishment doesn't work, then what do you do. >> essentially you have to go back to the court and you have to go through the process and figure out if you can get it

back. but if you can't, you should know they can take it, in most states, 25% of your money. bankruptcy is the alternative down the line but it is, of course, not a good one. >> is there a site, website or anything, people can go to to get more information? >> if you're looking for an attorney, the national association of consumer advocates are the right attorneys to get on your side. >> jean chatzky, thank you so much. up next, just a week after al and tipper gore announced their separation, there is another split in the gore family. we'll have details right after this. ñ?ñ?÷>÷>

we are back at 7:49 with another split in the gore family. a week after al and tipper gore annoyancunced the end of their 40-year marriage, we've learned the couple's eldest daughter has separated from her husband. norah o'donnell is in washington with details. >> reporter: good morning. this is a tough time for the gore family, and friends say karenna gore schiff and her husband, drew, separated a couple of months ago. i'm told it is a friendly

situation, they are in marital counseling and are working to save their nearly 13-year marriage. they are one of america's most famous and admired political families. blessed with success, money and lots of love. but behind the gore's picture-perfect image that was always front and center is now a family drama. one week after former vice president al gore and his wife, tipper, shocked everyone with their separation, another bombshell. their oldest child, karenna has split from her husband. the gore's second-oldest, kristin, divorced last year. in 2007, albert iii their youngest was busted for drug possession. >> i think people are sad because they really like the gores. and they seem to be kissed by good luck and all of a sudden there are a series of bad things that have happened to them. >> reporter: karenna gore schiff was always the star of the next generation of the gore family. >> does it mean that you might actually even imagine yourself running for political office? >> i don't know. i wouldn't rule that out.

>> reporter: a graduate of harvard, columbia law school and a mother of three. she married drew schiff nearly 13 years ago in a storybook wedding. the match brought together one of america's most prominent political families, the gores, with the schiffs, one of wall street's most powerful. the wedding was held at washington national cathedral, the site of some other famous unions, including karenna's own parents. >> i'm very blessed in my personal life. >> reporter: karenna was just 23 years old when she married, something that worried her grandmother, pauline, gore. >> i got married fairly young. i remembered calling and telling her. the first thing she said, there was just silence. then she said, "you're too young. are you still going to go to law school?" she very much expected all of us to make something of ourselves, to serve the public in some way, to make a difference. >> reporter: karenna is trying to make a difference. she's collaborating on a documentary about trail blazing

women. as to why her marriage is on the rocks, her friends have pointed out it is really not anybody's business and they want some privacy to try and work it out. matt? >> words to live by. norah o'donnell, thank you very much. just ahead, the 13-year-old girl charged as an accomplice in a brutal text rage beating of josie ratley. >> she's going to tell her side of the story for the first time in an exclusive live interview. after your local news and weather. ñ1÷÷ñ dd

>> a look at the white house and sunshine and humidity. welcome back on this thursday, june 10th. 7 time time 56 right now and the headlines today, the holocaust museum is commemorating the one-year an verary that left a guard dead. steven johns was killed when james von brun opened fire. the elderly white supremacist was shot and later died. it will open a half hour late because of a memorial for that officer. weather and traffic are

. good thursday morning. i'm chuck bell. the sun returned to washington and the downtown temperature is 75. 73 in waldorf and 72 in frederick and 73 in winchester, virginia. we had a hint of patchy fog and

it's burning away fast. highs in the 80s. >> chopper 4 a short time ago is near 410 in the beltway. authorities trying to round up the dog running loose. we understand that animal control is with it and they are trying to catch the dog and keep it safe. delays along i-95 and 6 and hard hit because of earlier accidents. the lanes are open and no hang ups. just volume all the way down. >> we are with you broit and early. if you are

8:00 now on this thursday morning, june 10th, 2010. we have a delightful crowd gathering on the plaza. in 24 hours they can catch a live concert from rascal flatts. they'll take over our summer concert stage tomorrow on "today." i'm meredith vieira, alongside matt lauer and al roker. just ahead, a very serious story. this is a really serious story actually. it is a savage beating of florida teen josie ratley over text messages that she sent to a

15-year-old boy. we'll have the latest on her recovery and for the first time, ratley's friend, the 13-year-old girl charged as an accomplice in that vicious attack is going to share her side of the story in an exclusive live interview. all right. also ahead on a different note, what would you do if you were suddenly fired in your 50s? >> oh, don't say that! >> would you go for work in the same field? would you try something completely different? would you retire if you had the means to retire? we're going to be talking about that situation coming up in just a little while. coming up also, "the karate kid." it's been 26 years since the original. coming up, we've got a new one. it is back to the big screen. we'll catch up with the stars, will and jada smith's son and the inivitiable jackie chen. but first let's get a check

of the morning's top stories from ann curry. there are new developments in the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. capitol hill is holding another series of hearings on the spill today. the obama administration is sending the labor secretary to new orleans to meet with fishermen affected by the disaster and bp stock fell 16% in u.s. trading wednesday, and again in london this morning, reducing the company to about half the value it was when the oil disaster began. as for the president, he gets another briefing today and meets with the families of the 11 workers killed when the rig exploded. nbc's white house correspondent savannah guthrie now joins us with more on this. savannah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, ann. the president invited family members of the 11 fallen oil rig workers to the white house. they'll be here today. 10 of the 11 families will be represented in person. about 50 people meeting with the president in the state dining room. senior aides say this is a chance for the president to offer his condolences personally and also hear any concerns, particularly of the fallen

workers, what they may have said about safety on the rig. the president's also going to have a meeting with the leaders of congress, talking about reforming energy laws, as well as the regulation of the oil industry and of course, he plans another visit to the gulf on monday and tuesday, mississippi, alabama and florida, ann. >> savannah, thanks so much. iran is now threatening to limit international oversight of its nuclear program in response to those new sanctions approved wednesday by the u.n. security council. iran insists its nuclear efforts are strictly for peaceful purposes but the west is convinced that iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. a wedding party suddenly became a massacre last night in southern afghanistan. a bomb exploded killing at least 40 people, including children and wounding more than 70 others. nato says it was a suicide bomb and it blames the taliban. the bride and the groom survived. heavy rain flooding parts of central texas is now being blamed for at least one death. in just about eight hours on wednesday, 11 inches ever rain

fell near san antonio. the guadalupe river well went over its banks flooding a nearby park and more rain is in the forecast today. south korea says one of its unmanned rockets carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded about two minutes into its flight early today. it is south korea's second major setback in space in less than a year. those are some of the top stories at four minutes past the hour. time to

good thursday morning. i'm chuck bell. the sunshine is back and it's going to be a beautiful day. plenty warm. temperatures into the high 80s. currently in the low to mid 70s in most neighborhoods. dulles at 69 and 74 in virginia. 73 in win chester and 71 in martinsburg. the forecast with sunshine and toasty warm and highs near 87. hot for the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. still to come -- new home

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and goodbye to added sugar. i thought we weren't adding any sugar. oh. okay, nobody use these cranberries over here. the gulf spill is a tragedy that never should have happened. i'm tony hayward. bp has taken full responsibility for cleaning up the spill in the gulf. we've helped organize the largest environmental response in this country's history. more than 2 million feet of boom, 30 planes, and over 1,300 boats are working to protect the shoreline. where oil reaches the shore, thousands of people are ready to clean it up. we will honor all legitimate claims, and our clean-up efforts will not come at any cost to taxpayers. to those affected and your families, i'm deeply sorry. the gulf is home for thousands of bp employees and we all feel the impact. to all the volunteers and for the strong support of the government, thank you. we know it is our responsibility

to keep you informed and do everything we can so this never happens again. we will get this done. we will make this right. we are back at 8:09 with new developments on the florida teenager who was badly beaten over a text message. josie ratley suffered severe brain damage but after more than two months in the hospital, she

is now back at home. as questions swirl around another girl's alleged role in the attack. we're going to talk exclusive to 13-year-old kayla manson in just a moment with you but first, here's nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: 15-year-old josie lou ratley basked in attention during a recent homecoming. having endured anything but sunny days this spring. the florida teen is recovering from a horrific attack in march, a beating so severe it left her hospitalized with brain damage. she's essentially starting over, relearning everything from her abcs to brushing her teeth, to putting on lip gloss. >> just for the little progress she shows me gives me some hope that she's -- maybe she'll be back 100% i'm hoping for. >> reporter: 15-year-old wayne treacy is charged with attempted

murder for allegedly stomping josie's head repeatedly while wearing steel-toed boots. he told police he snapped after getting a text message from josie. he confessed to police on tape but has pleaded not guilty. like many people, his mother's devastated. >> you just ruined your life. attempted murder? what were you thinking, babe? >> i don't know. she said something about mike. she knew he was dead and i lost it. >> reporter: police say josie and wayne did not know one another before the attack and have charged a third teen, 13-year-old kayla manson, a friend of both, as an accomplice to attempted murder. >> this was her best friend. this was their day to day, it was go to school, it was dress like josie, it was look like josie. >> reporter: oofficial say kayla didn't have a cell phone and sometimes used josie's to text wayne. on the day of the attack, wayne was trying to text kayla when josie reportedly texted back

disapproving of his relationship with her 13-year-old friend, kayla. they argued back and forth by text. authorities said kayla identified josie for wayne outside their school. >> i don't think she even in her mind comprehended that something like this would ever happen. because to her, all she did was think that her girlfriend was going to get yelled at. >> reporter: since the attack, kayla's family says she's left school, is taking classes online and getting death threats. today she looks after a disabled cousin as she's always done. >> she's a helpful little girl. she just is really kind of devastated. >> reporter: devastation tyinging three teens to tragedy over a few words sent via text. for "today," ron mott, nbc news. >> kayla manson is with us exclusively along with her aunt, and her attorneys. good morning to all of you. kayla, when you see those pictures of josie as was said in

the piece, she was your very best friend. what goes through your mind when you look at those pictures of her? >> that i'm really sad that he did that and if i knew that he was going to do it, then i probably would have done something about it. >> why did you decide that this was the time to speak out? why did you want to come here and talk? what do you want people to know about you? >> that i wouldn't deliberately hurt somebody and i wouldn't help someone hurt somebody. >> can we go back to march 17th, that day that those text messages were exchanged between josie and wayne. you were in school with josie. you heard about the texts? you saw them? >> i only saw two. >> did you see the one where he threatened her, to kill her? >> no. >> you did not. which ones did you see? >> the one where she calls him a rapist and she calls him a

cunt -- i mean he calls her a cunt. >> we just have to be careful with our language. but that's all right, sweetheart. did you have a conversation with josie about those e-mails? did she seem concerned about them? did she tell you that wayne was going to come get her? >> she -- when i left her to go to my fourth period class, she seemed happy and she was just joking around with him. >> so when he showed up at school, it was about three hours later, he had never met josie. he asked you to point her out an you did. is that correct? >> yeah. yes. >> did he say to you what he was planning to do at that point? >> no. he didn't say anything. what did you think he wanted to do? was he angry when he said i'm looking for her? i thought he would probably just curse her out or yell at her,

embarrass her. >> so did you see any of the attack at all? >> no. my bus came before i saw anything. before i heard anything. >> so that night the police came to your house, right? and is that when you first learned about how josie had been hurt? >> yes. >> and what was your reaction then? >> after they left i cried. >> you cried. you know wayne. obviously he's a friend. right? did you think he's capable of anything like this? >> no. i thought he would neverouch a girl. >> you know that police are saying that about kayla that she had seen the text messages, that she did know the threat involved, and that she pointed out her friend and then did nothing to help, never reported it. she's been charged as an accomplice here. >> actually, meredith, she's been charged as a principal. she's been charged as though she actually committed this act.

i think that's really tantamount in this situation, we're sitting here with a 13-year-old little girl. these terms, unfortunately, are part of common vernacular in middle school. these children speak in ways that adults would not find appropriate. you'll hear one child threaten another child, oh, if you do that, i'll kill you. they don't take these things seriously. i think what's of utmost importance is that kayla never thought, even if she had seen a threat, that wayne treacy was going to do anything other than verbally acost the victim. >> you never thought to talk to a teacher about it, you never thought there was any great risk here. >> right. tristin, kayla spent 30 days in custody. since she's been home you've had to basically home school her because there have been death threats. what has happened to your life and her life? >> it changed a lot for both of us.

now that she's home of course, i don't want to take her anywhere because of the threats. i don't want to take her anywhere where she can actually be with friends or kids her own age. she's stuck at home most of the time or with family. family things, family houses. with her gone of course, she's my lifeline. without her, even though she's my niece, not my daughter, she's my lifeline and she takes care of my son like it's her little brother. >> you have illnesses of your own you're dealing with. >> right. without her i struggled majorly. had major problems. had to do most of the care by myself and with her back, unfortunately, she's stuck at home and she does meet his bus and she feeds him a snack and makes sure he has his pills in the afternoon. so she's it. and without her, we -- he had a hard time. had he a very hard time without her. he looked for her. they share a room together. and where's kayla at bath time? at dinner time? you know what i mean.

he struggled a little bit. >> kayla, you've gone through a lot here. the charges are very serious as your lawyer has pointed out. you lost your two best friends. at least one, josie. you're not allowed to see her at all. and wayne, who is in a lot of trouble right now. what has this been like for you? >> it's been harder. i can't see my friends anymore. can't go to school. scared to walk outside. >> if you could see josie, what would you say to her? >> that i'm sorry that this happened and if i actually took it as a threat then i would have told somebody and i love her and i really miss her. >> what is next for kayla? >> well, at this point, the case is still in the discovery process. we're still getting information and so it's proceeding. and legal matters usually don't proceed quickly, so it's going to be a process of gathering all the information and from there

deciding where to go with this case. luckily she's being charged as a juvenile and staying in the appropriate court. >> but if she's found guilty, she could end up -- >> she could end up in what's basically like a juvenile program, jail, up to her 21st birthday. but we are working towards not having that happen and hopefully that will be the outcome of the case. >> kayla, thank you for joining us this morning. it is very brave to sit here and talk about what happened. we appreciate it. tristin, thank you as well. jonathan and regina as well, thank you. we're back in a moment, but first these messages. one on, kiddo, let's go.

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whitney houston's comeback tour has hit yet another snag as hundreds of fans walked out of a recent show in denmark. here's nbc's testny gosk. >> reporter: whitney houston walked on stage in copenhagen to a warm reception. >> yes, i have come back. >> reporter: it didn't last long. more than half the audience walked out before the end of the show. fans thought houston talked too much. music critics said the once-fit perfect diva. one wrote she looked and sounded like a person who doesn't have many years left to live. >> for whitney houston this has really tournd into the european tour from hell. i think what happened in

copenhagen has really been the culmination of actually several weeks of disastrous performances. >> reporter: houston has already postponed four dates on her "nothing but love" tour because of respiratory infection. other lackluster performances have been blamed on allergies and air conditioning. houston was off key burma, struggled nurnburg and lost it in london. fans hoping for this -- ♪ and i will always love you >> reporter: -- are instead hearing this -- ♪ and i will always love you >> she can't sing the highs of

"i will always love you." she's going to have to make a mental change. she's going to want to be a mature woman singing reflective songs. >> reporter: but despite the critics, die-hard fans have jumped to her defense. one wrote, "i don't care about everyone else's opinions, she is, was and always will be amazing." one of the top-selling artists of all time with six grammys and a mezo-soprano that earned her the nickname "voice," whitney houston now needs every fan she can get. for today, stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. coming up, "the karate kid's" jackie chan and jaden smith.

8:26 is your time. good morning. in the news for today, two school districts have the highest graduation rates in the nation. it's a ranking of the country's 50 largest school districts. montgomery topped the list with an 83% rate. fairfax is second with a rate of 82.5% and anne arundel county ranked seventh and prince wal yam is 15th and prince georges ranked 30th.

>> the sun is shining in washington and the high will reach 87 with a little bit of humidity. tomorrow lower humidity and slightly cooler. unfortunately heat and humidity with highs near 90 for both days this weekend. >> on the inner loop, loaded up loafing springfield way to 66. no incidents reported. more stop with very heavy and slow in the southwest.

>> wake up with us tomorrow morning if you are getting an early start on the

8:30 now on a thursday morning, the 10th day of june, 2010. kind of a cool morning here in the northeast. about to move away. looks like we are in the way of a little sunshine for these nice people. by the way, if they come back tomorrow they'll be treated to a concert from country superstars

rascal flatts. that's tomorrow morning, 8:30 right here on the plaza. out on that very same plaza, i'm matt lauer, along with meredith vieira, al roker and ann curry. quick survey among the parents here. okay? fathers and sons dressed exactly alike. cute or a little icky? >> i did it on easter with nicky. >> same exact outfits. >> yeah, i did. >> so you would say cute. >> i hope so. >> the rest of you? you can't say icky now. >> you have to own it. >> i think cute until the sons are 15. then it is not cute. >> and they start dressing like their mother. coming up, we're going to take a look at some father-son fashions that are similar -- similar. we're going to give you the guidelines for this as father's day fast approaches. >> okay. also ahead, losing a job is obviously never easy and it can be even harder if you were fired at 50. too early for retirement, not

ready to call it a career. what do you do? we'll get advice from two people who found themselves in that unenviable position. also we have a real treat this morning. "the karate kid" is back on the big screen 26 years after the original. guess who's in our studio? jaden smith and also jackie chan. >> all right. we also want to remind you about what do you care about today? you have until tomorrow to logon to our website and tell us about your favorite charity. one lucky winner will be awarded a $100,000 grant from the pepsi fresh project. so get online and check it out. >> before we go to weather, i want to apologize to the audience at

good thursday morning. i'm chuck bell. we have a bright sunny day outside here in washington after the clouds and the showers from yesterday pulled out. our current temperature is 75 in shington and 76 in winchester and 74 in annapolis. here's the high today. 87 with men of sunshine. a sunny day tomorrow and slightly lower humidity and temperatures for friday.

heat and humidity return back with a risk of shower >> don't forget, check your weather any time of the day or night, weather channel on cable, weather.com online. they're from flippin, arkansas. now back over to flippin, meredith. up next, up next "the kara

we are back now at 8:36. 26 years ago, ralph maccia lid up the screen as "the karate kid." jaden smith is now in the

leading role and jackie chan is his mentor. >> there is only one person you need to learn how to control. >> who? >> empty your mind. flow with my movement. connect you to energy. >> i kind of just want to learn the cobra thing. >> cobra takes a lifetime. it requires great focus. >> but i have great focus. >> whoa. >> your focus needs more focus. >> jackie chan, jaden smith, good morning. you weren't even born. you weren't even born when the orange nat "karate kid" came out. >> yeah, i saw it because i knew you would be asking me if i saw it. >> that's the only reason you watched it? >> no, i had to watch it because i have to study it to like check it out and, you know. >> did you like the original? >> yeah. definitely. the movie was good.

>> your mom and dad actually are producers on this movie an they thought you would be good for the role. did you have any doubts about taking on that role? >> no, not really. >> you thought you could handle it? >> yeah, definitely. >> jackie, what about you in terms of the original. did you see it and did you like it? >> for me honestly, when i was watching, i don't understand the english. at that time i don't know english. then the action movement, honestly is not really -- >> it wasn't all that realistic to you? >> no. >> so when you signed on to this one, were you determined to make that part of it more realistic? >> yes. so this way when we choreograph all the action sequence, i want him to do all his own things, stunt, action, flip, everything. we sent out my best guy from jackie chan stunt team train with him for three months, doing

the movie four months. after the movie, right now, still training. >> did you have any experience jaden with martial arts before taking on this role? >> i was in karate since i was 3. >> so you had a background in it. >> little bit. >> but this is kung fu. correct? >> yeah. >> how hard was it? >> little bit hard. harder. yeah. >> this high kick that i've seen like in the poster for example where your foot is about the same level as about where my head would be, how long did it take to get that down? >> i think about the first month and a half in. >> if i did that, not only would my pants tear, my entire hamstring would tear. jackie, can you still do that? >> half. >> you can do half of that? >> yeah, half that. >> so what did you want to teach not your training team but what did you want to impart to jaden when making this movie? you made so many films in the past. >> i want to teach jaden

everything i know really and teach him about respect, respect your life, you respect kung fu, respect martial arts, respect your parents, respect the whole world, respect your country. that's how martial arts is. >> jaden, ralph maccia was the . >> he's a great guy. his son's name is actually daniel. >> did he pass along any advice in making this movie? >> you know, i talked to him very briefly. >> it was just a short meeting. >> very briefly. yeah. >> you got to travel a lot to shoot this. you were all over china. >> yes. >> you went to the great wall. >> i thought making american film, all green screen. >> you were on location. >> we were on location. you really go? yes. we climb 2,000 steps every day, carry all equipment. and he carried, i carried,

everybody carried things. you know, such very narrow role. >> i understand you have your first on-screen kiss. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. oh, that. right? yeah. how did that go? >> that was interesting. it was a little bit weird. little bit weird. you see, our faces were like this close, like this close. literally and then we had to kiss and we had to stay there so the shot was right. and then i'm just sitting here and we're waiting and i'm like, h hey. you all right? >> how you doing? is this over yet? >> yeah. what's going on? yeah. it's kind of awkward. it's kind of awkward. >> you're 11. right? >> yeah, but it's still awkward. >> that's what i meant. this movie opens tomorrow. >> yes, tomorrow. >> the new "karate kid." jaden, jackie, thanks. up next, some unfinished

business. what to do if you're fired and you're in your 50s. but first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪

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losing your job can be hard at any age, but how do you cope if you are fired in your 50s? at the age of 51, doreen motten was part after company-wide layoff, now she runs her own business. lee kravitz was fired at 54 and he decided to write a book, "unfinished business." deborah russell is aarp's director of workforce issues. good morning to you all. deborah, if i can start with you. looking at these numbers, and it is over 300% increase in the number of people over the age of 50 who are losing their jobs. are these people who are opting out? are they being fired? are they deciding they want to

retire early? >> many of these people it is really a result of downsizing. the economy has certainly forced many employers to look at talent management and do reduction in forces. so many of these people are unemployed as a result of that. >> what challenges did they face as a result of that? >> the first challenge, just being an older individual who may have found themselves out of work for the first time in many, many years. and finding themselves with the fact that the job search process has changed significantly over that time. >> doreen, you were essentially it was a mutual decision between you and the company that you worked for? >> it was. i was actually relieved bh it all ended. >> you were vice president of marketing at citigroup so it is a pretty powerful job. >> it was. it was. with that came a lot of powerful experience. yeah. it was very stressful job. it was kind of at the height -- or beginning of a lot of the mortgage issues with the

financial industry went through. so i think people got wind of the fact that maybe there would be layoffs and -- >> why do you say you were relieved to be let go? >> i started to live. i really started to live. you didn't -- i didn't really have time to think about anything else except the job, like what i wanted to be when i grew up. >> you were on a treadmill or whatever it is. >> absolutely. you know you're moving but you're not going anywhere. so it was kind of a relief for me. >> but you ended up starting your own business, something very, very different from what you were doing. >> absolutely. you know, when you get lemons, you make lemonade. that's what i did. i started a company, we make satin pillowcases, botanical satin pillowcases for the anti-aging and hair care consumer. i love it. it's my passion. i'm broke but i'm happy. >> but you're happy. lee, have you a unique story. you were a real workaholic. working as is editor in chief of parade magazine.

at 54, you're fired and it devastated you. you managed to take the bad news and turn it into something positive. how did you get to that point? >> when i took stock of my life i realized that in working so hard, i'd become disconnected from the people who mattered to me, mainly my family, my friends, and also from who i really was. i knew i had to do something. i had to do some work on myself. so i committed myself to a period of closing circles and making amends. >> one year you took of dealing with, as you put it, unfinished business. >> unfinished emotional and spiritual business. i thanked a teacher who i had changed my life and i never thanked. i paid a condolence call i never made. found a long-lost relative. i did all those things i let slip and in the process i found my truer, better self and really gained a tremendous amount of energy and compassion. as you say, passion for life. >> i think, though, in the case

of these two people, they probably had the wherewithal financially to be able to do these things. not everybody is in that position. >> yeah, i think that's the real challenge. we're finding that an increasing number of older people are unemployed for a longer period of time so the duration is longer. and the financial impact can be significant. so now is the time to really be creative and look at ways -- >> like doreen was. >> absolutely. and assessing where you are today and what you may want to do in the future. >> we thank you all for being here. when i told you in the break i read your book an it is very inspirational. it is wonderful. doreen motten, lee kravitz and deborah russell, thank you all so much. up next, father and son fashions without making your little one look

this morning on "today's style," father and son fashions. just in time for father's day. it can be hard to resist the temptation to dress dad and the tot exactly alike. but you don't have to do the whole mini-me thing to be in fashion. adam rappaport is here, he's "gq's" style editor. let's get it done right off the bat, you don't want completely matching outfits. >> dr. evil should not be your

fashion icon. >> but you can have a thread of similarity. >> echo what your son is wearing. similar but not exactly the same. >> let's get right to the some of the looks you are providing for us today. the cargos are popular but you've taken a slightly different look for father's day. >> you see a lot of these dads in the big droopy cargo shorts. you're not in college anymore, you're out of the fraternity. this summer we love the plaid shorts. >> kenny and stone, come on down. >> kenny's the dad. stone's the son. kenny kenny goes for the gem, wear a polo who fits. if you work out. >> this madras look has been around for a long time but it is still popular. >> everything comes back. right now we're in the heart of the american, early '60s, late '50s sort of style at the moment. >> i think they look great. kenny an stone, thank you so much. the next look you want to show

us is seersucker. here's another one that's been around for a long time. can everyone pull this off? >> you can but if you're not a southern gentleman, don't try to pretend that you're one. >> john and oliver. >> we dressed them kind of sophisticated, dark shoes, dark tie, very urban. oliver, you don't want to see a kid in a full suit and lace-ups. let him have some fun. we got this blazer, all from brooks brothers head to toe. he can wear the seersucker on his own at beach and where the blazer everywhere for the next few years. >> you guys look fantastic. thank you very much, john and oliver. next we have, this is -- you love chambray. >> shirt of the season, the classic american work shirt where the term "blue collar" comes from. >> jim and nicky. the music is because this is our executive producer, jim bell and his son, nicky. >> look at pictures of jfk at

hyannisport in 1960, that's what he was wearing, boat shoes, rolled-up khakis, land's end khakis on nicky. as american as you can get right here. >> and they're working the sunglasses. bell, by the way, normally wears the pants rolled up. he's a very casual executive. the number of lines that come to mind right now, jim -- >> be careful. remember the previous segment. >> nicky, you look great, man. way to go. jim, thank you. next we've got what you're calling hipster tocool. >> airelle and axle. we don't want to be hipster dad but we need to know our limitations, matt. >> i'm an older dad. how much hipster can i pull off? >> you're a fit dad but i don't know if i need to see you in the hip hugger skinny jeans.

if you're young 30s, go for it. after you've crossed that 40s threshold, kind of be a little bit more self-aware. >> don't try this. don't try this at home. airelle and axle, you guys look great. thank you very much. finally -- is it true you brought your sob here n here. >> i did bring my son, marlin. you want a lollipop? it's bring your son to work day. >> how old is marlin? >> marlin's 2 1/2. we're wearing the gingham dress shirt, very stylish for spring-summer at the "gq" offices. he's doing j. crew jeans and jackets, i'm doing levi's jeans. >> it is a little cut above just the jeans and shirt. >> it is dressy but still has that fun summery punch. >> any rules for people that they absolutely should avoid other than the complete matchy-matchy?

>> kids typically don't like to wear ties. if you've got a 2 1/2 or 4-year-old, let them be a 2 1/2 or 4-year-old. >> if we can take a look at all the father/son looks for spring and summer as we get ready for father's day. guys, thank you all. men and young men, we bresh it. jim bell, come on out. adam rappaport from "gq" magazine. thank you. we're back right after these messages.

8:55 is your time and hazy, cloudy skies. chuck will have forecast after the news. in the news for today, the holocaust museum will honor a security guard shot and killed a year ago. johns was killed when james van brun opened fire and police shot the gunman, an ellerly white is you premist who rater died from his injuries. the museum will at 10:30

>> temperatures on the way up and a blue sky and nearing in on 80 degrees in many spots.

highs will reach the mid- to upper 80s and much warmer than yesterday. noticeably less humid. >> let's see how we are doing. 395 is heavy and slow, but all lanes are open across the 14th street bridge. let's see if we have relief on 270. looking better. the lanes are open and down to the capital beltway. >> wake up with us tomorrow morning if you are getting know early start on the weekend. we begin at 4:30. see you then.

we're back now with more of "today" on a thursday morning, the 10th day of june, 2010. we started the show in cloud cover. you know what? those clouds are moving out of here. we got blue sky an still a great crowd gathered in rockefeller plaza. thanks to them for stopping by and spending part of their morning with us. out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer, along with natalie morales and al roker. coming up, the investigation into the situation involving joran van der sloot just gets more and more complex. >> that's right. exactly. as you know, a lot of developments in this case. right now we know that there is information this morning about possible extortion case and whether or not he took some of

that money that was given to him by the holloway family to then fund his trip to peru. we're going to be talking with one of the investigators who's been working on the natalee holloway disappearance case in this latest connection to possible murder in peru. then also a little bit later on, just a week after the surprising news that al and tipper gore were separating, their oldest daughter, karenna also is separating from her husband. they say they're trying to work it out. we'll look at that and talk to an expert about how one divorce cannot only affect the children but actually other marriages. there is a ripple effect within the family. also, did you know that june, on a lighter note, is one of the biggest gift-giving months of the year? think of all the june weddings, graduation, father's day. so we've got a lot of gifts to buy! well, this morning we've got some great ideas on those gifts from a grill master to a duffel

bag for your dorm. we've got some very cool, unique and different ideas. first let's go inside. ann has a look at all the headlines. good morning, everybody. in the news today, president obama is meeting with the families of the 11 oil workers who died when their rig exploded in the gulf 52 days ago. the president is offering condolences to the relatives of those who died and also asking for their thoughts on how the government can make sure that future deep water oil drilling is safe and as it tries to stop the leak, bp's stock has fallen to a 14-year low. today a u.n. tribunalsnibos officers for committing genocide in 1995, the first defendants sentenced for genocide by the u.n. tribunal so far. iran is dismissing the sanctions approved by the u.n. security council which are intended to push iran back to the negotiating table on its nuclear program but iran appears to be digging in its heels and now says it may limit

international oversight of what it says is its nuclear program for peaceful purposes. at&t says a security problem exposed e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 users of apple's ipod. at&t says the problem has now been fixed. in central texas, one person died wednesday after 11 inches of rain fell in just eight hours near san antonio. state emergency personnel are on duty in case the heavy rain expected today causes even more flooding. it is now three minutes past the hour. let's go back outside to matt. >> ann, thank you very much.

good thursday morning. bright sunshine out there now and temperatures on the way up. 77 degrees in washington, but 78 in prince georges and charles county. also 77 in frederick county, virginia. our forecast for today, plenty of sunshine and temperatures warm up fast. we will end up in the high 80s and cooler for tomorrow.

>> that's your latest weather. natalie? new developments this morning tied to the arrest of joran van der sloot. he's now being investigated in the disappearance of two women in colombia. there is new information that the fbi had been tracking him as part of an extortion plot in aruba just before he traveled to peru. nbc's michelle kosinski is in lima with the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. in this case the truth seems to be stranger than fiction and just keeps getting more complicated by the day. colombian authorities are now looking into the disappearances of two jung women there while joran van der sloot was there. aruba and the u.s. hope information will come out that will help solve the case of natalee holloway. now the fbi is explaining why they didn't arrest van der sloot when he was in aruba when they caught him in the act extorting money from natalee's mother. in the latest video to emerge

from joran van der sloot's arrest, he looks exhausted, defeated, had just been caught in chile, about to be paraded over and over again for the world to see in peru. but it was weeks before the brutal beating death of student stephany flores in van der sloot's hotel room here that the fbi was pursuing him from the u.s. they say in april, he reached out to an attorney close to natalee holloway's mother and promised to finally tell what really happened to her daughter back in 2005, including where her remains are. in exchange, investigators say, for a quarter of a million dollars. but mom called the fbi. she wired him $15,000 and a meeting was set up in aruba monitored by the feds where the 22-year-old roving poker player was handed another ten grand, cash. days later he was off to south america where fate would have him meet stephany flores at a casino poker table in lima. here they are, newly released

surveillance footage, gambling together and they leave during what would be some of the last moments of this young woman's life. so why was he not arrested on the spot in aruba? the fbi now in a statement says the case was not sufficiently developed to bring charges prior to the time van der sloot left aruba. not due to any fault on the part of the fbi or the u.s. attorney's office. federal sources tell nbc news they first wanted to see if van der sloot's information about natalee might solve the case. his latest story that he and his father who died of a heart attack in february buried natalee near a construction site. he claims she died after falling and hitting her head on a rock. the fbi insists the money van der sloot was paid and which paid for his trip to peru was paid for by natalee holloway's mother and not tax tear dollapa. which it took time to check out his story. by then, van der sloot was gone.

in peru be pre, the press is bu with details. he hit her with a tennis racket six times allegedly breaking her next. he told investigators he became enraged when she found information on his computer revealing him as the suspect in the natalee holloway case. newspapers claim he considered taking her body in a bag to put it in the ocean but was afraid and that he was found to have cocaine and marijuana in his system. strangely, precisely five years after natalee, joran van der sloot is in custody accused of murder, just in a completely different case. so here you have natalee holloway's mother desperate to solve that case after so many years, possibly unwittingly funding joran van der sloot's trip here to peru where this all now has happened. colombia authorities are conducting interviews into the disappearances of two women ages 20 and 21 who liked to spend time at casinos there just to

see if they, too, might be connected to all of this. >> a lot going on there. michelle kosinski in lima, peru with the latest. bo diesel is a private investigator working with an attorney for natalee holloway's family. bo, good morning. i guess the big fundamental question here is why was joran van der sloot allowed to leave peru with $10,000 cash, $15,000 of money wired into his account? now as i understand, the fbi doesn't have arrest jurisdiction outside of the u.s. is that right? >> let's go from the beginning, first of all. john kelly, the lawyer, was kashthed. again he had a communication with e-mails back and forth. what joran van der sloot said that his father had died, he wanted the holloway family to find out where he buried the daughter. so the communication was back and forth. john and i spoke about it, then talked about bringing the fbi in. they were contacted in the alabama office. they went and contacted the aruban authorities.

now there was a cooperation that was done. it's a two-party state -- two-party country on communication, eavesdropping and that. they got a warrant that they were able to put cameras in the room and record what was going on. the $10,000 was exchanged. the wire transfer for $15,000 was sent to the netherlands. so you have two charges there, extortion and you have wire fraud. but also he makes an incriminating statement in that room of how he killed natalee holloway. >> which proved not to be true. right? >> well, the point is he makes that statement on tape which was videotaped. now the aruban authorities were present during this whole thing with the fbi. they were privy to this. why didn't the aruban authorities under their law just on suspicion they could have held him on 180 days. my thing is you can blame -- >> so they dropped the ball. >> you can keep blaming the fbi but i think the real blame is this is in aruba. the aruban government was involved. they see him making an admission to killing this girl. this is new evidence. they should have taken him down

on that. obvious lit fbi has extortion and wire fraud again. the ball was dropped but my real fear is how many other people this guy killed. >> now we understand the fbi's looking into cases of two women at casinos in colombia. do you believe this guy is a serial killer. you have said, check his passport. >> i have said it before. the fbi should join up with interpol. he was in thailand, all over the place, where missing girls are, where murdered girls are. this guy again they found those pills in the car, the date rape drugs were found in that car, flores' car. this guy's m.o. is he puts these date rape drugs. has his way. if they don't cooperate, he uses violence. this is a murderer. i met him, i looked in his eyes. >> you as a private investigator have been working on this case for a long time. as i understand natalee hollo y holloway's mother beth twitty was in washington, d.c. this week. i know john kelly who you work with, her attorney, met with her. given all of this, how is she holding up knowing this? is there any hope foreclosure

this will somehow bring to light what happened to her daughter who disappeared five years ago? >> you're hitting the nail on the head. how this creep could take after this family lost their daughter, how they could take this and how he could extort $250,000, all this mother wanted was closure to bury his wife. >> i'm sure we'll hear a lot more details in the days to come about what is going on in the investigation. bo, thanks again so much for your time this morning. coming up next, with news of two splits in the gore family, we're going to take a look at how the end of a marriage can affect the family. also, pitching a tent for

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the week after al and tipper gore made their stunning announnt that they were splitting after four years, there is word that their oldest daughter karenna has separated from her husband. people magazine broke the story. the executive editor and jeff gardere, host of vh1's "dad cam." when you heard about al and tipper gore, it sent shockwaves through everybody. here was this solid marriage. not quite the same with karenna and her husband? >> it is not quite the same, because they're public figures but way less so than al and tipper and the marriage was much briefer. >> do we think, jeff -- of course we don't know and only the gores know. would these marriages, these break-ups be related? >> they could be related because al and tipper's marriage, 40 years. they were setting an example for everyone else. it was almost like the anchor marriage. once that one goes away, then

the weaker marriages or the more recent marriages then tend to fall apart because they can't depend on al and tipper anymore to be that couple who can give them the advice or set that example of stick with it and stay strong. >> you can work through this. >> we hope that they are the examples that they can do this. they have 40 years of experience even though they ended up splitting up after that time. >> betsy, from what you've learned, have al and tipper been with karenna since this has all been announced? >> yes, al and tipper have both been to new york to visit karenna. everybody is being mutually supportive. there is a lot of talk of counseling and therapy and al and tipper have spoken about being in therapy in the past. so everybody really is trying to work this out. as amicably as possible. >> they have been the example because they've been through the lot from the near-death of a child.

we've seen all of that. i guess, jeff, it makes it all that much more surprising. >> i think it does make it surprising but the thing to look at, people have longer life spans now. so where we never saw couples who have 40 years in really splitting up in that way, now we see that they're starting to do it at 61 and 62 years old, they can go on and have rich lives, separately but the thing we have to look at, al and tipper gore are not failures because they divorced. >> that's the general consensus. the marriage failed but it's been 40 years. >> the marriage may not have worked out but it doesn't mean that they're failures as people. the fact that they're having an amicable divorce says to me they really are sterling people. divorce is not a bad word. sometimes people do just have to end it in order to be more fulfilled in their lives. >> betsy, their middle daughter has been divorced as well. correct? >> that is true. >> she divorced in 2009, yes.

>> so can we draw anything from this? >> i don't think so. we don't really know privately what's going on behind the scenes. i think these are three possibly sad, possibly not sad situations. >> i think what we can possibly draw from this, these are very famous people. they have very public lives and they have a lot going on all the time and they have to balance family with work with media, with all of these great projects they're involved in. and sometimes that takes time away from one another and they just drift apart. >> okay. quickly, the gore-schiffs have three children. we're talking about the divorce of their parents and their grandparen grandparents. what's that do for the grandchildren. >> i think they may not have the sterling example in their minds that marriage is something that lasts forever. they may see marriages are a little bit more disposable or maybe in their particular family, marriages don't really

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>> sun continues to shine and temperatures on the way up. 77 in washington itself. 77 in annapoli and menassis. 73 in martinsburg. tons of sunshine and womaner and highs today 85 to 90. sunny tomorrow and lower humidity. the weekend looks hot and sticky. >> along interstate 66, heavy to the capital beltway. leaving 66 to get on the i were loop. up towards tyson's corner and lanes are open. construction in place right now and a little bit of a delay from

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this works out perfectly. now when you talk about camping, it is not just pitching a tent anymore. >> though you still can. you have a lot of variety. that's great for people who feel a little bit nervous about the idea of going out into nature and being on their own entirely. >> the one we usually think about, the classic, going out camping in a national park. >> i mean that's a great one. people love it. americans go in droves to the ones that you think about, yosemite, they go to of course the grand canyon. but there are other national parks. in fact, there are 58 fantastic national parks around the country. one we really like is shenandoah national park just outside of d.c., only an hour outside of the nation's capital. look at the scenery. it is stunning. what's amazing about this place, for $15 to $20 or $10 to $15, you can pitch your own tent. there are four campground. you can also go back-country camping. if you're more confident you can do that. if you're not, from july 11th to 12th, they have a weekend where

park rangers are on hand to give you a tutorial on how to camp so it is a family camping experience. >> for people who might not be used to this, are there new amenities that can help you out? >> think of the idea of a full-service resort and camping mushed together. there is an amazing place off highway 1 in san francisco. there you can go pitch your own tent but have these comfort stations where can you take an indoor shower, use the facilities and not in the great outdoors, which i enjoy personally. i'm crazy like that. but they also have these tented bungalow camps that are a little bit fancier and you actually get an actual hard floor and hard wooden floor and a bed, too. >> tell me about stoney creek in delaware. >> stoney creek in delaware. i'm a big foodie, you know this. for our second annual food issue coming out this july, i decided we should take a page out of the idea from europe, which is you stay on a farm and do it close

to home. feather-down farms is a company that started in europe and is now in america. there is two of them in new york state and one outside of chicago. i'm guessing there is going to be a lot more. the idea is you go and stay with your family on a working farm. if your kids think carrots actually come from the supermarket, this is a great place to educate them a little bit and you get to pick up your own eggs for breakfast, you stay in kind of a lux environment. you actually have electricity in your -- actually a wood-burning stove in that one. i feel it is like a fun environment and you get to learn a little bit. >> tell me about these tented resorts. they seem really fascinating. >> well, it is fun because the idea of safari has come to the u.s. you go all the way to africa to stay in a tent but have luxury. now you can go glamping right in the u.s. a place in montana is called the resort of paws up. they do this especially well. it is a lux experience and you pay for it but you get a camping butler. if you want a fire, you go like this, s'mores in a minute.

so you stay in a place that has electricity. >> that's like ranger smith in a tux. >> no, they're much more casual. do you feel like you are camping. it is not like you get an experience to the point you aren't experiencing it but you are really sleeping in fatherbe feather king side bed. my friend amy told me about this and i think it is such a great idea. she did this with her whole family. you can rent a summer camp for your whole family if you're having a family reunion or at a place in maine, can you go just for a week. there are ten to 11 other families. all the other activities you love, archery, arts and crafts -- >> short cheating. >> don't do that! but that's available, today. >> thank you so much. great ideas. there is more information on our website, todayshow.com. coming up, we've got a gift guide for dads, grads and blushing brides right after guide for dads, grads and blushing brides right after these messages.

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june is a big month for celebrations. father's day, graduations, and of course those june weddings. on father's day alone, americans will spend nearly $9 billion on presents. if you need some unique ideas that don't cost quite thatch, we a "today" contributor elizabeth mayhew. some of these ideas are unusual. for example, you can give your husband rocks or your father rocks. >> this is literally a drink on the rocks. there's called sea stones. you get them -- c-stones.com. you keep these rocks in the freezer, then pop them into your drink and it won't dilute the

drink. >> you're helping your father or husband not have diluted drinks. >> for the handy manned, a magnetic wrist band, your nuts and bolts won't fall, you can be right up on your ladder. >> i can use those. that's a handy idea. >> woody's meat and potatoes soap. what's great about this, it is 13 bucks. what's so cool is you use it for your hair, your body. it is a one-stop shop in soap for your dad. >> he'll like the name of it as well. this is a good gift if it comes with the beer bottles it carries. >> built in new york. neoprene so it keeps the drinks cold. it is much more convenient than a big tote. you can fill it with his favorite microbrews or whatever. it is great just to take to tailgating or beer on the go. >> why is this not like giving your husband something that -- we don't want to get a copymaker for mother's day. why isn't this like giving your husband -- >> a lot of dads like grilling.

sliders are the in thing. you go to restaurants now, everything's like sliders this, sliders that. this is a little basket so can you make small little hamburgers. it keeps them in the basket so it cooks the perfect temperature and you can just flip it. >> now move on to graduations. >> this is a company called luxury attache. it is a very upscale concierge service. they can get you back-stage passes to bruce stringstein or whatever. what you can do is give your grad a special one-time offer. this is just going on through august. for $200 you give them access to this organization that they would never otherwise have. >> they get to pick and choose what they want? >> they can do like trips, anything you want. they'll plan it and do it for you. >> that sounds good. i like this. >> this is amazing for any of these categories. it's $89 at walmart from black and decker. it is just a one-stop tool kit. i just -- it's there, it's in a

case. any grad, anybody would want this. >> i caught all the guys playing with this on the floor before the segment so i know that's a winner. >> for a traveler, $23 for these fun luggage tags. get them personalized. any time you get something personalized it makes for a nice gift because you've taken the time to put their initials and you can see your bag as it is coming off the -- >> that's keen. what's this? >> speaking of bags, this is called tote a ton. $35 from samsonite. it is the size of a trunk. yet it weighs -- you can feel it. it weighs nothing. it found down to nothing so if you need extra storage or if you're moving, anything on the go, packing up your dorm room or going to your dorm room. then i love this. it is from the container store. it is a giant backpack for laundry. you give that to them. it is $25. give it to them with quarters or laundry card. they're going to be doing their own laundry whether they're moving into their first apartment or into their college dorm. >> now move on to weddings. here is a sweet idea,

photograph. >> a lot of people now given the economy really want money for a wedding gift. a lot of times it is questionable, you don't know how much to give. there is a great website called the weddingenvelope.com. they have a questionnaire, you fill out the questions, where do you live, are you going to the wedding, and it calculates what the best amount of money is for you to give based on all the criteria. that's one thing. now another is there's nothing more personal than pictures so blu blurb.com. take pictures at the wedding of the day and put together this nice wedding album for them. this is one of my favorite companies. personalized ice buckets. then can you also get for $199 a wine fridge and also this is from bed bath & beyond. then wind de.com, three years o wine, one to open on your first, third and fifth anniversary. >> that is a sweet idea.

elizabeth, thank you so much. >> happy summer. >> you too, darling. coming up next, the secret to making a delicious roasted

this morning in "today's kitchen," we're going greek. with the beautiful weather outside, you don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. our hot chef has a fast and delicious roasted lemon-garlic chicken. jim, good to have you back. so you have little kids and you're cooking two different restaurants. how do you manage? >> lot of running around. but this is a real easy recipe. one of key things here is the chicken has to be boneless. treat the marinade. little peel of the lemon. >> start off with olive oil. you put all of the peel of the lemon in there. >> correct. little bit of garlic. >> what kind of spices? >> dry greek oregano. just put a small pinch of salt

in there when you make your marinade, just to season it up a little bit. use that spoon. i'll squeeze that lemon. use the natural colander of the hands. perfect. pour that right over the chicken. you let that marinate just for about a half-hour or so. >> are you using what was a whole chicken that you've deboned. >> ask your butcher to do that for you. this is actually an amish grain-fed chicken. you can get this in the market or you can use any corn-fed chicken like other varieties as well. >> is it better this way with the whole chicken rather than the chicken breast? does it taste better? >> you have the best part of two worlds here, your breast and your thigh all in one shot. so here you get your pan hot. completely boneless. put it in skin-side down. bring that temperature -- we're not going to put it in the oven. bring the temperature down to medium. about eight minutes, lower down to low about four minutes.

after that point, this is where you're at. see how it's shrunken? you get the nice, crispy. golden, brown and dliselicious. then for about four minutes depending on the calibration of your stove. you can serve these pan juices with the chicken after you're done. i pull it out, always let it rest. >> because it cooks some more, right? >> you see that juice that collects there? that's going to be your sauce. take your chicken. i tossed up a greek salad. you're running into that season of tomatoes. take a couple of pieces of that dark meat. we're going to get into that long island season pretty soon, too, which is going to be great. cut that breast here. a whole chicken here, you can feed four people easily. we do that at home all the time. kids love it.

i always give that piece with the bone to the kids because they love to gnaw on that. we're actually missing a spoon. >> just drizzle it right on. >> look at that. >> looks so good! >> this is for ann. she loves her salad. we're giving ann the whole bowl. >> okay. all right. i meet eat all of that. jim, your food is so authentic and there is so much integrity because you stay with what's pure and you just accent it. >> can i ask you, how do you make the salad dressing on the greek salad so perfect? >> a red wine vinegar with a little bit of olive oil. we actually use smashed garlic in that just for favoring accent. you're not actually going to bite into the garlic but i always like to put it in there, salt, pepper and a little greek oregano. >> always great. great to have you here. it's deliciousness as always, "gbd," golden-brown and

delicious. we have more coming up, including summer toys for your children. and keeping your teens safe when they start to date. hoda and kathie lee coming up next. but first your local news and weather.

9:56 is the time. chuck will have the forecast after the news. it's official. washington has steven strauss berg mania. look at the tv ratings. his major league debut earned the highest rating everful the cable network said 165,000 households tune in to watch him strike out 14. by comparison, an average of 8 thousand then watch two years ago. you will be able to catch him tonight as he delivers the top 10 list with david letterman tonight. he arrived in more ways than one. good for him. >> hopefully he likes it hot and sticky. tip of the iceberg where summer is concerned. temperatures closing in on 80 degrees and 81 now in frederick, maryland. one of the usual warm spots. martinsburg is 73.

83 in the southern tip of st. mary's county. humidity around with highs near 90. >> rush hour is still with us. the 95 northbound still very heavy and slow, particularly in the hov lanes for traffic and construction. to the american liege yen bridge, not bad. moving along nisly in both directions. >> wake up with us if you are getting know early

captions paid for by nbc-universal television guess what, everybody? it's thirsday. june 10th. so delighted you're here with us today. we had a big day yesterday. >> we had a little intimate date with denzel washington. and 300 others in the audience. >> we went to see "fences" yesterday. the tonys are coming up and this is the one that everybody's talking about. al said, this is the best show

i've ever seen. karen said, oh, my gosh. >> "fences" is spectacular. when he steps on that stage, people go crazy. it's very interactive with the crowd. >> not supposed to be. >> we're in. we're feeling it, we're with you, they're like, you're right. wow, this is cool. >> people think they're at the movies, not at a theatre and they're going a little bit crazy. i make a prediction that he will win the tony for best actor. and i think it will win the tony for best -- >> we're going to make all our predictions tomorrow. you have until july -- only until july 11th to see it. what do you have over there? >> lady gaga -- she made quite the entrance. her sister's graduating from high school.

same school. apparently, lady gaga was the outcast. she showed up wearing that thing. >> so attractive. >> no attention to her. but she went to make a point. i guess she was making a point. >> who knows. but they're writing she was bullied there, so she was going to go stick it in their face like look at me. >> yeah, but i think it is sort of interesting and her sister thought it is absolutely fine that lady gaga showed up in that. she was glad she was there. that's what the papers say. >> then good for them. i just think it's ridiculous to walk anywhere in that unless you're on stage and you know what you're doing because you cannot see and walk. you need a seeing eye dog with you. >> if you look closely, in her hand, she has a blackberry. she's walking with that stuff and punching buttons on the

blackberry. >> she was adorable. >> we wish her well. just don't want her to fall. >> speaking of a big gaffe, carly fiorina was getting ready to do an interview. she is running against senator barbara boxer for the seat in california. sometimes, when you're waiting to do an interview, you have a mike on and when they're prepping you, you're not thinking about the fact a mike is on and people are listening. this is what she said about barbara boxer's hair. >> saw barbara boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says. god, what is that hair. so, yesterday, you didn't -- >> that's when you realize it's on. >> busted. >> now, we were asking our

facebook folks, women, i hate to say this, women can be catty in your life. >> if anyone videotaped our little morning thing upstairs -- >> or here in the commercials. >> just doing commercials, we'd be fired. >> we all say things that in context, we don't mean to be hateful, they're just truthful. >> and carly fiorina went through breast cancer. she went through chemotherapy and she's sensitive about that as well. >> it's going to be sbresing to see how it affects the race. politics is ugly. this is like a window into the soul and it affects people. >> do you remember when edwards was judging his hair and they played that song, the breck girl song. like, it's funny what little

things can change people's perceptions of you. >> nobody wants to hear about a $400 haircut when they're struggling. there's something else we wanted to talk about that. i was looking at yours. >> what's wrong with mine? >> it looks adorable. it gets more blond highlights. a woman has been arrested -- we hear once in a while how people abuse the 911 system. there was a woman who called 991. >> 911. >> she is 57-year-old audrey scott. >> she wanted to meet a man and was tired of waiting. she didn't know who to call, so she called 911. she called the operator and listened to her find a man. listen --

she was drunk. >> she called many times within a five minute period. >> she was jailed for three days. >> didn't meet anybody at the bar where she was, so she -- >> they're arresting people for a will the of different things. a woman in new york was arrested for adultery. there is actually a law in the book. forever. >> not prosecuted often. >> but she was arrested. appare apparently, she was having a thing with a man who was not her husband. i don't know if they were having sex, they were just all tangled up in a park. some kids saw her and they said

they were going to arrest her for lewd conduct and adultery. the 13th person to be charged in new york for adultery. >> only five have been convi convicted. first of all, the woman was 49 and the alleged partner was 20 years younger. >> wow. >> at least it wasn't one of the kids in the schoolyard. the husband says he has 40 more years to spend with her and he's not going to dump out. because he's still got 40 years with his th fine woman. >> okay. we got to show these props. this is fascinating. if you are a fan of sushi, you might like the sushi popper. you take this little stick. >> that's got soy sauce in it. >> i like the light. here's the magic part. then you take the stick and you

put it here and you start popping up the sushi. >> it's not and cold, so my first concern is how fresh. >> here it comes. >> this is kind of gross. >> who thought -- >> anybody want to try it? >> who thought this was a good idea? any way. >> and it just keeps coming. all righty. what a novel idea. it's a six pack. $29.95 at sushipopper.com. jerry? >> they come in different flavors. >> this is chicken. >> chicken. all right. >> does it come out? it's okay? >> really? >> what's this one, jerry? chicken? like a push up. >> the push up pops, bra, the

same concept. >> i think we should put this down. let's do okay not okay. >> we have chocolates, too, i don't know why. >> is it okay to tattoo your love. kathie lee says love is blind, but it's also fickle. the only safe name to tattoo is mom. that's a good one. >> it's okay to wear your heart on your arm. remember, untattooing could hurt more than the break-up. i'm going to be in kingston, new york. for the signing of "party animals." >> this is "the new york times" best seller, this "party animals." it is a "new york times" best seller. >> thank you, hoda woman. >> we're talking about whether women outgrow being catty.

surprising surprisingly, the women are saying no. siena says, no way, we just get better at it. vicki says, i think it gets worse. a few people wrote it's a matter of security. i'd say like a huge percentage say it's just a bad quality we all have. >> it's not just women. downstairs in our hair and makeup area -- >> men just pop it. they're over it. >> we're all nasty. every last one of us. how to be hip without losing class. >> hobnobbing journalists. >> we'll be right back.

you want to keep up with the hip centers, it's easy to lose grasp. >> how does a trend setter

retain her elegance. we brought in mr. derek blasberg. he's got a book -- >> what qualifies you? >> he's a man. >> i grew up in missouri. i moved here to new york where there's a lethal woman -- her prosthetic leg to climb that ladder. >> what did your parents tell you was the definition of a classy lady? >> i think they were worried about me. they bought me tiffany's table manners for teenagers, so i was well equipped when i came to new york. i think we can agree there's a few people in the world that need a refresher. especially in my sort of -- >> they're sending a bad message

to our youth? >> ed mary-kate and ashley olsen's book. >> they've been working since the day they were born. >> you don't appreciate that as much. >> you see other women too classy to mention by name, you guys can do that though. >> we'll show pictures. >> there's a problem between separating who's a role model and who's entertainment. >> we see these pictures of these young girls flashing their business everywhere. everyone makes fun of them. or you see lindsay lohan. what's the solution for that? >> i wrote the book to put something out to remind young women you don't need a reality show or go out not wearing the appropriate undergarments to be well liked. >> a lot of kids make their mistakes not so much showing up

at a party dressed badly, but on facebook. they're exposing parts of themselves they shouldn't. >> that's part of online etiquette. we're in a really dangerous place where if you've graduating from high school and you're applying for college and the college googles you and the first thing that comes up is tequila shots. it's also employers. that's by biggest tip for young girls now, is to go online and clean up their presence because if there are those pictures online, the colleges that will take you are not the ones you want any way. >> i just don't understand why kids don't understand the far-reaching tentacles. >> we haven't seen it on a long timeline. internet doesn't forget. the thing you want to disappear on google the most is the thing that's going to be there the longest. >> a right photo and wrong photo. the wrong way to show up

dressed, this visual. she's in the pink jump suit. >> the one on the left is classy and the right is the tramp. >> she looks kind of cute. >> exposed thong -- >> oh, i can't see that. >> thos the "new york post." that's not a tabloid. that's a paper. >> you can meet a man at an airport. they've got a job, a passport. >> sometimes you're going to europe, you've got 12 hours in a plane, you want to be comfortable. >> tom ford told me he's never been so disappointed with fashion than when he travels in an airport. i don't think everyone needs to be in a pencil skirt to be in an airport, but you need to look a little nicer. >> thanks very much. up next, is your teen in a healthy relationship? how to find out. healthy relationship? i love this dove creamoil wash. gorgeous lather.

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one-third of high school students have been involved in an abusive relationship. >> how can you make sure your child is in a healthy and safe relationship? here is "today's" psychiatrist to the stars. >> we've seen a lot of things in the headlines with joran van der sloot and the kid from uva, but any college girl knows the feeling. you're at a bar, you have a drink. a dpi says, come with me, we're going to another party. >> you feel that because he's in the college community, it should be okay. it's summertime now, there's a lot of unstructured time. there's going to be high school girls and college girls who meet someone new. they don't listen to that little inner voice that says, this doesn't feel quite -- they just

squelch that. you want a boyfriend and you want to be liked. you want to be in with people. you want to have romance. >> those date rape pills. you could be drinking water and he puts it in there. >> this person is essentially a stranger. stay in a public place. don't right away go back to someone's room. >> your inner compass is off when you've had a drink or two. if you are the friend of a girl, often you go out and one of your friends says, i'm going to go with him and the other girls say, see you later, have fun. >> or, you go, girl. really, if you are really a friend, you say, wait, wait, wait. you don't really know him. i'll go with you or stay with us. or how about next time you go with him. >> these abusive relationships i think start with sometimes just that. just that. and then it escalates the next

and the next. so maybe the young girl doesn't see that bad relationship coming. >> if you've ever talked with your daughter about that, relationships are new to her. she just doesn't know. it starts earlier than this. it starts with, i don't like what you're wearing. who are with you right now. controlling, distancing you from your friends, your family. making it all about the intensity of this relationship. criticizing you. i don't like the way this is. your self-esteem gets brought down and then you're very acceptable to the moment. >> when should you have this conversation with your daughter? actually, you should have it with your son, not be that guy. >> boys get abused, too, and they are less comfortable because it's more embarrassing for them. >> to be bullied by a girl. >> you see what girls are doing today. you can have this conversation

early. >> what age? >> 12 or 13 is not too early because you want to have it before they're really dating, before they're in a relationship because if you do it when they're with someone, you're insinuating it's them. >> what if they are in a relationship, are there big signs? >> a change in mood. like really moodyness. this sort of lower self-esteem. the distancing from other people in her life and frankly, if you see any physical sign, of course, but if you see something in a change of functioning, like dropping a grade, then you should ask. >> thank you so much. now we're going to find out how to survive our allergiealle.

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we're back with more of "today" and sullivmmer toys for kids. elizabeth warner is a toy expert and has brought along some perfect people to test the toys. >> we're starting off with the ipad for kids. we've got donna's son. >> it will be on shefls june 12th. it's like the ipad for kids. they can go online and download

aps. it shows video and 3-2. >> what age? >> starting about age 4. >> why does jack have one? that's jamie's son. >> jack's loved it all. >> this glider looks like fun. >> we're missing some of its decorations, but it flies 200 feet in the air. really fun. if you take off the tail, it can go upside down. it's under $10. great for the summer. >> that's good. >> it flies really, really well. >> what's this little setting back here? this is cute. >> it's "toy story." this is the kids only patio set. comes with a table, the chairs and umbrella. the movie's coming out, but the kids are all playing with the bar. a lot of fun and this one is "toy story," but they have disney princess and fairies. >> what does that run? >> this one is under $30.

such a great set. >> this is the coolest thing ever. we have isabel and sydney. this is sand that doesn't get wet. >> exactly. >> how is that possible? >> it's magic. i don't know how it works. it's aqua sand. can you pull some of that out? it's instantly dry. we can save that and play with it again tomorrow. >> what? >> i don't know how it works. it's magic. >> pour it back in. and take it out. >> it's instantly dry. >> why can't we clean up the gulf? >> we're going to talk about that in a minute, too. >> find this guy and figure it out. >> these are summer vacations. >> some of our favorite games. all under $10. they go to the pool and the beach. absolutely love this. this is called family talk cam talk and buddy talk. these are cute little conversation starters.

>> how would you go to the bathroom or brush your teeth if you could use only one arm? >> well, hello. >> all righty then. >> we've got to talk about mickey and emmett. >> all four hours today. they're not stopping. >> they're playing with the wabobo balls. they bounce in water. >> they bounce on water. that sand goes dry outside water. >> i'm bringing all kinds of magic here today. >> jack, come here. >> come on over and help us with this. nerf is great. >> i love nerf so much. i still play with nerf. nothing more fun. >> this is the curve pitch baseball set. go ahead, guys. he has the weather blitz

football, but this is a flag football set. these clip on to the belt. kids can play in any weather. exactly. makes me feel a lot more comfortable. >> what is this for? >> you can sing. >> remember, you got your own this close. all the trouble in my life, i had a plain microphone. >> you talked about the oil spill, your kids are upset about it. they can go on line to xeko.com. they can play a game where they're going to be rescuing sea turtles in the game. about 23 were just rescued and sent to an aquarium in new orleans and the proceeds will go to rescue real sea turtles. >> wonderful. >> i love the bellboys are still throwing the blitz. >> all right.

be careful with that one. >> go ahead and grab some chickens. hey, boys, will you help us? we're going take these chickens. you guys want to help? we want to hit the target. now, these are funny rubber chickens. they're silly, but when you >> it bounced off. it's a lot of fun. you have to keep pointing. just like put put. you want to have less points rather than more. >> that's pretty cool. i like it. >> bring it out to the pool, the soccer field. >> all great stuff. thank you, elizabeth. good job, guys. up next, how to cure your allergies so you can play outside with this stuff. then reid alexander cooks up something special for your kids.

how to deal with those seasonal allergieallergies. >> it seems they are overlapping. dr. beth corien, hopefully you're going to give us a little relief. >> it's a bad season, you're saying. >> over the last ten years, it's

gotten progressively worse. this year, the season started earlier and is lasting longer. >> is that just in the northeast or nationally? >> nationally. >> a lot of us have to go out and do things, exercise. is there a better time of the day to get out in front of it? >> absolutely. if you're one of these people who have to exercise in the morning, very early like 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. or later in the evening, the pollen counts are lower. >> but then if you get hit by a car because it's dark. >> if you have to -- >> always something. >> if you have to be outside early, when you come back inside, take your clothing off, shower off and get rid of the pollen. >> and most of the allergies are from what's blooming at the time? >> right. so we say it's pollen. so what's pollinating right now, we're at the tail end of tree season which started about march 1st, then the grass season just

started. so there's a little bit of overlap. >> so, it's not flowers. >> you don't know what you're allergic to. sometimes you go to the park and want to scratch your eyes out then the next day you feel okay. how do you know what your issues? >> from the spring, march 1 until the end of june, the pollens are tree and grass. then you have a rest. around august 15th, the ragweed season starts to kick in. that's until about the first frost. >> can you outgrow allergies or develop them later? >> yes to both. often, we see children are allergies and by the time they're about 18, 19 years old, they disappear. it's not uncommon that someone will come in and they're 30 and all of a sudden -- >> my husband's developing them now for the first time in his life. >> should you go and get checked

and see what you're allergic to? >> first of all, anyone who's having symptoms should wonder why. you go to an allergist, it's very quick. you have skin testing and within 15 minutes, i don't know what you're allergic to. knowledge is power. >> i took shots as a child and it did not work at all and now i hear it's a much finer science now and they are working. >> yes, but 85% of people who are injected with shots feel the benefit of it and they really appreciate the benefits. >> i like to just go to the drugstore and get something. certain things just make me feel exhausted. what are the good things to look for? >> you have to think about what your symptoms are. if you're having itchy, watery

eyes, you can purchase a natural tear product. use them several times a day. if you're having nasal symptoms, get a saline wash like this one. >> spray it in your nose? >> exactly. that would help. >> then it goes down into your system? >> exactly. if you're having more systemic systems like totally uncomfortable, you can try and over the count ant histamine. there's claritin, zyrtec. for most people, it really isn't enough. that's why it behooves you to go to the allergist. there are wonderful sprays, nasal sprays. they just help reduce the inflammation in your nose. there are great eye drops. there are great anthistamine

pills. and of course, allergy shots. >> i've been using alegra for years. this is the first time i've lost my voice. >> you probably have a post nasal drip. >> you still have to come to work. >> thanks. up next, recipes for kids bay kid. well, he's a teenager now. >> he's very famous now. >> reed alexander is with us right after this.

"today's kitchen" and we're about to cook up some kid-friendly treats. >> reed is also the creator of coolbites.com, a healthy living website for kids. how nice to have you. >> you made a lifestyle change yourself.

when did this happen for you when you lost the weight? >> it started about a year ago. i was overweight, needed energy and needed to make a change. there was nothing out there, so i sort of improvised and i made my kitchen into a lab. i've lost 15 pounds. >> i don't think he's 15. >> we want some i.d. the kids are flocking around you. how do you like being a celebrity in this world? >> i really appreciate it. i'm really glad the kids like icarly. >> what are we making? >> we are making a grilled vegetable and mopizarro. 100% whole wheat flat bred and olive oil very healthy. slide that into a 350 degree o venn and then we're going to

start grilling. i love to do that outdoors during the summer. >> your parents let you grill outside? >> i do with my dad, but we have a grill pan. great for kids. kathie lee, if you'll add some garlic powder. >> i'm afraid not to. >> a little bit of pepper, a little salt and they go on to the grill pan. grill for about five minutes per side. i love that sound. >> who are you? >> do your grill marks. >> i don't know what's happening. >> and then we've got our flat bread really to do. i'm going to start with arue arugela arugelach. >> do kids like that? >> if they try it, they will. >> the great thing about that is we're having a lot of fun adding my favorite vegetables.

tomatoes, squash. a little shredded mozzarella. >> you need the cheese. >> isn't mozzarella the least fattening? >> you can use it because that's right. especially if you're using a low fat or part skim, then you're really making a great choice. then we've got balsamic vinegar. >> i like that you're drizzling it. i just love you. >> thank you. you can take a taste of that. >> so, which is your favorite? >> i love this one. but i like to do those a zillion different ways, that's why they're so flexible. >> he's so diplomatic. >> we cannot offend these pizzas today. >> this is a marriage made in heaven. >> let's do some sweets. >> absolutely. a great summer meal comes with a

great desert. agave nectar, three and a half cups of hot water. this is my take on a frozen lemonade. >> you have agave nectar in there? >> i do. fresh lime juice, really refreshing. >> he's not looking at any notes, people. >> are you genious? have you been tested? >> what's your i.q.? >> i'm not sure, but i'm having fun with you guys. >> why not, you're with a bunch of dumb of dummies. >> we're going to garnish with mint. so much fun with your friends at summertime. it's a great make ahead desert. my pineapple cooler. same process, it's delicious.

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sara couldn't believe reed is not 50 years old. >> so well spoken. >> i had a blast, thank you. >> you're going home with us for the weekend. you're cooking all weekend long, honey. >> i would love it. >> we have the karate kid with us. >> okay, this is a great one. recipes on our website. reed, thanks again. >> it's so refreshing.

>> i was thinking the same thing. >> sure you were. >> a full service television show. >> great thursday, everybody. thanks so much. and reed, bless you. >> you, too. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com