she's alive. a 13ear-old ohio girl found bound and gagged in a home a week after she vanished along with her mother, brother and friend. now a suspect is in custody and investigators hope he will lead them to that family. mountinin angngt a apopos ovov the a'a' new screenini procedures. >> you touch my junk i'm going to have you arrested. >> a necessary precaution or an invasion of privacy. and "today" goes viral, meredith, al, ann and i try to

sing our way to fame. will it be a dynamite performance or n? we'll let you decide, nday, performance or n? we'll let you decide, nday, november 15, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to "today" on a monday morning. >> that 13-year-old ohio girl is now talking to investigators but so far is suspect arrested on kidnapping charges is not cooperating with police. >> sarah maynard was found bound and gagged in a home near her home. but her mother, brother and friend have not been seen since last saturday. we'll get the details on that in just a couple of minutes. president obama returned from his asian trip over the weekend and will jump right back

into the fray in washington as congress begins it's lame duck session today. in bobby jindal's new book, he takes the president to task for the oil spill in the gulf. also ahead, sarah palin's new reality show debuted last night at a time wn a new survey shows 52% of americans hold a negative view of the former alaska governor. we'll hav more on that as well. plus have you seen this video on the internet? it's a cover song "dynamite" by a man who uses only his voice to make the sounds you hear here. >> we decided to give it a shot and record our own version of that. we have not seen the finished product so we'll be watching along with you a little later. that 13-year-old girl found alive in ohio as police search for her still missing mother, brother and friend. peter alexander is in howard, ohio with mor for us. peter od morning.

>> reporter: this is a bizarre and frightening kidnapping. that young girl sarah maynard lives in this house with her family. she's in good condition, she's being taken care of at a local hospital, but still missing, her mom, her brother and a famil friend. and while the search for them is going to begin again in a few hours from now, the suspect is expected in court. in the basement of this rural ohio home a stunning discovery. 13-year-old sarah maynard found bound and gagged and unable to call for help when s.w.a.t. team members raided the home on sunday. hoffman is key to unraveling this awful mystery, that he can lead them to sarah's mother, 10-year-d kody and stephany

sprang, a family friend. >> at this time, we don't know if he's connected to the family or whether he connected himself to the family, a lot of that remains to be seen as the investigation continues. >> reporter: as doctors care for the young girl, investigators are building a timeline. last wednesday, co-workers became concerned when her mother didn't showp to work at this dairy queen. the next day, sheriff's deputies found blood inside the mother's home. >> there's an unusual amount of blood in that house. >> reporter: the mother's truck and cell phone haven't been used since the weekend, volunteers and sheriff's deputies combed wooded areas, scoured this lake and even used a plane equipped with infrared technology as part of their search. hoffman is described as a loner

who moved into the neighborhood last year. this morning, sarah maynard is safe and this community hopes the me is true for her mother, brother and their family friend. and the sheriff says it's still unclear if matthew hoffman knew any of the victims. he's been cooperative with police as you noted meredith, for 24 hours since he was first arrested. as for that 13-year-old sarah maynard she's in good condition. let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories. >> good morning, everybody. in the news this morng, over the weekend, a british couple s freed after being held hostage for 388 days by somali pirates. paul and rachel chandler were kidnapped on a sailing trip on the east african coast and are now coming to term with the time they lost because why would

captured, paul's father passed away. the nobel peace prize laureate was released to a sea of admirers after seven years in detention. another emergency landing for quantas overnight, the cockpit filled with smoke aboard a boein 747, and the plane was forced to land following an electrical problem. this comes just week after another quantas jet made an emergency landing because of an engine failure. the just department kept 600 pages of documents secret for years and now acknowledges the cia used nazis for post war intelligence zba intelligence gathering. trish reagan is now at the new york stock exchange. >> it's going data coming ou

manufacturing, housin unemployment. we're also getting some sales numbers out today including some retail earnings. certainly very good barometer of theealth or the lack thereof of the u.s. consumer. we have got a lot of concerns swirling out there about european debt, specifically ireland's debt. so we'll s how that affects things back here at home, speaking of home, the fed this week purchasing $35 billion worth of treasuries, thiis all part of it's easing program. president obama is praising a new freeze on israeli settlement expanon in an effort to restart peace talks with the palestinians. the israeli prime minister accepted incentives.

those are some of the top stories at 7 minutes past the hour. >> al the mvp, what a weekend. >> it doesn't turn out too badly and governor jindal got out of the gulf just in timeecause they got a lot of rain good morning. it is damp and chilly on this monday morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. right now we do have some patchy dense fog in much of theegion and we have some low clouds and it's in the 40s from the mountains to the atlantic

beaches. good weather for the skins game tonight, just cloudy. kickoff time 8:30, by then low 50s. then as we get intothe laer part of the day, by the way, we should climb into the low 60s, but after later tonight we'll likely have rain moving in and a wet day on tuesday. then wednesday we dry out. still mild but much chillier >> and that's your latest weather. and now to washington where congress is back in session today for the first time since the midterm elections. and president obama will look to strike a deal with republicans on those bush era tax cuts following his ten-day trip to asia. in a moment we're going to talk to bobby jindal, the former governor of louisiana. >> reporter: president obama back in the white house after ten days after his longest trip overseas. not much time to recompress as he's got a political reality, the incoming house republican freshmen, they have arrived in

town but a lame duck congress ere he has to deal with the issue of taxes. topping the president's agenda this week, the debate onhether to extend the bush era tax rates for middle income americans set to expire on january 1. he did not dismiss the possibility of temporarily extending them. >> there's been a lot of formulations thrown out in the last few weeks that are interesting. >> reporter: for their part, republicans don't agree on the best way forward. some senators are pushing for a permanent extension but see room for compromise. >> if that's all we can get out ofhe president, he is the president, so we'll work with him on that. >> reporter: other republicans have come closer to the president's position. >> i think they ould be extended until we're out of this recession and then we can look at some new tax hikes. >> i look forward to representing any constituents.

>> reporter: congress's newly minted freshman senators. an emboldens house republicans -- >> you can't get 80% of what you want, but you may be able to get 60% or 70% of what you want. you then have to define it so that it is a major victory. >> reporter: outgoing speaker nancy pelosi still hasn't locked down the job of minority leader and may face opposition from a long shot candidate, keith schueler. >> and to be able to put speaker pelosi as minority leader, it's unacceptable for our party to move our partyorward in a moderate direction. if it comes down to this coming week and she doesn't step aside, then i will challenge r. >> reporter: now the president does want to get other things done before the end of the year besides taxes.

he's hoping the senate will ratify a new nuclear arms treaty with russia and also they make take up don't ask, don't tell. >> chuck todd at the white house this morning. house republicans aret the only ones ready to take on president obama. bobby jindal has some choice words for the president in his new book that's called snch "leadership in crisis." you may have gotten invited to the white house christmas party. why the need to personal? >> a couple of things, i do think this is a critical te for our country and i describ some anecdotes in the book during the oil spill and it feels like the federal government was disconnected from the facts on the ground. the first time the president came down to the state to see the oil for himself -- >> this is the way you start the book. >> i think h would be mad about the oil, i would thi he would be worried about the impact on

our wet lands, he's mad about a routine letter that we have sent to the agricultural -- about food stamps. they're picking up thousands of gallons in the water, to count the numb of life jackets and fire extinguishers, it seemed like they were disconnected to the reality on the ground. >> you wrote this, quote, they believe that the elite could fix everything, it struck me during our conversation that the secretary of energy stephen chu had won the nobel prize, good for him, but just how exactly was this medal going to fix the problem, cap the well and keep the oil off our coastline? did anybody have any idea of the ope of this and have immediate solutions? >> it wasn't justhe immediate response. for example i described at one point that was oil in the bay, there was boom and skimmers sitting on thecks, couldn't get it deployed. it literally took the captain of

the coast guard who was in charge of -- they kept denying there was oil. he saw the oil for himself. i said great, can you deploy the booms a skimmers, but it too 24 to 48 hours. the structures were so bureaucratic, there was a lack of urgency. >> what did you do to cut through the red tape? you are the governor in the state, we watched this situation play out with hurricane katrina five years ago, were you the hero no one was listening to? what was your role? fwl. >> there were no heroes, it was tonight politicians, but national guardsmen they were the real heroes. i ordered the national gashed to build a cup of prototypes of banchs. and all of a sudden the federal government authorized dozens of those. we hadhe national guard out there building land bridges to block the oil from coming into

the wet lands. >> by the way, there was criticm of that, the whole sand berm sway, a lot of people said it wasn't going to work. >> it prevented that oil from getting into the wet lands. and here's the point of telling those stories, our country faces a crisis today and the voters said the federal government was going in the wrong direction, just like i said in the book on the oil spill. for example instead of focusing on the economy and jobs, the federal government took on health care. >> when you look at this, you touch on all the themes that people have been touching on, government is too big, it's expansive, expensive. why shouldn't i look at this as your coming out policy, i'm getting ready to run for manager bigger. >> i'm running for re-election next year.

i do think there are things w have done in louisiana, we have cut taxes, we were talking before, our economy is outperforming the national economy. portfolio.com said we had the second best performance during the whole recession. what i'm saying is, if we actually focus on the real challeng facing our country, not getiverted into taking care of car companies and health care, cut taxes, create jobs, our country can get back on the right path, the right direction. >> karl rove says you're a likely candidate. >> i'm running for re-election as governor of the state of louisiana. i think the federal government would do wha we do, cut spending, cut taxes, we would have more better paying jobs in the private secr for our children and grandchildren. >> congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> it's 7:16, here's meredith.

last night sarah palin's show made its debut. >> reporter: the producers of "sarah palin's alaska" call it a familyntertainment show, but it also advertises alaska and shows sarah palin as a rugged outdoors woman. in the first epide of "sarah palin's alaska" the former vice presidential nominee is the ultimate frontiers woman, watching bears wrele. >> it was amazingo watch. this mama grizzly, brown bear really, protecting her cubs. >> reporter: fishing for salmon. >> who's going to catch the first fish? >> even scaling dangerous glaciers. >> you have always wanted to be a rock climber. >> was it a rock climber or rock

star >> reporter: and her husband playing cameraman and confidant. >> business is about rolling the dice. >> reporter: living next door is joe mcginnis, the investigative journalist. todd and his buddies gout there and built a 14-foot fence and others said this is what we need to do to secu or nation's border. >> reporter: tlc executives called the picturesque eight party series as -- >> this is giving campaign adveising for someone who perhaps will have a presidential bid coming up. >> reporter: palin's political standing has taken a beating recently. a new gallup poll sho the number of americans viewing palin unfavorably is high. 52% view her negatively, making her the most divisive -- karl

rove said there are high standards that the american people have for the presidency and they require a certain level of graff tas. >> palin's response? >> those standards have to be high for somebody who wants to run for presiden wasn't ronald reagan an actor? >> reporter: and palin invites the cameras inside her home. althgh bristol currently seen on abc's dancing with the stars absent for the first episode, palin's feisty side kick, 9-year-old daughter piper takes center stage. >> my mom is super busy. she's addicted to the blackberry. >> reporter: and cameras cat a teenaged boy trying to sneak upstairs with palin's 16-year-old daughter will row. . >> this gate is not just for trig, it's for no boys go upstairs. >> reporter: palin is heading

out on a -stop tour. the tour includes two stops in iowa and one in south carolina, the state's key to the republicans' nomination. >> it is 7:20, and once again here matt. now to the small country that is home to the largest building in the world. the centerpiece of downtown dubai, standing more than a half a mile high. cnbc's erin burnett is there. erin, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, matt, i'm standing at the base where i feel safest. it's prett amazing, a lot of tourts are trying to take mirr pictures and they have to contort to get the entire building in the shot, it's just that tall. it seems like a mission impossible. but against all odds and in the face of a global rel real estate meltdown, the world's tallest building went up, and up, and

up. and we were there every step of the way. >> how tal is it so far? >> this week it's about 66. >> one floor every 2 1/2 days? >> now completed and finally open for business, it stands a staggering 2,700 feet tall. almost twice the height of e empire state building. extreme high-rise livieliving. this is the view from the observation deck, still a long way from the top. a view that's even attrted actor come cruise, he's here in dubai filming the latest mission impossib movie. on tom of the towers, on top of the line, . >> people feel they are really in a residence here, it's like

entering mr. armani's home. the lobby is a little smaller thanome of the big, huge hotels and it's done by design to give that sense that you're enteng a residence other than u're entering a big five star ojo tell. the rooms start at $1,000 a night. the jewelry they sell is priceless. this pearl necklace will run you about $40,000. it's a pretty stupendous building all the way from the top of the needle down, not all that glitters in dubai is gold. most of the artments in the building are sold. a new search for kyron horman who vanished from his school almost si months ago, we'll have the latest on that case in a live

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still ahead, from patdowns to full body scans, why some passengers say new airport screening methods go too far. >> and matt, al meredith and i go acapella right after your local news and weather.

good morning. it's 7:26 on this monday, the 15th of november, i'm joe krebs. in the news for today the baby girl left in a church parking lot in springfield is doing well this morning. someone found her in a g bag outside st. raymond's in springfield before the early mass yesterday. now fairfax county police say they're worried that the baby's mother may need medical attention. we'll take a break, come back and look at our weather and traffic right after this. still fo oo

good morning. 's chilly and damp wi patchy fog on this monday morning. right now 48 at national airport. it's in the 40s from the mountains to the atlantic beaches. highs today with some sunshine back into the low 60s. looks like it will be dry for the skins game tonight. then tomorrow cloudy with passing showers likely from the morning into the evening. jerry, how's the traffic? >> tom, the fog is slowing things down in a couple of spots. 395 inside the beltway from the beltway headed to the 14th

street bridg certainly very manageable. one more stop, over in maryland the fog will be an issue, loaded up big-time germantown on down on i-270. > tonight on news 4 at 5:00, healthywaps that could be coming to a school cafeteria near you and why lit

it's monday morng, november 15, 2010. we're seeing the rockefell center christmas tree and it's five miles of christmas lights. inside studio 1a, i'm meredith viera, along with matt lauer. investigators carried out a new search for kyron horman over the

weekend. the controversy over the tsa's new airport screening guidelines. some passengers are complaining that full body scans and more extensive patdowns cross the line, others say it's the price we all have to pay for added security on airplanes. we're going to talk to them about the new produres with the head of the tsa. "today" goes viral and we'll find out if matt, ann, al and i have the voices to be stars. the four of us sing acapella. >> in honor of our green is universal campaign, all week look for tip on how you can go green. in a moment we will talk to kyron horman's mom, but here's the latest developments. >> repter: this weekend, divers searched the waters of sobi island, a two-day

multiagency effort to find little kyron horman. in june when he was 7 years old, kyron disappeared from school after a science fair. on sunday theygain walked away empty handed. >> the dedication is to bring kyron home for closure for the family and for the investigation. >> reporter: despite a search that appears to be more of a recovery effort, kyron's parents hold out hope their son is alive. >> some days are better than others, we live it almost hour by hour. >> it's sickening, it's painful. it's the worst torture. >> reporter: kyron's biological parents -- kaine has since filed for divorce from horman. >> i have everything to -- >> terry horman has never spoke on the the media but in court

documents, kaine's claims -- some of her former friends have spoken out. >> i don't think terri is capable or harming a child, period. she's just not the type of woman that would do it that i can see. >> reporter: but in divorce documents, kaine describe s teri as a terrible stepmother, it was common for her to be visibly impaired by alcohol and to pass out on the couch. >> witho a doubt, i wish i would have known it before, i wouldn't tolerate it. >> a mother and father with her >> kyron's mom desiree young is with us exclusively. good morning to you. this is the first time you're speaking out aut kyron without

your ex-husband kaine. up until now you have presented a united front so what has chan change? >> we're still a united front in the goal that we want kyron home and we want answers, that hasn't changed. i personally have learned of information lately that has dippointed me in kaine's choices and his behavior and i just can't stand by and support the choices that he's making. >> some of that has to do with these court documents that you have seen where he

cloudy and chilly here. we do have some patchy dense fog throughout much of northern virginia, the district and in maryland on this monday morning. temperatures throughout the enre region are above freezing, from the mountains to the atlantic beaches. most locations in the low to mid-40s. lateroday with sme sunshine coming back, we should make it to the low 60s. then cloudy tonight for the skins game. it should be in the low 50s by kickoff. and then during the day on tuesday, occasional showers from the morning into the evening and cool. dry after that. >> and if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, you can go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. too close for comfort, those new airport screening procedures, mat procedures.

we're back at 7:43, if you have flown in the past couple of weeks, you have had to deal with the ta s's new screening procedures. we're going to talk to the administrator of the tsa in a moment, but here's tom costello. >> john's cellhone went through the screener face up. he said he did not want the

screener touching his groin. >> you touch my junk, i'm going to have you arrested. >> reporter: that led to a standoff with tsa investigators who said that he had to go through a full body scan full body scanners are the ta s's latest tactic. and for passenger who is opt out of the scan, now a much more rsonal full pat down. officers now are using the front of their hand and more vigorously searching for weapons and explosives. >> we believe that provides the best possible technology to identify those nonmetallic improvised explosive devices we know have been used before. >> reporter: the challenge for the tsa searching those private areas of the body most consider off-limits but have been used by criminals and terrorists to hide

weapons, drugs and explosives. the underwear bomber who nearly brout down an airline liner last christmas. while a screening officer in another room has but a few critical seconds to search for something suspicious. >> reporter: right now 7 units are in use at more than 65 airports nationwide. >> filipina wade use -- for travelers the security over privacy tradeoff often comes down to gender, men less offended. >> this is what we have to do to travel today. it is what it is. >> but women, more. >>t's an invasion of my personal space, my body. i understand why it's needed, however, from a personal standpoint, it is an invasion of privacy to an extent.

>> reporter: and 2 million people moving through tsa checkpoints every day. >> don pistol is the -- you've consumer rights groups, flight attendants and pilots groups s this is going too far. is there any turning back now? >> i think, matt, really what it comes down to is security and partnerships, everybody wants the best possible security to know that everybody else on that flight has been screened properly, that there's not a group of people with box cutter who is may want to storm the cockpit or people with liquid explosiveses or shoe bombs or underwear bombs. everybody wants that, it's a question owhat that blend or balance between security, safety and privacy and while we remain sensitive to those people with those concerns, the syste we have set up addresses those concns and provides the best

possible security. >> and taking security to the next level, are you also applying common sense? for example if a 9-year-old girl does want the scanner, are we really going to subject that 9-year-old girl to the kind of pat downe're seeing on the vio? >> no, actually, matt, we have -- the policy is that children 12 and under will not receive tha type of pat down. so we have heard the concerns that have been expressed and agree that children 12 and under should not receive that type of pat down. >> let's talk about adults now, th pat down that we're talking about, it basically uses the screeners are using the fronts of their hands and for lack of a better expression, they're touching people's private parts. is there any way that this can be brought backo a for acceptable procedure for the people who are squeamish about this. >> the pat downs and the advanced technology machines are

all part of a procedure we have to try to identify anybody before they would ever get to the airport to do something bad. so tsa is the last line of security for people who have slipped through all the different safety nets and get to the airport, then it's really incumbent upon the men and women of tsa to do a thorough screening and the techniques that we're using are used worldwiden terms of both the pat downs and the technology that's being developed. we're looking for other opportunities to develop that technogy that can get us beyond this point, but right now we believe we're using the best technology driven by informed intelligence. >> is this perhaps part of your strategy that these physical pat downs are so invasive that you're saying to people, don't opt out of the screenings, that's exactly why we're doing

this? >> we believe that the technology is the best technology available and so if ople do opt out, what we want to make sure is that we don't have the 12/25 comer who knows the capabilities of the advanced imaging technology and opts out and does not receive a pat down and gets on a plane with the explosives. >> there's -- on november 24, some we'll have calling for an opt out day. the busiest travel day of the year, are you concerned about the -- >> obviously the advanced screening technology is -- it's irresponsible to say let's opt out and try not to go through any type of security screening something that would cause terrific delays on the airport on the busiest travel day of the year. >> mr. pistol, thanks for your time this morning, i appreciate it. >> thank you, tt. >> still ahead, what you can do

to help your teen avoid making costly mistakes on his or her college applications. but rst these messages.

just ahead, matt, ann, al and i sw what it takes to become viral stars. >> hit your mute button.

7:56 is our time. 48 degrees. looking at the white house out there this morning, you can tell it is foggy and cloudy. we'll have the forecast coming up. good morning, i'm joe krebs. on this monday, the 15th of november, in the news for today the man accused of killing chandra levy could take the stand in his own murder trial this week. jury deliberationsould begin as early as wednesday. well, the redskins will play donovan mcnabb's former team, the philadelphia eagles, tonight on monday night football at fedex field. espn reports mcnabb'sgent will be in town today to try to secure a new four-year deal for the starting quarterback. we'll take a break and come back and look at our weather forecast and check outhe rush

good morning. we have patchy dense fog around the region. it's chilly, we're in the 40s throughout most of the area. later today with sme sunshine returning we should climb into the low 60s. cloudy tonight but it should be dry. a wet day on tapor tuesda with high the in the mid-50s. wednesday, sunshine returns action back into the low 60s during the afternoon. jerry, how's the traffic? >> the beltwa both directions heavy and slow between college park and silver spring. i suspect we have a problem on the inner loop near georgia avenue, so i'll let you know about that. a quick check into virginia, had an accident now out of the roadway, inner loop just about braddock road. tonight at 5:00, healthy changes that could be coming to

♪ i came to dance dance dance 8:00 now on a monday morning, it is the 15th day of november, 2010. a little overcast here in new york, but we're going to have a lot of fun in this half hour, because we're going to ask the question, what does it take to become an internet sensation? this guy right here knows. this is his one-man version on song "dynamite." he does everything, the voices, the instruments, so we decided

why don't we give that a try. >> and there's meredith forgetting to wear pants. >> we're trying our hands at viral videos all week long. >> no band, no instruments, just our voices. could be fun. >> come on. get in the spirit. >> out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer along with meredith viera and al roker. what else is coming up? >> you don't have time to cook for those holidayuests that will be stopping by over the next month or so. chef paula dean is here with recipes you can make now and freeze for later. >> she has a policy her house, anybody who wants to drop by can drop by, unannounced. i don't mean all of you. >> i was thinking i wow, paula might want to rethink that. have you ever decided you want to get in somebody's head.

we have got -- we're going to tour the new exhibit revealing new insight into how the brain actually works. it is so cool. >> and is that what's going on in our brains? >> or is that the fourth of july. >> the average brain, ours not so much. >> we're going to get a check of the t stories with ann curry. in the news this morni, everybody, good morning once again. in haiti, officials say 14,600 people are now hospitalized with cholera. the death toll has soared above 900 and is expected to rise as u.s. health experts fear the number of cases could reach 200,000 people. mexican officials say the deadly blast on sunday was apparently caused by a buildup of swamp gas. five canadians and two mexican workers were killed. a new safety scare today for passengers on a 747. this comes justeeks after the

engine blowout that grounded the entire quantas fleet of airbus a-380s. congress returns back to work today and some top republicans say they may be willing to compromise with president obama on a short term extension on bush era tax cuts. and charles rangel faces his house ethics trial today. it is now 8:03, let's go back outside for a check of the weather with

good morning. we have some low clouds and the patchy dense fog persists throughout much of northern virginia, the district and maryland on this monday morning. and it's chiy. we're in the low to mid-40s throughout most of the region. it's 48 at national airport. but later in the morning into the afternoon we'reoing to get some sunshine breaking out. temperatures climbing into the low 60s. then cloudy tonight. it should be dry for the skins/eagles game, in the 50s. tomorrow, cloudy and chilly with passing showers likely from the morning into the evening. on wednesda >> and that's your latest

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sensations. >> and this more we're stepping out of our comfort zones and into a recording studio to raise our voices in song >> a word of warning, it's not pretty. ♪ i came to dance dance dance >> you recognize this guy? how about this one? how about that one in the corner? millions of youtube fans know him as the acapella boy wonder. >> on top of maybe a kick drum whicis like -- easy for him to say. >> okay, matt, let's try one of more of those. >> let's take it from the top. >> you squeeze your head, don't

you? >> but we wanted to replace all those mikes with all of us and to be just like mike, we have to do it all without any instruments. >> what is acapella? >> it is a very, very tasty italian lunch. >> acapella would be my worst flig nightmare. >> we would need a few lessons. we kick off off by attacking the chorus. matt can actually sing in the shower but he can actually carry a tune. >> si want to celebrate how to live my life. ♪ baby let's go because we're going to rock this club ♪ >> al starts out sounding like a 13-year-old schoolboy.

until he finds his inner man voice. ♪ i throw my hands up in the air sometimes saying got to let go ♪ >> us ladies have our own issues. ♪ and on whoops, stop. that was bad, right? >> the kick drum. goes like this. so it's kind of like this. >> soon it's tim to move on to the entire song. it has about 19ayers of audio. most of them sounds a normal human never should attempt. but as everyone knows, we're not normal. >> the sounds that i can make

arthe sounds that most people can make. after, say, a three-course hungarian dinner. >> la la la la. >> can you dthat for a lite bit? >> no. >> okay. >> i can do that like three times in a row before i might cough something up. >> good for two and then i'm done. >> let's see how you do. >> so we have the original here. ♪ i wanted to celebrate and live my life saying ao ♪ >> and we have the after, tune it a bit and add somererb and

delay. >>. ♪ i want to celebrate and live my life saying ao, baby let's go ♪ >> we tape ourselves in front of a screen screen, add a dash of flavor and hope as they say in the biz, that they'll fix it in post. >> i'm a little worried about whether they can actually make this work. >> that my friends is magic. >> and our fearless mentor is was. failure is an option. now how long did you work sweetening this to make us sound good? >> barely a time at all. you guys were great. >> now his nose is growing. >> no, seriously, how long did this take you to put together? >> it was out, what, five hours to get thectual music stuff together, editing and some tuning needs to happen, so about seven or eight hours. >> over the course of time, did

you regretaking on this assignment? >> not at all. nine hours, it was great. >> we all went into this, did you have the times when -- >> he was very supportive, but you could read his eyes. >> you're so kind. he's just looking as if he really loved it. >> of course i did. >> you obviously have heard the finished product 100 times now, what should we expect as we're about to roll this? >> i think you shod expect a grammy nomination within the next couple. >> mike, thank you. we may as well get this or with, gang. ladies and gentlemen, the world premier of our little diddy performed by your ancho and your anchors alone, unfortunately every sound you hear was made by one of us. take a look.

♪ i came to dance dance dance dance ♪ ♪ i hit the floor because that's my plans plans plans ♪ ♪ i'm wearing all my favorite brands brands brands ♪ ♪ because it goes on and on and on ♪ ♪ and it goes and on and on ♪ yeah ♪ i throw my hands upn the air sometimes saying a-o got to let go ♪ ♪ i want to celebrate and live my life ♪ ♪ saying a-o ♪ baby let's go ♪ because we're going to rock this club ♪ ♪ we're going to go all night ♪ we're going to light it up

♪ like it's dinah dynamite. we're going to light it up like its dynamite ♪ ♪ i'm going to take it all out ♪ i'm going to be the last one standing ♪ ♪ i'm alone and all want to be the land one landing ♪ ♪ because i can feel it ♪ and i i i just want it all ♪ i just want it all ♪ i'm going to put my hands in the air ♪ ♪ hands in the air put your hands in the air ♪ ♪ i'm going to go all night ♪ going to light it up like it's dynamite ♪ ♪ if i told you once now i've told you twice ♪

♪ we're going to light it up like it's dynamite ♪ >> wow. >> i would like to thank the synthesizer. >> that song is so fun. when you listen to you, especially. it just makes you feel good. what made you come one this idea? >> really i was producing music for so long and i decided to become an artist and kind of all these things i could do in one thing. >> with your voice, yes. >> it's been pretty crazy, it's like a lot of internet views over 10 million now, combined with my video. >> do you think our lives are going to change? >> as i said, grammy awards. >> i was clearly not into thi when we first heard the idea and

then when they said you got to go watch the video to get ready for the shoot and i watched your video, i gotuch a kick out of it. i played it or and over again. you're fantastic. >> so if you go to youtube and we want to see your video, we type in what? >> type in mike tomkins. >> what are you doing now. >> i'm working on some original music. >> you need backups? >> if you need some, we're here. >> thank you so much. coming up tomorrow on "today" goes viral, you may not know the gregory brothers, but you may know the bed intruder song. >> and we're going to ask them to do one of their auto tune stuff. and our video that you just saw is going to be posted on our website. >> i'm impressed with you guys. >> meredith, well done, al, matt, well done.

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maxwell house gives you a ch full flavored cup of coffee so you can be good to the last drop. we're back now at 8:21 with everything you ever wanted to know about your brain. natalee morales is at the american museum of natural history here in new york where a new interactiv exhibit called brain, the inside story opens this saturday. hey, natalee, good morning. >> reporter: yes, this is very much a hands on and brains on exhibit. thanks for letting us in so early this morning. we have learned so much in the last decade about the brain and how it works. what does the exhibit reveal to us? >> this exhibit is here because ofhe advances i energy technology and also because of psychologists have done really, really clever exriments. >> we're seeing rite here this

giant human here, with the big lips and the big hands, what does this teach us or show us about our sense of touch? >> we have all this information coming in from the oside and so it's got to be processed in our brain so certain regions of our brain are there to process. the ze of the hands and the face are proportional to how much real estate in the brain it takes. >> anding we move on to o neuron gesture table, we're going to put our hands on this screen, i understand that kids love this one right here. but it really shows you how the signals are processed in the brain, right. >> you have to get the formation from your seasonsioend back out into your appendages. these connections are called s answers.

and thinking and remembering are these electrical chemical messages. >> and even our abilityo recognize human emotion which brings us to our next area right here as we see this face image here on this projected screen, we're seeing a lot of horror and what does this tell us about how we interact as humans. >> we have four basic emotions that we talk about here fear, anger, happiness and sadness. >> she's going through all of them at once. >> she's going through all of th. we have our emotions because we have to respond quickly to outside information. this is a very primitive part of our brain that actually controls our emotions. >> and meanwhile, back in our studio, we have some 3-dmri images that shows the brains of a musician as well as an athlete. what are you seeing in this mri? >> you're seeing the brain and where the brain is yellow and

red is very very, active. >> and the back part of the brain more specifically. >> that's right. and when he ee's shown a film o balller reierinas his brain tur >> and the abity to acquire a language, and right here, we have trevor who is showing me how to say a word in mandarin and then it shows how i then have to repeat that. so i'm going to record. all right, i didn't do so hot there. but what does this basically show us? when we do hear his word and then i repeat it. >> it's showing how well you brain adapted to reproducing that sound. and this is part of your brain that we commonly call thinking. we're actually in a brain right now.

>> this is the brain? >> and this is part of your brain and we're actually standing in the cortex of the brain and we' trying to explain how we think with language, memory and decision making. >> it is fascinating, thank so mu. by 8:26 is your time now. 49 degrees. we started off with a foggy morning. tom will have your forecast right after the news. good morning. i'm eun yang. in theews at this hour, fairfax county polic are looking for the mother who left her newborn outside a church. somee found the baby girl inside a gym bag outside st. raymond's yesterday before early mass. police say they are worried t baby's mother may need medical attention.

good morning. we still have some patchy fog around the region. as we approach mid-morning, much of the fog should begin to dissipate in another hour or so. we should get some sunshine back. highs reaching low 60s today. right now we're in the 40s. and then late tonight after midnight and by dawn tomorrow, it does appear we'll get some rain and a wet day on tap tuesday. jerry, how's the traffic? >> the beltway in virginia had an accident on the inner loop just before braddock road. it is gone but the delays certainly with us as you lee springfield up toward i-66.

one more stop, we'll head over along i-270. not bad. looks like whatever fog we had may be burning off sta little bit. good news there. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, healthy changes that could be coming to a school cafeteria near you and why little changes could cost big bucks hey ove, i'm gonna need a bank. any ideas? capal one bank. they're everywhere. yeah, you're right! ♪ [ male announcer ] capital one banks are everywhere.

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peekt harry potter. >> wu. >> plus the right way to entertain during the hectic holiday season. paula dean is here with

good morning. the fog we've had that was rather pervasive around the region this morning beginning to brk up and temperatures are still chilly. it's ithe mid and upper 40s, now 48 at national airport. later today we should climb into the low 60s as we get some sunshine back. then cloudy tonight. the skins game, though, should be dry. cloudy, in the 50s during the game, 40s in the morning with rain likely in the morning. off and on passing showers tuesday into tuesday night. warming up a bit wednesday. >> don't forget, you can check your weather any time of the day or night, g to weather channel on cable or weather.com online. we're going to catch up with the harry potter star.

for the past ten years movie goers have been captivated by harry potter. determined to stop the forces of darkness. >> we have lost two days without her. >> there's a bit of a chase on here. >> i don't care aboua wedding. i'm sorry, no matter whose it is, i have to start finding them. this is our only chance to beat him and the longer we stay here, the stronger he gets. >> daniel radcliffe as harry

potter. this movie is the beginning of the end of the franchise, what's that been like for you, dealing with that? >> it's kind of odd because we finished filming, the last two we shot inne go and we actually finishedilming it five months ago, so we have been through our period of mourning. >> what was that last day like? >> lots of tears as you might expect. as you said, it was ten years of our lives. but we shot the last film for 18 months. it has been -- it was very weird doing all the press for it at th moment because suddenly everyone's saying, gosh, you must be so sad, i wn't until you sa something. >> it's a little bit of a celebration too? >> if we had been going out on a sour note, it would have been heart brking, but i'm pleased with this film and it's nice to

go out with a bang. >> and i heard you swiped some stuff from the set? swiped is not fair. >> but i would have swiped it if they haven't given it to us. my glasses which are a bit tiny. >> you were only 11 when you started. >> look, there i am. oh, good. it's good that everyone keeps seeing that. >> did you have a good childhood? i had a different childhood. but, you know, in terms of happiness and, you know, it's a amazing, fun, exciting place to be and you're there with a lot of great people. i have to tell you, there's a lot less bullying on the film set than there is in school. so i missed that part. >> this is the darkest of all, you're searching to stop him. how does this film lead usnto

part two? >> basically the thing, i think it was interesting, i was talking to a journalist about this the other day, because this film is easiest to break down because you don't know the books very well. so essentially, there's seven pieces of his soul. and also searching for the deathly hallows. and it's a person that basically rates between us so you get there go first. and the end of the movie and, yeah, it's a big cliffhanger. i'm not going to ruin it. >> don't ruin it. right after filming stopped on that movie, you started "woman in black" which is a thriller, a very scary movie. and you were very clear on why you wanted to do that, you wanted to play an adult, obously you are one. and a dad? yeah. it wasn't so much i was seeking to play those things, but when i

read the script and it was a chance to play a father and a widower, it's inherently a much more adult role. so that is part of the process of gradually sort of separating myself from harry, not serating myself, because i'm very proud to have played harry. but separating myself from the character. it's a great director, james watkins, he's a fantastic director and it's a great script and it's a fantastic costume. >> scary? >> it's going to be very scary film, yes. >> and you're going back to broadway, "how to succeed in business without even trying" which is a song and dance musical. i didn't think you did that stuf >> i don't think anyone did. i have always loved singing and i have been singing for a long time and i really, really enjoy it. and dcing is not somhing i have ever done, but i've been taking lessons for two years.

i'm hoping to surprise some people in the course of the next year. >> you'll be brilliant, you always are. thank you so much, harry potter and the deathly hallows oped this friday. and daniel's co-stars drop by later this morning. make your christmas story unforgettable! use your shop your way rewards card at kmart today... ...for the chance to win 1 of 30 trips to universal orlando resort... ...and step into the magic and excitement... ...of the wizarding world of harry potter! there's smart, and there's kmt smart.

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"today's" kitchen is brought to you by maxwell houseoffee, be good to the last drop. >> we're back now at 8:44, this morning on "today's" tchen, back to basics, dishes you can freeze now and serve later, perfect for the holiday season because you never know when guests may drop in. ula dean is the queen of southern cooking, her magazine is called "cooking with paula

dean." talking about people dropping in, but they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. did you see "saturday night live" this weend? >> i did see "saturday night live." i thought it was just hilarious. >> i'm paula dean and you know my favorite two ingredients too cook with are butter and oil. that's why i'mntroducing my new product. paula dean's big old soak em paper towels. >> that's great, congratulations. >> you know, she i love that girl. she can play so many parts. >> she's got the accent dow zple she's got the accent down, honey. >> people drop by, you've got

these great dishes you can make now and reheat when they drop by. >> we have sauteed our shallot sauce and we have added our rice and we're going to let this cook until it's slightly brown and then we have got our chicken broth over here that we're going to slowly add to it. >> you can't add that all at once. >> this is a stiy rice, so we want all that starch to kind of come out slowly. this is what it's going to look like after ten, 15 minutes. >> all right, what do we add to that. >> we have got our crab meat, we have got our parmesan cheese and lemon zest. all we're going to do is fold this in and you want to do that, just be careful now. >> i want you to show you beer actually going to assemble things after that. >> like i said, fold your crab

in very gently so it won't tear all up on you. >> i'm not the best folder in the world. >> hold your pot, grab your pot. >> let's say we have done this. >> we're going to place this on a cookie sheet, matt, just like this and we're going to l it refrigerate for four hours or even overnight. >> first you put these in? >> we're going to scoop them out using a little butter thing, now that they're cold, they work real, real good. so we just go roll them. this is a season this is seasoned. >> so how long in there? >> just two to three minutes.

not long at all. here's the great thing about this dish, y'all, you take them out, you let them cool completely, you put them in the freezer on a cookie sheet and after they're frozen, you can throw them in a bag and pull them out, put them in your oven, reheat them for about ten or 15 minutes and you're party read honey. >> this is a cheese and pistachio roll? >> a cheesroll. >> how long ahead can you make this? >> that will hold in your freezer a month. this will hold in your freezer a month. >> you're making these things an putting them in bags and dating them so you know when you baked them. >> you throw your tender loin in the oven and you've got all your sides ready. >>hen they've been frozen for a month, how do you defrost that and get it ready? >> you put out out on the counter.

if you're going to freeze it, matt, you don't want to freeze wit the nuts. you want to toast your nuts. i know you do. in your favorite way to toast your nuts. >> i got it. >> i likto do mine in a pan. all right, now i want to quickly -- >> we are so out of time. >> we are. ani so wanted to show you these. >> those are nice, those are great. a live performance from an american idol winner.

the toyota concert series on "today," brought to you by toyota. >> back now at 8:51 with the reigning american idol, he wowed the judges and voters earlier th year to win season 9. now he's coming out with his major lab debut album called "live it up". just talking about the fact that 11 of the songs, ten of them you co-wrote. i know it was important for you to do at. >> it was. you know, it's not that i look down on singing other people's songs, i think it was more for me just a matter of being a huge

part of my album. i wanted to look at it and just know that i had a lot to do with it. so working with the writers was an awesome experience and it really let me do my thing. >> were you nervous? >> they were actually really cool about it. it surprised me at first too because when you get on a label, you can't do this and you can't do that. and i said i wld really like to write on this album and ty said okay, go ahead. >> and what are you going sing for us? >> this morning we're goi to do a single called "sweet serendipity." >> take it away. ♪ sweeterendipity ♪ oh, oh,

♪ i ain't got no car ♪ and stretched too far ♪ another week ♪ i got nothing up my sleeve ♪ i'm doing just fine ♪ i'm always landing on my feet ♪ ♪ i ain't going to trust someone is watching over me. ♪ i just want to be strong ♪ at the end of the road ♪ ion't want to hold on

♪ i want the strength to let go ♪ ♪nd i'm doing just fine ♪ i'm always landing on my feet ♪ ♪ in the nick of time ♪ and by the skin of my teeth ♪ i want gonna stress ♪ because the worst ain't happened yet ♪ ♪ something's watching over me ♪ like sweet serendipity ♪ sweet serendipity ♪ and i'm doing just fine ♪ i'm always landing on my feet ♪ ♪ in the nick of time and b the skin of my teeth ♪ ♪ i ain't gonna stretch ♪ cause the worst ain't happened yet ♪ ♪ i'm doing just fine ♪ i'm always landing on my feet ♪ ♪ in the nick of time and by the

skin of my teeth ♪ ♪ i ain't gonna stress ♪ because the worst ain't happened yet ♪ ♪ something's watching over me ♪ like sweet serendipity ♪ something's watching over me ♪ ♪ like sweet serendipity ♪ i'm doing just fine ♪ like sweet serendipity

>> thank 8:55 is your time. 49 degrees. a very foggy morning in the nation's capital. tom will have the forecast after the news. good morning, i'm eun yang. the man accused of killing chandra levy could take the stand in his murder trial this week. one of his inmates is expected to testify for the defense. jury deliberations could begin as early as wednesday. metro will stay open one hour later tonight to help people get home from the redskins game at fedex field. the skins play the philadelphia eagles at 8:30. metra trains will run until 1:00 a.m. and wll also put more trains in service to handle the crowd.

good moing. at this hour we've got the fog beginning to dissipate and still some low clouds hanging over the region. we'll get some sunshine back, though, throughout much of t area in the next few hours into the early afternoon. that's when we'll climb into the low 60s. rain likely tomorrow. >> the inner loop is slow from old georgetown road to georgia avenue. some activity out of the roadway not affecting travel lanes but drawing a lot of attention. we're loaded up 395 most of the way to downtown. tonight on news 4 at 5:00, healthy changes that could be coming to a school cafeteria near you and

we're back now with more of "today" on a monday morning. it's the 15th day of november, 2010. looks like it's getting a little nicer out here for these nice people who gathered on rockefeller plaza after a picture perfect weekend here in the northeast. out on the plaza, i'm mattauer along with al roker and natalee morales who came back from the museum in one piece. ur brain's okay? coming up in this half hour, we have got a sad and frightening story, a 13-year-old girl out in ohio who's been missing since

last wednesday was found gagged and tiedp in a basement not far om where she lived. her mother, her brother and i guess fily friend are still missing. it is a puzzle story. we'll have the latest on that coming up straight ahead. also coping with chronic inflammation, it's linked to all sorts of serious health conditions, including believe it or not cancer and diabetes. but often times sufferers don't realize they have it. we're going to tell you a coup of foods that you should be eating to incorporate into your diet to alleviate some of the symptoms of diabetes and maintain your long-term health. good morning once again, in the news, the oma administration is set to announce it's troop withdrawal strategy. the military plans to scale down troop numrs every few months in transitionsimilar to last

summer's withdrawal from iraq. and if it is approved, all combat troops could be out of afghanistan by late 14. a british couple has been released after being held captive by somali pirates for more than a year. paul and rachel were freed on sunday, they were saing around the world when captured off the eastern coast of africa. a 13-year-old ohio girl has been found bound and gagged but alive. authorities are searching for her mother, brother and a family iend. they have been missing since last wednesday. >> reporter: this is a bizarre and a frightening kidnapping, that young girl, 13-year-old sarah maynard lived in this home with her family, but she was found early yesterday in a stranger's home about 10 miles away from here. theost iortant good news is

she is fine right now, said to be in good condition in a nearby hospital. but her mom, her brother and a family friend are sti missing, a sech will begin again this morning and a suspect in her disappearance is expected this morning in court. inhe basement of this rural ohio home, a stunning discovery. 13-year-old sarah maynard found bound and gagged unable to yell for help as s.w.a.t. team members raided the house sunday morning. police say the home belongs to 30-year-old matthew hoffman who's been arrested on kidnapping charges. investigators say hoffman is key to unraveling this mystery, that he can lead them to tina hoffman, sarah hoffman, -- -- he connected himself to the family, that a lot of that remains to be seen as the investigation continues.

>> reporter: as doctors care for the money girl shts v, investigators are building a timeline. co-workers were concerned when the mother didn't show up for work at dairy queen. >> there was an unusual amount of blood in that house. >> reporter: the mother's truck was ter found abandoned. her cell phone and credit cards haven't been used since the family disappeared. this weekend volunteers combed wooded areas. hoffman is described by neighbors as a loaner who moved into the neighborhood last ye. authorities say he was convicted of setting condo complex on fire in 2000 causing $2 milli in damages. this morning, sarah maynard is safe and this community hopes the same is true for her mother, brother and their family friend.

now it's unclear if that suspect matthew hoffman actually knew any of the victims. he's been uncooperative with police according to the sheriff since he was picked up 24 hours ago. as for the 13-year-old say sarah maard, she has been speaking what detecti with the detectives but they're not sharing exactly what she said. a powerful explosion at a hotel on mexico's posh caribbean coast was likely caused from the buildup of natural gas from a nearby swamp. five tourists were killed sunday in the blast at the grand rivera princess hotel in cancun. a history of the justi department reveals that it allowed nazis to settle in the united states after world war ii. u.s. officials gave nazis, quote, safe haven in exchange for aiding in post war intelligence gathering. extending the bush era tax cu is on the agenda today as

congress returns for a lame duck session. leading republicans say they might be willing to work with president obama on a short term extension of the bush tax cuts. megamind held on to the top spot bringing in $30 million. unstoppable was in second place, and due date was bumped down to third. her wedding was called off just days before she coulsay i do. the bride and her father hosted a different kind of party. they welcomed a local homeless shelter to their banquet hall for a preholiday feast. that's a wning family. it is now six minutes past. let's go back outside to matt. >> making the bt out of an

clouds and patchy fog around mid-morning. it's 49 at national airport. mid-40s in the suburbs and rural areas, but some sunshine breaking out in virginia where now it's near 50 degrees. later today, we'll have highs reaching near 60 or so with sme sunshine coming back, but it will cloud right back up again tonight. it should be dry for the sks/eagles game. tomorrow a wet day, showers off and on in the morning all the

way to the evening. drying out on wednesday, still a bit mild but much cooler thursday into the weekend. >> a lot of harry potter fans. natalee? al, thank you this morning on "today's" health, chronic inflammation, it's a medical condition that develops slowly through the body and if left untreated it could lead to a host of health problems. dr. kerrey peterson is a contributor to women's magazine. the article in the magazine called the enemy inside of us, chronic inflammation. what are some of the underlying health problems it can cause? >> what we are slowly learning is that chronic infmmation is a cause of a whole host of diseases. it's been lind to depression, alrgies and even cancer. this process is something that if left uncheck kd cause a whole slew of problems. >> what exactly is chronic inflammation and what is the

effect on the body. >> what chronic inflammation is when the immune response goes out of control. when we get a cold or twist an ankle, the immune system is engaged, it sendshite blood cells in and they attack the infection and we see pain, redness, swelling and once our body heals, they retreat. but in chronic inflammation, there's a faulty distress signal so now the immune system is engaged unnecessarily and the white blood cells come in but there'no infection to attack. so instead what it does is it starts to damage our own tissue. >> how is it differenthronic with acute inflammation. >> acute inflation is a short-lived attack, the immune system comes in and does is jobnd retreats. with kroining inflammation, the immune system is continually gaged. >> what are somal of actual

triggers? >> there's several, one of them we know that's a trigger is being overweht. basically when your fat cells expand in size when you're too large, this triggers the immune system, the immune system comes in, the white blood cells will inflame the red blood cells which is why overweight people are prone to diabetes. d also if you're overweight, it can impact the liver as well. the liver cells can become damaged asell from being overweight. >> and if you're eating too many high fatty foods, that's something that can also then trigger this reacti, high anxiety, depression. >> high fat foods like bacon, lard, fatty meats can trigger inflammation, a lot of the things in your diet, high sugar foods that have a high glycemic index. you had mentioned stress, stress and anxiety cause the production of a stress hormone called

cortisol and cortisol can trigger the immune system unnecessari unnecessarily. >> what the is difference between acute inflammation and chronic inflammation? >> with acute inflammation you see the redness and the swelling, so there is no warning. >> not necessaril it depends on whether the chronic inflammation is causing a particular disease. if you have rheumatoid arthritis, there's chronic inflammation and you get joint pain. but there's no isymptoms that don't manifest at all. >> if it is chronic inflammation can lead to certain diseases, how do you test for it. >> there are some markers that you can check. like c reactive proteins to see if you have inflammation a.

but overall, this is an elusive process that we don't have a direct test for it at this time. >> how do we fight it if we don't even know it's there. >> there is things that you can add to your diet. one is omega 3 fatty aseih sids. fruits and vegetables, another great thing to incorrate into your diet. particularly the orange and red vegetables. grape grapes. >> a healthy weight and a healthy attitude. >> right. >> and still to come, this morning what you can do toelp your teen avoid costly mistakes on his or her college application. barbara corcoran answers your

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financial one is the way too to go. here's the rub, i don't like the fact that you're calling it secondary financing or a secondary -- what you should be saying is owner financing, or even better than that, you should be saying no down payment, and you would eve be wise to put a sign in front of your house. >> are you going to take that advice? >>. >> caller: i have no choice. >> let's go to another e-mail, this one from lauren is boder, colorado. lauren writes, we want to buy a home in boulder, colorado. i notice many properties have been on the market for over 60 da, how low of a bid is appropriate on a $500,000 house on the market over 60 days, i don'want to bid too high or too low. >> you're in an area of the country where prices are

actually starting to move up. it's pretty tricky to put in a low bid and you should think long and hard before doing it. thinking that knowing how long the property has been on the market is nonsense thinking, the trut is you should be concerned on whether the people are motivated to sell. that will determine the fight more than any other factor. if you can possibly arrange to visit the house whenhe owner is home and simply have small talk and say, hey, where are you moving to, are you found anything yet, why are you moving? those kinds of questions let you know how desperate someone is to sell. and as far as putting i a bit, you should put in a bid 10% to 10% lower than the asking price. >> becky is on the phone from star tree, indiana. >> caller: my question is, my son graduated three years ago from college. he has a full-time job and he's

been saving money to build a home on a five-acre tract of land that he owns with no debt. what options are available for him? >> would the student loan have y affect on that? >> they never leave unless you throw them out. but the fact of the matter is since he's been paying that loan, it will actually help his credit because it establishes him as a good credit risk. getting the student loan out of the way, where the best play to go for a mortgage? is fha. that should be an easy loan for him to get. make it his last meal tonight. >> not that barbara's pushing him out too quickly. let's go to glenn from jackson, mississippi. >> caller: barbaras my wife and

been saving for a long time, we have been trying to buy property -- when the market ashed, we ended up being stuck with 30 pieces of property including my own home. we have spent most of our savings and i spent my 401(k) and most of my retirement fund to maiain them and we 're kind of at a stand still on what to do now. >> congratulations on your courage, you did it with the right intent when the market russ rising. the answer depends on how you purchased the property. most people purchase it in a corporate name. if you did that and you didn't give a personal guarantee, you should actually look at your portfolio, there's a park place and a boardwalk in every portfolio, try to keep those and

dump the rest. if you personally guaranteed the mortgages, the problem is, you're going to have to relinquish your good credit rating, but times that's worth it if you can leave with your shirt on i'm struggling for happy notes here, but the truth is that that market has already leveled out, it's not going down, it's not going up. so you have a little breathing room here and bank are a little more willing to deal when prices are falling. >> vanessa writes can i get my name off of a deed if i didn't marry my former fiance? >> that depends entiry on whether he's willing to let you off that deed. here's the real thing, where are you on the mortgage. because if you're on the mogage, then you have to get the bank's approval to let you off the mortgage. that's a different story because he's got to prove that he can afford the more gajs all o his own and probably be forced to

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good morning. sunshine has broken out except far northern virginia, the district and much of maryland. much of virginia nowetting sunshine and so will much of the reon in the next few hours. highs at that in the low 60s. then tomorrow it looks like rain likely in the morning off and on through the day into the evening. try after that. highs reaching the 60s on wednesday. jerry, how's the traffic. we'll head on over and take a live look, capital beltway inner loop is jammed from old georgetownoad to georgia avenue where apparently there's some kind of sign or something hanging over the interstate, drawing a lot of attention.

through lanes are open. one more stop, the inbound side of new york avenue, just some heavy traffic through northeast. >> tonight on news 4 at 5:00, healthy changes that could be coming to a school cafeteria near you and why the ch

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disease and our bones. it's so important to look at these short-term symptoms as well as the longer term health affects. >> these superfoods can actually help you while you're going through some of the changes in your body. >> food is just food, it's not medicine, you can't expect to drink a glass of soy milk and your hot flashes go away. remember, you have to eat these things often in combination and over time to realize the results. >> so incorporating them into your et. first we have soy, wha foods are we talking about that you should be incorporating into your diet that have soy? >> in america we don't eat a lot of soysoy milk or tofu,ou can have soy burgers. and edamame. alwa talk to your doctor

first, for most healthy women, there's no problem with adding soy. but add slowly because we're not as americans used to this. >> next fd is flaxseeds and flaxseeds you hear a lot about them being the supercedes. >> they're another kind of a plant estrogen, when you say what is the magical ingredients. there are no magal ingredients but nature helps replenish some of the estrogen that's going away through the natural process of menopause. do not confuse this with flaxseed oil. but you can have flaxseed as a regular grain, and this is again a plant estrogen. it's going to help to supportthrough this process. >> about one towo servings per day on that point. and chickpeas, a lot of us use them on top of salads. >> they actually contain as

flaxseed a kind of plant estrogen it provides wea estrogen to help you thrgh this process, but chickpeas are good sources of protein and they have a lot of fiber. studies have thrown these foods can help women through this process. >> fresh fruits and vegetables. w do they help? >> when we lookt weak estrogen, colored fruits and getables, women have to tnk about color becau a small amount of plant estrogens will help you maintain good nutrition through this process so think color and that's a plus. >> next dairy, and you say incorporating nonfat or very low fat dairy products is very important. >> we switch to the longer term. we have plant estrogens for night sweats and brain fog.

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so the competition is tougher than ever so we have got some tips to help yr college bound teen avoid the most common application mistakes. we have got pat cullen, she's the ceo of ivewhite. a lot of kids who are heading to college are fill tougt college application. you fill out one, it's good for all the schools. is there a down side to this? >> no, it's a standard application accepted by more than 1 colleges. you can fill it out once, but many schoo have their own supplements to the college application. >> let's take a lookt these mistakes that we were just talking about. number one, this is something i think that especially because these kids are stressed out, they're in their senior year, they have got so much going on, but making basically not following directions, not really writing down everything they should? >> especially with essays, you

need to adhere to word counts, character coun, you needo answer the essay questions and you would be surprised at how many students don't do that. they go over, they write too much or they don't specifically answer the question. should parents take a look at that to make sure they do that correctly? >> parents, you have to be careful becae it's important for the student's voice to come through and colleges are very wise to a 47-year-old's voice versus a 17-year-old's voice. so you would be doing your child a disservice if you're going to write the essay for them. but you can certainly go to your english teacher or your high school college counselor or your independent counselor to help you with your application. >> another mistake is being redundant. >> exactly. so many students write their activity andheir personal statement about the same topic. so they're writing about soccer in their activity essay and also -- talk about different

parltss to who you are. and you want to tell them something that they can't learn from the rest of the application. >> and they learn a lot from the essay and the difficulty with that is there's so much pressure onhe students to write an essay, they wk all summer and they've been working all fall o the essay, but they submit the same essay with all the different application and you say it may be a mistake not to personalize the essay. >> for the college application, you can use the same essay, but for the personal essay, when they say why do they want to come to this college. they want to go -- they just change the name of the school and that's how they personalize it. but sometimes they'll even send the wrong essay to the wrong school, with the wrong colge's name. >> be careful about that. >> another suggestion you say is be careful how you list extracurricular actities there'a right way to do it and

a wrong way. >> if you just did it in ninth grade and you quit or you just spent an hour per month on something, it's better to do a few things whole heartedly and you definitely want to list them in order of importance, there's a 12-line grid on the application. and you can always upload a short extra resume. >> iortant to you. in other words if you have been swimming in school all -- several years of your high school career, and that's been the thing, that's what you want to put number one or maybe you're a debater and that's something you've been doing on the side. >> you want to think about summer experiences, jobs, internships, the things that have been really important you. >> not asking for recommendation letters. some teachers max out and say i'm only accepting ten students to writeetters for so you want to ask them at the en of freshman year.

you want to ask a teacher who really knows you the best. not the teacher who necessarily ve you the easy a. >> another common mistake is to not completely fill out the application or actually to have spelling or grammatical errors. >> exactly. >> proofreading is so important and spell check is not going to catch your black belt in marital ts and it's not going to know if you used the wrongcollege's name on your application. that's why it's important to proofread the whole thing. make sure you release your test scores from the testing agency. >> you've been helping us all along. i know i'm going to be one of those parents. thank you so much. and we have got coming up next, affordable meals for your whole family even though it includes er. that's right. it's a beef soup. ♪

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this morning on "today's" kitchen, hot chef, an interesting twist on the classic stew. beer, moon shine and leftover coffee? nathan, good to see you. we're getting started here, you have some interesting combos here. for this time of year, a got dish. >> i'm going to go over the 101 of beef stew. this is a top round, you're going to caramelize it. >> why do you like top round. >> it's a cheap cut, we're doing soup, so we're not going to take something really expensive because it's going to tender up. we need some salt and pepper. basically we're going to let is caramelize just a little bit. when you have sugar, it starts to caramelize, it creates a beautiful browned color. protein will do the same thing.

we'll get to that in just a minute. i also want to show you a neat little trick with these carrots. this is a french cut called the obliques, cut it on an angle, give it a little bit of rotation, on an angle. you keep rolling, you want to give it a try in you want three perfect sizes. that was terrible. >> that was just horrible. >> you can go ahead and dump them in there, if you ke. we also have some onions and some celery. and we're going to let this caramelize for about ten minutes or so. right now everything's been caramelizing, you see the beautiful brown, that's the avor, so we're going to reintroduce that. you know how we do that? we do it with moon shine. this is al moon shine.

we're going to add just a touch. and check it out, will start to boil immediately. >> our director jk daniels -- >> any whisky is good, just to bring out the flavors on the bottom. you see it's starting to boil a littlebit. all that flavor is going to start to release and come up with from the bottom. >> i notice you've got guinness here >> tt's actually a little bit of coffee. we're using a little bit of bold coffee, we want to bring out that natural boldness. y and we have some beef stock. >> there's another can right here. drink up. >> just in time. that smells good. >> we're creating a broth with the guinness and the beef ock. >> how long do you cook this for? >> we're going to let this simmer for about an hour. >> when do we add the potatoes? >> we add the potatoes actually

to the broth. go ahead. >> there's some garlic in there. >> it starts to reduce a little bit, the starch from the potatoes starts to thicken up and it gets really nice and hearty. we're going to break bread this morning. this is aice chibatta. >> thank you so much.

good morning, everyone. it is 9:56 on this monday morning. i'm barbara harrison and we're following some breaking news out of princgeorge's county right now. several police officers have been arrested. several search warrants are being issued right now. among the locations those search warrants are being carried out, tick talk liquors in hyattsville. this is all part of an ongoing investigation. this comes just days after jack johnson as arrested for allegedly taking bribes for development projects. johnson's wife, leslie, was also arrestednd both were charged with tampering an destruction of evidence. johnson is home right now but is expected to leave for his office soon and make a statement when he arrives there. meanwhile, we've got a nice day working out there. maybe some clouds, tom. i didn't notice, i was in a hurry to get to work this morning. >> we've had some fog around but that's pretty much dissipated.

some clouds still linger around far northern virginia, maryland and the district but elsewhere there's sunshine breaking out and we should get sun across much of the region. highs low 60s. right now it's near 50. tomorrow rain likely through the day off and on. jerry, how'she traffic? >> things seem to be settling down a little bit. inner loop not bad, the outer loop briefly heavy head south towards tyson's corner but all travel lanes are open. one more stop in virginia, 95 southbound, road work in place. you lose the right lane as you head south out of newington toward points south. >> thanks, jerry. >> tonight at 5:00ealthy changes that could be coming to a school

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>> what do the sex toys do? >> you will find out. i was in nantucket over the weekend. it looks like we sold our home there which is bittersweet. it is great for the new people that are going to have a fabuls home and enjoy it i hope for many, many years and it is 12 years of memories for us. so -- >> so you're packing everything up? >> trying to organize a move. those things -- they're hard to do lo distance. >> you actually went down there? >> i did that. what about you? you had a -- >> i think it is a very unique date and maybe i shouldn't -- who cares? okay, so anyway a very nice man asked me out and told me he wanted me to meet him at an address, he said don't cheat, don't look where it is. he said just show up at this address. >> show up at this place and told you how to dress. >> he said i'll be in a sport coat and tie and you'll, you know -- >> you'll be gorgeous. >> something like that, he wrote. so i went and itas a place called lips.

okay. it is a sort ofcabaret place for drag queens. >> it is a drag show. >> yes, it was a drag show. but it was -- this is what shocked me. it was fun to watch the thing. what surprised me the mos about this whole drag show thing was there was three or four birthday parties for 16-year-old girls there. that's -- >> with parents? >> yes, and the parents were like look how she's enjoying it. some of the stuff they were saying, they're making balloon toys and you can only imagine what's going on, but the kids were there and the parents were enjoying it with the kids. i was little weirded out. >> huge problem with that. huge problem with that. >> i was a little weirded out by that. >> yeah. and we wonder why kids are acting out the way they do, their parentsake them to places like this and think it is ra-ra-ra, wonderful. what do the parents expect? >> you get a shoutt in the drag queen show. >> i get a shoutout i every drag show. i would be offended if i didn't.

love those guy >> this one's for kathie lee. i was like, they said they didn't just do it because i was there, they always do it so anyway. >> good for them. god bless them. god bless them. >> this friday we are going to be cruising -- >> we are cruising. we're going to be on the allure of the seas, royal caribbean's -- it is among two of the biggest ships in the wor, i guess. >> look at this thing. we're going to go do a little early and shoot some things and sleep on that cruise ship. >> it is a lot of fun. you're going to love it. >> i can't wait. i'm looking forward to it. today was a big day at the "today" show because we decided to do something called "today" goes viral. and there are vids all over the internet where that are getting 5 million hits and some are people acting or singing. this is one of the huge vdeos that has been on the show. and it is called "dynamite" and it's this one guy does -- it is all a cappella, he does every sound, drumbeat, every --

>> everything, yeah. >> so the wanted to see if matt -- >> it is called multitrack recording. >> okay. so anyway, we wanted to see if matt, meredith, al and ann could do the same thing. this guy came and taught th how do things. >> he seemed like such a nice guy. >> keep in mind, there is no music with these guys singing it. >> they're making it. >> their voices. >> they're making it, yes. >> let listen to a little bit of this. let's go. up full. ♪ i hit the floor because that's my plans plans, plans ♪ ♪ baby let's go >> hands, hands, hands. >> i think this product is unbelievable. ♪ it goesn and on and and it goes on and on and on ♪ >> there is a little thing called auto tune which -- ♪ got to let go >> he sings well. ♪ i want to celebrate and live my life ♪ ♪ singing ao baby let's go ♪ ♪ we're going to rock this club

we going to go allnight ♪ >> this may get more hits than the original one. >> it is so great. matt walked in and said, i want you to know that every single thing that happened was created through whatever that thing is called. >> digitally. >> digitally, yeah. >> it is awesome. >> it is so cute. they were worried about it. but this guy fixed it. there is a thing called auto tune. you can see where a c i supposed to be and where you're either under or -- they just -- yes. they press a button. >> why is al eating a banana? >> we too are doing a little video. >> ours, i don't think is -- >> ours is e junior varsity version. >> ours won't be as successful. >> there is something called the evolution of dance. this is th guy that wears this orange crush t-shirt an does the dances from the very beginning. >> he's a sweetheart. he tried to teach us in 30

minutes how to do the whole thing. >> that's the brady bunc portion. oh, no. >> no. >> it is not pretty at all. >> okay. we're ing to show you ours a little later. it took -- >> it looks worse watching it, doesn't it? >> it felt much sexier better doing it. >> no, it didn't. it felt stupid and now i know why. >> can i complain about one thing? >> sure. u said you were going to stop complaining. >> just last night. >> how did the date go? >> it was fun. it was really fun. okay, so i got white sheets and no matter how much i clean the mascara off my face, it doesn't matter, you could scrub it for an hour, you go to sleep,ou wake up and there's mascara all over everything. >> get black sheets. >> i don't get it. does that happen to you? >> no. >> it doesn't? >> hm-mm. >> really? >> no. wt kind of mascara are you using? >> or on towels. you think you're all clean and

there it is on the towel and it is stained and that's it. >> i'm sure people will sending in -- the dry cleaners can tell us. they know better than anybody. >> a couple of them looked so spot on. their bodies, unbelievable. >> we had rupaul here many times and he's gorgeous. apparently, "saturday night live" was at it again but this time they left it alone. the weekend update spoof was on president bush and kanye or as resident bush called him kan-way. i guess sharing apologies. let's listen. i would have thought you guys wouldn't have that much in common. >> sure we do, seth. come on. we're both rich, right? i mean, we're both impulsive, yep. he interrupted taylor swift at an awards show. >> that's true. >> and i interrupted how well our country was doing for eight years. >> that's right. that's right. no time for haters. that's right. >> kanye has me doing the

twister. >> twitter. >> twitter, sorry about that. no, he was teaching me how to tweet. i really like it because it is short and you just puke out whatever is on your mind. also, it is real lean genient o grammar and i like that. >> i thought it would have been harder on kanye than the resident after last week. i didn't see the whole thing. but i thoug they ripped him a little bit. >> i think kanye has gotten a drubbing. is that even a word? drubbing. yeah, i think he's gotten that. >> this is unbelievable. >> speaking of drag ques. >> all right, so, there is a shopper who was cashing in at the cashier's thing and come to find out that the cashier was actually -- was actually -- how would you describe this, u're better at this, you go. >> the woman was charged five pounds more than the actual fruit she was buying added up to because she didn't realize that her breasts were resting on the

scale. >> the cashier's breasts. the cashier's breas. >> yes. was it the lady's? >> no, the cashier. her receipt was too low and that's whyt is resting so that's why the woman got overcharged the five pounds. so stupid. all right, okay, there is a woman -- >> you know they do tend to hang the older you get. i bet the lady was older too. i tried to put on my robe this morning, i'm telling you, this made me crazy, you know the waist thing, i had move them to get the waist thing around. that's bad. that bad. i'm going to do something about this. >> what? >> you had to lift them to get the belt on. you like that, huh? you think that's funny, keith? that's funny, yeah? >> keithikes that. >> favorite things, hoda woman. you go first. >> this is something i've just een trying out. it is a new lipgloss called -- you know what's funny -- >> your eyes are going. >> i could see on thursday and i

swear it is changing. >> you're lucky yougot to 46 without it happening. >> it is called chtecalle. lip close, 28 bucks, it is great. it lasts a long time. it is sheer so you can put a little pencil and some of this. i fell in love with it. they have ve or six colors, i love every single one. >> you wearing it right now? >> i am wearing it right now. >> did you get a anicur hoda? quit holding things up. i wasn't going to do this yet because i didn't think it is time, but apparently this week s the launch of operation christmas child. this is an unbelievable organization. you can go to operationnarnia.org. theou know thearnia movies that are out, they're teaming up together to encourage people to get old oe boxes, fill them up with simp items like a toothbrush, small toys, just

things that -- 8 million children in the world have never had a christmas gift. so teach your children about giving and there are collection centers everywhere. and then you might even actually win a trip to london for the premiere. there is aay to enter a contest. i love this organization. they do great work. and you can imagine what it means to a child to receive something like that. it operationnarnia.org. up next, one of the most anticipated movies i about to open and we have one of the stars rightere with us, rupert grit. >> and we take a stab at making one of tse viral videos. i do twitter. >> tweet? >> i do. >> christine tweets for you. >> i make an attempt. >> that's right after this.

are anxiously waiting for j.k. rowling's last "harry potter" movie to come to life on the big screen. >> there are only a few days to go before the mission to stop

voldemort and the faces of darkness from taking over the world of harry potter. >> don't expect me to be grateful because there is another thing w have to find. >> i thought you knew what you signed up for. >> i thought i did too. >> well, i'm sorry, but i don't quite understand. what part of thissn't living up to your expectations? did you think we would be staying in a five star hotel? you thought you would be back th your mom by christmas? >> i thought after all this time we would have actually achieved something. i thought you knew what you were doing, i thought dumbledore told you something worthwhile. >> aren't you something? >> acting chops for th one, didn't you? >> it is a different ron in this film, which is fun to do. >> did you like how your character evolved? >> i did, yeah. think this new world is a very scary world now that voldemort back and we're not hogwarts

anymore and it is nice to play the darker aracter. >> i don't want to give too much away, but you're struggling with some jealousy issues and you're also under e influence of something at that point right? >> yes. there is a lot going on with ron, kind of living in -- camping out in this tiny little tent. >> and getting on each other's nerves. >> the character is quite snappy. >> it must be interesting because there have been six other one ones, right and watc your evolution a human being, it sort of feels like you're watching your own home movies as you grow up on the screen. how does that feel for you? >> it has been ten years, rupert? >> ten years, yes. i started when i was 11 and it is wei looking back on the early films. oh, my gosh. yeah. >> and ye there is another one yet to come and that's the end. but you've already shot that, right? >> yes. >> so you're now for the first time not actively involved except for promoting. >> it is a weird feeling, actually, the last day.

>> what did y experience? >> i don't know, it was kind of -- we all knew it would come to an end at some point but it was emotional, yeah. just realizing we're not going to be doing this again in like ten years came down to this one little shot. >> are you good friends off screen as well? >> yeah, we really are. we have been through this quite unique experience together. and it has been a long time. we've grown up together and we're always going to be tes, i think. >> are you going to continue in acting? at this point you could pretty much right your own ticket, do thing you want, sit back and just live the good life. what do you want to do in the next -- >> i'm keen to keep on acting and doing different things. there say real sense of freedom now that i finished this, as much as i'm going to miss potter and always loveit, but it is nice to now just do things i want to do and just relax a little bit. >> you're 22 now? 21? >> 22. >> and how is your social life? >> it is good, actually. i've always maintained quite a

normal kind of life. >> she means girls. >> oh. >> there is one out there that wants you to kiss her. you must get that a lot. just because it is her birthday. you got to go out there and kiss her. >> well, yeah. >> what do you do about the ladies when they're all over you? >> i don't know. it is somethi i've never quite understood real. it is quite a weird feeling. but i'm not complaining. it is good. >> we wish you great luck with this film. >> all the bestith the new movie. >> okay. tomorrow, emma watson will be with us. >> darling. up next, sara finds our fan of the week and then jessica m simps simpson. h&ñ p÷÷÷ñ÷xpz

her birthday, they're flirting. is he going to do it? >> is it gng to happen. >> come on, rupert! giveer a kiss. >> he kissed her on the hand. he kissed her on the hand. >> he's a gentleman, a sweet guy. >> he's going back to her. it is time to give a shoutout to

on of our biggest fans. a new series we call fan of the week. >> here to introduce us to this week's winner is our very own ecial sara. >> hi, guys. only week number two and we he got so many great fans. it is hard to choose. but we narrowed it down to one lucky soul. and the winner is -- jean yacono. >> no way. >> jean is from rochester, new york. she's obsessed with the fourth hour. she first started watching it about a year and a half ago. she watches the show mostly while doing cardio at the gym. we're helping her lose weight. if she ever has to miss the show, she watches it on dvr or online. what she likes most about you guys is that you're not afraid to be yourselves on national tv and she also gotyour book as a birthday present from her friend. so -- and her favorite parts are the ambush and also t chat because she loves to see your true personalities. >> she looks adorable. >> she's adorable. >> she could hang with us

anytime. >> drinking. >> that's right. >> it is apple cider. >> it sure is. >> that's great. >> thank you, sara, love you. still to come, what lindsay lohan is doing out and about after her serious court ruling. we'll bring you all the celebrity buzz. and hoda and i are headed to become the next internet sensation with the making of our own viral video. it is so bad. check it out.

we're following breaking news out of prince george's county this morning. the fbi has arrested three county police officers. we're told this is part of an ongoing investigation. several search warrants are also being executed right now across the area. we're on top of this breaking story. we'll have the latest in a live report coming up in just 30 minutes on news 4 dday. good morning, everyone, i'm barbara harrison. also coming up, we'll have all

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we're back on this fun day with hold on to youripods. "today" goes viral. whatever that means. this week, matt, meredith, al and ann and the two of us have taken a stab of re-creating some of youtube's most popular individual zblo videos. >> we called in the help of juddson. his video has gtten me than 55 million hits. >> we have no idea why we're here. >> we heard there is some guy who does some dance that got 155

million hits. >> apparently a hot shot. ♪ jump around >> he's going to teach us some moves, i guess. why? ♪ can't touch this >> you have one move. >> no, don't. >> yes, that's what i heard. >> i have muiple moves. >> really? >> all anybody has seen is you doing your ipod whh is -- >> what do we start with again, the first thing? >> start with hound dog. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time ♪ ♪ >> let's turn the heat off in ere, please. golly day. ♪ jump around jump around ♪ >> i hate this with all my heart. >> why? it is fun. we're dancing. ♪ keep on, keep on keep on, keep on dancing all through the night ♪ >> you want water or anything? >> no.

>> you want a sip? you want a sip? a sip. let's do a sip. ♪ tonto jump on it, jump on it jump on it ♪ >> we have a special song for you. >> "low"? >> oh, my god. ♪ low, low, low, low >> then it goes to the last song, which is "single ladies." >> "everyone has a story ". ♪ everyone has a story a beginning, middle and end ♪ >> i hate it withal my heart. >> you don't hate it. >> i hate it and i want to go to lunch. ♪ keep on, keep on keep on, keep on dancing all through the night ♪ ♪ we're going to keep on, keep on doing it right ♪ >> the evolution of dance. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ ♪ crying all the time

♪ well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and yo ain't no friend of mine ♪ ♪ come on baby let's do the twist ♪ ♪ come on, baby let's do the twist ♪ ♪ take me by my little hand ♪ ♪ and g like this ♪ ♪ there's a place you can go ♪ ♪ i said young man when you're short on your dough ♪ ♪ you can stay there and i'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time ♪ ♪ keep on, keep on keep on, keep on dancing on through the night ♪ ♪ keep on, keep on keep on, keep on

doing it right ♪ ♪ go grease lightning go, grease lightning ♪ ♪ go, grease lightning grease lightning go, grease light noing ♪ ♪ can't touch this can't touch this ♪ ♪ can't touch this ♪ can't touch this ♪ my, my, my ♪ tonto, ju on it jump on it, jump on it ♪ ♪ jump on it jump on it, jump on it ♪ ♪ i came to get down so jump around jump around jump around ♪ ♪ jump around jump up, jump up and get down ♪ ♪ i like big butts and i cannot lie ♪ ♪ you other brothers

can't deny ♪ ♪ when a girl walks in with an an itty-bitty waist ♪ ♪ she hit the floor next thing you know sheot low, low, low, low ♪ ♪ al the single ladies put your hands up ♪ ♪ let's get out of here word to your mother ♪ >> cheers. >> oh, that was just tragic. >> hard to believe i've done broadway. looking at that now, golly day. >> allie turned nothing into something. >> mortified. >> we have a lot more coming up. we'll talk about "snl" former president and kanye west and a lot more coming up after this. >> and jessica simpson may be

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we're back with "today's buzz" and all the people and events making headlines this week. >> there is so much to talk about. bonnie full certificate eder if in chief of hollywoodlife.com. >> lot to get to. >> jessica simpson was flashing her ruby engagement 24 weekend. she had to keep up with nick. he just got engaged. >> does that look strange one week after?

>> it is very curious, that it was a week after his nouncement was made. >> so who is the guy? do't know much about the guy? >> he played for the nfl, didn't he? >> eric johnson, he's a former footballer. now he is so in lo with her, he turned down the chance to go to wharton business school. he's a guy from yale. he was going to go into business, but now he's living with herand basicallyhe's just following her around from place to place. >> actually we'll be able to see them together here in new york. she's performing in the my's thanksgiving day parade and he's expected to be here too. >> on the float. >> and his family. >> she's a sweet girl. i met her before. she's sweet. i wish her the best but it seems curious. >> we wish her the best, we're just worried about it because it only has been seven months and you know you want a guy, oh, here's the other thing, apparently she doesn't want a prenup. that's what we're hearing. what's interesting about that is his ex-wife warneder in advance saying he had no money, so watch out for him.

>> that was an ex-wife's statement. >> th is not her first footballlayer either, right? >> he dumped her. it is not the first time, she didn't have a prenup with nick and so she had to payut a fair bit of money and she complained about tha >> she did? he's wealthy himself. >> well, apparently she handed him about $10 million to save bye-bye. >> i want to marry her. >> howoes she feel about nick's engagement? do we know anything about that? >> she was broken hearted about that. she wished them well but those who knew her said she was just -- it was her first love, she was devastated. >> remember, he left her. >> it got -- because that got out, s had to go on the radio and then i think she was on the ryan screst show and she said, no, no, no, i'm thrilled for him, so happy. >> it is weird that people are showing how happy they are. some people are tweeting congratulations. don't you think that's a little bit odd? i noticed that. >> why does everything he to be public? why she can't pick up the phone and call him and said, i heard,

i'm so happy for you. it is almost like you're not doing it for that person, you're doing f the way it is going to be perceiveby th public. >> exaly. >> so leann rimes, her ex is now engaged. >> yes. >> her ex-husband. >> right. her ex-husband dean and talk about tweeting, she tweeted her congratulations to him. >> so everyone knew that she -- >> yes. >> interestingly enough, he's engaged before she is because, remember, there were the false rumors that she and eddie cibrian were engaged and they weren't. >> he got on his knee in front of everybody. >> and tweeted the picture. kanye west is -- he made a lot of headlines here with us in the "today" show studio and he was, again, heard more about him on "snl." >> that's right. it was very funny, hilarious ketch with him and george bush coming on. and they are supposedly buddy, buddy because george revealed in their memoirs that at a very low moment for him is when he was called racist by kanye. >> the two best lines out of that performance had to be when

george bush talked about wearing the gucci brand sunglasses and kanye west said, he didn't know what clearing brush meant. he thought it was going out to nightclubs and picking up uly women. >> oh gosh. >> it is amazing the man can sing without putting his foot in his mouth. >> has kanye learned anything from the last couple of years of rude behavior? has he learned anything? >> he hired a media manager, but that didn't go well. >> she left after a week. >> it is not about that. it is not about someone spinning you. it is about being -- >> it is about being decent to people. >> i don't know. but speaking about people, have they learned, what about lindsay lohan? she w released a couple of times this weekend, she went shopping, she met with the director from inferno and she's doing a fashi shoot to make some money to pay for her rehab. >> for russian designer. >> so what -- the same old, same ole, you think then? >> i hope not. but it seems like - >> that, to me, is responsible behavior. if they think she's doing well enough to let her go, and she's

actually working and then going right back in, i think that can only be helpful. >> i do think it is great that she's getting back together with her fath her father. as diffult as their relationship has been in the past, you only have one father. >> they would net lot let her of she were not performing well. someone picked her up and stayed with her the whole time. >> she's going in the right direction. >> sarah palin's "lalaska," how did that work out? >> the scenery was beautiful. she'll do more for alaska than all of the tourism ads could possibly take out. >> it was gorgeous. i watched it. alaska is amazing. and i have to hand it to sarah, she climbed a part of mt. mckinley, it looked terrifying. >> and she's terrified of heights. >> she and her husband are terrified of heights. >> it does look gorgeous. we'll see if it is a prepresidential run, right? >> we'll see. >> positive reinforcement for

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it is time for "look at me now the joy fit club" and time to meet the newest inductee. >> tammy, a 40-year-old mother of four from kent, washington. let's take a listen to her story. >> my name is tammy. and i lost 186 pounds and found inner peace and beauty i've always been longing for. growing up i was always heavy. i was the overweight sister, cousin and friend. and after i got married, became the overweight mom. a i ever wanted to do was sleep and, of course, eat. on the weekends i would stay in bed all day. at night when i was alone, i would eat bagsf oreo cookies a i would also drink many glasses

of wine. i was doing everything i could to make myself numb from the pain and unhappiness i was feeling inside. as my 40th birthday approached, i weighed my all time heaviest, 330 pounds. inspired by the tv show "the biggest loser," i bought jillian michael's book "winning by losing" and read it cover to cover. after reading the book, something inside just clicked. i joined a gym with my son jake and together we would work out five times a week. he motivated me to keep going. today i drive the same car, work the same job and i live in the same house as i did two years ago, but because i am no longer overweight, i am the happiest i've ever been in my entire life. >> that's so great. we're going to a minute. let's check in with "today's" contributing nutritionist and leader of the joy fit pa, joy bauer. >> i love how she said i live the same house, drive the same

car but my life is so much better. people think you have to move and change but she changed herself, right? >> i talk about how losing weight is % attitude. and really a huge factor with tammy's weight loss success was her positive self-talk. over and over again she would say to herself, can do this, i have the time to do this and i'm worth it. that's a powerful, positive message. >> reinforced b her son who is such a -- a buddy ystem, nothing like that too. >> and they all lost weight. the boys look amazing. >> really? let's check out her food, what her issues were. >> she learned how to get more for her calories. now shean have 29 carrots for the same 100 calories. and visually it is more food. i realize sometimes you want to go for the calories. >> yeah. >> but the same 100 calories check this out. for 150 calories, she used to have two whole scrambled eggs. now for 150 calories she can a four egg white omelet stuffed

with mushrooms and spinach and tomatoes and a slice of whole wheat toast. >> wow, okay. >> for 300 calories, she used to have a fruit smoothie. now she can have two apples, an orange, and a bunch of grapes. so, you know, it is learning how to work your calories to your advantage. >> i'm curious to see tammy. 186 pounds. this is her before pictur tammy, come join the joy fit club. oh, my gosh! wow! >> not the same person. >> wow, wow, wow. look at you. >> just amazing. >> that took you two years, tammy? >> that seems fast when you think you've led your whole life, you know, carrying the weight, right? >> right. >> i love how that motivated you, that jillian michaels, the book and the whole thing, did it start coming off quickly? >> it did. once i put all the elements together, the counting the calories and the exercise it came off pretty quickly. >> she portis things now. she's very aware of what she's

putting into her body. >> what was the hardest part for you? >> the hardest part was just getting in the right mind set to do it. i knew it was going to take a long time. so -- because it was so much, but that's it, it was just getting in that mind set, yep. >> and you are exercising. i'm totally shocked but you look terrific. >> thank you. >> you match, actually. >> tammy, congratulations and welcome to the joy fit club. >> a very healthy thanksgiving. >> i will, thank you very much. >> oka if you know anyone who should be a mmber of the joy fit club, head to klgandhoda.com and let us know. we'll be back with more of "today" on nbc. you look so good.

time to check in with miss sara. >> a little fan feedback about your viral video. carrie said maybe you should he had the wine before the dancing. lol. you are so fun and funny.

>> the wine before. okay, thas the worst, th brady bunch prtion of the program was the worst of all. all right, so, anyway -- >> tomorrow, emma watson. guys tell all panel. curtis will be back with us. >> good. an some lucky guests talking sex on wednesday, the whole show. >> and double trouble tomorrow, ur look-alikes will be with us. have a great fun day. good things about fios.

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