good morning. heading home. amanda knox is on a plane, making her way back to the u.s. right now, after her murder conviction was overturned, but this morning italian prosecutors tell nbc news they will definitely appeal. could knox's newfound freedom be in jeopardy before it really begins? her lawyer speaks out in an exclusive live interview. are you ready for some controversy? the classic abthem pulled from last night's game after hank williams made this comment about president obama. >> it would be like hitler

playing god with netanyahu. >> he claims he was misunderstood. and ellen degeneres gets in my head to prank fans. >> laugh like crazy. ann, start laughing like crazy. just stay silent. don't talk to him. stare at him. just stare at him. >> we get inside her head for her thoughts an finding peace, and jesus. an ellen you've never seen before. "today," october 4th, 2007. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm ann curry. >> and i'm matt lauer. you can only imagine the emotions on board that plane this morning as amanda knox is traveling home for the first time in four years. >> that's right. we can tell you she's on this

flight to london for a connection to the united states but knox was not with her family when they checked in at rome's international airport. instead police reportedly escorted her through a private entrance. >> it was such an emotional scene in court monday, knox broke down in tears as she learned she was being cleared of murder charges. in a letter released overnight, knox thanked her italian supporters for helping her "survive with hope." how is she feeling now? what is next and what about this appeal? we'll talk exclusively to her defense attorney in just a couple of minutes. we begin with nbc's lester holt in perugia this morning. lester, good morning to you. >> good morning. amanda knox is out of italy on her way back to seattle. the last we saw of her she was coming out of prison being whisked away in a black car. the prosecution plans to file an appeal with the formal italian

supreme court. the bottom line the chances of knox returning toity will i to face that court are between slim and none. the kercher family, meantime, has reality and held a news conference saying they accept the decision of the court but they were us. led because they were told about a narrative of three people killing meredith kercher and two charges exonerated. they are puzzled what this means in terms of whether justice has really been carried out on behalf of their daughter. the italian papers of course it's front page news, here's o e one, "amanda and raffaele are innocent." typically the italian papers would show pictures of amanda knox that lended toward the more diabolical story line, this is one of the more humanized faces after she was exonerated of the crime. my colleague keith miller has

been here from the beginning of the story and here for the final and dramatic end. >> the verdict overturning the murder conviction was not based on technicality or lack of evidence. in a stunning declaration and reversal the judge and jury declared that amanda knox and her co-defendant did not commit the crime. inside the prison van speeding her to court, amanda knox had no way of knowing which way the verdict would go. all she could focus on was, this is it, all or nothing, freedom or a life behind bars. the strain of not knowing clearly etched on her face. the judge in a somber tone, seemed to take forever. guilty of slander, announced the judge, the sentence of three years, erased by time served. then the verdict on the charge of murder. the judge declared she was free. knox collapsed.

family and friends cried openly and embraced. escorted from the courtroom for the last time, knox had to be supported by prison guards. her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito also found not guilty was led out of court in obvious shock. scattered applause and jeers greeted the verdict from crowds gathered outside the courtroom. >> we're thankful that amanda's nightmare is over. she has suffered for four years for a crime that she did not commit. >> reporter: hundreds of italian shouting "chain, chain." outside the main police station just next to the court after the verdict was read a volatile crowd, very angry, some of them about the verdict, others scattered applause, but also a little bit of tension between the americans and the italians over the verdict in this case. back at the prison to sign out, knox was greeted by inmates

chanting her name, "amanda, amanda!" an eyewitness said it was the first time knox smiled since hearing she was freed. her defense team overjoyed with the outcome said the prosecution built a case on a foundation of mistakes. >> there was no evidence. there was no motive. there was no murder weapon, there was no dna. >> reporter: and the knox family finally free to bring their daughter back home to seattle. she was a 20-year-old exchange student when she arrived in italy for the experience of a lifetime. four years later, she leaves italy with more experience than most people ever achieve in a lifetime. the prosecutor will, of course, file an appeal on the appeals verdict but it will take some time because lester we're told at least 90 days the current judge has to write up his written decision about how they came to free amanda knox and her co-defendant so it will be some

time before we're back in court. >> and some of what was heard outside the courthouse last night you showed some of the anger reaction. some of the folks there sounded like they believe the american media led to this, and some were suggesting there might have been american government influence in that. how much of an undercurrent is there here of an italy/america tension in. >> reporter: it started building within a year after the case started. everybody in perugia, and i would say in italy thought that amanda knox was guilty because the prosecution was leaking information. then the american media started digging in, started having a look. investigative journalists at its best, saying wait a second, not so fast, that led to conspiracy theories, is the government involved, was the secretary of state clinton involved. it mushroomed and it hasn't gone away. >> i know this has been your second home during this four-year ordeal. keith miller thanks very much as always. matt we send it back to you for more. >> lester and keith thank you

very much. >> krcarlo dalaverdova, amanda knox's attorney, thank you for joining us. >> good morning and thank you for the invitation. >> i want to talk to you about the appeal. first amanda seemed very unstable, looked as if she could pass out any moment and it it was read and she melted into your arms when broke down. take me through the moment. what do you remember? >> as everybody has seen because it was a live registration, amanda was extremely scared. she was scared about this decision, she knew that this decision would change her life, she was in between a request of life in jail or get dismissed and the entire week was extremely difficult, hearings

every day until 6:00 in the evening so she was particularly stressed but i would say she was mainly scared. when she heard she was dismissed of course she started to cry because for her this was the end of a nightmare, the end of a tunnel, and she almost collapsed, yes, she is weak. she hasn't got so much sleep and this week has been extremely heavy on her, so for her the way of drying was a relief. >> what was the moment like for you, mr. dalla vedova, personally? >> i never make a personal issue when i'm working. i work for my clients and we knew we had good reason for having her appeal accepted, so we were waiting for this moment. this moment could have come the first grade if we had a complete analysis of all the evidence so for us it's just a matter of work and of course we were happy and satisfied that all of our

reasons of appeal were accepted, and we are extremely happy for the future of amanda. amanda is a very good girl and she deserved to go back to her life and freedom. >> as you know the prosecution has now said they will, indeed, appeal this verdict to the italian supreme court. do you think they will be able to meet the criteria to be granted that appeal? >> it's hard to say, because we need to read the motivation. the motivation is going to be filed within 90 days so we will know exactly what is the ground based on which the court decided to dismiss the accusation. we are ready. if the prosecutor has, according to law, will file the opposition to the supreme court which is a special opposition, the opposition to the supreme court can only be filed for violation of law, so there will be no review of the evidence and we will not go into the merit. it will be only limited to a possible violation of principle of law and if that happened, we will be ready to defend and

support our client's rights, also in front of the supreme court. we are not worried, and this is quite standard. we have this procedure in italy where you have a second grade and also a third grade and we are ready. >> let me ask you about the prosecutor, mr. menini. he went very far during this appeal process in characterizing amanda knox as evil, he said some very derogatory things about her. he's now decided to take this to the next level to the italian supreme court. in your opinion, do you think that he has perhaps crossed a line from the professional to the personal here, that in some way he has a grudge or vendetta against amanda knox? >> well, i think first of all we have to respect the work of the prosecutor. the prosecutor for us, it's neutral person, is not an individual. he works on behalf of the state and is acting in order to support the accusation in the interests of all the citizens.

it's a very difficult job so everybody has to respect this position. it's not a personal issue. it's a big mistake to bring any evaluation on a personal level. certainly the prosecutor has made a huge mistake and it's the office of the prosecutor has made a big mistake, the mistake at the beginning because they evaluate amanda behave in a wrong way and the court recognized this mistake and there's been a number of mistakes that have been confirmed, therefore all together the handling of the accusation, especially in the first investigation period is a result of a big mistake. thank god we have an appeal to rectify the mistake. >> let me end on this question, mr. della vedova, the reaction outside the courtroom was mixed, some applauding, others cheer -- or yelling "shame, shame." do you get the sense in italy there is an appetite among the public for this to go further or

do you think the italian people would like to put this whole case behind them? >> first of all, i don't agree with your statement. there was no critics outside. i was outside and deanna, amanda's sister made a statement and there was no comments when we made a statement and the comments were made on a different occasion. i was standing outside with thousands of people in the main road of perugia, and i think i gave something like 20 interviews last night and there was no comments when i was talking, so i think you have to refer to somebody else. for what the concern is the public opinion there's been a complete change in the last months, and so despite the fact that the media have certainly had a role in this especially at the beginning in the investigation phase, we also have to acknowledge that the media have changed the public opinion in the sense that they're moving to a possibility of being innocent in the last year, and this was certainly something that was not done by us, but it was given only by the fact that many observers have

clearly identified that there was no evidence supporting the accusation. so we actually are satisfied also on how the media have handled this. >> carlo della vp vedova, one of the defense attorneys for amanda knox, thank you for your time this morning. i appreciate it >> thank you. >> :13. here's more with ann. for more on what's ahead with amanda knox we beginning in samantha guthrie, "today's" legal analyst praxilla sabbatoni in perugia. praxilla, with amanda leaving the country and the prosecution telling nbc it will appeal do you foresee any circumstance in which amanda knox would have to be returned to italy? >> well, this would have to be a

strategic choice of the lawyer. the prosecutor menini says it's beyond any doubt in his mind he will appeal. he said consider it done. whether the case does get admitted is an issue. if it does and she doesn't decide to return it will be up to the extradition treaties as to whether the u.s. allows extradition. if she should travel back to italy under a conviction she will be immediately arrested. she should travel to another country that allows these ext extradition, they will arrest her as well. >> assuming the prosecution prevailed in appeal it would come over to this country, the u.s. has an extradition treaty withitily, there's an important caveat there. the u.s. has to believe there is "evidence to sustain the charge in the foreign which to

extradite a u.s. citizen." there's a real question whether u.s. authorities would extradite given the weakness of the prosecution's case. >> it brings up the question lester brought up, the relationship between the two countries. matt was talking about in appealing the overturning of this conviction, this is the same prosecutor who once called amanda "demonic, die bollic, satanic, a she-devil." do you think there's a personal vendetta on the part of this prosecutor against amanda knox? >> i think there is a career here at stake. there's a life not just one career, not just the prosecutors and the other prosecutors that have been involved but all of the forensic experts, the police. we saw the police lined up in court to rally their support. everyone's very worried about the repercussions this will have on the perugia prosecution, on the perugia police. >> i see and savannah, the other

question about that is that there is a man who is in jail convicted of murder, so the question that begs is, is that not, does that not suffice? does this thing have to move forward especially given that the victim's family, meredith kercher's family is basically saying they feel she's been forgotten. >> you put your finger on it. the kercher family said they were perplexed because they believe based on what the prosecution and police have supplied to them in terms of information and evidence that rudy guede, the man who has been convicted whose dna was at the scene, acknowledged being there, they believe he didn't act alone, they think maybe there is someone else involved. obviously the kercher family really believed in the prosecution's case, so to the extent to the prosecution was sloppy, that the police were sloppy, i look at the kerchers as victims all over again because they were led to believe in a case that was discredited and couldn't stand up in court. >> samantha guthrie and praxi a

praxilla trabattoni, thank you so much. today to be the day chris christie announces whether he'll join the republican 2012 race for the white house. chuck "todatodd is with us. good morning to you. >> today could be the day. he's not talking to aides or fund-raisers anymore. behind the scenes, chris christie's asked prominent republicans to hold off. john mccain's chief strategist charlie black says putting together a campaign is hard and time may have already run out. >> some of the conservative intellectuals pushing christie into the race haven't thought this through. >> reporter: in an interview with abc and yahoo! news monday mr. obama was asked about a recent christie comment calling the president a bystander in the

oval office. >> if the guy is thinking about running for president he's going to say a lot of stuff. >> reporter: he calls himself the underdog in 2012 because of widespread concerns about the economy. >> i don't think they're better than they were four years ago. >> reporter: and a texas ranch leased by the perry family since 1983. in the statement perry's father painted over the offensive language on a rock soon after leasing the parcel in the early 1980s. in new york businessman herman cain who called the inaction by the perrys insensitive now says he accepts governor perry's response on the issue. >> i really don't care about that word. they painted over it. end of story. >> the republican presidential race has been a story of candidates going down as fast as they've gone up. one of the candidates michele bachmann has a campaign running on financial fumes, had to announce a series of staff

departures last night including her pollster and having to send a bunch of staffers back to her congressional payroll. >> chuck todd thank you very much. >> mr. roker is here with a first leaook at the weat pesky northeast trying to get rid of the northeast, and record highs in the plains today all the way down in the gulf coast of texas, and then the sierra nevada may be seeing one to two feet of snow in some of the upper elevations, and one to two inches lower, and showers in southern california. right here today is our transition day. we have a partly sunny sky outside now and getting into more sunshine as the day unfolds. sunny and breezy. right now at 51 degrees with the west northwest winds that will be picking up. and then 65 to 68 degrees. still a little cooler than

average. averages is around 70 degrees. we will get there >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> thanks, al. coming up, what are the chances amanda knox will return to a normal life in the united

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good morning. chopper is over i-66 in virginia seeing a lot of traffic at 50.

that volume continues as you make your way inside of the beltway. speaking of the beltway in maryland, very slow. jammed from i-95 as we make our way past georgia avenue. and here is the view at 7:3

morning, the 4th of october, 2011. it is really feeling like fall here in the northeast this morning. temperatures have dipped down, a little blustery. we have lenny with the fur collar, faux fur out on the plaza, we'll say hi in a couple of minutes. i'm matt lauer alongside ann curry. just ahead what is next for amanda knox? her life has been on hold for the past four years. now she is returning home and i would imagine ready to start

again. will she ever be able to have a normal life? we'll get into that just ahead. >> that's right. plus this morning a question a lot of people are asking, should you be charged to use your debit card? bank of america is taking the heat for the new plan it's got and other banks are experimenting with their own costly new fees. what if anything you can do to avoid paying for them. an off the field football controversy. hank williams famous monday night theme song was pulled from last night's game after the singer used aen analogy to adolf hitler discussing president obama. what williams is saying this morning. we begin with more on amanda knox tasting freedom for the first time in four years. stephanie gosk is in her hometown this morning, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. amanda knox tearfully asked that she go home to an italian court. now she gets that opportunity today. she and her family are expected

to arrive here at the airport in seattle this afternoon. what she does then and where she goes next is still being kept very private, but we know at least from one family friend that he hopes she's whisked away to the mountains to escape all this attention. when amanda knox was set free, friends and supporters here in seattle dissolved in joyful tears. >> thank you, god, thank you. >> reporter: and they had a message for the 24-year-old. >> god speed and safe travels and see you soon. >> reporter: winning back her freedom was all anyone focused on for nearly four years, but now it's time for the next chapter and a whole new set of daunting challenges. john lang was amanda knox's drama teacher and one of her most passionate supporters. how does she do that? >> i don't know. i think that you know she's got a plan. she's got lots of good friends. she's got a fabulous family. >> reporter: in prison, knox

spent time planning her future. journalist nathaniel rich interviewed madison paxton who read knox's journals. >> one of the most disturbing pages from the journal was a list, two lists side by side of her life goals, if she were to stay in prison, and her goals if she were to be released. >> reporter: knox wants to help other convicts wrongly imprisoned and she has dreams of being a mother, but the young woman dubbed "angel face" by the italian media may not know how famous she has become. it's going to dawn on her when she gets off that plane and get an immediate taste of that. >> right. >> reporter: her parents can help ease the transition but they, too, have difficulties. the legal fees have nearly bankrupted them. >> i don't even look at how deep the hole, the financial hole is. i can't. you know when amanda gets out, then i'll think about that. >> reporter: knox's grandmother spent $250,000 of her own money.

>> i'm knee deep in debt. >> reporter: but debt can be paid off especially when there is such intense public interest in amanda knox's story. what will be harder, if not impossible to regain is a normal life. many books have already been published, cashing in on amanda knox's story. many suspect now that she's out she will take advantage of that as well. we know she was a prolific writer in prison. much of that book, ann, may already be written. >> important points. stephanie gosk thank you so much. ted simon is the american attorney for amanda knox and tom wright has known the knox family for ten years since amanda and his daughter went to prep school together. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> simon, nbc news confirmed that prosecutors decided they will appeal. as her u.s. attorney, what is your reaction? >> that's not surprising, but

neither is it much of a concern, because in italy, the second stage or the appellate procedure she just went through, the court can eevaluate and we examine the law as well as the facts. it was due to the reexamination of the facts that caused the overturning of the conviction. when the further appeal is taken to the supreme court it's a much more narrow scope of review and they will only reviewererrors o law. we feel confident at this point that the right result was determined, it was clear that this decision announced to the world that amanda knox was wrongfully convicted and she was not responsible for the tragic loss of meredith kercher. >> ted, we saw the reaction when the verdict was announced. she clearly broke down. what can you add, having spoke on it her since the verdict, the overturning the murder

conviction was announced. what can you add to what her reaction is to this development? >> yes, i spoke to her last night, and it was a wonderful conversation. she was joyful, thankful, and ever so grateful. she couldn't contain her thanks and appreciation to everyone that has lent their support. she's truly, truly grateful. she's truly a wonderful, compassionate human being. >> tom, you've not only known the family but you were actively involved in trying to raise money and to support her creating a website, really working hard on behalf of this family. you had actually set up a viewing party so that people could watch this unfold in a live way. can you describe the feeling in the room? >> yes, well the end result of course was a thrill. everyone was ecstatic, overjoyed for the family, really happy for amanda and her homecoming looking forward to it. the early part of that vigil we had was very tense.

we saw amanda address the court in an eloquent way, she did a terrific job, she wrote a wonderful address and delivered it extremely well and then we had a long wait, some ten hours, everyone stayed through the night. i believe her speech was at 1:00 a.m. and we did not have a result until about noon the next day and everyone stayed to the very end. >> really, that's a lot of commitment and meantime, what are the plans, if there are any already, in terms of how to welcome amanda home? she's already on a plane, it looks like she's going to be coming home any time now, so what is your, what are you hearing about what people are planning? >> well, we're going to be available to celebrate whenever the family feels it's appropriate. we've joked that it will be a flash mob party, wherever they tell us to go, and we'll arrive with bells on, and it will be a great day. >> meantime, ted, i want to ask you about this discussion that we just heard in the prior reporting about amanda being a writer. what do you know about her plans to write a book? is there really any doubt that

she would write a book, ted in. >> i think all of those topics and speculative rumors are not something at this point to really discuss. i mean she always was a very good writer. i certainly have experienced that, and i'm sure she has an incredible story to tell. i would not be surprised if that should happen, but i think all of us, the family, amanda and everyone else really remains focused on being extremely appreciative, extremely thankful, and enormously grateful for this decision. and i think that's basically where we're all focused. it's just a really wonderful day, and it's a great tribute to her family, her parents, and all the support she's had. it's been unwavering her parents have shown steadfast devotion and commitment and it was well deserved and it earned her her freedom. >> i can see, tom, by the look on your face you agree with him.

ted and tom, thank you. >> thank you, ann. >> let's get a check of the weather from al. >> we have a lot of friends hanging out. ited up. let's show what you is happening around the country. another big storm coming in from the west bringing rain and mountain snows in the sierra. we are expecting anywhere from six to 12 inches above 7,000 feet. some of the high country up to 18 inches of snow. and the wasatch mountains looking at rain and snow. and then out to the east, we have the low still hanging around, and won't get out of here and that's bringing showers into the northeast as well, and then that will clear out. that's what is going on around the country and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods? >> we already cleared out, and many neighborhoods today will be the best and brightest day of october and we have a lot of those to come. we are going up to 65 to 68 degrees, and it will be breezy

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america said "the economics of offering a debit card have changed with recent regulations." they say that legislation on swipe fees and cracking down on credit card and overdraft practices is costing banks about $15 billion a year. so congress, do we blame congress or blame the banks? >> i think we blame a little bit of both. congress said the banks are getting too much money from the merchants. we're going to shut that down. the banks are actually doing quite well if you look at their profits so i don't think you can argue there. >> something struck me. bank of america has said they will waive this new fee if the customer can qualify for a premium account. that sounds to me like the guys with more money get no fee and the guys with less money have to pay the fee >> that's absolutely right and you'll see it across the board. what bank of america is offering is an account, a portfolio of accounts, they're all linked together. you have to have a mortgage with the bank or maintain a $20,000 balance. >> which is hard for people. >> absolutely. citibank, too, let their

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supporter for the right. he traveled with sarah palin in the 2008 campaign. he's also known for at times being a little bit too blunt. this time perhaps it appears he went too far. >> are you ready for some football? >> reporter: he was the iconic voice of monday night football for over 20 years. ♪ are you ready for some football ♪ >> reporter: that voice was silenced followed by a rant monday morning. >> remember the golf game? >> that was one of the biggest political game ever. >> reporter: he spoke about the summit between president obama and john boehner. >> that turned a lot of people off. >> reporter: comparing president obama to adolf hitler. >> it would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu.

er this at enemy. >> who is the enemy? >> obama! >> he's known to be controversial in the past but comparing him to one of the most hated men in history is going completely too far. >> reporter: espn acted quickly removing williams from monday night show releasing the following statement. "we are extremely disappointed with his comments and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast. williams is hardly the first public figure to get into hot water with words. ♪ back in 2003, fellow country singers the dixie chicks stopped getting radio play when natalie maines made a statement about president bush saying "we're ashamed the president of the united states is from texas." that year rush limbaugh lost his job after comments he made comments about donovan mcnabb. >> he got a lot of credit for

performance he didn't deserve. >> reporter: and done imus comments about the rutgers women's basketball time. >> those are some nappy-headed hos. >> he went too far. he did not apologize to the president, not only did this thing linger but he plans to run for senator in 2012. these words could come back to hurt him. >> williams released a statement monday night, said "some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. my analogy was extreme, but it was to make a point. i was simply trying to explain how stupid it was to me, how ludicrous that pairing was." he went on to say "when both sides are high-fiving it on the 9th hole when everybody else is without a job, it makes a whole lot of us angry. something has to change." he went on to say he's always

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8:00 now on a tuesday morning. the 4th day of october, 2011. a bit of a brisk day weather wise but we have a large weather with cold handshakes here at rockefeller plaza. the temperature reads at 50 degrees. i have a coat on but the two men alo alongside me are braving the chill, matt lauer and al roker. we have been talking about the amanda knox appeal. >> amanda knox now on a plane headed back to the united

states. the question is what is going to be her life after she gets back to seattle? we have our "today's" professionals donny deutsche and star joins to talk about that this morning. >> a good looking trio. we'll talk about ellen degeneres, gets into my head which as you know is a scary place. >> go up there with a pistol and a whip. >> we mess with some fans and what she told us about her thoughts an humor and happiness and thoughts on jesus, if he were alive today. >> also a dog found in a trash bag could barely walk, she's learning to take her first steps, we have her story just ahead. >> so cute. >> you could help some folks here. >> oh, yes, your birthday wish is to meet me. you have a sign. happy birthday my dear.

>> hi, matt. >> hi, matt. al roker nice to meet you. >> a pleasure. samantha guthrie is in for natalie, on assignment. the first day of freedom for ammaanda knox whose conviction assault and murder of her brit irroommate was overturned on monday. knox is on a flight home right now after leaving the prison where she spent the last four years as the italian public prosecutor said this morning he would appeal knox's acquittal to italy's highest court. jury selection is said to begin in the trial of the accused underwear bomber. umar fa reek abdulmutallab, charged with trying to blow up an airplane with chemicals in his underwear. prosecutors say he was directed by radical cleric anwar al awlaki who was killed by a u.s. military strike in yemen last squeak.

the tsa begins testing a program that lets some pre-screened frequent fliers pass through more checkpoints in miami, detroit, atlanta and dallas ft. worth and the agency will start testing new technology next year to spot fake i.d.s and boarding passes. two americans and a u.s. australian have won the nobel prize in the universe. reese an astronomy profs sore at johns hopkins university is also the brother of "today" contributor dr. gail salt. fan emay made robo-signing, led some lenders to hold off on foreclosures last fall and investigations are currently under way in all 50 states. apple is expected to unveil the newest version of the iphone today, in its first product

launch since chief executive steve jobs stepped down in august, citing health issues. the hotly anticipated new device is expected to have a larger touch screen, a better camera and a slimmer body than the current iphone 4. here's brian williams with what's coming up on "nightly news." >> good morning. maybe you've heard about this story through a loved one or a friend, hip replacement surgery for people who had a certain kind of hip implanted. they're starting to fail and they're going to have to come out. we'll have this story for you tonight on "nightly news." for now back to you. >> all right, brian, thanks. for a look at "what's trending today" what has you talking online. starbucks is causing more than its usual buzz by perking up the job market. the coffee chain is asking customers for $5 donations to back job creating loans for small community businesses. target sweeted last night that jason wu will be the next

big name designer to create an affordable line for its customers. wu designed the inaugural ball gown for first lady michelle obama who was photographed making a target run just last week. ann's hilarious shtick on tuesday's "ellen degeneres show" is going viral. >> ann start laughing like crazy. stay silent. don't talk to him. stare at him. just stare at him. >> all righty. >> just mess it up. >> coming up ann's exclusive interview with ellen. it is 8:05, back to al with a check of the weather. >> when i do weird things now i'll blame on ellen. ellen's in my head. it's your 50th birthday. happy birthday. >> thank you. >> and 49th anniversary. what are your names? >> bonnie. >> dave. >> what is your names? >> bonnie and dave. >> happy anniversary to you. let's see what is going on.

washington, d.c., nbc 4, partly sunny, mild. we're looking at a temperature of 70 degrees. and you can see we have the pesky low getting its way out of the northeast, and bringing rain now but will move later. we have a trough out west bringing a lot of moisture. morning showers through southern california and later today and into tomorrow we are looking at snow in the sierra, nevada, and record highs for the plains down into the central plains. what is your name? >> faith. >> nice to see you. that is what is going on around the country and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. >> today is a transition day, and we get the wind. breezy, 20 to 25 miles per hour winds. and then most neighborhoods today will drop to 60 by 9:00, under a clear sky and diminishing wind, and then for tomorrow, your high temperature, 72. all week long will be around 70

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back now at 8:09 with "tooled's professionals." it's been a wild 24 hours in the amanda knox case. here star jones, donny deutsche and nancy nancy snyderman. >> good morning. >> we watched the emotional scene in the courtroom. we start with the lawyer. >> i'm concerned a young victim has been forgotten in this. everybody is happy ms. knox, the verdict was overturned, but there still seems to be some unanswered questions about the death of the young woman, and that's the thing that bothers me. >> remember the o.j. simpson trial we talked about what we were learning about the american justice system by watching that. what have we learned by watching this case in. >> i can tell you as a parent of children who have studyed abroad i remind every kid who steps out of the united states of america

to mind your ps and qs, partying, drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll whatever you think you're doing outside of the borders, one justice system, even part of the g-10 or g-8 it's not ours. >> you mentioned o.j., a guy acquitted who everybody is quite sure did the murder. we saw what happened to him person non-grata. people for amanda assume she is innocent, is she going to be this revered celebrity or little outcast status? >> she will be rich. >> we'll have a lot to do with that in the moo eddia. >> she could be huge, it's insane but the truth. >> move on to food. denmark decided to implement a fat tax, basically you go to the supermarket, you buy a food that has above a certain level of fat they charge you extra. do we feel good about this? >> absolutely. there should be a tax on colas with sugar in it, foods you don't need, the necessities

should be cheaper, so that people can get good fruits and vegetables and meats and the junk that's processed should be taxed higher. i have no problem with it at all. >> you can knock me down if you want to, i'm concerned when the government with its long arm tries to tell people we're not going to help you on the front end deal with the disease of obesity bsh -- >> they are by doing this. >> tax something not the way you help people. >> it worked with cigarettes, absolute. >> listen to me, listen -- >> where are we now in this country with cigarettes. >> denmark does not have the same level of obesity problem as we do. >> exactly, star -- >> 33%. >> 66. >> if you solve obesity you solve the health care problem in this country. >> i'm 100 in agreement with that. >> what is the argument to not make people healthier? >> i don't think the way to do it is by taxing people especially poor people. i disagree. >> the poor people argument i don't understand. they need the help more than anybody. >> you ain't been poor in a long

time okay? >> they need the help. >> in denmark -- >> you can't find fruits and vegetables? >> in denmark they announced this law was going in place people started to hoard the high-fat. which ones mostly to hoard butter? >> yes. >> and you can afford it. next topic a mother in canada, online invitation, encouraging people to join her online and witness the live birth of her child, natural childbirth. >> yuck. >> fantastic. >> anybody want to get a burger with me that day? >> some people are going to have a problem with it but with all the nonsense on the network, all of the horrific stuff if you don't want to watch it don't watch it. >> my concern is, we always assume childbirth is going to be beautiful and everything's person. what if something goes wrong and things do go wrong. >> ask dr. murray. things can go wrong in a medical procedure. >> i wouldn't put dr. murray in

the same thing as a mother having a baby. >> in a medical procedure something can go wrong. >> do you have curiosity to see this? no, no, no? >> i've delivered babies so. >> all of the disgusting stuff on the net a childbirth, nothing wrong with that. >> god forbid the kid wants to be president in 46 years, his mother's has been all over the world. last one, trying to decide who i should start with on this one, mexico city, considering passing a new marriage law basically allows for a two-year marriage contract, after two years. >> i've got it. >> you reevaluate and if things aren't going well you go your separate ways. before you go out and buy the book "spanish for dummies" what do you think? >> if people want to get divorced they can get divorced in a week, month, 20 years. why set up a scenario in two years you look and that's too

much government. >> the time frame is wrong. a woman needs three husbands, pre-child, great sex, child rearing and then the third third of your life. >> isn't the third the best sex? >> i don't know yet. >> i don't know either. >> having gotten divorced after three years, two years would have been okay. >> i agree with donny, i don't think this is a road to happiness. >> it's a formula for making attorneys wealthy. >> bravo! maybe i can afford the butter. >> as someone who has been marriage challenged i think it will create more problems. >> it's silliness. >> we're all grownups. we can figure it out. >> you get together with an attorney, go over the contract, i liked this part and haven't. >> it's almost juvenile, you take the things your parents gave you and i'll take the things my parents gave me and we'll depart. >> you've been in one marriage you've had enough time. >> they said i wouldn't get to all the topics, look how time has flown. star jones, donny deutsche, nancy snyderman thank you very

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put the mike closer to her mouth. really, right up against her mouth. put it right up against her mouth. >> reporter: ellen degeneres takes her silly seriously. >> mess it up. >> reporter: i'm caught off to take a laugh. these tourists think i'm reporting for the "today" show. she pulls out all the strings. i had the earbud in my ear and got a sense of what is happening inside your mind, and i'm wondering, what possessed you to tell me to put a microphone basically in -- >> you didn't do it as hard as i hope you would. i was hoping you made their lips where they had to keep talking. sometimes when the mike is too close people back away. put it against the side of her cheek. my observation of human behavior is why i started doing standup. the first jokes that i ever wrote were, you know, somebody tastes something that tastes

bad, they always want you to taste it immediately. they're like this is disgusting taste it. taste how bad it is though. >> reporter: her inside humor and aw shucks charm have earned her and her show more than 50 emmys. watching guest after guest few might imagine she's actually quite shy. reading the book i get the distinct impression while you may be this famous talk show host you are a private person. maybe even shy. >> i'm an intro vert for sure, as i have a career despite myself. because i really am awkward socially. i hate going to big events, hate having to do small talk. i don't like a lot of attention. >> it's bold of you doing annen intro vert to not only do the show but put yourself out there realizing that not everybody's going to like it. >> if it costs me some viewers and cost me some money i'd

rather talk about what i think is important than just be, you know, vanilla and try to be liked by everybody. >> reporter: that honesty has cost her especially in 1997, when she famously came out of the closet. >> i'm gay. >> reporter: only to have hollywood shut the door. advertisers pulled out, within a year her sitcom was canceled, her career stopped cold. >> i don't think it was a failure, but it certainly gave me a lot of free time for three years to sit still and go, okay, who am i without a career? who am i without people loving me. >> reporter: did you feel that you had made a mistake in coming out? >> absolutely no. absolutely not. >> reporter: why? >> it's the best -- because i'm free. i'm completely able to be exactly who i am. to have to hide anything is just a horrible way to live. >> reporter: if you're standing up and saying things, no matter

what people may say or what some people may judge, then why are you so popular and successful? >> beats me. like they do know i'm gay, right? i'm gay, and yet you know, we can't pass a vote to have marriage equality, so there's opinions about who i am but yet they like me. >> reporter: during the five months in 2008 when same-sex marriage was legal in california, ellen tied the knot with her girlfriend, actress portia derossi. you say she is the most important person in your life. >> she said something when we got married that it is important to be loved. it is profound to be understood, and that's what i get from her. she supports me, and loves me. she gets me like nobody's ever gotten me. >> reporter: wow, this is a serious garden. the couple shares this

three-acre compound, ellen's tenth home in ten years. now this house is on the market. >> i love houses. i love architecture. i like that feeling of creating a new space. i get bored very easily, so i need to stay stimulated and that's one of the ways i stay stimulated is design. we have a bunch of fish in here and they all have different names that portia can tell you. >> reporter: with the koi pond, vegetable garden and home of incense their home exudes tranquility and ellen who admits she has trouble sitting still is learning to meditate. what makes you consistent in your downward dogging yoga vegan eating feel the workout. >> isn't this beautiful weather? this is not like l.a. ever. i miss season. we have an hour of a sewson. >> reporter: l.a. is a season. >> because it feels good, kind

of like when you have to kind of shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and turn it on it's okay again. that's what meditation is for me. >> reporter: ellen says while meditating hasn't given her all the answers, this she does know. there is too much judgment in the world, buried within her humor is a lesson of acceptance. in this book you say "i actually think if jesus were alive today there would be polls about him in "us weekly." >> should he cut his hair, is that a nice robe? didn't he wear that to the last event? that's the society we live in. you can't tell me that wouldn't happen today. we do it to everyone. >> she's so fun and i want to thank her for the hospitality. "seriously i'm kidding" all of the funny bits, i think they're really kind of lessons really, little thoughts, really guide us to be better people. >> i've always been impressed by how smart she is. i think a lot of comedians are

extremely smart but she's always impressed me. >> her observations are so simple but they're so charming and hilarious, that's why people i think respond to her. >> ten houses in ten years? amazing? >> she moved around a lot when she was little and her parents never really bought a house. one of her parents was in real estate so they'd look at the different houses and always be thinking i'll have that room and they never moved in, so for her it's always that journey. >> full employment for the moving company. >> exactly. thanks so much. coming up next just ahead, a puppy rescued from a trash bag is learning to walk for the first time, after your local news.

8:26 is your time now on this tuesday, october 4th, 2011. i am eun yang. let's get a look at the forecast. here is the turn around, veronica. >> yeah, the turn around today, a 180-degree turn from the clouds and sunshine. there is a partly sunny sky. we're at 54 degrees. and the wind up to 12 miles per hour. that could gust up to 20 to 25 miles per hour this afternoon. and the high, 65 to 68 degrees

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matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and samantha guthrie. coming up get ready to say aww! we have a remarkable little puppy. >> a little puppy named harper found in a trash bag suffering from a rare condition that left her unable to walk. a good samaritan was able to save her and now she's learning to get around on her own. she's adorable, we'll all meet her coming up. the cast of the new reality show "dance moms" kind of like "toddlers and tiaras" and "the real housewives" combined. we'll head into the kitch on it learn how to make something called garlic chipotle love. >> why not? okay. before we get to all of that shall we get a check of the weather? >> i think that's a great idea. >> we need a warm blanket today. >> weweather?

>> i think that's a great idea. i happen to be here, any way. >> let's show what you is happening for today. wet weather in the northeast, and low pressure moves out. afternoon showers and windy conditions, and rainy in the southwest, and plains with record highs. tomorrow the sun returns in the northeast and nice and mild. we are looking at plenty of showers and heavy rain move into california with mountain snows tomorrow all the way back into the wasatch mountains. and plenty of sunshine in the eastern half of the country. that's what is going on in the u.s. and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. >> and we have clouds lingering, but the morning sprinkles are long gone. partly sunny now with wind at 12 miles per hour for your afternoon, turning mostly sunny, breezy, and definitely warmer with a high around 68 degrees. and then for the remainder of the week, each day from 70 to 72 degrees. and th

>> and of course you can always check your weather on the weather channel or weather.com. we have two talented and daring meteorologists from the weather channel, justin drake and sam drewer, "storm riders" start their third season tonight. good to see you.. >> good to see you. >> this past tornado was insane, worst in 75 years. during that time you were chasing these storms, any time you felt you were in danger? >> we definitely got in danger changing the tuscaloosa tornado. we were on the south side and it barely missed us. we had to move out of the way the last second to avoid being hit. >> do you worry people see these shows and folks with less experience, you have 17 years experience with you chasing storms, folks who have less experience might go out and do this, might put themselves in harm's way? >> because of shows like ours a lot of people see the tornadoes that we chase and think they look awesome and feel like they

should be able to get in their car and chase but simon and i have a lot of experience and also have a degree in meteorology. we know how to forecast where the storm will be at and how to follow them and keep ourselves out of danger. people have to realize that. >> justin drake, simon brewer, thank you very much. catch the season premiere of "storm riders" 9:00 p.m. eastern on the weather channel. thanks so much. >> no problem. >> good to see you. >> thanks, man. >> oh, oh, oh! >> we're going to take a break, when we come back our young dancers, are they being pushed too hard on the reality show "dance moms"? we'll speak to the woman behind ♪

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popular show "dance moms" follows girls and their doting mothers as they train at pittsburgh's abby lee dance company under the watchful eyes of one of the toughest teachers in the business. >> knees together, paige. if you're bow-legged you need to fix that. sharper page, hit, hit. you're tall, you're skinny, you're a beautiful girl. you can do better than this. focus on your technique. you're right in the middle of the stage, paige. come here. i'd have your head on a platter, yes? do you understand? yes? all right. man up. get out there. if i see flaws that haven't been corrected, i correct them. that's my job. and sometimes that's offensive. >> don't cry. >> abby lee miller, and joining us is kristina zeigler and christine lucaziek.

abby, i'll have your head on a platter, that sounds kind of rough. that's a rough bit of language. they're pretty young. >> what you didn't see is the 14 other times i told her the same correction. children don't always apply corrections so when you tell a kid pick up your socks or whatever on their bedroom floor and tell them over and over and over e pretty soon you want to take those socks and like -- >> does that work in your view? does it cause them to follow you when you say stuff like that to them in. >> yes. all children learn differently. some children you can speak very calmly and nicely to and you need to open up your hip and press your knee back in your turnout and other children you have to yell at until you're blue in the face. >> we'll ask the moms a question. i'm going to show a clip and i want to get melissa and kris your reaction from the other side. >> that's not playing by the

rules. i would never think to go with the producer because i think of playing by the rules. >> playing by the rules, why isn't that playing by the rules? >> because it's going above and beyond what the rest of us do. >> i'm opting out of this, sorry. >> melissa? >> i'm done. i'm done. >> excuse me don't talk to me that way. >> i'm just saying i'm done. >> can you explain why you guys were upset there? >> we had a music video audition for our children, and abby asked me to meet with the producer, and i went for coffee, just to ask him, give him some pointers for the kids. >> but looks like it becomes, i mean this is kind of a reality show, so it looks like at some point it stops being about the girls and it starts to become more about you as parents. is that true? >> because i think so, any time you got a group of women together and then you throw in our children in the mix, obviously we're all passionate, we all believe the same things and want the best for our kids and when you see somebody doing something that you view is not fair, you want to speak up about

it and kind of level the playing field. i think that's what we were doing in that clip. >> do you want everybody to see that? melissa your ex-husband claimed that dance basically blames it for contributing to the end of your marriage. >> he's clueless. >> for real? really? >> no, so that's -- >> he did that to our marriage years ago. >> when you want to be at the dance studio and away from your home and you want to be busy and active? well, she didn't want to be at home. >> let's talk about your children and bring them in. maddie and makenzie and chloe. i know you have fun. are there times when it's really fun and times when it's not fun? do you ever think about stopping or do you want to do it all the time? what's your thought? >> i like dancing pretty much all the tile. i never really stop. i do it down the aisle nms the grocery store anywhere. >> yes. >> what do you like about it? >> i like learning new steps and

learning choreography and it's fun. >> chloe, is it fun all the time or times when it's not fun? >> it's always fun for me especially because i'm around my best friends and doing what i love to do and it's just a really great thing to do and i don't know. i just love it. >> um-hum. what is it you think the girls really get out of this, christy? >> not only are they learning a beautiful skill they're talented at but they're learning how to persevere, learning that discipline and being committed to something, those are skills that they're going to take for the rest of their lives and apply if they never go on to be professional dancers they'll be great employees or bosses someday, and i think that i would much rather have a daughter who is spending her life in the dance studio than somebody sitting on a couch playing a video game. >> and they clearly are expressing a lot of joy for what they're doing and a lot of talent as we can see from the videotape. do you sometimes wish you could do this not on television, not in a way where you're so because

it's a warts and all television situation, believe me i know. there's a warts in all kinds of situations and sometimes there may be things you may not want to reveal about yourself. >> there's certain tricks of the trade i would not like to reveal, little things that i do that i've taught my students over the years i don't want everyone in the country to know, and the show wants me to reveal those secrets, but i have kids on broadway, kids in tokyo, kids all over the world dancing. this ishat i do. i train employable dancers, so to have my children dancing on national television, that's, what more could you ask for? she gets to do a solo, they get to do a solo for two minutes of what i or my staff created on national television. that's amazing, even the best dancers on broadway don't get to do what they want to do or a solo on national tv. >> right. >> week after week. >> the girls, the children don't get to sort of weigh in or do they as to whether or not they get to be a part of this thing

on television? i'm wondering when you're 25 and 35 or my age or really old woman you may say oh, man, i wish i wasn't on tape on video out there. what do you think? are you concerned about that for your girls at all? >> absolutely not. they look beautiful on tv and they're showing their talent and abby has given them a lot more than just that. they have interview skills and a lot of things. >> these aren't the only girls on the show. there's mia, paige and brooke as well, and they're getting to do something with their best friends and we all have a very open dialogue with our girls and we talk to them and if there ever was a true concern i think that is something that we would hear and address. i don't think anybody's forcing anyone to do anything. >> no. >> you're beautiful girls and i hope it is fun forever. thanks for joining us. back to you, melissa and madison. okay, i'll sily makenzie and ch

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we're back now at 8:46, with a puppy thrown in the trash getting a second chance at life thanks to the kindness of strangers. harper was born with a rare disorder and could not walk. look at her now. we'll talk to the woman who saved her, in a moment. first savannah guthrie has harper's story. >> reporter: to most people, a dog learning to swim isn't a big deal, but for little harper, it's nothing short of a miracle. harper was born with a rare disorder that wouldn't allow her to stand or lift up her head. it's called swimmer puppy

syndro syndrome. her owner threw her in a trash bag and threw her away. >> noticed a trash bag on the floor next to imhad, the bag was making noises. she asked what was in the bag, he declined to answer. >> reporter: inside the bag was baby hamper. the woman took the pup to seminole county air services and they called erica daniel, runs a pit bull rescue called dolly's foundation. >> they did not think she would survive, but we weren't willing to give up on her. >> reporter: erica called some friends and got harper into doggy rehab where she gets massages. and hydrotherapy. >> the swimming is to teach her the natural gait that dogs have. seems to be working. it seems to have clicked with her neural pathways, okay this is how i'm supposed to do it. >> reporter: it is working. take a look at harper's first

doggy steps. here she is at 11 weeks, getting stronger every day. >> i think she's determined. she wouldn't be here, she wouldn't have survived this long if she didn't have the determination she does. she's a fighter. she's fighting to survive and she's amazing. we love her. >> erica, daniel and harper are with us in our studio. good morning. >> good morning. >> she wants to go to sleep so badly this dog. how is harper doing? >> harper is doing awesome. we had no idea how quick her recovery would be, and she's walking almost like a normal dog now. she's able to take on concrete and tile now, too. >> i had not heard of swimmer puppy syndrome. what is it and what causes it. >> we hadn't heard of it either. it's actually from what we hear is a symptom. it's not necessarily a disease or anything. >> it's a symptom of another disorder? >> right. she has from what we found out a

brain abnormality and a heart murmur so we think that may have been what caused this swimmer puppy syndrome. >> you rescue dogs for a living and seen animals in bad situations. how would you characterize the condition harper was in when you first saw her? >> to be honest i took her home expecting to euthanize her the next day because of how horrible the condition she was in. >> what made you not do that? what gave you hope? >> i spoke with some friends. she started to move her head around, you know, she started to lift her head and started to try and crawl and in just a couple of hours of massaging her on her own, amateurly. >> i mentioned she's a little on the tired side. you have a leash. can you see how she's walking not to put her on the spot. she lays down spread eagle it's not our fault. look at her. now, is this a case where you think as harper gets older she will be running? >> she runs now.

>> she has a normal life. uh-oh. i thought harper was going to do something very normal there. >> she runs now, she's got kind of a funny walk, but yeah, she runs almost like a normal dog. it's normal to us because when we saw her she couldn't walk at all, she was splayed out on her belly. >> he with featured this on today.com, e-mails from people curious about adopting harper. >> harper because of the hard work our organization has put into her, she'll be adopted to somebody within our organization, so she's not available for adoption, no. >> what's the message? what do you want people to take away from this story? >> our message is most important thing to us is that pit bulls are just dogs. every dog deserves to be evaluated individually and give them a chance. that's our passion is rescuing the breed that everybody hates,

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today's kitchen" is brought to you by folgers, the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup. >> this morning on "today's kitchen" delicious one, two, three easy mexican meals. good morning, aaron sanchez. >> good morning. >> you were raised in the kitchen of a legendary chef of mexican food. >> yes. >> in this country. >> yes, absolutely, my mom is sort of one of these pioneers in mexican cuisine and i grew up in that environment and it inspired me so much that i wanted to do that with my life as well. >> so you've now branched out and have this book and also i understand a restaurant but also created this sauce that you say is multipurpose. you don't have to just do it for one thing. it's called your garlic chipotle love sauce. why do you call it the love sauce? >> food is love.

>> it is. >> i get excited when i start to cook and this sauce exemplifies how simple and packed with flavor the recipe is. starts simple with garlic and we make a garlic oil, so i've taken canola and garlic cloves. >> why canola and not olive? >> you don't want something flowery. you want something neutral. put this in the oven 45 minutes to an hour, low temperature, let it get nutty and sort of sweet. >> look at that. >> this is what we're left with. no tord make the base for the chipotle love, we put a couple cloves of garlic in the processor and lime zest, something i enjoy, a little bit of cilantro and chipotle. this is a smoked jalapeno that comes canned. straightforward, a little bit of residual oil, give that a pulse, you get the idea, vvvt!

it gets grounded up and this is the love sauce. >> the love sauce people, there it is. what do we do with that? >> mix it with a butter and in essence you make a compound butter or flavored butter. keep it in your fridge or up to a week or a month. taste how that comes together simple. spicy. >> nice. >> you take a little bit of this butter, stack it underneath the chicken carcass, put fresh herbs underneath the skin, leave that there, make sure it gets beautiful and march nates for 45 minutes, cook this in the oven for about an hour and a half at 350. >> let's check it out. >> what you have back here is you have the chicken after it's been cooked. >> wow, look at that! >> another quick recipe to show you how versatile and easy the sauce is. >> hey guys, come on in. >> you want your friends? >> yes, hey guys. >> how are you matt? >> nice to see you. >> al always a pleasure.

lime juice, extra virgin olive oil and you're left with a beautiful vinaigrette that goes on top of the vegetarian. >> making it easy for those of us at home don't want the complication of one recipe after another. you can use the same bases. can you freeze that? how long can it last? >> a month in the freezer, tightly wrapped, wrapped tightly -- you know what i mean, basically said the same thing and drizzle this over the salad, and what you're left with is something beautiful. >> yum! now we're going to mangia. thank you, aaron sanchez. coming up, bruce jenner and more. we have bruce jenner and a whole lot more. 8:56 is your time now on this tuesday, october 4th, 2011. let's go to our meteorologist, veronica johnson with the forecast.

we love the sunshine back to the area. >> that's right. we have a wait a little longer for it this morning. we are doing the battle with the cloud cover, but it's not as chilly as it has been. and the north west wind at 9 miles per hour. and expect a little bit of more wind, too. we will warm up from 65 to

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good morning. crash takes away your left lane at hunt avenue, and still seeing a lot of congestion. here is the outer loop of the beltway in maryland. in new hampshire avenue, very slow, about 17 miles per hour as you make your way from i-95 to i-270. and your delays start at the fairfax county parkway and all the way to the beltway, it will take you

we're back with another hour of "today" on a tuesday morning, the 4th of october, 2011, brightening up in the northeast, chillier than we're used to but i saw a long range forecast coming off your ipod, i just looked over yourhoeld earl, it's going to warm up little bit. >> going to be a lovely weekend. >> tell us, please. >> i'm matt lauer along with ann curry, al roker and we're joined by tamron hall as well. natalie is on assignment. coming up, this whole question of what's next for amanda knox, the italian court on monday

overturned her murder conviction. she is now on a plane heading out of that country, heading back home presumably to seattle, washington. what will happen next? we will be talking about that coming up. also coming up this morning, they're back! "today's" professionals are going to be taking on another high profile case, the trial of conrad murray, of course, the doctor in the michael jackson case. they're going to tackle that as well as answer the question, you know, here goes, is the quality of sex more important than the quantity in marriage? apparently some people here already responding. that's right you're looking at star jones laughing her head off, donny deutsche and dr. nancy snyderman with a lot of opinions. >> s.o.s., somebody help me. >> you have the vapors. >> something's going on, anyway, joy is going to take a look at this is interesting how to stay on your diet when you're at someone else's house, maybe they invited you to dinner and don't

want to appear to be rude saying no thanks. what are the secrets to staying on a diet. we're looking at meal replacement shakes, are they good, and healthy snacking. >> seems like good advice, serving pizza, what do you do? later on a special "steals and deals" with our own jill martin, discounts of 75% off exclusively for "today" viewers. she's even got a luxury vegas getaway at more than half price. >> looking very carol meryl there. >> natalie is on assignment i mentioned. savannah guthrie is at the news desk. >> thanks. in the news today amanda knox is on her way home at this hour to the u.s. after her conviction for the 2007 sexual assault and murder of her british roommate was overturned in an italian court on monday. nbc's lester holt is in perugia with the latest. lester, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. so much has happened. hard to imagine yesterday amanda

knox was sitting not far from this place in prison, wondering what her fate would be. her cameras captured her, where she began her journey this morning at the rome airport, walking with family and supporters, at one point we see her embrace part of the entourage there at the airport before boarding a plane to london and catching a flight presumably a nonstop back to seattle. all this happening as the prosecutor here in italy has vowed he will not rest with the decision but will appeal it to the italian supreme court. that is not a slam dunk. it will take several weeks, perhaps months to process that. for amanda knox it matters little because chances of her being extradited are between slim and none. the family of meredith kercher the victim in this case held a news conference this morning. they say they accept the decision of the court but they're mystified and puzzled because they were told a narrative of a murder that involved three people, one of them rudy guede, already serving time. his appeal failed, but that

leaves if you acquit the other two involved, then perhaps who are the real killers? that's the question the family is left with. this case has had huge attention in the united states and britain, in italy all of the papers have a similar saying "innocenti" is this one, and as i try to hold it to the camera, humanized more than what we've seen previously, pictures that go along with the narrative of her being diabolical. this shows her after the verdict when she broke down in tears. back to you, savannah? >> lester holt with the headlines, thank you. back here all eyes on new jersey's governor chris christie, today could be the day he announces his bid for the white house. this as president obama calls

himself the underdog against any republican in 2012. as president he is being blamed for the faltering economy. house speaker john boehner says he'll make delay of trade agreements his top priority. president obama said the deals with south korea, colombia and panama will support american jobs making it easier for u.s. companies to sell their products overseas. the tsa begins testing a program today that lets some pre-screened frequent fliers pass more easily through airport checkpoints in detroit, miami, atlanta, and dallas ft. worth. the agency says it will also start testing new technology next year to spot fake i.d.s and fake boarding pabss. the recall of california grown row main lettuce is larger than first announced. true leaf farms of salias, california, says the voluntary recall for possible listeria contamination involves about 2,500 cartons shipped to stores, restaurants and cafeterias in 19

states and canada. the initial announcement only mentioned the 90 cases sold in retail stores. let's hope it doesn't get physical but there's a fight brewing over the title of world answer oldest person. a great grandmother in chechnya has a passport listing her age as 116 years old. that would make her one year older than american bessie cooper, who was just named by "guinness" as the oldest living human being. it's now 9:06, back to matt, ann and tamron. >> that's a fight i want to be in someday. >> it would be nice to get that far. savannah thank you very much. mr. roker? >> just put him in a big jar of smuckers and let them fight it out. where are you guys from? >> memphis! >> memphis, all right, memphis good to see you. >> memphis. >> all right, memphis. good to see you. let's check your weather, shall we, and see what is going on. we have a new storm come into the west.

that will bring a lot of rain and heavy mountain snows over the next 24 hours. 6 to 12 inches in the sierra. 12 to 18 inches in the high country or more. and you can see, we have a lot of rain to talk about as well, from seattle all the way down to san francisco, and snow back through just the east of salt lake city, and here in the east, we have rain hanging out, not going to be all that horrible as the low moves away. that's what is going on around the country, and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. >> around here, we are waiting for the big king in the sky to return, the sunshine to come back. still fighting with clouds out there right now, but i think we will have a lot of it by the afternoon. a good day coming our way. we are at 55 degrees right now with a bit of a wind out of the north west at 10 miles per hour. the wind will pick up, so breezy as we get into the upper 60s today. i am ready for full sunshine, and mu and that's your latest

weather. ♪ and i'll be taking care of business every day ♪ . >> time for a second round of "today's professionals" because we haven't had enough of them. tackling the headlines, star jones, donny deutsche of deutsche incorporated and dr. nancy snyderman, nbc's chief medical editor, good morning to all of but >> good morning. >> hello. >> we've got the michael jackson death trial going on in los angeles, and yesterday we heard testimony from the e.r. docs who once again said when given the opportunity dr. conrad murray who was taking care of michael jackson, failed to say that he had given the drug propofol to michael jackson. we'll talk about the legal significance first, but just as a doctor, nancy, if you were in that same set of circumstances, is there any justification for providing only partial information as prosecutors? >> web a patient comes to the e.r. comatose or out of it,

whatever family member is there should give the laundry list of everything that's happened and it was very interesting to me yesterday that the doctor in the e.r. said she knew he was dead but yet they tried to revive him and you do that, you go to sometimes heroic places because one, the family is there, and they just need to know it's okay and dr. murray said "please try, please try," but the doctors knew he was dead on arrival. >> what do you think the legal significance is, star? >> i think that at every step that dr. murray had a choice to make, to do the ethical thing, he made a bad choice, and that's the building blocks for gross nenlgsz. >> there's bad choices and then there's negligence. >> this has to be something about ordinary malpractice. >> not telling the medical and emergency professionals what drugs had been given to the patient, i really think is about as bad as it goes.

>> what's interesting the girlfriends come on "today," so now today you'll see a side of his private side, and where did the drugs come from. one was able to pipeline >> this is obviously a gross negligence case, anybody who has been sick and you go to three doctors and they tell you three different, we put doctors up there, but doctors make mistakes all the time. i'm just saying in the big picture. >> he could have actually confessed to a mistake and i think it would have gone a long way earlier instead of now the new michael jackson's the one who did it to himself, that's where it comes into a problem. >> next topic a doolzzy, qualit sex better than quantity? >> i need some help. what do you mean by quality sex, savannah? >> donny, please, why -- >> can we answer that? not directly if we don't understand what that means? >> a conversation is sometimes

nice, donny. >> and passion that is born of a relationship -- >> talking about your feelings, donny? >> sometimes a guy's definition of quality sex -- well i actually think for both it's kind of ending in a, you know what i mean? that's what we mean, don't wite >> that's not what the study was about at all. let's pull it back in here. basically -- >> come back little sheba. >> husbands asked wives would you rather have more sex or quality sex so it's frequency versus quality. husbands and wives said quality. >> it's more sex versus better sex. >> what's ironic chances are if you're having great quality sex you want to have more quantity. i think everybody would agree on that. >> do you want to go through life either/or, or through life and/and. >> i got and/and. i can work with that. >> husbands who were sexually satisfied that was the leading kind of indicator as to whether

or not they would have their marriages end in divorce. >> i say this to young people all the time, when people get married today, they get married because they're of a certain age. if you don't start with that incredible passion, that is price of entry and once again you need the other stuff but if that's not there, the building blocks start to fall. next topic, a gray hair pill. research is being done, apparently within the realm of possibility, you take a pill and you wouldn't get gray hair. before we get to the should you, nancy, is this possible? >> absolutely possible. we know that there's an enzymatic reaction that goes on in the hair follicle that creates peroxide. can stress play a role? we ask that question every time a president enters the office with brown hair and leaves with gray. absolutely possible to get a pill. the question is would you take a pill rather than getting dye put on your hair? >> especially if there were side effects which there always are. >> i'm going to see the commercial on television that says, this pill, i'm going to

make up a name, oxy oxy and oxy oxy is going to allow me to not be gray but you may get diarrhea, you may not be able to get to the bathroom on time, you may go blind, your left ear may fall out, you'll have gastr gastricenterology issues. >> all women color their hair. if a guy colors his hair it's like that's crazy kind of vain, yet maybe taking a pill doesn't that same stigma to it. >> you don't have to go to the salon with the dye in your hair. >> we don't have to leave this to your imaginations. star, we wondered and made a graphic of what you would look like with gray hair. >> i like it. >> there she is. bro >> brown skinned girls look good with gray hair. >> dr. nancy you don't miss

this. >> i don't think i'd look that good. >> donny, imagine if you dyed your hair. >> where -- look at danny therrio from "dance fever." we all know guys can look, you called me a silver fox? i love you, too. guys, there are very few aspirational sexual role models of women with gray hair. >> i wouldn't respect you as much if you had the dark gray. you give me billionaire mogul right now. >> i'm going to turn the camera off and you can continue talking. >> you'll send me a memo on the first question i get a feeling. >> no. you are on thin ice. strict, staying on your diet eating out. and luxury items at bargain prices and exclusively for our

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filling and less fattening than the other fare. when it comes to dessert request a small sliver or have two bites of anything that they put on your plate. that is a nice middle ground. you'll do fine. >> leah if it's a really good friend you can call them ahead and say hey i'm trying to be healthy. >> it all depends on who it is. you're right, al. >> next question to the phones, karen in atlanta, georgia, karen, good morning, what is your question? >> caller: good morning. there are so many meal replacement drink products out there such shakology and slimfast. if you're trying to lose weight is it healthy to replace one meal a day with a salt lake and if so which? >> there are different options for different people and some personalities do really well having a go-to meal, the same one day after day. there are a lot of great brands out there. you mentioned some of them but really you could whip up one right on your own. i like to throw in fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables and milk and yogurt, a scoop of protein powder and ice cubes.

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up here at 10:00, watch. yeah. >> okay. >> we'll be watching, thanks guys. meanwhile, just ahead, time for some big bargains exclusively for "today" viewers on our popular series "steals and deals." listen to this, nearly 80% off great items from jewelry to boots, that time of the year and a spectacular las vegas getaway. >> wow, very nice. plus one of our favorites here, academy award nominated actress, mom and author, julian moore, penned another children's book, the latest "freckle faced strawberry." >> where'd she get that title? >> i don't know, hmm, she's a red head, got freckles. >> adorable. >> so sweet. >> we love julianne. we'll talk to her in a minute. first how about a check of the weather? >> first today we're going to be looking at let's see what is ha. first today, we will be looking at pesky showers in the northeast, and mountain snows by tomorrow.

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most of us know julianne moore as an accomplished actress with 50 movies, four academy award nominations under her belt and author of a terrific series of kids books based on a perky and loveable character named freckle faced strawberry. the latest installment "freckle faced strawberry, best friends forever." good to see you >> nice to see you too. >> this has wonderful illustrations in it. it explores the friendship between freckle face and her pal, windy pants. the last time you were here you tried to explain how, why windy pants is named that, and would you like to take another crack at that? >> well he explains it in the back. his name is actually patrick, but they call him windy pants because of the wind in his -- and he says never mind, he gets embarrassed, doesn't want to say it. >> i think what's interesting,

you focus on friendships here which is a really tough area for our kids to navigate especially when they're a little younger. >> well i think that we have this expectation as children and as adults that we're going to be friends with somebody because they're like us, we both like to do this thing and so that's why we're friends, we like, you know, we like the same kind of foods, like the same kind of sports and in reality, we really just are friends with someone because we like that person. i think marriage is actually a good example of that. but honestly, i sort of had the male/female friendship in there, it is an analogy for marriage. i don't like sports particularly but i'll go to a basketball game because i love my husband and in this book you'll see these kids do the same, sort of the same things but they also do those things for each other and they really just are friends because they have a natural appeal for one another. that's what we do as people. >> for folks who don't quite get the relationship, freckle faced strawberry bears a striking resemblance to another actress

we've seen. >> what? oh, my goodness. yeah. >> that picture. >> that was me when i was i think 5 or 6, it was a kindergarten picture. >> that's terrific. >> i'm actually less freckly there than i am now. >> and freckleface has had her own offbroadway play coming back. >> that's right, it will be opening in early november mmac on west 56th street. it's based on the new book and it's delightful. >> you've got great projects coming up, including an hbo drama where you play sarah palin. >> that's right. >> what was that like for you? >> it was great. it was a wonderful experience. i loved my director, jay roche so much and the script was interesting. it was an interesting explanation of what it means to be involved in a political campaign, the behind the scenes look at it. >> make you think you might want to run for office soon? >> i don't think so, no. i'm happy in the children's book

business. >> wow that is uncanny. >> she doesn't look like frecklefaced straw fwberrstrawb. >> no. >> she doesn't have a friend named windypants. >> no. >> the book is "frecklefaced strawberry, best friends forever." coming up next a game day feast for all of you are football fans. first this is "today" on nbc. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ]

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>> absolutely. we start off with beer and cheese. >> yes! >> two wisconsin staples. >> tamron will do the healthy option. this one is not the healthy option. it's beer, cheese and more beer and cheese. >> and macaroni and cheese. >> and butter. tell us. >> we have a roux, bitter autte flour. we go with wisconsin beer. and we'll start off we don't want the roux to burn on the bottom. >> is this the beer cheese we're making here? >> it is. >> it's an honest question. >> heavy cream. >> not just cream. >> heavy cream. you got to get that in there. so we're going to stir that in, bring it to kind of a simmer, a little bit of a boil so that roux can thicken up. we'll add our cheese. we have cream cheese, gives it that creaminess we're looking for. >> okay. >> and then we've got our wisconsin cheddar cheese.

>> of course. how much is that is that? >> three cups. >> that's all? >> that's all, yeah. go ahead and stir that in. >> um-hum. >> how long are you basically doing that? >> want it to meltdown and bring it almost to a boil, to kind of a light simmer so we can get that roux to thicken it up. >> next step? >> next step we'll add our pasta. >> this has already been cooked? >> this is a cooked cavatappi pasta. we'll go in here. >> that's what i meant. >> there we go. >> don't be shy, come on. >> all right we'll season a little bit. the cheese has a natural saltiness, i don't want to salt it too much, a little bit of cracked black pepper and then just stir it in, get it nicely coated, the cavatappi pasta holds the sauce, we like it a lot. >> that's a lot like you, savannah. >> that's in the next shot, okay. what's this in. >> our bread crumbs, we'll

finish it off with our bread crumbs and mix it. we'll go in our dish >> that looks drishs freliciousy over here. >> we didn't get time to melt everything. >> top it with bread crumbs? >> tossed lightly in butter. >> of course. what about beer? do you toss them in beer? >> no. >> just kidding. okay, great. >> comes out looking something like -- it shall. >> something like this. >> how long do you bake it in. >> baking it for about 30, 35 minutes until they're golden brown, the cheese melts. >> yum. >> dig in. >> in the meantime -- >> i don't see any butter, i don't see any cheese, beer. >> no. >> today we're doing a chicken and white bean green chili. >> that's nice. sticks to you. >> this is one of those that will warm you up. >> you need that in green bay. >> absolutely. here i'm sauteing my aeromattics, spannic onion, fresh garlic, green bell peppers, anaheim chili peppers,

fresh tomatios and cerrano peppers. simmer it down until it's translucent. chicken stock we'll finish it with the chicken stock. >> nice, nice. >> beer and cheese is really great. >> beer and cheese is right. don't brag. this will be delicious here. you wait until we're done. >> we want to simmer this for about 15 minutes, flavors melt together. we bring our blender in. >> that's a blender, all right, you just blend that up nicely. how long does it take to get it a smooth consistency? >> a couple of minutes to get the chunks out of it. >> nice, nice. >> and then we're going to go right into our goal here, the finished product. >> you're going to add your bean and chicken after the fact? >> we're building the green sauce here. >> we want to see what else did you make? we have 30 seconds left. >> let's try this. >> you've got some brats over here, too, an absolute must. >> couldn't come to green bay

good morning, everybody. i am barbara harrison. it's tuesday, october 4th. we will go and look at the forecast for today. >> big time breaks in the cloud cover, and that means more

sunshine coming our way. we are at 55 now in college park, and 57 in d.c., and we will see a high today of 65 to 68. pretty nice today, but even better coming our way tomorrow with a high of 72. seasonable. finally sunshine that will have staying power through the weekend. well, i wish i had good news on the outer loop of the beltway, but still seeing delays here. your delays start on the outer loop, and right now traveling at 22 miles per hour. and i-65 east, seeing delays from

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i am sobbing on kathie lee's booze day. i've known her forever. i am so honored to be here. >> she just called moments before. she wanted to make sure you followed the rules and have a little sip of something. >> to kathie lee right here. here we go. actually, that does look good. >> actually we had on khloe yesterday. when we were looking for magazines -- that's how we do it. >> wow. >> you all right? >> i need some water. >> when we were looking for places where your kids were mentioned, this is the stack of magazines we found. we were looking -- >> my children. >> we were looking for things about you. today, bruce, lo and behold, i open up "usa today." >> i am so honored. >> you're big. look at this. >> right there. >> it's finally bruce's turn to get mentioned. this is all about you. this is a picture from the wedding that is going to be airing by the way -- >> i'm doing the kimberly dip

which is ironic because there is robert off to the side. he never danced in his life and now he is on "dancing with the stars." >> this article not only talks about you presently. there are two bruces people know. >> there are many, but we'll just talk about the two. >> us older folks love you from the decathelon. >> a little love from the crew. >> this was '76, is this right? >> yes. you weren't born at that point? >> i was born, yes. >> i'm always happy the pictures were in color. >> those images bring back such nostalgia for everybody. you were one of those unlikely guys to win the gold, weren't you? >> yeah. i was in my sport, i was well known. i was the number one guy in the world. i was the world record holder. in the context of publicity, there was none before the games. i remember being in new york before the games and nobody even said hi. then a few days after the games,

came here to new york and there was literally taxi cabs stopping and guys jumping out of cars to shake your hand. it was a big change. >> a lot has changed since the olympics. when i walked in the make-up room i was surprised to notice that you're not wearing your earring. >> you know what? this morning -- i had my little bling on. my girls bought me real diamonds. i had my little bit of bling on. it was season five. it was that or a tattoo. at least earrings i could take out. this morning i felt the earrings was too much for the "today show." >> you with the earrings, it didn't seem like the bruce jenner we remember from back in the day. >> i made a lot of changes in life. i've been through a lot. i've been very blessed in my life. this is actually, with the show and the girls and "keeping up with the kardashians" has been

fun for me. >> is it hard to keep up with them? clearly, they have fun with you on the show. they poke at you, you poke back. there is a dance that goes on. is it fun for you? >> it is fun for me. first of all, i love all my kids, even the ones that are not on the show. teb all together. >> ten? >> it says here. yeah, there it is. ten kids. basically, kris and i got married 20 years ago. she had four, i had four. we did our best to blend that family. then this side of the family, which is the jenner/kardashian side which is growing. the girls are back here shooting. he kept running up to me, grandpa. >> 2 years old? >> he's 22 months. >> here's what's great. kim is getting married or well she is already married. >> oh, she is married. >> but we are actually going to see it over the weekend.

this is called "kim's fairy tale wedding, a kardashian event." it starts sunday at 8:00 and continues monday at 9:00. i don't know chris humphries at all. i did like before he proposed to kim he came to you and asked. we'll show a clip of that. let's take a look. >> the real question is you're wondering why we came out here. >> uh-oh, why? >> cause, man, i wanted to come to you first. >> uh-oh. >> and ask you if i could marry kim. >> boy, you have my permission. even though you did, you're not much in the golf department. >> come on, man. >> when we were doing that, i was very surprised. i didn't know if he was just kidding or what. so at first, the first couple of minutes, i'm going, is this real, is it not real?

look at mason coming down there. does he steal the show or what? >> he was a scene-stealer. >> turned out he was telling the truth. lo and behold a few months later i'm walking kim down the aisle. does she look good? >> she looks really, really great. there is kath. >> just a little wedding we threw up in monticito. it is actually the way my girls and my wife likes it. everybody had fun. you can't believe the party afterwards and the tent they built. >> i cannot believe how lucrative this family is. a lot of people ask, people ask you what are you famous for, your family, what do you say? >> when people say they are reality stars, this and that, you know what they are? they're business women. being a celebrity is a business. if you play your cards right.

led by their mom, my wife kris. these are hard-working entrepreneurs. they have been able to take what they have been able, the celebrity status from the show and correlate it into many things. they are the hardest working kids. they're great kids. i'm all about character. they have great character. it's a strong, close family. >> they are great sisters. when we were watching your daughter in that fashion show, it was kylie. >> kendall. >> and kathie lee's daughter was in it, too. what was great was the kardashian girls came out in force. >> there she is. how cute. my little 15-year-old. she looks so professional, doesn't she? >> i have to say watching all the sisters -- there is cass. and cat call for them, there is a lot of love, which we like a lot. we have a little b-roll of your

kids kylie and kendall. we have a viral video they sang to "firework" from katy perry. ♪ boom boom boom ♪ it's a boom boom boom >> they're all going to try -- ta-da. >> the end of the video. that is a beautiful place. my sister pam and her husband, peter's family own as ranch up in north of jackson hole, moose head ranch. kendall and kylie and their two friends, we go up there every year. my girls love the horses and the riding. there is no more beautiful place in the world than jackson hole and riding horses. it's spectacular. >> kathie lee made a phone call earlier today. she actually sent a video. >> am i in trouble? >> i don't know. let's watch the video kathie lee

sent to us. >> number 10 reason i miss you. i miss all your stupid songs. number 9. i miss you saying, "hey." first thing in the morning. i miss you laughing at all my jokes. really miss that. number 7. i miss watching your softy self going up the stairs to the kitchen. number 6. why do they show every single day? number 5. i miss you saying, "have a great show." number 4. i miss you asking, so, how's it going? the way you ask it. number 3. i miss you asking, where we going to lunch? really miss that. great places here in seattle. number 2. i miss you telling me, don't worry.

"saving aimee snfimeaimee" is g great. that means a lot. the number 1 reason i miss you, hoda, i miss you. >> oh. >> cute. >> by the way, she is working on this show. >> let me give you a hug. she misses you. i'm giving her a hug for you. >> she is working on a show. it's going to do very, very well. >> she has done a great job with those. >> doesn't she? i'm going to give you a quiz. 30 seconds. this is about chris humphries. chris holds a national record for boys 10 and under on the following event. >> 50 meter freestyle. >> is that right? okay. good. >> thank you. >> chris played on four nba teams including the new jersey nets. which team has he not played? >> lakers. >> you know. chris' dad owns which burger place in duluth, minnesota? >> five guys. >> you know him definitely

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when cedric the entertainer is around, you never know quite what is going to happen. cedric is set to host the "soul train music awards." >> cedric plays a homicide detective. in this clip which you're going to see here in a minute, he is interviewing a young dancer. we've got dancing in it. that works right there. as he avenged the murder of his uncle. we've got murder in it. let's take a look. >> say with me, "law and order" does not a detective make. just because you watch "law and order" don't mean you know what i do. all right? this is a black man over 40. look at him. there are so many reasons why he could have died. you know what i'm saying? hypertension, maybe it was a heart attack, maybe it was

emphysema. maybe he choked on a chicken bone. >> i'm also afraid of dead bodies. >> are you really? >> that's like a baseball player being afraid of the ball. we'll talk about "dance fu" in a second, but i'm excited about the soul train awards. did you grow up watching soul train? >> of course. small town in missouri, you would watch "soul train" and learn all the latest dances and the fashion. that was the first project runway at the same time. then the videos. you would see the people do "soul train" go down the line. >> just like that? >> what and lock it? ♪ >> look at cedric. ♪

>> i was watching "soul train" along with "american bandstand." i loved "soul train." >> if you're hosting and who is being honored? >> earth wind and fire and gladys knight. >> that's going to be terrific. >> actually we had earth wind and fire at kim's wedding. >> did you really? >> maybe i'm not supposed to say that. >> kim's wedding was off the charts. >> were you invited? >> never got the e-mail. >> you didn't? i told them to send you one. >> i kept hanging around by the store. >> this "dance fu." >> like "kung fu." good night is a choreographer. he realizes he can't fight unless he hears music. he has to learn the art of dance

and kung fu. it is over the top crazy funny. >> where can people see that? >> this is on dvd out today. dvd, blu-ray. go grab it, walmart, target, best buy, amazon, order it right now. get it right now. >> you directed it? >> yeah. this is the first time i directed. >> you helped with the writing? >> i did indeed and produced it. >> you're all over this thing. >> right. >> we are excited for the soul train awards coming up in november. >> november 27th. we are there on b.e.t. and simulcast. >> can you take us out with your dancing? up next, your questions will be answered with the man panel. come on. ♪ >> come on, bruce. in the coming weeks and months, you may notice something a little different

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>> actor rick younger who is married with tyler a little toddler. and editor and chief of "maxim" magazine. we got this wrong. shouldn't the single guy be the editor of "maxim" magazine? >> we are doing the whole switch at the end of this. i'm going back to tampa, he is going to stay here. i think you're too big to fit into my clothes. >> he's the single guy with the biggest guns. you notice that? >> let's get to the ladies. >> he's advertising. >> we go across the street to the nbc.com cafe. >> we've been married 39 years. i want to know why men only think of sex and sports 24/7. >> will you please answer this question. >> maybe it's because your name is frisky. i would find it difficult not to think of anything but sex and

sports if i had a woman named fris frisky. >> isn't that a lot of women think that, men have only two gears, those two. >> and getting food. we also think about food. what's wrong with that? >> we are very simple creatures. we have primal needs. we need love, we need food and then we need entertainment. that's it. >> if you could put all three of them together at once, all the better. >> here is a facebook post. "what do you think of a man who texts about 1/2 dozen times a day before you even meet? we met on match.com, had one telephone conversation and we are meeting on friday. is he too anxious?" >> i'm going to go with no. six texts, that's hi, hello, can't to wait to see you tonight, see you later. >> she better enjoy it while it lasts. because believe me, once you start dating him, it will go way

down. >> the big question is, if six is too much, maybe you're not that excited about meeting him. >> that's not that many texts. >> what do you think about texting? a lot of people don't talk on the phone. they're always texting. >> drives me absolutely nuts. >> maybe she is older. >> honestly, my wife will be texting away and doing her thing. to be honest, i'll be sitting next to her and sit there and text them and i'm sitting right there just so they'll actually listen. it pops up on the screen. oh, my god, what are you doing? >> let's get another question across the street. >> i'm patricia heinz from memphis, tennessee. my question is, after you make it to the first date, how do you move on to that second date? >> i would say a good way to make sure that you get a second date -- >> careful. >> is to have sex on the first date. something tells me you will have

a repeat customer. >> or that you may not have a repeat customer. >> don't have sex on the first date. >> give him something to wait for, but a nice kiss at the end will get him. a nice kiss. >> make him want more. i'm telling you. >> you're not joking. >> let's go to our facebook post. why is it that men just can't seem to show affection in public without being prompted? at home he acts like all's that, but in public it's like i don't exist. >> i don't like pda. holding hands is one thing. i don't want to watch people making out. it's gross. >> there is a line. >> unless you're on southwest airlines. >> especially if i'm your girlfriend. >> a lot of woman do like -- you don't have to make out, but they do want a little bit of affection. guys just like to walk. >> there is a happy medium where you're acknowledging this is the

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>>. >> we are back on this booze day tuesday with today's guys all panel. if you see one extra guy it's because bruce jenner is here. >> i'm never with the guys. all i see is a bunch of women. it's so good to bond with these guys. >> glad to have you. >> hi, i'm nini from memphis, tennessee. now that we're in a recession, are men looking for women that can bring something to the table? >> yes. >> yes.

>> feed us, you will have us forever. >> does it affect you guys who you will date depending on the economy? >> somebody with motivation, you know what i mean? it doesn't matter what the economy is like. you want somebody that is motivated and will help out. >> does your wife work? >> my wife does not. >> we are both artists. we work sometimes. >> so neither one of them work. >> my wife has a job. she has her own business. she works harder be me. i do the cooking. >> i am glad to be married. i remember when i was dating. especially if you're not committed and you're dating more than one women, that is a lot of money. >> i like that you're not committed and dating more than one women. it tripled, it doubled. >> it's hard to play these days. >> let's go on to jackie. "what should you do when your

loving boyfriend of four years says he doesn't want to get married ever, and it's not a problem with you, he just doesn't see the point?" there are people who choose not to get married. >> if you want to get married, that's not the guy for you. it's that simple. i don't get it. if a man says this is what i don't want, i don't want kids. he is not just saying that. >> stop trying to change men. >> you just stop trying to change men. my parents used to say to me, you have to look at the person, where they are. if you can't accept them for the way they are, where they are right then and there, you need to move on. >> right. if you're dating the person in front of you, not who you want that person to be. >> wait, wait. man of wisdom. i've seen it all. i've got khloe meet a guy, two weeks later she marries him. kim meets a guy, six months marries him. i've got my son brandon.

he's been engaged to leah four or five years. >> he wants to get married. >> that's the question. >> how old is? he. >> isn't it time to do this? he goes well, i don't know. >> guess who hates you right now? that's all i'm going to let you know. >> i apologize. brandon and leah, i love leah. the two of them together are the best. they should do it. start with the babies. >> you see the dna. do it. >> i'm allison from cleveland, ohio. what is more important, the quantity or the quality of sex? or both? >> or both is an option? >> is it how good or how often? >> quality. >> quality? >> i'm going to be -- i read a study just yesterday that says that for most men, it is both

frequency and satisfaction that makes a man happy. >> if you're not doing it a lot, it better feel like four or five times for each time you do it. >> i'm too tired to do it any more. >> i haven't read a study, i made a systemic study. i'm going to go with both. obviously quality over quantity. >> absolutely quality over quantity. i've got children. >> you're lucky you get it at all. >> now it's a whole different deal. >> all righty then. guys, thank you. thank you, all. coming up next, bruce is going to get excited. >> i'm very excited about this. boy toys. we challenge your most famous cupcake to a taste test against new kellogg's fiber plus caramel pecan crunch. really? 35% of your daily fiber. chocolate lava cupcake. [ indistinct conversations ]

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bruce jenner. "us weekly" contributor jill martin has broken into santa's workshop. what do you have? >> christmas is around the corner. >> what do you mean, it's october? >> i know, it's around the corner. it will be here before you know it. >> you're right. let's get to it. >> we did early shopping and broke into the wine store first. i love to give you this wine for dudes. it's $32, curated just for men, six mini bottles of wine for $32. >> you know kathie lee couldn't do this. >> what's the point. >> wine for dudes. that's to start off your evening. >> that is a very good idea. >> premium wines from around the world. >> a lot of people like just one glass of wine. >> come on. >> now the corkcicle. i know you entertain a lot.

you put this in the wine. so it chills it. you forgot to chill a bottle of wine, you don't want the condensation or you don't want the bucket of ice. you freeze that. >> is that all one piece, is there water in there? >> yeah. and you put it in like this. radio signals link up with your remote. it has 13 movements. it will do channels. you never have to leave your couch. >> are you kidding me? >> you can boss everyone around with it. >> can i do that with kids? you over here do this, you do that. that's good. >> you love the guitar. >> yes, i did for a while. >> i know you love music, too. you have to put your -- >> do i have to turn it on? >> it's on. put your finger here and your thumb here.

it's a knapsack. it's a knapsack with a guitar on it. >> i am totally into this. >> put your finger here and then here. >> be we're rocking here. >> my son has a band, plays the guitar. >> moving on to the evening mixter for your parties. >> do we do our own rapping? >> come on, spin it. >> look at that. >> this is for our party. >> the next thing i'm not doing this. >> i like that. >> this i'm afraid of. push this a little bit in the middle. the left one. i know you love helicopters. it's ready to go. just in the middle, a little above the middle.

>> this weekend i will be at the l.a. freaks flying. >> really? >> it goes up to 80 feet p. a little higher. >> look out. >> is that insane? that is crazy. >> don't get in front of it. this one's got the whole thing on it. here we go. >> the control buttons are a little different. >> i'm moving on because i only have a few minutes. >> one second. you know how you love cameras in your house? this goes up to 200 feet. where is it? it's behind me. it has cameras on it. >> get out of here. i can spy on children? >> you can spy on your children. >> it's i wonderful. >> i don't get it. >> it's the newest toy from brookstone. >> it goes the other way once we

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woody is a world renowned bartender who travels the globe making the most incredible drinks. >> not a bad job if you can get it. woody is the author of "woody's liquid kitchen." how good is that? >> welcome to the liquid kitchen. >> take it away. >> i don't want to do this to you. >> whoa! i would normally get you guys to pour this, but i'll probably get to you shake it. i don't think that is your thing. >> that's why we wear the outfits. >> hold this here. i want you to get this shaker, put it up on your shoulder. that won't be the first time you go home smelling like tequila. you can pour it out. >> can we pour it in here?

>> i'm going to teach you how to pour in a minute. that's not as much as you like. that's as much as you like. >> shake it up, baby. >> we get some apple juice, bitters, a little bit of sugar syrup here. we are making a drink called bittersweet. >> bittersweet. >> you need some ice. shake that up. >> i bet there is a way to shake this. >> shake it down here. shake it up. your shake face is your sex face. >> what did you say? >> i didn't say that. >> what did he say? woody. >> lessons 101. >> good luck. >> okay. >> booze day tuesday. >> you're going to need that. come over to here. >> we missed the apple. >> what i made here, i made

vanilla jasmine tea with sugar. >> that is good. >> i'll teach you how to pour. hold the bottle like this. now pour in here 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000. this one here, as well. this is jasmine vanilla martini. >> hoda, that's it. you just failed the class. >> i'm not skilled at this. >> how do you pour this? the last party i did, take the top. >> i am getting out of your way. >> i was going to get you guys to do this. >> get the bottom one there. hold that one. lift it up. put the bottom over that one there. >> no, this is not happening. >> i can do it. >> that's how we pour it up. >> perfect! woody, you rock it. >> we did it. >> coming up next, we'll put you to work.

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with pesky toilet problems to refilling your stone counter, will has quick fix-its. >> lou is the host of "house smarts" and will make us feel good about doing things around the house. i don't know why you have this as a prop. >> fixing the toilet. >> 90% of the time -- >> i need to teach my kids this. >> 90% of the time the reason the toilet doesn't flush is because of the rim. there we go. there. the holes underneath here are clogged. if we can open those clogs up, that will give that you swirly action. then also down inside here there is a little jet. going to reach down inside.

you're going to wear gloves. there is a jet that gets clogged with calcium. use calcium or lime cleaners. you want to wear gloves because it tends to be a lactic acid based products. >> i try to teach my girls this. you can fix the toilets. >> one of these toilet repair kits in case that doesn't work. this is a fill involve, the flush involve. the kit is about 20 bucks. it really is simple to do. it's going to save you a call from a professional plumber. hundreds of dollars. >> bruce has been bragging he knows how to caulk the tub. >> i'm going to climb inside here. silicone, 100% silicone. the key when you're doing this is to get all the old caulking out. let it dry. everybody immediately goes at it with the caulk. the water is behind it and it doesn't last.

you want 100% silicone. the reason i have the tape here. most people are not this good at caulking. they don't get professional results. with the tape you put a little on there. >> i use my finger. you wet your finger. >> this is silicone. you don't want to wet it. see this is wet. you peel this away. look how nice that looks. >> come out of that tub. >> you learn something every day, don't you. >> cleaning the shower. showerhead here, you don't get enough power. because it gets all this calcium on here. you can clean this. same thing. same cleaner you're going to use on the toilet. soak this in a bowl. this is colored water because this is an acid-based product. use gloves. use a brush to soak and clean this up and work this. let this soak for about half an hour. this is just colored water which is why i'm not using gloves. if this doesn't work, go out and buy a hotel quality showerhead.

the way i just unscrewed this, you can do the same thing. slowly unscrew it, get the new one on, screw right back on. >> that's what you ask for hotel quality? >> i was going to say on the bach, it doesn't say hotel quality. >> a lot of them do. >> i've never seen that before. >> finally, your granite countertops. you can seal them yourself. you don't want to use -- use a cleaner designed for granite. once you clean it, soak the top of this thing. don't wipe it away. cover the whole thing. it dries. come back, do it again. go for a long lunch, you're done. >> love you, lou. bruce, thank you for filling in today. tomorrow we have your wife coming in. fritz and sugar ray leonard. have a great day. thank you. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com