captions paid for by nbc-universal television hey, everybody. lcome to thirsty thursday. it's november 3rd. so glad you're here with us. going to enjoy your hour with us this morning. >> big day for many reasons. it's the first day of my mom's retirement. happy semi retirement. >> good for her. i don't think it's going to work out, not knowing your mom the way we do. she's so adorable. ♪ for she's a jolly good fellow ♪ >> thank you! we have news to report about --

>> i'm tired of reporting this. you do the honor of it. >> lindsay lohan, as you know, is going to jail. they say she violated her probation. she is going for 30 days. we heard conflicting reports. tmz says that the judge actually told her she could report a little later so she could finish her "playboy" shoot. >> good grief. apparently they didn't turn out good enough so they are redoing it. >> it's a 30-day sentence, but some people say she'll serve one day because of overcrowding. >> this is not the first time that's happened either. here is my suggestion. take somebody that's been there a long time in jail, take them out and put her back in. take somebody out and let them out instead who's done some time and leave her in there to do some time so she finally has enough time to sit there alone without anything in her body, you know? and contemplate what life has become for her.

and choose really what she wants to do. i think this judge is making a mockery out of the judicial system. who is going to have any respect for it? >> it looks like no matter what you do, it doesn't matter. >> go shoot your spread, so to speak. enough. enough. no wonder we have no respect anymore for anything. >> i think people are disgusted. people are disgusted. i agree 100%. >> she needs to get help. somebody, one person in her life has got to love her enough to take her away and do an intervention on her and not let her do anything until she is better. >> i agree. she needs it. we had kris jenner on yesterday and she talked about her daughter. today kim is talking from australia. what is interesting about this interview, she was with her sister khloe.

obviously this topic was coming up. they were in australia to promote a handbag line. what is troubling people is there is always an innate conflict. kim's mom came on to talk about her book but we talked about kim. they are talking about their hand bag line. it just seems to people unseemly to be promoting something while you're going through something. >> it was awkward for me yesterday, as you know. we've been friends for a long, long time. i knew this family long before there was any reality show. your friends are your friends. for me, they're your friends forever. you go through a lot of things with one another. i certainly have not appreciated -- agreed with a lot of things they've done, but i still love my friends. i have to ask the tough questions. i think the toughest one is people, there wouldn't be the backlash if somebody had sensed they tried or they're trying or they are going to see a counselor, but it's over? i had marital problems.

most people had marital problems. i think what people disrespect, they shouldn't be surprised by this, except they haven't even tried. i think that's the hardest. >> you know what's funny about this show? not only does it have young people watching -- >> you know what surprised me, my mom likes this show. mom, you of all people because their antics at times, i can't watch it. my mother says, she says you know what? i know some of the things they do, i don't particularly appreciate. but at the end of the day, they're a family and they love one another and i love to see a family together. i think that's a lot of the appeal. >> they're good sisters. that is one thing you have to give them. they are there for each other. they are always there. there is an event, they're supporting. if there is anything, they're like the mafia, they're in group. >> frank tried to call yesterday and got bruce on the phone. people wonder how bruce handles

things. i'll tell you how he handles things. >> how? >> very well. he says as long as i can hit the ball straight on the golf course, i don't care. he's solid and he's there for everybody in that family. i don't know. this unfortunately, these all look just like they did two months ago. that's the trouble. it's too soon to give up on a marriage. i hope she rethinks. i hope she says, i didn't even try. let's take time off and work on our marriage. >> all right. let's talk about the cleanest and dirtiest cities in the country. >> oh, lord. >> if you wonder where your city falls, they calculate how much money we spend on cleaning stuff. apparently there is something that not a dish washing liquid, but something you use to clean your dishwasher.

>> it disinfects the actual dishwasher. >> it's those products people buy that determines who is the cleanest. >> i didn't know there was a product like that. i guess i'm not on the list. >> springfield, illinois. number four is casper, wyoming. three is missoula, montana. two is the auburn -- what is that? opelika, alabama. >> and according to this survey knoxville is the cleanest. the dirtiest is a place called pocatello, indiana. >> it says idaho. >> it says i.d. >> they just changed it. >> it's pocatello.

>> do you say coupon or do you say cue-pon? >> i never heard anybody say cue-pon. >> tammy says it in the meeting. >> it's not just my eyesight, but my hearing is going too. i thought it was just my thighs. >> most people pronounce it cue-pon. let's see what the correct pronunciation is. >> coupon. >> coupon. >> that's what you said. >> no. oh, yeah. i am now officially, mark it on your calendar, we all thought it was coming, today's the day. i don't want to be here today. i have not liked this week. i have not liked all the subjects we had to talk about. i have not liked the idea of justin bieber might be a father. i do not like that. these things bother me. you know what bothers me, the difference between harassment and harassment. what's it going to be people? >> i think it's harassment. how do people say it?

>> in the wake of the herman cain scandal, what is sexual harassment? would you know it if you saw it. that's right after this. >> matt says harassment. you love matt. >> is that what matt just said? i don't trust myself. >> yes, he did. he said harassment. >> i don't know. >> harassment. harassment. >> british is harassment. >> how would billy ray thornton say the word? i wonder. you think about it. >> how would amy say it? >> if you don't like the marathon, stay out of new york city. it is nuts! i remember once coming out of the hamptons and literally to get around one block took an hour and 45 minutes. plan for that. >> it takes time. these people doing it are

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>> that's sexual harassment. ♪ i want to get which ya and take your picture ♪ >> why did i spend ten years writing a musical that actually rhymes? thank you. thank you. >> here it comes. ♪ flowing like a turbo bat on the magazines ♪ >> is this over yet? >> is it okay or not okay to wear pants? this is why we are having trouble. >> kathie lee is not going over the edge. >> i am over the edge. i really am. thank god we have people today that are talented. we get to talk today to people that are talented. i'm looking forward to that. >> you say, i don't know. >> i'm afraid. i don't trust myself. >> just as long as you wear underwear.

>> those are cute. just wear, you know, little shorts or something. >> here is what i say. >> here is what hoda said, no. >> no, no, no. >> they don't show us the pictures when they ask us the questions. they asked us the question when i'm in the car usually on the way home and they ask the question. i don't know what pictures they are going to show. >> then they put those and you say, wow, i didn't mean that. >> maybe we should ask what pictures they are showing. maybe we would have better answers. >> we are going to orlando next week. >> broadcasting from the wizardry world of harry potter. at universal, orlando, florida. >> we'll do our show live at 10:00. >> our contest winner is lori robertson from alabama or is it idaho? she'll be there with her two children. i can't believe her husband has to work and can't come. that's just not fair. >> they'll meet some of the harry potter folks.

we look forward to meeting them. >> if you want to come and be part of our show you can get ambushed or airbrushed. dylan lewis will be at the orlando city walk november 10th, the day before. come at 9:00. we'll see you out there. >> i want to say hello to my friend catherine, karen's daughter. she is not feeling well. she is in the hospital. >> i'm sorry. and it is kendall jenner, my god daughter's birthday. >> jack and jill come down the hill. where are they going? >> i love this movie, "puss and boots."

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the goose that laid the golden egg, he encounters jack and jill along the way. >> as you would know them, billy bob thornton and amy sederis. >> they are kitchen magnification. >> why would you need them in the shower? >> these are ridiculous. >> to read the shampoo or wine bottle in your shower. >> she knows us very well. >> works for me. >> hoda wasn't able to go the other day. i went to a screening of the movie. they set up screenings for us. it was a big one, beautiful one. the only one in there. i got my nice 3-d glasses on. at the end, i'm sobbing like a baby. i felt like an idiot. >> why, because she couldn't make it? >> i'm telling you, it has a beautiful message. a lot of these shows today don't. it has an amazing message. i had no idea you guys voiced them.

that's how well you did. >> tell us about jack and jill. they are not your typical jack and jill. >> no. the original story they were brother and sister, now we are husband and wife. we are the size of a refrigerator. >> and you want a child, don't you, jack? jill doesn't want to destroy her figure. her girlish figure. >> i guess so. we played full-figured people, both of us. the tough part of it was trying to find a voice that sounded fatter than me. >> they wanted you to bring back the sling blade character, but that's sort of sacred to you. >> yeah. i didn't want to do that so i did a milder version. >> how did you get in the character? >> i put on 80 pounds for the part. and just talked like my little brother. >> you never met before you started promoting. are you getting along?

>> yeah, we're living together. >> absolutely. >> i understand they tell us, i'm afraid to say your name. >> billy bob. >> billy ray. >> your daughter didn't want to come to see the movie. she doesn't like animated things? >> she is too smart for that? >> she is 7. she doesn't watch cartoons. she makes me turn "family guy" off when i try to watch it. >> she is very cerebral. >> yeah. she wants to be a paeleontologist. stuff like that. >> you are kidding. >> when i was 7, i had no idea what that was. she watches documentaries, nature specialists. >> wow. your older son went as your date? >> he went. they both went. normally it's like the actor who drags the kids off after the red carpet. come on, kids, we are not going to stay for the movie. oh, please, let us stay. it was the other way around. i was asking them to stay. nah, we've got stuff to do.

we just did the recarpet. they'll see it at another time. >> amy, this movie obviously kathie lee cried so it's not just for kids. >> i cried a lot this week. i was moved by it. when you read the script you don't say yes or do you say yes? >> we didn't really read a script, exactly. i saw my stuff a bit at a time. with an animated film, they are sort of making it for a long period of time and a little bit at a time. they show you a picture of your character and you see the dialogue. they tell you the story. >> you were cinderella in one of them, one of the earlier "shrek's" is it fun going to the audio booth? >> i like doing voiceovers. it's fun. in the older days they would do animated voices which i love. i wish they would go back to that. you know, character voices. now they want you to sound like yourself.

i like doing this because we got to use an accent. >> what do you sound like? >> you didn't see it. i don't want to spoil it for you. >> you won't. do it. >> i don't even know. >> the answer is no, hoda. >> no! you didn't show up for her. what was it a private screening? >> yes. i said that. am i the only one that can't hear. >> i didn't come here to be yelled at. i could be home in bed. trust me. i'm here because of him, because of billy ray. >> billy ray. >> billy ray cyrus thornton. >> thank you for coming, guys. >> it's a charming movie. thanks for putting p with me today. i'm sorry. >> sara gives us a double dose. and we do have -- thank god we have "everyone has a story" coming up. >> yes, we do. ♪ like so many great pioneers before me, guided only by a dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion.

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we are back on this thirsty thursday with more of "today" and a big kiss star. for nearly 40 years ace frehley and friends had fans rocking all night long. >> now he opens up about his highs -- no pun intended -- and the lows in his new book called "no regrets." >> part of it is you're sitting in that chair alive. >> how much of a miracle do you feel like? >> every day above ground is good. >> i'm feeling that way today, too. >> i'm not dirt napping. >> no, that's true. >> you could have been. >> car accidents, drug

overdoses, the whole nine yards. >> then there were the women. >> yeah, well. >> the nickname ace -- >> i went easy on that in the book. >> did you? >> since the early days you had a way with the girls. that's why you got the nickname ace, didn't you? >> yeah, kind of. i don't like to toot my own horn like gene does. >> oh, starting already. that's what's been getting all the headlines. you come down hard on him. you said nothing you haven't said before. >> i don't think anything i said surprised anybody. >> what is it about -- why did you have the beef? what is the problem? >> we never really had a beef. people think there is this love/hate thing going on with me and gene. i had lunch five weeks ago at the beverly hills hotel. we had a great afternoon. >> you write about something that made you very angry. he is editing a movie your daughter had taken part in, next thing you know her part is edited out. you thought he had done that

purposefully, why? >> he was deeply involved with the editing process on a daily basis. >> did you ask him about it? >> no, you know, i didn't. but i did hear that -- but he came up at the last minute where it was the tongue effect. >> he's good at that. >> i think that replaced her scene. >> he said we love ace, we wish him the best. sobriety isn't easy. he needs to surround himself with people who love and care about him. ace will win, i know it. >> did you read what he said in page six the other day in "the post?" >> not that nice? tell us. >> sas an alcohol igic and drug addict and has been one for 35 years. >> you kicked it. >> it's an incorrect statement. i've actually been an alcoholic for 40 years. >> but you have been sober how long? >> five years. september 15th is my sober day.

i released my last cd on 2009, september 15th. it's good. >> you started out with humble beginnings. you were a church-going family. you were a very close family. >> my dad taught sunday school. >> yeah, what happened? >> i started hanging out with the wrong crowd. i got tired of getting beat up. i started having a few drinks with the guys. >> at the age of 11 you started. >> one thing led to another. you get on this merry-go-round. the only thing that saved me was music. most of the friends i hung out with when i was 13 or 14 are in jail or dead or missing in action. >> what do you think would have happened had kiss not become such a huge phenomenon? >> i believe i always had the talent and fortitude to be a rock star. if it wasn't kiss it would have been another band. >> okay. >> i was an integral part of the beginning of kiss.

>> was it tough to leave the group? >> you write about leaving it. you were talked back into it because there was a lot of money at stake. >> i got into the music business because i was having a great time and i was having -- getting paid for it. when it wasn't fun any more, i had to leave. >> there is a lot of anecdotes in that book. that's a nice way of putting it. ace, thank you for coming to see us. >> thank you so much, guys. >> everyone does have a story. we have a different one for you next. we'll get to hear this man's, john lawson's story. he'll make you believe that you can also do pretty much anything, right after this. you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible with a hoveround. tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hoveround. when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it. call today and get a free hoveround information kit

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♪ everyone has a moment >> meet our newest "everyone has a story" john lawson. an actor and singer who has

overcome some tremendous obstacles in his life. >> let's listen to the letter he sent us. >> february 4, 1987, i was working a real job as my dad called it hanging above-ground water storage tanks. an electric line with 7,600 volts arced over to the scaffolding and burned both my hands and 28% of my body. i spent the next four months in the north carolina burn center. having started playing the piano at age 3, at age 30 i was leaving with both hands amputated and hooks in their place. a couple of years later a friend called and said they were doing a musical production saying they amputated my hands, not my voice. there in the pit i met the love of my life. we dated two years, fell in love, got married. two years later had a baby together. when the baby was 2, my 34-year-old wife was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. she fought a long and arduous battle but lost the war in 2001 when the baby was 10. these past ten years have probably been the best as i've been mom and dad to a motherless

daughter who at age 20 is a senior at miami state university. i've become the first double-hand amputee to be trained and certified as a private pilot in the u.s. and the only one to be trained as acting and now as a performer with disabilities had a few roles in tv shows and films. early someone gave me a mug that said, "life is not a dress rehearsal." those six words carry a powerful meaning. we only get to do this once. no matter what or where our stage, this is our one and only performance. >> john is here with his beautiful daughter whitney. toct >> i had no idea you were so funny. >> when kath talked about the t-shirt you wore that said, "i'm not really good at pattycake." >> "i suck at pattycake." >> how much has humor helped you through this? >> i feel humor makes everything

a good even playing field no matter what your politics or religion. i used humor a lot. i use it a lot in stand-up, also. >> and in your acting. you just shot a tv thing where you play -- >> i play a dmv examiner on mtv show "awkward." she went to go get her driver's license and i stick my hooks all around in front of her face. she freaks out and doesn't get her driver's license. >> they do have a lot of prosthetics now. why do you choose to keep the hooks? >> these were invented in the 1940s after world war ii. it's basically the keep it simple, stupid. it's the easiest, the most light weight. i scuba dive. a lot of electronics aren't waterproof. they work good under water. >> some write read said your mom and friends had much, much more difficult time with all of this than you did. >> it is. i go back to the burn center in chapel hill. i visit a lot of hospitals in cincinnati and work with new

amputees. i end up talking more to the families than i do to the amputee themselves. they have a harder time. it's hard, even today if people see me coming they want to hold a door open for me. as if i can't open a door. >> maybe they are not sure what you are capable. >> that is a lot of it. >> they don't know you like we do. they're getting to know you. >> a lot of that is true. been a single parent the last ten years. that's been a big part. i changed diapers. i've zone it aural all. >> whitney, you've only known your dad this way. has it been difficult to deal with friends and people and just young girl things? >> i think it was really easy because we were open in the family about it. he was always in the school with my classes, working with my teachers, working with the students. it was never really awkward to have him there. they loved it. he was my girl scout leader. he did all of those things. >> of course he was. >> we went camping. we did everything.

as for the girl stuff, we knew she was passing and prepared both of us for what was going to come after she passed away. we go bra shopping, make a couple of trips to victoria's secret and have fun together. >> you guys have a great, great relationship. that is terrific. >> are you tough on the guys she brings home? >> yes. >> no boy gets a name. it's always "the boy." that's it. >> we have a boy who is quite the man now. >> oh, is he. >> he went to the same university as you. >> ed watson, very, very special. he just spent two months in "saving aimee" with us in seattle. he plays husband number one and husband number three. he is wearing way too many clothes for me today. he's going to sing a very, very special song david and i wrote for you, john. we'll be right back with that. good morning.

we have a look at your weather today. and for the next seven days as we walk you through a week here. the middle of the country, very quiet for the friday forecast. although temperatures cold in the morning, will warm up nicely in the afternoon. mid-atlantic looking at rain and a lot of wind, but will be dry through the northeast and a few widely scattered showers into parts of florida. nothing significant. as far as temperatures go, we're only at 52 there in new york city, 50 in boston today. the coldest air across the country moving out of the northwest and this will impact the west coast. mountain snow, rain at lower elevations, even the higher elevations picking up on snow on saturday. montana, more snow showers as well, and into the pacific northwest. notice how dry lit be through the eastern half of the country. some wind in the plains in advance of the storm, which will eventually track its way to the east. your saturday forecast for college football games across

the northeast, dry but temperatures only in the 50s. 63 in atlanta. we'll enjoy a nice, dry day here. we've got the big lsu and bama game. temperatures on the mild side. 35 in billings and with it snow. more snow into the rockies on sunday. great for ski country there. by the start of next week, rain showers back through the ohio valley. this front will stretch down into texas and we'll have more rain and snow there in the west around the four corners. 60 in new york city. not a lot of weather in the northeast for the next couple of days. by next week on tuesday, we're tracking a significant system here, which could bring severe weather down into the southern plains. this will march close tore the east. wednesday rain in the ohio valley and pushing into new york by the end of the week. get the latest on your weather with "wake up with al." [ male announcer ] now at subway, get a free 6-inch sandwich of your choice when you buy a 6-inch sandwich before 9am.

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♪ >> we are back with "everyone has a story" john lawson with his beautiful daughter whitney. now it's time to hear the song david and i wrote just for you. please welcome broadway performer, one of my favorite leading men in the world, ed watts. it's called "when lightning strikes." ♪ ♪ everyone has a story ♪ but mine might be hard to believe ♪ ♪ i've lost so much in the course of one life ♪ ♪ how i am where i am might be hard to conceive ♪ ♪ i started out like any man ♪ i had a purpose had a plan ♪

♪ but one day lightning struck and then i had to start my life again ♪ ♪ start my life again ♪ ♪ met the true love of my life she agreed to be my wife ♪ lightning struck again ♪ and i found myself alone again ♪ alone and scared again ♪ ♪ when lightning strikes your life ♪ and burn streaks to the ground ♪ and all you feel is pain ♪ with no hope to be found ♪ ♪ that's when you have a choice ♪ ♪ to turn and run away start your life again ♪ ♪ and live another day ♪ my hands were gone my wife was too ♪ but i still had so much to do ♪ ♪ i had a child i had a voice ♪ i had a pulse i had a choice ♪ ♪ we always have a choice ♪ so i chose to love and live and give all that i had to give

♪ to do whatever i could do in helping others to get through ♪ ♪ what they had to get through ♪ when lightning strikes your life ♪ ♪ you've got to realize ♪ that storms can make you strong ♪ ♪ and pain can make you wise ♪ and lessons you learn through suffering and strife ♪ ♪ are lessons you can teach because lightning struck your life ♪ ♪ and though sometimes i still get burned ♪ ♪ and things don't always go my way ♪ ♪ i won't complain cause i have learned ♪ to cherish every day ♪ so if lightning strikes your life ♪ and you feel you've been burned ♪ ♪ i hope you will take heart and learn what i have learned ♪

♪ to live with all life brings and do what you can do ♪ to turn that lightning into life ♪ ♪ and let it shine through you ♪ ♪ when lightning strikes your life ♪ [ applause ] >> ed, beautiful! that was a four-hanky. >> yes, it was. we'll be back with more of "today." [ male announcer ] give yourself an edge.

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wasn't that something? we are honoring this special man. what did you think of your song? >> as kathie said, it was four hankies. >> by the way, watching you pull those kleenexes out of that, that is the master. >> we have to correct something real fast.

for ed. o-h -- >> i-o. >> they went to different colleges. >> they've both been to miami. >> whitney, what did you think of the song? >> it was gorgeous. i couldn't have picked a more descriptive, more beautiful flowing piece, the encouragement i feel from my father and the role model he is for me and the success we have together. >> i can cry all over again. >> i want video some day of you walking your baby girl down the aisle. >> yeah. >> that might never happen. >> the boy. >> yeah, the boy. some day there might be a fsnl, that's future son in law. >> how about ed? >> ed would be a perfect fit in that group. >> believe me, everybody is fighting over ed. >> we like to give a little something away. this is our favorite part.

our friends at american airlines heard you're sometimes unable to miss auditions. they have round-trip tickets to l.a. to help you get where you get. >> fantastic. >> that would be great. thank you. >> you were great. you killed it. >> he's going back into "the fantastics." >> longest-running musical in new york city. >> beautiful. ♪ try to remember >> that's from that? >> yep. >> he goes back on monday. >> i go back monday november 7th. it's also pop star aaron carter is joining our cast. >> david's got his book out that is tearing it up. >> "thought exchange." i just got back from san francisco. >> david is tearing up hollywood, baby. come back tomorrow, you guys. you can get ambushed.

dom the plaza. >> make your day count. see you tomorrow. >> announcer: it's "the tonight featuring rickey minor [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by