angela logan, thank you so much for joining us. spot? because i know that everybody around you, including your sons, were trying to help you make this payment. >> yes. well, it started with a construction fiasco, thousands of dollars that started to put us in debt. and then one of my agencies closed and took several contracts, thousands of dollars, and that sort of thrust us into foreclosure. my son had been trying to help, and it just got overwhelming, and so we worked with mortgage counselors to help us get the making home affordable program. and it took a long time for this particular bank to come up with their program, so we were in limbo for a long time. then all of a sudden, bam, you have to have this amount of money, and three months in a row, in order to have your mortgage. and i did not want to miss out on this opportunity to come out of foreclosure. >> right. >> so i went to family and friends, and i -- i -- i had this cake that i used to bake for the kids and for organizations, for events, and i asked the kids, i said wh

we're told how angela logan is baking her way all the way to the bank. >> reporter: angela loguen is saving her house one apple cake at a time. >> i don't mind cooking day and night which is what i've been doing. i just don't want to be sitting on the sidewalk. >> reporter: it began when angela had to find a fast way to make a $2,600 mortgage payment. >> this will be my 20th year with the house. >> reporter: angela had an idea, she'd bake her famous apple cakes and sell them for $40 apiece. >> what maxz the cake moist -- >> reporter: she called them mortgage apple cakes or m.a.c.s. calls for the apple cakes are coming in from all over the place, everywhere from texas to tennessee, even iraq. >> a soldier called and said they had heard about our story. >> reporter: angela's fiance, melvin george says the cakes are made with one ingredient you can't find in stores, love. he also says the cakes are dikting. >> i just know that you cannot eat these cakes and drive because the moment you go mmm, you'll hit something. >> reporter: with hundreds of orders, angela has far surpassed her goal.

angela logan here is baking and selling apple cakes to raise money for her mortgage payment. e calls them mortgage apple cakes, or macs. logan's fiance says her cakes are made with a secret ingredient. it's called love. >> i just know that you cannot eat these cakes and drive because the moment you go mm, you'll hit something. >> so far, logan says she's sent cakes to texas, tennessee, and even iraq. >>> you may consider that fried ipod or your old cell phone lying around as trash, but some young entrepreneurs see dollar signs and they're helping the plan tote boot. maggie lake reports in this week's edition of "e "eco solutions." >> 60. 100. thanks a lot. >> reporter: handing out cold, hard cash on the streets of new york. not a sight many are used to, but the founders of yourenew.com did just that, paying money, in this case, between $100 and $160 in exchange for used iphones outside of apple's flagship new york store. >> we're trying to encourage people to learn about recycling electronics rather than throwing them into landfills. >> reporter: the premise is rather simple -

angela logan is baking and selling apple cakes to raise money for her mortgage payments.t, she calls them mortgage apple caps or macs. she says her cakes are made with a secret ingredient, it is called love. >> i just know that you cannot eat these cakes and drive because the moment you go, mmm, you'll hit something. >> so far logan says she's sent cakes to texas, tennessee and even iraq. >>> a veteran journalist walter cronkite will be laid to rest next to his wife of nearly 65 years. tributes are pouring in from across the nation and even from astronauts in space. remembering one of the most influential men of the 20th century. >>> 40 years ago tomorrow the world watched a grainy black and white television image and heard the words that were echoed across for decades. >> it is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> this is july 20 lt, 1969. neil armstrong leapt out of the lunar lander and left the first footprint on the moon. he was followed by buzz aldrin while michael collins orbited above in this command mood module that would be their ride home. 15 h

. >> reporter: angela logan is saving her house one apple cake at a time. >> i don't mind cooking day and night which is what i've been doing. i just don't want to be sitting on the sidewalk. >> reporter: it all began when angela had to find a fast way to make a $2,600 mortgage payment. >> my 20th year with this house and yao want to lose it. >> reporter: with little money to spare angela had an idea. she'd bake her famous apple cakes and sell them for $40 apiece. >> what makes the cake moist. >> reporter: she called them mortgage apple cakes or m.a.c.s. and as word spread, ordered piled up. calls for these cake, coming in from all over the place, from texas to tennessee. even iraq. >> a soldier called and said they had heard about our story. >> reporter: angela's fiance says her cakes are made with one ingredient you can't find in stores. love. he also says the cakes are addicting. >> i just know you cannot eat these cakes and drive, because the moment you go, hmm -- you'll hit something. >> reporter: with hundreds of orders, angela has far surpassed her goal. >> it's like a dream co

. >> reporter: angela logan is whipping up a way to fight foreclosure on her home by baking these apple>> my goal is to fill 100 cakes in ten days. i sold 42 cakes and i have 50 some odd cakes to go. >> reporter: she is calling them her mortgage apple cakes. $40 each. trying to raise a little over $2,500 in the next nine days to make the mortgage payment on her home where she lived for 20 years. her own economic downturn began when one of the stand-up comedian agencies shut down and held several paychecks and after she hired a home improvement contractor for major renovations. >> the to make a long story short he messed up about $20 thousand to you worth of plumbing we had to have been done, thousands of dollars worth of other stuff. >> reporter: she figures the cakes can help in the short run. media attention today is helping her reach her goal. >> we can't count the orders. it is amazing. >> reporter: foreclosures in new jersey are actually down. 30% so far this year. that's according to realty track and angela wants to make sure she doesn't become just another statistic. now we think

. >> angela logan was trying to sell enough cakes at $40 to make an important payment on the t neck house's called home for 20 years. >> angela joins us in the studio. >> with these cakes, did you make the important payment on your house? >> absolutely. last thursday i made the payment and sent in the mortgage documents. >> how many cakes have you been able to sell? >> well -- god, i baked at least 200 cakes since i started baking a couple weeks ago. >> tell us how you came up with the idea. it's a cute story. >> well, we were going into foreclosure. we were in foreclosure. >> that's not the cute part. >> no. the cute part is my kids thought we could use the cake to pay the mortgage. we called it mortgage apple cakes. we decided to use this cake to keep us out of foreclosure. i called all my friends to say would you please buy a cake. i'm trying to sell 100 cakes in ten days, by day five or six i had sold 42 cakes. friends and family came and bought them. >> for how much each? >> $40 apiece. >> how did you come up with the price? >> i looked online to see what they were selling cakes for.

angela logan needs $2500 to make her mortgage payment.o she's been baking what she calls mortgage apple cakes. and selling them for 40 bucks apiece. so far she has orders for 42 cakes. logan's an ter takener, got behind on payments and because work's hard to find. she had botched home improvements. she needs to raise the money by next week. ♪ (announcer) introducing new tums dual action. this tums goes to work in seconds and lasts for hours. all day or night. new tums dual action. bring it on. new tums dual action. right now, all over the country, discover card customers are getting 5% cashback bonus at the pump. now more than ever, @@@call or click today.@@@@. ♪ ♪ i got troubles, oh ♪ but not today ♪ 'cause they're gonna wash away ♪ ♪ they're gonna wash away ♪ ♪ ♪ they're gonna wash away ♪ this old heart ♪ gonna take them away [ quacks ] >>> welcome back to msnbc. i'm chris jansing. remembering an american icon. many voices now weighing in on the loss of longtime cbs newsman walter cronkite. the 92-year-old died last night after a long i

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angela logan is selling her cakes for 40 bucks a pop and has until sunday to come one the mortgage. fiancees, hey, these cakes are delicious. >> i just know that you can not eat these cakes and drive because the moment you go "mmm," you will hit something. >> logan has gotten requests from all over now and she has enough orders for the money she needs. congrats. smart thinking, by the way. 34 minutes past the hour. apparently, getting some refreshing weather for late of our viewers. chris is in for bob. all right. >> yeah, good morning, robin. east coast going to enjoy gorgeous weather, at least much of the east coast, middle part of the country. you are already in the storminess this morning, going to deal with it as we go through it, south dakota, to dallas, texas. big showers and thunderstorms. primary threat from the storms is large hail and very gusty winds over 60 miles an hour. right now, we have the showers and thunderstorms going across kansas, through interstate 35, oklahoma city, the dallas, texas, area, the showers and thunderstorms. see them along interstate 80 this mor

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