and apparently you, claire danes, have an iq of 157."no, no, n no. [ cheers and applause ] no, i play a genius on the television. [ laughter ] i am no genius." but i'll take it. >> i mean the genius part not the -- >> seth: yeah.ha i have -- ten follow-ups for the father who was googling women geniuses. [ laughter ] >> i was very endeared towards him. i was like, "thank you for having that interest." >> seth:hat seems like what you panic google when someone walks in >> right. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> seth: what are you doing at your computer? oh, women geniuses! c ooh, madrie. >> anyway -- >> seth: oh, i do want to ask is ecause, you know, we were talking about your son getting ready to meet his sibling, your son in the film is that age. >> yes, yes. >> seth: so did your real child meet your acting -- >> absolutely. >> seth: your fake child? >> they goto be friends. and he would come hang out with me and also who played jake.s i little bit nervous that cyrus might get jealous -- >> seth: sure. >> of this actor. i mean no, not at all. no prob

>> no, i know that. >> claire danes as cia officer kerry matheson on the hit show time series "homelandg seasons danes has played one of the most intense, complex and memorable characters on television. her performance, along with a great supporting cast and timely story lines that always seem to be one step ahead of the news make "homeland" one of tv's favorite shows. for danes, matheson is the signature character in a long, successful career that began when she moved across the country to los angeles when she was just in middle school. claire, who's now pregnant with her second child, joined me recently for a sunday sit-down. >> reporter: kerry matheson is a single mother who spends her days chasing down terrorist plots around the world. all while struggling to manage her bipolar disorder. >> i'm going to get you a bit more adivan to settle you down. >> do you feel like after a season of shooting you need to get away from carrie? is. >> it is a demanding show, for sure. it never gets more casual for her. they just keeps raising the stakes. there was an additional demand on danes this

this week on "sunday today," my guest is homeland star claire danes.got together to talk about growing up in show business, how the role of carry math i son on homeland has changed her life, and the emmy winner's most important proct to date, her growing family. our sunday sit-down with claire danes plus the politics and news on "sunday today." you can catch us in the morning or set the dvrat and us any time you like. for now we'll send it back to you, frances and phillip, and we will see you on sunday morning. >> see you then. >>r let's h about the weekend. bill karins again. >> talk about the good stuff or the b stuff. good stuff is in the ohio valley and great lakes it continues saturdays. it begs to push into th northeast on saturday. july heat continues from texas to the southeast. t you're not goi get that cool down yet. many areas of the west will stay hot thi weekend. including seattle in the '90s by the time we get to sunday. heavy rain and thunderstorms ossible in areas of kansas, nebraska and oklahoma. maybe even kansas city and st. louis on

. >>> a sunday sit-down with "homeland"tar claire danes. >>> plus, harry smith a bit later in the show. >>> we begin this morning with the raging fir across the american west. the death toll from the largest fire rising this morning after the bodies of a woman and her two great grandchildren were discovered on saturday. california's governor now has declared a state of emergency. nbc's steve patterson is on the front lines in redding, california, for us. steve, good morning. >> reporter: willie, the h true toe is just being realized. more than 500 homes andur businessesd to the ground. five people now confirmed dead, including young children, and this fire is showing no signs of slowing down. overnight, once again, the carr fire ring out of control. flames fueled by days of hot, dry temperatures, red flags whipping with the winds into a fury. houses crashing down within minutes. thousands of firefighters struggle to keep up.s this what firefighters are facing right now. incredibly hot temppatures, stterrain, and this heavy wind. saturday, the fallout. a family in reddingrm cong the wor

you can see she dresses like claire danes from "my so-called life" but she's really more like claire nes in "homeland." she worked successfully it seems to infiltrate american political organizations. photographed with a number of high-profile republicans like scott walker, rick sanitorium, bobby jindal, she posed as a journalist to ask a question about russian sanctions to then-candidate donald trump. he answered the question. and at one point she actually tried to arrange for putin to join trump at the national prayer breakfast in d.c. and she managed to somehow penetrate the nra too. one of her alleged missions was to set up a line of communication between russia and republicans via the national rifle association. the fbi's investigating whether the nra took money from these russian interest groups, which wow, it's almost as if the nra is a shameless, greed-driven financial enterprise that has almost nothing to do with defending the constitution at all, but idy degrees. because while the investigation into whether the russians infiltrated the nra is ongoing, this ad from september

. >> jimmy: claire danes -- >> claire danes. >> jimmy: phenomenal. priyanka chopra. that indgoing into garten. and you are not sure, i don't even know how to explain it -- >> well, we are -- we're not thinking much of anything in terms of what the subject of the movie is about as parents. but when we are applying to these kindergartens and weant financial aid to help us get to a good school, we apply for these scholarships and octavia spencer plays -- >> jimmy: octavia spencer. s >> yea's incredible. she plays the director of his preschool where he has been and she suggests to claire's character that we should maybe capitalize on jake's g variant play and how much he enjoys dressing up as a a princess. and she is like, you know, he is unique. he's special and these schools they want diversity, and he is a unique guy, a uniq. and it kind of snowballs for us and makes us, for the first time ever, look at our kid and go, well, that was just jake. that's just who he was. and now we are kind of looking and going, is there something we need to be doing? is there something

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sitting down with emmy winner claire danes, everything from her big break on ""my so-called life"" toocal news. >>> 8:56 on your friday. i'm scott mcgrew. we have an update to the news we've been covering all morning. the massive out-of-control wildfire in shasta county. firefighters in the last hour say the number of structures destroyed shot higher. 65 houses and other units destroyed, 55 more damaged. we now know two people have died on the front lines, a redding firefighters and bulldozer operator. we just learned three marin firefighters have been injured. that fire started yesterday afternoon in whiskeytown, but last night it roared into redding. it's burned about 45,000 acres. we have crews headed to redding. we're posting updates as we get them to twitter as well. look for the latest on the 11:00 news. >>> two people are dead in oakland at bancroft and 73rd. two more people are injured. police are not saying if they know the motives. >>> and russian president vladimir putin indicating he not only plans to meet again with president trump, he's hoping that something happens in r