but first, nbc's jeff rossen has also made it to the shore. , good morning to you. >> yeah, long trip down here, matt, to thank out with the cast. right now we're coming to you from the roof of that famous "jersey shore" house where all the filming is done, where it all happens. this is the famous hot tub. if you watch the show, you see some of the more interesting scenes here. you don't get to see this too much on the show but the house is literally right on the water. right on the atlantic. a beautiful place. i'm actually jealous i don't live here myself. with the beautiful roof deck, i might add. this is the hammock where snooki always tries to get in 20 times, falls down and tries to get in. here's the bed where some of the other more interesting scenes happen. in fact i probably shouldn't be on that, should i? god knows what happens there. here's the cast with us. we'll talk to them in just a minute. no questions they're ratings gold. their show is doing incredibly well on mtv. president obama talked about you guys. the governor of new jer

jeff rossen, thanks so much. now here is al. >>> all right. of the most beautiful places to live and wait until you take a peek at this particular home. a little bit unusual. there it is right there. that's where you want to go if you want to have a short commute to downtown seattle and live on the water. this is a hideaway just minutes -- hold it. i have the wrong property. let me catch up with you. forgive me. this is a floating boat is actually what it is. it looks like a little house. that's your backyard. you just jump on in the water there. it's built on very old logs, 100 years old, and the property taxes living in a boat like this are amazing. >> because there's no property. >> there's no property. you're on public land or public water. you can swim in it for free. you can live there and this is what it costs to maintain. it's a really affordable $300 a month and that covers your mortgage, water, your garbage and taxes each year, not month, is $580 a year. you just go over the bridge and you're in downtown seattle in one of the best ma

. >> jeff rossen, thanks. let's bring in the senior editor for slate.com.rning. >> good morning. >> you conducted this interview. how did you convince jeremy prince to speak to you, and what surprised you about what he had to say? >> jeremy prince has a family fun who had been in with me and helped me get in touch with him. i think he wanted to be clear when he visited south hadley over christmas, he obviously spent a lot of time with his daughter and he wanted to say at that point he didn't feel like she was depressed, that they spent a lot of time together, they had really a lovely christmas together. >> did he acknowledge that she had prior issues, that she had -- she did struggle coping with her life before she even got to the high school in massachusetts? >> yes. i think he acknowledges that there were some things that were kind of rocky along the way, and then the question is how much was this sort of part of normal child development and how much were these warning signs that there was really something deeper and more troubling going on? >> did he ans