now this super hacker is sharing his secrets in an exclusive interview with nbc's jeff rossen. and you may be surprised to discover what he used. >> reporter: his resume reads like a criminal playbook. as a teenager, hacking into countless companies, stealing over a quarter million credit cards, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of his victims' money. he hacked his school records, changing grades. broke into burger king's verified twitter account. even hacked secure police databases. >> it was easy. too easy. >> reporter: after years in hiding, super hacker cameron lacroix, revealing himself, and breaking his violence in an exclusive interview with nbc news. how young were you when you started playing around on the computers and accessing personal information? >> 11 or 12 years old. >> reporter: that young. >> yeah. >> reporter: and by the time he was 16, cameron pulled off his biggest hack of all. a celebrity hacking. unlocking paris hilton's cell phone, posting her personal contacts, e-mails and nude photos online. how did you do it? >> it all started because i wanted

nbc's jeff rossen explains now the hazard and has more on where it could pop up in our area. >> hi, jimod afternoon. good to see you. when we walked down the street and all of us do this every day, you sometimes can't help but step on manhole covers. step on metal grates. we touch fences when we walk down the streets. street signs, street lamps. but what if those common, everyday objects were somehow electrified? and by just touching them, yes, just touching them, it could send shock waves through your body? believe it or not, we have been out in washington, d.c., and we found that all over your city and the district on e street and southeast, on fourth street northeast, pennsylvania avenue in front of the capital, near the smithsonian. check out what we found. that's a bus stop sparking out of control. and look at this lamp post on a residential street. dangerous electricity right on the surface. >> this is a serious safety hazard. >> reporter: even this fire hydrant is electrified. sparks shooting in all directions. it's called stray voltage, an invisible killer, making everyday objec

. >>> this morning on "today," jeff rossen reports on the danger behind drowsy driving. how getting behind the wheel without enough sleep can put yourself and others at risk. >>> right now let's get to the sports with my friend betty nguyen. >> was thursday night football in jeopardy? a bizarre theft occurred. a multimillion dollar tv production truck was stolen from the parking lot of a miami hotel tuesday night. luckily, though, police were able to track down thewheeler w equipment inside. the cab is still missing. >>> ryan tannehill threw for two late touchdowns. that helped the dolphins break a three-game losing streak with the 22-9 win over the bills. >>> to the hard court, the mavericks notched the biggest win ever last night with a 123-70 victory over the winless 76ers. that is a whopping 53-point smackdo smackdown. >> yes, yes, yes! when it counts, yes! >> it is a buzzer beater finish in memphis. the grizzlies came from 26 points down to beat the kings 111-110. bulls derrick rose took a spill during the final minutes of the win over the raptors. he slipped and fe

this time, jeff rossen pulls out the black light to reveal the dirtiest places in your room.king forward to that. and he says even he was surprised by what he found. >> those stories, plus, jay leno stops by studio 1a to fill us in "a. on a project that's close to his heart. that's as we get started this morning. back to you. >> any time there's a black light and jeff rossen, i tend to cringe a little bit. >> i know. >> it never ends well. >> thanks, guys. we'll see you in about ten minutes. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> looking forward to sunlight. the sun has just come up and we need it this morning. it is especially cold. there you can see it riding across the horizon. this is a view from the comcast center in center city, where the temperatures are in the low 20s. 21 degrees in philadelphia with a 9-mile-an-hour wind it feels like 11 degrees. that's one degree away from the record low temperature. we will see bright sunshine across the area. nice and clear here at the nbc 10 studios. but the wind will still be a factor, even th

jeff rossen has the hazards of voltage and how it can be deadly for you and your pets. >>> sports, thenba played its first regular season game south of the border since 1997. rockets timberwolves in mexico city, dwight howard 22 points and ten rebounds. harden added 23 point and ten assists in their win over the wolves. >>> clayton kershaw is the ims w unanimous winner for the cy young award. >>> blake griffin is suffering a misdemeanor battery claim. he is due for arraignment december 8th. >>> the nation's tallest basketball recruit is heading to the university of central florida. he is 7'6" and he officially committed on wednesday. >>> a harlem globetrotter set a guinness world record for the longest backwards shot, watch this. all the way. goes right in. 82 feet and 2 inches, shattering the previous record by ten feet. he also holds the record for longest basketball shot and distance of 109 feet and 9 inches set back in 2013. impressive. >>> just ahead, should governors be allowed to pardon their own family members for breaking the law. and one direction with the next new thing. sta

>> nbc's jeff rossen wanted to find out.he attended an early thanksgiving feast with a family who has no idea they are the subjects of a secret food test. watch what happens. >> reporter: happy early thanksgiving. we're throwing a feast for the lemieux family. and we do it right with all the trimmings. turkey, ham, mac-n-cheese, stuffing. they think we're here doing a general story about thanksgiving and families. but here is what they don't know. our rossen reports producers are logging every bite they take. as in this car parked outside, is our secret food expert, cornell university professor, brian wantsic. >> three ounces of ham. three ounces of turkey. >> reporter: he's crunching the numbers and calculating the calories for each person. right away, even as the family is still cooking the meal, we notice something. all of them picking, picking, picking. >> oh, my god. really good. >> reporter: all those predinner calories adding up. >> how many people are in there? it's crazy! >> i know. she had three glasses of white wi

nbc's jeff rossen shows us new video from hidden cameras that expose some pretty dirty detail >> reportereeping is here, and she's changing the sheets. or is she? sanitizing the glasses. or not? to find out, we're booking rooms for two nights at some of the most popular hotel chains, and rigging hidden cameras to capture every dirty detail. okay. so this is how we found the room. you can see, it's made up. but now we're going to make it look like i slept here last night. so and then there is the card that has to be visible for them to change the bed. we're putting it right in the middle. we put some soda in these glasses to see how well they clean them. throw some towels on the floor, make the bathroom look used. after the first night, we call down. hi, can housekeeping come up and clean my room? let's start at this doubletree hilton. the maid quickly strips the bed, putting our pillows off to the side. she replaces the sheets with fresh ones. but wait. those dirty pillows she just took off seconds ago get a quick fluff, and go right back on the bed. that's pretty disgusting, considerg pe

. >> i'm jeff rossen. come with me.checking into hotel rooms across the country and we brought a microbiologist along, swabbing every surface she can find. what's safe to touch? and one of these. the results coming up. >> the trick is to check in with a microbiologist. this is "today" on nbc. womaand the way it made me chronic feel,ipation, the discomfort, the bloating, the straining. i'd just felt this way for too long. so i finally talked to my doctor about my symptoms. i'd tried laxatives before. he prescribed amitiza (lubiprostone) for my chronic constipation. it works differently than laxatives. man: amitiza is clinically shown to help relieve common symptoms like bloating, abdominal discomfort, hard stools, and straining and help people with chronic constipation go more often. don't take amitiza, if you have a bowel blockage or severe diarrhea. tell your doctor, if your nausea or diarrhea, becomes severe, or if you experience chest tightness or shortness of breath. the most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea

national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is here with more. new hack and a bad one, too. 70,000 victims, strangers watching you inside your house. your living room, bedroom. even your baby's crib right now. worst of all, you wouldn't even know it. here is how it works. if you have cameras at home, we're talking about web cams, nanny cams, even home security cameras so you can watch your house while you're at work. your life could be exposed. a hacker in russia has figured out an easy way to break n what has he done? he has set up a website to show the world. you're watching a mother and her young children at home in new york. every move they make streaming live online. and they have no idea. we're blurring their faces but on the web it's as clear as day. this baby, recorded sleeping in a crib. this father, walking around his son's room. this man, laying in a hospital bed. we found live video inside this daycare center. even more intimate, this man sleeping in his own bed in new jersey. yet another camera, rolling in a bathroom. all of it poste

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sharing his secrets in an exclusive interview with "today" national investigative correspondent jeff rossend morning to you. authorities call him one of the most sophisticated hackers they have ever seen, teaching himself how to steal your credit cards, hack into celebrity cell phones and even cracking the code at major stores, all starting when he was just a young boy in his bedroom by himself. and this morning he is sitting down with me to spill his secrets. how he did it, why he did it. and even after all the security upgrades at major stores how he could do it again today. his resume reads like a criminal playbook. as a teenager, hacking into countless companies, stealing over a quarter of a million credit cards. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of his victims' money. he hacked his school records, changing grades. broke into burger king's verified twitter account, even hacked secure police databases. >> it was easy. too easy. >> reporter: after years in hiding, super hacker cameron lacroix revealing himself and breaking his silence in an exclusive interview with nbc news. how y

national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is here. he has his hidden camera handy. are always handy, right in my pocket over here. next week it all start, the busiest travel season of the year. many of us going to grandma's house for thanksgiving, hitting the road, checking into hotels. of course, when we step inside our hotel room, we assume it's clean, the maid changed the sheets, disinfected the bathroom, cleaned everything. i'm sure many of them do a great job but there are exceptions. new video from our hidden cameras exposing some dirty details. housekeeping's here. and she's changing the sheets. or is she? sanitizing the glasses. or not. to find out, we're booking rooms for two nights at some of the most popular hotel chains and riging hidden cameras to capture every dirty detail. okay. this is how we found the room. it's made up. now we're going to make it look like i slept here last night. then the card that has to be visible for them to change the bed. we're putting it right in the middle. we put soda in these glasses. to see how well they clean them. thro

a rossen report, hidden dangers across the country. today national investigative reporter jefforning, matt. when you walk down the street, sometimes you can't afford it. manhole cover and grates, you touch fences, what if those common every day objects were electrified and touching them could send shock waves through your body. believe it or not, it's happening in cities and countries with many cases of people and pets injured and even kill. this morning before you leave the house, check out what we found. that's a bus stop sparking out of control and look at this lamp post on a residential street, dangerous electricity right on the surface. >> there is a serious safety hazard. >> reporter: theemp this hire hydrant is electrified, sparks shooting in all directions. it's stray voltage, an individual killer making every day objects come alive with electricity. >> sidewalks, man hole covers, roadways, fences, anything in your landscape with wires buried underground, when they fail tail leak to the surface. >> most cities and town versus old wires, old insulation, eroding away, vol