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jeff rossen says you can protect your home without it costing too much. here is his report. >> reporter: good morning to you. right now you are probably headed off to work or to run er ends leaving your house amendment. home security systems are expensive but now there is a cheaper way to do it. we found the inexpensive easy to use products that hook up to your smartphone giving you some of them call the cops. this morning we show you how to protect your home for less. real life criminals caught in the act. kicking in doors and smashing through windows, ransacking homes, their every move recorded by homeowners. it's the latest home security craze, small cameras and simple apps that sense motion in your house videotaping intruders alerting you instantly and allowing you to scare the crook off all from your phone. great for people like this m woman, a busy single mom on the move. >> reporter: i'm walking up to her house. here is the home behind me. it's nice. she's giving us full access today to test these products. she's not home at the moment. she's stopp

>> "today's" show jeff rossen is put be gourmet coffee up against a cheap no-name brand.ll us about your latest rossen report. >> i know you love your morning coffee. i'm obsessed with my morning coffee. i spent so much money on coffee every single day. i don't want to think about what it adds up to all year. we did a blind taste test to see if you can really taste the difference between the expensive stuff, say $3.50 a cup, $3.25 a cup or a cheap deli coffee that's a buck a cup? we set it up. wait until you see the rules and what people were saying about both that may change the way you buy coffee. this is the kickoff to a big rossen report series called "don't pay that." we're showing you how to live large with less. we're starting with the coffee. we'll expand to whether you pay more for weddings. we've heard all this year weddings cost more than a regular party. we'll put that to the test on hidden camera, along with a lot of other topics. we're kicking off with coffee this morning. >> i have a feeling we'll rethink what we pay for some things. >> yes. >> thank you ve

also ahead, jeff rossen goes undercover to investigate the true cost of wedding planning. are you being gouged for your party because it's your big day? >>> and the legendary dolly parton is here. she will perform some of her biggest hits live in our studio as we get started on a wednesday right here on "today." (scal): good day, m'lady! i am sir-can-a-lot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. wake up those eggs with glorious spam! see what spam can! do... at spam.com in all classrooms. >>> 6:24 on wednesday morning. classes begin at the university of texas at austin and students will be permitted to carry guns in all classrooms. new state law requires public universities to allow concealed handguns in classrooms and buildings but three professor at ut austin sued for the option to keep their classrooms gun free. their lawsuit referred to campus carry legislation as dangerously experimental. on monday a federal judge denied their request. 50 years ago a gunman shot and killed 14 people on that very campus chltsz all right. changing topics at 6:25. nbc bay area res

today jeff rossen went undercover to find out. jeff, good morning to you. >> hey, guys. good morning to you. you know going in your wedding is going to be expensive. they get you at every turn, don't they? you need a venue and everything else to make it special. experts say there is something else at play here, too. a secret tax, if you will. they call it the wedding markup. basically when vendors hear the word wedding the prices can sk wedding, but is that really true? is it really happening in this morning we're putting it to the test with our hidden cameras. >> your wedding day. you've been dreaming of it your whole life. but the perfect wedding day will cost you big. all right. we want to see if this wedding markup actually happens. so here's what i'm planning. i'm going to visit a venue, a photographer and a d.j., tell them i'm planning a birthday party and get prices for them. >> i'm going to tell them i'm planning a wedding. >> it's the same amount of guests for the same date and we want the same service. >> yeah. >> you'd think that we'd get the same price. >> yo

today jeff rossen set up a test to find out.y important around here. >> you guys always have mugs. i never ask what's actually in them. >> we don't pay for it. >> we are all obsessed with our morning cup of coffee down to the exact brands we like. some of you swear cheap deli coffee is the best. then there's the other group saying expensive coffee just tastes better. do you really need to pay that much and beyond that can you really tell the difference? this morning we're about to settle this once and for all with a blind taste test. matt and savannah, we're about to test you live in a moment. first, we're heading out to test you. step right up. it's the "rossen reports" coffee taste test. we are setting up shop in new jersey's mall. who doesn't love coffee? the average american spending more than $1,000 a year on it. from the expensive stuff to don't stop me from doing the science. if you didn't know which was which, what would you really like better? guess what this is? you turned down really expensive coffee. competing today,

. >> today national investigative correspondent jeff rossen has eye opening experiment for us. >> how do i look? >> fabulous. to bottom head to toe from shoes to pants to the suit to the shirt to tie is banana republic. the question is this from the regular banana store or the less expensive outlet? i'll show you in just a moment. it's hard to tell, right? many of us buying new clothes for the new season and guess what? you don't need to break the bank to impress your friends and co-workers. don't believe me? just watch this and judge for yourself. it's almost back to work. back to school and we're updating our wardrobes hitting all of the big brand names and it can get expensive paying full price at these stores but at the outlet, experts say you can get almost the exact same look for much less. >> can the average person tell the difference? >> for the naked eye between retail and outlet, they can't tell. >> ali scott is a professional stylist. table. >> exactly. one is from the outlet and one is from retail. one was $206 and one was $111 so almost half the price. i want you to tell