matt cook, a former narcotics officer, wrote the law and served as the state's first director of enforcementk: if you'll note, video security cameras in the system... in the ceiling. >> kroft: any reason for that? >> cook: there is. we created a very transparent regulatory scheme and wanted to ensure that what they said they were doing, they were actually doing. >> kroft: no state has gone to the lengths to manage medical marijuana than colorado has. every licensed dispensary must grow at least 70% of its own product-- indoors, so harvesting and sales can be closely monitored. this crop is worth about a quarter of million dollars. >> cook: we track everything from seed to sale. and they have to account for 100% of it. we've got a gentleman here that has a live, if you will, software program that does all of the tracking for this commodity. >> kroft: each plant has a bar code and is registered to a specific patient. most dispensaries will cultivate a couple of dozen different strains-- some of them proprietary, like ales at a microbrewery-- engineered to have particular characteristics, as ou

at the table, matt welch, editor in chief of reason magazine, deann braidly, and lisa cook with michigantate university. thank you all for being here this morning. tamara, i do have a thing with the "forbes," because i'm just so fascinated by the idea of what that kind of wealth is. but this inequality that i talked about this week, that we saw so clearly in the news this week didn't just happen, right? it's a result of policy, right? what are those policies? >> a whole slew of policies. we've been on a three-decade binge of creating policies that by and large, as you said, stack the deck towards the wealthiest, towards corporate interests, and leave everybody else behind. there are three or four key ones. one, the minimum wage. when you think about economic inequality, you also have to think about political inequality. because what happens is, as the wealthy capture more money, they also leverage that money into stacking the deck. and the greatest example of that is, we have only raised the minimum wage three times in three decades. contrast that with what we've done with capital gains

cooks at san jose international airport. the driver has yet to be arrested. no word on a description. >> matt, thank you. back to the top story: the new bay bridge, and here we are above the bay bridge toll plaza with a lot of volume. the metering lights with the on early. >> happy you drove in four hours early, right, eric? >> a few good things about being on the bridge at 2:00 in the morning. >> it has been busy. the traffic is stacked beyond the maze to berkeley and the waze app showed someone taking a picture of the bumper-to-bumper traffic i-80 westbound approaching 580. be prepared and give yourself plenty of extra time. on the other side of the bay we have this report of an accident northbound 101 to 280, the connection, we have one lane blocked and we are seeing slow downs. we her it was a car that spun around and it could face the wrong direction so injuries are possible but we will watch that. mike? >> we will talk about what will happen with our dry air. we talked about it not being so humid with dew point in the 60's and now they are in the 60's and that is the amount of moisture in the air a

cooking and talking about an important topic. jazz el, nice to see you. >> that is what is trending today. >> matt sits down with justin timberlake . let's talk about valerie harper. she has been going through incurable cancer. we will talk to her in a moment. first, meredith viera spent time with valerie and her daughter on mother's day? today is mother's day and christine is coming over. >> the very best thing i had done in my life is adopt christina. >> oh, honey, it's beautiful. oh, i love it. i know just where i'll put it. >> every minute with her is definitely a miracle. at this point it is definitely a miracle. >> the impatients like to jump the ship. >> they do. >> they like to hang out in one pochlt oh, lock, there is a spot over here and jump. they take over like a weed. >> or cancer. junk going on tour. they're not wanted. >> it was mother's day, i was going to be easy on you. >> oh, honey, no, i'm doing well. i'm doing very well. please. >> are there things that you are not saying to your mom right now? >> how afraid i am. you know, i don't let her know that i cry, that i think about her all the time. i don't want her

matt, you have lots of quirks. >> being ridiculously organized. i think it bugs a lot of people. >> get more disorderly. >> tweeting all the time, having a loud voice, dancing. not knowing how to cookid get would be here from @savannah guthrie asking who i like to work with at most. it definitely matt lauer, al, natalie, willie -- >> you missed brian williams, chuck todd. >> well played. >> thank you so much. that is what is trending today. coming up, we have already seen an actor hugh jackman as well as judge judy is here. >> there's an article called the 25 things everyone should stop doing. >> i realized that i'm saying no to myself all the time. sometimes i guess you have to challenge yourself to say yes. >> as women, we are always apologizing for things we should not be apologizing for. >> it's kind of just ingrained in me. >> it's part of my vocabulary. >> you're saying i'm sorry is supposed to help you correct a wrong. if you use it all the time it's not correcting anything. >> i feel powerful female in the work place but it's excruciating pain. >> i feel like i always need to wear heels. i feel i need that extra boost. >> i hold on to guilt when something is out of my hands

matt, that is true. it is utterly surreal. as soon as word came of the pentagon incident we were rather forcefully removed from the white house. the scene was one of administrators, cooks, whatever running at fairly high speed all the way out of the building through the top gates. then we huddled for a while in lafayette park across the street and we've been moved now from there a block or so away. the offices along jackson place, which are across the street from the white house and adjacent to lafayette park also have been evacuated. and in the most surreal of this morning's scenes here at the white house, a white plane, a very big jet, was flying an unusual pattern near the white house over lafayette park very slowly. it made one circle and then we have not seen it since. there was a lot of concern about what that plane might be but again, it's only speculation. but most people say that since flights have been cleared from u.s. airspace and it was a totally white plane, looked unusual to all of us that it was a government plane of some kind. >> we should point out that we're looking at pictures bob, as you speak of the world trade center because all of the camera cre