everybody at this table has always known that neil patrick harris can do everything. ," and he is all things great. please welcome neil patrick harris. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >>> thank you for having me. >> we always love having you here. >> so fun to be here. bouncy chairs. >> i have to say, you and your husband now have 7-year-old twins, harper and gideon. i love her names. >> thank you. they turn 8 in a week. no, they turn 8 tomorrow. >> tomorrow, oh. >> what day is today? >> the 10th. >> oh, two days from >> leibras. and you love halloween. >> love me some halloween. >> you've been dressing up as a family. i love it. it's so good. it's so good. >> we started doing a family picture every year and it just kept growing and growing. that was last year. >> isn't it so good? so you have to -- i pointed this out to my family. i was like, we need to do something like they do. so what are you going to be dressing up as this year? >> i'm not going to say because our favorite thing to do is put up a picture on instagram every halloween. i just love the holiday. i think it'

. >> laura: let's talk about neil patrick harris. >> speaking of the p.c. police. iew" had a moment few caught the other day. actor, neil patrick harris, revealed he did his first film with whoopi goldberg and said this. >> i did my first movie ever with whoopi goldberg, a movie called "clara's heart." she told me -- she told me i was what, 15, 16 years old. she told me on my last day of shooting that ten years, in ten years time, she was going to have sex with me. >> i might have. in those days, you could actually have some fun like that. you can't do that now.w. >> i was not offended. i'm looking forward to it. >> have some fun like that. imagine, imagine if a young female actress got up and said some academy award winning director had told her when she was 15 that he would have sex with her in a few years, the view" would be asking for that guy's head and promising he would never work again. there apparently is one rule book for hollywood and one rule book for everybody else. >> laura: everyone was kind of like -- >> ho-hum. >> laura: the cat got her tongue. >> i

. >>> plus how does neil patrick harris plan to win halloween this year?iew." >>> and yvette nicole brown's back to guest co-host. >>> let's light up "hot topics" with whoopi, abby huntsman, joy behar, sunny hostin, and meghan mccain. now, let's get things started. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >>> well, well, well, hello, hello, hello. welcome to "the view." welcome to "the view." welcome to "the view." welcome to "the view." welcome to "the view." yeah. so, as you know, joy has the week off and back to co-host with us is the fabulous yvette nicole brown. welcome back. [ cheers and applause ] and we want to start off by saying to anyone in the path of hurricane michael it is just a few hours away from hitting the florida panhandle and it's forecasted to be the most powerful storm ever to make landfa landfall. so florida governor rick scott has said it's too dangerous to try to evacuate at this point because first responders can't really get to you, so you need to do whatever you need to do to be safe. if you can get to shelter, get to shelter now. don't wait.

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neil patrick harris and ben stiller and molly ringwald and martha stewart. >> we had a couple of lights>> reporter: for the rest of us, there is nothing but complete wonder. for "today," kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >> a little research going into this story that she did. i went with kristen. it was absolutely incredible. calvin loved it. the music and sound effects. it is breath taking. >> we're carving pumpkins tonight. my daughter asked for elsa. >>> still to come, justin >>> even in the rain they're here. still to come on "today," the latest on the investigation of the man who mailed more than a dozen pipe bombs. >>> and the duke and duchess at the closing ceremony of the invictus games. >>> we cannot wait to celebrate peter. all that and more coming up after this. >>> peter, huge congratulations on joining the weekend "today" team. as the person who sees you every morning at 6:00 a.m. no one works harder and no one deserves it more. we are so proud of you. >>> i cannot wait for the country to get to know the peter alexander i know. excellent dancer and pretty good singer.

neil: all right. ron, thank you very, very much. we will update you on these democrats. they seem to be all the obvious ones, richard blumenthal of connecticut, dianne feinstein, patrick leahy, sheldon whitehouse, cory booker, kamala harris, amy klobuchar. they are the ones saying you have to include everyone who has made an accusation including julie swetnick. we will see what happens on that front. we should say as well again, there are separate reports that interviews could wrap up as soon as tomorrow. that would be obviously well, well, well ahead of the friday deadline. how would people weigh that? the ones to watch are the ones who are on the senate so republican senator susan collins, lisa murkowski, even jeff flake and democrats joe manchin of west virginia and heidi heitkamp of north dakota. any one or combination of those could prove crucial in seeing whether brett kavanaugh goes from being a judge to supreme court justice. more after this. i am an independent financial advisor. when i meet a new client, i start by asking questions like: did you understand all the fees you were paying? was your broker a fiduciary? were you satisfied with the attention you were getting? then i explain that being independent give