and for every peacock who manages to get the girls there are 15 peacocks who go without. >> but now is -- we had a president, john f. kennedy who decided let's go to the moon. >> right. >> spending all that money, is that a handicap principle, that kind of thing, an excessive thing that proved that, oh, action we have all kinds of capabilities that people didn't imagine and i'm just doing it to prove that and to give people great feelings. >> ah, i'm beginning to see a connection here. surplus is one of the things the cosmos works with all the time. another -- she uses to explore. she uses surplus to create. what do i mine? well, you and i are both men the last time i checked. and every -- and every man in this room is going to generate 18 trillion sperm during his lifetime. we will be satisfied if two, three, maybe four of those sperm find a home. what happens to the other 18, 17 trillion whatever it is sperm who don't intake? the universe doesn't care. we do. because human beings are thrown out there. as fodder for the gods. for the fodder for the great good many gamble of an evoluti

the peacock kept trying to get his beak in between the glass doors to open it up. the photographer says there weren't any sodas in the machine, it looked like it was being used for storage. >>> all right: jesse james sex scandal is starting to rival tiger woods. >> more and more women are coming out saying they've had an affair with sandra bullock's husband. >>> good morning, in today's moneyscope report, social security reaches a tipping point. the new york times reports social security will pay out more in benefits this year than it receives in payroll taxes. something that wasn't expected to happen until at least 2016. soaring unemployment has led more people to apply for benefits sooner than expected. there are fewer pay checks to tax. experts say this is the first step towards insolvency unless the law changes. >> retired couples would need an average of $250,000 to cover their medical expenses. that's up more than 4% from last year and more than 50% from 2002. some of the factors include medicare premiums, co-payments and prescription costs. google isn't the

basically think of the peacock, favorite example of evolutionary biologists everywhere, and its tail. that tail is a huge handicap. it basically is a billboard saying "eat me, kuran bmp quote it makes it easy for a predator to zeroing in on you. so why in the world would creatures evolved something that is gaudy as hell and sets them up as a target for anybody who is hungry? is that an adequate summary? >> yes comegys peery islamic okay. now listen to this, you ready? we think consumerism is a sin. we think piling up material objects is a terrible thing, a curse. and we are wrong because nature provides for these things. one thing to remember, anyone good thing an overdose is a poison. and that applies to consumers. you can be a compulsive spender and destroy your entire life, you compiled so many goods in your house you can't even walk through the house anymore and that is an illness. but in general, nature is hives -- hives. the peacocks's tail is a terrible waste. >> you are leaving the important thing out. >> okay, go ahead. >> you're leaving out the peacock who has this great tal

. >>> if you're a peacock, you might want more than just a little water. >> we'll get water in the form of rain, but not during the daylight hours today. we'll have sun fading behind increasing clouds. rain arriving this evening, probably 7:00 or 8:00. trying to clear out in the afternoon. windy and falling temperatures. 50 may represent our chilly it might feel tomorrow afternoon. saturday, sunday and only 52. another round of rain arriving by sunday evening. let's get a check on traffic. here's troy. >> traffic cam, 695 in harford road is moving fairly smoothly. west band street and pearl street. also your road times look like this. 83 southbound. shawan road, 695. 7-minute drive. 83, 695 to north parkway, five minutes. >>> the scissors, the saw, the nail clippers, whatever it takes the mayor needs to cut the budget in city hall. >>> could have been in your neighborhood last week, could have been in your house, he made sure you're taken care of, and now we need to make sure we take care of his family. >>> it is out now, ehrlich is going to run. >>> it's thursday morning, thanks for jo

homemade pecan rolls with scott peacock. one of our favorites.ere, we all gain about three pounds by the end of the show. >> that's right. always love your sticky buns. what? >>> let's see what's going on, check it out for today. sunshine in new england, rain works its way up the mid-atlantic coast. slight risk of strong storms down in florida, showers in the pacific northwest. for tomorrow, we've got some snow showers in interior new york on into the alleghenys, rain along the >> the weather should be pretty quiet on this tuesday until we get to the late afternoon and evening, at that time we will get a chance for a light rain >>> and that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you. >>> coming up next, fro sleeping in style to sasha obama's favorite doll. we've got some fun items you won't be able to live without, so says jill martin. y! wow, you look great! thanks! it's this new wish yourself thin program. i just wish it and it happens. it's probably those fiber one bars you're eating. i know they help me stick to my diet. the bars are 90 calories

we could use a peak and sneak -- sneak and peacock warrant on mafia figures, organized crime figure of monetarist. we could use a business records research to get at the record of the doctors suspected of medicare fraud but not on the terrorist so we did things after 9/11 and passed incidentally by a very large bipartisan vote and recently renewed by the large bipartisan but the patriot act that gave this tools to make the country more safe. look this idea of a psychodrama alkyd and sound to me like a licensed therapist and even if he was a licensed therapist i don't think that he has sat in a room and interviewed the father and the sun but he is typical of people left to make this thing. let's go back to the only specific thing he said. i'm going to just ignore this thing this psychodrama but let's go to one specific thing he said that is the comment by president bush when he is asked at a meeting, a press conference i believe in slovenia where he is meeting with putin for the first time and associated press reporter named ron says to president bush do you trust him. and we are standi

the same thing with all kinds of creatures including foxes, rabbits, pigeons, pheasants, mallards, peacocksmake a hat out of it. i guess this is the one way to wear fur without p.e.t.a. throwing red paint at you. >> so she wore that dead animal on her head at her wedding? >> i'm not sure that's the friend or the exact hat. this is sort of a general idea. >> he would be not my friend after suggesting that. >> he would have saved you a lot of money. i'm sure that center thing -- >> nobody would want to be near you for the wedding. >> she was worried maggots would going to fall out of her head. >> just stop. take a look at this, it is pretty funny. imagine that you have all of your family together at the wedding, you decide let's take a beautiful shot out by the water. this is the exact moment when 80 of these people go crashing into a lake. yes. yes, this was the extended family at a south african beauty spot for a photo of the big day. of course they all laughed but they said one minute we were standing together waiting for the photograph to be taken, the >>> health care holdouts in the hous

from dragon to the peacock network. >> with that, our news division makes guest appearances on "30 rock" so often. matt, meredith, lester, even brian williams. maybe they should put nbc news in the opening credits. in fact, last night it was time for kathie lee and hoda to work their magic. let's take a look. >> spring cleaning. boring! >> come on. >> hey. you guys wear so much makeup. you know that? >> hey, have you been drinking? >> shut up, kitkat! >> oh, god. >> false alarm! >> lester, you were also on. and meredith. >> they were hysterical. >> i was part of a prank segment. it was a really funny episode last night. it is not just because of us. >> i thought it was actually a total waste of our talent. >> it was breaking news. reports of a gas leak in 30 rock. >> people had to strip naked. >> oh, my god! >> take a look at meredith. meredith was involved in a "today show" wedding >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. 15 people are accused of mone