center i was chief medical resident at cornell but as part of my fellowship i was also at rockefeller university and studying how different genes could literally be turned on and off and those genes were responsible for either preventing or leading to cancer and i was fascinated about the study of what's called nutrient gene interactions so everybody realizes that they're born with the genes they're born with but most people assume falsely those genes are their destiny there's really nothing they can do about it the fact of the matter is you're controlling your gene expression by what environmental toxins you're exposed to and by the foods that you're putting in your body so this was like a complete revelation to me here i had had the best medical training available in the western world and no one ever talked about the role of nutrition in preventing cancer or really any other disease for that matter and i was fascinated to see that the most fundamental level at the level of our d.n.a. literally we could control. the gene expression first thousands of different genes related to every aspect of o

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rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal applause ] >> jimmy: thank you very much. hey. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. thank you for being here, you guys. oh, man. we got a big show tonight. going to be fun. we're going to have a good time tonight. good time tonight. hey, here is a campaign update, you guys. mitt romney has gained more than 70,000 facebook fans in the last week. yeah, he's got an interesting facebook page, under political views, it says, "it's complicated." [ laughter ] yeah, it's very interesting to look at. some more election news, a new report found that president obama's campaign spent $6 million more than it raised last month. which explains why his latest campaign ad ended with the phrase, i'm barack obama and i'm selling some old cds on craigslist. [ laughter and applause ] i got some hootie & the blowfish, some spin doctors. [ cheers and applause ] good stuff. check this out. a new survey found that only 31% of americans would want to sit next to mitt romney on a flight. [ laug

rockefeller plaza. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and welcome today on this tuesday morning. i'm ann curry. >> i'm matt lauer. the trial of jerry sandusky quickly coming to an end. the defense could rest its case as early as today. >> the defense called their first witness on monday after prosecutors wrapped up the case with powerful testimony of the mother of an alleged victim will coming up we'll tell you what brought her to tears on the stand. >>> also we'll ask this question. is it ever appropriate to interrupt the president of the united states. the question is getting a lot of attention after a reporter from an online website repeatedly interrupted president obama last week. we'll tell you what the reporter is saying about the incident and talk about the concept and dynamic with "today's" professionals. >>> they will have a lot to come about that. >>> remember max page, start of the darth vader volkswagen ad? he's waking up at home for the first time since his open-heart surgery last week. before he went to the hospital he sat down to talk to us about the procedure, how

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolf. a lot of chatter across the pond this morning. today is day two of the the queen's jubilee. >> it seems like all of london is taking part or watching today's jubilee celebration. the queen and members of her family, including prince william and kate are leading this. they've got anything that floats, it seems. and we're going to catch up with it all live in just a moment. >> i think they're expecting something like 1,000 flotillas coming down the river. >> it must be raining. >> it's london, so there's a good chance. >>> check this out, a minnesota woman is head to jail tomorrow after a feud with her neighbors. it is a feud you have to see to believe. >> whoa, what is she doing? >> i'm not sure what is happening there. >> we're going to hear from the people on the unfortunate receiving end of that. >> somehow you knew someone was going to end up in cuffs want the. >> with a paper like th

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and any day that's winesday wednesday, is a good day. june 6th. exactly two weeks away from the first day of summer. you wouldn't really know it here in new york yet. it's still a little on the chilly side. it's going to warm up. hoda woman is in town. >> it was 55 degrees when i woke up this morning. layers. >> it was a little chilly last night for us, too. we braved it for our friend joy bauer. we were at her book party last night. >> a beautiful setting. >> it was a little chilly. >> we look like grandmothers. >> i know. >> it was a beautiful hotel. it had this gorgeous terrace. from one side you could see the empire state building. from the other side you could see straight down to the world trade area. >> a beautiful evening. just a lit bit chilly. >> go back to that picture. that's joy, obviously, and that's her father. >> what a sweet man. there were a couple of families that were represented last night. do we have one of our illustrious -- our jim bell's family was t

universal television >>> did he say hoda kotb? >> regis philbin. >> tell the guy in the booth. >> he got it wrong. >> from rockefeller plaza. >> is he still talking? >> now your cue. . >> i was just going to say it's me, regis, and i'm happy to be here with kathie lee. >> we're delighted you're here. and regis, we have a different -- >> i heard about this. >> would you like to have -- >> it's a little early for regis. >> no. >> really. can i take a cherry or two? >> you can take a cherry. you take a cherry. let's get out of here. we never have, hardly ever, ever, ever have an audience, a studio audience. >> and what an audience we've got today. >> but look who's here. we've got a studio audience. [ cheers and applause ] whoo! >> hello, ladies. how are you doing? >> yeah. whoo! >> oh, my god. >> it's so much fun. because one of the signs says "reege-united and it feels so good." reege. nice to see you. >> first time in about 12 years that we've been together on the air. >> 12 years basically this month i said good-bye. i think we have a little b-roll of that or something. >> really? well, i'd like to see that again. >> by the way, it's wines-day w

in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! captions paid for by nbc-universalaptions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh man! that's what i'm talking about. how are you guys feeling tonight? you feeling good? [ cheers and applause ] welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. it's going to be a fun night tonight. wow. what a big show we have! but, first, let's get to some jokes here. [ laughter ] in some political news, there's talks that this october, president obama will announce his support for legalizing marijuana. [ cheers and applause ] which explains why he's moving his family out of the white house and into a white castle. [ laughter ] that's right. obama might support legalized marijuana to boost his chances of winning the election in november. or as stoners put it in december, "weren't we supposed to -- we were supposed to do something, right?" [ laughter ] "oh, that's right. bonnaroo. we got to go." [ laughter ] "merry christmas, man." check this out. a new survey found that u.s. airways is the most hated airlin

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universalitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, thank you very much, everybody. alive, alive crowd! great crowd here tonight. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. here's some political news, you guys. yesterday, president obama played his 100th round of golf since taking office. you could tell it was obama 'cause he finished about 14 trillion over par. [ laughter ] 100 rounds of golf since being elected. it was weird. when obama asked the caddy for a recommendation, he was like, "don't play too much golf." [ laughter ] wise guy. some major international news. in a new interview, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad said he will retire from politics in 2013. or as he put it -- [ in foreign accent ] "did somebody say 'dancing with the stars'?" [ laughter ] "tell me what you think, bruno. tell me again. ten again. perfect." [ laughter ] here's an election update. yesterday, mitt romney served pancakes at a special father's day's breakfast in ohio. people kn

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> jimmy: oh, hey, everybody! how you doing? [ cheers and applause ] feeling good tonight. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome. you guys, here's some political news. yesterday, president obama said the gop's platform could be summed up in a single tweet that would say, "things aren't as good as they should be, and it's obama's fault." [ light laughter ] in response, the gop issued a statement saying, "hey, that's pretty good. can you retweet that? that's pretty good. i like that." [ laughter ] right for us. speaking of president obama, today he gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. and there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work. so they were all there -- [ laughter ] everybody's talking about this. lance armstrong is facing new charges that he used performance enhancing drugs. lance isn't happy about the news. in fact, all week,

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, that's what i'm talking about! how you doing!? welcome. welcome, everybody, to "late night with jimmy fallon." that's me. it's gonna be a big show tonight. we're very excited. a lot of fun people here tonight. a big election story, you guys. it's been reported that mitt romney's personal hotmail account has been hacked. yeah. hotmail. [ laughter ] even ron paul was like, "get with it, you old geezer." come on. [ laughter ] speaking of mitt romney, his campaign is in the news for misspelling several words on his promotional items. today, romney issued a press release, he said, "i'll get to the bottom of this or my name isn't malt ramrod." [ laughter ] mitt romney -- what'd i say? you guys may have noticed this, the weather in the northeast has been unseasonably cold this week. yeah, people here are still waiting for the heat to show up. you know, just like basketball fans in miami. [ audience ohs ] >> oh no, you didn't! >> whoa!

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> jimmy: oh, wow. thank you very much. i feel the love. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. great crowd. >> i love you, jimmy! >> jimmy: i love you, too, sir. you guys, here is some political news. president obama has asked senator john kerry to stand in as mitt romney while he practices for the upcoming debate. [ light laughter ] big job, big job for kerry. first, he has to memorize romney's stance on each issue. then, he has to memorize romney's other stance on each issue. [ laughter ] so it's just tricky. yeah, obama's using john kerry as a stand-in for romney. when he heard someone was pretending to be mitt romney, romney was like, "wait, that's my job." [ laughter ] some big sports news. yesterday, former pitcher roger clemens was found not guilty of lying to congress in 2008 about steroid use. you could tell he was happy. after the verdict, he had his trainer inject him with champagne. [ laughter ] that was very nice

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universalvitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey everybody, thank you very much. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." thank you for being here. we have such a big show, you guys. tonight we have penelope cruz on the show. [ cheers and applause ] we have levar burton on the show. [ cheers and applause ] and most importantly, we have air-conditioning on the show! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ man oh man, it was so hot out today, in fact, it got up to 98 degrees here in new york. yeah. i was sweating so bad that my cabby told me to put on deodorant. [ laughter ] i go, hey what's your problem buddy? we also have kate upton on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] kate upton. she is the model on the cover of this year's "sports illustrated" swim suit issue. which explains why we suddenly have twice as many cue-card guys as usual. [ laughter ] get out of here, get lost. you don't even work here. hey, here's some political news. today president obama used his executive privileges to wi

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! roots! thank you very much! welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. thank you so much. welcome, welcome, welcome, everybody. it's going to be a fun show, fun show this evening. first little news for you here. i have some campaign news. mitt romney has been giving his volunteers a free sweatshirt for making phone calls on his behalf. the sweatshirts are just like romney, 100% reversible. and -- [ cheers and applause ] whatever -- [ applause ] did you see this yesterday? president obama gave bon jovi a ride to new york city on air force one. [ scattered applause ] that makes sense. bov jovi is living on air while obama is campaigning on one. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ biden used to work on the docks ♪ ♪ [ light laughter ] actually, a new survey found that mitt romney is ahead of obama who makes $36-$90,000. or as romney put it, and they said i can't connect with the poor. [ audience ohs ] check this out guys, new york

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal: hey! how you doing? that's what i'm talking about. how you doing, everybody? welcome! welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody! [ cheers ] it's gonna be a fun show tonight. we're gonna have fun tonight. and everybody in the gay community is still talking about yesterday's huge announcement. that's right. britney spears is going to be a judge on "x factor," you guys! [ cheers and applause ] yeah! did you guys see this? after president obama announced his support for gay marriage, his campaign raised $1 million in 90 minutes. which explains why, today, mitt romney actually supported gay marriage from noon to 1:30. [ laughter ] i got to get in this business. it's pretty cool. i saw that "america's got talent" is now accepting auditions on youtube, which is great news if your talent is owning a cat or getting hit in the testicles. [ laughter ] or both. yeah, or both. check this out. a new survey found that the best time to post something on facebook is on wednesdays between 1

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universalc.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, what's going on guys? welcome! wow. summer crowd. summer crowd in new york city, baby. right there! people having fun. thank you for coming tonight. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." here's some campaign news, you guys. mitt romney's nonstop secret service protection is apparently bothering the people who live near his beach house. romney had a lot of questions about the complaint, such as, "which beach house? [ laughter ] that one? they are always complaining, that one." i just saw that president obama is spending $12 million on a one-minute commercial hitting mitt romney's business record. though obama's made some bad business moves too, like spending $12 million for a one-minute commercial. what are you doing? [ cheers and applause ] what are you doing? is it cgi? is shrek coming out in this commercial? [ as shrek ] "don't vote for romney." [ laughter ] some more political news. former gop candidate rick santorum -- you guys re

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universale ] >>> jimmy: oh! that's the love! that's a new york city crowd right there. oh, i love you! thank you so much. welcome. welcome, everybody. thank you for being here. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." what's up, buddy? [ laughter ] you guys hear about this? a united airlines passenger has filed a complaint after a maintenance man dropped superglue on her head on a flight to houston. i don't know what's scarier. that a passenger got superglue on her head or that united fixes their airplanes with superglue. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] "it's all patched up. you can fly." [ light laughter ] congratulations to adele. today, she announced that she's pregnant with her first child. [ cheers and applause ] we love adele. it'll be weird, though, when the baby's crying all the time and she realizes just 'cause she's been listening to adele. [ laughter ] no, adele is pregnant for the first time. there's still no word on whether she's having twins or just releasing a single. we d

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universalvitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, it's good to be back, you guys. hey, good to see you, higgs. good to see you, roots. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody! [ cheers and applause ] happy to be here. we have a great show tonight. [ cheers ] let's get to some news here, you guys. on friday, president obama spent the night at his home in chicago for the first time in over a year. it was nice. he even went down to the basement, dusted off some old campaign promises. he was like -- [ laughter ] "this one got me delaware." [ laughter ] that's right. obama spent the night at his home in chicago. of course, it got awkward when he left, and his housekeeper was like, "so, see you after the election?" [ laughter and applause ] "what i say? what i say?" everybody is talking about this here in new york. soda drinkers in new york are angry about a plan that would ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces. yeah. today, i saw a picket line that stretched six blocks.

universal. >> from nbc news, this is a special do-over edition of "today" to help you reset, rework and reinvent yourself with kathie lee gifford and hod kotbe, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hey, everybody. it's a big try day friday, june 22nd. welcome to an entire show dedicated to reinventing you. >> yeah. >> if you want to. >> from everything to changing your career, your like to changing your look and living space. we get to test drive new careers. >> yes. don't give yours away. >> here's mine. >> you gave yours away. >> other than this, i wanted to do two things. one was to be a school teacher. i thought that wouldn't make great tv. i'd just be standing there. the other is to be a backup singer. >> what's more fun than that? >> you'll see the piece coming up. this is lee brice, the coolest country singer going. he surprised me. we sat in his secret tour bus and did secret things. >> hoda in the man cave. >> i know there's trouble brewing when you wear those tight white jeans. in the summertime. >> i know! >> every time you wore them, trouble ensued. >> kathie lee, we asked you guys to give us guesses what her other career should be. she already knows what

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universaleeling everybody, feeling good? [ cheers ] welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. >> love you, jimmy! >> jimmy: i love you too. here's some political news, political news here. yesterday on cnn, bill clinton said he's very sorry for going against president obama's campaign messages. obama said it was humbling to hear clinton apologize. then hillary was like, trust me, you get used to it. [ laughter ] speaking of president obama, this weekend his daughter sasha will turn 11 years old. yep. [ applause ] sasha -- yep. 11 years old. sasha didn't ask obama for a present, you know, because she's still waiting for him to deliver the gift he promised three birthdays ago. so -- [ audience oohs ] >> steve: oh no, you didn't. >> jimmy: this is weird. you guys, there's a report that mitt romney used to dress up as a police officer in high school and pull over drivers for speeding. [ laughter ] of course, people knew something was up when they noticed that they were being pulled over

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! hey, you guys, thank you so much. welcome. welcome, everybody. thank you for being here tonight! welcome to "late night --" [ cheers and applause ] "-- with jimmy fallon," everybody. you guys, huge, huge news today for president obama. the supreme court voted 5 to 4 to uphold his health care law. [ cheers and applause ] wow, big day. obama actually had three different speeches prepared, depending on the decision. but in the end, he went with the one that made the most sense -- "suck it, romney." and -- [ laughter ] yeah, and it was reported that house minority leader nancy pelosi wore her lucky purple shoes to the supreme court's health care ruling while house speaker john boehner wore his lucky orange face. and -- [ laughter ] after the supreme court upheld the health care law, the top official at the democratic national committee tweeted, "it's constitutional, bitches." [ laughter ] for real. the tweet was immediately deleted

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universallause ] >> jimmy: i love it. thank you so much! feels good! welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody! [ cheers ] what a show. we have a lot to get to tonight. a lot to get to tonight. a big, big fun show. this is giant news for fans, next month, the author of "fifty shades of grey" will be signing copies of the book at comic-con. [ scattred cheers ] that's right, she'll be signing copies of the book at comic-con, or as comic-con fans put it, "mom, i told you to wait in the car. [ laughter ] what are you doing here? get out of here." did you guys hear about this? a new study found that a record number of america's wealthiest citizens are renouncing their citizenship to avoid high taxes. yeah. which explains why today -- explains why today donald trump claimed he was born in kenya. and i go, that's just weird -- smart move. smart business move. here's a campaign update. yesterday in new hampshire, president obama said americans need someone who will wake up every single day a

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you very much. i appreciate that, everybody. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." it's going to be fun tonight. want to say congratulations to the los angeles kings. last night, they won their first stanley cup in the team's 45-year history. wow. [ cheers and applause ] that's big. fans in l.a. couldn't believe it. they were like, "we have a hockey team?" [ laughter ] speaking of sports, in a new interview, president obama says he hopes, too, that the nba finals go to a game seven. of course, obama should probably be focused on other matters, like hoping his presidency goes to a term two. i mean, that's what i would be doing. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] priorities. here's some more political news. one week after wisconsin's recall election, today, governor scott walker hosted a bratwurst party for republicans and democrats. [ light laughter ] i didn't go 'cause i heard it was a total sausage fest. [ laughter and applause ] >> s