we here in the green room with vanessa williams' dauers melanie and julia. ou. >> always keeping it natural. >> keeping it natural. >> natural that's what i say too. >> vanessa and her mom will join us in stud wroe 57 as well. three generations as our serieseye opening mom continues on this morning. >> announcer: this morning's "eye-opening moms" sponsored by macy's. dare to leave your lipstick at home. new revlon colorstay ultimate suede™ lipstick gives you all-day color and instant moisture with shea butter and aloe. for food-proof wear and velvety soft lips. [ penélope ] i found the best cafe in the world. nespresso. where there is an espresso to match my every mood. ♪ ♪ where just one touch creates the perfect coffee. where every cappuccino and latte is made at home. and where i can have exactly what i desire. ♪ ♪ nespresso. what else? i'll be right back. booop. hi, listen i think you could do better. oh no, he's a nice guy. no i'm talking about your yogurt. see dannon oikos is so rich and thick and smooth. so smooth. in a national taste test dannon oikos

and frank bruni will join us and then vanessa williams.st, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> may is our big month for severe weather. damaging winds and hail and especially tornadoes. let me show you by month when we get the most tornadoes in this country and easily may stands out. 257 tornadoes is how many we average during this month. want to guess how many we have had this month? one. we have had one tornado so far in the first five days and it doesn't look like we will have many severe weather outbreaks the next four or five days. the good thing about the snow of last week and the cold air is we haven't been dealing with severe weather and we have a very quiet weather weak. two stalled out storms. by the way, this storm down here, that's the storm that brought us the snow from last week. the storm has only moved from the midwest to just north of atlanta and literally five days. five days from now, it will be exiting up here off the northeast coast. so if you're anywhere in the mid atlanta to the northeast, expect three days

but now he's beside vanessa williams in "the trip to bountiful," an elderly woman who tries to run awaydaughter-in-law, back to the homeland where she grew up to recapture her youth. it's a pleasure to welcome cuba gooding jr. to "politicsnation." let me start with politics. >> good to be here. >> you go way back with president obama and the campaign. you helped campaign as far back as 2007. >> that's correct. >> i want to show you this picture. it's you, president obama and i'm in it. and this is some journey. how do you think he's done? >> i think he's done an incredible job. you've got to think about all of the problems that he had to face when he first started and he's making his way through a lot of tough decisions and tough situations. yeah, i think he's doing phenomenal. >> what would you like to see done before he leaves office? >> he will wiwell, you know, co tackle the situation that we're in, the fiscal things that we have coming up in terms of our deficit and all of that stuff. the broad stroke stuff, if we could continue to bring some of that stuff down, that would be great

i'm willie geist along with vanessa williams. the hottest products, a self-spinning pasta fork. these are the important issues we tackle on the 9:00 hour of the "today" show. >>> let's head back to al out in the l.a. with a check of the weather. >> let's show what you got as far as the next couple of days. >>> first of all, lets start with today, we are looking at rain through the southeast, mid-atlantic states, moves into the northeast later. rain in the central plains and out west, although the pacific northwest again, another spectacular day. gorgeous around texas. tomorrow slight risk of strong storms in central texas on into nebraska. we're looking at gorgeous weather up and down the west coast. rain moving into the northeast, mid-atlantic states, sunny and mild from great lakes down to the gulf coast and on into florida. that's what going on around the country, here is what's happening in your neck of the woods. >>> hey, 9:32, anthony slaughter, nbc bay area "weather center." tracking some storms today. not as stormy as yes

. >>> tomorrow our look at eye opening moms continues actress vanessa williams and her mother here in another shot at the "great gapspy" it might be more popular now than ever but another part of fitzgerald's background gets far less attention. he looks at the days he had at the saturday evening post. >> was this made from your imagination? >> "the great gaspy" defined an airera era. passion, pursued to no end. it also defined f. scott fitzgerald's life. >> he didn't deny himself or deny zelda much of anything. >> fitzgerald's quest for his love was mirrored by the pursuit of the fictional daisy buchanan. to win zelda, the midwest morning fitzgerald needed money. he finally arrived courtesy of the saturday evening post which many identify with the famous norman rockwell covers. >> as far as publishing we were the 800-pound gorilla and there's never been anything to match it. there were a few magazines here and there but nothing that aimed to approach all readers anywhere in america. >> fitzgerald wrote 68 stories for the post over a course of 17 years earning him a total of $2 million

the birth announcement for vanessa williams introduced -- >> the she is miss america. >> that was thegorilla and there was never anything to match it. >> were you surprised by it? >> all of your ex-wives are your friends. it's like a page out of quincy jones' book. >> quincy's my idol. >> when you play golf with the president of the united states do you pull out all the stops to beat him or do you think he's the president, i'm going to let him win? >> i've got to be honest. i played pretty well and i tried to make every one. >> you have an obesity issue? >> no, i don't. >> i'm glad to say, gayle, we've never seen charlie in a pair of leggings. >> not one of those t [ both ] we're foodies. [ both laughing ] but our plants were starving. [ man ] we love to eat. we just didn't know that our plants did, too. then we started using miracle-gro liquafeed every two weeks. now our plants get the food they need while we water. dinner's ready. come and get it. no one goes hungry in this house. so they're bigger, healthier, and more beautiful. guaranteed. with miracle-gro anyone can have a green

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vanessa banks. jackie flynn. william morgan. leo pitcher. joshua arce. >>> hi, ed collins schmidt, executive director of [speaker not understood], father of three. [inaudible]. the powerpoint and all the positive [inaudible]. with phil ginsberg and his staff. [inaudible]. collaborating partner, working in [speaker not understood] airs az of the city. i can say nothing but positive things about the progress [inaudible] and his staff at all levels, from 30,000 feet to looking, you know, looking through the bushes and the grass, it's a solid operation. all of the staff should be congratulated. we are proud partners of rec and park and know that there are issues obviously, but we have the greatest faith in the integrity and the good will and the vision of phil and the department and the staff at all levels. so, [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon. thank you, supervisors. my nameis vanessa banks [speaker not understood] ~. speaking only as a representative, as a city official, i have been working for par