it is closed by velcro. it has a sleeping bag that can be entered in without taking the coat off, and it's big, allowing for layers of clothing or possessions to be kept underneath. and the single moms, formerly living the in shelters, all desperate to work, none with seamstress experience. >> we bring them in. we do a month of basic, you are sitting in front of a machine that is a car motor attached with a needle. i know it's interm dating. let's get comfortable with it. >> the women earned between 8 $and $12 an hour depending on their ability. already 15 have worked in the program. >> they transition from being homeless, being in a shelter, to their home for the first time in a long time. a stable home that they know they can pay for. >> one of the newest hires is tia sames. she's been at the shop for about four months now. she ended up living at a shelter. she was separated from her children and desperate to reunite with them. >> i said veronica, this maybe a possible good job. so i filled out a applicati

putting velcro on it so it doesn't fall off. tip it over all the stuff will fall off. to be properly say it should be 50 feet away from the window. how many people have 30 foot bedrooms? the best thing to do [inaudible] it will break like a car windshield it shatters and staying together. or close the drapes so if it breaks it will shatter on the drapes and it will fall to the ground. multiple pair of slippers under your bed. most of us get out of bed at night time and close our eyes, you know where it is. in a disaster you might have glass on the carpet or floor. if you get out any start walking you will get cut. how about this? kitchen. the most dangerous place to be in a disaster because that's where all the stuff breaks, in the kitchen. where do you put the heaviest pot? top shelf in the back over the fridge. least accessible area. they are the first to fly out. how do you medigate that problem? what do you think? on my house i have a 5 and 7 year old everything was baby safe. that's the same for earthquake proofing you don't want the glass to fall and come out. th

. >> velcro. >> okay, cute. >> moving up the age spectrum, oliver, how are you doing? >> oliver!n, the hoodie backpack. it's a thing among kids, as everyone knows. this hoodie backpack. curious thing that's happening. who has done it? nike has done it. >> nike? >> kind of functional fashion. oliver isn't going to wear a hat, no matter what his mom says, right? >> yeah. >> why aren't you in school? >> because i just like this backpack. it's really cool. >> okay. cool. >> sock, so moving up the age spectrum further to the brother. the guy serious about the beer should be serious about the glassware he drinks it out of. the best barware out there. this set of four is about $40. and it comes with a glass for every type of beer. now there's nothing worse than coming home, wanting a cold one and finding all you have is a warm one, which is why we love these guys, they're called chillsners. you put it in -- >> somebody answer the phone! >> your sponsor. >> you put it in the -- >> we're so sorry. >> it's unrelated to this. there are no sound effects with the chillsner. makes it cold. and

>> unlimited. >> you have a chopper, you have velcro and a phone? a four-second delay. >> the budget was really $40 for the gloves and a bit of velcro that i attached to it and some super glue. >> it's a tradition, rick, thank you very much. see you shortly. meanwhile our lead story. you're looking live right now at the scene outside of nelson mandela's home. hundreds paying tribute to the leader who inspired the world. greg alcove joins us with the latest. >> reporter: we've been following the passing of this icon, nelson mandela dead at 95, that has been brewing all through the night. here in the states, president obama acknowledging, like millions of people, that he owes a huge political debt to this man. here is what he said in his message to the nation. >> we've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth. >> in the u.k., we just had a long -- which has had a long and sometimes difficult relationship with south africa and even nelson mandela, emotions@ pouring o

velcro. >> what did i say? >> straps. >> isn't straps like velcro?k about adding insult to injury, a father whose daughter is battling cancer just found out that his family has been dropped from his insurance because his insurance not good enough for obamacare. the father joins us live next. >>> and it's hard to watch, but still incredible. a man flying over a car, walks away from the car, with nothing more than a scratch. that's one big long scratch. >> stop running that! ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting advil. with an ultra-thin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology, it stops pain before it gets worse. nothing works faster. new fast acting advil. look for it in the white box. >>> four months ago, six-year-old ellie porter was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. while she's been fighting for her life, her father has been fighting against obamacare because the family's plan was canceled because it didn't comply with the affordable care act's high standards. now the father and the mother are struggling to find a pla

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this is velcro off of the shoes.stick inside of it. i break that stick out and that's what i use right here. this gives me this shape right here. get that shape. the bend. and then the rest is all hand shaped. >> silva, who is serving two years for possession of marijuana with the intent to sell trades his sculptures for among other things, extra soap. >> this hygiene is my maj nor concern. this little bar of soap that they give you once a week, i got a lot of square footage to cover, you know what i mean. so this little bar of soap might be good for two showers for me. it might be good for three showers for him. you know what i mean? that's not good for five days. then they give you a little packet of shampoo. if you ain't got nothing and no hustle, it will get you by. but i'm a big guy, i need to shower every day, i need deodorant and shampoo. i need to be clean. >> one of silva's customers is gabriel taylor. both are housed in protective custody because they're gang dropouts. >> courtesy of the skinny. >> he will

. >> with a couple buttons and velcro, the station aboutary bike is an step away from an arcade machine> we have a puzzle game and other games. >> they all have one thing in common. you can get anywhere on them unless you exercise. >> with i start moving the character in the game starts moving. >> a tiny wearable sensor is the part of who is called go be jay. the harder you work,s harder he punches. only takes a minute to learn and only a few minutes to get carried away. >> got beat up there. >> fortunately he brought me a towel. >> fair to say, i didn't even notice i was working up a sweat and that's the whole point. it's meant to take the most boring thing in the world and make it interesting. >> our goal is to make exercise more fun and to ultimately help people lead healthier lives. >> he said he thinks it's working. while his friends and families have gotten some strange looks trying them out at the gym, they have having too much fun to notice. >> i have actually been in 45-minute exercise sessions literally playing one game. >> it's on sale for 99 bucks and most of the games are f

. >> with a couple buttons and velcro, the station is just a step away from being an arcade machine. games. >> they all have one thing in common. you can get anywhere on them unless you exercise. ive activity sensors in my pock. with i start moving, the character in the game starts moving. >> a tiny wearable sensor is the third piece of the device. the harder you work,s harder he punches. only takes a minute to learn and only a few minutes to get carried away. >> got beat up there. >> fortunately he brought me a towel. >> fair to say, i didn't even notice i was working up a sweat and that's the whole point. go-ji play is meant to take the most boring thing in the world and make it more interesting. >> our goal is to make exercise more fun and to ultimately help people lead healthier lives. >> he said he thinks it's working. while his friends and families have gotten some strange looks trying them out at the gym, they have been too busy playing to notice. >> i have actually been in 45-minute exercise sessions literally playing one game. >> it's on sale for 99 bucks and most of the gam

. >> with a couple buttons and velcro, the stationery bike is just a step away from being an arcade machinee have a puzzle game and other games. >> they all have one thing in common. you can't get anywhere on them unless you exercise. i have activity sensors in my pocket. when i start moving, the character in the game starts moving. >> a tiny wearable sensor is the third piece of the device. the harder you work,s harder he punches. only takes a minute to learn and only a few minutes to get carried away. >> got beat up there. >> fortunately he brought me a towel. >> fair to say, i didn't even notice i was working up a sweat and that's the whole point. go-ji play is meant to take the most boring thing in the world and make it more interesting. >> our goal is to make exercise more fun and to ultimately help people lead healthier lives. >> he said he thinks it's working. while his friends and families have gotten some strange looks trying them out at the gym, they have been too busy playing to notice. >> i have actually been in 45-minute exercise sessions literally playing one game. >> it's on

and after securing all three inflatables open up the velcro or cut in the material.o to deflate the giant balloons and get to the trapped children. >> everybody worked together to get it down to make sure everyone was safe. >> in all 13 people on the ground and inside the bounce houses are hurt. one woman seriously with head and spinal injuries. but remarkably, most of the children escaped are relatively minor injuries. like the rope burn on laura's neck. >> the rope dragged me over. then it finally got off. >> it's a scary end to what started as a joyous celebration. >>> coming up, a robbery interrupted. >> he went ahead and decided to rob the store with a cop behind him. >> and these people think they've just won a new laptop. but surprise. police have something else in store for them. when "caught on camera: surprise!" continues. here at fidelity, we give you the most free research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed 1-second trades. and at the center of it all is a surprisingly low price -- just $7.95. in fact, fidelity gives yo

it had been adjusted with improvised snorkels and also the suit had a pad velcroed inside to soak up any fluid. they are 260 miles above the earth and it is how dangerous this operation is. if they can do it in two, that means even more risk. greg, back to you. >> risky and amazing all at the same time. dominic, thanks. >> let's look at weather now. this weekend could be absolutely brutal for travelers. winter storms are causing major delays delays in salt lake city yesterday. it was coating roads in the seattle area with a blanket of snow. now the storms are moving east. where we could see snow, thunderstorms and maybe tornadoes, wow. we go now live to the fox extreme weather center. >> swree tornado watches iny -- we have tornado watches in effect. memphis 74, 450 miles away it is 28 in kansas city. so you can see that we have one of the ingredients we need for severe weather and it is that clash of the two air masses. this is something we typically see in the springtime and not the first day of winter. tornado watches extend from southeast texas to tennessee. 6:00 p.m. central tim

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. >> they basically cut these apart and use their standard velcro they have on board. >> reporter: nasaing space suits because the italian astronaut luca parmitano almost drowned on a space walk on july 16th when water flooded in to his space suit and helmet. engineers think they know why the space suit flooded but aren't sure if they fixed the problem. it was a scenario mission control never imagined and something they don't want repeated during the next three space walks scheduled for saturday, monday and if necessary christmas day. astronaut doug wheelock has been training on the ground for this space walk for his colleagues on orbit. he installed a pump in 2010 and recalls what it feels like when the hatch opens and you step out in space. >> whenever we open that hatch and send people outside, it's always dangerous. it's a dangerous environment. it is really inhospitable. >> first-time space walker mike hopkins will wear the refurbished space suit. mission control will be monitoring him very closely. abc news, houston. >>> the ferry that ran aground on the north carolina coast is st

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. >> what you do is just -- this is actually velcro and hook it over the bar. >> you can see how we completely this divider because our closet, there's what i like to call deborah's closet creep. >> yeah. >> my stuff is out in the hall in a couple of paper bags. >> this is perfect because you can set the barrier and boundary. if you run out of shoe space -- >> right. >> you have the clear -- >> exactly. the clear boxes. the cool thing about these are they're top down open. you don't have to lift the box up and then -- >> i was going to say, labeling also is key too. >> labeling is very important because at the end of the day, you put it up there and then three months later, what's in that box. so you want to label it and make it clear. if you run out of space in your closet, plastic bins are perfect. store them underneath your closet or bed. >> there you go. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. we'll be back in a moment. but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> well, because of your generous donations millions of needy children are getting a gift under the tree this year and having a much happier ho