sykes hanging out. you're going to help out in this hour since savannah is down in north carolina. i'm curious why you didn't jump in and help us with the vulture and things like that. >> well, i like my eyes. i like to see and wolves, i'm a little nervous because i think a friend of mine picked up a stray and i think it's a wolf. >> you're thinking it's a dog? >> thinking it's a dog. i have to talk to her. >> have you called her recently? >> i call, the wolf answers the phone, "she's busy." >> especially if it's wearing a grandma outfit. >> you're going to co-host with us in this hour, which we're looking forward to. >> the first segment she's going to help us on is the e-buzz. we're going to get the inside scoop of everything hot in hollywood, kim kardashian. she's going to be revealing makeup secrets in a new gig with katie holmes. >> do you eat well when you're on the go? >> i try to, which means no. >> you're not a healthy snacker? >> no, no, i like chips, anything salty. >> fritos? >> oh! and chilli fries. >> president obama will accept his party's nomination for another term. his nape was placed into nomination by former pres

fantastic season. and whatever happened between us, you're going to have to watch and wait to see what happened. >> how many of you still get along here? >> adriana's not raising her hand. >> everybody. >> she gets along with me, though. >> this season you're not seen as much because your son was in a terrible car accident. how is he doing? >> he's had a remarkable recovery. he's doing very well. thank god, we're blessed with that. >> this is a family decision for you to remain on the show? >> it was. it was a very painful and personal decision to make, but we thought it was important. i had so many followers and love and support from the community and from all of my followers that i thought it was important to share that with the viewers. and at the same time, it was done in a very, you know, delicate way. and it was, you know, unfortunately it was my reality. it was -- it's my life. and tragedy can happen to any of us. you know, at any second. and i hope that this -- i sent a message of hope to all the mothers that have gone through something like this. >> wow. that's great. and it's

new look? >> mike just wondered if they were going to cut my hair. >> every man asks that. are you ready to cut it? sorry, mike. >> yes. it is my body, i will do what i want. and you'll get used to it. >> are you ready to go? >> yes, i am. absolutely. >> if i were mike, i'd be quaking in my shoes. maybe he is a driller from the bakersfield drillers where frank used to go to high school. all righty. in bakersfield. maybe. tamara is here with her friends jane, debby and paula. let's take one last look at tamara before. bring out the new tamara. >> oh, my gosh. ladies, you ready? take off your blind folds. go ahead. >> it's pretty sensational. you ready, tamara? take a look. >> oh, wow. >> oh, my gosh! >> you look awesome. turn around and let everybody see the difference. >> camera 12 right here. >> oh, my gosh. >> great job. >> that is a great job. she has very fine hair. so fine when she wore it down before it was see-through. arsen gave her this new haircut. it makes her hair look thicker. >> and 15 years younger. >> you look beautiful, honey. >> so gorgeous. >> that is such a great modern look on her. >> that is such a great, modern look on her. >> basically every woman, what y

used to seeing you do celebs. why did you decide to go with everyday people? >> these things aren't always decided by me. i always wanted to do regular people. to make the point on television that celebs and regular people are all treated the same. really when you watch you lose any sense of any difference between celebrities and regular people. >> that would be a very strong point to make. >> i did notice you didn't bring your cups over here with me. >> right. we are trying to be mindful. >> i notice there is nothing on your breath this morning. you look a little shaky, maybe a little withdrawal symptoms. >> i was night night. >> i'm fine. >>> go, amhurst college. >> i heard you say more people are dying from addictions than cancer. >> what i'm saying is when people die of addiction under my care, it's like being an oncologist treating cancer. if you have a bad enough addiction you need to see me, most cancers have a better prognosis than my patients. >> that shocked me. >> that is a fact. that's just the way it is. addiction affects virtually every family in america. >> do they ha

. we're going to hear from justin bieber's mom. >> she gets a serenade from her son. >> she does, she does. >> worth sticking around for. >> penny marshall is here. she's going to tell us about her upbringing, what was crazy! her book is entitled "my mom was nuts." >> but so is she. it will be good. it's going to be really good. >> love her. love her. i want to personally thank everybody for your best wishes yesterday and for al and matt at the box office yesterday. >> i was surprised when they walked out with their tickets. >> i was blown away by that. i want to thank all our facebook fans, because your wishes mean the world to me. thanks, everybody. guess where our sarah is today. >> where? >> why are you drinking that when you spent your whole evening debached on some rooftop drinking cucumber martinis. >> at the peninsula hotel with high school friends. a cucumber martini is so good! anyway, that's the group of us. we had fun. and now i'm feeling it. this is a peach one -- or pears. who cares? let's talk about -- >> sarah is at ohio state. we have on our big competition about which college has the best spirit, and so she's been -- yesterday she was at syracuse. today she

some of those ugly pms symptoms. >> so you're going to get us on the right track first fighting those mood swings. first act of defense, you say exercising at least 30 minutes a day. why and how much? >> it doesn't have to be strenuous. it literally can be obviously you can hit the gym. but do yoga or meditation or put your child in a stroller and just walk. and that's because exercise -- >> mm-hmm. >> lets out feel-good hormones and put you in a better mind set. it needs to be like a prescription. the second thing, you want to eat fatty fish like salmon and sardines at least three times a week. >> you've got an example of some things you can eat. >> i got a little creative over here. salmon sushi, or you can put salmon in a pasta with vegetables. and the reason i'm picking salmon is because it has the type of omega 3 fat called epa. when we look at the research, that tends to be linked to better brain health. and boosting your mood a little bit, more so than the type of omega 3 and things like walnuts and flak seeds. whenever you can, go for the fish. >> how about supplements? >> two

potential boost to the u.s. economy. >> this is going to be huge. in a year, about 1 in every 5 people, we estimate in the u.s. is going to be using an iphone 5. that could add close to 1% to our overall gdp. >> apple has sold more than 244 million iphones since its debut in 2007. but with samsung narrowly leading the market in overall smartphone sales, apple's hoping 5 is the magic number. >> reporter: lots of tough competition out there for the iphone 5 this season, but hey, when apple does a big launch like this, their iphone is still the one to beat. now we're looking to see if apple also releases the mini ipad by the holiday season, matt. >> all right, jon fortt, thank you very much. what's your favorite feature on the iphone 5? head to today.com and we'll share the results next hour. i can tell you how it's going to go in terms of who here will buy the iphone 5. we'll all say no, and he'll show up with it and we'll all go, oh, i've got to have one of those. >> except for the connector, i'm surprised you don't have it yet. >> i think they should have gone with the mini -- the usb -- >> they're going to get it. >> probably. >> he

an opportunity for them to try to split us apart. we're going to work very hard to prevent that from happening. >> if a soldier had to sleep with one eye open because he's afraid someone is going to shoot him in the middle. night, doesn't that undermine the whole cohesion of a unit of a military? >> it does. we've got to work very hard to eliminate that threat. to understand the threat and to eliminate that threat. the taliban seek to infiltrate the ansf, the afghan national security forces. we know that, and we know we'll see that manifest itself as an infiltration, impersonation or someone who is coerced or even someone who is potentially in the ranks but is susceptible to the taliban propaganda, the taliban narrative. >> reporter: general, i think a lot of military families will be listening very carefully to your answer to my next question, and that is you will soon make recommendations to the president about troop levels going forward, 2013, 2014. do you expect to bring more troops home in the coming year? >> probably, yes, and the -- the nature of the recommendation will b

going to use it. i'm going to read it on my trip next week. the third one would be acknowledgement of a future meeting or greeting. i look forward to seeing you at the holiday party. >> classy, southern. last but not least. the perfect way to eat chicken. >> pick up a napkin. pick your favorite piece. wrap the end in the napkin like this and take little bites. the most important thing is you don't do this when you're talking, move your hands. >> also important. >> sit it down. >> also important not to talk with your mouthful, so i won't take a bite. thank you very much. continuing food up next. giada's favorite make ahead dish. this is "today" on nbc. hmmm, i don't think i took my pill today. there's birth control you don't have to think about taking every day or even every year. i'm painting my arms. i want another child, but not for a while. it's mirena, a small intrauterine contraceptive that's over 99% effective at preventing pregnancy for as long as you want, for up to five years. then again, i'm not sure i want to wait. don't use mirena if you have a pelvic infection, get infectio

time for us to take responsibility for the course of america, to get us back on track. you can change the course of this country. we're going to take america back. >> reporter: but earlier saturday in cincinnati, ohio, romney used the start of the football season to arguitis time for someone new to start calling the plays. >> 23 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work or underemployed. let me tell you, if you have a coach that's zero and 23 million, you say it's time to get a new coach. >> reporter: and in an uncharacteristic move, romney attempted to distance himself from an unpopular congress, even while sharing the stage with republican house speaker john boehner and ohio senator rob portman. >> we're going to finally have to do something that republicans have spoken about for a long time and for a while. we didn't do it. while we had the lead, we let people down. we have to make sure we don't let them down this time. i will cut the deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget. >> reporter: now, that's the type of message that also resonates are independent voters. romney will be down for the rest of

emergency vehicles. there's a reason for this. somebody's got to give us the reason, or we're going to evacuate the aircraft. you've got 60 seconds. >> we'll have the fiery exchange today, tuesday, september 18th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza >>> welcome to "today" on a busy tuesday morning. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer. big morning in politics here. mitt romney is on defense about the comments secretly recorded at a fund-raiser in florida. we'll have more on that story straight ahead. >>> meantime, following breaking news from france as the duke and duchess of cambridge fight the pictures. >> the magazine can no longer publish the images and must hand over all digital copies of those photos. we'll get the very latest in a live report straight ahead. >>> also, a significant strategy change for the u.s. military in afghanistan following the killings of four american soldiers there. we're going to go live to richard engel in kabul. >>> then on a lighter note

think we're not going to see a flood of marriage proposals that go like that. >> i used to -- >> not the way to go. >> i used to think the proposal on the scoreboard was the worst way to do it. we have a new winner. >> all right. natalie, thanks. let's get a check of the weather. al is out in los angeles this morning. al, good morning to you. >> well, he's really lucky she didn't pull the ejector seat during the ring engagement procedure. good morning, everybody. wet weather to talk about in different parts of the country. first of all we start down in texas where we have flash flood watches. that's because we got heavy rain as low pressure makes its way through northern texas. talking about anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain, so we've got flood warnings, flash flood warnings, and flood watches in effect for much of southern texas with those heavy rainfall amounts. up to 5 inches in some areas. in the northeast, we've got more wet weather making its way up into the northeast and new england. look for airport delays, and anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of >> a few showers around this mor

using it in the classroom. >> so we're going to make a face today. it's in the national toy hall of fame. no joking around. i have an unfinished hoda. >>> you have a browner face and yours isn't. >> now, we have different parts that we're supposed to add to make it. so we'll do it right now. >> let me look at your nose. >> okay. that looks like the big one. i'm just telling you. >> just saying. >> don't do that with the hair. i'm already onto you. hold on. look at your lid. your lid is bad, too. hold on. we're going to hold it up because -- >>> you know what these look like? >> turds? >>> bambino. you are disgusting. >> okay. i'm done. as usual, early and perfect. >> that's close. >> i got to put the nose up a little higher. >> careful with the nose. >> it's just a little bulbous. but it's good. please don't use that word. i look like a freak. >> since when did i get my mouth like that. >> well, you know. >> go ahead. do the reveal. >> sometimes after drinking. here's hoda woman. >> that's terrible. i'm bummed it's their anniversary. >> i'm bummed i'm older than that. >>> so here's

--to-play list >> you better. >> he was playing "opposites attract." >> natalie is tomorrow, what are you going to give us a preview? >> yeah. i'm going to say that i may get a lot of digs respect for it. >> oh, wow. >> no, no, no. i picked a lot of songs that bring back some childhood memories ♪ have to believe we are magic >> i got a smile from paula. >> you can't make fun of me anymore. >> yeah, right. >> all right. what else is coming up here? >> for fall, five hot trends, including color blocking coming up next and also some beautiful jewelry as well. >> all right. >> and nbc's hit dramedy "parenthood" is here for its fourth season. we'll get a preview from one of its stars, jason ritter. >> and paula is going to stick around for the next hour so batten down the hatches. let's go inside and natalie with the headlines. >>> in the news this morning, an expansive teachers strike in chicago has the country's third largest school system as a standstill for now a second day. 29,000 teachers hit the picket lines, leaving some 400,000 students without instructors. this is the city's first teachers strike in

in them? >> no. >> madelyn is going to test our knowledge. >> and make fools of us once again. >> who doesn't love breakfast. let's start with cereal. let's begin with four of the top-selling cereals in america. which one has the lowest amount of added sugar? listen carefully. frosted flakes, honey nut cheerios, honey bunches of oats or cinnamon toast crunch. >> has the most sugar? >> the least. it's not honey nut cheerios. >> it is frosted flakes. >> no. it is honey bunches of oats. just 6 grams, that's 1 1/2 teaspoons. >>'m sorry, it was facing the other direction. >> it was too hard to see. >> how about fruit? >> okay. i love fruit. >> many of us eat it plain or on top of cereal. we have three different fruits. which one of these per serving has the most fiber? one cup of blackberries, medium banana or 1/2 cup of raisins. >> that's you. >> the blackberries. >> you're right. >> that's almost half your fiber. >> i was going to say blackberries. >> they're all good. you told us they are the best things. >> do bananas make you constipated? >> they do bind you up a little bit. >

going to share her story in a live interview coming up. >>> let us begin this half hour with a guy who admits he helped thousands of college students across the country cheat. now he's revealing how in the new book "the shadow scholar," nbc's kerry sanders has details on this. good morning. >> well, good morning. for those who went to college, this is a familiar setting. professor down there, students sometimes hundreds of them up here, getting assignments to write academic research papers. but for some students, that's just too much work, so they decide to subcontract. the author you're about to meet wrote more than 3,500 pages for students who decided to cheat rather than do the work themselves. >> reporter: for ten years, no one knew his name. and this anonymous 32-year-old liked it that way. with incense to set the mood and endless cups of caffeine, this philadelphia native worked a little known underworld from the keyboard in his apartment. now, for the first time, dave tomar is stepping out from the shadows revealing his identity and exposing a dirty little secret at some of our

. >> beautiful pieces. the seamless, closure is not here, wide band so it's going to cover your flesh instead of dig into it. >> you know, i got to say the front of it is so beautiful too. gorgeous bra. >> take us to over here. >> okay, this is rachel zoe's must have. this is a cami that has compression only where you want it, so sucks in your middle. >> i love that. >> you can wear your bra under this. there's no compression where you don't want it. >> you need one. >> what's going on here with these? >> what's going on here with these? >> this is assets. we love sarah blakely, she's the inventor of spanx. >> that's another story. to be determined in a court of law. >> we appreciate it. >> this is midsection compression, this waist band won't roll down. that's what the lace is. then it's smooth, beautiful. from the waist down. >> thank you, sweetie. so sorry for our technical difficulties. >>> jimmy fallon is trying to get a ride here and our sara gets taken for a ride. >> that is right after this. ♪ >> time for sara in the city. our sara haines found out what it's like to get around on one wheel. >> so sara, did you fall for unicycling or what? >> well, i fell a lot, let's just say that. it tu

u.s. open file that lasted nearly five hours, and andy murray is going to be joining us a little bit later on here this morning to tell us how he's feeling this morning. >>> and the man who swept the president off his feet isn't feeling much love. the pizza shop owner says he's facing boycott threats from republicans after giving president obama a massive bear hug this weekend. he's a registered republican himself but did vote for president obama in 2008 and plans to do so in november. while angry internet users posted nasty are you books online others have posted the more humorous clippings and the hug and posting it in pretty strange places. people always having fun on the internet. 7:08, pack over to matt, savannah and al. >> thank you very much. >> mr. roker has a check of the weather. >> we do, talking about wet weather across the country. first of all, we start in florida. a stationary front. look for heavy rain to develop, rainfall amounts 3 to 5 inches along the southern coast of western florida and out in the southwest more monsoonal moisture with an upper level flow ove

. >> here's the deal. we want you guys, at different universities, to go on our twitter page, okay, and do a hashtag -- this is extremely important. please take notes with your notepad. klgandhodau. >> like university. send us pictures and we will pick six colleges. >> show your school pride. we will pick the schools with the most spirit on twitter. >> let me tell you something else. when we're done, it's going to be narrowed down to six. you guys will vote and the single college that is the winner with the most votes, we're going to do our show from there in october. >> we are? am i going to be there, too? >> i don't know. >> have a little thing called scandalous i'm trying to put on broadway. >> this will be scandalous, too. can you imagine on your campus, our show? you know what i'm saying? >> so much for an education. >> this is why your parents are spending $35,000 to $50,000 a semester for you, or a year, whatever it is. who cares? >> carnival cruise, your -- >> my alma mater? ♪ in the mornings, in the evening, we've got fun ♪ >> they're sick and tired -- >> of me. that's why after 20 years i don't work there anymore. >> they were sick and tired of people waking up super early and taking their towels on th

such fun. it's one of those things you don't forget. how about the atlantis being so great to us? >> well, you guys, when we got here, the first night we went straight to work shooting some of the stuff you're going to see. but that night they were very sneaky. they came to our hotel suites and they're just gorgeous. they said, we are going to be cleaning some windows so we'll close the drapes for you. inside i'm thinking i want to look out. they go, no, no, no. and i was about to take a bath. i said, you're right, if anybody sees me naked, they're dead. so i let them close the things. next thing you go out on one of these gorgeous terraces and we looked down and look what we saw. >> in candles, they spent three hours putting this together. it's hard to see. >> 300 candles and six hours is what i heard. >> it says the cove loves kathie lee and hoda. when you open your blinds and see something like that, we are feeling the love big-time. we also, you guys, have been tasting your drinks. >> just because we don't want to be rude. >> we like to be kind. but they have been crazy delicious. what, drinking again? >> you know what, lady? security! actually, we were at the tiki bikini hut yesterday shooting.

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hugging referees this weekend? >> whenever he goes out, he's going to get hugged by ever player on that field. >> you want to hug it out? >> exactly. thanks for helping us cover this story over the last several days here. appreciate it. let's go over to savannah. >> thanks. >>> and now to presidential politics. president obama and mitt romney will be campaigning in virginia today as romney looks to repair the damage from that 47% comment that was recorded at a fundraiser. peter alexander is with the romney camp in springfield this morning. peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. when it comes to the battlegrounds, there are three, florida, ohio, and virginia, both mitt romney and the president held dueling events in ohio on wednesday. today, they are both here in virginia. another state where romney is trailing in the polls. >> reporter: campaigning in ohio wednesday, both president obama and mitt romney were keenly aware of the buckeye state's place in history. no republican has won the white house without it. romney went out of his way to show his compassionate side greeting world war ii veterans and courting working class fa

people, who with you trust to build the kind of economy that's going to work for the middle class. we think the republican ticket of romney and ryan are going to bring us back to what failed the middle class. but president obama's on the right path, wanting to stick with it. >> you two are the architects of the 2008 campaign, the hope and chang campaign. four years ago the president said change happens because the american people demand it, rise up and insist on new ideas, new leadership and new politics. guy, we do not have a new politics. are republicans right to hold him accountable for delivering that new politics. >> what he also said is change is hard, chang tax time, we have to are persistent, we have to stick with it. a lot has been accomplished. we ended a war, health care reform, financial reform and we stopped the freefall, as president clinton said, in our economy. we do have work to do in our politics and we think the verdict of the american people on november 6th is going to help change that. >> you had to move this venue indoors, it was unplanned. there will be no balloons as i understand it. are you searching for something festive since you'

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happening? >> it's going to be funny. >> we're going to go to the kitchen with mark. who doesn't love short bread. >> love it. >> mark is going to show us the different ways can you prepare it. i cannot wait, man. >> this is kind of a serious note because we also have the dog obie inside, the little daschund who is not so little. very overweight, and he's now battling to shed some of those unwanted pounds so we'll talk to his new foster mom who has put him on a diet. >> we'll check in on that, and first hello to howie mandel of "america's got at all end." hi, howie. >> good to see you. >> we're not touching hands. >> no germs have been -- >> here i am on fashion week. >> and looking so fashionable. >> zippers. >> back-to-school pants. >> very nice. >> let's talk about the competition. the viewers that pick, but do you have a favorite or someone who you think has the line in? >> i do. the guy who plays the earth harp is the guy i put my money on, if i had to invest. i don't think the audience is -- i think the audience is going to go with the dogs or tom kotter because it's easier for them to connect with a human being or cute dogs. >> i lik

said can you glue them back on? >> it doesn't go back that way. >> al, you really going to go with it? >> yesterday in the makeup room, going to go with it. >> you think there's a difference between how guys like it versus girls. all of us -- >> guys don't like change. long flowy locks. >> as soon us a walked if i liked it. >> i chopped my hair off, down here and i walked in the door and the kids were like did dad see it and he loved it after 15 years or whatever, he was like ah, there's a new lady in the house. >> that's what the guys here were saying. did your husband look at it as another woman? >> not. >> psy, do you care to weigh in on natalie's hair, you like it? >> oh, yeah. oh, your hair, yes. let me sing this phrase. >> okay. >> eh, sexy lady. >> yeah. >> the dance goes with that. >> really good bangs, you know. >> for some of us it does. >> what did you think of david gregory's dance moves, the paying ta big tall guy? >> he came downstairs and learned so many times before the stage. >> so he cheated? >> are you kidding. >> unbelievable! >> breaking news. >> he doesn't prepare that much for "meet the press." >> right before the stage so i was kind of nervous, and he was with me, like hey, psy, one more time, one more time

apple comes out, it's like are you going to do it? are you going to come out? it's going to become a tradition with the three of us. >> reporter: kind of a cult following most companies with only dream of, so what's the secret? tech experts say it's not what the products do, it's how they make you feel. >> you hold this phone in your hand. when you touch, it when you feel it, you feel like you're holding on to something that is the future, that is tomorrow. >> reporter: and for apple fans, it's never too early to enjoy the future. and it turns out that good things come to those who wait. store employees here are holding out water and could have tote folks waiting in line. other stores will be handing out umbrellas to shield them from the sun and the ultimate payoff, the iphone 5. >> diana, thanks. here with an up close and personal look at the iphone 5 size. josh, is this the most exciting thing that's ever happened? >> in the world in history, yeah. >> you're the tech guy. >> would i say so. >> we're to the over-selling it. >> what's so great about it? it's lighter. >> it's thinner. >> got a larger screen. got a 4-inch screen

address. ridiculous she didn't do that. playing the game right now and using social media to get us to talk about her. >> knows how to keep her name in the news. hothashtag. just talking about it, the nfl replacement refs. going wild on twitter. >> everyone is talking about this. can't get away from it, on twitter, on facebook, everything. the big tweet of the week so far has come from a lineman from the green bay packers, t.j. lang, and he said, you know what, fine me and pay the refs. let's just do this. let's get the refs back. that tweet has 90,000 tweets. that has more tweets than when the president of the united states came out in support of gay marriage which is one of the biggest hot topics of the past decade. it has more tweets than when beyonce, like the legendary beyonce, made her first tweet and even more tweets than when nasa tweeted out that we landed on the planet mars. >> wow. >> it's totally insane and going to be when we look back at the end of the year at one of the stories, that we're going to be like, wow, this was the story. >> a million tweets about it that night on "monday night football." >> it's insane. >> our last category is the it list, a couple of viral items. first up, this father. s

. thousands of girls going to school. the taliban banned girls education and used this school as the headquarters. under the taliban, almost no girls went to school. now nearly three million do. in fact, about 35% of all school children in this country are girls. it's a dramatic social change the taliban is still fighting. we met this 17-year-old. bright, pretty, smart, she wants to be an economist someday. but like everyone here, she worries about what will happen after the americans leave. >> maybe a past situation, like women were not able to go out. they were just allowed to stay at home and do the home chores. >> reporter: she returned from pakistan with her family after the taliban fell. her family is making contingency plans to leave again. >> who knows what happens in future. i'm real concerned. >> reporter: this 15-year-old is the top student in her class. a fan of beyonce and other american poll culture, she isn't convinced the u.s. did any good here. do you think that the americans should or should not have come to afghanistan? >> what can i say? leave us guys alone. >> re

. patty joins us to talk about their life together and how she's overcome some major challenges in her life. >>> and we'll look at some ways to save money and make some too by going to consignment shops. you might be surprised to see what you can get for less than $50 in some of these stores. >>> and later, we're going to take a look at celebrities and money. why do some stars and pro athletes like vince young earn so much and lose so much, if not all of it. >>> we'll begin this half-hour with a story that's worth its weight in gold. it's about a man who lived a quiet life in nevada and when he died, he left behind quiet a surprise. >> reporter: to at least one neighbor, walter seemed like an average guy living in a modest house. >> he's come out in the yard and wave once in a while, but that's as sociable as he got. >> reporter: turns out, the 63-year-old man was anything but average. when he died of heart complications in june, he appeared to have no next of kin and only $200 in his bank account. when real estate agent jerry vine brought a cleaning crew to the house. >> food, canned goods, electronics. he seemed like a small scale hoarder to me. and that's what th

, so many ads have been run, voters are still polarized. the question is going to be whether it really moves a lot of people the way it used to when conventions drew greater coverage and had a little bit more suspense associated with them. >> all right, john harwood, good to talk with you. thank you so much. >> you bet. >>> now let's get a check of this morning's other top stories and msnbc's alex witt joins us this morning, over at the news desk. hey, alex, good morning. >> yes, i am. good morning to the both of you. >>> let's get to it, everyone, as residents along the east coast are bracing for potentially severe weather today. that could include tornadoes. a fast-moving cold front swept into northeast oklahoma friday afternoon, spawning severe thunderstorms. two grandparents and an infant were killed when heavy winds destroyed their mobile home. a 70-year-old truck driver also died after wind flipped his tractor-trailer on to a cement highway barrier wall. >>> meantime, bermuda's under a tropical storm warning with tropical storm leslie with top sustained winds of 65 miles per hour. they predict it will be a category 1 to

his two cents of the day, willie geist. >> hoping were you going to come around and touch my head so i can do the weather. >> does it work? >> we'll let that be. like a sitting in a ray moore and flanagan living room. >> you can join us any time. >> what are we talking about? >> talking about first, i'm a jersey girl, and you may have heard there's new rule in new jersey coming to get your driver's license, can't smile anymore. >> kind of like the passport. >> like they are legislating an ugly photo. >> well, i think they say because it kint fear with the new facial recognition software. they are a picture of my driver's license. all smiles after waiting four hours to take written test which i barely passed, and, of course -- >> enough about you. >> i was smiling. >> you look cute in that photo. >> i'll have to change that. >> and there's al's smile. >> you're smiling, too. >> that was right as i got arrested. >> what, me worried? >> what about you, will? >> a tough guy look right there. >> wow. >> they never tell you quite when they are snapping it. you're standing there and all of a sudden it's over. >> like a prep school guy gone bad. >> do the prep school thing. >> this is savannah. >> what the heck, who is that? >>

visit the olympics without insulting our closest ally. if you can't afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponent's advice and borrow money from your parents. >> reporter: lacking rhetoric of 2004 and 2008 he used this speech to frame the word choice using the word choice or choose more than 20 times. >> the choice you face won't just be between two candidates or two parties, it will be a choice between two different paths for america, a choice between two fundamentally different advices for the future. >> for dissolution the president tried to define hope and change, hoping to redefine his base, particularly young voters. >> the election four years ago wasn't about me. it was about you. my fellow citizens, you were the change. you're the reason a young immigrant who grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported from the only country she's ever called home. why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love. >> reporter: beyond the president's speech, the convention's most powerful mom came earlier thursday. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. >> reporter: there was no

are turning it out. here is the key though, for us to do our show live from your university -- >> monday, october 1st -- >> you have got to get out there and vote, 'cause this rocks. so you have to go to klgandhoda.com and vote and you can only vote one per computer so stop cheating. 'cause there are people out there who are doing that. >> in computer science to whoa how to clicketty clack. >> we will be back with her in a little bit. but big night, not just for sarah, but lindsay lohan. >> okay. >> was arrested again, early this morning in new york. >> here's what -- this is what reports say happened. at 2 a.m., she was driving around in a porsche and they say she clipped someone, a pedestrian who was walking. >> in the median. >> he was taken to the hospital and released without any visible injuries, we should point out. meantime, after she allegedly hit him, she went to a nearby hotel. i guess the guy who claims he hit her called the cops. and they went in there and they -- >> they -- arrested here. >> for leaving the scene of an accident i think is what they got her for. so, she was issued a deck appearance ticket and released without bail. they say -- the police are saying no alc

-to play list. go ahead, savannah. tell us a little bit about that. >> it's "wanna be starting something" from michael jackson. >> i have to say this is probably my favorite song ever. >> is it really? >> i think it might be. let me put it this way, my favorite dance song ever. >> can we go back to the exterior shot. clearly has the crowd rocking out. >> go crazy. >> so far you've got this party started. >> i brought a disco ball but you guys said it wasn't appropriate. >> by the way, find the play lists on today.com. we partnered with the streaming music service spotify to future the selections as well. >> does it distract you when i chair dance like this? >> just a little bit. >> all right. >> also ahead, a lot of scary sounding viruses in the news, west nile, hantavirus, and now a 7-year-old has contracted bubonic plague and is recovering. dr. oz is here this morning trying to fill us in on what's going on. >> we've got a great story. a remarkable man who is making the most of his second chance at life. a former professional race car driver who lost his legs in a crash. he's

jill martin is coming by. she's got some more of jill's fun finds. she is going to help us by showing us some hostess gifts for under 25 bucks. jewelry and all sorts of things. and then we've -- how many of us have had a little could have they morning? >> oh, come on. >> a little hit of caffein. >> yeah. >> this morning, we'll tell you the five facts you need to know about how caffein affects your daily performance. >> i have not had any caffein. >> no coffee? >> you drink that liquid. >> kabucha and ginger, that's my caffein. >> natalie is standing by with the headlines. >> a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows president obama opening up a five-point lead over mitt romney among likely voters. on "the late show with david letterman" the president responded to romney's secretly recorded remark that half of americans think they are entitled to government support. the president says if you want to be president, you have to work for everybody. romney, not a advise jizing, elaborated saying when people are in distress, quote, we give them temporary help and pull them back up but

you to spend time with us this morning. >> thanks, matt, take care. >> thank you. let's go back now to savannah in charlotte. >>> all right, matt. thanks. one of the nation's most hotly contested races in massachusetts where elizabeth warren challenging republican incumbent scott brown. she will speak at the convention. good morning. >> good morning. >> the dust-up in the campaign has to do with ronald reagan's famous question, are you better off than you were four years ago. is it telling initially democrats seemed to have a hard time answering this question? >> i think the important thing about this question is you have to remember exactly where we were four years ago. the markets were crashing. the financial system was in threat of seizing up entirely and economists were talking about a worldwide depression. the recklessness on wall street cost trillions in pension money, trillions in values of people's homes and it cost millions of jobs. in other words, it was a very long fall. it's working its way back, but it's slow. >> for the campaign to say, okay, now absolutely you are bet

. way to go, guys. >> iowa is not representing. >> we want to go to your college. if you tweet us and show us your school spirit, we might choose you and do our school live from there. virginia tech. hello. >> usc, come on. fight on, fight on for usc. beat the pants off the other day. that's usc. >> look at that. >> there's tommy trojan and the horse. >> do not diss my people. ♪ >> that's embarrassing. >> that's cute. >> gorgeous guy on a horse, what is that? >> that's a turkey. >> uva. we want uva to come out. regis' old alma mater, notre dame. >> bobo down at rollins college. lehigh university. >> send us your tweets. >> this first one is a photo from west virginia university. "come home to morgantown, home of the mountaineers." there's another photo from rollins college in florida, "starting our morning with kg and hoda again." come to florida. claiming hoda loves it there, i do too, hoda, woman. see you soon. >> okay, you've got until friday, so get tweeting. >> nobody is twikking us right now. it's not working yet? >> okay, it's working. >>> anyway, country music star. >> and a

dealing with it. secondly, though, governor romney's got to tell us how he's going to be different, what are his plans? and his speech, although i thought it was pretty impressive, lester, was very short of any details on what plans he has to get the economy moving. >> well, and i want to turn to alice on that question not only on the economy, but alice, he didn't talk much about foreign policy. did he leave some open blanks that are going to be ripe targets come this week when democrats get together? >> i think he hit all the right points. certainly, as we said, he met with foreign policy leaders earlier in the week, and it's key to the point of jobs and the economy, which is issue number one in this election. it's important to reach out to the independent voters. they're going to decide this election, and it's important to point out the contrast between he and the president. and he outlined his plan for a better middle class, which includes energy independence, it includes being a champion for small businesses, it includes improving skills for the workers of this country, it includes d

? >> we want to go back to college. so we are asking colleges and campuses to tweet their spirit on our twitter page. klg&hodau. send us pictures, videos. whoever is the winner at the end, we'll do our show from their school. isn't that going to be crazy? >> that sets education back about 100 years. >> sara, you had some tweets? >> we had good ones. >> how many schools did you hit at that time? >> i was already working at the age of 18. i was going to school at night, sara. some people actually struggled in life, okay? >> we did. we had over 1.5 million people see this in one day. you saw the numbers jump during the hour, so this is huge. we've got laura finley tweeted us. "let's get hoda back to virginia tech for a hokey football game. klg, you are wearing eli's jersey on the show today, come experience where he went to college. you need to experience the number one college in tailgating campus beauty and student beauty, ole miss rebels. then there was a re-tweet, we agree. and north dakota state, three of your biggest fans are in thompson hall floor five. >> look at north dakota state. >> we had a couple more schools. creight

. >> that hopefully we can book. big surprise. we don't know. >> going to be fun. we want you to join us. >> starts at 8:00 a.m. get there -- first come, first serve. our live show begins at 10:00 a.m. >> this is important. we'll host a creative sign contest. we want you guys to do your best artwork, show up on the plaza out there with a sign. we'll pick you and you'll get another surprise that we don't know -- >> >> we don't know what it is either. it's going to be great. >> don't -- >> yeah. don't study this weekend. spend all your time wasting your time. >>> there is news in the tipping department. >> okay. here's the thing -- >> i used to think it was 15% unless you're out to dinner at a nice place and it's 20%. >> it's 20% -- 20 across the board. that's what i think. now some people do that weird thing where they double the tax. i don't understand that situation. so 20% is what it's supposed to be. now a "the new york post" study says the new normal is 25% to 30%. that's 1/3 of your meal. >> cornell university looked at another study. not -- over 9,000 restaurant receipts and found more than 1

their weekday going with us on the plaza. nice of them to stop by. out on the plaza, i'm matt lauer along with al roker. he's with us while savannah is in charlotte, north carolina. >> good to be here. we're going to talk to ivanka trump. we're going inside her 10 bedroom apartment. she and her husband and young daughter share it. we're going to get a little virtual tour courtesy of ivanka herself. >> yes. she'll be on set and we'll show some photos. >> we'd like that. >> we didn't like bust into her house. >> i think they knew about it prior to this. >> otherwise it's breaking and entering. >> not so good. also by the way, got all these summer barbecues, summer fun. now it's time to get serious about your diet again. this morning joey bauer is here to be a kill joy and answer your most pressing questions when it comes to cholesterol and blood pressure. very important. >> jason was just asking me the question, matt, what's going to be hot on your feet this fall. this morning just for jason, we're going to give you the answer. look at some of the -- those aren't for jason, other peop

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headed above the water. how did it go? >> it's counterintuitive but a new device uses water to help me catch air. you've seen james bond use one in "thunderball" and tony stark soar in the "ironman" movie. now almost anyone can levitate in the air with the jet pack. pp it auz of of mtd . >> it's an adrenaline rush. it's something where it's so unnatural. think about it. man has been trying to fly for how many years? >> manny bellow rents the jets at jersey shore water craft rentals in seaside heights. the engine trails the jet pack and propels water downward to launch a rider up to 30 feet in the air. really advanced pilots can run on water, dive below and corkscrew. what's the verb, are you jet leving, jumping, flying, swimming, are you dying? pp kobld. >> corporate headquarters call it jet-leving. i would call it flying. jet packing. >> you have to be at least 16 years old and weigh between 90 and 380 pounds. what tips can you give me? >> it isn't about the muscles. we've had young girls who have gone up there and just out-performed most of the guys. >> i think i'm ready. anything

muscles. well, guess what? he's bringing his muscles here. going to join us for our "take 3" segment in a couple of minutes and more stuff during the 9:00 hour. what, go ahead, say it. no, come on. >> no good can come of this. >> not for television. >> maybe thinking about buying or selling a home. barbara corcoran is here to show you what you can get for $400,000 or less. whether it's a modern, a contemporary or a traditional home, well, we've got the 411 for you. >> well, let's go inside. natalie's got the headlines. >> good morning again, matt, savannah and al. >>> mitt romney isn't apologizing for comments he made to wealthy dopers at a florida fund-raiser. the reap captain can presidential hopeful said on a secret video that 47% of americans believe they are entitled to help from help from the government. he the video was made public by the magazine "mother jones. ". >>> olympic snowboarding champ shaun white was released by nashville police after his arrest early sunday on charges of public intoxication and vandalism. police say white is accused of pulling a fire alarm and destroyin

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their lawyers get set to go to court to keep more topless photos of the duchess from being published. >>> and happy birthday to us. "weekend today" turns 25 years old and this morning we're looking back at 25 years of breaking news. >> saddam hussein was hanged -- >> treks around the world -- >> good morning from shanghai. >> and, of course, good times. >> go "weekend today." >> and many of your favorite co-hosts are back to take a stroll down memory lane. today, sunday, september 16, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on a sat saty morning. i'm lester hold. >> we are happy. >> that's quite a wide shot there. all have helped make this program the last 25 years waking up early on the weekends to bring you the day's top stories and have a little fun as well. they're all here. al roker, garrett utley, mary ellis williams, scott simon, jackie nespral, mike schneider, gisele fernandez, jodie there he is -- from memphis, >> there he is. >> did you miss the plane, jack? how does it feel to be back, everybody? >> it's wonderful to say hello to my hair. >> my famil