will he or won't he? all eyes on the jerry sandusky sexual abuse trial as the defense decides whether to put sandusky on the stand as early as today@withering testimony from eight alleged victims. can the jury will convincedhe former coach shouldn't spend the rest of his life behind bars. hottest temperatures of the year with near record highs from arizona to michigan. the entire east coast will be feeling that heat tomorrow. art world outraged. a man takes a picasso at a museum. caught on camera.

now they are trying to track that thief down. today, june 19th, 2012. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and ann curry. live from studio 1, a in and ann curry. live from studio 1, a in 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 he's feeling. we'll get to hear from him coming up. good news. we begin this morning, tuesday morning, with a question, at the jerry sandusky trial, will sandusky himself take the witness stand. michael isikoff at the courthouse. michael, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. jerry sandusky faces the decision of his life today, whether to testify in his own defense as his sex abuse trial race toss a finish. jerry sandusky continues his defense today after monday's

emotional testimony from the prosecutor's final witness, the mother of one of his alleged victims. the woman testified she was initially excited when sandusky, a very important person, she said, offered to take her son for weekend visits. sobbing, she testified her son wanted to stop going to sandusky's home but she never knew why. i would ask him why and he'd just say he didn't feel like it and i'd make him go anyway. you still didn't know specifically what happened to him, said the prosecutor. no, i don't. i just can't imagine. do you feel responsible? yes, do i. last week her son, known in court documents as victim nine, and now 18 years old testified he was repeatedly sexually assaulted in sandusky's home over a three-year period. how are you supposed to tell your mom something like that? he said. >> this was the only mother to testify. her testimony had a resonance for jurors as parents in a way that maybe the victim's testimony himself did not.

>> reporter: later sandusky's lawyers began his defense calling a string of character witnesses including another penn state assistant coach dick anderson who said the defendant had a wonderful reputation in the community. anderson also said that as a coach, he, too, had often showered with young boys after sports. did you hug them? the prosecutor asked. no, i did not. a consultant to sandusky's charity said he saw mutual admiration between children and sandusky. i saw a lot of goofing around. jerry had a very unique way and many of us were inspired to how he could relate to youth of all ages. but none of the defense witnesses spoke directly about the sex abuse allegations against sandusky. >> i don't think today there was one whole hope in the prosecution case. >> reporter: the defense lawyers do plan to argue the alleged victims and their lawyers are motivated by hopes of raking in big bucks from civil lawsuits. they do have to decide very quickly whether to take the biggest risk of all, putting

sandusky himself on the witness stand. now, the defense may also introduce evidence that some of sandusky's behavior is caused by a rare psychiatric malady called histrionic personality disorder. but either way the defense has said it now plans to rest by midday wednesday, meaning this case could go to the jury as early as thursday. matt. michael isikoff, thank you very much. an attorney, former prosecutor, psychiatrist gail saltz, a "today" contributor. good morning. let's start where he left off, histrionic personality disorder, defense filed a motion saying they might bring it up in testimony. just real quickly, what is it? >> ongoing pattern of behavior where you need to be the center of attention, overall dramatic relationships, sometimes you're overly seductive and you think

they are closer than they actually are. >> as a psychiatrist, would you argue someone with histrionic personality disorder would be unable to tell the difference between right and wrong, legal and illegal, especially when it dos behavior around young boys? >> this diagnosis has no bearing on your moral compass, your ability to understand what's legal. it has nothing to do with being a pedophile. it has nothing to do with sexual behavior toward children. >> not putting your lawyer's hat on you right now but in terms of a psychiatrist's hat, this would be a stretch in your opinion. >> this would be an incredible stretch so much that it disturbs some of my colleagues they are bringing i up. >> will they bring it up? congratulations i'm making you the defense attorney. will they go there? >> no. they are basing this on ambiguous language and letters written to one of the victim, excessive caring and clingy and trying to boot strap that into the argument that he was not a

manipulating dominating sexual predator. >> if they were to go there, and this is hypothetical, if they were to go there, wouldn't they be in some ways admitting that he did all these things and then say but here is the reason why. why would they want to take that tactic? >> i don't understand at this point. in all the witnesses defense has shown a mainstream guy's guy, doesn't fit the profile at all a jury is just going to say hired gun, not worth the weight it's given. it's going to be largely disregarded. >> again, putting the defense attorney's hat on you. you have just sat through listening to the prosecution, a couple of weeks of withering testimony, unsettling, disturbing, graphic testimony. how do you go about in what seems to be a short case you're going to present convincing the jury they have not heard the real story about jerry sandusky. >> i think they just have to say none of it is factual, didn't happen, never went on. they have to do that by showing

the times, the events, the places were all sort of vague and they couldn't nail down the details, therefore you have to ignore it. >> so if it comes to that decision of saying do we take, do we roll the dice and do we put jerry sandusky on the stand to defend himself, do they have anything else they can go on? might they actually take that course? >> i don't think so. from a practical sense, the time they are going to be done wouldn't have the time to testify, he's got the costas interview, the letters he's written, too much empeachment testimony to put him on the stand. >> we'll wait to see what actually does happen. we're hearing the defense will rest by tomorrow. thank you so much. it's eight minutes past the hour. here is ann. >> now we're hearing the jailhouse phone call between george zimmerman and his wife. they recorded days before the

bond hearing in the trayvon martin case. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. in the six calls that lasted an hour and 33 minutes, we hear george zimmerman in jail talking to his wife. they talk about money. they talk about their safety but they never talk about the shooting death of trayvon martin. for the first time we're hearing newly released recording of phone calls between 28-year-old george zimmerman and his wife shelley. the calls made while zimmerman was in jail accused in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. prosecutors a little the couple conspired to shift money to zimmerman's sister's account. the money, prosecutors say, came from an account allegedly funded by a website that raised over $135,000 for zimmerman's defense. prosecutors say they believe the conversations captured a rudimentary code where 10 is

really 10,000. >> so take your ten out first to keep in your pocket. >> uh-huh. >> and then at the institution see if you can put ten into hers right away. >> uh-huh. >> and see if she can take ten, that ten out, and put it in the box there. >> reporter: at zimmerman's bond hearing in april, his wife testified the couple had limited funds. the judge saet $150,000 bond unaware of the defense fund. it's the jailhouse conversation that convinced the judge to revoke zimmerman's bond and send him back to jail. >> he established his credibility. i think he can rehabilitate that with his apology to the court. i think we'll move on from there. don't forget his credibility is of some relevance. much more important are the facts of the case. >> for her part, shelley zimmerman is charged with perjury for lying to the judge at the bond hearing. in much of the jailhouse phone conversation, a devoted wife

supports her husband. >> don't worry cutie. don't even worry. >> ah, man, that feels good. that there are people in america that care. >> yeah, they do, trust me. >> reporter: at one point they talk about making sure george is safe if he makes bond. they talk about hiding him in a car as it leaves jail. >> you could always like lay down or something. >> yeah, exactly. well, i have my hoodie. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. true. >> reporter: there's confidence in those calls that george zimmerman will eventually walk free. >> after this is all over, you're going to be able to just have a great life. >> we will. >> yeah, we will. >> reporter: george zimmerman during the call also tells his wife that he's taking his medication, which includes an

antidepressant and atoral commonly used for adhd and he says during the conversation to get bulletproof vest for him, his wife and their attorney, for their safety. >> thank you for your reporting on this. >> let's get a check of the top stories. natalie is behind the news desk. natalie, welcome back. >> thank you matt and ann. world leaders at the g-20 summit are trying to show a united front as they draft a plan to spur economic growth. nbc's chief correspondent and political director chuck todd in loss c los cabos. chuck, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. most will be on figuring out how the european debt crisis doesn't trigger a global recession. so far it's a meeting between mr. obama and russian president vladimir putin that's been the biggest headline of the summit so far.

it's the tale of two summits, president obama and fellow world leaders were all smiles at the summit class photo monday night. in a meeting earlier monday, the body language between president obama and newly installed russian president vladimir putin could not be clearer or colder. they are emphatic neither should be read into the world leaders. >> i would encourage you not to read into what the relationship is. >> reporter: the two made sure the cameras caught them exchanging a quick laugh. the stickiest issue the two discussed, syria. >> we agree we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war. >> translator: we've been able to find many commonalities. >> reporter: meanwhile back in the states, mitt romney continues on his midwestern bus

tour. >> iowa, you're going to help elect me the next president of the united states. >> reporter: speaking of the campaign, the obama campaign concerned former 2004 democratic nominee john kerry is going to serve as barack obama's sparring debate partner sitting in for mitt romney when they practice for the debates, natalie. >> all right. interesting practice session. chuck todd in mexico, thank you. the canadian adult film actor charged with the murder and dismemberment of a montreal student makes his first court appearance today after being extradited from germany to canada. following an international manhunt last month. he faces five charges including first degree murder and threatening politicians for allegedly mailing his victim's body parts to various offices. roger clemens acquitted on all charges. the jury delivered a not guilty verdict for the famed pitcher

saying he did not lie to congress about using performance enhancing drugs in 2008. now to courtney reagan at the new york stock exchange. all eyes on the fed. >> yes. good morning, today is the first day of two days of open market meeting. after a weaker than expected market report many watchers are hoping that the committee will announce further unconventional measures in order to stimulate the nation's economy. elsewhere today jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon will testify on capitol hill about the hedging strategy that led to the multi-billion dollar loss. this time dimon will be joined by company executives before the house financial services committee. back to you. >> courtney reagan at the new york stock exchange. thank you. police are surging for a man caught on tape vandalizing pablo picasso's armchair at an art museum.

the vandal left the scene. they got to work immediately and say the painting has an excellent prognosis. matt and ann, the man, a self-described artist or wannabe artist, apparently told a bystander who took cell phone video that he was hoping to honor picasso's work. >> may need therapy. >> an aspiring artist who defaces other artist's work. >> no way of making that right. meantime let's talk about this heat wave, mr. roker. >> pretty severe on both coasts and everywhere in between. get to it and show you temperatures in the 90s, 100s to the great lakes. mississippi river valley into the southwest. we start out west. we're talking about afternoon highs there getting into the 110 to near 120 degrees from palm springs to tucson. out east we've got strong temperatures. we're talking about anywhere from 90 to 100. it's going to feel like 105

between tomorrow and thursday. d.c., philly, new york city and boston. that's when temperatures are dangerous. make sure you check with elderly neighbors because they are really susceptible >> good morning. we have some low cloud cover this morning. sunshine will break through the clouds. >> that's your latest weather. matt. >> thank you very much. the 7-year-old star of that popular darth vader ad is resting at home after being released from the hospital following successful open-heart surgery. this morning we're hearing from matt page himself.

nbc's miguel almaguer has the latest on this. miguel, good morning to you. >> good morning. little max was born with a heart defect. at the age of seven, he's undergone eight surgeries, his latest a complete success for the pint-sized patient who is once again ready to take on the world. as little darth vader he used his powers to capture our imagination. but the boy behind the mask is using his real life story to capture even more hearts. >> i was kind of scared. but is all sleep. after that, i don't remember anything in the surgery. >> reporter: today 7-year-old max page is home from the hospital, on his way to a full recovery after open-heart surgery. >> i'm excited about a lot of things, especially having a milkshake. >> reporter: doctors say the valve in max's pulmonary artery was basically nonexistent. in surgery doctors inserted a new pulmonary valve helping his heart function more effectively.

the operation will give max the energy to once again run and play like a normal 7-year-old. the surgery saved his life. >> well, i do feel a little pain in my chest but not much. >> reporter: but didn't change max's spirit. >> is this working? >> reporter: max kept a brave face throughout. but for his parents, the moments before surgery were heart wrenching. >> there's no feeling like when you actually have to hand your child over, and you hope that you'll see them alive again. >> reporter: a milkshake a day keeps the tears away. >> reporter: last week max was planning his busy day at home. his dad says surgery won't slow him down. >> that little boy, he's still there. it didn't change him. he's full of life, full of energy, engaging, cares about people. >> reporter: doctors at children's hospital in los angeles say max will be back in full force in no time.

>> his job now is to get his strength back up and get his stamina back up. he'll be back in school on schedule. >> reporter: art conquering his latest battle little darth vader is back home but not before channeling his inner yoda. >> if you use your force and dream big, you can achieve anything. we may be small but we're mighty. >> reporter: he'll spend six weeks at home recovering but as you can see everyone little max vader is recovering. >> thank you very much. just ahead one of those stories that comes along makes you shake your head. a terrifying accident at a fishing trip. a 16-year-old shot in the head by a spear. that boy's doctor will talk about what is a miraculous recovery and survival, but first this is "today" on nbc.is@

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take a look at an x-ray of a 16-year-old boy in florida who was accidentally shot in the head with a spear from one of those fishing spear guns. it took a lengthy and extremely delicate surgery to remove that. doctors say it is a miracle that that 16-year-old survived. we're going to hear from those doctors coming up in a couple of minutes. it's 7:30 tuesday morning, the 19th of june, 2012. i'm matt lauer with ann curry. >> this morning coming up ahead new images of rielle hunter and john edwards together. they come as we learn more about the harsh words hunter has used to describe his late wife elizabeth in her new tell-all. also hear what hunter had to say

about "today's" professionals weigh in. >> mike tyson tackled the world of hollywood and boxing. now he's said to try something new when he makes his broadway debut in a one-man show these going to be direct bid spike lee. they will both join us exclusively to tell us what we can expect. i'm not sure mike is ready for broadway. i know he's not ready for "today's" professionals. >> donny deutsch. donny, don't you know better, don't hit that man. he might hit back. >> mike, do us one favor. take one shot at this guy. just one. uh-oh. >> will ahead prince william celebrating his 30th birthday this coming week. how will he do that? we'll have an update on that. >> let's begin this half hour with the race to save a florida teen who was shot in the head by a fishing spear. nbc's tamron hall has this story. tamron, good morning. >> it all started off a fun day

of fishing in minimami but quic turned into a nightmare when one boy was rushed to a hospital after a spear gun went off accidentally. on monday doctors revealed the tale of how they saved a miami teenager after a freak fishing accident left him with a giant fishing spear through the head. >> we used a high-speed drill to drill the bone at either end to create an opening to remove the spear. the first order of business was to try to get the spear cut off and do the test without having it move on us. we were able to plan the surgery rationally, position him left side down, right side up. then we were able to open a large incision. >> reporter: nearly two weeks ago 16-year-old yasser lopez was fishing with a friend. the boys were loading a three-foot spear gun when it accidentally went off and hit lopez right above his right eye. the force was so strong it knocked lopez into the water. his friends called 911. he was conscious when he was

airlifted to the hospital. >> very shortly after he arrived, he started to become agitated and kind of, i don't know, for lack of another word panicky. we didn't know if that was a result of the injury to his brain or scared, in a lot of pain. but he was awake and interacting with us. >> reporter: dr. george garcia treated lopez on his arrival. he said the single best indicator he would survive, he remained lucid throughout. >> i thinkel do well, he was speaking to the paramedics. made me hopeful from the beginning. pretty lucky boy. >> reporter: in the end a series of three miracles kept the teenager alive. the side in which the spear gun entered his head, the fact it missed important blood vessels, also important structures of the brain. >> could have gone either way. i think just incredibly fortunate, a constellation of circumstances that came through in this amazing, freaky way. >> as of monday lopez was only

able to speak to doctors in short sentences. according to dr. garcia, suffer from posttraumatic amnesia and will probably never remember the accident. that might be a good thing. he'll see the video over and over but won't remember what happened. >> thanks so much, tamron. details emerging about the upcoming memoir of rielle hunter. she writes unflattering things about his late wife elizabeth. details on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. rielle hunter's new book is apparently more than just a play by play of john edwards fall from political grace and hunter's role in it. the tell-all includes blistering images of elizabeth edwards. >> a kiss monday from john edwards for rielle hunter, his former mistress and the mother of his child. thursday edwards shared a laugh

and a drink on the balcony with hunter and enjoyed daddy-daughter time with 4-year-old quinn. we learn more about what's in hunter's upcoming book. >> a lot of people in the edwards family will think why now? >> reporter: hunter uses scathing words to describe edwards late wife elizabeth who died from breast cancer in 2010. in an excerpt, she writes elizabeth edwards was crazy and a venomous witch on wheels. >> a lot of people will say the source of this, as someone who is john edwards mistress, is someone who maybe isn't the most credible person to describe what elizabeth edwards was like. >> in another excerpt edwards tells her his marriage had been in trouble for years. it was filled with issues neither johnny nor elizabeth wanted to address. they did not want to disclose the truth to themselves, much less the public.

when his corruption trial ended in no conviction edwards blamed only himself for his downfall. >> there is no one else responsible for my sins. none of the people who came to court and testified are responsible. nobody working for the government is responsible. i am responsible. >> reporter: edwards did not mention hunter on the courthouse steps that day. the associated press reveals at the end of the book hunter writes about romantic feelings she has for the man she affectionately calls johnny. in 2010 she tells oprah she tells loves him. >> has he ever told you he lovers you. >> yes. it's my experience he loves me. >> hunter writes, i have a deeper understanding of him as a dad and as a person who puts his children first. and i believe he has more respect and deeper appreciation of me now. >> i'm not sure what the audience for this book will be. we'll see if there's an appetite

for something that for most americans is a sad story. >> reporter: she wrote the book because she wants her daughter quinn to have, quote, one entirely truthful public account of how she came into the world, and this is her story, too. matt. >> craig melvin. thank you very much. let's get a check of the weather now from mr. roker. >> thank you so much. got some friends here. where are you guys from? you're normal. your above normal. very nice. nice to see you guys. let's see if we've got some normal weather to talk about. strong storms from norfolk to duluth into northern wisconsin. we are looking for a chance for tornadoes, damaging winds and hail. you can see it's already pushing ahead of this warm front that's going to bring ahead of it some damaging tornadoes possible. a lot of heavy rain, too. anywhere from one to three inches of rain. northern and central minnesota

on into the up of michigan. that's what going on around the >> good morning.th it will be warmer and more humid. a slight chance for rain showers. and that's your latest weather. matt. >> thank you very much. programming note on thursday here on "today" we'll have an exclusive interview with madonna badger. she, of course, is the mother who lost her three children and her parents in a devastating house fire last christmas. we sat down with her on monday to talk about the tragedy and the moment when firefighters pulled her away from that house. >> my teeth were black and my

mouth was black from the smoke. you know, they took me away quickly because worried about smoke inhalation. i don't know. something can happen to you. they said i had to go right away. i begged them and begged them. and then i was in an ambulance and the walkie-talkies are going on. i'm yelling at them, where are my kids, where are my babies. and then somebody said turn off the radios, turn off the radios. i knew they must have -- i don't know what happened. something really bad. >> madonna has a lot of questions she doesn't have answers to in terms of what caused the fire, what happened during the fire, and what happened in the days following that fire. she hopes that the answers to those questions, when she eventually gets them, will

perhaps help other families avoid something similar. she's an amazing woman. we'll hear from her on thursday here on "today." >> must have taken a lot of courage for her to speak so publicly to help other people after losing so much. >> i want to mention our full interview will air thursday night at 10:00, 9:00 central time on rock center with brian williams. we are back right after this. let's take a paint project from "that looks hard" to "that didn't take long". let's break out behr ultra... ...the number one selling paint and primer in one, now with stain blocker. each coat works three times harder, priming, covering, and blocking stains. let's go where no paint has gone before, and end up some place beautiful. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. behr ultra. now with advanced stain blocking, only at the home depot, and only $31.98 a gallon. [ female announcer ] improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula

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back now at 7:43 with a warning about a danger at some of our nation's beaches. experts have issued an alert about powerful rip currents. nbc's kerry sanders with more on this story. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. again today the national weather service says there is a high probability for rip currents here in new smyrna beach, florida, also corpus christi, texas, and lake michigan. the problem is you can't see a rip current. often that silent threat can be deadly. along the atlantic coast more than just strong surf and invisible threat. on sunday lifeguards rescued dozens of swimmers from powerful rip currents in new smyrna

beach. it was all too much for a 14-year-old boy trapped by a rip current. he drowned. nearby ormond beach same thing as a 66-year-old man drowned. rescuers couldn't get to him in time. >> lifeguards pulled him to shore eventually. they did rescue efforts, cpr, and they were unable to bring him back. >> reporter: more than 100 swimmers die every year from the current. this rescue caught on tape by the reality tv show, "ocean force." among the survivors now warning beachgoers of the hidden threat, 17-year-old erica hernandez. five years ago she was trapped in a rip off the east coast of florida. >> i was going to die. i remember seeing this man say to me, i was on his shoulder and i was screaming, i'm going to die, i'm going to die. it was terrifying. >> reporter: erica survived, but only because of the heroic efforts of a bystander, john carlos.

>> he's a hero, but he was a hero before that to me. he was my child. >> reporter: his mother olga is torn by her only child's heroism that day, the 31-year-old everyone called j.c. saved erica. as he lifted her to safety and another bystander took her to shore, jl c. was pulled down by the same rip current. >> when i see your son, i see a very strong man. >> he's a good swimmer. yes, he was. very strong, very athletic, very fit. >> reporter: strong, fit, but no match for mother nature. created by shifting sand, the powerful rip current pulls a swimmer directly away from shore. it's usually the exhaustion of trying to swim against that rip, combined with panic, that causes a swimmer to drown. the best advice if you're caught in a relationship, try to swim parallel to the beach. but experts say sometimes that's easier said than done. you during the last year, this

lifeguard has rescued more than 100 swimmers. >> when you rescue someone and revive them, what do they tell you. >> they had no idea how strong it could come or there were currents that day. the most important thing i can tell everybody is just swim in front of a lifeguard tower. there's somebody there to help you. >> reporter: that's a big problem. there are no lifeguards where people are swimming. i have biodegradable cookies to show where a rip current is. if you see green in the water, there's no rip current here because it it would be pulling straight out. >> excellent information about how to protect from rip currents. thank you so much. coming up next the royal family takes part in an ancient ritual as the duchess of cambridge celebrates her husband's birthday right after this. ♪

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an historic ceremony as they gear up for prince william's 30th birthday which will take place a little later this week. >> reporter: it was another ancient ritual played out at windsor castle. three generations of royals in full regalia, including headgear with ostrich and herring plumes. a sector on the sidelines where this royal trio looking on, duchess of cambridge dazzling in a white dress but showing her flair for frugality. it was the same dress she wore at a different event last year. she brought back a more familiar sight, her trademark nude heels, a far cry from weekend wear where she spent time with innocent children. and settling down to a tasty treat around the campfire, kate

clearly enjoyed a relaxed couple of hours after weeks of royal pageantry. her focus this week will be on william, who is turning 30 on thursday. kate has promised to throw a party, though it's reportedly going to be a moderate affair. >> i think really this 30th birthday will be low key, because he doesn't want to have some major celebration, a big lavish party while the rest of great britain and all of europe is suffering from austerity measures. it's been a year when royal approval ratings have soared. as the big birthday approaches prince william, who hasn't always been comfortable growing up in the public eye appears to be sellinging into his role and dealing with the growing expectations that are part of life as the king in waiting. whether he's helping out the queen in her royal duty or pursuing his own charitable passions, this interview today. >> when you buy ivory, you are

taking this from an animal that has been slaughtered. this decorative ornament in your home, is that what you desire and think is right in the world. >> reporter: could help the monarchy survive and may well improve the best of both world. "today," nbc news, london. >> must be nice. >> must be nice. coming up, kathie lee and hoda are ready for "today's" professionals. are the professionals ready for kathie lee and hoda. that's the question. also coming up mike tyson and spike lee open up about bringing iron mike's story to broadway. we talk to them exclusively but first these messages. but what about your wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to visibly reduce wrinkles in just one week. "why wait if you don't have to."

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning everybody. time for another check on the morning commute. >> hello, again. it is getting busy for motorists on the west side. the outer loop approaching security we're getting word of an accident there. continuing past security towards edmonton. another accident to watch for us to travel in phoenix. also, jack street remains closed. 24 miles per hour. if you want to have -- if you

want to head out, watch for additional delays. hourly traffic is pretty heavy there. you'll find delays in the outer loop. let's turn quickly to 95 at white marsh. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. over to you. >> thank you. today will be our transition day. it is kind of drifting in our direction. that boundary will see some low cloud cover and sprinkles and a few neighborhoods. nothing of any consequence. 65 at the airport. clouds to start. maybe a shower. that could create a thunderstorm. and then we turn up the heat.

96 on thursday. when you factor in the humidity, the heat index will be about 100.

8:00 on tuesday morning, 19th of june, 2012. the last full day of spring. tomorrow is going to feel like summer. is that right? >> summer arrives at 7:09 p.m. but it will feel like summertime unfortunately throughout this portion. >> i'm ann curry with matt lauer and al roker. just ahead "today" show first. >> i just realized that. former heavyweight champion mike tyson inside studio 1, a. he's there buff and with another

guy known to be buff, spike lee. teaming up on broadway for a one-man show. they are going to tell us about that in a couple minutes. >> all right. that's tuesday and that can only mean one thing, "today's" professionals. kathie lee and hoda will be joining donny and nancy this morning. they are just itching to tackle today's top stories. they are going to get a soothing balm for that. one a reality show accused of not being very real. >> by the way, you mention kathie lee. it has been 12 years since kathie lee left regis on that morning show. the two have not hosted a morning show together since then. but now apparently regis has withdrawn the restraining order and he is going to be joining kathie lee tomorrow hosting the fourth hour of "today" filling in for hoda. that's kathie lee and regis or

as regis likes to say regis and kathie lee. >> set the dvr for that. >> lot to get to. let's get inside to the top stories of the morning with natalie morales. >> good morning, everyone. the child molestation trial of assistant football coach jerry sandusky could go to the jury by the end of this week. the defense faces a last minute decision about whether to put sandusky on the stand. meanwhile prosecutors called their final witness, the mother of one of 10 alleged victims. she cried as she testified her son wanted to stop going to sandusky's home for unspecified reasons but she'd make him go anyway. jailhouse phone calls from george zimmerman and his wife could complicate his second bail hearing next week. prosecutors say the call show the zimmermans knew that a website had raised $135,000 for his defense in the killing of unarmed teen trayvon martin.

several days later at a bail hearing shellie zimmerman told a judge she didn't know how much money had been raised. her husbanded bail later revoked and she was charged with perjury. the georgia woman battleing a rare flesh eating bacteria is now going through what her father calls the worst pain of her entire ordeal. gabe gutierrez in georgia with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: natalie, good morning. it was an emotional father's day weekend for the family and likely a crucial week. amy is scheduled to have another surgery tomorrow to remove the dressings on her skin grafts. amy copeland has been through a lot. and after 45 days in the hospital, so has her dad. >> i'd give anything to be the one in the bed taking the pain. >> reporter: amy initially turned down morphine because she preferred holistic medicine. on his blog her father writes after her latest surgery, amy is

now taking medicine in as literal dose as prescribed. she's now requesting it ahead of schedule. >> i can't imagine what it's like to have phantom pains she still experiences in her arms. sometimes it feels like her hands are stuck inside of her arms and they wan to come out. >> reporter: he says amy's pain has spread from her amputation sites to her groin. since contracting the flesh eating bacteria from a gash on her leg amy lost both hands, her left leg and right foot. yet despite her agony, she whispered something to her dad on sunday. >> she said, dad. i said yes, honey. she said happy father's day. my heart melted. i think this will be the most memorable father's day i've ever had. i spent it with a daughter a lot of medical professionals early on had given up for dead. >> reporter: amy's father said

doctors believe despite recent setbacks she could be in a wheelchair in months and out of the hospital and into rehab within weeks. >> in augusta, georgia, thank you. who are is brian williams with a look at what's coming up on "nightly news." >> reporter: natalie, good morning. coming up on "nightly news," a great feature story on an olympic hopeful, the hurdler, what a story. from homelessness to trying to represent her country in the olympics again. that and more when we see you tonight. for now, natalie, back to you. >> now for a look at what is trending today. a quick roundup on what has you talking on line. a huge backlash has caused them to pull a sneaker design and caused them to apologize. they unveiled on facebook orange chains that connect to the ankles. they say the shoes evoke images of slave shackles. justin bieber was a real trooper, entertaining his

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adorable ryan gosling in his premickey mouse club days. with these moves no wonder people consider him one of the sexiest men alive. he has moves like justin bieber. let's go back outside to alto check the weather. >> i wonder if he still has those pants. >> they are back in style. >> i need to get me some of those. wow. where are you guys from? >> atlanta, georgia. >> sisters coming together from alabama and georgia. >> okay. i know what that's like. believe me. let's show you what we've got. our pick city of the day, salt lake city, utah, nbc ksl tv. 55 degrees. you can see some strong storms firing up across the upper plains and upper midwest. the risk of strong storms there today. we're going to be looking at a lot of rain down in florida over the next few days. up to five inches as monsoonal moisture gets it together, makes

it's way. showers in the pacific northwest. showers and thunderstorms moving into the northeast and the heat continues from the southwest into the mid mississippi r >> good morning. we have some low cloud cover this morning. sunshine will break through the clouds. >> we're so glad to have you back, jimmy. thanks, al.

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and hoda. good morning. good to see you both. let's start with a story that doled over the last week. the president, president obama, on the lawn at the white house giving a speech about immigration policy when a reporter from "daily caller" a conservative website interrupted him in the middle of his speech. here is part of the exchange. >> it is the right thing to do. excuse me, sir. this is not time for questions, sir, not while i'm speaking. and the answer to your question, sir, and the next time i prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask that question. this is the right thing to do for american people. i didn't ask for an argument, i'm answering your question. >> this was not during the q&a, this was during the speech. he interrupted him. we'll start with the question, is it ever okay to interrupt the

president. >> not in the rose garden, not in a formal presentation. >> he's done with a speech. when he's done wit and fields questions, yes. i do think the press corps can be aggressive, you have to go for it. >> considered aggressive at abc news and i was there at the time. he waited while the president was walking to the chopper, a public forum, not a formal situation like the rose garden. >> it's never, i don't think in any situation okay to interrupt. we've got to keep the office up here. we're sometimes so overmedia, the president is everywhere, everyone, including the press, can forget that pedestal. clearly wrong. >> including the office here. have you ever been across the pond and watch parliament. they don't heat them get a word in edge wise. it's a different system. >> a different world. sam donaldson thought this was

racially driven. >> founded "the daily caller" the website said he's proud of him and it is a reporter's job to ask questions and get answers. >> respectfully. i think the president showed more respect for him by calling him sir three times. >> a great opportunity for the president to look presidential and scold him. >> let's move on. just a couple of weeks after the federal prosecutor decided not to retry charges against john edwards, who was acquitted on one charge and a jury deadlocked on a lot of other charges against him, you think he can get out of the headlines. no, rielle hunter, former mistress and mother of their child together has written a tell-all book. some of it unflattering about john edwards late wife and former wife elizabeth edwards. couldn't he have stopped this. >> kind of brutal, not just unflattering, kind of brutal. the ultimate in bad taste. >> it's interesting. i think people are going to find this titillating and interesting

and yucky at the same time. but i would have to say to her, this is something your daughter is at some point going to read. >> she said she wrote it for her. >> oh, my god, why do you want your daughter to read this. >> we're seeing some pictures of john and rielle on the beach seemingly in a pretty good relationship. don't you think he could have said to her, there is no winning by dragging this up, and especially not by attacking my late wife. >> it's unflattering to him. >> i would bet even as out of his mind as he clearly is he tried to do that and she did it anyway. >> the money she got for i. >> an unsavory situation and capitalize it. this is 101. >> the money never got to her, the million dollars. she said she was getting $5,000 a month. she never got that money. maybe she thought this was her big payday as yucky as we think it is. >> we keep talking about this.

people with bad behavior end up making tons of money getting popular, selling books and almost bragging about it. it kind of makes you a little bit sick. >> does she disappear or he disappear. >> lultly they both will. >> what do you think the public's interest in the book will be. >> not much. you know what i miss in these things, a wonderful old-fashioned thing called shame. >> please, shame. shame is a positive thing. >> she was the mistress with the child out of wedlock. where is some shame in all this. >> let me move on. hundreds of mayors across the country are calling for and sponsoring what they call trigger loss. nothing to do with guns. this is where if a school repeatedly underperforms and does not serve the needs of its children and students, parents can go in and take over the school and fire teachers and fire administrators and turn that school over to private management. is this a good idea? >> i'm all for it. >> this is the one area, the most important area teaching

that is not ameritocracy. this need to happen. >> desperate parents. i don't know if that's the right solution, parents going in and taking over and shutting it down, 51% is all you need to shut it down. it shows parents are freaking out. they want to do something and feel helpless. >> obviously teachers unions are not in favor of this, a lot of teachers will lose their job, some with seniority. >> i'm on the fence. i've seen helicopter parents that think they can did it better. if parents think they want to do this, they have to have a plan. you can't come in and say everyone is out and that's it. there has to be some sense of process to make it better. >> of course i think sometimes the threat that somebody has that power might get eventually these schools and administrators to start giving serious about educating our children, which by

the way is our first responsibility, not the educators and teachers, as parents to our children. >> and restore public schools. >> kathie lee coming into play late in the game. >> trying to be civil and polite, which is not my nature. >> thank you for joining us today. donny and dr. nancy as always, thank you. mike tyson brings his story to broadway with another help from the man next to him. spike lee, we'll talk to him right after this. [ male announcer ] with ultra-filtered water from the first ever hands-free dispenser, and micro-climate controls

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back now at 8:20. there's a new show coming to broadway this summer featuring an unlikely star, mike tyson, who will make his debut on the great white way in a one-man show called mike tyson, undisputed truth. he's with us along with the director spike lee. good morning. great to have you here. >> glad to be here. >> glad to have you for the first time in the studio. >> no, i've been here with brian gumball. you're not going to throw me under the bus. >> no. you did call me ma'am. that was nice for to you say that to me. let's talk about this one-man show. it's a raw and very revealing look at your life. why did you decide you wanted to do this? >> well, first of all, i was driving down 15 north in las

vegas, of course. we have the billboards and i saw it. she said, that's my favorite movie. all the black girls. i love the movie. i explained to my wife, hon, i can do that stuff. i'm in asia, wherever i'm at, in europe, talking to people, interact with the crowd like i do in asia and europe. i would talk. >> she wrote the script. >> after i talked about it. >> my camera man was in las vegas for an electronics convention. he just happened to walk by.

called me up and said, spike, i see this, it closed, couldn't get to las vegas. where were you, in england? >> poland. >> in poland. got him, go a take. d dvd. mr. broadway has been played forever. i showed him the tape. he said, let's do it. >> i understand it was emotional, painful. >> a roller coaster of human emotions. >> this is not sugarcoated. you talk about everything in the show in las vegas. becoming the youngest heavyweight champ but also being a man convicted of rape and your struggle with drug abuse. and the broadway show, are there any limits on what you're going to talk about? >> i'm pretty naked there and bare. >> not literally. >> oh, darn. that would have sold tickets. >> we want to sell tickets.

you will not be literally naked on the stage. >> everybody will be disappointed so much. i'm old. i'm old now. >> but when you're up there for a period of time all by yourself on stage, mike, talking about your ups and downs, do you recognize -- are you the same guy who lived that life? >> no, that's just so ironic. i remember when i was younger like in my 20s, early teens. i wanted to f you, everybody and anybody's face. now i'm a wimp, avoid arguments, let my wife get away with the stupidest stuff. i don't know. i'm vegan, too. >> you're vegan? >> yeah. >> what changed you? >> i need -- i threw up the white flag. too many prison cells, too many jails, too many lawsuits, too many bankruptcies, too many

venereal diseases, too many anything. every time a prostitute girl when i came back from a trip, wait a minute, i'm going to lead a different life, you know. >> you made a conscious -- >> you're all right, champ. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i was a prostitute hunter. >> okay. let me stop you there. the point is you made a switch. you consciously made a switch. >> thank god. >> to see him up there talking about this. this is going to take to present all of this on broadway, it's going to take a lot of emotion and willingness to go there emotionally. >> as we said yesterday in the press conference, mike is going to do the same courage he displayed in the ring. it's going to be i think this much courage to go on stage when you bare your soul to the

audience. >> talk about this, got to talk about this. >> i know it's going to be good. mike, thank you so much both of you this morning. >> a love affair. >> july >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. the time is 8:26. we will take a look at your morning commute. it is a little busy. an accident off to the right shoulder just adding to those delays. another probable the west side approaching security. we will take a look of that. let's take a look at one more note in phoenix. avoid that intersection. want to remind you that jack street is closed.

here is a live view of traffic. out of traffic, not a bad here. an accident is being cleared from the shoulder. we will switch to to a live view prior to white marsh. this is within the delay of to the right shoulder. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning everyone. we have a little bit of cloud cover out there this morning. nothing of any consequence. this is all a sign that the warm air is starting to work its way in. the forecast for today, a mixture of clouds and sunshine. it will be more human with a high temperature in the mid 80's. 95 tomorrow.

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movie. we'll be telling you more about the cast in just a while. meanwhile on the plaza, matt lauer along with ann curry, natalie morales and mr. al roker. >> did you know that 85% of last year's college graduates said they plan to move back in with their parents. we're dealing with the no so empty nest these days. the economy definitely is a factor. the question now is, are we as parents perhaps some degree to blame for our concierge behavior for parents. one author, we talked to her, talks about what we're doing to present to this. >> you might not want to pay attention to what bobby flay disenfranchisement you don't want the food too good at home. he's going to show you how to whip up an entire meal in just 15 minutes. >> that's good because we don't have any time to cook.

yes, absolutely. >> as parents, i think all of us have done this. we've thrown mongolia out to later find something our kids had was important to them. turns out a mom threw away her son's computer that happened to have all of his life savings inside of it. >> in the computer. >> he hid it there. we'll tell you what they did to find the money. there's a good ending to the story. >> all right. let's get a check of the weather, mr. roker. >> starting with today, the heat will be back on, starting in the southwest, ohio, illinois as well, rain in the pacific northwest, heavy rain down in florida. tomorrow that heavy rain continues down there, anywhere from three to five inches, rain in the upper mississippi river valley sizzling from the southwest, southern california, into the mid-atlantic states, gulf coast into the northeast and new england.

>> good morning. it will be warmer and more humid. a slight chance for rain showers. any time you need to check your weather, head on to the weather channel or weather.com online. ann. >> al, thank you. the college graduation season is wrapping up. after the pomp and circumstance comes reality. and the question, what happens next. for increasing number of young graduates the path leads right back to their parents' front door. without question, it is a tough economy for college graduates to be stepping out on their own for the first time. >> i think that's one of the

scariest things getting out of a graduate institution, there's not necessarily a path anymore. >> in 2011, 53% of bachelor degree holders under 25 were jobless or underemployed. it's not surprising to discover that among last year's college graduates, 85% planned to move back home for some period of time, up from 57% of 2006 graduates. >> as long as we have the room for them, they can stay here any time they want. >> for sabina, moving back home was the obvious choice. >> other than the seven bowls of granola i eat out of the kitchen every day, my parents aren't actively giving me money. >> after graduating in 2011, sabina enrolled in a grad school for acting near the apartment in new york city. >> of course i question the practicality of my career choice, but i also feel like this is my only time to try it. >> her mom, barbara, a painter

and art professor understands the risk. >> sabina was a very good student. i imagined law as a possibility. it would be great if she managed to become a working actor. if not, i know that she'll land on her feet. >> for sabina, moving back in with her mom, stepdad and little sister was not without complications. >> i fall back into my high school and my childhood self. it's only all of a sudden that i'll realize, i'm 23. why do i need to tell you where i'm going tonight. truthfully, i probably don't respect the fact that she's 23 as much as i might. i just treat her like i always treated her. she probably treats me the way she always treated me. >> sally, the author of "slouching towards adulthood" observations from the not so empty nest. a psychologist specializing in family relationships. good morning to both of you. >> nice to be here. >> nice to have you here.

you really became interested in this, sally, when your own 25-year-old son moved back in after graduating from college. then it got really interesting. >> it got interesting. at first i was extremely excited about it. then when it seemed like he wasn't that excited about looking for a job and had been offered a job but wasn't quite perfect, then it was one shout short of an intervention before he was out the door. >> we talked earlier in this piece about the economy. you say beyond the economy. there's something else going on. what is it, exactly? >> there's no doubt people who are 22 to 35 have gotten the short straw in the economy. they have also been parented very differently. concierge parents, you used that phrase the other day. parents have become very ov overinvolved in their children's lives, tended to treat them a

much different way than parents treated themselves. you find people not capable of living on their own or such a high level of creature comforts they don't want to be on their own. they would rather be in their parents home with cable television and meals done for them. they aren't living like adults. >> do you buy this deal we've done too much as parents, helping them we haven't helped ourselves. >> we have done too much as parents as far as being very involved. there's lots of reasons for this. we have a whole different technological world than we did when we were younger. there's a lot of ease of connecting with one's child on a very regular basis, one's adult child. i also think we haven't been careful enough in teaching our kids to get out there on their own at early ages and make decisions on their own and take responsibilities and really become independent and learn the kinds of skills that we all need to live on our own and give them chances to fall.

we are there often to pick them up and help them in ways that are more than supportive. >> the question is why do we do this? because we need to be needed? >> often there is this need to be needed. kind of like co-dependency where people really want to be taken care of and aren't so easy -- aren't so willing to be launched as sally was referencing. also a need to be involved in our developing children's lives because it reflects on us, what they do, who they become. that's something we really need to think about, changing the patterns. >> quickly let's talk about changing solutions. sally, in your reporting, you say one of the things we need to do is make sure kids have a good sense of money. a lot of them have an out of whack sense of money. >> a lot of parents give children way too much. money represents self-esteem. if everything you own is provided by someone else, that diminishes your self-esteem. you have to encourage your

children to take a lesser job or to want less. >> okay. and basically, was there ever a time when you actually push a child out of the house. >> i think there are times. you don't want to push a child out who necessarily is going to totally land flat and not have the skills they need. you want to be able to help them know what they need to do to succeed. yes, there are times when you say, look, you really have to get out there in the real world, understand what it's about, work hard, make mistakes but try to have the skills -- try to teach your child the skills he or she they did to know in order to be able to succeed. but again, taking jobs that are not your ideal job, it's an important thing to do to be able to learn about the world and the world will teach you also what you need to know. >> encouraging independence, at the same time being aware of the pressures of the economy today. sally koslow, the book is called "slouching toward adulthood." you too, gayle.

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sara lee. so good, it's gone. back at 8:41. this morning on today's kitchen, how to be a better home cook. quick and easy recipes, this one for chicken. you can make it in 15 minutes. welcome back. >> thank you. >> this your go to recipe. >> i like to make it at a restaurant or at home. protein, chicken, crispy on the outside. can you use canola oil, so it's healthier, and a salad on top. >> when you were single, this would be the recipe you would go to. >> a wow dish. you can take breadcrumbs, day

old bread that's stale. make breadcrumbs by putting it in the food processor. >> maybe panko. >> yes. a japanese breadcrumb, that's fine. what you want to do is set up a station, so to speak. flour, egg, breadcrumbs in that order. make sure you single every single layer. >> you have to season every step. >> if you don't you'll have a bland derby. season with salt and pepper, flour, egg, breadcrumbs. you want to set it up so it's next to your pan. this is something a professional restaurant chef would do. >> okay. we're using chicken today. >> we're using chicken. >> the traditional is veal. >> the classic is veal. can you use chicken, turkey. if you wanted, you could use a sort of very thin piece of fish

as well. milaneanes milanese, breading. put it in canola. nice and crispy on the outside, cook over medium heat. >> when you talk about cooking, the reason it will cook quickly, you took the chicken breast and pounded it to a quarter inch. >> i didn't mention that. pound it a little bit. we don't want to pound it into submission, paper thin. there's something where you do that, like a minute steak of chicken, that's not what we're doing here. what you want to do is make sure it gets nice and crispy. that's exactly what you want to see. the breadcrumbs get golden brown and the chicken breast will cook, too. don't forget, this is chicken breast. it will cook quickly. not a lot of fat. >> cooking part, four to five minutes. >> maximum. three minutes on the first side. give it a turn, turn it down to medium and you'll have a perfectly cooked chicken breast. >> here is our chicken breast. this is fully cooked. nice and crispy on the outside.

what i do, i like to make a vinegarette. i use vinegarette as sauces all the time. dijon mustard and fresh lemon juice. want to pour olive oil for me. fire away. a little bit of olive oil. that's fine. a little bit of crushed red pepper there because i like everything spicy. here is the dressing. i pour the dressing over the chicken to give it a little moisture, then my salad, cherry tomatoes, arugula, it has a little pepper flavor. that's me. cherry tomatoes. we haven't come to the season where the beef steak tomatoes are tremendously good. that will happen in august. cherry tomatoes always seem to be good. you put this salad right on top of the chicken. to me, this is really like the perfect derby. this is something i could eat

all day long. >> fifteen minutes start to finish. >> nice and healthy. >> thanks, matt. appreciate it. >> up next, live performance from "bring it on" a broadway music>> announcer: the toyota

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we're injecting music in as well. >> being in the cheerleading world, it's not just pompom cheerleading in the show. we're seeing fierce competitive move. aerial stunts, all of this. how did you find the talent for this. did you have to train up or pull from existing cheerleaders. >> actually half of our cast are existing cheerleaders from across the country, which is really interesting for broadway. we like to call it 3d musical theater where we sing, dance, act and do the cheerleading and stunts which has never been done before, takes musical theater to a whole new level. >> what about the risk factors. this sounds like, to have this kind of excitement, you really know what you're doing and a bit dangerous. >> yes. we have to take care of ourselves. we've been doing it on tour and bringing it to broadway for a limited engagement. i think we're ready. >> let's not keep people waiting any longer. ladies and gentlemen, here it is, "bring it on" the musical. ♪

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