any collusion? >> we're not going to let this defeat us. >> take the guns first, go through due process second. >> we're still together for the rest of our lives. >> good morning and welcome to "sunday today" on this march the 4th, i'm willie geist. even by the new standards of this presidential administration, it was a truly wild week. president trump appeared at washington's grid iron dinner overnight, telling jokes after a stretch of days that included jaw-dropping comments on guns, tariffs, and the president of china. and that's just the beginning. chuck todd joins us to sort through it all. plus, the race to restore

power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses after the brutal nor'easter unleashed its fury here in the northeast. and later on this oscar sunday, my sunday sit-down with chadwick boseman, the star of the biggest movie on the planet, "black panther." with the groundbreaking blockbuster marching towards $1 million in the box office, boseman stops with us to take a breath in the middle of the whirlwind. >> what you usually see when it's like a rock star. i hesitate to say it was like the beatles, but it felt like that. a sunday sit-down with chadwick boseman. plus, harry smith later in the show. let's begin this morning with trump joking overnight about his tumultuous week to put it lightly. kelly o'donnell is at the white house following all of it for us. kelly, good morning. >> good morning, willie. president trump took part in a d.c. tradition that goes back 133 years, where presidents and

top officials from the white house, the pentagon, the cabinet, and journalists come together for a light-hearted roast and show of respect for one another. the president skipped it last year, but saturday night he tried to bring his sense of humor after a week that was anything but funny. washington's power players in white tie and tails. the president's daughter and son-in-law, cabinet officials, but no tv cameras inside, as president trump delivered the punch lines. i wanted to apologize for arriving a little bit late. jared could not get through security. ripping the attorney general. i offered him a ride over and he recused himself. teasing about white house departures, i like turnover, i like chaos. who's going to be the next to leave, steve miller or melania? but the nights jokes followed a week short on laughter. monday hosting the nation's

governors and talking gun policy, the president envisioned himself responding to a school shooting. >> i really believe i'd run in, even if i didn't have a weapon. >> tuesday, nbc news reported son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner lost access to the most sensitive government secrets over background check issues. wednesday, losing hope. >> where is hope? >> long-time trusted aide hope hicks headed for the exit ramp, one day after telling the house intelligence committee she sometimes told white lies for the president, but insisted not on important matters. that same day -- >> you're afraid of the nra, right? >> a free wheeling president trump upended the gun debate in a televised bipartisan meeting. by thursday, john kelly joked that a not so divine intervention turned him into chief of staff. >> i did something wrong and god punished me, i guess. >> then the president jolted his own advisers and u.s. allies by

announcing tariffs on certain imports. >> it will be 25% for steel, 10% for aluminum. >> friday, more questions about kushner. nbc news reported investigators want to know if he influenced foreign policy to help nations that helped his family business empire or punish those who didn't. and when the president was doing his stick, there was nothing off limits, but he said to reporters he understands their role in democracy. the president said, i thank you for all you do to support and sustain our democracy. of course, that is in the context of a president who regularly criticizes the media and branded the term fake news. willie? >> not sure how much water that scripted line carries. chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning. kelly laid it out for us. a couple days ago the president

seeming to show affinity for china's president becoming president for life, joking saying we should do that here. reporting from nbc's nicolle wallace said h.r. mcmaster might be on the way out the door shortly. when you look at this week, chuck, we say it again and again and again, but seems this week something different than we've seen before happened at the white house. >> it is. i think you're seeing -- every time we've had a chaotic week we say there's so much chaos, but there's one thing always at the core sort of that was the spark, and it's the russia probe. in this case the mueller probe. look at the hope hicks departure, it really is connected to the russia situation, and even in the behind the scenes decision making process around doing the tariff issue, where it sort of shocked half the west wing, it's because the west wing isn't even speaking to each other. not clear how the decision making process is working. why is that breaking down?

breaking down over russia. in many ways it's chaos, yes, but chaos caused by one issue, and it's the russia probe. >> by the way, his campaign chairman paul manafort buried in the news this week was arraigned on money laundering and other charges and will have a trial coming up in september for the world to see. i guess the question, chuck, if we zero in on guns and tariffs this week, a couple of the more jaw-dropping comments the president made. is there follow through on it? the president basically lays out a menu of gun control measures he says he could get behind. the nra gets together, has a meeting and he seems to back pedal. on tariffs, though, because it was so roundly criticized, republicans in the senate, republicans in congress, is he actually going to put a 25% tariff on steel or does he listen to people that talked to him sensince? >> well, if past is an indicator, he'll likely not do

this. he'll say this is what i'm going to do if things don't change, you know, that he finds a way to back track, because he does care about the stock market. he believes it's indicative of the economy, even though many economists disagree with him, but he seems to care. i think it's hammered again on monday. i wouldn't be surprised if he backed off. that said, he's been wanting to play with the tariff matches for decades. his first foray into politics was complaining about japan and he believes this tactic works. it's a tactic that really hasn't been used successfully in over 100 years, but he wants to try it, so it could be the more people criticize, the more he digs in his heels. >> that's such an important point. that's been at the center of his economic philosophy forever. he was on the "today" show in 1987 talking about tariffs with japan. >> yes. >> i want to ask about jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, senior adviser, lost

his security clearance this week, but also stories of potential corruption. and i do say potential corruption. the kushner company is receiving massive loans from apollo capital management and citigroup after meetings at the white house with jared kushner. there's always been this question with the president, but also with his son-in-law about separating his job from his businesses. how big a problem could this be? >> look, i think it's a giant problem. right now i don't think jared kushner can operate in the white house. when you look at his portfolio, which includes a lot of international diplomacy in it, particularly look at how intricate he's played in middle east diplomacy, he is so compromised now by the mueller investigation and by these reports that he's mixed business with politics here. any other person would have already resigned by now if they weren't the president's son-in-law. >> right. all right, chuck, thanks very much. again, a lot to talk about today on "meet the press." chuck will have more on the crises and chaos at the white house. among chuck's guests, wilbur

ross. from washington over to hollywood now, where the academy awards will be held tonight. the oscars taking place, of course, against the backdrop of the recent me too movement and some news about how producers will keep last year's best picture disaster from happening again. steve paterson is on the red carpet at the dolby theater. good morning. >> good morning to you, sir. it is an exciting time. in just a few hours all the stars will show up right here on the red carpet, but once again the focus is going far beyond the winners and losers, including that big moment you mentioned the academy would like to correct. a racially charged thriller up against a darkly comedic crime drama. a monster love story and a world war ii epic. all vying for best picture and a chance to erase the most memorable scene of last year's ceremony. >> there's a mistake.

>> envelope gate. that painful moment when "la la land" was mistakenly named best picture. this year the academy is taking extra steps to ensure there's no sequel. >> we do know they have put in new measures with the accountants to ensure that it doesn't happen again, and we really hope it doesn't happen again. >> the academy's so confident, they are reuniting host jimmy kimmel with warren beatty and fey dunaway. but the biggest buzz may be the me too and time's up movement taking on sexual harassment in showbiz. unlike this year's golden globes, there's no early call for solidarity. >> the producers of the oscars are hoping to shine a light on the performances instead of the actual politics of time's up and me too. however, it will be behind the scenes of everything. >> but there's already controversy on the red carpet. ryan seacrest is still slated to

host e!'s pre-oscar show, despite an accusation of sexual misconduct. seacrest vehemently denies the allegation, and e! which is part of nbc universal, said they investigated the claim and found insufficient evidence of wrongdoing. hollywood's biggest night capping off what may be its most controversial year. >> we've just scratched the surface of the me too and time's up movement. i think that is still going to play out. >> and while the me too movement may not be the explicit focus of tonight's show, expect the stars once again to roll up with those little time's up pins, and for certain stars to speak their minds once again during their acceptance speeches. >> should be an interesting evening and i like a man that rolls up to the red carpet at 5:00 a.m. well done, see you soon. there is a race this morning to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses after the brutal nor'easter pounded the east coast this weekend.

residents from virginia up to maine were affected. at least nine people have died, most of them from falling trees. in the wake of the school shooting in parkland, florida, the state senate vote tomorrow on a gun bill. lawmakers held a rare saturday session to debate amendments to the bill. a democratic proposal to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines was rejected, but was approved to raise the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21 and provide millions of dollars for mental health services. and the world has lost two remarkable men, sir roger banister has died at the age of 88. banister made history, of course, in 1954, when he became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. and actor david ogden steers has died, as well, best known for playing a surgeon on the hit comedy "mash." steers was 75 years old. and dylan is here now with a check of the weather.

good morning, dylan. >> good morning. we are still seeing some of the effects of the storm system that has long gone, but we have coastal flood advisories in effect for new england and across western and central long island. we have the possibility with the high tide between 9:00 and 12:00 today to see some of that flash splashover and flooding in some of the low lying areas. also a major storm system moving over the plains, watches, warnings, even blizzard warnings because of winds gusting up to 65 miles per hour, so that's going to reduce in that area. slowly moves east today, out ahead of it we will see scattered showers and stms,or good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist krystal klei. today, we'll still be in that breezy to low-end windy category. gusts around 25, 35 miles per hour. the temps will be 46 in center city. but it feel more like 36.

good news, mostly sunny across the region. 43 the temperature in pottstown and 44 in allentown. it will feel closer to freezing out there this afternoon. 46 for berlin and 47 in stone harbor. our delaware neighborhoods mid to upper 40s for forecast highs. and that's your latest forecast. >> ahead, highs and lows of the week, students at marjory stoneman douglas high school returning back to school after becoming faces and voices of a national movement. then there was this guy, a man so fed up with speed cameras, he pulled up to go nuts on one. property damaging villain or hero? later, you've been hearing a lot in recent months about bitcoin and cryptocurrency, so what are they exactly, why are so many people betting big on them, and is that a mistake? >> this, from an investor perspective, is as risky you can

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but where are the chips? the chips are outside... the chips are outside! wait, wait! avocados taste great on lots of things! see? oh...wi-fi's down. all right, dylan and i are ready to whip through the highs and lows this week. the first goes to marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, returning to class after a young man killed 17 of their classmates, teachers, and coaches inside the school. the superintendent reported that 95% of the school's 3,300 students showed up for school on that first day back, with grief counselors and a massive police presence greeting them. the freshman building where the shooting took place was sealed off. the tragedy thrust some of the

school's students to the front of a national movement over gun laws and school safety. one student not yet back at school but scheduled to be there next week is maddie wilford. we learned of her extraordinary survival after she was shot three times that day, and we met the first responder who saved her life. >> i gave her a sternal rub. how old are you? no response. second rub, hey, how old are you? she came around and told me she was 17. >> i'm so grateful to be here and it wouldn't be possible without those officers and first responders and these amazing doctors and especially all the love that everyone has sent. >> maddie is out of the hospital now and expected to make a full recovery. she plans to be back at school this week, about three weeks after the shooting in those

halls. >> incredible. you just keep tearing up hearing both their stories. >> i know. you try to take some of the good out of what's otherwise a horrible story there. first low goes to a man whose traffic tantrum made him a viral star this week and the focus of a heated online debate whether he's a hero or villain. this is in washington, d.c. guy stops his car, gets out, shoulder blocks a city-operated speed camera, knocking it over, rips out the camera and chucks it across the road. then gets back into his car and pulls away. raging against the traffic machine. this may not have been the man's only work that night. metro police say four other speed cameras were damaged in the area. plainly an ugly display of vandalism, right? well, turns out folks in d.c. aren't big fans of the speed cameras, because they are everywhere. in 2016 nearly 1 million tickets were issued off them, generating almost $100 million in revenue for the city. some d.c. residents believe the cameras are just piggy banks and

this guy spoke for all of them. his next speaking likely, however, will be in front of a judge. >> like "office space," where they take the printer. >> except you're throwing it in traffic, throwing it across. >> there's a lot involved. >> next high goes to a mother-son reunion in college basketball. jacksonville state university player was called in for a meeting with his coaches before his team's conference tournament this week, told him they wanted to watch game film. he came from lithuania in 2013 and had not seen his mother since he left home almost five years ago. turns out coaches didn't bring the big man in to watch game film at all. >> come on in here. >> no, no. no, no, no, no. >> he and his mother with a teary reunion, a long hug years in the making. mom got the chance to see her

son play in college for the very first time. he scored 15 points, by the way, in a jacksonville state win. >> nothing like seeing a guy that tall cry when he sees his mom. >> he couldn't deal with it first, had to walk away and bury his head. our final low goes to the feeling where you're paying your contractor by the hour to build a wall in the yard and find he's out back doing party tricks for his buddies. we are in warsaw, poland, to witness a construction technique that actually works, you can look it up. stack the slabs or bricks away from each other and turn them into dominos. that's cool, but what's the point? well, here comes the big finale that made this video the most satisfying watch on the internet this week.

>> that is amazing. >> naturally, amateurs are trying to do this in their yard this weekend. >> bricks are breaking. >> if you look it up, it's very precise. you have to get the distance right between each one. i think just laying them -- >> might be faster. coming up next, sunday sit-down on oscar sunday with the star of the movie everybody is talking about, "black panther." chadwick boseman on the impact the blockbuster marvell film is having on its fans and hold up it's changing the game in hollywood. and charlie smith introduces us to a man hey allergy muddlers.

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first alert forecast with meteorologist krystal klei. good morning, krystal. >> good morning, dray. we're talking winds sustained about 15 to 20 miles per hour. you see reporting at 18 in philly and 17 in wilmington. it's going to be another breezy to windy day throughout. so just p know that you're going to have a wind chill effect throughout the day. feels like 29 in philly. 31 in wilmington and 27 in pottstown. this afternoon, the temperatures will get to feeling like the upper 30s. krystal, thank you. now to the storm cleanup. peco and other power companies hope to make repairs and restore power to everyone by tomorrow night. the big problem, downed trees hanging on to power lines. comcast wants to help you power up after the storm. you can head to any xfinity store to power up. comcast is the parent company of nbc 10. amtrak trains are rolling again along the northeast corridor. service resumed yesterday at the 30th straight station as the

major storm pulled away. most septa trains are back on train, with delays. west trenton is still out. septa buses are also running full trolley service as expected to be back on track tomorrow. a lot of outages. we'll continue to keep you updated on cleanup as it happens now and throughout the tristate region. i'm dray clark. rosemary and i will be back with more news, and weather at 9:00. now back to the "today" show.

because we need to heal this great country of ours, and it's really one of the best top five. we could do better. they are all beating us, china, japan, wakanda. wakanda. they are laughing at us, right? they've got flying cars, people in wakanda. >> "saturday night live" returning last night with alec baldwin's donald trump talking about welcomakanda. the 90th academy awards will be held tonight in los angeles. films like "the shape of water," "dunkirk" and "three

billboards," but hollywood is being shaken. marvel's "black panther" was released in the united states just over two weeks ago. as of this morning, the super hero film has made more than $800 million around the world, but its groundbreaking impact on the industry and our culture is measured in more than dollars. chadwick boseman, who plays the title character, paused in the middle of the "black panther" whirlwind to join me at lamani restaurant here in new york for a sunday sit-down. >> let's go! >> "black panther" is the hottest movie on the planet. >> don't freeze. >> i am never freeze. >> but its star, chadwick boseman, is still getting comfortable with the spotlight. >> tell me about this little setup here. >> i think when i walked into the photo shoot, first thing i said was, i'm not taking anything off. i just really got into it and we started having fun. >> the 41-year-old actor stars as the ruler of a fictional

african nation called wakanda. as king, he moonlights as the black panther in order to protect the technologically advanced country from those who want to steal its riches. >> it's my responsibility to make sure that wakanda doesn't fall into the hands of a person i cannot trust. >> "black panther" first appeared in the 1960s. a half century later it's selling out theaters across the globe on its way to a billion dollar box office haul. >> it's not what you usually see from a movie, it's what you usually see when it's a rock star. i hesitate to say it was like the beatles, but it felt like that. >> the movie has inspired something of a movement. the #blackpantherchallenge is a fundraising campaign to bring underprivileged kids to theaters. with fans young and old celebrating a super hero unlike the ones they've seen before. >> now it's our time to shine.

>> "black panther" is the 18th movie from the marvel universe, but the first to feature a largely african-american cast and crew. boseman is joined by oscar winners lupita nyong'o and forrest whittaker. >> every time you have a scene with one of those people, it's like gearing up for, like, the big game, and you're thinking about what are they going to do, how are they going to play this. >> right, right. >> what do you think are people responding to? >> i think there's a thirst for these images. there's a thirst for black super heros. as far as my character goes, there's a real search for how do i lead. i think people are searching for that. leaders that actually care about the people. >> why do you think hollywood hasn't made this movie until 2018? >> part of it is people do what they think works. i feel like, you know, it's lazy in a way.

any time people say to me, well, you know, a movie with a black lead won't work internationally, i always said that makes no sense whatsoever, because we've seen it happen. we've seen will smith do numbers. we've seen the success of denzel washington, but somehow the industry goes back to its old forms, so luckily now we have people in place that can change some of those things. >> wakanda forever! >> wakanda is a world away from the small southern town where boseman grew up. is it a humbling and crazy thing to think about your early days in anderson, south carolina? >> no more humbling than that. what i know now is there are little kids now who live there who are like, yeah, i could go to hollywood and become a movie star. >> boseman didn't always dream of being a movie star. as a kid he loved basketball and planned to play in college, but

when a fellow high school teammate was shot and killed, boseman found a different calling. >> i don't like to talk about it too much, but basically i wrote a play in response to it. it wasn't about his death, but it was more so just me sort of trying to deal with the fact that it happened. so that was really the first time that i knew what it was like to create a story, be on stage, and deliver something and to have an audience respond to it. >> boseman followed his newfound passion to howard university, the historically black college in washington, d.c. he majored in directing and had no plans to be an actor. >> i was more worried about, you know, is this person going to come out for their cue on time? is that light on? >> at howard boseman met actress felicia rashard, known best for

her role on "the cosby show." rashad became boseman's professor and mentor. when he was accepted into a prestigious summer acting program at oxford university but could not afford to go, rashad called a famous friend to help. >> the person who paid for me was denzel washington. oh, my gosh. thank you. >> have you had a chance to meet him and tell that story? >> i have. during the new york premiere he came and said i haven't met you yet. i said, yeah, i got something to tell you. >> what's that moment like to meet denzel? >> it's so much. i don't even want to go there, it's just too much. no, it was amazing. it was amazing. he's everything you would think he would be. that's all i'm going to say about it. >> okay, okay. after graduating from howard, boseman moved to brooklyn and joined the hip hop theater scene years before "hamilton" came along. he eventually picked up small roles in tv shows.

>> just get him out. >> before "black panther," boseman was best known for playing historic men like jackie robinson in the bio pic "42," the godfather of soul james brown in "get on up" and most recently thurgood marshall. >> names that came in, you'd be like him, too? him, too? >> what happens now determines what happens to the rest of the world. >> and now as "black panther," boseman is playing a new icon, who is changing the game. when you were making this movie, chadwick, did you know you were on to something special? >> i think we knew the potential of it. i knew we'd be doing something that would matter to a group of people. it's crossed the lines. there's no boundary of age. there's no gender boundary.

there's no racial boundary. it's transcended it all. >> "black panther," as if you didn't know, is in theaters now and chadwick will be back in the role late next month in marvel's "avengers infinity war." among the well wishers congratulating him on the success of "black panther" was one of the producers of his james brown movie "get on up," a guy named mick jagger. not a bad e-mail to hit your e-mail. to hear what it was like for chadwick to spend weeks in that snug suit, check out our website. next week we are in michigan with jeff daniels in the town where he grew up and lives today, talking about an incredible career that includes classics ranging from "terms of endearment" to "dumb and dumber." and dylan is back now with another check of the weather. hey, dylan. >> hey, willie. we have a potential for a blizzard across parts of the northern plains into monday.

it's going to go tonight and monday will be a nasty day in the area. isolated storms down south will move eastward throughout the day. potential coastal storm on wednesday that could bring rain and snow and gusty winds again. the chill returns back to the midwest and as we head towards the end of the week, few leftover good morning am i'm first alert meteorologist krystal klei. today we'll be in the breezy to low end windy category with gusts around 25, 35 miles per hour. the temps will be 46 in center city. but it will feel more like 36. good news, mostly sunny across the region. it will feel closer to freezing this afternoon. 46 for berlin and 47 in stone harbor. our delaware neighborhoods, mid to upper 40s. for our forecast highs. and that's your latest forecast. >> thanks a lot, see you in just

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headline about bitcoin. >> the bitcoin boom continues. >> keeps going up and up and up. >> bitcoin staging a bit after comeback. >> bitcoin trend is not going to stop. >> hovering around 10,000 per coin this week, it's down from a high of almost 20,000. still, bitcoin's value has grown 1,000% over the last year, a staggering increase for the first currency of its kind. but what is it? bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. digital money that you can buy, store, and transfer without a middle man like a central bank. instead, users place trust in mathematics, verifying thousands of times by computers around the world. bitcoin is now worth more than 1,500 such digital currencies. >> money has taken forms of a lot of things over history, rock, salt, precious metal disks, pieces of paper. we're going digital. >> he's a former banker and

founder of the digital currency group, which incubates and invests in companies. what's going on here? we have cash, credit cards, debit cards, why do we need digital currencies? >> the idea of having a decentralized form of money that can move around the world instantaneously and basically free is a powerful concept. in countries where people don't have bank accounts, but they have phones, you have a savings account, you could raise money, you could borrow money. that's changed the world itself. >> but the unstable market could make that a challenge. given the volatility, is it a currency or it is an investment? >> everybody hopes that one day it's a currency. today it is a speculative investment. >> an investment getting both buy-in. >> if it's a better goal, it should have a better market cap. >> and criticism from business big leagues. >> i think what's going on definitely will come to a bad ending. >> i could care less how it trades, why it trades, who trades it, if you're stupid enough to buy it, you'll pay the

price one day. >> could this end in tears for some people? >> this is as risky as you can get. the outcome is likely either going to be a fantastic return or lose all of your money. >> but many young investors, like 22-year-old john barko are eager to take the risk. >> i used my first paychecks, unknown to them, to invest in currencies. >> his parents not so thrilled. >> you think john was making a mistake taking his first paychecks ever and investing it in cryptocurrencies? >> i thought it was like a ponzi scheme. >> oh, my god, cryptocurrency, crazy, crazy, crazy. >> ultimately turned out to be a very, very smart decision. >> because of his investments, john's got his student debt covered. he's even saving up for law school. >> not in my wildest dreams did i think john could have done it on his own. >> do you compare the early days of the internet and the growth of the internet to that of digital currencies? >> i remember seeing the

netscape browser and thought it was neat to find news online, but who could have ever imagined a company like uber, facebook, and spotify? i think digital currency and blockchain is going to create an amazing innovation people can't imagine. >> my daughter, she wants to be in medical school, and you know that is very expensive. we said, okay, this is our time. >> i just hope that it all doesn't come crashing down. >> steph, thank you very much. next on "sunday today," harry smith introduces us to a star of the miami art world who's part artist, part salesman. >> guys have bought cars from me, stocks from me, now buy art from me. later, a life well lived. later, a life well lived. the man that dreamed up and drew us. later, a life well lived. the man that dreamed up and drew it's what this country is made of. but right now, our bond is fraying.

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the old saying goes that one man's trash is another man's treasure, so what kind of a creative mind looks at, say, the rulings of an old casino and sees a hit art installation? the wonderful kind that belongs to the free spirited artist harry smith caught up with for our sunday closer.

>> spend a couple of hours with peter tunney and you'll come away thinking that one of you is wired incorrectly. i got to say, i've done a lot of things. never ridden around in one of these before. >> in a lit up lady bug high powered golf cart through a maze of murals, never did that? >> this is my first time. he's a man of passion and energy. >> put the volume at ten at all times. >> with the bug blaring, a once dying miami neighborhood that is now the hottest of cultural hot spots, of which tunney is the self appointed apostle. >> one place like this on the planet, put a tack in the map, it's here. it's free, it's amazing, it's visual. so here we are. >> this is tunney's gallery. the centerpiece, a ginormous chandelier pulled from the ruins

of the trump taj mahal in atlantic city. the owner gave him carte blanche, picker's paradise. >> can i take that golden frame? how about that elephant? he said, tunney, take whatever you want. >> he brought back truck loads of stuff. some of which he turned into an installation on miami beach for art basel last december, an eerie homage to a movie classic. >> the night before at a zillion to one shot i happened to watch at 1:26 in the morning the last few minutes of "planet of the apes" and saw the statue of liberty, so that was banging around my head. >> with the rest of the stuff he makes collages. he calls it up cycling. >> up cycling. hopefully. it was in the dumpster, now it's $20,000. that would be up cycling. >> some pieces have been upcycled to $50,000 or more. and might you be surprised to

learn that the unschooled tunney was once a salesman before he declared himself an artist? >> bam. >> you don't want to brag, but i'll just say -- guys that bought cars from me, stocks from me, buy art from me. upbeat, quotes he himself swears by. mantras maybe because the peter tunney of a decade ago was a wreck. in your adult life, when you loaded, stoned, drunk for a good chunk of it? >> well, i mean, 30 years. i always say this, i went to a party when i was 13 and they had free beer and cute girls and marijuana and i came home and i was 45. >> wow. >> when his brother showed up and asked if he wanted to get sober, he said yes. >> my lights put out 150 times. >> rehab and 12 steps have given him a new life. love has a lot to do with it,

too. >> you're the best. i got a beautiful 2 year old son named art. wonderful wife, married for ten years. >> life is good these days, says tunney, and so is business. >> live in a room with 25 paintings and say gratitude and today's the day and you'll end up being pretty happy. that's my sales pitch, harry, you in? >> for "sunday today," harry smith, miami. >> i want to hang out with peter tunney. harry, thank you very much. this week we highlight another life well lived. if you or your kids have fallen in love with a pixar animated character over the last 25 years or so, there's a good chance you have bud lucky to thank. lucky was an illustrator and animator who joined steve jobs animation shop in 1992. lucky had the vision and design for woody, the character famously voiced by tom hanks in pixar's massive 1995 hit "toy

story." lucky told the studio the doll was too creepy and suggested a cowboy instead is. the rest is "toy story" history. >> reach for the sky! >> lucky was a designer and occasional voice actor for nearly every pixar movie that followed, including "a bugs life," "monsters inc.," "cars." he was nominated for an oscar. after serving in the air force after the korean war, lucky became a protege of a famed animator. lucky animated the original alvin and the chipmunks tv show. john laster called lucky the unsung hero of animation. bud lucky, whose imagination gave us some of our most beloved characters, died last weekend oh, sorry i'm late, sir. i had a doctor's appointment.

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right now on "nbc 10 news today." in the dark and without heat. we're following crews scrambling to restore power to tens of thousands still without it from friday's storm. >> back on track. rail service is almost at full steam after a rough couple of days for commuters. there are still lingering problems. in the breeze so to speak. in for another gusty day. but the winds won't be as strong as yesterday. certainly not as friday an the sun will be shining. enjoy it while you can. because more snow could be on the way this week. i don't want to tell you this, but we want to make sure we're prepared and don't want krystal to be the bearer of the bad news. i'm rosemary connors. >> pim dray