0 memorable moments today. i think we did. stay here though because more is coming up in the "cnn newsroom." we turn to our colleague fredericka whitfield. >> i'm going to borrow the words of sage, the olympians, you corked it out. now i'm going to cork it out. that's my new lingo for the day. i'm feeling the olympic spirit. thank you. appreciate it. we've got a lot straight ahead. it's the 11:00 a.m. eastern hour of the "newsroom." starts right now. controversy at the opening ceremony of the olympic games. russia gives one of the most prestigious roles of the night to a woman who sent a racially offensive tweet recently about president obama. we are live from sochi. and firing back, woody allen writes a column in "the new york times" addressing allegations he sexuallys a alled his adopted daughter. he lays out his case and addresses rumors that his son may actually be frank sinatra's child? plus, we dig deeper into the story of the mysterious cast away. did he really survive 13 months at sea? his extraordinary account and new information about his condition this hour. it didn't take long for controversy to hit the 2014 sochi olympic games. it happened right at the opening ceremonies. extremely controversial former olympian was chosen to light the olympic torch. three-time figure skating champion stirring outrage around world last year, after sending a racially offensive tweet the posting was a photograph of the president and mrs. obama with a banana photo shopped in the foreground as you see there. nick paton walsh is here from sochi, russia. nick, was this a political jab from the russian president, vladimir putin? >> hard to tell in many ways but i'm sure they were fully mindful of that recent controversy. very well known olympic athlete here, muchlt approximately gold medal winner. a very well known figure amongst the russian public. that's the justification clearly for giving her that key role. but the tweet she put up was removed by her but no apology issued. this probably feeds into the broader tone of relations between moscow and washington, simply no love lost. edward snowden, variety of problems. syria as well. the decision by barack obama not to personally attend but instead to send a delegation of often openly gay individuals. that's a rebuttal, too, to all the homophobic pushing out. no love lost at all. it might just be a jab perhaps at washington but also at the same time this is a popular figure. np in the russian parliament, too, part of the putin, that was another reason she got that role. >> a lot of security concerns persist around the olympic games. today russian special forces carried out an operation in dagestan. what have you learned about what took place? >> it's not a lot of information circulated about these emergency operations in the russian media because many say the kremlin try to keep that all quiet during the olympics. what we know is that in capital of dagestan russian special forces circled a house. in that was a man, ethnic russian who converted to islam who is a leader of one of the militant groups who is said to have links to the bombing which killed 34 at the end of last year. they surrounded that house. one person surrendered themselves. five were killed in the operation. so those jobs, those operations continue by russian special forces all the time. continually pursuing what they can. that gives you an idea of the level of security threat and, of course, also we're not hearing much about this in the local media. nothing really about it on state media. russia's not really one to talk about that kind of activity when they want everyone to focus on the sports behind me. >> thank you so much, nick paton walsh. we'll check back with you. all right. big news, in fact, on b the medal front. let's talk about that as the winter olympic games under way. the u.s. actually winning its first gold medal today. there's a picture right there officially sage kotsenburg clinched first place in the new snowboard event, the men's slope style event. tweeted, wow, i just won the olympics. bringing back the first gold here to the usa. and here is what he had to say at a press conference just half hour ago. >> feels like a dream right now. just winning a gold on the first day and the first event of slope style ever being in the olympics, seriously the craziest thing ever. you know, i thought about it a little bit but i never really -- i don't know. there's something like i didn't think it would happen. >> well, very much did happen. congrats to him, sage. and here's a look at where the medal count overall standing right now. we are -- we're looking at the winner. the losers, and all the highlights later on this hour. and you can always find complete results on cnn.com. take a look at the numbers right there. all right. now to north korea where american kenneth bae is in a labor camp at this moment. a pro-north korean publication says he has been there for about three weeks now. the state department says they are deeply concerned about bae's health. they want pyongyang to grant him special amnesty and is calling for his immediate release. ba bae was arrested in november 2012. a former police officer accused of killing a man for texting during a movie is vowing to fight for his freedom. 71-year-old curtis reeves' lawyer says that he will appeal a florida judge's ruling denying his client bail. police say reeves got into an argument with a navy vet chad oulson texted his 2-year-old daughter inside a tampa theater just last month. when the argument escalated reeves allegedly opened fire on oulson. surveillance video released at yesterday's bail hearing shows reeves in the theater before the shooting, sitting down there. all right, happening right now in florida. a trial resumes over the death of a teenager who was killed after an argument over loud music coming from the car. prosecutors from the george zimmerman murder trial are trying this case. they say michael dunn opened fire into an suv full of teenagers at a gas station after arguing with them for playing loud music. our tory dunnan has details. >> when i reached in and touched him, blood appeared on my finger railroads michael dunn, the man charge with first degree murder in the jordan davis case, looked on as witnesses relived the night the 17-year-old was shot and killed. davis' best friend leland brunson, among those testified. he was sitting next to davis in the back of a red suv when an argument over loud music broke out at a jacksonville gas station. >> it's fair to say he asked for a common courtesy just to lower the music, correct? >> yes. >> thompson, another teen in the suv said dunn in his parked car next to them asked them to turn down the music. everyone agrees the music was turned down. but that's when things escalated between davis and dunn. >> but isn't it true that jordan davis said to you, [ bleep ] that [ bleep ] turn it back up? >> yes, sir. >> thompson testified he did exactly that. and that he turned the music back up. it's at that point the timeline gets fuzzy. dunn told investigators he heard threats, then saw a weapon. >> i saw a barrel come up on the window, like a single shot shotgun where here's the barrel and this part of the barrel, i saw that part of the barrel. and it was either a barrel or a stick. they're like, we're going to kill you. >> dunn by his own admission says he pulled out a gun out of his glove compartment and he says in self-defense, fired multiple times. jordan davis was shot. as for michael dunn's claims of being threatened with the weapon first, police they say never found a weapon inside the teens' suv. in court, all three teens maintained they never had a weapon. >> let's bring in tory dunnan right now. tory, what happened in court today? this is a rare saturday trial. in fact, it's the jury who said we want to keep this going. so what do they hear today? >> yes, yeah, fred. i mean, the jury, they're sequestered so they said, okay, yeah, let's just go and deal with this today. they actually wanted to work tomorrow but the judge denied the request to work on sunday. anyway, this morning you had the lead evidence tech. he's the guy who gathered all of the information on the scene. looked at all the evidence. and this was a question that he answered. >> what types of things would you be looking for as a major case evidence technician in a homicide case? >> i'm looking for weapons, contraband, items of that nature. >> okay. is there a pocket in that door? >> yes, there is. >> can you circle the pocket of the door? did you closely examine the items inside the pocket of that door? >> yes, i did. >> did you find any weapons, sticks, metal pipes, or anything else in that pocket? >> no, i did not. >> so, fred, this is obviously a key component of the case because michael dunn said he saw a weapon pointed at him in the car. police have said they never found a weapon inside the car at all. and yesterday in court the three teens testified they never had one, they never threw it off to the side after the shooting, they never had anyone pick it up, never stashed it anywhere. this is going to continue to come up. >> certainly not dispute a tragic situation. tory dunnan, thank you so much. our legal guys will be weighing in on this case next hour and they will dig deep into the see more hoffman death investigation. let's talk about something who loves heights. nick is getting back up there on the wire. he conquered the grand canyon and niagara falls. what's his next challenge? he's going to join me live here next hour. and next, woody allen is giving his take on accusations of sexual assault against him and he says it's the last time he's talking about it. 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