Bode miller medaling and setting a new olympic record before breaking down in tears. A new olympic hockey star is born. Get ready to meet t. J. Oshie, and the fiance cheering him on from home. This morning on gma. Good morning, america. Hope youre having a good president s day and having a good start as well. What a weekend for team usa and t. J. Oshie. That was some game. It was. Look at whats happening today in sochi. Fog and weather problems causing events to be postponed. The mens biathlon and snowcross. There you see the footage. Thats how dense the fog is. You can barely see the sign that says canceled. Oh, thats got to be a bummer. Especially for the athletes. Were going to get to that ahead. Right now, the breaking new details on the attempted high ja high jack hijacking in midair overnight. Terry moran is in london with the latest. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, robin. There was panic in Fact International skies overnight. A rare successful hijacking. This morning
Americas new golden couple. Meryl davis and Charlie White with an historic win scoring team usas only gold ever in ice dancing, as the american bobsledders medal for the first time in over six decades. And well hear live from bode miller, on what could be the eve of his final olympic events ever, only on gma. And good morning, america. Boy, what a night for davis and white, so exciting to watch. Look at that hug right there. After they finished, a perfect score, the highest scores ever in ice dancing. The real emotion right there and charlie whispering i love you to meryl. Later he instagrammed this photo with the caption, i should be asleep right now, but instead, im like whaaa . Perfect image for how he was feeling. So great and derek hough really rooting them on. He played a large part in choreographing their routine and we will talk to him today about those moves. Mmhmm. What doesnt he do . How does he find the time . And more medals this morning for team usa. 27yearold alex deibol
Moscow are obviously watching the situation very carefully on that epicenter of resistance after a night of street battles between protesters. The pictures are amazing. Theyre throwing stones, clubs, molitov cocktails, all of them trying to hold their grounds in those hours but being slowly pushed back this morning by riot police themselves using flash bangs or stun grenades and water cann cannons. Much of the square, more than half of it, while some protesters seem to have taken refuge behind reinforced barricades and behind their bonfires. The number of injured is in the 200s. We understand some 250 seriously wounded are being treated in the hospitals. Also, one local ukrainian journalist has reportedly been shot and killed in that melee, as well. Becky, back to you. One of the questions we wonder and youre watching from moscow where they are keeping track of the situation closely, is there a sense that anyone else might get involved in this or is this people watching from afar still
We begin with a deadly turn in ukraine. The government cracking down on prowestern protesters. More than two dozen people now are dead. This is happening right in the shadow of sochi where russian president Vladimir Putin hopes to project his power. In kievs Central Square this morning, protesters are standing firm, but the future of their cause is uncertain. Abcs Hamish Macdonald joins us live by phone from moscow. Hamish, you were there just weeks ago. Are you surprised at all by this new wave of violence . Reporter i think absolutely. There is a degree of surprise about how much force, how much violence has been used in the last 24 hours. This is the deadliest day of protests in the ukraine so far. At least 25 people dead that we know of. Thats on both sides. Police, security forces, as well as the protesters. I think things were calmer in the period since we were there last, but certainly things have sparked up over the last day. The protesters say they want a future attached to eu
Yay hes with us live. And ladies night, the glamour event of the game. Figure skaters from the u. S. And around the world begin their quest to become queen of the olympic ice today, wednesday, february 19th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from olympic park in sochi, russia. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning here in sochis olympic park. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along with al roker and Natalie Morales. Now ted shred ligety with a great historymaking performance. Thats right. A lot of expectations on him coming into these games he might leave with a gold medal. Check that box. Its happened first time an american male has won the giant slalom. Congratulations to him. We have a lot to celebrate. A lot of Medal Winners live here this morning. Well get to all the action here in sochi in a moment. But we want to start with our top story. The deteriorating situ