White shocker, the snowboarder makes the stunning announcement one day before the competition is set to begin. Well tell you what it is today, wednesday, february 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to the olympic winter games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in olympic park in sochi. Matt, good morning to you, im Savannah Guthrie here in studio 1a. And dont make us wait any longer. What are we hearing from shaun white this morning . We have just received a statement from shaun white, hes giving to us first. And heres what he says, after much deliberation with my team, ive made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the Third Straight gold medal in halfpipe for team usa. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one i take lightly. As i know how much effort everyone has
However, on facebook, we have the flip side yeah, and theres a lot of subtext to this covering. It would be easier if Michael Jordan came today. It would be nice, right . A super hero . The citys Pension Systems for the police and city laborers were sort by 20 billion by the entof 2012. And to put that in perspective, for every dollar owed. Theres only 20 cents in the bank, and that doesnt even include the teachers, which has its own 8 billion shortfall. So that all adds up to that 28 billion hole that we were talking about. Just this month, the state legislature put into law rules that will help to fix it. Elaine has been active on the new legislation. And joining us, fred, a retired k5 art teacher out of chicago. The former president of the districts 54 parkridge association. In our google hang out, tony martin, firefighter and secretary for the Firefighters Benefit Fund of chicago. And if investigation with the better governments association. Weapon to all of you. So representative,
At least you can find him in the snow. I take bambino and its over. Youll never find him. Its like camo. I brought louis in this morning. Hes like an ice belly, chunks hanging off his belly. Why do we live here . There are Power Outages all over. Theres a salt shortage. Everything is crashing down. People are going to have to drink margaritas without salt. Look at this. We could point out, Rockefeller Center looks like it doesnt ever snow here because theres clean up. That shows how bad it is if they have snow on the streets. I think they catch the snowflakes as theyre drifting down here so no e slips. Its true. We are expecting wait until sunday. Could be a classic noreaster with several feet of snow. They kept saying three inches or three feet. Who knows . Lets talk about bieber for just a minute. Oh lord. We have new details. Jeff broke the story this morning. We told you Justin Bieber was a board a private plane with friends and his dad coming in for the super bowl. The Law Enforce
Over. Theres a salt shortage. Everything is crashing down. People are going to have to drink margaritas without salt. Look at this. We could point out, Rockefeller Center looks like it doesnt ever snow here because theres clean up. That shows how bad it is if they have snow on the streets. I think they catch the snowflakes as theyre drifting down here so no one slips. Its true. We are expecting wait until sunday. Could be a classic noreaster with several feet of snow. They kept saying three inches or three feet. Who knows . Lets talk about bieber for just a minute. Oh lord. We have new details. Jeff broke the story this morning. We told you Justin Bieber was a board a private plane with friends and his dad coming in for the super bowl. The Law Enforcement sources smelled what smelled like marijuana. Of course some police reports, official reports, they said bieber and company was warned on the plane to stop smoking marijuana because the captain im sure was worried about getting high. T
Does not drink it behind the building. August i have not had my coffee at. What i do behind the building is my own business. Calico stumbled right out of the starting gate. 47 right now at midway. 44 in lansing. 42 in joliet. Window cloud cover this morning there will be assigned and mixed with clouds. Then rain comes tonight. Chance of showers only a 20 percent chance. Most of the brain is north of chicago. It will be right up along the wisconsin border as a warm front moved through. That is a game changer. 62 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Take a look at the 3 day forecast. We have a big 80 on wednesday. That would make a good midday for us. Palatable. Our promise is that someone else will do weather later. You could probably sell my coffee through your screen. We have lots of construction. Eastbound at by 651 lane down. To link closed from winnipeg to tie our. And on the stevenson work right around central on both sides. Looks like there is still a culture from the kennedy on to the hike thi