good morning, america. on this monday, february 15th. i m george stephanopoulos. and i m robin roberts. a new week, a new storm. it s more snow from georgia to massachusetts. already causing pileups, as roofs collapse under the strain of heavy snow. plus, new twists in the case of an alabama professor accused of murdering colleagues at a faculty meeting. how a mail bond sent to a boston doctor may be a new clue as her husband speaks out to defend her. and we re still talking about this, national outrage over the young girl beat on tape while security guards stand by. she is here. and he rails against southwest airlines after being kicked off a flight. we ll hear from both sides this morning. well, hopefully, you have the day off. i hope you re enjoying your presidents day. how about those stunning new details, twists, about the college professor accused of killing three colleagues at the university of alabama at huntsville. we have learned amy bishop was questioned
tonight on world news. meltdown? another senator says i quit. government is broken as congress has gone off the rails. murder or madness. aprofessor accused of a deadly rampage. we talk to her husband. olympic slush. so soggy a gold medal winner says rocks broke her skis. too big to fly. a director fights back adds an airline shows one stigma of the problem. and popular by demand. a piano playing cat and instant stars. good evening. congress is broken. in essence that is what ech bye said today when he surprised his colleagues, becoming the latest senator to announce he is quitting. he is a democrat you but pointed fingers on both sides of the aisle and said the work of the american people is not being going. john karl is the at capitol. reporter: it came out of nowhere, shocking his colleagues and making a bleak election for democrats look bleaker. he has always been a mild mannered senator but today he lashed out of congress. i love making the americans the mo
pileup. and we have all of the olympic highlights and day three of the winter games in vancouver. tell you how team usa is doing and when lindsey vonn will be back on the slopes again. but we begin in southern afghanistan where there s intense firefights on stay three of a major u.s.-led operation targeting the taliban. nato forces are plunging deeper into taliban strongholds under increasing sniper fire. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is following the developments live from the london bureau. what is the effort and how s it going? reporter: the u.s. military says it is making slow but steady progress, that is moving deeper into the clearing operation in marjah. there s been some gun fights but mostly sporadic. appears that the vast majority of taliban fighters had already left the area, getting out of the way before this very overwhelming force came n. we re talking about force of about 6,000 u.s. marines, british and other nato soldiers, a lot of a
light the olympic flame. i got to sit down with the man himself over the weekend. you ll hear great insight into the cloak and dagger secrecy that kept the identity of the final torchbearer hidden from everyone but a handful of people. my interview with wayne gretzky in just a few months. once the flame was lit, the united states got right down to business in competition. apolo anton ohno won the first medal of these games on saturday night when he snatched a silver in the 1500 meter after a pair of south koreans collided ahead of him clearing the path for a medal. he was in fourth place at the time, looked like he was going to fall just outside metal contention. ohno won his sixth olympic medal tying speed skater bonnie blair for the most by a winter athlete. hannah kearney pulled an upset saturday night. she s from vermont but her mother is canadian. kearney saying afterwards being half-canadian, she just pretended all those cheers for canada were for her. how about a sil
good morning, golden boy canadian skier, alex bilodeau, makes his country proud, winning canada s long sought, first gold medal on home soil. so, what s he going to do now? he s talking to us live today, monday, february 15th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning, day fo of the 21st olympic winter games, i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. and i know it s early here. but you won t regret getting up, because your new national hero, alex bilodeau, will be joining us in just a moment. think this guy had a good day? there he is, just a couple of yards from us right now. we re joined by ann curry and al roker. this is the guy who put an end to the drought. it s been so talked about. the canadians had nev won a gold medal on home soil. they didn t do it the previous two times the olympics were hosted here in canada. he put an end to that yesterday, with a stunning run in the men s moguls. i was in