Else as we reveal some of the secrets of the opening ceremonies. Who will light the cauldron . Now just hours away. Good morning, america from russia. Came crashing in good morning, america. The games are up and running even before the opening ceremonies and what a night of firsts. So many new events we havent seen before. Lets everybody take a look at slopestyle. This has never been at the olympics before. You see these look at those guys fly. Up to 25 miles an hour. So beautiful. And Team Figure Skating, yes, i said Team Figure Skating kicked off for the first time both men and womens teams you see all competing together for a group gold medal. Russia in the lead right now. All right, the home folks have something to cheer right now. Also, of course, it is the biggest winter games ever. Almost 3,000 athletes competing from almost 90 countries. Thats awesome and 90 is it 98 events . Amazing, 98 events, cannot wait for womens figure skating to start. Robin, i dont know about you. Im ri
Slopestyle. This has never been at the olympics before. You see these look at those guys fly. Up to 25 miles an hour. So beautiful. And Team Figure Skating, yes, i said Team Figure Skating kicked off for the first time both men and womens teams you see all competing together for a group gold medal. Russia in the lead right now. All right, the home folks have something to cheer right now. Also, of course, it is the biggest winter games ever. Almost 3,000 athletes competing from almost 90 countries. Thats awesome and 90 is it 98 events . Amazing, 98 events, cannot wait for womens figure skating to start. Robin, i dont know about you. Im right with you there. Lets get right to our gma olympic headquarters in sochi. Abcs amy robach is there at our olympics desk tracking all of the action. Good morning, amy. Thats right, good morning, and before i get to all of the action ive been practicing all morning long because i want to say something. [ speaking russian ] good morning, america. In rus
Approach santa clara street as the rains continue to intensify. You pinpointed it a moment ago, heavy rain coming into san jose. Its dumping now. As the rains continue the feed in to the Santa Cruz Mountains and the creeks spill the water out to the guadeloupe well see these levels rise as we go through tonight into tomorrow morning, watching that rain fall heavy at times in the south bay. The other thing were going to track is the snowfall up across the sierra. Winter storm warning in place, we amped up the expected snow overall we could see from 2 to 4 feet at 7,000 feet in the sierra, and probably start to encounter snow at 3500 feet. Widespread coverage here, winter conditions on 80 and also 50. Ill show you video from the snow. A lot of people headed that way. Fresh powder on your right, a live look at i80 through emeryville. You see how slow traffic is moving as the journey begins to lake tahoe. It could take five to six hours. This is what it looked like late this afternoon at d
Your window. Rain is soaking the streets and heres a look downtown. Fog is rolling in. It is so thick you can barely see any of the downtown. The north bay took the bruntd of the storm. Theres a Flash Flood Watch in sonoma county. We have Live Team Coverage in sonoma county, San Francisco, the south bay and beginning with rob. You just mentioned the flash flood from marin to sonoma due to hefavy rain. Some of the views we are seeing now north of San Francisco, you will see over towards martinez, and highway 121 once again seeing heavy rains at times tonight. Thats where monte is live. The waters dont look like theyve changed much since 6 30. Thats right were south of the city of sonoma off 121, it is flooded, closed to traffic. Theres about a foot of water here and is still raining. It is certainly an inconvenience for drivers but in other parts of the county, it was much more severe, half of fort ross road fell apart and plunged down a revene burying a pick up truck. The slide still a
Hide her disappointment as two sisters from canada take the gold and silver. Well talk to all of them live. And eyes on the prize. An all star lineup announced for tonights olympic team skating competition. Gracie gold, jason brown, and Charlie White set to take to the ice all hoping that theyll be able to help team usa win a coveted medal. Today is sunday, february 9th, 2014. This is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games. With lester holt. Live from olympic park in sochi, russia. And erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to a special split edition of today. The olympic flame burning brightly here in sochi. Im lester holt in sochi. Its been an amazing first few days of events here. Have you guys had a chance to watch much of it . We were actually just talking about that this morning, and good morning, lester. There was a lot to watch yesterday and it felt like things were kicking off with a bang. We had a couple of great medals,