EXCLUSIVE: He s one of the best hires we ve made. Rising star Tom Llamas, who has jumped ship from ABC, is on track to become the new face of NBC News and replace venerable host Lester Holt
Tom Llamas bid farewell to his viewers during his final ABC News broadcast last Sunday amid reports he had jumped ship to NBC
Network sources tell DailyMail.com his move to NBC is part of a broader plan to make Llamas their new star in the coming year Tom really has the potential to be the new face of NBC News and take over from Lester Holt when the time is right, a senior source said
it s fair to say the party is over in sochi with fireworks and the last blast of pageantry. yesterday s closing ceremony put an end to the xxii olympics. sochi s airport is probably a busy play as athletes and fans begin that long journey home. abc s jim ryan wraps things up for us. reporter: the grand finale at the end of 17-day extravaganza. russia s ring of steel successfully protected these olympics from terrorism. on this last day of the 2014 winter olympics, the last medal for the united states. steven holcomb, pilot of the u.s. bobsled to a third place finish, good for second bronze medal at sochi. russian president vladimir putin had reason to smile. russia led the world with 33 medals, 13 gold medals. united states was second with 28 total. team u.s. hockey player julie chu had the honor of carrying the
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. i m john muller. good monday morning, everyone. we are learning now details about the capture of joaquin el cha chapo guzman. one of the world s most wanted drug lord. this is a look inside some of the tunnels that guzman initially used to evade arrest. guzman then fled south where he was arrested saturday morning. abc s pierre thomas picks up the story from there. reporter: it all ended here in room 401 of the miramar hotel. not a shot fired. this grainy video released by mexican authorities showing that messy room where guzman was finally caught. he was snatched. breakfast still on the stove. an indication of his abrupt departure. and with that, the leader of a cartel responsible for 25% of the drugs entering the u.s. and 80% of the drugs in chicago was in custody, after 13 years on the run. this is a super important symbolic capture. reporter: but look c
and hello to you all. welcome to weekends . alex witt is off today. i m tj holmes. it s 1:00 in the east, 10:00 out west. let me tell you what s happening right now. we start with sochi and a battle for the bronze. team usa and finland in a fierce men s hockey match today. the game just ended. we ll have those results for you in just a moment. also, the ice skating scoring controversy is not going away. the south korea olympic committee is now protesting the results of the women s figure skating competition earlier this week saying the biased judging cost euna kim a second gold medal. and four-time olympian julie chu had been chosen to carry the u.s. flag and lead the team at sunday s closing ceremony. chu says she is honored and humbled to represent team usa in that way. and this is that time. want to give you a heads up here. spoiler alert. in the next few minnesotans, we ll talk about olympic events
how difficult is it for you to sit on your couch and watch the u.s. men s women you re a former olympian. how difficult is it for you to watch and what kind of games are we having right now? it s very difficult to watch. i haven t actually played hockey in about two years. i ve taken time off. i m on the ice every day, and but i took a little time off and recently played in my college alumni game. and wow. i was so jazzed up to play in that game. and i was just going like a million miles an hour. and it made me realize what a wonderful, wonderful game it is. it takes so much stamina and ability, and i watching the girls play, canada, i was i didn t know what to do with myself. i was so nervous and excited and it s a little bit like coaching. when you coach in the olympics, you basically open the door. you know? you don t have much control over the game. you have input here and there,