Good friday morning. Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. Happy valentines day, everyone. We begin with the punishing winter storm that wont quit. Take a look at the radar. The storm is starting to make its way out but not before dumping several more inches of snow from washington, d. C. To boston. The storm is blamed for at least 21 deaths, most of which were traffic accidents. More than 7,000 flights have been canceled since the storm started. And the snow is on the ground. In the 49 of 50 states, only florida is snowfree. Abcs Tahman Bradley reports from washington, d. C. , where a second wave of snow fell overnight. Reporter Mother Natures valentines gift, rain, ice, sleet and thundersnow. A final punch from the massive winter storm that socked 100 million americans. Its been horrible, horrible. Ah, now this. Dont you love it so . Holy cow. What can i say . Reporter from georgia to maine, dangerous whiteout conditions, cars stuck. This is deep. Its in there. Re
Americas women grab gold and bronze. As the showdown in sochi looms, two of americas best skiers ever, bode and ted finally about to face off. And good morning, america. Boy, you see the snow on the lens this morning. Boy, a lot to celebrate in sochi for team usa today. Gold, silver, and bronze in mens slopestyle. Only the third time the u. S. Has ever swept the medals in an olympic winter games event. You said the winter games. It seems more like the summer games there. We want to look at the pictures right now. Look at that. You know a little contrast. A little bit. Were 61 over there, 30 here. And you well, theyre in tshirts over there. And matt gutman went for a swim yesterday. A little bit different. Lets get to the storm. Its socking so much of the east coast right now. A live shot just outside of philadelphia. That area could get more than a foot of snow today. Ginger zee is leading the extreme weather team. Shes got coverage up and down the coast, including philadelphia. Lets g
Im on the edge of glory and miracle on ice, part two. The u. S. And russia poised for an epic rematch. The american team, the underdogs, now hours before they take the ice, team usa reveals just how eager they are for the highstakes faceoff. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. Happy valentines day, everyone. Lets take a look at the u. S. Men getting their medals yesterday. It was such a clean sweep in slopestyle. There they are, joss christensen, Gus Kenworthy and nick goepper. They are stoked. Remember why they won the meda medals. Slope style. Great guys, too. Its always makes it easier to root had theyre that good. The story affecting millions over here right now. Look at this map. Released by twitter showing where the tweets include the word snow. So many people oh, thats the u. S. , i see it now. Thats the northeast, everybody. I see. Thats it. So many people needing help during the storm. This photo going viral of a firefighter helping a woman out of harms way and k
All of them are with us live as bronze medalist nick goepper has special valentines day message. And pushing our luck eight years after firsttime luge, al and i give it another shot. Spandex and all. One run to remember and another wed like to forget today, friday, february 14th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of 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 friday morning, im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone, im Savannah Guthrie alongside Natalie Morales and al roker. The event weve been waiting for is here. Your luge. Is it just me, in eight years, has the spandex gotten a little snugger . Thats not nice. You waited eight years for that line . Lets just say we had an interesting morning. Thats putting it mildly. Bit of an understatement. Well fill you in on that in a little while. Once again, the weather back home is our top story. What a mess. This b
Typically a party infomercial, donald trump selling himself. A lot of the action came from the colorado delegation, sitting about as far from the stage as you can possibly get, maybe no coincidence that this is their view of Melania Trump who will be headlining tonight. Donald trump introducing her. Nontraditional to see the candidate on night one, but then a lot of his campaign has been unconventional. Lester . And halle, back to governor kasich, hes laughing off the suggestion that hes embarrassing his state by skipping the convention. In an exclusive interview with nbc news, he defended his decision, and he questioned whether trumps message will go over well with ohio voters. This afternoon just blocks from the que arena, governor john kasich, thanking out of state police for being part of the security operation. But this the governor told me this is about as close as he plans to get to the convention itself. His mind made up. If donald trump called you right now and said bygones be