this. it is snowing, it is crazy. it is a lot of snow for this area. look at this. this is crazy in southeast georgia. sign him up. that is one heck of an i-reporter. residents of the deep south spending the day doing something rare like that gentleman there. now cleaning up after that rare snowstorm. emergency crews are warning people to stay off the roadways in the metro atlanta area due to ice. it is still dangerous. that man right there was having fun with it. further east, columbia, south carolina, is dealing with one of the heaviest snowfalls on record. more than seven inches of snow reported in some parts of the capital city. the snow brought much of the activity to the south to a standstill and more could be on the way. really? more snow? probably more rain than anything else. we might see mixing and snow on the backside.
teddy was in beijing and saw what happened. he didn t sugar coat his words. with great privilege comes great responsibility, and he missed the boat on that responsibility. reporter: but teddy atlas also says this setback isn t as bad as some may think. without the olympics having quite the status they used to have, he didn t lose as much much as he would have lost sa, 20 years ago when an olympic medal, especially a gold medal, meant so much more. reporter: having missed his olympic window, gary decided to turn pro. he s off to a blazing 6-0 start, including this knockout six months ago. but it s what gary s doing outside the ring that s also drawing some attention. the one-time olympic hopeful has taken it upon himself to speak to youngsters in the d.c. area, talking about his experience in beijing and how not to let setbacks and disappointment get in the way of what they want to do in life. you want to always persevere. does anybody know what persevere
stronghold of the taliban, marjah. about 125,000 people live here. this is an opium-producing area, so it s been a source of funding for the taliban and weapons-running here. what is the plan for attacking it while keeping the civilian casualtys to a minimum? they are going to circle the city first, then they ll strike in with helicopters from different sites outside and with specialized strike forces, increasing pressure on the inside. trying to keep down civilian casualties and put pressure on the taliban. maybe the pressure makes them flee or they stand and fight. there are targets here that matter a great deal. they are going to pay attention to potential choke points and transportation points like bridges like this one here. they are going to pay a lot of attention to roads that become critical for people moving out. this one here runs from marjah up to laskargah.
this is an area, helmand province, where this is the place of financing the taliban militarily. it s financing them in their arms race in that region. i wonder if one of the primary goals for this allied offensive is to try to wipe out the poppy fields or try, i guess their best effort in taking a stab at that since that s where the finances come for the taliban even in these winter months? that has to be part of the economic game plan here in this operation. that is a long-term aspiration. if you look at 2001, the taliban fell easily. by 2003, we were distracted with iraq. the taliban regrouped and it settled back into the helmand river valley, this 220 mile stretch in the south of afghanistan. now you have them making a living off the opium trade,
stories and time to be in book form. did you contact him or had he contacted you in some way? no. i contacted him. it took me quite a few years to reach him. he finally agreed to speak with me. what i said to him was at this point in his life, and willie is 78 years old now, he needed to cooperate on a book that refines his legacy on and off the field. such a book had never been written. if he did it now, his point of view would be front and center. i think that was persuasive to him. there were parameters where he said i will talk, but this is the area i want to focus on and these are the things i want to stay away from? to willie s credit, there were no parameters. he read the manuscript before it was published, but he had no editorial control. he didn t ask for a single change. the book does talk about his disappointments as well as his achievements. among those disappointments,