The mastermind of a, quote, systematic, sustained and highly professionalized teamrun doping conspiracy. Nbc news has learned that in a conversation the 41yearold armstrong said, quote, it was just the way the game was played at the time, so it was a level playing field. Before he interviewed with oprah, armstrong visited the headquarters of the Cancer Foundation he founded. There he told the livestrong staff, quote, im sorry, and apologized for letting them down. But did not give them a full admission. People at livestrong have been pressuring him for a little while now to minimize this damage. Reporter damage years of lying and cheating has done to an organization and to the legacy of a sports icon. Kurt gregory, nbc news. So what about the potential legal and financial fallout ahead for the athlete worth an estimated 100 million . The New York Times is reporting armstrong is in talks with the Justice Department to possibly testify in a federal whistleblower case against several powe
one who s happy right now? peter tebow later apologized for that tweet. and now for another look at the weather, here s nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. good to see you again. you, too. yesterday we had 72 record high temperatures posted across the country, mostly in the southeast. and we did have one across northern illinois, but we are going to see an end to that really extreme above-average weather we have been seeing down across the southeast lately. even in the mid-atlantic region, it will be above average, but it never really felt all that warm the past couple of days because it s just been foggy and pretty cloudy. today we re starting off the day about 36 degrees in new york city. but we re already up to 68 in miami. here s where the cold air is, and it s only getting colder. denver has now dropped down to one below, and then the windchill on top of that makes it feel even colder. only in the 20s from minneapolis to chicago. 40s up and down the northeast into the mid-atlantic
and executing several successful missions during world war ii. he was 94. in sports we begin with autopsy results on kansas chiefs linebacker jovan boettcher. tests show he was legally drunk in december when he shot and killed his girlfriend cassandra perkins and then took his own life. he had a blood-alcohol content of more than double the legal limit in missouri. next to college basketball, louisville, the new number one ranked team had a convincing win on the road in connecticut. the cardinals won their 11th straight game 73-58 against unranked uconn. and number four kansas got 17 points from ben mclemore as they demolished unranked baylor and the jayhawks won, 61-44. at the australian tennis open, serena williams injured her right ankle but she got it wrapped and went on to win in straight sets in less than an hour. after the broncos playoff loss, tim tebow s brother, peter, tweeted, i am the only
0 as president. the president could use executive powers on 19 separate actions to bypass congress. in newtown, connecticut, monday grieving family members of 11 victim of the sandy hook elementary school shooting announced plans for an anti-violence campaign. the nonprofit group sandy hook promise will focus on mental health, school safety and gun responsibility. the middle ground and the answers i actually think are going to come from gun owners themselves. those are the people that understand where the limits are, what s reasonable, what s responsible and what isn t. last night on the rachel maddow show, rachel asked the parents of 6-year-old shooting victim ben wheeler about a comment they made at the news conference about having responsibility to their son. our job for him is to continue to do, to be, the greatest parents we can be. as i said, we re never going to stop being ben s parents. and that s complemented and made more difficult by being the best carolina again