We start with the final countdown to the olympics and those lingering concerns about security. Give you a live look now at sochi. Todays Opening Ceremony takes place in the stadium there on the left. It starts at about 11 00 a. M. Eastern time. Thousands of americans are in sochi, and more will be arriving in the coming days following the warning about terrorists smuggling explosives onto planes in toothpaste tubes. Homeland security is now banning liquids in carryon luggage and direct flights from the u. S. To russia. Now, these are the most expensive olympics staged, an estimated 51 billion, and as abcs Hamish Mcdonald tells us, theres a lot at stake. Reporter and for vladimir putin, the president of russia, he has staked everything on being able to carry out these games successfully, but with just a few hours to go before the big event, as it were, the Opening Ceremony, a lot of lastminute work being done, a lot of those final bits of preparation at the venues and some of the accomm
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
That or to exit and will impact your ride on the east shore freeway. These will continue to move east so they may end up in the San Ramon Valley area. Satellite and radar shows mainly dry conditions for the bay and we do have moisture off shore. As we head into the afternoon was start to see rain drops for the north bay from 6 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. Tonight. This system will last with us throughout the weekend and will taper off by monday. We may see 2 to 4 in. For San Francisco bay and over 6 in. For Mountain View. I will walk you through the timing coming up. The time is 7 01 a. M. We have our first accident of the morning. It is here on the Livermore Valley area on interstate 580, this is in the westbound direction. We have an accident blocking two lanes of traffic. If this is just before livermore ave. The traffic has been light enough that this is the only backup that we see. It has not backed things up to the alta mount pass however, two lanes are reported block at the site of th
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
We begin with the southeast bracing for yet another dangerous winter storm. Millions are again in the crosshairs with winter storm watches, warnings and advisories in a dozen states now, texas to new jersey. We start our coverage this morning with abcs tahman bradley. Reporter this relentless winter is set to deliver another blow. The forecast across the south calls for a dangerous mix of snow and ice. In georgia the storm is expected to dump more snow than the 2 inches that paralyzed atlanta two weeks ago. I just hope that we dont get in the same mess we did last time. Reporter georgia officials were blamed for not anticipating the last storm, which left thousands trapped in cars and children stuck in schools. This time the governor is not taking any chances and has already declared a state of emergency. We are making every effort to be prepared for these events, and i would simply say that we should all individually use extreme caution. Reporter North Carolina residents are also gear