simon didn t finish as well. five teams make it to sunday s final. another new event this olympics is the slopestyle competition. jamie anderson, she s got eight x games medals in the event. she pulled off some pretty awesome jumps in round one, advancing all the way to the finals. her teammate, karly shorr, also was impressive. she will join anderson in sunday s final. elsewhere, hannah kearney looking to become the first freestyle skier to win two olympic gold medals. she dominated the qualifying round of the ladies moguls competition. kearney is in first place heading into saturday s final round, and there is a good chance, guys, that she s the first american to win gold at the sochi games. and there are no events today. everyone getting ready for the opening ceremony, which, as you said, john, is in just a few hours, but we won t get to see it until later tonight. and nick paton walsh tells us there are still tickets available to open ceremonies. it is not sold out yet, which
united states. two-time olympic medalist shawn white is withdrawing from the slopestyle competition. he says he wants to focus on the halfpipe. earlier this week white voiced concerns over the difficulty of the slopestyle course during training runs. white won the gold medal in the halfpipe competition in the 2006 and 2010 games. just days before the start of the winter olympics the suspected mastermind of those deadly bomb attacks in volgograd, russia has been killed in a shoot out with police. the december bombings killed 34 people and left 100 others injured. russian state media says the shoot out happened in northern dagestan during a police raid on a house. phil black is in moscow to tell us more. reporter: yes. police here are saying through russian state media they surrounded a house in dagestan. one person surrendered. everyone inside was eventually
and joining me now for the latest and greatest from russia, nbc s ann thompson and olympic security analyst andrew weiss with more on that break being news, an attempted hijacking on a plane enroute to ukraine where the hijacker threatened that he or she had a bomb and demandeded to go to sochi. ann, i don t know if you ve been briefed in sochi, security very tight there and you ve been through that airport so you know about the security at that airport. reporter: yes, security is very tight here, andrea, but that hijacking threat certainly hasn t impacted us here up at the mountain venue. i can tell you yesterday when we were going up to the slopestyle competition, our van was stopped by security. we had to take everything out halfway up the mountain. they put all of our equipment through an x-ray machine. they made us go through an x-ray machine.