Decorated skier on sochi, his rivals and his highprofile custody battle today, thursday, january 9th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im matt lauer along with al roker and willie geist. The special edition of the show this morning, a split edition. Were here in new york and savannah is out in arizona to bring us a fantastic story. Savannah, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to all of you guys. Im here in eliy where just yesterday Gabby Giffords did something truly extraordinary to mark the threeyear anniversary from the shootings in tucson. She went up in an airplane, and she took a sky dive. It was an incredibly exhilarating moment for her and for those of us close and getting to see it as she did it. We also talked to her about her recovery, how shes doing three years later. Well have some major milestones to tell you about, s
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