18yearold american Mikaela Shiffrin skis her way into the record books, becoming the youngest woman ever to win olympic gold in the slalom, but not without a big scare along the way. And shes here with us live to talk about her win for the ages today, saturday, february 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, at the olympic winter games, with lester holt live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a very special split edition of today on this saturday morning, our final broadcast from sochi. Im lester holt. Erica, jenna and dylan are holding down the fort in new york, a sight for sore eyes. Great to see you guys. What a win in the slalom for Mikaela Shiffrin. Ive got a feeling there are plenty more olympic medals in her future. She is coming up just ahead to talk about her incredible run. Plus, were going to talk to the men of the u. S. Short track Speed Skating
Approval on religiously justified discrimination against groups like gays and less beabi and others. The bill passed the legislature yesterday. Activists are urging governor jan brewer to veto it. The Economic Council today warning of negative effects from the bill. Governor brewer has not made up her mind. Its a very controversial piece of legislation. We know that. We know its failed in a lot of states across the country. I have not been in town currently. Ive been reading about it on the internet. And i will make my decision sometime probably by next friday because ill be if i do decide to sign it. But its very controversial. So ive got to get my hands around it. Thats the backdrop. Mick gmiguel marquez joins us i phoenix. Miguel what is happening now . Reporter this is demonstrations been going on for a couple of hours now. Several hundred people, anderson, out in front of the Capital Building here. They have been chanting veto this bill, stop the hate, and get rid of their legisla
Dramatic moments. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Were glad to have you with us. Welcome to saturday. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. The saturday air moves through my lungs much easier than the monday air. Were going to get to arizona which everybody is talking about. Also to ole miss. But we have to start with the fastmoving developments in ukraine. Youre looking at pictures here were going to pull up. There they are of ukraines chapter kiev. Protesters are still at the citys Independence Square there. And theyre saying theyre not going anywhere until their president all out resigns. President Viktor Yanukovych is speaking live and vowing he will not resign. Hes reportedly comparing the situation to nazi germany and he says his car was shot at. Take a look at what happened. This happened in cities all across ukraine overnight. Protesters yanked down statues of lenin who, of course, led the russian revolution. And they accused president yanukovych of wanting too close of ties with ru
With people who may be trapped underneath. 950 tons of bridge that literally, they cut the ribbon on days ago. We are hearing that there are several people who have perished in this tragedy this afternoon, we are about to get more information as i said, at least to others in critical condition. Well get details from the hospital as i said, but lets go live on the ground there to phil keating who has been watching this all afternoon. Good evening. Good evening, martha. It is an active search and rescue operation desperate to find any remaining survivors, people trapped under that 1 Million Pounds of concrete. This pedestrian bridge repeated to be a stateoftheart design that was just rotated 90 degrees on saturday from a set of the road where it was constructed behind me and it was placed on the north and southbound support towers spanning eight lanes of traffic on a very busy main artery here and southwest miamidade. It was still a construction project, it was supposed to open this upco