Gold medal in the winter olympics. The 17yearold winner is here live. Red gerard in the slopestyle finals to win a place on top of the podium. Hes one of the Gold Medalist in american history. Youll meet him in just a moment. And coming up later today, well see american phenom Mikaela Shiffrin in her first ride. Jamie aerndzson defending her 2013 title in the Womens Slopestyle final. Were 90 miles east of seoul, the capital of south korea and just 50 miles north of the border of north korea. Whose participation here in pyeongchang, both athletic and diplomatic has been one of the big stories in the game so far. Well talk to chuck todd about that side of the olympics in a with the. Bells President Trump doubling down amid two Top Administration officials forced to resign this week over allegations of Domestic Abuse. And then later, a sunday sitdown with the american ski jumping star whose Olympic Dreams four years ago were scuttled by a bad knee. Now Sarah Hendrickson is happy and healthy here in pyeongchang and describing to us mortals what its like to fly. Three seconds in flight youre up there and perfectly still. What does it feel like . Peacefulness. That feeling that time stops. And you actually have time to have thoughts in the air. A sunday sitdown with american ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson. Plus, a story from the korean war with tom brokaw later in the show. But lets begin with team usas first gold medal. An incredible aerial show as 17yearold red gerard put the United States on the medal board in the snowboarding slopestyle event. Well talk to red in just a moment. But first, my but Natalie Morales is here in the lodge with me with the overnight olympic highlights. Natalie, good to see you. Thanks for inviting me into your lodge, willie. Good morning. Youll remember four years ago it was sochi that the american faith catsenberg was the first winner in slopestyle. A champion, american, who isnt old enough to vote stunning the world and winning team usas first gold medal of the games. He goes huge. Reporter exploding off jumps. And twisting through the air. There he puts it down reporter 17yearold red gerard delivered team usa its first olympic medal of the game. And its gold. Getting off to a rough start. Oh reporter the snowboarder stunned crowds here in pyeongchang, in the mens slopestyle event, putting on a spectacular show in its final run. Up and over. Reporter the firsttime olympic champion from colorado outperforming canadas max harris and marcus morris. Honestly, i was psyched. I didnt care if it was first, second, third. Reporter gerards mother couldnt be prouder. Embracing her son after his golden win while fans celebrate back home in the states. Back at olympic park, team usa took to the ice looking to medal in the figure skating competition. American ice dancer maya and alex shibutani, the pair dazzled leading americans into first place on monday. I felt like the skate was actually really good. Weve been training so hard and to be out on olympic ice for the first time, we were really happy with it. So clean. Reporter and illinois native brady t brady tonnell but it on display. I let the plussic take me. A shot reporter and as the games rang on here in pyeongchang, the North Koreans looked to still the spotlight with their important clearing section. They danced and sang in unison as the hockey team was drubbed by the swiss. The squad trying to distract from the norths brutal regime, as the world comes together to compete for olympic glory. Some events had to be postponed because the weather isnt great. High winds forced the cancellation of the ladies qualifying event and postponed at mens downhill. Lets take a look at the medal count, you see norway leading. Its early, willie. United states has plenty of time. Natalie is going to stick around for the highs and lows of the week. Well see you in a minute. Were thrilled to have red gerard with us this morning. The 17yearold won the first olympic gold at the games. Red, congratulations. Thank you so much. You were sharing the medal with natalie and i. I couldnt believe how heavy it is. How does it feel around your neck . My neck is getting a little tired. Its heavy. One the hazards of being a gold medal winner. Neck pain. For sure. Youre an young guy that doesnt follow the olympics, youre an x games guy. Or dad said you werent that big into the olympics. Do you get how big of a deal it is to win . Oh, yeah, after i got on the podium, im now realizing how big the olympics actually is. Did you know youre the youngest man to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games since 1928, a guy named billy fist. A bobsledder. I heard about that. That hits me a lot. Im pretty happy on that to be young and win a medal for sure. Lets talk about your run. Because your first two you werent happy with. Yeah. You came into that third run, you were in 11th or 12th place. And the 12th guy was out so youre basically last place. Does that feel like pressure four . For me, i wanted to run. It would have been crappy to fly all the way out here and not run two runs. My first run i had problems. It was windy. And the wind was messing with me but then i got a nice run. Tell me about the move everybody is talking about, backside, triple court 1540 i dont know what that is, how does that work . Its three flips, a couple spins in the mix. Getting a little dizzy doing it. You just kind of land. Its crazy. You have a contingent of i think 18 people, right . Yeah. Youre the youngest of five brothers, two sisters, seven kids and everybodys here . Yeah. Whats the party been like today . Its been crazy actually i didnt wake up, i was on the bus ride to the mountain. I woke up to shotguns of beers because they were already up. They were already passed out. Yeah. My mom and dad were there. Two left standing. I dont know if you saw it, you grew up when you were young in ohio. Your hometown, rocky river, inside a bar. We got video to show you. They had a watch party and they went knits. Yeah, i heard about this. I didnt know about it. Its mind blowing. What do you think when you see that . Im just happy people showed up. If i would have known about that i would have been stressed out. 17 years old and the youngest gold medal winner since 1928. Congratulations, my man. Go have fun with your family. Thanks. As we celebrate World Class Athletes here in pyeongchang, its been a busy week back home in the white house. President trump criticized for his apparent defense of two of his aides who resigned amid Domestic Abuse allegations. President trump expressed support for former senior aide rob porter who his exwives explained abuse in detail. On saturday President Trump tweeted this, quote, peoples lives are being shattered sand destroyed by new allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. He went on is there no such thing any longer as due process. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderate of meet the press. Chuck, walk us through this. There are reports that chief of staff john kelly knew about the alleged abuse in the fall. That the white House Counsel knew far before that. Donald trump saying he learned recently and made that decision. Came out and said porter says hes innocent. I have to remind you he says hes innocent. Is there a fallout because of this . Is there any chance that john kelly leaves the white house . Let me start with the john kelly part of the question. I think hes vulnerable here the president was getting impatient with john kelly, starting to call around and getting antsy about him, before this week. I think this week could be one of the final straws for john kelly. And it could simply mean that the president is just tired of john kelly. If you look at his pattern going back to the campaign. Three campaign managers. Hes on his second chief of staff. Basically the average tenure of being the president s right hand is about six to nine months and john kelly is on month seven. But the fact of the matter is, this does look like as if john kelly was afraid of losing somebody he thought was a competent employee. And its go difficult to get competent people to agree to work in that west wing, that they overlooked a lot of red flags about rob porter. Theres no question about it. Chuck, i have to say, being here in south korea, the relationship by north korea and the United States role, it hangs over everything. The sister of kim jongun here making an offer to the president for the meeting. You had the North Koreans marching with the yaunified fla. Theres a lot of skepticism here. What is President Trump thinking about . Well, i think Vice President pence has been his symbolic grimaces, i think, are there to show you what the president thinks. His decision not to stand for as the korean team came in. So, i think you do see ways that i think Vice President pence is trying to express their displeasure, i think with all of this. And not wanting to look like theyre at all seeming complimentary to the North Koreans. But i think one thing americans need to remember, South Koreans have a different mindset about wanting unification some day. I think they always want to be hopeful. But i think all of us are a little more realistic here and realizing this is probably nothing more than a pr stunt by the North Koreans because the olympics are right in their back yard and the world is watching. And south korea saying weve seen this movie before as pop agendgan propaganda. Chuck will be joined by mark short and republican senator jeff flake of arizona an outspoken critic of President Trump. Headlines and breaking news out of russia where a passenger plane has crashed killing all 71 people on board. It went down near moscow after taking off that citys airport. And three people were killed when a sightseeing helicopter crashed at the grand canyon saturday evening. Four people on board were injured. No word from police what exactly went wrong there. A man is under arrest after he ran on to the runway at Los Angeles International airport. A southwest captain saw the man who managed to reach into a wheel well of a plane and pulled a fire extinguisher line and causing a fire alarm to get off. Police say the man scaled the fence to get on the runway. He was arrested just minutes after he was spotted. Well, dylan is here in now, it is pretty cold outside. Today is the beginning of a nice cooling trend in the bay area. We are at more seasonal temperatures for this time of the year. San jose right now at 46 degrees, Mountain View 38, santa cruz 38 degrees, San Francisco 45 degrees and we are expecting more seasonal temperatures each through the afternoon. We are talking upper 60s. The temperature trend for santa clara does show clear skies and temperatures in the 60s by 12 00. All right. Thank you very much. Straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week, including the return of the breakout star of the rio summer olympics. The lubed up tae kwon do guy is now the lubed up Cross Country skier guy and still not wearing a shirt. Double takes as donald trump and kim jongun are spotted together mingling among the fans before tossed out of the joint. Plus, Thomas Brokaw sits down with an old friend who fought in the korean war before he challenged president nixon for the race to be president. Were you prepared for what you saw when you hit the ground . 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The opening ceremonies, highlights including the north and south korean delegations marching into the stadium together under a unified flag as leaders of the two countries technically still at war since 1950 applauded together from their seats then there was team usa, the largest delegation from any country in history in the olympic winter games. Walking proudly together to the 2012 sci hit gangnam style. And some wore suits with fringe on them, reminds them of dumb dumber. Ive giving it to team usa. Sorry, jim. The moment of the night, atry u a triumphant and oily pita taufatofua. The ripped up athlete was talk of the Opening Ceremony in rio when he led his nation into the stadium. Guess what, he learned a new sport, pita taufatofua returned as the flag bearer for the pyeongchang pyeongchagame, hes country skier now. And he went shirtless and lubed up for the Opening Ceremony. Pita is only the second athlete to compete for tonga. That was painful. I was there. It was zero degrees. Im told he made his appearance, he ducked out and they put a jacket over him. I should say so. He was also wearing flipflops. Nothing else. Hes committed to his brand. The first logos to the fact that fake President Donald Trump and fake leader kim jongun were tossed from the opening ceremonies by security during their fake goodwill tour. A pair of trump and kim impersonators were seen strolling the streets getting chummy. They said they were there to display peace. They made an appearance at the Olympic Stadium friday and as crowds gathered around the two actors, they were escorted away. Trump guy, american, kim buy australian, the really sister of kim jongun and mike pence were allowed to stay. Did you see those two guys . I actually saw the jooukim jongun he was pretty good. The next high extended high extended to the city of philadelphia after the super bowl victory a week ago today. The Philadelphia Eagles up set tom brady and the patriots. The reaction of philly fans to the win tells you just how long theyve been waiting since the teams last title in 1960. A tulsa sports anchor who is a huge eagles fan heard that his team had won the super bowl live on the air. Okay, late breaking they won it they won it [ laughter ] oh. Harold, harold, they say no cheering in the press box, but harold can cheer all he wants. Just the beginning of the celebration on thursday nearly 1 million eagles fans lined the streets of philadelphia for a heros parade. The scene of green eventually gathered around the rocky steps in philadelphia park. Pro bowl player jason kelce dressed in im not sure went full professional wrestler in his fiery speech. Hungry dogs run the best. Everybody wanted more. Thats why were up here today. Thats why were the first team in eagles history to hold that trophy you got to love this team. The fans were going crazy. They were eating it up. Thats commitment. I still dont get the outfit but im going with it. I buy it. Our final low comes from the world of football. Wednesday was National Signing day when the countrys Best High SchoolFootball Players announced where theyll play college ball. A big crazy televised thing. Jacob copeland say star receiver from pensacola, florida. As he gets ready to make his announcement you see his mother on the left of screen wearing an alabama or tennessee hat. Two choices, alabama or tennessee well, her son went a third route and she was not having it. Mom grabbed her bag and walks out midsentence from her son. She did return eventually to sign her sons letter. Look at her get her bag. She walks right across the camera. It became a viral star. Jacob wrote on twitter what my mama did today was hilarious, if you knew her personally, thats what she does, she puts on a show. Tough love. Natalie, thanks so much. Great to see you. Great to be here. Next, the sunday sitdown someone who learned how to fly at the age of 7 is now soaring into the winter olympics. Team usa ski jumping champion Sarah Hendrickson and what it feels like to take flight and Unfinished Business from four years ago. And then the olympic story that began when one vermont father decided to personally build a ski slope in his familys backyard. His daughter won a gold medal. His grandson is here in south korea trying to do the same. You can head to facebook for a Facebook Live chat with me and natalie in just two minutes. Well be right back. Here co