Tens of millions across the southwest facing a flood threat as high temperatures above normal set to blanket the east coast in springlike weather. Those stories plus sibling revelry. Miai and Alex Shibutani get bronze. And the pair from canada get gold. Saving the best for last Brita Sigourney wins bronze in ski halfpipe. And one step closer. Out in front, scores. The u. S. Mens hockey team keeps its hopes alive, with a big win today, february 20th, 2018. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today, at the Olympic Games, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from pyeongchang, south korea. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. It is 7 00 a. M. On a Tuesday Morning back home. 9 medals for team usa. We want to begin for the new push in the wake of the florida shooting. The issue finds itself front and center once again. We are complete coverage starting at the white house, starting with nbcs kristen welker. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The president returns from maralago overnight with the calls becoming louder for him to make a stand on gun safety. He was impacted by the shooting in parkland florida. He is backing a narrow bipartisan bill that would strengthen background checks. But for many that legislation doesnt nearly go far enough. This morning, a fierce fight is brewing over guns after the latest massacre in parkland florida. Not one more. Reporter where protesters demanded stiffer gun laws monday. This time it will be different. The people that were affected by the shooting the people who saw it are the people speaking out. Reporter protesters are calling for change from las vegas to new jersey, and outside the white house, where protesters staged a diein. Shame on you. Shame on you. Reporter now, the white house may have a shift on the issue. Saying the president supports background checks. The background system is broken. When that background check was run, it didnt say he had been expelled from school. Reporter the plan the president supports was introduced of the Church Shooting in texas, and would require federal agencies to improve their reporting on control convictions. But that couldnt have stopped the shooter. Senator Dianne Feinstein plans to require an age requirement, 21 and older to purchase an ar15, the weapon used in florida and in many mass shootings. But theres strong opposition to any new gun lowaw. These students say, theyre determined. I think its really important that we come together now since adults are not doing it for us. Reporter theres a lot of skepticism that even the most narrow piece of legislation can pass on gun safety. With the country deeply divided on the issue, the last attempt to expand background checks was in 2013 that was after sandy hook. For his part the president will hold a listening session here on wednesday, with High School Students and teachers, after having meetings here today. Hoda and savannah . Kristen welker live at the white house. Thank you. Plans are in place to gradually reopen the high school over the next week. Support services will be in place for survivors, including teachers who did their best to protect those students. Kerry sanders is there. He talked exclusively to two teachers and a student who survived that attack. Kerry, good morning. Reporter good morning. There are three more funerals planned here in south florida today. This as more than a hundred students are going to the State Capitol to lobby lawmakers on gun laws. Were hearing for inging from some of those who survived this carnage. A warning, this is emotional and maybe difficult to listen to. Nicholaskolas cruz in court monday. The confessed shooter never looking up. Charged with 17 counts of firstdegree murder. Prosecutors saying its too early to talk about any kind of plea deal. I reporter it comes as those who were caught in the gunfire are sharing their stories for the first time. English teacher dara haass was in her classroom. I thought it might be a drill. I went to shut the blinds. When i turned, i saw my student. I saw him. He was bleeding. Reporter 14yearold alex schachter. My students were so brave. Reporter she grabbed her cell phone. I called 911 and asked if they could get to their student that was injured. I couldnt get to him. And 911 said hes coming back. He had shot my room twice. No, hes coming back. And i figured, if i have to go im going to hug my students closer. And i kissed my students on their head trying to comfort them. Reporter schachter, and two more students alaina petty and Alyssa Alhadeff died in her room. Amid the chaos, jack mcleod trapped in a hallway, with nowhere to hide. I couldnt get into the classroom. Reporter then a math teacher did what she was trained never to do. I broke protocol. I open mid door and looked out and heres a group of children with an adult. And he goes can we come in. And i said everybody come in as fast as you can. Reporter at 65 mary is a year away from retirement. I turned to the kids and i said i want you to know that if anybody come plus that door to harm you, they have to come through me. I will be the first defense. They will have to shoot me to get to you. And maybe that will give you a chance. Reporter it would be 90 minutes before the s. W. A. T. Team finally came to their rescue. What this young man and all of his schoolmates are going to haass had given her students an assignment alexs poem texted from his father when we were there. Life is like a rollercoaster, that goes up and down. It eventually doms a lyly comes to a stop. Then, you will know it is time to come off and start new. Its not fair they had to be taken. Its not fair. Reporter savannah nikolas cruz the confessed gunman has yet to explain why. Kerry, there are no words. But what a powerful powerful stories we just heard right now. Thank you so much. Thank you, kerry. President trump remains focused on the russia investigation, this time using twitter to blame his predecessor for election meddling. Hallie jackson has more on that. Reporter good morning. President trump is back in washington today, after spending much of the Holiday Weekend down in florida, seemingly simmering over that russia after the indictments were handed down to 13 russians for interfereing in the 2016 election. Now, President Trump was tweeting that obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election. So why didnt he do something about russian meddling. Thenpresident obama did punish moscow with sanctions before leaving office. He aimed a warning at Vladimir Putin telling him to cut it out or there would be consequences. In october 2016 the department of Homeland Security issued a statement on this. At the time there was some concern inside the Obama Administration that it might look like they were putting their finger on the scale if they were to say too much publicly about russian interference. Thats something that top democrat adam schiff is acknowledging in a recent interview. But he says thats not an excuse for, in schiffs words, for frmp President Trump to sit on his hands now. We may learn more when Sarah Sanders talks to reporters today, for the First Time Since the indictments came down. Hoda . Hallie jackson. Hallie, thank you. Well turn to the Winter Olympics. Histories was made in ice dancing, on a night that team usa won more medals for team usa. Craig melvin has all of the info. Reporter the ice dancers were dazzling. I talked into the work space and i saw you there, like so many huddled around the television mesmerized by the canadian duo that nearly melted the ice. For the americans, though the shibutanis known simply as the shib sibs who made it to the medal stand. You just watched one of the alltime great ice dance teams. Reporter heart and soul on the ice. The free dance skating competition created some of the most dramatic moments of these games. Brilliance strikes again. Reporter as canadas tessa virtue and scott moir, grabbed the floor. The pair that had been skating together for 20 years, coming back from so been two decades in the making. In it llits a really intense competition. Were happy with now things turned out. Ive never seen a team like them on the ice ever. Reporter frans grab yell la papadakis and guillaume citizenzeroncizeron, after that wardrobe malfunction in the short skate. Alex and took bronze. The shibutanis brings it here at the olympics. We brought it every time we went on the ice this games. The feelings when we finished our program is nothing ill never forget. Reporter its the shib sibs second medal of these games. From twizzles on the ice to twisting and spinning in the air, american Brita Sigourney winning bronze in the ski halfpipe. Look at the 900, going massive. Much bigger than any hit weve seen today. Reporter after years of stumbles and setbacks for sigourney, the 20yearold landing on the olympic modepodium in pyeongchang. Her teammate pushing her from third to fourth place. She has to up the ante from a 90. 81 to get back on the podium. Reporter sigourney, taking it on her next run. Brita sigourney is taking hole the bronze. Reporter a touching moment as both women embraced. What a class moment by Annalisa Drew. And the u. S. Team beating slovenia advancing to the quarterfinal rounds where they face the czech republic. He scores. Reporter ryan donato scoring two goals. The United States moves on. They advance to face the czechs. Reporter we should mention a player on that slowvenian team has been sent home after testing positive for a banned substance. A speed skater and a russian curler have been accused of doping at these games. They are launching their own investigation. Meanwhile, with the two bronze medals team usa has moved back into fifth in the overall medal count, with norway still there at the top of the list. Some big events on todays schedule. The womens figure skating competition starts. Well be previewing that in a bit with Scott Hamilton. In skiing lindsey vonn competes in the downhill. And qualifying for the mens big air snowboarding final, later tonight, as well. Savannah hoda back to you guys. Were holding two of the new medals right now. Were going to reveal all this in a second. Nose amazing ice dancers, we were lucky enough to be there. We couldnt wait to talk to the Medal Winners. What . Wow. I want to talk about the end for a second. You finished the program. I looked at your face and your face. And i watched you both explode into tears. Please describe what that felt like at the end of that program. That was the best skate of our lives. Thats the skate weve always dreamed about. And no matter what the results were i knew we had given it our absolute everything. The results fade. Its the memories that you have and this journey weve been on together has been really really incredible. Look at you in this moment. This is the moment everything changes. Weve been working so hard for so long. And weve always believed in each other. And weve been so lucky to have people support us. I know we just made our dream come true. And what about anybody who thought, i dont think a brother sister team can do this. This is about a couple. This is about a sensuality. What did you show them today . Youre wrong. Were different. Were unique. But people need to see different perspective perspectives. If you love what you do, you have to believe in yourself and keep going. Two medals. Two medals. Two medals at these games. You guys did it. You did us proud. Thank you. I love hoda hugs. I love you. Virtue and moir with their second olympic gold medal. Congratulations. No matter where you sat in that arena, if you were in the cheap seats, if you were in front, you felt what you were putting out there. I never felt anything like that. What did it feel like on the ice . You knew you were hitting your stride. It was electrifying. It was a warm crowd. We needed to have our best skate. I was terrified. The minute the music stopped, i was looking at both of you, watching your faces. You knew. You envision that moment for years and years. And it never plays out the way you any its going to. But beyond the medal, thats the best feeling. Well hold on knowing we had our best skate today. We have to be the most fortunate kids in the world. What an awesome day because look who is right here. Shib sibs. Guys were holding on to your medals. They have so many medals they can share. Yes, you can. Oh wait. Al. Yeah. Were going to talk to these lovely ones. Were going to talk to tessa virtue and scott moir. Theyre going to be here too. Also on this busy Tuesday Morning, the weather is a big story back home. Al, you have your eye on the storm. Big flooding possible today. As we go to it not only do we have flooding with over 40 Million People at risk for heavy flooding we have ice storm warnings through kansas city as cold air filters in behind this. We have to have storm after storm after storm. Atmospheric river fed b stream with heavy rains from texas into the great lakes. It goes from thursday into frweekend. We look at the rainfall upwards of 5 to 7 inches. Locally from texas all the way into parts of the midwest, 8 to 12 inches of snow. And behind it ice as much as onethird of an inch which can cause power outages, trees down and major, major problems on the roads. Were going to get to you oats seem pretty simple, right . Theyre actually kind of extraordinary. See, oats contain a soluble fiber called betaglucan. Betawhat . 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