pleading guilty in the investigation. another missed sign? the fbi investigating this morning why another tip was never passed along of the florida school shooter after a woman said she had concerns over quote going to explode. emotions run high as teachers r head back to the classroom. and all that plus companies cutting ties with the nra. a former miami dolphins player is under investigation for a threatening post. and the south with relentless rain. homes and streets under water. it doesn't look like it is letting up soon. dylan is tracking it all. saturday, february 24th, 2018. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today." >> good morning. welcome to "today." thank you for joining us. i'm sheinelle joenes. i'm craig melvin. >> i'm dylan dreyer. >> we're back together. >> it feels like summer break and you have not seen everybody in a while. how was your summer? >> you feel rusty. >> did you miss us? >> i did. you did a phenomenal job. was it just as much fun? >> it was a lot of fun. the experience of a lifetime. my first olympics. >> a lot of fun. good to be back. >> yes. >> how about the curling match? >> right. i was up at 3:00 a.m. watching these guys. here is the thing about u.s. curling. these guys were not supposed to be in the gold medal game, much less win it. >> that is the beauty of the olympics. comeback kids. the olympic action overnight. let's begin with that. top story. team usa winning two more medals, including that gold for the first time ever in curling after a thrilling match against sweden. a silver in the big air snowboarding competition. we'll talk to all of the medalists coming up. let's get the latest from miguel almaguer. he is in olympic park this morning. miguel, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning. a good day on the ice and team usa in events where not everyone was an american favorite, many olympians battled their way on to the podium. >> five on the board for team usa. >> reporter: this is gold on ice. the american curling team bumping off the swedes. sweeping their way to the first gold medal ever. >> shuster stays hot. >> reporter: a stunning comeback after blanked in vancouver and sochi. >> it is great when he it is your first one. >> to get one and for the country is just incredible. >> welcome to the greatest show on snow. >> reporter: men's big air took competition to new heights with monster jumps and scary spills. american kyle mark defying gravity and with this jump the dictionary. a front side triple wocork 1440 bloody dracula. embraced by teammate and fellow golden boy red gerard. >> i worked hard to get to here and walking away with silver is sick. >> reporter: mack wasn't the only american making headlines in big air. ivanka trump here to lead the u.s. delegation for the closing ceremony. watching history before she takes part in it sunday. for now, no plans to meet with the north korean delegation. at the closing ceremony, jessie diggins has been selected by teammates to carry the american flag. >> it is jessie diggins! delivering a golden moment. >> reporter: with randall, diggins won gold for cross country skying. the first ever for the u.s. after raisie racing in the star stripes, she will carry it. >> gold in two sports. led erk ledecka. >> reporter: the first woman to ever win two golds in two different sports at the winter games. tonight, for team usa, the games are nearly over, but on the podium they're still standing strong. let's take a look at the latest medal count. norway cannot be caught. they are followed by germany, canada and the u.s. in fourth. here is what to watch for today at the winter olympics. the four-man bobsled competition wraps up with finals. and in figure skating, the highly anticipated gala. sheinelle, back to you. >> thank you, miguel. >> let's talk about the gold medal match. team usa down and out and they came back in a major way bringing home the gold with that thrilling victory against the favorite swedes. we are so happy to have all of the guys with us. skip john shuster and tyler george and matt hamilton and john landsteiner and joe polo. congratulations. >> thanks, guys. >> skip shuster, let's start with you, sir. how does it feel being an olympic gold medalist? >> it's -- it's starting to sink in a little bit. back in 2006, we got the first medal for the u.s., bronze medal. this is pretty darn special. >> pretty special. tyler, let's bring you in here. it is called the mir-ac-curl on ice. you were on a hot winning streak. winning five games in a row. what changed? how did you pull it off? >> you know, honestly, the best thing for us is to play canada the next day. when you play against the best team in the world, you have nothing to lose. you play loose and confident and against that team, that is how you start the hot streak. >> a canadian team you hadn't beaten in competition. you had to beat them not once, but twice. john, you have an incredible comeback story. cut from the team four years ago and you start your own team and at one point, you guys were known as the rejects. and now the rejects are all wearing gold medals. >> yeah. we didn't get rejected for long. this team came together back in the fall of 2014 and actually won a couple national championships and represented the u.s. in those and made the medal round each time. we knew we had a chance coming in here. we upgraded to something a little bit bigger. >> joe, you have been part of both medals for the curling team. what do you say to those who say curling isn't a sport? >> we put in a lot of hard work in the gym and on the ice. challenge to come and try it and not be sore the next day. >> matt hamilton, you have some celebrity doppelgangers out there. i wanted to put up the picture of the most famous. there is none other than super mario. who wore it better? you or marimario? >> you know, he might have rocked the red hat better, but i'm rocking this better than he could. i'm happy with it. >> congratulations, guys. we are so happy and proud of you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> let's get to the other big news. the new charges facing the former campaign manager manafort as his top aide pleads guilty. is this another sign the special counsel getting closer to the white house? we have correspondent kelly o'donnell with more. >> reporter: good morning, sheinelle. the white house is not commenting on the charges of paul manafort in the guilty plea of rick gates. this stems from the business life and not work of the campaign. both men indicted that included money laundering, but now the special counsel is bringing forward of evidence of additional crimes. the special counsel squeeze. late friday, new charges levelled against paul manafort. trump's campaign chairman in 2016. manafort accused of making secret payments to former european politicians to get them to take positions favorable to ukraine. while manafort worked for a russia backed ukraine leader in 2012 and 2014. the new charges following a big break friday. manafort's former top aide rick gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. gates is now cooperating with the special counsel. manafort responded that he hoped gates would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. president trump was not asked about the russia investigation during his conference with australia's prime minister. he did respond to the white house security clearance controversy. saying he would not overrule the chief of staff with the interim clearance. >> that is up to general kelly. general kelly will make that call. >> reporter: in a raucous and free wheeling speech earlier friday. >> second amendment. >> reporter: the president talked gun policy. pushing for teachers with gun skills to carry weapons at schools. even though an armed deputy at the florida high school did not confront the gunman. >> he decided not to go in. that was not his finest moment. that i can tell you. >> reporter: president trump says he will take action. >> we want to be powerful and very strong on background checks and especially as it pertains to the mentally ill. >> reporter: late friday there was a scare here that had the white house on lockdown for a time. there now has been a woman, a 35-year-old woman from tennessee, taken into custody after the van she was driving went into a barricade. secret service officers said she spotted a pistol and forcibly removed her from the van and took her into custody. according to police reports, there were incidents where she tried to gain access in the white house. craig. >> kelly, thank you. now to the emotional scene in parkland, florida where teachers returned to the school on friday for the first time since the horrific shooting. this as we get new information about another possible warning sign missed about the shooter. maya rodriguez is in parkland this morning. maya, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. well, right now, we know that parents and teachers and students tomorrow will be able to go back to stoneman douglas high school for the first time since the shooting. teacher s went in yesterday for the first time to get belongings and assess what is going on in the school and classrooms. all of this as the investigation uncovered new details. this morning, new details about the tip called into the fbi last month. a person the agency describes as close to 19-year-old shooting suspect nikolas cruz warned authorities that cruz was quote going to explode and feared he would be getting into a school and just shooting the place up. the fbi did not follow-up on that tip. all this while on friday teachers at stoneman douglas returned to a campus shaken by tragedy. >> this school is my home and i'm very angry. >> reporter: the shooting that killed 17 prompted florida governor rick scott to announce new measures. raising the age limit to buying a firearm to 21. >> i know some are advocating a take away for second amendment rights. that is not the answer. >> reporter: the governor calling for law enforcement officer to be assigned to every public school. the broward sheriff's office says scot peterson, the armed officer at stoneman douglas did not confront the shoot errer or enter the building. peterson resigned. he has not responded to requests for comments from nbc news. other officers did respond to the shooting. including sergeant jeff henrik. his wife works at the school. his son a student there. >> by the grace of god, when they walked in the hallway, they found each other. >> reporter: the school now preparing to take on a lesson in learning and healing. >> we will take it one day at a time. one class at a time. one minute at a time. >> reporter: now as for those injured in the shooting more than a week later, three remain in the hospital. all in fair condition. craig. >> maya rodriguez, thank you. dylan, a lot of folks dealing with a lot of rain. >> a lot of rain and rain for days. that is causing the issue. the story is the heavy rain. 43 million people under flood watch this morning from the northeast part of texas to pennsylvania. homes, cars and football fields seen here in kentucky are almost completely submerged. flooding for days is causing rivers to rise like the one in michigan and the ohio river has been flooding as well. heavy through southern illinois and parts of central indiana and back through dallas as well. if we go to last monday, the rain has been training over the same areas from texas through especially arkansas and all the way up to pennsylvania since monday. that's why all of this water is trickling into the rivers and lakes and the streams and that's causing the concern for more flooding. we have some flash flood warnings in effect across eastern oklahoma and northwestern arkansas. as we go through the day today, the front will finally start to move east. another very wet day through texas and arkansas and southern illinois. the front will move east for sunday. we could see severe storms. there is the possibility of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. especially in good morning. today we're looking at temperatures a little warmer than average into the 50s. that comes with a lot of gray, rainy conditions. 53 in center city. 52 for the high in lands dale. allentown making it to the low 50s. on and off rain. chances aren't as high for new jersey, the shore or delaware. the temperatures at 5 in smyrna. and that's and that's yo forecast. >> thank you, dylan. still to come, the former nfl player investigation after posting a threatening social media message. and a look back at the highlights of the second week at the olympics in pyeongchang. i'm a concrete mason. i own my own company. i had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. finally, listening to my wife, went to a doctor. and i became diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma... that diagnosis was tough. i had to put my trust in somebody. when i first met steve, we recommended 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after overtime. finally a nail biting shootout. >> scores! the united states wins gold in pyeongchang! >> the win 38 years to the day after the miracle on ice. >> here comes diggins! >> a heart stopping finish in women's cross-country skiing as jessie diggins came from behind to beat norway and sweden. >> jessie diggins delivering a landmark moment that will be etched in u.s. olympic history. the first ever cross-country gold medal for the u.s. >> diggins winning gold along with kikken randall. russian rivalry. zigitova winning gold. her fellow russian medevevo coming in second. none of the u.s. women making the medal stands. >> the shibutanis making a splash. >> alex and maia shibutani winning bronze in the ice dance finals. their second medals of the games. on the slopes, a mondumental match up. lindsey vonn and likely her last olympic games went head-to-head against mikaela shiffrin and the super combined. shiffrin coming out on top. scoring silver after vonn skied off course in the 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>> i actually didn't come up with the name. back in the day, the snowboarding guys doing new grabs and before the spins and stuff. you know, i got to figure out the history to the name. i have been asked that question so many times. when i figure it out, i will let you know. >> you looked fearless out there, kyle. i caught you a couple of times in pyeongchang. do you ever get scared if. >> -- scared? >> no, fear doesn't cross my mind. it is more nerves. you know, it is always scary trying new tricks. especially with that grab. i guess. >> speaking of fear not crossing your mind. what goes through your mind? when the final results were in and you won silver medal. we saw red gerard who won gold in the men's slopestyle. he came over to congratulate you. what was going through your mind? >> i mean so many emotions going through my mind. i was blown away i got second. i was really happy for my best friends with me. i wish red was up there and kenworthy. >> i heard your dad got emotional as well when you won. what did he say to you? 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( ♪ ) - there's a common thread i see every time i'm in the field. while this was burning, you were saving other homes. neighbors helping neighbors and strangers alike. - this is what america's about. - sometimes it's nice to see all the good that's out there. bringing folks out, we have seen it in community after community. we are back on a saturday morning. guys, you have one last adventure before you left pyeongchang. >> we are calling it adventure? our producers thought it would be great to put natalie morales and dylan dreyer and myself on wooden skis to try old fashioned korean skiing. >> if it is ever an olympic event, we will not be part of it. >> from mikaela shiffrin's run to jamie anderson's smooth slopestyle, the mountains around pyeongchang have seen stunning feats the past two weeks. our next excursion was not one of them. we are trying out a unique way of skiing that has roots in the region going back hundreds of years. the locals made skis from maple wood carving and branding into this shape. >> this wasn't for fun. it was more necessity. >> absolutely. >> absolute necessity. >> he is the head of the nearby village and he met our group to show us how to ski. >> there are no edges on these skis. what is the proper position to stand? get low. >> there is no chair lift here. we strapped on snowshoes to help us hike up the mountain. this is an helaborate knotting system. we have a wooden stick. and final tips from mr. park. >> what are the chances we will fall on skis? >> people who are experienced do not fall. the beginners will fall. >> with those words of encouragement, we head up the hill. >> double diamond? >> let's do it. >> okay. >> we did it. >> all right. that's it. let's go home. >> to get home, we had to get into the skis. they were the opposite of clip in and clip out. >> craig's ski fell off. >> you go into the ski chute with craig and natalie. >> i'm not ready for primetime. dylan made the first attempt of a run. >> here we go. >> that was great. >> this bag is throwing me off. >> next up is natalie. >> i have to get a good line here. >> you have to use the stick. you have to lean on the stick. you got it. you had it. >> she had it coming. >> the danger is low at these speeds. unless your name is dylan dreyer. >> dylan? >> then you take out the photographer and end up in a ditch. >> i did it. >> meanwhile, i'm having my own challenges. while i struggled to just stand up, the ladies decided to make an olympic event out of it. >> i think it will be a photo finish. what do you think? we lost craig. that's okay. >> i'm done. >> craig gets bronze. dylan takes the lead. >> they will use fancy editing tricks to make it seem they have done well. i have been watching them for 15 minutes. they struggled just as much. >> i'm going into the pole. >> dylan was perfect. >> yes. >> that's right. i'm a quitter. i'm a quitter! >> you didn't -- why did you quit? >> i could have been there for two hours and not get down the mountain. >> there were no edges on the skis. >> why couldn't you stand up? >> you would fall. >> end up in the ditch. >> my photographer fell backwards. he had to lift his legs. i could not stop. i was going underneath him. >> if we he had been forced to food that way hundreds of years ago, my family would have starved. >> this was for sport? >> no. >> this is how they got around? >> yes. >> we cleaned that up. we probably fell a couple hundred times. literally. >> did they stand up when they did it? >> rolled over. look at that. >> the guy teaching us was at the bottom of the hill laughing. >> did you see him do it? >> no. he laughed at us. >> he was 80. >> no excuses. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. it was a lot of great moments the two weeks in pyeongchang. on the ice, on the slopes. i will tell you my favorite moment every night after the broadcast because we were on at 9:00 there. we would get together at the bar. me, al, savannah and hoda. we would have the same meal. cheese pizza and chicken wings. >> you are in south korea and you have pizza? >> don't judge us. what was your favorite? >> i did a story with the parents of the twins on the u.s. women's hockey team. lamoureux-morando. i missed the gold winning game. i was there for all of the other games leading up to the game where she hit the game-winning goal. it was fun to be able to spend time with them. >> speaking of time for me. for me, when you see the joy on their faces. her face. it translates all the way here to new york city. you feel it for her. this is what the olympics is all about. >> right. >> no joke sport. the amount of energy they put in and collapse to the ground. >> inspiring. good stuff. >> that's going to do it for us on saturday morning. coming up tonight on nbc, you can watch the best and brightest in figure skating for the gala exhibition at 8:00. tomorrow on "sunday today" willie sits down with soicha today, right now, you have more power at your fingertips than entire generations that came before you. but it's not really about what technology can do, it's about what you can do with it. we are living in the future we always dreamed of. we have mixed reality that changes how we see the world, and ai empowering us to change the world we see. so what will you do with it? 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