celebrate with her husband and kids after winning silver in the skeleton. we re going to talk to her and her family live today, saturday, february 15th, 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 rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt here in sochi with natalie morales, erica hill and dylan dreyer back home. we re going to check in with both of them in just a little bit. we also want to tell you, that crowd back there, they re like [ cheers and applause ] huge crowd! they re going to probably leave us in a short order to go over to that u.s. versus russia hockey just across the way. that s right. they re getting warming up for a rivalry. we re in the middle of the action for now, though, and we need to chant along with them, usa. usa! i can t wait! we ll get right to today s t
scored an invite. sunday, january 19th, 2014. and welcome to today on this sunday morning. i m erica hill. and i m lester holt. why do i feel like polar vortex is going to be one of those phrases at the end of 2014 it will be a banned phrase? had. we dug it out from the meteorology textbooks. it is real. it never sounded bizarre because i learned about it. this will be a banned phrase. right up there with hash tag and selfie. we ll bring you an inspiring story that s featured in a duracell battery. i love that story. so excited for that. we do begin this morning, though, with our top story today which is governor chris christie getting hit once again with accusations of using his office to get revenge on political opponents. michael isikoff is joining us with all of this. michael, good morning. reporter: good morning. legislative leaders in new jersey who already served christie s office with 20 subpoenas say they may now expand their probe to look at new al
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we begin with an ominous new terror threat against next month s winter olympic games in sochi, russia. with thousands of athletes, journalists and spectators from the u.s. and around the world soon arriving in sochi, today, a well-known islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that killed 34 people last month in the city of volgograd. and they vowed more attacks, making specific mention of the olympics and the tourists who will come for the games. our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is in moscow with more on this latest threat. richard, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. officials insist that the olympics will be safe. that may be so. this latest threat does, at least, appear credible. the latest terror threat to the olympics comes from two suicide bombers who are already dead. this video is the last testimony of the calm, young men. they documented what th
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