White shocker, the snowboarder makes the stunning announcement one day before the competition is set to begin. Well tell you what it is today, wednesday, february 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to the olympic winter games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in olympic park in sochi. Matt, good morning to you, im Savannah Guthrie here in studio 1a. And dont make us wait any longer. What are we hearing from shaun white this morning . We have just received a statement from shaun white, hes giving to us first. And heres what he says, after much deliberation with my team, ive made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the Third Straight gold medal in halfpipe for team usa. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one i take lightly. As i know how much effort everyone has
Also coming up protests and condemnation around the world against the me and mom military regime for executing for pro democracy activists. Now the recalls for further isolate the military test and process apologizes for the abuse of indigenous children at Catholic Schools in canada. Thing the church cooperated in cultural destruct ah many keeps mckennan welcome to the show every one European Energy ministers al missing to day to agree on a plan to cut gas consumption and to reduce the blocks dependence on russian gas supplies. Now theres debate between e u countries over whether the reduction targets should be mandatory, but gas use is already being throttled with russia saying that its causing flows through the nord stream, one pipeline, to just 20 percent of its normal capacity. Moscows blaming the castle repair works and sanctions, but germany rejects that, excuse, Maintenance Work or warfare via pipeline berlins has gas problems move to further tightened the screws on gas supplies
Today Show star Savannah Guthrie took to Instagram to share a glimpse inside her rarely-seen office at the NBC studios as she shared a hugely personal update