Beautiful thursday morning in russia. Now the Opening Ceremony is friday night, but there are new developments right now. Janell wang is about 7,000 miles away and joins us live from sochi. Its about 11 00 a. M. On thursday. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah, were exactly 12 hours ahead of you in the bay area. Competition has already started today. It started about an hour ago. We have three events going on today. We have womans mogales and the slope style snowboard competition. Shaun white announced he has dropped out. He made that announcement wednesday afternoon after jamming his wrist during practice on tuesday. He called the course a bit intimidating after seeing several athletes crash. Hes decided to drop out and avoid risk of injury and focus on the halfpipe, which hes going for his Third Straight gold. The frontrunner wasnt shaun white any way, its the 26yearold from reno. 21yearold ryan stasle is also competing. On the womans side, we have jamie anderson, the 23yearold
Sales of tractors and other Farm Equipment have stalled a bit. They are happy to hear that there is now a coordinated federal and state response in the works. The National Drought partnership is a nationwide effort, but i can tell you right now, all of its energy is focused on california at this point in time. Reporter state and federal leaders say they are tackling californias drought as a united front. Officials have the u. S. Bureau of reclamation, fish and Wildlife Service and other state and federal agencies came together today to say californias drought emergency means all hands on deck. I can assure you that well go through this crisis together. Reporter Officials Say they are working on ways to ease the droughts impact, pledging to help struggling farmers and ranchers. I think its great that they are working on this, and i think its great that they are acknowledging the seriousness of the problem, and, you know, hopefully they can come up with an outcome that will help everybod
Rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside Natalie Morales, diylan as well. I love that music. Its kind of catchy. Weve been doing the drum beat for a long time. Welcome to the Alpine Village about 30 miles up in the caucacus mountains. Thats not some kind of a movie backdrop. Thats the real thing behind us. The mountains along the river, got some nice people Milling Around here. You mentioned that some of the games have gotten under way. Well be talking to some of the athletes fresh from their qualifying rounds in just a couple of minutes. And also unfortunately well have more on that security alert coming from the u. S. Government, ladies. Well, we look forward to catching up on all of that. The olympics are under way, the figure skating tonight, one of the favorite events. As you said, that top issue is this terror warning. Its a scary one. Yes, it really is. Im joined here by kyra simmons of nbc. He has more
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