good morning, america. this morning, endless winter. here comes a new storm. there are blizzard warnings right now, and they arrive on the heels of the nor'easter that made this highway look like a demolition derby, caused thousands of flights to be canceled and roofs to cave in. breaking overnight, killer wave. a wall of water smashes across a cruise ship killing at least one person, injuring others. where it happened and where the ship is headed now. giant jackpot. tonight's powerball drawing is worth 330 million bucks. this morning a look at the most outrageous things you can do with your money if your numbers come up. and olympic up and down. men falling all through figure skating. >> oh, no. >> and u.s. speed skaters

stumble and switch out of their high-tech suits while a trio of fun-loving americans make history sweeping the first ever slopestyle event. good morning, everybody. remember a couple of weeks ago when the groundhog said we had six more weeks of winter, he was right, but i believe he was insufficiently specific. he failed to mention that the rest of this winter would be relentlessly and unacceptably snowy and brutal. >> it has been brutal. airports across the country virtually at a standstill with so many couples trying to get away for a valentine's weekend. there are some people making the best of it. one romantic couple in virginia made this snow heart for valentine's day. and look at this shot. a snowbank against new york's famous skyline and, of course, there's central park glistening as well. it looks so beautiful in the pictures. >> pictures. >> when you're out there --

>> yeah, hopping over slush to get there is less amusing. this guy is snowboarding down the street. that looks like a don't try that at home. we used to call this skitching back in the day. he's attached to the back of a car. i never did it, of course. despite the fun and the beauty which i will only grudgingly admit, many of us are ready for this thing to end. in fact, we started a countdown clock. there it is right there. 32 days until spring. >> 32 long day. just over a month to go, and now there's a flesh blizzard on the way. it comes as tens of millions of americans are digging out of this week's nor'easter, and abc's linzie janis is on the story from central park in a balmy new york city. it's, what, 40 degrees out? >> reporter: 40 degrees, bianna, and no snow yet, but we're told it is on the way, and that's why the race is on to clear the existing ice and snow. between battering winter storms, this morning nearly a third of the nation is cleaning up. >> i hope we don't get no more. >> reporter: and clearing out.

heavy snow causing roofs to cave in, leaving some homeless. the average home can withstand about two feet of snow before the roof becomes susceptible to collapse. parts of the northeast have gotten much more than that this week. as far south as north carolina, police calling in tow trucks to save stranded motorists. this 7-year-old boy got lost in tennessee and survived the night in freezing temperatures by cuddling his dog cocoa for 14 hours. >> i didn't keep warm. the dog kept warm. >> reporter: look at this truck. the large hole right in front of the driver's windshield was because of falling ice, and this may look like an explorer atop a mountain, but really it's workers clearing gigantic chunks of ice and snow from a vermont airport runway. and this man taking advantage of the sloppy conditions in new york city snowboarding down the street. ♪ much of the country was hit hard.

the roads outside philadelphia so slick causing this five-mile-long pileup. more than a hundred cars, dozens injured. >> around that corner right there, and all of a sudden, the sun is blinding, and i missed the car in front of me by that much. >> reporter: and those drivers in pennsylvania told us they were fooled by the sun and also by what looked like a clear road. in fact, it was a sheet of ice. a good reminder to stay cautious no matter how tired and frustrated we are all growing with this winter. dan, 32 days, 32 days, i love that countdown clock. >> that's right. yes. we're going to put it up for the rest of the show. as we said, there are blizzard warnings up right now for parts of the northeast. for more on this new storm, let's get it over to bill kelly, the bearer of bad news, chief meteorologist for wsyx in columbus, and we're very glad to have you here. >> isn't hope a wonderful thing. talk about those blizzards -- excuse me, the

spring starting soon but not today, folks. we have winter weather advisories posted all the way from north carolina up into new england and you mentioned that blizzard warning. here it is, it's for eastern sections of massachusetts there where it's going to be blowing, the snow is going to be blinding. here is the current radar. you folks in washington, d.c., you're probably going to stay rain. philly, a little snow. we're expecting a little bit of snow in the new york area over the next couple of hours. but where it is going to affect the most of you is up here into new england. i mean this storm is going to pack a punch. let me run the timing by for you. here's the morning time frame. we get into the afternoon, it pulls off into the ocean and look at this. look at all the snow that is going to be around in these areas. we're talking in some spots 6 to 12 inches of snow. bianna. >> a tough weekend for folks in the northeast. bill, our thanks to you. well, we're going to turn now to the pleasure cruise turned deadly for passengers enjoying a trip at sea. their six-week adventure to the amazon and the caribbean ending in horror when a wall of water came smashing into the ship. abc's jeffrey kofman has more from our london bureau. >> reporter: bianna, while so much of north america is in deep snow and deep freeze, here in the uk we're being battered by

relentless waifs and high winds. coastal communities south and west of london are being devastated by floods, and huge waves are causing havoc at sea. overnight tragedy hitting the high seas when a massive wave crashed into a british cruise ship killing a man on board. the 288-foot "marco polo" was on its way home to the uk from a 42-day trip when it was struck by a wave while passing through the english channel. rushing water shattered a window on board injuring several of the ship's 735 passengers. two had to be air-lifted off the ship to nearby hospitals where one, an 85-year-old man, was later pronounced dead. >> a rogue wave has a tremendous amount of power in it. it's not usual for a rogue wave to do something like that. it'll shatter the glass, and it will hurt people inside. the wave is part of the same blast of vicious weather that's left tens of thousands here in the uk without power. >> we are doing everything we can. we are fighting on every front. >> reporter: last night the

cruise ship's operator tweeted "our thoughts are with the family of the passenger who has sadly died." even with their massive size, cruise ships can still feel the wrath of the ocean. in 2010 this ship, the "clelia 2" was disabled off the coast of south america by 30-foot waves. >> i just thought she is a great ship. i hope she holds together. >> it happens. rogue waves do hit, and when you're in rough seas, you have to take precautions. >> reporter: this is not just a little bit of that british bad weather. more than 20 communities have severe flood alerts, more than 140,000 homes are without power and more rain is on the way. dan? >> a nightmare in the uk and on the high seas. jeffrey, thank you. let's switch gears now and get to the olympics. week two now of the winter games officially under way, and there's the medal count on our sochi scoreboard. we are tied with norway for first place with the netherlands, russia and germany right behind.

abc's amy robach is tracking all the action at our "gma" olympic headquarters in sochi. amy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan, and, yes, the latest medal for the united states, a silver in the women's skeleton, plus the controversy over the u.s. speed skaters' request to change their suits halfway through the competition and then, of course, last night's thrills and spills of men's figure skating. during the men's freeskate figure skating final, a few ups. >> triple toe. triple toe. >> reporter: and some major downs, a couple of stumbles may have cost patrick chan the top spot and a shot at breaking the so-called canadian curse and yuzuru hanyu of japan may have lost his balance here. >> oh, no. >> reporter: but he was able to hang on to his gold medal in the end. next up, wardrobe malfunctions? with six races under their belts, the u.s. speed skaters have made it to the halfway point but not one medal in hand. now some are hoping new suits will pick up the slack. >> to walk away and see they're seventh place, they're eighth place, so you keep trying to

dissect and figure out what's the common denominator among them, and everyone keeps coming back to the suit. >> reporter: the ioc considering a request to change their uniforms after skaters question the efficiency of their current high-tech racing suits developed by under armour and lockheed martin. the design went through hundreds of hours of testing, but the new suits they're changing to are actually old. the athletes wore them at the world cup speed skating event late last year. the main difference, they lack this feature, a small vent on the back that some think is causing drag. up the mountain in the women's skeleton, u.s. competitor noelle pikus-pace off like a rocket on her final run gliding through every twist and turn all the way to a silver medal losing out to great britain's lizzie arnold, earning the uk its first taste of sochi gold. immediately after finishing the mother of two, climbing up

through the stands straight into the arms of her family shouting over and over, "we did it." >> i just wanted to go out knowing this is my last and final run of not just the olympics but of my career. >> reporter: one of the biggest events of the day, team usa and russia in a key hockey showdown. it's a preliminary game, but it brings to mind the miracle on ice at the 1980 games in lake placid where a team of amateur and college players defeated the heavily favored soviet union. team usa's co-captain ryan suter's father was actually on that 1980 team, and i asked him about team usa's chances at winning the gold. >> i hope we do win the gold, so as my dad says, he tells us, win the gold so we don't have to talk about the '80 team anymore. you know, he kind of wants to get the attention off him and just move on, move on with his life. >> reporter: yes, suter remembers bringing his dad's gold medal to show and tell as a kid and would very much like to come home with one of his own and we'll be watching. go team usa and the international olympic committee a stop to russia's plan to award

medal-winning athletes today with the piece of a meteorite that exploded over russia, you may remember, exactly one year ago. the ioc saying russia can only give medalists those gifts from space after the games are over. the host country had hoped to commemorate the anniversary with these special meteorite medals, but it looks like it will not happen today, dan. >> yet another strange headline out of sochi. amy, thank you. by the way, we do have one of these speed skating suits on the set with us this morning. here is the allegedly offending vent on the back. we wish the u.s. speed skaters good luck with the new old suits today, and, by the way, a little bit of a tease coming up in the second half hour of "gma" this morning, we'll be doing "pop news." sara haines will be wearing this suit for "pop news." let's get it over to bianna. >> i kind of believe you. i think she would wear that suit. anyway, let's get more now on the wild men's figure skating event filled with falls. we're joined by our "gma" special contributor and olympic silver medalist sasha

cohen. good morning to you. what a night that was. i mean none of the final six skaters had a clean program. have you ever seen anything like that? >> there are moments where the ice seems jinxed and no one can quite put out that perfect skate, and it's difficult. you know, during my olympics, it was like that. everyone was all over the ice wiping the ice, but still, yuzuru is the first men's olympic champion from japan, so that's iconic. that's historic and it was very exciting. >> it's so great for his hometown. so what you're saying, it may be a technical issue and not just nerves that caused so many to spill and fall. >> i'm not saying it's necessarily a technical issue, just sometimes, you know, it just -- everyone seems to have a little bit of an issue, and there's times where everyone just punches out a perfect performance, and there's just like something you can't ascribe that to. it's just in the air. >> and, of course, a lot of people were hoping jason brown, the american, would have a perfect performance. he actually did not. he came in ninth place. so much was riding on him and he's such a storied figure, as well. it just didn't turn out to be his night. >> he has such a future in front

of him. he's so young and magnetic and, you know, still put out a good performance for his first olympics. top ten and, you know, he's a little tight, a little cautious. he skated at the end of the event, which is so difficult to wait for an hour, hear the scores, be nervous after your warm-up. i still think he put out a performance he can be proud of and use that as fire training into the next olympics. >> you can see him in the next olympics. quickly, everyone is waiting for the women's event too. who should we watch out for? >> it's going to be really exciting to see julia face off with yuna, and we haven't seen yuna yet in the team competition, and we also haven't seen polina edmunds, who is the other u.s. girl. so those are the few i would be watching and gracie gold as a chance for a medal and don't forget mao asada, who is trying the hardest job in the triple axel. now to the other headlines we toss it to wrong. hey, ron. >> good morning to you, bianna and good morning, everyone. we begin with an earthquake that rattled people in three states in the southeast.

the magnitude 4.1 quake was centered seven miles west of edgefield, south carolina. friday's jolt was felt as far away as atlanta, georgia and as far north as hickory, north carolina. it blew up social media. but no damages -- it blew up on social media, it didn't social media up. no injuries reported during that quake. and president obama opened up the checkbook during this visit. he met with some california farmers and promised $183 million in federal aid to deal -- try to deal with the epic drought tripling that state. he also proposed a $1 billion fund package in his upcoming budget to deal with climate change. he also met with jordan's king abdullah and said he would ask congress for $1 billion in loan guarantees to help jordan deal with syrian refugees. and actress ellen page, best known for her performances in the movies "juno" and "inception" has come out saying publicly that she is gay. it was an emotional moment.

>> i suffered for years because i was scared to be out. my spirit suffered. my mental health suffered, and my relationships suffered. >> page received a standing ovation after her speech, which was held at the inaugural time to thrive conference in las vegas for the lgbt community. and this story from california. a camel escaped from an animal sanctuary and goes on a rampage. the camel somehow got away from the facility, and when a local resident, a neighbor there tried to corral it, it started biting him, knocking him to the ground and stomped on him repeatedly. the camel was eventually taken away by animal control officers. the owner of the sanctuary is now facing charges for not having a permit for that camel. and finally, forget about the roses and chocolates for valentine's day, how about a pillow fight? with hundreds, possibly thousands of people in san francisco, california, feathers went flying for the annual friendly valentine's day pillow fight. local authorities say dozens of

trucks were called in afterward to clean up the feathery mess, and sara was telling me she did not get the flowers i sent to her, but i sent a dozen pillows. let me know if you get those. okay? >> the emphasis should be on friendly. i've seen people take it too seriously. i've had a couple. >> a public health warning on the dangers of pillow fighting this morning. important public health announcement from "gma." now to what's being called a classic case of bullying in the nfl. an independent investigation has found that offensive lineman richie incognito engaged in a pattern of harassment directed at fellow miami dolphin jonathan martin, but the report says the bullying on the team went far beyond that, and abc's ryan smith has the story. >> i do not intend to discuss this matter publicly. >> reporter: miami dolphins offensive lineman jonathan martin backed up today by a report from the nfl's independent investigator that he was harassed by teammate richie incognito. >> the perfect call on jonathan martin. >> reporter: the 144-page report

finding incognito and teammates mike pouncey and john jerry, quote, engaged in a pattern of harassment directed at not only martin but also another young dolphins lineman and a member of the training staff, and on two occasions, martin contemplated suicide because of his mistreatment by teammates. >> well, the report has been highly anticipated for quite a while. this gives us a little bit more context into what was going on and what led up to that. >> reporter: among the findings, vulgar sexual comments about martin's mother and sister, a litany of insults routinely hurled at martin including the "n" word and a notebook kept by incognito where he wrote about "breaking jmart." the friendship between martin and incognito described in the report as, quote, odd but seemingly close. >> richie would say that they were best friends. they hung out with each other off the field. if you ask jonathan, jonathan would say, i just sort of had to deal with this to get to a place where the harassment would stop. >> reporter: overnight

incognito's lawyer speaking out against the report claiming it is, quote, replete with errors, and incognito tweeting friday "you could not define me in 144 years, let alone 144 pages." miami dolphins owner stephen ross issued a statement saying in part, "i have made it clear to everyone within our organization that this situation must never happen again." and no comment from martin so far, and incognito quit twitter after those last tweets. but why would martin participate in the off-color joking if it affected him so deeply? the report theorized that he had to go along to get along. according to their psychologist, this reaction is consistent with the behavior of an abuse victim. dan, bianna. >> fascinating story and telling. ryan, thank you. we're going to switch gears now once again. tonight, your chance to win enough money to start your very own country. >> yeah, there hasn't been a powerball winner since christmas. well, now presidents' day weekend could be lucky for someone out there, maybe even you at home watching right now.

sara is here dreaming big about what you would do with that money, right, sara? >> i'm totally dealing big, bianna. i mean, who hasn't played the game where you ask, what would you do if you won the lottery? it's a game i venture into more often than i'd like to admit and i just did but this time i dove in head first. you got to be in it to win it so here it goes. can i get one powerball ticket? >> yeah. >> reporter: now, what would i do if i won $330 million? i could fill up 250 olympic-size swimming pools with these jelly beans, which you should share with your friends. ready, guys? the equivalent of 1,250 dump trucks' worth of fudge. that's a lot of fudge. if it's not too late to catch the olympics, i could even travel to sochi and back more than 300,000 times. i could take a soul cycle class with 273 of my closest friends every day for a century.

i would have the hottest bod ever. >> i could lay here in complete bliss for the rest of my life getting a massage by four people at the same time. that feels really good. and, of course, i would want to give back. i could pay for 6,000 students to go to college for four years. think of all those diplomas. having it all costs a pretty penny, and to do everything on my list would cost almost $2 billion leaving us with one very important question. what would you buy if you won the powerball? that is the question. what would you buy if you won the powerball? >> i'd go with your jelly bean idea. >> really? >> yeah, yeah. >> i'd do the soul cycle. you know, i'm addicted. >> ron? >> several houses, europe, australia, you know. >> a new car. >> buy you a house, of course. >> then i would return your phone calls. >> yeah. >> i'd get some very expensive pillows to pillow fight with. right? >> i see you running a small nation.

i think that would be the way to do it. >> a small island nation in the caribbean. >> i see dan saving animals. >> yes, i would save a lot of animals. >> and i see all of us sleeping in, right, because now we can. in the meantime, we're going to turn to the weather and back over to reality and wsyx meteorologist bill kelly. not such great news for us, bill. >> not such great news. of course, we can all dream that, that's right. good morning, everyone. i want to start you out with some video around the portland area. check this out. they have had -- you folks have had quite a bit of rainfall. we've had snowfall and the flooding continues and we're going to see more rounds of rain as we get on into the day today and tomorrow. it's a series of storms that are going to be pushing through and the rainfall, not the snow, the rain may be measured in feet and then up into the mountains snow will certainly be measured that way. totally the opposite in the southwest. how about 90 today for palm springs? how nice does that sound, maybe play a round of golf, 87 in phoenix. that would break the record of 83 degrees today. and as we look into the south, well, you got 36 in atlanta. we are starting out chilly. it's 32 in birmingham, 51 around

charleston, so you're going to be a little onle cool side. but we do have a warm-up in sight. great news. we'll all love this as some warm weather makes its way up over the next couple of day, how >> so i'm watching a couple, what was it, three weeks ago you went golfing? >> i did. yeah. >> i am so ready. you guys got to be ready. >> you're a trouper. you came in at 1:00 a.m. because of flight delays.

>> yeah and i'm not feeling so great but we'll fight through it. absolutely i'm excited to be with you guys. >> are you a little under the weather? >> ba-dum-dum. absolutely. absolutely. winter will be out of here soon enough. what was the count? 32 days? >> 32 days. >> i love that warm-up you're talking about. >> is that going to last, that warm-up? >> i think so, i hope so. >> you hope so. >> yes, for sure. >> all right. thanks again. coming up here on "gma," missing in paradise. this pregnant woman vanished in hawaii on monday. her burned out suv found days later. clothes on the side of the highway. have police found a suspect? plus, sweet sweep. meet the three american olympic heroes who medaled in the first ever olympic freestyle skiing slopestyle competition. i should actually win a medal for being able to say that. why they love this extreme sport. and it was a valentine's day simon cowell will never forget. we'll tell you why in "pop news. and it was a valentine's day simon cowell will never forget. we'll tell you why in "pop news.

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>> the duties of the office on which i'm about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. one heartbeat away from the presidency and not a single vote cast in my name. democracy is so overrated. kevin spacey is so good. it's one of the most buzzed about tv series. season two of "house of cards" starting with a shocker. so what else could be in store? well, more ahead in "pop news." that was my valentine's day present to myself. >> yeah. you stayed up late? >> i started watching it. i still have to finish "breaking bad," but i'll get there. i can't wait. >> i think i have plans after the show tomorrow to lock myself in a room and watch all of the episodes and eat 75 bags of oreos. the olympics, they brought home the gold, silver and bronze giving the u.s. one of our proudest moments at the olympic games. now "gma's" amy robach sitting down with the men's slopestyle skiing winners to find out how

they're handling that giant victory and their relationship it's really fun. >> yeah, and look at those smiles. good for them. but first we're going to turn to maui, the hawaiian island best known as a spot for honeymooners. well, this morning it's the scene of a mystery and a desperate search. >> yeah, it involves this woman. she's 5 1/2 months pregnant and she hasn't been seen since monday. har car found torched and her dog wandering in a nearby town and abc's reena ninan has more on what police are going on this morning. reena, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you both. you know, every monday morning carly scott would drop off her laundry for her mother to wash. the family knew something was wrong when she never showed up. >> i just want to know. everybody just wants to know at this point. >> reporter: carly scott's family is desperately searching for the expectant mother. 5 1/2 months pregnant, scott mysteriously vanished on monday. her suv found two days later gutted by fire in a rural area just six miles or so from her home. >> i think the hardest thing for me as her mother to live with is

the idea if she's all right, she's waiting for us to find her. >> reporter: according to her family carly known by her friends as charli has lived in hawaii for 11 years was last seen sunday when she gave a lift to a former boyfriend, steve copobianco. after several texts monday, they discovered the 27-year-old missing from her home and filed a missing persons report with the maui police. >> my older sister, she went missing from hana. >> reporter: her dog turning up alive in the nahiku marketplace and thursday carly's younger sister finding some of her clothes on the side of the highway. these along with the charred suv, three baffling clues in three separate places on the island of maui. >> finding things the way they've been found are terrifying in the least. >> reporter: police released a statement friday stating, "the search and investigation

of carly scott is still ongoing by the maui police department." but the family is holding on to hope. >> i almost have no doubt that somebody out there knows what happened to her. >> i just would want her to know that we haven't stopped, and we won't stop. >> reporter: the community has banded together, upwards of 50 to 60 people, searching for her continuously coming together to help a family so desperate to find her, dan and bianna. >> tragic to think she's 5 1/2 months pregnant, as well. reena, thank you. well, now for another check of the morning headlines. here's ron. hey, ron. >> hi again, bianna and dan. good morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news out of sochi, russia, a russian freestyle skier has been seriously injured during training. she's undergoing surgery right now for a severe spine fracture. 34 years after the miracle on ice, another thriller. as the u.s. hockey team does it again, team usa beating russia in the preliminaries in a shootout 3-2. this was arguably the most anticipated nonmedal event of the olympic winter games and in the women's quarterfinal, they beat russia 2-0.

and in the uk a man aboard a cruise ship is killed in the english channel after the vessel was hit by a freak rogue wave. a second injured passenger on the ship, the "marco polo," was air-lifted to a nearby hospital. and finally, a buzzer beater for the books. marist against siena. with 12 seconds to go, you see chavaughn lewis going the length of the court to lay it up to cut the deficit to two and then steals the ball with just three seconds left and jay bowie grabs that ball. steps behind the line, fires it up, you see it there and hits it. nails the three-pointer. if you're counting, that's five points in about three seconds altogether. marist stunning siena, 65-61. you'd think that a four-point lead with six seconds left, eight seconds left -- >> yeah, like i want to go home now and get the car. >> really love those buzzer beaters. congratulations, marist. >> thanks, ron. >> time now for another look at the weather and back to wsyx meteorologist bill kelly who is with us for the weekend and bearing some good news after the bad news.

>> yeah, absolutely, and here we go again, though. but we have just a little bit of time until things start changing around. but let's get you out the door today. we are expecting snow throughout parts of the eastern seaboard, especially up into new england where coastal sections of massachusetts, you guys are looking at like 6 to 12 inches of snow. there are blizzard warnings that are in effect, and we had snow yesterday big time. in fact, take a look at this. this was in indianapolis yesterday where you folks had 5 1/2 inches of snow. that broke your record. you're within an inch from your all-time record snowfall. you're a little over 50 inches of snow and today high temperatures in minneapolis. we're at 23. you see a little bit of snow cutting across through places like chicago, possibly st. louis, indianapolis, more snow, you may break the record today. it's kind of an interesting thing. we'll keep our eyes on it, but as i mentioned, temperatures are going to be warming up. chicago, today you're right around 23. a few snowflakes flying around on monday. by wednesday, you're up around 40 degrees, and that's going to fell like spring. that's a look at what's going on around the c

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well, everybody is so proud of the clean sweep our american slopestyle skiers pulled off standing tall on that podium to take gold, silver and the bronze medals. >> america's newest olympic heroes living the olympic dream as they celebrate their impressive victory. abc's amy robach caught up fresh from their huge win and joins us with sochi with some very subtle eyewear, amy. >> reporter: the control room asked me to leave these on just to show you guys as soon as i'm off air, i put the sunglasses on. our fans start going because it's 66 degrees outside. it's about 96 degrees in here and i have these lights blinding me to compensate for the sun that's scorching my back, but

anyway, i don't think you guys want to hear about that with all your snow and stormy weather, so i'll stop complaining and move on and do my job. joss christensen, gus kenworthy and nick goepper were all smiles fresh off the slopes. they were honored and excited to bring that u.s. medal count up by three and they're hoping to create some medal momentum for team usa. ♪ >> reporter: gold, silver, bronze, it was a magical moment for three young american freestyle skiers. all three of you standing on the podium and hearing the national anthem. >> yeah, looking up and seeing three american flags was just unforgettable. >> one of the best parts. >> it's just america right there, you know, usa. >> reporter: and historic. just the third sweep for the u.s. in the winter olympics. >> gus and i were having a little emotional moment holding hands and just like getting real excited. >> friends and family greeted the trio at the p&g family home anxious to see their new hardware. >> all: usa, usa.

>> reporter: olympic medals aren't the only prize in store for these three. you're on the corn flakes box. have you seen it? >> yes. >> it's crazy. >> that was quite a surprise when we saw that earlier today. i think we're honored to be on a cereal box. i think that is every kid's dream. >> it really is. >> i love corn flakes. >> reporter: and in a sport where there are extreme risks, a brotherhood has formed. they all go by nicknames on the slopes. >> j-funk. >> reporter: j-funk? what's j-funk? is this you're funk? >> i went period of time where i liked a lot of funky music. >> a skier i used to look up to a lot, t.j. schiller, when we were on a trip when i was younger nicknamed me kenny g. >> joss calls me goep dog. >> my goep dog a lot of time too. >> reporter: how many bones have you broken? >> i've probably broken eight. >> knock on some wood. knock on some wood. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: how many trips to the emergency room? >> a lot. >> probably -- >> between all of us, at least what, like 20. >> reporter: always hard at work goepper's mom always encouraged her son nick to go for it even

practicing jumps off the family couch. did you envision this moment where he had a medal around his neck? >> i did. i did. i knew he could do it. he's always worked hard. when he has a goal, he goes after it. >> reporter: and hoping to inspire their fellow american athletes to do the same, joss, gus and nick have this message. >> bring the morale up. let's get it going. get everyone excited. we sparked the flame. hopefully people keep crushing it. >> hopefully we inspire the rest of team usa. >> reporter: you see they're all wearing short sleeve t-shirts. we were outside for that interview. the three medalists told me they originally planned to stay in sochi through closing sear blowns but since their big win, let's just say there have been quite a few opportunities for them back in the u.s. so look for those skiers to be back on american soil probably wearing this time some winter coats because it's cold there. >> yeah. the face of corn flakes too. >> one of those opportunities may be starting a boy band. >> that's true. >> they do look like they could be the next jonas brothers.

>> amy, no pina colada today? >> they're so cute. no, you know what, i had to -- i was at my limit. that's like in about 20 minutes. >> you go ahead and get started. it's the weekend. >> we don't want to hold you. >> thanks, ames. that's her nickname. all right. coming up on "gma," he may have gone to harvard, but that doesn't mean matt damon has figured out how twitter works. the flack he's getting about it from his bestie, ben affleck, and what it all has to do with this little piece of machinery. i think ron knows a thing or two about this. >> right next to his pager. >> yes. right next to his pager. ♪ ♪ ♪

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it's a boy for simon cowell and his girlfriend lauren silverman. a wonderful valentine's day surprise as lauren went into labor yesterday morning, a week and a half before her due date. simon tweeted that he and lauren chose eric's name to honor the music mogul. you were up late binge watching "house of cards"? that's my bleary eyes. within just a few minutes of its release yesterday, it ranked among the most viewed shows on netflix. it's also getting great reviews from critics and even a bigger endorsement from washington, d.c. with president barack obama begging his twitter followers not to post any spoilers. i'm betting there were plenty of valentiners who watched the entire 13-hour season last night. i did not. i stopped myself after one but i'm going home to watch the rest. and with valentine's day over for another year, it's time to fess up. who got it wrong? we've had some great tweets from our viewers. this first one is from amy, she says "my husband bought flowers on wednesday, had them wrapped and then stored them in a drawer

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