good monday morning. right now on "first look", olympic glory. american athletes lighting it up in sochi. we'll take you there live in just a bit. the clintons revealed, new details surrounding bill and hillary's relationship surface with the release of a new book. weather warnings, snow and sleet across the south. the west, pummeled and the east gets a storm by mid week. plus, two wrong-way drivers kill 11 over the weekend. this man may become the nfl's first openly gay player. and the repercussions of the shove heard round the world. team u.s.a. had a strong

showing this weekend. norway leading with 7 while the netherlands, u.s.a., canada and russia each have four. the u.s. has picked up two gold medals so far, sweeping the new slopestyle snowboarding event. nbc's jay gray is live for us in sochi, watching all of that. lucky man. new development to sart off with here, the women's super combined, huh? >> reporter: yeah. richard, for anybody that's at home and doesn't want to see this, wants to wait and watch it during prime time, now is the time to turn down your set. you may have pop when i popped up anyway. julia mancuso, most decorated alpine skier posting the fastest time in the downhill this morning. that is key. she's had a rough season coming into the olympics, but she is a

big game player. said she would be ready and she was for the downhill portion. the slalom, which is what's next for those skiers artery ai roll of the dice for her, either off or she's on f she's on she's in a place to medal and perhaps even bring home the gold. jamie anderson, u.s. sweep of the snowboard slopestyle competition, the first time any olympic games in the u.s. wins both gold medals. jamie anderson doing that. bode miller had a great run in training session on the men's downhill. looked prime to medal here. course got a little rugged, got a little tough. likely his last downhill. bode miller, the most decorated male u.s. athlete in alpine. now let's get to the figure skating. in the team competition, yulia

lipnitskaya, skating beyond her years. this broom, you always see the guys going, sweeping the broom. it creates a sheeting of wat-- of water to help steer. >> we might have to get you there on the olympic team for the united states. >> there you go. >> doing great stuff there. practicing some curling there for us this morning. thank you, jay. winter weather wreaking havoc in the west coast. that's where we move to now. oregon, settling on top of deep snow, caupolice responding to o 600 weather-related wrecks and helped around 900 drivers who

were stuck. in northern california, much-needed heavy rains have become treacherous, causing this road to fall apart and plunge down a ravine. major flooding and rock and mudslides, leading to road closures. in the south, it's time to buckle down again with two winter storms on the way. rock salt is selling out in hardware stores across the area. residents trying to better prepare since the snowstorm crippled the area and the highways there, leaving thousands stranded two weeks ago. remember those pictures? bill karins remembers those. >> they're planning on treating the roads today, this afternoon. >> after that last situation with pr. >> yeah. i mean, yeah, they're going to overdo it this time. better safe than sorry. here is where we're sitting. all the big storm this is weekend, northern california had the rain, oregon got pummeled with the snow. this is a very fast weather pattern moving across the country, recipe for one big storm as we go through wednesday

into thursday. we did pick up as much as -- almost half an inch of rainfall in oregon as we went through the weekend, mixed with the snow. california picked up two to four inches. even kirkwood picked up seven feet of snow. more heavy rain headed to the pacific northwest this week. the story for the east coast, cold air is on the way. it's moving in now that. will set the stage for that storm to come off the gulf. here is one of our computers, the european model we call this one. snowfall prediction. it starts wednesday with snow in northern georgia, south carolina. it produces a swath of plowable snow here thursday all the way up through new england. that's the possibility of a high-impact travel event. it looks like wednesday night, all day thursday for the east coast. that's the potential for -- we haven't had many snow storms go all the way up the east coast. this has the potential to do that. >> south to north and then you've got some sprinkles out west, which they've been waiting for. >> they need the rain. that's a good thing. >> yeah, it is. there are calls for compromise when it comes to the heated timeline on immigration

reform. new york senator chuck schumer on nbc's "meet the press" saying it's a possibility this year, specifically calling out republicans, including speaker of the house john boehner and house majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> they have said they want to do immigration reform but they don't trust the president to enforce the law, particularly the enforcement parts. so there's a simple solution. let's enact the law this year, but simply not let it actually start till 2017, after president obama's term is over. >> would republicans accept schumer's idea? >> i think some republicans would be interested in that if we put in place the enforcement measure so that it would work. be sure the border is secure, have a workforce program that works. >> the debate spanning from politics, of course, to economic impact. >> when, in the lives of our children and grandchildren there are 500 million americans and they're all going to be working, because we're going to have

economic dynamism aided by immigration. >> they are going to, however -- it leads to why have borders at all? why have a border? if it's just as people as widgets who come in and are workers without concern about asimulati assimilation or how it asks people in the mid america. a tour bus crash in pennsylvania injured nearly 30 people, state police saying the driver lost control of the tour bus and crashed into an embankment sunday afternoon. 26 of the 33 passengers were taken to nearby hospitals with nonlife threatening injuries. according to police, the driver was going far too fast in the snowy conditions. two horrific wrong-way car crashes to tell you about that left 11 people dead on sunday, the first occurring sunday morning in california when a 21-year-old woman slammed her car head on into an suv, killing six people. the woman was reportedly traveling more than 100 miles an

hour in the wrong direction. she's in serious, but stable condition and has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and felony manslaughter. in florida, suv traveling south on a northbound lane crashing into a car carrying four fraternity brothers. four men and the driver of the suv died at the scene. investigators do not yet know if drugs or alcohol were involved there. let's shift now to sports this hour. veronica de la cruz joins us now. you have news of a potential history maker. >> a real game changer, top rated nfl prospect, missouri defensive lineman has announced he is gay. he is expected to be chosen early in the nfl draft. he would be the first openly gay player in nfl history, richard. sam, who led in sacks and tackles came out because he w t

wanted to tell his story on his own terms. he already confided with his coaches and his fellow teammates. >> i told my teammates this past august that i came out to my teammates and they took it great. they rallied around me, supported me and i couldn't ask for better teammates. it's kind of a nervous process, but i know what i want to be, and i want to be a play snap in the nfl. >> good for him. shove heard round the world. oklahoma state's marcus smart will be suspended for three games after shoving a texas tech fan during saturday night's game in lubbock, texas. smart stumbled out of bounds and the fan, jeff orr, had called him something nasty, i think we should say, which caused this altercation or issued a statement that he regretted his actions and clarified that he did not use any racial slurs. he also apologized for possibly embarrassing fellow tech fans. here is smart on the incident. >> this is not how the program

is ran. this is not how i was raised. i let my emotions get the best of me, you know. just can't let that happen again. it's something i have to learn from, a lesson i have to learn from, the consequences that are coming with it. i'm taking full responsibility. number one syracuse is still perfect. clemson kept it close. beautiful slam dunk. 23-0, syracuse wins 57-44. big big 10 upset, unranked wisconsin beats michigan. 58-all with seconds left. hustles in, nails the game-winning jumper. there he goes. badgers take it 60-58. on saturday westminster dog show kicked off with the agility competition, allowing mixed breeds or mutts for the first time since the 1800s. best in show, which runs today through tuesday, is open only to

the pure breds. american bobsledder johnny quinn had to bust through his bathroom door when he accidentally got locked in. now this viral photo of his busted door gets over 27,000 retweets. he said he used his bobsled push training to break free and get out of there. handled like a true luger. >> glad he's on our side. >> absolutely. >> if he can do stuff like that. veronica, thank you so much. >> of course. the lego movie $70 million weekend. plus the bizarre story of a healthy 2-year-old giraffe put to death and fed to the lions at a zoo. next. i'm beth...

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all right. now for business, cnbc's bertha coombs. hopefully, good news about my 401(k). >> the futures right now are pointing to a lower start, markets coming off a topsy turfy

week. stocks rallied friday after fewer jobs were created last month but the unemployment rate fell. big focus this week will be on congressional testimony from janet yellen. blockbuster hit. we mean block, topping the weekend box office with an estimated $69 million. one of the best recent debuts for an animated film. sequel already in the works. house republicans could vote on a bill to raise the u.s. debt ceiling as soon as wednesday. on friday, treasury secretary warned congress the government could face problems paying the nation's bills by the end of the month. richard, back to you. >> bertha, thank you so much. have a good monday. stories making news this morning, ahead of his visit to washington this week, francois hollande, the piece talked about the lines between france and the

u.s. and food production across africa. more than 3,000 birds were rescue friday a cockfighting ring dubbed operation angry birds. it led to the arrest of more than 70 people, some of whom will face felony charges carrying four years in jail. spectators at the copenhagen zoo when officials decided to kill a 2-year-old giraffe and then feed him to the lions. other zoos in the area offered to take in the giraffe. copenhagen zoo officials said the giraffe had to be killed because his genes were already well represented and didn't want to encourage inbreeding. u.s. justice department announced it will expand the rights of same-sex married couples. rubber shoes and subway sandwich bread now also known to

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morning helping of scrambled politics. we blew this one, from the new york star ledger in new jersey talking about their endorsement last year of governor chris christie in his re-election bid. writing in part, yes, we knew christie was a bully, but we didn't know his crew was crazy enough to put people's lives at risk to pressure the mayor. christie denies any involvement in the so-called bridgegate saga there. detailed in hrc, state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. amy parnes and jonathan allen write it went down ahead of hillary's '08 speech. while hillary had been on the mock stage, bill had delivered edits, ripped up the structure and added some of his own poetic flourishes, but hillary was having none of it. it's my speech, she declared, as she left to find bill. breaking up is hard to do. new french president francois

hollande and valerie. but state dinner hanging in the balance. the white house had to destroy 300 engraved invitations with the presidential gold seal because they included the name of the president's ex. richard sherman, could his next victory be a political office? while writing for sports illustrated website, he says people have asked me about a life after football. more than once i've been asked about a life in politics. sorry but it's not for me, he says, end quote. that's your morning edition of scrambled politics. david nakomora, interesting from david sh-- richard sherman >> hillary's book this morning, what's interesting about the book is a couple of things. one that that book is even out there this early before she

potentially runs for 2016. the author has some significant access to her aides and advisers. that's saying that the clinton camp knows that these stories are going to come out and need to get their own spin on things. the reporter didn't pull any punches and there's a lot of points in the book. >> what did you find interesting? there's the one we just discussed about bill tampering with her speech and she's saying hold on a second. don't touch my speech. then a development in the book that says the staffs of both her, the secretary of state, as well as the president, they didn't trust each other early on. >> absolutely. i think that was pretty clear as they were running for office. obviously, this team of equals. in the book it talks about she kept saying no about his author to be secretary of state so often he was ducking her phone calls. i think that shows what we knew early on, that the president really trusted her wisdom. they grew to have a good working relationship and she had very high marks in the public's view. i think we've seen as inevitable once she's out of office, she fades, the public starts to sort

of forget and ratings go down. it's part of keeping her relevant. >> lots of those copies, both of those authors. senator chuck schumer suggesting pass the house immigration reform legislation or something like that, but then let it take effect after the president, president obama and his administration ends. now what do you make of that? >> well, i think it's something that we understand from schumer that they came up with. they hadn't really run that past any of their colleagues or anybody in the house and already the house is saying this wouldn't work. how would you have this bill sort of take effect -- that would give the administration even less interest in enforcing current laws. the administration said no, we've deported more people than anybody. and they put criticism on the left for that. schumer is really -- he is one of the architects of the senate bill, really wants to find a plan. i think it's interesting. the white house is taking a bit of a measured approach. i think the white house thinks that john boehner might still put something forward later this year. we're not going to come out and

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welcome back. "first buzz," veronica de la cruz, bill karins. what shovels? >> putting your fanny on the shovel. >> let's do it. >> who can do it the fastest. fourth annual shovel racing championship. >> what? ooh, ow. goodness. >> that's like slopestyle right

there. that should be an olympic competition. >> that shouldn't be allowed to happen. that's all i have to say. >> even sponsored. >> of course. >> it just looks wrong. >> it depends how well you wax the bottom of the shovel. >> and very painful. >> be careful, no doubt. wear padding where possible. dumb starbucks. >> that's not nice of you. >> what happens in southern california, they opened up a coffee place and they named it dumb starbucks. you can see, they mimicked basically everything in design except for the word dumb in front of it. >> why? >> they won't get away with this for long. >> even the products. starbucks is looking into this, no doubt. >> they better sell as much as they can in a hurry because there's a flock of lawyers heading there. >> i heard it's just an art project. i could be wrong. >> an art project that's getting a lot of attention. i think you are right about that. snow plow, one guy in brooklyn having a really, really

bad day. check this out. goes for a walk, right? one snow plow goes by then the second snow plow goes by and then the guy gets nailed. that snow plow does $2,200 worth of damage, blows out a bunch of windows, guys. >> i'm cold now. "way too early" starts right now. i'm not afraid of who i am. i'm michael sam. i'm a college graduate. i'm african-american and i'm gay. >> wow! michael sam, all-american defensive lineman from the university of missouri, tackling homophobia head on coming up ahead of the draft. when the dust settles will the n nfl find itself on the right side of history on this one? hillary clinton getting endorsed by a gop favorite. does it matter when she hasn't even declared her intentions yet? from child star to adult train wreck, why is shila labouf

wearing a bag over his head on the red carpet? this is "way too early." hope you had a great weekend. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. it is february 10 already. can you believe that? welcome to "way too early." this is the show that assumes you are gay until proven straight. welcome to 2014. so before sunday, michael sam was known as one of the top defensive prospects in college football. today, he is poised to become the first openly gay professional football player in the history of the game. in interviews with the new york times and espn, he opened up about what he and his teammates first discussed back in august. >> i want to own my truth. two weeks ago at the senior bowl, i didn't realize that -- how many people actually knew about my sexual orientation. i just want to own my truth before anyone breaks the story