and a good tuesday to all of you. i'm craig melvin at a snowy 30 rock this afternoon, and big news nation, a big news nation. welcome to those of you just watching men's hockey between switzerland and latvia. congrats to team latvia on the victory. earlier today a team usa bronze for alex diebold in the men's snowboard cross. a pair of americans going for gold in the men's ski halfpipe, and we start this half hour broadcast with the halfpipe final in sochi. ann thompson is live for us in sochi on a day where there has been heavy precipitation, we're

told. ann, i'm going to offer our viewers a spoiler alert really quickly. close your eyes, cover your ears. don't change the channel though. we'll give you a few seconds. there we go. david wise of reno, nevada, just claimed gold in the men's ski ha half-pipe. . >> i'm actually in krasnaya p y polyana which is the mountain venue. up there it was really miserable. they had very wet snow, and, in fact, in the men's ski halfpipe tonight, david wise, he posted a 92 on his first run, and on his

second run he crashed, but that 92 was good enough to hold up for a gold medal. many of his competitors fell because the snow was very wet and there have been complaint all throughout these games of the condition of the halfpipe, and i can tell you it didn't get any better tonight. >> how about on the women's side? the american mikaela shiffrin with a somewhat digs appointing fifth in her debut in the games in the giant slalom. what's next for her? >> well, she runs in her best race. that's the slat okay, and that will happen on friday, but she did come in fifth, you know, the weather played a big role in the women's giant slalom. snowing heavily at the top of the course, and at the bottom of the course it was more of a snow-rain mixture, and julie mancuso, another great medal hope for the u.s., she actually skid out of first run and did not finish that race, so for the

u.s. women it was a disappointing day. >> some news from sochi off the mountain now from earlier today. two members of the female band pussyriot temporarily detained with their group for what russian authorities said was questioning in a theft at their hotel. there's a selfie. here's a selfie that they took while they were being held right after they were released there. what more do we know about the circumstances that led up to that? >> reporter: well, the members of that group, craig, say that this was the culmination of three days of police harassment, and they say they were detained, both on sunday and monday, and today they were finally released today. no charges were filed. as for what exactly that claim of theft was at their hotel we're not sure. we do know that this rock group, as you'll recall, the members were jailed for hooliganism in moscow, but then they were released in december as sort of

a peace offering, if you will, in a run-up to these games. they came down here to do some pussyriot action, as they said. they say they were followed by police. very had had three days of questioning. we'll see what else comes of it, but right now no charges have been filed, craig. >> ann thompson for us in sochi where it's just after 11:30 on what looks to be a rainy tuesday night. ann, thank you as always. >> miserable! >> a quick note here. in terms of the weather, the latest winter dumping, that fast most winter storm that came from the midwest and blanketed or should i say re-blanketed much of the northeast, including right here in new york city. heavy band of snow continued to move through nun at this hour as you take a live look at new haven, connecticut. more flight delays, more school closures in some cases. more shoveling. that is for certain for those of us who live in connecticut,

especially, and while this latest storm will affect tens of millions, almost all of them certainly know the drill by now in what is shaping up to be an historic winter. all right, coming up, a chilly and detailed u.n. report putting north korean leader kim jong-un on notice for crimes against humanity. my colleague andrea mitchell is going to join me on the other side of the break with her insight. stay with us. >> time for your business entrepreneur of the week. when the north carolina-based golf company stitchgolf was created he wanted to source his supplies locally. he found them by going door to door throughout the state finding the local partners and helping the small business economy. for more watch "your business" sunday mornings at 7:30 right here on nbc. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be

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forced abortions and other sexual violations. >> one of the witnesses in one of the camps told of how he -- his duties included gathering up the bodies of those who had died of starvation and putting them in a pot and burning them. >> north korea has denied the charges. its benefactor, china, has condemned the report. good to see you here. so, you know, very few people think that kim jong un is going to face trial over this

testimony. the question becomes what next? what now? >> the u.n. report is so specific. so well documented that now it's been put in front of the world. china is most likely as north korea's diplomatic protector, china is most likely going to veto any action to turn it over to the world court, to the international criminal court for action against the north koreans. the hundreds of people in the regime who could be held responsible for this if they could be brought to justice. so that said, what can be done? there's going to be a period in geneva. they will have a prominent defector, a military man who will testify as well. and that can then be brought to the general assembly where china does not have a veto and the world opinion can be valleyed. it too, can be wrestled for

taking defector. >> despite the report saying that the regime has killed hundreds of thousands since the 1950s, despite the pictures that survivors drew detailing the suffering, the pictures if you haven't seen the report, some of the pictures are extremely graphic and jarring. the report stopped short of using the word genocide. >> in some instances they did. it's a very lengthy report. they did use the word genocide. they're talking about atrocities that are the worst atrocities that we have seen in any contemporary context that parallel anything that we have seen in history. so they are saying this is analogous to what was done by the worst regimes including the nazis. >> let's switch topics.

john kerry has been in the middle east a lot. this is how he attacked russia. take a look. >> russia needs to be a part of the solution and not be contributing so many more weapons and so much more aid that they're enabling us to double down, which is creating an enormous problem. >> we have very few options now. decided not to use air strikes. senior white house officials have been criticizing russia overtly. kerry's whole legacy is tied up. russia is sake player.

and to do this is to say that they are basically blaming russia for the disaster that is assad, and some would argue that this is a very dangerous policy because it's using rhetoric to blame russia. but we need russia on a lot of other issues, what more can you tell us about what you are seeing unfold in the streets of ukraine? >> this looks like another revolution. this is really esskalating rapidly. foreigners are being told to stay inside and americans are being told to be very, very

careful. >> while you're talking here, we have got some live pictures here. these are live pictures that we're just getting up front. you can see that the flames there, and again the death toll right now we were told that we can expect the number to go up as well. how does this play out? >> remember that the top official for europe, newland, was overheard talking about how -- which one of the rebel leaders to support and we believe the u.s. government certainly believes that that conversation was not only overheard, intercepted, but leaked by the russians to say stay out of this. this is not an american affair.

>> you can hear the sirens in the background there. we should remind folks that starting monday, andrea mitchell reports, you're getting in earlier? >> we're going to have lunchtime. so come join us for lunch on the east coast, late breakfast on the west coast. >> always good to see you. thank you so much. coming up the president's year of action continued today on the road with an impassioned push on domestic energy. is the big money in 2014 on climate change now? we're going to talk about that with our power panel next. right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, because it's milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it's real milk! come on, would i lie about this? [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort.

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a kid out there watching their parents to stay up to watch me, that means a lot to me. i hope i do well. >> it was a humble debut that has been widely regarded as a smashing success. the "tonight show" back here at 30 rock. president obama back from california right back to business. just hours ago the president spoke at a maryland distribution center for safeway stores. >> improving gas mileage for these trucks will drive down our oil and imports further. that cuts down on business's fuel costs, which should pay off in lower prices for consumers. so, it's not just a win win, it's a win win win. we got three wins. >> but with yesterday's five-year anniversary of the stimulus bill, the president

also took a moment to talk about the progress that the country has made in the five years since he signed that bill. >> we spent the past five years fighting our way back from the worst recessions of our lifetimes. now the economy is growing. bidses created over 8.5 million new jobs over the past four years. the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in over five years. >> the power panel is here. i do want to talk about news. the non-partisan congressional budget office reporting that raising the minimum wage to 10, $10 an hour would cost half a million jobs by 2016.

did the cbo kill a minimum wage hike? >> i don't think it did. the report says that about 500,000 jobs would be lost by 2016 but 16 million workers will see their pay go up. >> i think that support will not be diminished that much. >> five years since the stimulus bill was signed. . you heard the president there touting the success you also have this statement. little results here. families are still asking where are the jobs? >> i think it's a little too

early to say. i think it is somewhere in between. republicans have gone on to the negative reports of this. the fact that remains, what does the president tout when they succeeded in passing the bill. there is nothing else left to spend. and look, we have seen some growth. i would absolutely submit that joe biden a few years a go.

>> president obama's reelection shows that at least as a political issue, it's kind of off the table. to some extent it has been replaced by bam caobamacare. i think that the public opinion battle at least moved to the back burner while the battle over obama care has risen to the fro front. >> let's talk about 2014. some statements coming out of the gop seem to suggest that they have effectively given up on any major legislation for the rest of the year. what else are we going to do? we can work on our principles but in terms of real legislating we are unable to get in a good

negotiating position. it would seem like mid february would be a little early. >> i was shocked by the frankness of these statements. i knew they were not going to do a lot. that said, to declare in february, not july, february, we're not doing anything the rest of the year was surprising. automaltically said that it's an issue. this is is a do-nothing congress for a long time. there was a very surprising and not very smart political tech i thought there. >> really quickly. billionaire democratic owner is going to be spending as much as $100 million on candidates who are willing to work towards climate change measures.

they will be targeted using the mix of traditional tool box techniques. in the primaries, though, when you have these huge donors willing to write massive checks or candidates, that's where you have the potential to move the parties. the fact that tom is going after potentially democrats as well on climate change, including louisiana senator mary landrieu . in fact, it may help her eventful republican opponent. these are risky moves being made by some of the big donors. but these moves are here to stay. they are just a new reality.

>> absolutely. we have seen a liberal. really sparked by the 2010 united decision. to date, liberals have been kind of wary of it. >> we leave you with one more look at sochi where once again the united states now tied for the united states now tied for first atop the medal board.

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>> i'm angela rooi and we start the show just as we did yesterday with another batch of winter weather pushing across the country. all the way from the midwest to the northern reaches of new england. here is the latest. >> hi, guys. good to see you. let me tell you one thing that's good that we're not seeing here is and that is snowfall. there is plenty of snow on the ground. maybe one to two to three inches of snow. and today's storm system, at least for new york, is crashed. we're going to be getting is some dry air coming through. mo m