you're saying? ewww, dance party. ♪ ♪ >> so good. the first lady takes her message and some dance moves to the "tonight show", but if you're hoping to hear some more moves from will ferrell, stay tuned for his dance performance. the surprise that put the russian team to win ladies gold. did the russian judges cook the scoring books. after the most horrific and deadly day of flashes in kiev, dawn brings new peace after the ukrainian police brings a new deal. this is "way too early." hey there, everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. it is friday, february 20th. we did it! we made it to the end of the week. welcome to "way too early," the show that tries to have its own dance party during script b 99 so wait for it. wait for it. we'll start out with something very serious this morning.

the breaking news that we have overnight where the president of the ukraine says a deal has been reached with the opposition. e.u. and russian leaders coming together to bring this crisis to an end. already shots have rung out in kiev after the deadliest day of clashes yesterday. they used combat weapons shooting and killing as many as 70 protesters according to doctors for the opposition. the dead were everywhere, including make shift hospitals in a hotel lobby. but the protestors redoubled their efforts in kiev's main square. secretary of state john kerry has condemned the violence and vice president biden has phoned the ukraine president. it's all unfolding in one of eastern europe's beautiful places on the front page of today's "wall street journal" tells the tale of two cities. joining us is ayman mulho mohye.

today seems to be calmer and there are signs that there is a tentative agreement that may take place. now that agreement that was supposed to have been reached in parliament has not yet been signed by both the opposition or presidenti president yanukovych, it is going to call for reduced powers of the presidency to form a new government and to call for early elections hopefully by sometime in september according to them. that hasn't been signed yet and as a result the situation on the street remains tense and there have been those running battles between the supporters of the opposition and the police forces that have been circling the square for the past 48 hours, thomas. >> nbc's ayman mohyeldin.

thank you, sir. protests continue to escalate in venezuela this morning as the government tries to restore order there. demonstrations against president nikl niklas meduro have been spreading. the government says this is not a militarization. compromise is on hold in washington as new details from the president's budget are released. last year the white house reached out to republicans proposing cuts to social security in an attempt to reach a grand bargain on the debt, but now that deal is off the table. this year's budget will abandon entitlement reform in exchange for programs that promote income equality. officials are blaming republicans for negotiating on tax loopholes in the country's wealthiest americans. the white house is willing to revisit the cuts if, quote, republicans want to revisit the

discussion. now that includes 56 billion in new spending on manufacturing, education programs for workers and early childhood development. the spending will be offset by revenue increases and cuts to other parts of the budget. governor christie is facing criticism for the slow trickle of sandy relief funds in his state. in port monmouth he received rounds of applause and calls to resign. many on hand told about life that has continued in limbo, some forced to live in trailers now more than a year after that storm initially made landful. the governor listened patiently and answered questions at length but also pointed to the federal government for not expediting flood relief funds. >> the entire flood insurance business in this country has been taken over by the federal government. it's called the national flood insurance plan, which all of you now painfully know, nfip. i said that should be a new "f" word in there. fema is the new "f" word.

they run the nfip. >> it is interesting to note at this forum the unfolding bridge scandal did not come up. christie's camp says the questions were all taken at random. new details are emerging about the new shoe. >> boomer: -- show bomb threat. the focus is on the terror groups master bomb maker. officials say that he may have created new devices that could go undetected. he's suspected of plotting new bomb threats. the department of homeland security says there's no evidence of any specific plot. the world may be one step closer to end being its standoff over iran's nuclear program. iran and six world powers completed its talks. the talks were, quote, off to a good start and the countries agreed on an outline for negotiations to continue. one sticking point is iran's

resistance to dismantle the facilities. the next talks will begin on march 17th. shift our focus and talk about business. stocks finished near session highs with the s&p closing with highs. >> we're going to have the options expiring. it gets a little bit more volatile. everyone is musing over this valuation from facebook of whatsapp. people have been saying, look, they're doing 80% of the deal in shares rather than cash so it is a play on future growth of the country which has 450 million customers. 1 million extra. they pay $42 per usual. that's way less than the cost of facebook which is currently $140 per user. elsewhere it's a big day in colorado. they'll be counting the tax dollars from legalized marijuana from the first full month there. the governor has penciled in up

to $134 million from legalized rev my sales of which $99 million will be used on substance abuse and prevention for children. looking at that experiment in colorado. >> we have russell stover, the third largest candy maker in the u.s. now up for sale. interesting timing, right, after valentine's day. are they looking to make sure that their first quarter books are solid and they say, look how profitable we are, we're up for sale? >> hey, it's goldman's deal. of course that's what they're doing. very seasonal. one of america's favorite sales comes from the whitman's sampler. we had a cameo in the "forrest gump" movie. they think it could be worth north of $1 billion. very interesting, $600 million of annual sales, $60 million of earnings. as the great man said himself, my momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates.

you never know what you're going to get. >> we'll see if they get a sweetheart deal. have a great weekend. we shift gears in fashion. the industry had a first of its own kind. fendi using cameras over the catwalk to showcase its latest styles via live stream. we've never seen drones used in fashion like this before. got us wondering where else would you like to see drones used. we know that amazon had talked about potentially using them for delivery. tweet us your most creative answers on #waytooearly. we have a new olympic gold medalist in ladies figure skating. not without controversy. we break it down. the wolf seen around the world. we now know more about that guy and how he appears to have gotten inside a u.s. olympic dorm. that story and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. stick around. ♪ ♪

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meanwhile, the u.s. men facing off against canada in the smien semi-finals here, but there's more at stake. the chicago billboard poses a bet. the loser of today's game has to keep the star justin bieber. highly anticipated. now to the most anticipated event of winter games, ladies figure skating and russia's adelina sotnikova dazzled the town. defending gold medalist yuna kim's performance was flawless. she looked to be in the driver's seat for olympic gold until those scores came in. sotnikova wins the gold medal for many fans. >> shocking. >> they say the anonymous judging system is a bit flawed. flawed. anyway, as for the americans, they were kept off the podium. gracie gold finishing fourth, ashley wagner finishing seven.

paulinea edmunds. this is the first time in 80 years. >> this one was in russia. >> ah. dah. dah. dah. so ever since shaun white's slipup team usa has dominated on the halfpipe. american maddie bowman soared to glory on a night where the sport paid tribute to the late canadian freestyle icon, sarah burke. france swept the podium in the men's ski cross event. the real close call came in the quarterfinal. the swiss winner not pictured in this photo finish, he stayed on his feet after the racers ahead of him wiped out at the finish line. he was followed by the russian skier in the yellow bins bib and then the swede in red. we go off to the medal count. team usa in the lead, 25 total medals. eight of those are gold.

russia's two behind in the total count and one behind in gold. norway on top in the gold medal count with 10. as we take a look at the day ahead of us, we mention the gold medal game in men's hockey. we have women's alpine skiing and both men's and women's speed skating. all right. so now we take you back state side for college hoops. north carolina hosting number five duke. duke on top. the second half jumper from leslie mcdonald gives the tar heels the lead. north carolina keeps that rally going from there. they pull off the upset at home beating rival duke 74-66. that's also their eighth straight. >> that has to be fun. look at that. >> look at the crowd. yeah. everybody rushing in. >> i don't know about storming the court. >> sea of humanity right there. >> yeah. >> excited. >> tobacco road. six miles apart, the two campuses? >> yeah. yeah. yeah. not too far a pardon. look at this, would he have tornado alleys? >> we have tornadoes, from big winter storms to a severe

weather outbreak. illinois was under the gun. that was where we had about 12 or 13 tornadoes reported. thankfully most were smaller, weaker variety. a lot of trees down, power outages. minor damage to homes. no injuries or fatalities. overnight the wind reports about 254 of them. tennessee was hard hit. a lot of power outages there. the storms are continuing to sweep east. they went through the atlanta area. they've weakened as they approach the charlotte area. that's one piece of good news. down along i-10, mobile got hit pretty hard. this is strong winds going through panama city, pensacola. joe's hometown down there. these will continue towards tallahassee this morning. that's the one area of concern if there's any real dangerous weather out there, stay in your houses in the florida panhandle along i-10. the storm forecast, once we get rid of the storms, one of the best weekends we've seen in two, three months for the east coast. the warm air will stay with us for a short period of time. 53 in new york on saturday.

59 in d.c. that's a really nice weekend. it will be a little breezy but the sun will be out. sunday stays kind of nice but here comes the cold air. minneapolis at 14. we're tracking once again this polar air. the white is the really cold air as we go through the weekend. watch it go from the arctic straight down into central canada and then it spills into the northern half of this country all next week. the coldest air in the northern hemisphere will be located over the great lakes. painful. >> we'll call that little area by you the extreme weather center. >> i think someone already has that. gma. i think gma has that. >> we'll have to come up with something else. that was amazing. i was excited to see that a lot of snow has melted. >> it's on its way. coming up on "morning joe," mayor bill de blasio is looking for traffic control. is the mayor practicing what he preaches. will ferrell says he didn't get a chance to compete in the

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welcome back, everybody. at the top of the show we talked about president obama's new budget plan. if you want to sound smart today tell your friends the white house projects this new plan will help reduce the deficit to

below 2% of the size of the economy over the next ten years. that's a 50% reduction to the current 3% deficit. okay. let's check in with louis who is back with us today for the cooler. hey, louis? >> what's going on, thomas. happy friday. >> happy friday. >> we're nine days away from the academy awards. that means it's time for the nominees to start thinking about what they're going to say if they win. if you're wondering who's likely to get the most mentions from those speeches, it's none other than meryl streep. in fact, according to announcements by slate, streep's name is mentioned more than god. the research says the three-time oscar winner was specifically mentioned four times. if you're wondering, god was mentioned only three times. now the oscars are set for sunday, march 2nd, and i'll be there, thomas, of course bringing you stuff you can't get anywhere else on the red carpet. >> i wonder if they're actually thanking meryl streep or they're mentioning her name because she's the same category.

such an esteemed category. >> i think that could be the case. they sometimes say they beat out meryl streep and that's a big deal because she's won so many times. now our next story takes us to maine. you see here a video from the member of the maine department of wildlife. he was given the task of capturing and tagging and releasing a baby moose back into the wild. capturing and tagging were the easy part. releasing, not so much. >> come on, little girl. hey, hey, hey. oh, you're a mean little girl. no problem being nasty. now go on.

first time i ever got beat up by a baby moose. >> i just got beat up by a baby moose. that baby moose was vicious, thomas. >> wow. >> out of breath. >> you'd think they'd be so sweet, you'd want to pet the baby moose. >> i don't think so. >> she had a good left hook. >> beware of baby moos. to the wolf that may scare you, you heard about this happening in sochi but not really. an american olympian posted a video that quickly made the rounds. it's not exactly what anyone expected it to be. let's have jimmy kimmel explain it. >> last night a member of the olympic luge team tweeted a video that showed a wolf roaming her dorm. as soon as she posted it the media went nuts which is what i was hoping for. it got a lot of coverage. you've only seen half of the clip. this is the whole clip.

>> oh, my god. >> garfield. garfield. have you seen my wolf? >> that's jimmy kimmel in full olympic ski garb, thomas. he enlisted the help from kate hansen who gained fame for her pre-dance moves. she tweeted out the movie and started a media firestorm in the u.s. and in canada. security threat i guess in sochi is really not a threat at all. so you how did kimmel pull it off? he says he had hansen send a photo of a dorm and they re-created a replica in the hallway of their studio. as for the animal, he's a genuine wolf who the show hired for the soul purpose of fooling us. once again, jimmy kimmel pulled

off an incredible trick. >> remember when he did that earlier with that girl doing the hand stand. >> twerking. the twerking. he tweeted out, if you're going to cry wolf, you might as well do it with a real wolf. >> he got us for sure. >> he got us for sure. the olympics were a big topic on the "tonight show." will ferrell showed off his figure skating costume. somewhat disappointed that he didn't make the olympic team. >> i've been working on my routine and in 2018 i'll be 50 and, i mean, if i could show it to you. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

the passion. the poise. >> it's good. is he supposed to be lord granthan or bates? >> i just think that he nailed it. he nailed it. the pressure was on. >> farrell announced that there's going to be a release of the new version of anchorman two. he says it will have 763 new jokes. i'm not sure if that's the truth or not but we should expect it to be raunchy as well. the new version is rated r and will be in. that's a nice slow rollout. i like it. now, finally, i want to make a note about this. what many are calling the great mystery of the olympics. during the opening ceremonies our loyal "way too early" viewers showed us that this bust looks a lot like you, thomas. >> yeah.

>> it looks too close. now our crack research staff are all regular readers of english russia. they came across this that shows the statue was erected in 1937 for the world's fair in paris. so, thomas, i hate to disappoint you. >> yeah. >> it's not actually a bust of you. >> no. >> but -- >> i cloned the bust. >> while it may not be a bust of you, we have something that is a replica of you. this is our very own thomas roberts ken doll, okay? fully equipped with a box with your photograph on it. i think you're more handsome in person, but you have a tuxedo, a microphone, and also a pink bow tie. >> do i have blond tips in my hair? what's up with the blond tips? >> i know when you were a teenager you had the blond tips. >> we'll be right back with much more. our tweets are next. ♪ ♪ surance was out of her reach.

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so we are a little out of time so we don't have time for tweets but we thank jerry for this and my assistant informed me that i had blond tips when i was a child because the