historical challenges. we say good-bye to the games in sochi. no russian athletes will go missing. ukraine's acting government asks for an arrest warrant for its ousted president, viktori n yanukovych. this is "way too early." hello, and welcome to "way too early" brought to you by scarborough country and the society of academics. i'm tomorrow mass roberts. it's monday, february 24th. that was my best movie phone impression. i call that number a lot. we have movie phone news coming up for you later in the show. we want to start out with a serious note in the ukraine where lawmakers are avoiding possible turmoil and civil war. the country's acting interior

minister issued an arrest warrant where the nation's former president, viktor yanukovych fled the country. his whereabouts are unknown. he's still the acting president of the ukraine. meanwhile, parliament took emergency action restoring the government and giving its new speaker the power of acting president. the country's military has vowed to stand by and support the new government. joining us live from london, nbc news correspondent aymen mohyeldin. >> yeah, that's one way of putting it. talk about a fall from grace. the president was in full control of the country 72 hours ago, now he's a wanted man. they issued the arrest warrant for him late yesterday afternoon. his whereabouts at this point remain -- excuse me, remain unknown, but more importantly, earlier on saturday he tried to

escape the country according to ukraine yan police forces that suggested he had presidential plane that was en route to russia that was prevented from leaving the country. more importantly right now, it's all about russia. the entire country is watching to see what russia december now that the olympics have wrapped up. there are some indications that the southern part of the country that is ethnically russian, a lot of the governments are calling on the russian government to intervene and send troops to protect that part of the ukraine. that has people worried that ukraine could be splintering. they've appointed a new interim president. they're trying to fill the other cabinet positions and say ukraine will remain a single solidified country, they don't want to see it split. there are growing concerns among the eastern part of the country that in fact there is this tension brewing between the ethnic russian community and the rest of the country. >> aymen mohyeldin is reporting

for us. the olympics, russia wrapped up the most expensive games ever. during the ceremony, performers poked fun at a mishappen that happened at the opening ceremonies recry creating that ring that did not open during the actual ceremonies. they paused briefly before expaptding into a full circle. sochi's bear mascot blew out the flame and drew a single tear. homeland security is pushing to extra diet the world's most wanted drug lortd after u.s. and mexican authorities teemed up over the weekend to track him down. while guzman is the notorious card tell leader, they say wire taps helped lead authorities to their man. they're urging mexico to extra

diet guzman since he escaped from prison before. >> this is an exceptional case. this is the largest drug lord we've ever seen and therefore extradition to the united states where there are multiple indictments in multiple cities, san diego, new york, texas, chicago, we could deal with him in a secure, safe way and bring him to justice. >> officials say guzman's cartel supplied u.s. with most of its marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine. they've agreed to meet with nicholas maine ndur row. they're demonstrating against widespread crime and raising prices and medical and food supply shortages. inflation rates have jumped 56%. venezuela has one of the highest murder rates. more than 10 people have died in the riots. more violence in thailand. yesterday two people were killed during an apparent grenade

explosion rocking an antigov protest strike. a 5-year-old girl was killed and three dozen were hurt during a sum lar demonstration on saturday. the attackers have not been identified. national security advisor susan rice is standing by her accounts of what she knew in the hours after the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. rice was ambassador to the u.n. says she has no regrets for going on five different talk shows in 2012 and blaming the attack on an anti is plam individual yes. >> the information which i provided which i explained to you was what we had at the moment. it could change. i commented that this was based on what we knew at that morning was provided to me and my colleagues and indeed to congress in the intelligence community. that's been well valley tated. that information turned out in some respects not to be 100% correct but the notion that how i or anybody else in the

administration misled the american speem patently false and i think that that's been amply demonstrated. >> republican senator john mccain has frequently criticized the obama administration says he is outraged by rice's response. >> i'm almost speechless because it's patently obvious that susan rice had no reason to be on the program. she had no involvement in it. second of all, she read talking points that we are now beginning to believe came from the white house which is false for susan rice to say. it's a little embarrassing to tell you the truth. >> this left four americans dead including the u.n. ambassador to libya. jeff blake is siding with opponents that krit six say encourages discrimination against gays and lesbians.

flake tweeted i hope governor brewer vetoes sb 1662. jan brewer has not said whether she will sign the bill or veto it. they say it protects business owners' religious beliefs. critics say it's a right to discriminate. governor scott walker is in washington for meetings, but it's an e-mail controversy back in wisconsin that's drawing a lot of tension. the recent release of 25,000 pages of e-mails is simply old news that related to an investigation when he was a county executive. the e-mails suggest that walker knew of a secret e-mail system that was used to avoid public scrutiny. he declined to talk about it. >> you had a democratic district attorney spend three years looking at those communications, interviewing people, talked to

the people and closed the case. >> the district attorney has reviewed everyone of these. >> you're not answering my question. >> i'm not going to get into 27,000 different pieces of information. it's one of those things where they want to keep pushing this issue into the forefront because in the end the folks running against us can't counter our positive message. >> six people were convicted of doing public work on county time. governor walker was never charged with any wrongdoing. wall street looks to start the week better than it closed on friday. cnbc's jeff cutmore is live in london. >> a couple of interesting technology stories for your audience this morning. netflix/comcast agreeing with a deal to allow netflix movies to run more smoothly on the surface. comcast parent of this company, the largest internet service

provider in north america, no terms on this deal. we don't know what netflix is paying but for the 44 million netflix subscribers, this is good news. moving on, it's an act jekt fbj failure of strategy. nokia edge is released. this is an android software clone. nokia is bought by microsoft. a number of strategists are saying it's because they can't make the microsoft software work properly so the nokia x will be coming out soon. 89 euros for that hand set and of course that charge may change depending on who your mobile service provider is. >> jeff, we're still living through the winter weather. we won't have a final tally but just how much has weather impacted a ripple effect for the

markets this year. >> yeah. this is a fascinating one because we have clearly seen some impact on the economic data from the very cold weather and the cold weather system looks to be up. janet yellen will tell us how she thinks some of the data points like the housing starts number which will decline, the job starts, thousand they've been affected by the cold weather and whether the markets can take comfort from the fact that this is a weather related phenomenon rather than the u.s. economy slowing down for other reasons. back to you. >> it's a mother nature issue. jeff cut more, appreciate it. from business to honoring one of the greatest innovators of all the time. steve jobs will get his own commemorative stamps next yeefrmt considering how he and his company changed the country, we thought it was an ironic mismatch. get ironic.

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so this was a barrier breaking nice for basketball's jason collins and the brooklyn nets. collins becoming the first

openly gay player to play in the nba. he revealed that he was gay but remained without a team until signing a 10 day contract with brooklyn over the weekend. nets owner mikhail prokarof is an outspoken opponent. he ran against vladimir putin in 2012. the nets hope collins will adebayor some size to their lineup. they currently sit in eighth in final playoff spot in the eastern conference. the nets won last night. over to indianapolis for a look at the nfl combine. michael sam is expected to be picked somewhere in the middle rounds of may's draft. although no team asked about his sexual orientation during workouts. it was the too much pick of conversation during yesterday's media interviews. >> i wish you guys would say, michael sam, how's football going? how's training going? i would love for you to ask me that question. but it is what it is. i just wish you guys will see me as michael sam the football

player instead of michael sam the gay football player. meanwhile, johnny manziel finished as a top performer in every category. he recorded a 4.68 in the 40 yard dash. the fourth fastest quarterback time posted the top time among qbs in the 20 yard shuffle. now for a wet day at the daytona 500. 38 laps into the 200 lap race heavy rains forcing nascar's season opener into a temporary rain delay. look at the skies there. after about 6 1/2 hours the race resumed and through the rain and wrecks dale earnhardt jr. found himself leading the pack. he ended a 55 losing race streak with a win. this was his second time winning the daytona 500 a decade after his first victory. congrats to him. over to sochi for one last olympic update for you after eliminating the u.s. in the semi-finals on friday. canada beat the first team in more than 20 years being the first team to winback toback

olympics. canada finished it with staggering stats allowing three goals over six games. the u.s. slid to gold? bobsledding. the 2010 four-man champion won his third career medal tying the most by any u.s. bobsledder and gave the u.s. six sliding medals at sochi. now as we take a peak at the final overall medal count. russia finished with more total medals and more gold medals than anybody else. norway finished and the u.s. was second on the overall medal. 28, nine of them gold. canada and netherlands round out the top five. we move in to fill you in on college hockey. the best action was behind the bench. check out these two mini north dakota fans. the little guy on the right is picking his nose going down there burying a finger, the one on the left is sucking the

glass. if you're wondering who won the game versus minnesota, duluth. we don't know. we were too distracted watching these kids. then i think he went to pick out a weggie. >> which one is worse, sucking on the glass or the digger? >> you have to think the glass was win decksed. maybe it was cleaner. >> you'd hope. oh, by the way, we need to start petitions now for "way too early" to be live on the beach in rio for the summer olympics in 2 1/2 years. >> send jim a message. >> we need to get this done. we're going to want to be in rio soon. the cold air is returning to the eastern seaboard. it's february. you expect to get a return to cold. it will last maybe one to two weeks. that's the part that will get to people. already the wind chills have dropped to minus 21 in fargo. our cold air comes from canada. the door is wide open again. minneapol

minneapolis, minus 12. the cold air will make it through the east coast. florida, we saw the heavy rains in effect at daytona. it looks like our severe weather effect will be minimallized. anywhere around orlando, tampa, miami, too. maybe a brief downpour. today's forecast, very cold in the midwest. holding on to a little bit of warmth in the east at least for one more day. 46 in d.c. yesterday was in the 60s. mid 60s. that's 20 degrees chillier. as we go through tuesday, that's when we see a little bit of the cold and a couple bouts of snow, thomas. no big snowstorms. that's what's different. >> i like that. >> we've had cold outbreaks followed by snowstorms. so far that's not going to happen. >> i want to go back to that video because schultzy said it is worse to suck public glass than to pick your nose. you think so? i think the glass is clean. that kid -- look. then the kid -- >> he may wipe the seat after digging. >> no, i think he's going tore

picking out a weggie. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," the acting ukrainian government issues an arrest warrant for former president viktor yanukovych. what this means for the u.s. when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler. jimmie fallon and justin timberlake, their performance has lived up to the hike. >> oh, yeah. ♪ ♪ t start here. it began on her vacation in europe on the day she arrived in london. someone set up a bogus hotspot, stole her identity and opened some credit cards in her name. but she's not worried. checking her credit report and score at experian.com allowed her to better address the issue...

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so at the top of the show we talked about the conclusion of the sochi winter olympic games. if you want to sound smart today tell your friends while the u.s. placed second in the medal count, the 12 bronze medals was the most. only two americans won multiple medals. meryl davis and charlie white won bronze in the team competition and then the record-breaking gold in ice dancing. if you haven't heard, it is premiere night for seth myers on late night. the show may be a little different with myers in the hosting chair. unlike his predecessor, jimmy fallon, myers doesn't sing or do many impressions. outsiders expect him to work off loose headlines and guest segments. the snl alumnist will welcome

amy poehler and vice president biden. tomorrow night he'll have russell wilson after he stops by "morning joe." meanwhile, the man that myers is replacing finished off his night with a bang. he welcomed joint timberlake and then this epic duet. >> kick it! ♪ ♪ ♪ wild thing ♪ he tlofs do the wild thing ♪ now this is a story about how my life got turned upside down and i'd like to take a minute to tell you who i i became a prince of a town called bel air ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ it lived up to the hype. anyway, the oscars are more than a week away, but if you're looking for an informed opinion about who should win, you may need to really ask around because a new poll from reuters says many people have not seen the movies. donald, is that you? have you seen all nine? >> no, sir. >> leading the pack, 15% of respondents say they've seen tom hangs in "captain phillips." i'm one of them. not far behind is sandra bullock, and "gravity." 15%. ellen degeneres. the academy awards are set for this sunday night. this could be a true sign of the times. the listing moviefone is going silent. it will be shut down and they were directed to the company's app.

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a bit of a tech mismatch. we have john tower reading your tweets. >> got a few facts. art >> you're so cheap. you would make a nice iconic stamp. >> we were able to figure out that was a record in 1937. that does it for this edition of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. good morning. it's monday, february 24th. a live look at new york city with the sun. mike barnicle is joining us and michael steele and msnbc and