and that means, shaun white, came out, and absolutely blew this thing up. this first big air, todd, was unbelievable. >> watch how high he goes right there. that was arguably the biggest air that has ever been done in half pipe competition. shaun white would go on to throw down a blistering run and including his signature double mctwist, backside, 1260. coming up right here. watch this intense double flippage right there. shaun white stomping that down. that was all he had to do. and cruise the rest of the pipe. shaun white another victory in his belt. >> so that is how the podium looked last month and the first stop of the winter dew tour from breckenridge, colorado. overall point standings. shaun white picks up the 100 points. louie vito second. iouri podtadtchikov in third. we check in with tiffany simons. >> louie, coming into the second event, second overall in points. what is your mind set coming into the competition? >> you know, any competition is the same. i want to go out and land a run that i can leave happy with. so if it puts me in the top. i a

coming up, the nhl all-stars on the ice, a long marathon on the tennis court in australia, is and shaun white shakes off an injury for a big win. >>> plus, the dolphins' brandon marshall stands out at the nfl pro bowl in hawaii. >>> it looks like the rest of the month is going to be just like the rest of winter. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports the focus on professional football briefly shifted away from the upcoming super bowl yesterday to the game's annual all-star contest in hawaii. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> hi, there. good morning. the super bowl is less than a week away but yesterday's gathered in hawaii. bengals' andy dalton backed a pass, deflected and ends up in the hands of brandon marshall. lying down in the end zone. heck of a grab. taking home mvp honors as the afc wins it 59-41. of course, there's one more game to play yesterday in new england. 25,000 patriot fans gave their team a super bowl send-off. tom brady ho

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it took 5 hours and 53 minutes. >>> shaun white road his snowboard into the history books.ges gave him a perfect 100. white takes home his fifth consecutive superpipe gold. no doubt he's the best in the world. >>> for another look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has the weather channel forecast. are you part of the 15% that would miss your child's birth. >> i would not miss the child's birth but if we could schedule it after or before we could all -- >> this is on television. be careful, bill. she could be watching. she will kill you. >> there's a lot of women that would probably not want to miss the game, too. >> they don't have a choice. do not argue this. >> all right. i'll stop this conversation. good morning, everyone. let's talk about something that will make a lot of people smile. that's going to be the incredible warmth we'll see this week. today is a bad day, a typical winter, snow showers this morning. i want to show you how warm areas like washington, d.c. are going to be. we'll be in the 40s today. tuesday and wednesday, the low 60s in w

shaun white, flying tomato. multiple winter x gold winner. there's not him. there's shaun. guys, he was practicing yesterday and sprained his ankle. i don't know if it's a little game man "showbiz flashpoint" going into the competition to get his competitors on their heels. >> this is shaun, isn't it? >> yeah, this is shaun. >> he's unbelievable. >> he's unbelievable. he goes bigger, higher, and more graceful and more peace in the air than any of his competitors. >> hey, rob, have you ever tried that? >> yeah. i can hug my carcass just like shaun. >> look at you. now, here's your crash. >> yeah, taking some big air and not quite -- i don't know if he got hurt on this seriously or not. >> no. he walked away from it. >> he did win the gold medal. >> we got e-mails that he is injured but he doesn't know it because of all the adrenaline. >> look at him walking away. i think he was doing a tim tebow afterward for that. i'd thank the lord above. >> are you going do a little half pipe for us next? >> yeah. >> thanks, rob. >>> it's 14 minutes past the hour. time to check the news.

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. >> reporter: for shaun coffman to succeed the stars must be aligned. >> it's a big part of what weand i think it everybody appreciates the brightness. >> reporter: he and his boss spend one day a week during football season putting paint to canvas and this is one big canvas. >> make it look playoff ready. >> reporter: for sunday's big game there is a little more work. >> then we are adding logos for the playoffs, we will be back tomorrow to do that. we will do a little start and work on them today but finish them tomorrow. >> three different shades of gray along with white in the playoff logo. the white under coat will brighten up the gray. . >> reporter: is he a veteran of field art. >> first time i painted we used -- we were still using chalk. the greatest job in the world. they say if you love what you do you never work a day in your life. i haven't worked for 20 years. >> reporter: when everybody is excited about the game the work seems to stand out even more. >> people come and say the field looks great. what did you do? we didn't do anything extra extra. >> reporter: regular

shaun underneath. inbounds to a cut l james. the lead up to 16 points. terps. alex misses the free throw, but there's sean. he does the dirty work. 70-64. they are #-1 in acc play. >> the temps can be seen on my 20. 4:00 p.m. >> george washington hosting rhode island. they just took over. later tony with the his 12 hoops to pellom. 69-61 for their first conference win. we are taking a short break, but there's more to come, like changes to the redskins coaching staff. stay with us.  >>> welcome back. when you finish 5-11, there are bound to be changes and it starts with the coaching staff. morris will join the skins staff as st dbacks coach, also safety coach, and receivers coach will not return. in other news, kicker graham was injured in the season finale against the eagles. after his 36-yard field goal was blocked. recovery is 6 to 8 weeks. >> today, baylor quarterback made it official. he will enter this april's nfl draft. the 2011 heisman trophy winner was rated as the best. he admitted it was emotional saying good-bye to his bailor

shaun david was found this evening. the 13-year-old went missing yesterday afternoon.e got word around 6:00 that he was found safe and unharmed. >>> a colorado man has been arrested in connection with a 12-year-old murder. it was solved using dna. in april of 2000 a woman was found strangled with her throat cut in her home. using dna at the murder scene detectives matched to a sample in the fbi's national database. that's how they were able to track charles bennett to colorado and make an arrest. he now faces murder charges. >>> we have some -- we have new information about a four alarm fire that killed two children in cumberland. a 7-year-old was rescued from a second story window and pronounced dead. her sister was found dead in the bedroom. five others including an 8- month-old weren't hurt. it's believed to have started in the first floor living room and spread quickly. it took act three and a half hours to control the flames. >>> city police are looking for a man who assaulted a teen girl at a park near the campus of johns hopkins university. it happened in the pa

but how can you accuse my brother of shooting shaun gamble? was proud tonnetorbitt be a police officer. >> nobody should take anything the baltimore police department says. >> this has been like living of course story, a nightmare. day after day, night after night, week after week, month after month, it has been terrible for us. >> these shootings have sparked a number of changes in the department, mainly a uniform policy that states said all officers that take enforcement action have to address so they can be officially recognized as a member of the department. >> tonight, a former army soldier from maryland is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. prosecutors say it 24-year-old crag back some secretly converted to islam days before separating from the army. they claim he was heading to somalia to join the terrorist organization al-shaab. if convicted, he faces 15 years in prison. greg bernstein says that he will back legislation that reduces jail time for those convicted of possessing small

tied for fifth way since being enforced a degree a low round of sixty six in dubai as a result to shaun and finished fifty fifth in the games in two thousand and eight still have been placing so far and despite having some injury problems she's doing dishes and has lots of goals to achieve with her new coach definitely play for another five years because of my back i don't know how well my body will give me a chance to play golf but there we set up some goals when it went to the eighty and hopefully get ill wind down there with a major i can go. professional golfer who spend most of their time travelling from one tournament to know that we can be the hardest part of the job however well in search of success some ladies european tour's many funny stories have a reason they're said to like area i don't mind to say the kid is a cheap hotel and i put my pajamas on i want. to throw came back and my room was completely locked so inside so he had to go because it was going a way out so i went outside and all the guys are like oh uncle we go through with this now. despite bringing mourners to r

on behalf of our hud secretary shaun donovan and our system the abilities officer, i am so proud to represent, and our regional administrator, to represent hud here. i want to ask you to please give a very, very warm reception to the regional administrator from epa. please, sir. [applause] >> thank you to leader pelosi. most of the things that you look around and see in san francisco would not have been done without the amazing amount of work that she does for the city and county of san francisco. it is an amazing privilege to be on the panel with her today congratulations to mayor lee for his recent appointment and to everyone else here on this exciting day. i used to work just next to city hall and run my bike down mcallister every day for nine years, so i saw this place going up. what it really tells us is that you can do all the great things we heard at the beginning. for 120 formerly homeless people, you can do it in a way with no additional parking. it followed a green point rating system. it internalized many of the values that san francisco holds tier, which is bringing transportation

pacific region it's about following the philippines which is offered to host more american troops and shaun of the state run for sanctions against the nation for creating tensions in the region. and this is first e.u. summit exposes deep divisions within the union with predictions that growth even deeper despite most members agreeing to fiscal descriptions that critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. or news in less than half an hour from the cause of puts the eurozone in his crosshairs the report isn't fixed on l.t. . ties or this is the kaiser report. in the new. mag that's right from barry ritholtz in the word of the day the debt or a zombie debtor is a noun and indebted consumer who is only able to pay the debt interest each month. the debts never go away they only pay the interest they're always in debt and this applies throughout the entire economy not just on credit card debt but mortgage debt i think a touch of the consumer now if you look at the bankers of course they're involved in a very interesting situation in that they never pay interest on phantom debts. they

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housing development shaun donovan, and then eric schneiderman, as we told you and then john walsh. tony west, and lanny brewer. some of the people on here are question marks. khuzami has done nothing so far. he has done nothing so far under obama, and then lanny brewer used to be at a law firm who defended the top banks and said they were, of course, didn't do any of this stuff. you know who else worked at that bank along with brewer? eric holder. these guys have been protecting the big banks all along. what did president obama do? as he always do. he brought them inside the administration to protect the big banks there. is it going to be brewer or schneiderman? attorney general holder had this to say. >> aggressively pursuing any and all leads. as part of our investigations, the department of justice has issued several subpoenas relate relating to residential mortgages and you can expect more to follow. >> i'm incredibly dubious of anything that eric holder says or does. i was excited when he was first selected but he has done almost nothing to pursue the banks in thee three years

shaun. >> thank you. there are more questions tonight about former d.c. councilman, harry thomas jr. and how he was able to funnel city funds into his own pocket. tonight, a corporation connected to thomas is under the microscope. matt acklin has the story. >> the u.s. attorney made it clear last week, his investigation is not closed. even after former council member, harry thomas pleaded guilty to $350,000 in city funds. the children and youth investment trust corporation, mayor gray wants a full review of the city organization set up to help kids. >> i asked the inspector general to expedite this. so we get the conclusion very quickly about the future of the trust. >> chairman of the council, kwame brown called a meeting of some of d.c.'s top finance managers. the city's cfo, inspector general, dc auditor and budget director. on the agenda, harry thomas, the trust corporation and preventing fraud city wide. >> but the idea is to ensure when we can tighten up loopholes. we do it systematically so we don't find out another agency has a problem. >> council

but when he returned in 2009, he remained on the sidelines when shaun hill won the starting job. >> i want to find the guy who can lead this time. right now, i'm not seeing that guy. >> reporter: alex would reclaim the starting spot from hill only to be replaced again last season by torrey smith. >> alex played poorly. i think he knows that. >> i love to play this game. and i got more to prove than ever. >> reporter: everyone assumed his days as a 49er were over when his contract expired. but he took control of the team during the lockout and with jim harbaugh in charge, alex finally had a coach who was in his corner. >> alex smith, you find a way to -- kind of keep diminishing the guy. you know, he's -- call him a game manager and he's a great game manager. >> manage myself into a victory. that's all i care about. >> reporter: smith showed everyone that he's more than a game manager. and even sometimessed all the critics who said the 49ers would never go anywhere with alex smith as their quarterback. >> alex smith puts a play of his life! >> how about that? they said he couldn't do i

the 18-year-old becomes the first snowboarder to win double gold at the x games since shaun white in >>> that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. see you again tonight at 5:00. have a great day. >> next at 5:30 there's a move in san jose to follow in san francisco's footsteps and raise the minimum wage. >> we are at this time putting colleges on notice. >> president obama puts universities on notice when tuition fees go up, federal funding will go down. >> welcome back. the oakland police are sorting out the charges against some 300 oakland protestors. they were arrested during the day and night of clashes that left city hall damaged. the group marched on the closed convention center where they were met by police firing flash bangs, bone bags and tier gas. demonstrators threw rocks, and objects at police. three officers were injured. protestors ran away but regrouped last night. they swarmed a ymca building with police had them surrounded. all those demonstrators were taken into custody. a second group broke into city hall and damaged art work and burned an american flag. o

. >>> shaun white has done it again.a unprecedented perfect store of 100 in the men's super pipe final at the winter x games. fifth consecutive gold medal. also a first in snowboard super pipe. >>> quick check on the weather, meteorologist rob marciano joins us. wow. >> i dvr'd the x games yesterday. i hadn't gotten to see that yet. congratulations, shaun flying tomato. wind and fire conditions led to a couple of fires, parts of which some are burning. deadly wreck on i-75 yesterday. haze and low-level fog. bad visibility. parts of the highway still shut down in areas. just be careful if you're driving through there and pull over if you have top. temperatures at the freezing mark. at the surface you go up just a little bit and it's much warmer than that. it keeps the smoke down to the surface for the morning hours. across the northern sierra, a couple of little clippers coming through. snow shower, lake-effect stuff and wind. that's going to be the main issue if you're traveling out of new york or boston or chicago today

the 18-year-old becomes the first snowboarder to win double gold at the x games since shaun white in that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. see you again tonight at 5:00. have a great day. >> up next at 6:30 there's a move in san jose to follow in fran's footsteps and raise the minimum wage. >> we are putting colleges on notice. >> president obama tells universities they cannot keep raising tuitions every year. warning if it continues, federal funding will go down. dddddddd [ female announcer ] they've been off limits to dieters since time began. not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, the only thing between you and chocolaty brownies... ♪ ...is a nicely designed package. ♪ you can have brownies again. fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. caramel...pretzel 90 calorie bar. ♪ >> welcome back. the oakland police are sorting out the charges against some 300 oakland protestors. they were arrested during the day and night of clashes that left city hall damaged. the group marched on the closed convention center where they were met by

. >> we have a question from shaun, is there a position on which you agree with the republican candidatesyou said at least in terms of foreign policy, you're on the same page as ron paul. >> absolutely. but ron paul certainly doesn't express the opinions of most republican voters, i don't think. most republican voters look at or at least the audience when ron paul, and i have to say, ron paul has some crazy ideas like getting rid of the fed, let's go back to the whims of the mining industry and the gold standard. you know, stuff that i don't agree on, what he said about health care, we should go back to neighbors helping out. just loony. but when it comes to things like the drug war and foreign policy, this guy is so great. and also even when i don't agree with him, at least he's honest. at least you get the feeling this is an authentic person saying what he believes. as far as what he said about foreign policy, the guts to stand up there debate after debate while they boo him or look at him like he's got three heads. the others stare at him like what are you talking ability, the golden r

he came on the fox 5 evening news at 10:00, talked to shaun yancy and said the same thing. then we heard about the settlement, the 3300 thawed that he agreed to pay back to the city. he missed a payment. that didn't happen. and then come the federal charges today the pressure has been building for sure. >> now, he is going to plead guilty. you will be in court today? >> yes. >> that special election is expected to cost the city at least $3,300,000. that's the latest here in the federal courthouse. back to you. >> thank you. >>> let's take a check at the top stories. a northern virginia woman could get up to 35 years when she is sentenced to killing her granddaughter. her lawyer tried to prove she was insane at the time but the jury rejected that argument n a videotaped confession, she told police that she killed that little girl to get back a at her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant before they were married. >>> loundoun county officials are investigating the case of six middle school who were apparently drunk. a student saw one of their classmates drinking on th

. >>> and espn x-games are trending on yahoo thanks to shaun white's fifth straight gold medal performancerned the first pfect is 100 score and colton moore was separated from his snowmobile 130 feet in the air. despite the you can wicked landing, he did come back to capture the gold. that's remarkable and scary. 8:0 # 5. now back outside to al roker. how about that? coming back strong for the gold. >> i could do that. >> yeah. fall off the snowmobile? >> i did that. we were in salt lake city. we have nice friends here. where are you from? oklahoma. oh. what's your name? >> madeline. >> i like your feather. that's nice. let's see what's happening. our pick city of the day just happens to be the beautiful -- i can't see. oh, baltimore, maryland. wbal tv-11. lake effect snow coming across. two clippers zipping away. it will be light. anywhere from one to three inches, maybe some locally may see maybe six inches of snow. that's the worst of it. breezy conditions mid-section of the country into the gulf coast. showers in the pacific northwest. the lake effect snow hanging around. chilly in the

are some on the hill that actually thinks the current legislation does not go far enough, including shaunuffy. he introduced a measure called the restrict act which would require all members of congress and senior staff to move their assets into a blind trust or disclose any transaction no matter the amount within three days of making it. the senate will take up the issue 5:30 issue tonight. jon: thanks, shannon. jenna: for more on this now joining me from capitol hill independent senator from connecticut senator joe lieberman. hi, senator, how are you? >> i'm good, how are you. jenna: i'm great. it's a big news days. we'll start off with the stock act. shannon told us a little bit about a similar bill in the house called the restrict act which would go a little farther than the stock act. it would basically take the hand of lawmakers off their stocks and securities, put it into blind tuesdays an trusts and that's the way it would work. what do you say to folks that say, listen we need something a little more hash, something more like the restrict act? >> maybe we do, and probably there w

thank you and now let me introduce shaun donovan. >> thank you.esday night, president obama laid out a blueprint for an economy to last. he said this is a make or break moment for the middle class and those trying to reach it. and that what is at stake is the basic american promise that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family, own a home and put away a little for retirement. unfortunately, that did not describe our economy in the years leading up to the crisis. nowhere was that clearer than in the housing market. mortgages were sold to people who could not afford or understand them, banks made huge bets and bonuses with other people's money. we all paid a very steep price. house prices sank for 30 straight month in a row. by the time the worst of it was over, our economy lost 8 million jobs. since those dark days, we have made very real progress. foreclosure notices are down 45% since early 2009. more than 5.5 million families have received mortgage modifications with affordable monthly payments. we will be announcing more relie

fox news senior correspondent eric shaun joins us now. >> eric: what's indiana doing to prevent this?nia where newt gingrich says 1500 forged signatures on his petitions were fake. that knocked him off the ballot. indiana got the same thing, an allegation going on from 2008 that president obama may not have actually legally qualified for the ballot back then in that primary. so the indiana republican party you see here have a seminar in laporte where they were teaching and giving tips how to prevent election fraud and the gathering of petitions that are going on right now. simple things. double-check the people who sign, make sure that actually real people sign the petitions, check the signatures, see if the handwriting, for example, is all the same. these are tips and advice that can work across the country. shear what some of the officials told us they learned in the seminar. >> it's a travisty. it's sad to think that this stuff goes on. but it does. >> one of the things that makes us special in the whole world is our electoral process in the whole united states. when people don't t

[applause] >> hey, i'm shaun duffy from the great state of wisconsin. i'm happy to be here with all of you. you know, you are all the unsung heroes of the greatest civil rights battle of our generation. [applause] >> now, today you're not only marching on behalf of the millions of babies who have lost their lives through the violence of abortion, but you're also standing with their mothers, who have quietly suffered from the greatest lie ever told, the lie that their babies were not wanted and that their babies were not human. thank you for exposing that lie. keep up the fire, keep the faith. god bless and game on! [applause] >> hi, i'm congressman g.t. thompson from the state of pennsylvania. [applause] >> i want to thank you so much for being here on behalf of the unborn today. i know you've traveled a long distance. you personally sacrificed to be here but i got to tell you, it's worth it. you're making a difference. you're making a difference for the unborn. each one of us here today can give thanks for a creator for life and our mothers who deliver

. >>> and espn x-games are trending on yahoo thanks to shaun white's fifth straight gold medal performanceerfect is 100 score and colton moore was separated from his snowmobile 130 feet in the air. despite the you can wicked landing, he did come back to capture the gold. that's remarkable and scary. 8:0 # 5. now back outside to al roker. how about that? coming back strong for the gold. >> i could do that. >> yeah. fall off the snowmobile? >> i did that. we were in salt lake city. we have nice friends here. where are you from? oklahoma. oh. what's your name? >> madeline. >> i like your feather. that's >>> good morning, tom kierein in storm center 4. sunshine, cold breezes on this monday morning and temperatures at or below freezing most of the region. reagan national is at 34 but elsewhere, upper 20s to near 30 degrees. later today into the 40s with sunshine. then sunshine again tomorrow but warmer, cold start in the morning but afternoon highs up around 60. low to mid 60s on wednesday with increasing clouds. thursday could get some rain. we ought to get some sun back on friday. right now t