and savannah guthrie sits down with mark zuckerberg on the "today" show.e world connects and what is next for the social networking site. >>> four things to know at 6:55. target's cfo will testify about his company's recent credit card data breach. watch later today to see him testify before that committee. d.c. police union upset with the deal an arbitrator just announced to give cops a raise, but log on to nbcwashington.com to read about what the union said should be a part of the deal. >>> our cameras are in prince george's county later this morning when president obama visits buck lodge middle school to talk about bringing high-speed internet to students and how some big private companies are promising to help. >> a smash-and-grab robbery took place earlier at a subway shop in burtonsville. the robber busted through the glass door and made off with crash and the surveillance equipment. right now police investigators are on the scene talking with the opener about the incident. >>> storm team 4 seven-day outlook, today partly sunny with highs near 40. th

. >> guthrie offered him useful advice as seger told anthony mason a few years back. >> put your segerand somebody will say kid i have a quarter for you if you pick us a tune, now you swing around and play your best song. >> he went on to write folk classics such as if i had a hammer. >> if i had a ma'am her in the evening. >> his refusal to testify about his past communist associations led, led him to conviction which was later appealed, his opponents on the right tried to protest against performances but to no avail. >> all they did is give me free publicity and sold more tickets. >> we shall overcome. >> pete seeger helped lead the folk music revival in the fifties and sixties. >> we shall overcome. >> osgood: and also helped to make we shall overcome a civil rights anthem. president obama said pete seeger believed deeply in the power of song. >> i am going let it shine. >> osgood: adding and he always invited us to sing along. >> don't think you can get away without singing. >> osgood: pete seeger was 94. >> ♪ let it shine, let it shine. let it shine. >> >> osgood: vigorous nearly

guthrie, for five minutes. >> i appreciate what the gentleman from illinois was asking. i had a high school reunion with my friends in auburn, alabama. he was talking about the short age of drugs. he said it wasn't the expensive stuff. he couldn't do his service properly because of that. classic price controls and economics. when there's not an ability to move the price for some reason, then you say it will be shortage and quality. that's what you mentioned, shortage of ability and quality and there doesn't seem to be a price signal. we are not talking about hundreds of thousands or thousands of dollars. we are talking about sometimes cents and sometimes dollars. dr. crosse, i'm sorry, in your testimony you said that f.d.a. told you that requirements that manufacturers notify the f.d.a. in advance has helped the situation, that they're able to take some steps. while f.d.a. is planning to establish a new information system to track data, there are significant concerns specifically they are not conducting routine analysis of existing data, drug shortages in the database to

, welcome to "today" on a friday morning, i'm matt lauer. >> good morning, everyone, i'm savannah guthrie

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savannah guthrie spoke exclusively with founder mark zuckerberg to see how he is marking the occasion, and what he sees coming next, if he'll tell us. the full interview is tonight on our website, nbcnews.com. >>> microsoft has a new boss. satya nadella will become only the third leader in the company's history. he will replace steve balmer, and notably, bill gates is stepping away from his official post as chairman, though he remains on the board and he'll advise the company. the new boss, nadella is a 22-year veteran of the company. >>> their commercial was on a lot of top ten lists for best commercial at the super bowl. radioshack made fun of itself in the latest ad for being locked in the '80s. even though radio is in its title, they're promising a new look at their stores. but not all of radioshacks roughly 4,500 stores may stick around to see how the turnaround turns out. "wall street journal" is reporting they're getting ready to shut down about 500 of them. radioshack itself declined comment. >>> it's the latest in a string of notable vladimir putin photo ops, many of them shi

the lincoln memorial, he took center tape and red the crowd in a rousing rendition of the woodie guthrietandard. e was 89 but far from done singing songs about the causes that moved him. >> i tell people, nobody can prove a thing. obviously, if i didn't think music could help save the human music. >> seeger put musical notes to the cause for change, end of war, equality, labor rights and the environment. he used elements of old gospel songs to write "we shall overcome" which became the agent them of the civil rights movement and his hit, where have standard. >> normally, i am against big things. i think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. too many things can go wrong when they get big. >> but any suggestion seeger himself had become big made him blanche. he spurned commercialism though he had been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. all of this after a long ban on commercial radio and television. in 1955, seeger found himself on the house on american activities schmidt refusing to answer questions with about his membership of the communist party and to n

he talked about it exclusively with savannah guthrie in an interview airing tuesday on "today." >> i was just really excited that we were doing it at one school. and at the time, i thought, someone needs to build a service like this for the world. i always thought that was this incredibly important thing to have happen, but i just never thought that we would be the ones to help do it. >> reporter: well, ten years later, 1.2 billion people, yes, billion, use facebook. that's about a sixth of the world's population. it's hard to imagine a time when facebook didn't exist, when it was just a game kids played and friends were people you talked on the phone, met up with on weekends. >> this is really good. >> clean and simple. >> reporter: chronicles on film, engrained in our everyday lives. sure, facebook has made breaking up harder and cyber snooping easier, but it's also saved lives. within the first hour of posting this photo, three friends telling me go to the hospital, it could be kawasaki disease. >> reporter: changed lives. >> i was on facebook one day and came across a new t-shirt

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie along with al roker and natalie morales. now ted "shred" ligety with a great history-making performance. >> that's right. a lot of expectations on him coming into these games he might leave with a gold medal. check that box. it's happened first time an american male has won the giant slalom. congratulations to him. >> we have a lot to celebrate. a lot of medal winners live here this morning. we'll get to all the action here in sochi in a moment. but we want to start with our top story. the deteriorating situation in the ukraine fuelled by the violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police. nbc's richard engel is in kiev this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. medical officials say of those 25 people killed here since yesterday, the majority of them are demonstrators. the situation here is still unfolding. the protesters have been using loud speakers this morning to call for reinforcements, call for more men, and these clashes are wreaking havoc on downtown kiev. >> reporter: cen

like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out. ♪ how does it feel to be on your arm ♪ the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. >> pop musicians in today's generation are in a fantastic position. they can rule the world. why don't we do more of it? >> we can stop world wars before they ever started. >> i disagree. >> you know who starts world wars? people that are over 40. >> really? >> that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn't shut it down. ♪ ♪ he's so, so healthy, his body and his mind ♪ >> i think ray davies from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. ♪ ♪ don't you all fade away talking about my generation ♪ >> a new political move, nation to nation, is really to try and break down these barriers between people. >> all of them were obsessively listening to one another, and what became the game was, who can take rock 'n' roll some place more interesting. ♪ ♪ if i needed someone to love, you're the one that i'd be thinking of ♪ ♪ i

>> savannah guthrie. savannah guthrie. >> in your face, sports!ompter, i'm going to go to the audio board and say horrible things in your ears. >> if you laugh or smile, it's over. >> correct. >> the hot ticket today in sochi was the iceberg skating -- >> iceberg sounds the same in russian, english and german. >> english and german. >> wow. >> okay. it's a tie. >> this one's tough. this one we're calling the red light challenge. when your camera is on, there's a red light on the top. and you have to keep up with the red light. do you understand the rules of the game? >> yeah. >> gentlemen, follow the red light. >> the lights aren't going on. there's only one red light. old habits. >> we have a winner. >> johnny weir, ladies and gentlemen. >> for our final event, we're calling this the reaction challenge. i'm going to show you a piece of video from these olympic games. freestyle skier, whoever has the best announcer flair wins this competition. >> here's henrik -- >> this guy. >> 360. >> going down backwards! >> watch this one. that is the johnny w

edition of "today" at the olympic winter games with matt lauer live from sochi, russia, and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning. welcome to a special split edition of "today" on a friday morning. i'm matt lauer inside the olympic stadium where the opening ceremony will be held tonight. it's a look back over 1,000 years of russian history. we're starting 400 years ago with meredith vieira sitting next to me here on my left. >> oh. >> long way to go. >> sitting next to matt, all i can say is the stench of vodka is overwhelming.

i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer. alongside natalie morales and al roker. with medal winners -- that's ted ligety, who took home gold yesterday. took home gold yesterday. we're going to talk to him about that record setting performance. >> but first we want to get to our top story this morning. >>> we're talking about violence intensifying in the ukraine overnight between police and anti-government protesters. richard engel joins us. >> reporter: good morning, matt. we are still overlooking the square that is in the center of this protest. a short while ago, we heard renewed gunfire. the death toll is continuing to rise. we've seen more injured being brought to field hospitals. there was supposed to be a truce in place, and both sides are accusing the other of breaking it. around :a.m. 9:00 a.m. in kiev, police retreated from position. in pursuit with the anti-government protesters, now advancing out of their fortified camp. we watched at least one policeman dragged away. the protests had been contained. suddenly they had broken out of the square and into t

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie. it is crazy. >> you have the black sea. beautiful shot. it could be a beach day today. then if you look in the other direction, you have the snow-capped mountains of sochi and beyond. i imagine the snow is getting soft as the temperatures are beginning to rise. >> it has been an issue for the athletes. matt, i'm glad you can add sportscaster to your resume. >> thank you. a tip of the hat to shaun white who came down from the mountains. probably not his favorite morning of the year. he is down here greeting people on the plaza. thanks to that, shaun. we appreciate it. >> we will have all the latest on the olympic action in the moment. our latest story is the weather. the weather back home. a huge contrast to what we have here. we will start with al. it is pretty bad. >> it is historic in devastation. we look live right now at i-85, braselton, georgia. an hour north of atlanta. six people so far have died on roads in texas and mississippi. thousands of flights have canceled. 100 million people affected by this. it is going to

like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out. ♪ how does it feel, how does it feel ♪was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. >> pop musicians in today's generation are in a fantastic position. they can rule the world. >> i don't want to rule the world. >> why don't we do more of it? >> we can stop world wars before they ever started. >> i disagree. i don't believe that -- >> you know who starts world wars? people that are over 40. >> really? >> that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn't shut it down. ♪ he's oh so good and he's oh so kind ♪ ♪ and he's oh so healthy in his body and his mind ♪ >> i think ray daveys from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. ♪ people try to put us down ♪ just because we get around ♪ things they do look awful cold, talking about my generation ♪ ♪ i hope i die before i get old, talking about my generation ♪ ♪ my generation, my generation ♪ why don't you all fade away ♪ talking abou

i'm jet lagged. >> and i'm savannah guthrie alongside al roker and natalie morales.re you sure it's monday and not yesterday or tomorrow? >> a nine-hour time change is not an easy one. how are you feeling? >> i'm not used to wearing matching pants and a suit. >> and i'm surprised you had that vodka shot with your cereal this morning. >> habits are hard to break. >> we are all home and happy to be back in new york after a fun time in sochi. >> absolutely. we have a lot coming up. including our special series coming up called "love your selfie." most subjects we hear about are the unreal expectations we have when it comes to body image. we're accepting and embracing ourselves. >> and as a way to get the conversation started, we're going to be taking our make-up off later on in the program, jet lag and all. we want you to take part in this. people are sending their selfies and we're putting them on the wall outside. keep them coming to us. >> and meantime, our plaza -- speaking of face -- our plaza has a facelift. we're going to head outside the orange arches and show y

personality rating of any of the -- liz: delightful guyment we haven't brought up the name savannah guthrie-- she doesn't register on the q scores. >> and, you know, matt lauer's contract ends this year, so it'll be interesting -- it's pretty much taken for granted this is going to to be it for him. he's been on 20 years, 17 year z an an anchor chor. is it going to be will geist or someone else? >> i have you two sitting here, liberty media, obviously, wants to be part of a bigger global opportunity. theyed had a conference call today, they say their still going to be -- >> comcast is -- time warner cable is not off the table in greg mathey's mindset. liz: will they have to shed some assets -- >> oh, yeah. liz: and does charter pick that up? >> charter will be first in line, but cox has already put their name on the list as being very interested in new york and possibly in new england and the southeast. liz: so the comcast guys are super smart. do you think this deal goes through, brad? >> yeah, i think so. obviously, they wouldn't have done it if they didn't think they would get it. >> exa

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the quake struck near guthrie, 22 miles north of oklahoma city. this is the latest in a string of earthquakes hitting central oklahoma. five quakes struck friday. another one hit saturday. no reported injuries. >>> a 19-year-old pennsylvania woman is saying she killed at least 22 people. she is now facing murder charges. along with her husband for allegedly killing a man they met on craigslist. on friday, miranda barber gave an interview to the daily item in pennsylvania and said she had stopped counting once she hit 22 killings. police are now investigating. one law enforcement source close to the investigation said barbara's new claims could be the real deal. >> she said she was a member of a satanic cult. >> and began at 13. >>> one minute after the hour, the florida man convicted of the so-called loud music murder trial will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. not for the killing of apparently unarmed black teenager, jordan davis. jurors deadlocked on the first-degree murder charge. they convicted him of three counts of attempted seco

and savanna guthrie sat down with mark zuckerberg for an exclusive interview.ut what he said about teen engagement with the social network. >> i guess the question is, if teens are not on facebook as much as they used to be, does that matter? do you care that facebook is cool anymore? >> we know that facebook and instagram are both really popular, with u.s. teens and teens abroad. we just focus on serving all of these different groups that use facebook. and now, it's almost 1.25 billion people on facebook. and overall engagement is growing. we're helping more people share and connect with the people that they want. and that's, i think, what is really important. we pay attention to every demographic in every country, right? we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like. and we're going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like and in different countries around the world. that's what we need to do to serve all of the people who rely on us. >> the full interview tomorrow, 7:00 a.m. eastern time on the "today" show. we sh

today he reminisced with nbc's savannah guthrie. >> it's pretty mind blowing, i think, to think aboutving pizza with my friends a day or two after i opened up the first version of facebook. you know, at the time i thought someone need to build a service like this for the world, but i never thought we'd be the ones to help do it. >> mind blowing. now about 57% of adults use facebook, that's a lot of people and 3 out of 4 teenagers between 12 and 17 are on the site. the company makes a lot of money off all of the semiprivate information people share, and yet one out of three users, according to new pugh data, say they strongly dislike how much personal information other people post about them on the site. joining us now for a little birthday conversation, bianca bosker and jack lerner, director of law clinic at usc. welcome to you both. bianca, let me start with you, you have data about -- >> it's my tenth facebook anniversary, as well. >> have you been on since year one? that's huge for you. doesn't make you unique. a lot of people are on it, but you as someone who is, you wrote basica

tomorrow you can see savannah guthrie's interview with facebook founder's mark sgruk customer be zuckerberg crowd cheering ] ...to clean two times more greasy dishes. dawn does more, so it's not a chore. >> narrator: in this episode of "american greed"... two grannies in jail ... caught on tape.... their cold-blooded murder for money plot is finally up. >> jimmy covington: they already killed two men and were gonna murder me. >> their story... is about to unravel... >> ed webster: they just fed them and housed them like animals, just for the sole purpose of killing them. >> and it sounds just like something out of a hollywood movie... >> i think i still could not really get my brain around the fact that these two geriatrics had executed this guy.

in guthrie, oklahoma. oklahoma has had more than 100 earthquakes since friday. today's only monday. a bunch of them were accompanied by huge booming explosion sounds. quite a few of them were big enough to cause damage to homes and other buildings. now, the state has hired a new seismologist for the oklahoma geological survey to try to figure out what exactly is going on. and there is this fancy website that we linked to at our blog today that lets you keep track of the quakes as they happen. it's not like the state of oklahoma is in denial or anything. you know what, dozens of earthquakes every day, it's totally possible, of course, that it's all one big coincidence. the earth beneath the oklahoma city suburbs is just being churned up by some big swing away ice crusher or something, right? it will all settle down on its own. one big coincidence. maybe that's what's happening. i will note when the dallas-ft. worth airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure on th

he talked about it exclusively with savannah guthrie in an interview airing tuesday on "today." >> ied that we were doing it at one school. at the time i thought someone needs to build a service like this for the world. i felt that was this incredibly important thing to have happen but i just never thought we'd be the ones to help do it. >> reporter: ten years later, 1.2 billion people, yes, billion, use facebook. that's about a sixth of the world's population. >> it's hard to emergency a time when facebook didn't exist, when tag was just a game kids played and friends met up on weekends. >> that's g really good. >> reporter: chronicled on film, engrained in our everyday lives, sure, facebook has made breaking up harder and cyber snooping easier, but it's also saved lives. >> within the first hour of posting this photo, three friends telling me go to the hospital -- >> reporter: changed lives. >> i came across a new t-shirt design coming out. $7 goes to charity, a different cause every week. >> reporter: and reunites families. as facebook hits the decade mark, its users are well past

matt lauer along with savannah guthrie, willie geist, doing the ping-pong tournament.re of a way to go. >> something subdued. >> any way, let's get you caught up on the headlines from here at the olympics as the games now head into the their final week. >> good morning. watching the figure skating, i wondered about the scoring. what we've learned is it's not just about the performance, it's about how technically difficult the routine is. when ashley wagner weighs in. a gold in women's figure skating for host country russia with adelina sotnikova delivering a huge performance in the free skate. bringing the crowd in the iceberg skating palace to its feet. despite the stumble, sotnikova dethroned south korea's yuna kim. she leaves sochi with a silver in what she says will be her final olympic games. this morning, some are questioning the results, asking if the russian gold medalist got a home ice advantage. gracie gold finished fourth and ashley wagner finished seventh. afterwards, wagner questioned the judging, saying, i am speechless. people don't want to watch a sport

nstein, stravinsky, whitman, hughs, kelly, the marx brothers, woody guthrie and pete seeger, tommy morello, just to name a few. in a free and democratic society we learn to live with questions. learn to speak with the possibility of being heard and we learn simultaneously to listen with the possibility of being changed. remember the brief but famous dialogue in the form of two simple questions between ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau shouted over a prison wall not far from here? what are you doing in there, henry david? emerson asks his incarcerated friend for locked up for failing to pay taxes. thoreau responds, what are you doing out there? that's a good question. what are you doing with your spirit of democracy, your rumors of freedom, and your various uests for justice? there is a wisdom simple to state but excruciatingly difficult to enact, to state to the spirit of democracy and justice. simple to state. open your eyes, pay attention, as step one, be astonished, do something, and then doubt or re-think. i will elaborate. open your eyes. this means you cannot make simple, p

> and good morning, welcome to "today" and a rainy sochi on this tuesday morning. >> i'm savannah guthrie>> and i'm matt lauer. take the camera off of us and put it over there. we got meryl davis and charlie white. first ever olympic ice dancing gold medalists for the united states. and we're thrilled to have them in our studio. we're thick with medal winners this morning. we've got the two stevens in the studio, as well. >> lots to celebrate. lots to get to this morning. we want to start with today's top story. >> and that is that weather again. another winter storm creating a mess for the commute. leading to a new round of flight cancellations. nbc's dylan dreyer is in oakland, new jersey, that's about 30 miles to the northwest of manhattan. dylan, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. i think this house pretty much sums up how we're all feeling around here right now. we are in the middle of another round of poorly timed snow. it's a quick mover, but it dumps a decent amount of snow in a short period of time. and that time is right during rush hour. >> chicago got slamme

as montana writer bud guthrie said, "i am part of it, a mortal partner to eternity." i grew up this way, and it shored up my belief that we all have a moral obligation to our kids and grandkids when we leave this place to leave it in as good a place as we found it. that is also a lasting gift from my parents. my mom was one of the most special persons one could have the privilege to know. she has the class of grace kelly and the spurchg of katherine help bun. intelligent, classy lady. always positive, upbeat, nurturing, so well-he haread. mom, what are you reading? she'd tell me all about the book. when she was readin reading pret obama's second book, what do you think about that book? oh, it's pretty good. he has something to say. she wrote a note to the president. he wrote back. they became pen-pals. someone asked a me what my mother would have thought of all this? though i miss her every day -- in fact i talk to her every day at 5:00 in the afternoon, that hour goes by daily. she is he's always on my mind. as is my father. he loaded bombs on airplanes in europe dur

seth talked about his new role with the "today" show's savannah guthrie. >> you just make the decisionssed on your own taste and that leads to what kind of show it will be. i know i won't be doing any singing, that's one thing i can promise, i won't be trying to match the sort of talents of jimmy that way. >> late night airs 12:35 a.m. eastern on nbc, of course. >>> and now a major deal this morning involving our parent company, comcast, and it could effect the way many people stream netflix. mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. what are the details? >> the details are that netflix is going to pay comcast to make sure that all those netflix movies and tv shows that you enjoy stream smoothly, obviously, that is if you are a comcast customer. it is being considered a big deal because it sets a precedent for netflix's business it does with other broadband providers. so the deal is for its payment, netflix will get direct access to comcast broadband network, and this is important because there's so much internet usage, a lot of volume and that can cause delays for customers tr

the ceo and creator of the company mark zuckerberg sat down with the "today" show 's savannah guthries updates. >> i remember really vividly having pizza with my friends a day or two after i opened up the first version of facebook. at the time i thought someone needs to build a service like this for the world, but i just never thought that we would be the ones to help do it. i think a lot of what it comes down to is, we just cared more. >> joining us now wired senior writer matt hosen. facebook is the internet for some people, for many people, but once upon a time, aol was the internet, was the juggernaut of the internet for most people. so i mean, i can imagine a world without facebook or where facebook has been dethroned the way that ao, l has been detloends, what would do that, bring about that? i mean the privacy concerns that a lot of people have may make some people sour. the move into a mobile computering world away from laptops may cost them some of their experience. and facebook's main way of dealing with their competitors is just to buy them. just the way they bought instagr

, welcome to "today" on a friday morning, i'm matt lauer. >> good morning, everyone, i'm savannah guthrie alongside natalie morales and al roker. the event we've been waiting for is here. your luge. is it just me, in eight years, has the spandex gotten a little snugger? >> that's not nice. you waited eight years for that line? >> let's just say we had an interesting morning. >> that's putting it mildly. >> bit of an understatement. we'll fill you in on that in a little while. >>> once again, the weather back home is our top story. what a mess. this brutal winter weather as round two of the latest storm slams the northeast. almost 424,000 people are now without power this morning. >> and the airlines, boy, they had work to do, roughly 14,000 flights have been canceled this week due to the weather alone. add to that the totals from winters 14 other storms, you get the highest number of cancellations in more than 25 years. some 75,000 since december 1st. >> we'll get al's take on all this in a moment. but we want to begin with dylan dreyer who is in king of prussia 20 miles north of philadel

savannah guthrie, i'm matt lauer alongside natalie morales and al roker. the last time we saw rob ford was while we were in sochi. remember him celebrating the canadian women tieing that hockey game against the u.s. women. that was his celebration. i have a feeling i may hear a little bit about that hockey in general when we talk to the mayor in the next half hour. >> that was before the men won the whole thing. >> don't give him more ammunition. he doesn't need it. we'll talk to mayor ford coming up. also, a rare and exclusive interview with angelina jolie. she'll talk to tom brokaw about what she says has been the hardest thing she's ever done and the driving force behind her new passion project. >> it's an interesting story. >>> but we're going to start with our top story, the polar vortex is at it again as tens of millions bundle up to deal with the latest round of frigid air. dylan dreyer is about an hour south of chicago. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. those are easily two words we could've gone the rest of this winter with

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie alongside a dancing al roker, natalie morales and, of course,of our closest friends here in sochi. the russian police choir. many of you know them by now because on friday before the opening ceremony, their warm-up act went viral. they did a wonderful rendition >>> shed led after the downhill portion and impressive slolam portion. we have speed skating and hockey and the team usa and women in action right now. now with the competition is any indication, sochi is an olympics for the ages. julia mancuso won the first medal in alpine skiing with bronze and the women's ice hockey team beating switzerland in a 9-0 preliminary match. a giant day for jamie anderson. >> claims gold. >> her joy apparent on the winner's podium. a picture tweeted out. and sage kotsenburg uncorking a move on saturday he never tried before. i blacked out in the air. a scary moment during the women's competition. >> oh! >> sarka pancochova goes down hard. >> when pancochova, the czech republic fell so hard, it split her helmet open. she managed to coast down under her own pow

i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt roker and natalie morales.t is holding down the fort in sochi, russia. dare i say it looks balmy. >> reporter: it is decidedly warmer and it looks like a huge cloud bank is about to hit the sun, but for the moment we're very happy here, day two in the olympic park in sochi russia. as you mentioned vladimir putin arrived today and i'll have more about that. i have u.s. athlete and members of the skating seem and the u.s. speed skating team blowing off some team. i've gotten tweets and emails about people asking about that beige people in the bedroom with the red roof. they call that, the nickname for it is putin world here and i'll tell you the story behind it. back to you in new york. >> does it have rides? >> it looks like the magic kingdom. >> doesn't it? >> reporter: yes, it does. 21 questions. keep going. >> we look forward to that, ten years that changed the world. a rare and exclusive interview with facebook founder mark zuckerberg as his social network marks a milestone today. we'll get his thoughts on h