one of the greatest games of all time because a little known usa side beat the mighty us to the lake placid to lympics back in one thousand nine hundred was dubbed the miracle on ice for many russians will be hoping today that a victory may help array's memories of that place to defeat in particular. the washing go to the u.s.s.r. on that fateful day thirty four years ago. it was a good lesson for a team if you want to become an olympic champion you must not underestimate any rival unfortunately we did just that in lake placid because just a week before that game we beat the americans twelve three so we thought the gold medals were already in the bag and that was a big mistake but i suppose the usa should thank us because since lake placid the hockey team has been improving rapidly. well this is. second game in sochi they beat so they knew quite comfortably five to. the usa did thrashed seven one so this is pretty much the first real test the base of the star studded sides. you know how tough that game is going to be against russia. on their home turf and on their own soil so it's going to

the lake placid elin picks back in nineteen eighty was dubbed the miracle on ice to many russians are hoping that a victory today will help them raise memories of that bitter defeat in particular today jackie was in goal for the u.s.s.r. on that fateful day thirty four years ago. it was a good lesson for our team if you want to become an olympic champion you must not underestimate any rifle unfortunately we did just that at lake placid because just a week before that game we had beaten the americans twelve three so we thought the gold medal was already in the bag and that was a big mistake but i suppose the usa should thank us because since lake placid there hockey has moved forward in leaps and bounds. you know what i think you still hurting three decades only to show you the rivalry between these two teams it is the second game for russia in sochi they thrash levine in there right now and america thrash slovakia's so today's scene is the first real test for both of these star studded sides you know game's going to be a fresher. on their home turf and in their own soil so it's going

lake placid in 1980. >> dow believe in miracles yes! >> that was pressure.ut it may be nothing compared to here in sochi. >> with a loss here be as big as the loss in lake placid was? >> could be. >> reporter: but there's no sympathy for the home boys here, fromÑi competitors like u.s. defenceman kevin shattenkirk. >> due feel any sympathy for the russians? >> not really. >> here these games won't be remembered for their security concerns or their enormous costs. here, james, they'll be remembered for whether or not the russiansuj gold in hockey. mark phillips, thank you very much. >> a four-year-old walked through the desert to escape thexd horrors of war. what's causing deadly avalanches in the west. and these tiny babies had quite a surprise for their mother when the "cbs evening news" continue continues. [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help protect your eye health. as you age, your eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite is a vitamin made just for your eyes from the eye care experts at bausch + l

compare that to $160 million which is what the lake placid olympics cost.'ll tell you the story of the men behind the mirle, and the small-town businessman who brought the games home to lake placid getting the games was a big deal, for sure, put bulge off one of the world's premiere events wasab entirely different matter. >> we were all local yokels. we never fathomed how big it could be. >> axelrod: serge lussi, now 79, was among the youngest members of the organizing committee. back then he owned the local holiday inn. for the olympics he ran the alpine skiing events. >> i was the alpine chairman, but every alpine chairman for every other olympic games were all own alicia keyess, you know, world-class people. how you can run the alpine when you're nobody. >> axelrod: was there a sense of "we can do this ourselves?" >> there was never a sense we couldn't do it. >> axelrod: the story of the men behind the miracle, the "north country boys" on "60 minutes sports," seen on showtime. still ahead, opera soprano mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ fema

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rifle unfortunately we did just that at lake placid because just the week before that game we had beaten the americans twelve three so we thought the gold medal was already in the bag and that was a big mistake but i suppose the usa should thank us because since lake placid there hockey has moved forward in leaps and bounds. you know what i think you still hurting three decades only to show you the rivalry between these two teams it is the second game for russia in sochi they thrashed lavinia in their right match and america thrash slovakia's so today's scene is the first real test for both of these star studded sides you know game's going to be against russia. on their home turf and in their own soil so it's going to be. i think all the games will be fun but their game saturday night will be pretty interesting always fun playing the russians and probably the one thing. we have the opportunity to play canada in canada and i think that's always a special thing for so much excitement and energy in the building and we were lucky enough to do it in canada now we get a chance to play russian

that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. wouldn't sochi like some of that snow? >> i remember it well, thank you very much, chad myers. you're talking about snow shields and thunder sleet. it sounds like some kind of norris battle with thor. but there's snow in 49 of 50 states right now? >> i have to be careful of what i say, because the only state that doesn't have snow is florida. i don't want to jinx florida at this point in time. but every other state, from oregon to washington obviously higher elevations, california, nevada, all the way into the higher elevations in montana. big snows there coming down in the past couple of days. even in the east, we have snow in georgia, carolinas, mississippi, alabama, louisiana, all of those places you don't expect to have isles or snow, 49 out of 50. there's always snow in hawaii in the mountains. >> florida, chad just jinxed you. thanks a lot. >>> this storm has

i suppose the usa should thank us because since lake placid hockey has moved forward. you know what i think you still hurting three decades only to show you the rivalry between these two teams it is the second game for russia in sochi they thrashed in there and america thrashed back here so today's scene is the first real test for both of these star studded sights you know games going to be. on their home turf and in their own soil so it's going to be. i think all the games will be fun. game saturday night will be pretty interesting it was fun playing the russians and probably the one thing. we had the opportunity to play canada in canada and i think that's always a special thing for so much excitement and energy in the building and we were lucky enough to do it in canada now we get a chance to play russian russia which i think is always special and i will be a great atmosphere inside the bolshoi i study and every one of those twelve thousand seats i'm sure will be taken millions of people will watch it around the world and fans just can't contain their excitement numb

with a loss here be as big as the loss in lake placid was? >> could be. >> reporter: but there's no sympathy for the home boys here, from competitors like u.s. defenseman kevin shattenkirk. >> reporter: do you feel any sympathy for the russians? >> not really. >> reporter: here these games won't be remembered for their security concerns or their enormous costs. here, james, they'll be remembered for whether or not the russians won the gold in hockey. >> mark phillips, thank you very much. a four-year-old walked through the desert to escape the horrors of war. what's causing deadly avalanches in the west? and they warned of a massive traffic jamzilla in los angeles, when this western edition of the "cbs evening news" continues. that's why there's ocuvite to help protect your eye health. as you age, your eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite is a vitamin made just for your eyes from the eye care experts at bausch + lomb. ocuvite has a unique formula that's just not found in any leading multivitamin. y

in lake placid the cold war was fought on ice. >> beat those comi bastards. >> now gay rights are playing in the game. >> just because we're gay does not mean that we can't be successful. we can't be proud. we can't be strong. we're all of those things. we are americans. >> ahead on "sunday morning." taking a stand at the olympics. >> osgood: take note of country music performer with real punch. >> he's open for both metallica and george strait. ♪ >> and he's shaking of nashville with reputation for smokin', drinkin'. >> did you really punch a security guard? >> it was more of a kick. somewhat of a punch. >> ahead on "sunday morning," country music star eric church. >> osgood: just three weeks ago at the oscars with matthew mcconaughey among the actors. what he did for the part broke new ground for him as lee cowan discovered. >> you get all -- well cam to the dallas buyers club. >> matthew mcconaughey in "the dallas buyers club" was certainly different than the romantic comedy just a few years back. >> what changed? >> what changed. i wanted to recalibrate my relationship with my career.

will not compare it to the miracle on ice in 1980 when the young athletes beat the russians in lake placide filled with professionals. but this should be a great game. great drama. leading the russians in front of the hometown crowd in sochi. >> we are from a year with playing in the playoffs and stop. for us, we are going in as the underdogs and having fun. getting excited because of the noise in the building. see what happens. all-star nba, it is weekend. they play the rising stars challenge. he had the dunk early. he went downtown as well. 21 for the winning team. 13 by the half. grant help with the coach. they came up take. let's go to los angeles. our shot of the day comes from the second round of the northern -- second shot. turn, they beat, turn -- turn, baby, turn. hunter mahan within eagle and our shot of the day. wellons -- gary williams, who developed the duke-marilyn rivalry, is a finalist for the hall of fame. and a hundred years ago today, babe ruth signed his first contract with the baltimore orioles. [laughter] >> the o's. we never talk about the o's. >> all right. tyler wa

. >> reporter: it had been a good ski season for heidi kloser, second at lake placid, fourth in world cup overall. she first imagined going to the olympics when she was just three, and now it happened. >> it was really cool standing at the top today. it felt like the olympics for sure. >> reporter: but thursday, just seconds into her moguls warmup, a terrible crash. as she was carried off the mountain, she says she knew the games were over for her before they began. and with the innocence of that young girl who wanted to represent her country for so long, she asked her parents, am i still an olympian? did you think you were not? >> i don't know. i just didn't know for sure. i felt like i had to start to be considered an olympian. >> reporter: her dad's posting on facebook brought a deluge of support, all echoing mike's answer to his daughter, of course you are. heidi had broken her right leg but wanted to walk in the opening ceremony anyway. when she tells you she was going to walk with all those injuries? >> well, i had had some reservations, but i know how strong she is. >> reporter

team usa versus russia is always a meaningful hockey game since the 1980 miracle game in lake placid. here's jack dole live in sochi with the latest. jack? >> reporter: fantastic game. the united states had only met russia three times in olympic competition since the game that changed u.s. hockey forever. none of those games were as highly anticipated, and none carried this type of drama. the miracle on ice rematch was a back-and-forth battle, that had the intensity of a gold medal game. and it cannot be settled in regulation, thanks in part to a controversial call that disallowed a goal that would have given russia a 3-2 lead. instead the game went to overtime, and a shootout where team usa won it. >> the crowd was into it. it just shifted back and forth. i think that's the mark of a good hockey game. >> the coach put the puck on the stick of tjoshi in six of eight rounds. it paid off. he scored four times. >> were you surprised dan kept calling your number like that? >> i was. we have a lot of guys that are more than capable of going in and scoring goals in the shootoff. i'm happy t

what we heard there referring to the one nine hundred eighty winter olympics in lake placid new york where athletes including him and many other global sports stars were all surprised for themselves i was in the barracks of a future federal prison but he was coming in as well but i just won silver in the sledge but the real big news of the night gold is going to russia the figure skating we're continuing our extensive coverage of games here in sochi keeping a close eye on everything that's happening both here at the black sea coast and also for the mountains as well for another back to rory in moscow. thanks very much for that indeed so the r.t. team is in sochi to closely following the sporting spectacle and you can keep up to date or any time by simply logging on to our official instagram page we've got videos and footage from the olympic capital join us on instagram it's our instagram dot com slash our city of course keeping a very close watch on the slopes tracks stadiums and parks counting up the medals following reaction and bringing you all the latest updates of course on air

roosevelt opened a winter olympic games at lake placid. >> parade of the nations for the winter meetr roosevelt of new york takes the salute. crowd gets a big kick out of the grouping of the flags. representing 331 athletes from 17 different nations. >>> celebrating birthdays today, oscar de la hoya, 41. football hall of famer lawrence taylor, 55. rocker alice cooper, 66. >>> i'm richard lui with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." have a great tuesday. >> i always thought to myself thank god i got away. >> she got away, nearly 20 years ago. this morning a local woman kidnapped by a convicted sex offender opens up to nbc bay area following his recent arrest. >> a violent home invasion on the peninsula prompts action, what the city of palo alto is doing to fight back against the spike in crime. >> plus, pieces of this meteorite turn to gold. a special ingredient making this year's gold in sochi one of a kind. >> a live look outside. it's tuesday, february 4th and this is "today in the bay." >>> good morning to u.

the shock win by a bunch of american college kids over the supposedly invincible soviet union at lake placid in 1980. now the u.s. olympic team is on russian ice and they'll face the russians tomorrow. not only that, the u.s. team-- like all the big hockey teams here-- is loaded with n.h.l. players. the pros have made olympic hockey major league and a much more even contest. minnesotan blake wheeler. if you win this time, it is a good thing? it won't be a miracle. >> well, it would be a miracle to us. it will feel the same. >> there's ovechkin with the shot! he scores! >> reporter: the russians, led by washington capital star alex ovechkin, want revenge. yet this could be the last time this high olympic drama takes place. the n.h.l. is threatening to pull out of future olympic games. to come here, the league has to shut down at the height of its season so its assets can play for their national teams. it risks its multimillion dollar stars for nothing but good will instead of full arenas like this, you have rinks that look like this and in some markets it's tough getting the people back. in f

you know we actually heard there are referring to the nine hundred eighty winter olympics in lake placid new york where athletes including him and many other global sports stars were a little surprised to find themselves housed in the barracks of a future federal prison. so the r.t. team is now closely followed closely following the sporting spectacle and you can keep up to date any time by simply logging on to our official r.t.e. international instead. right here we've got videos and footage from the capital you can join us on instagram dot com slash. of course we are keeping a very close eye on slopes stadiums and counting the medals following reaction and bringing you all the latest updates both on air and online starts he took. the g. twenty four team promise is the ultimate in exhilarating winter. storm and it's now a make over now and the rest of our lives take justina to sochi twenty four take. on. so at international live from moscow this week massive gaffe by a top u.s. diplomat revealed washington's true ambitions for the antigovernment protests that have split ukraine as well

but to solve tretiak is referring of course to the one nine hundred eighty winter olympics in lake placid in the u.s. indeed a number of athletes there were accommodated in the barracks of a future prison today some of the western media are actually calling the soft olympics it war zone sounding the alarm over terror threats and accommodation problems artes and cessna churkin has been following this interesting coverage. hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes sports fans all over the world rejoice it's time for a limping game fun again and some of them are pretty dismissed but why feed the excitement word of a possible new terror threat character a terror threat terrorist threat and her world champion and multiple gold medalist for buzz kill the western mainstream media and the olympics is a wonderful time for a contrast to get together in order to despise each other and or treat each other like crap it's only happens once every two or four years you know there's a lot of time you've got to come together and hate each other and not a second has gone

president roosevelt inaugurated the olympic games in lake placid >> n.y.> i think the afternoon rushill be all right. the snow will be spreading out into the area during that period the main accumulating snow come after the rush at least in the city down south may be a different story. that sets into play all of the features that produced the storm that is coming in. windchill is modest at this point. they will be dropping as we will show you in a moment. indoor humidity about 6%. it is working northward to the state right now as you can see. it is snowing downstate. the ready to start entering some of the far southwest. >> there's another look at the forecast. the lighter snow as a go north and west. some open area drifting as the wind picks up. we expect another system to run up along it. it is not looking like a huge system but could produce some sticking snout. three-7 in. of general accumulation across the area. it is going to get cold. in the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the

and that was established to put it in the first place the usa should i speak of since lake placid in a hokey has moved level with indecent acts. you know what i think it still has seen three decades on each issue raised the rivalry between these two teams on the basis of the game for russia in seoul today from slovenia and then i met an american from slovakia site today same as the first real test of life that needs to stop study science. in all the games can be against russia. there is a um home turf and their own soil. so um it's good to be if it all again to be fun but the games that are denying will be a pretty interesting it was from when their options and then with the one thing. we had opportunity play canon in canada. i think that's always a special thing for so much excitement and energy into building and we were lucky enough to do in canada now we get a chance to play russia and russia which topping the list. i will be a great atmosphere inside the bone chilling aunts died at the one of the eye style size and seen some tools that i can. i mean is that people will walk you a

referring to the one hundred eighty winter olympics in lake placid new york that's where athletes including him and many other global sports stars were a little surprised to find themselves housed in the barracks of a future federal prison so the r.t.m. was in sochi to closely follow the sporting spectacle so you can keep up to date though with all of the all the footage and all the video and all the photos do so from our official instagram page that is where we are keeping you totally updated in fact are we keeping a very very close eye on slopes its tracks the stadiums and parks we're counting the medals for you following the reaction and bringing you all the latest updates on air and online of course that's at r.t. dot com. twenty four promises in the exhilarating winter. storm and it's now a make over now and the rest of our lives take used to sochi twenty four take. on. the latest from sochi and the latest from around the world this is r.t. international this week a massive gaffe by a top u.s. diplomat revealed washington's true ambitions for the antigovernment protests that have rocke

well we had the vote for him to the nines in the winter olympics course in lake placid new york we're off including him and many other global sports stars were little surprised for themselves then i was in the barracks of the future of federal prison maybe it's just history repeating itself. now we're continuing our extensive coverage by talking no to know whose whole foot from watching the figure skating tonight big gold rush you saw it. it was huge i think we can say that playing on the home field as they say really benefited russia tonight there were tons of russians in the audience we were quite high up and our whole section was it was full of russians and everyone had a good skate but i think this is the olympics where we're going to say that russia's back and they. actually do have a selfie. in the huge stadium when it when it kicks off it's buzzing it's buzzing of course the russians when they came on to the ice and i'm sure anyone who was watching it at home felt the advantage of having the home support i mean the crowd was going wild and i think that helped man a lot of confi

and we heard there are referring to the one nine hundred eighty winter olympics in lake placid new york where athletes including him and many other global sports stars were little surprised to find themselves housed in the barracks of a future federal prison well the r.t. team is and of course are closely following the sporting spectacle you can keep fully up to date anytime by simply logging on to our official instagram page here we've got videos and footage from the olympic capital and you can join us on instagram instagram dot com slash r t we'll continue our keeping a very close eye on all the sports so just south of moscow down on the site you see coast and slopes tracks stadiums and parks counting the medals following the reaction and bring you all the very latest updates on air and of course online at r.t. dot com. the g. twenty four promises to make exhilarating a winter. storm. make every now and the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. now this week a massive gaffe by a top u.s. diplomat revealed washington's true ambitions for the anti-government p

more about that they're actually referring to the one thousand eight hundred winter olympics in lake placid usa when a number of athletes were indeed accommodated in the barracks of a future prison and today even though some of the western media here are calling of the sochi olympics quote a war zone overflowing with my own a mishaps end quote there appeared to be no the competition itself or point of it i think and this does it looks at why so many news outlets across the atlantic still seem to be casting such a cloud over the event. hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes sports fans all over the world rejoice it's time for a live big game fun again and some of them are pretty distressed but why feed the excitement word of a possible new terror threat character a terrorist threat terrorist threat and her world champion and multiple gold medalist for buzz kill the western mainstream media and the olympics is a wonderful time for a contrast to get together in order to despise each other and in order to treat each other like crap it's only happens once

famous miracle on ice victory of its only union which america eventually wins on to claim gold in lake placid so some very big very interesting match ups coming out for team usa both in men and women cockle last night are walking what are some of the other events that we should have been keeping our eyes on. well look just to point out it's all a. kind of beyond of in you might not be named it's too familiar with american beauty the biathletes who competes with norway. he wanted gold medal very early on that one of the first events say in so much in the men's brains which resides his twelve olympic medal which drew in level with the. legendary norwegian. cross-country ski. holiday and so beyond all it just needs one more medal to go out all on his own to become the most decorated olympian in winter olympics history and he might have a chance on wednesday in the next relay but just going back to hockey is a very interesting development today actually all the talks really been about whether the n.h.l. is going to be playing in pyongyang in two thousand and eighteen and unfortunately it was a gr

beat the mighty soviet squad at the 1980 lake placid olympics.the world. no one had given the team made up of scrappy american college kids a chance. they beat finland to win the gold medal. there was even a movie about the fabled u.s. team simply titled "miracle." >> he shoots. he scores! >> reporter: now get ready for saturday's showdown in sochi. the u.s. and russia in an epic rematch. russia is not quite the superpower its soviet predecessors were but still dominant so when the two teams face off tomorrow, the americans will once again be underdogs. >> you don't want teams or people to be talking about you. you want to kind of slide under the radar as far as you can. >> we raise expectations a little bit in 2010, i think internally for sure but also with media, as well. >> see, there you are lowering expectations. >> yeah, we always put pressure -- you always put pressure on yourself. i mean, that's what athletes do. they want to win. >> reporter: but unlike lake placid they're packed with nhl talent and crushed a strong slovakian team 7-1 th

and kind of a little bit about a kickback to that lake placid game.oach of the russian team was the -- was a player on that 1980's russian team. >> oh, ian lee, thank you. very exciting stuff. people will be still very excited to watch it this evening. even if you did hear the outcome, you still want to catch that game. all right. thanks so much, appreciate that. >>> so russia already has been criticized outside of the games itself, but a lot of criticism because of its anti-gay laws. but that didn't seem to to be russia this week from enacting an anti-gay adoption ban. here's cnn's phil black. >> the decree was signed by vm medvedev on the tenth of february a few days after the start of the sochi olympics and published on the government site on the 13th of february. it states that no longer will people who are officially part of a same-sex marriage be allowed to come to russia to adopt church nor will single people be able to do so if they come from countries where gay marriage is officially recognized. the idea has been discussed before and increasi

there's the utah olympic oval in 2002 and the olympic center in lake placid, new york.over a squaw valley, visitors can do the exact ski runs from 1960. and up north, whisler. if you want the full list, stop by at jansing.msnbc.com. ng. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. there was a boy who traveled ito a faraway placene rate. where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked, giants stood tall, and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real. avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place. expedia, find yours. i can't believe your mom has a mom cave! today i have new campbell's chunky spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm very souperstitious. haha, that's a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. with tampax radiant -- whatever i want. [ fem

lost in lake placid, they yanked him out of the game. took place there. but he said to me, the other day, he said that team was able to inspire a lot of american kids to play hockey, and, you know, they are what they are today because what he called them those boys did in 1980. and jeremy roy who played in the nhl for 20 years, one of our analysts, he told me, he said he's completely inspired by what happened in lake placid, that made him want to play hockey. and a lot of nhl players have told me they remember that as kids, they went, wow, look at that, look what happened there. and that's why they decided to play hockey and that's why america is so good now in hockey. >> reporter: i remember the miracle on ice, it still makes me cry as a child, it was scary. al, thank you so much. it was really great having you on. >> can we get in a plug for "fast money" or something? >> reporter: carl, don't take it wrong, his favorite show is "fast money." >> i need to say one thing, carl, who was it that said we have to buy in full blocks on "fast m

it's a preliminary game, but it brings to mind the miracle on ice at the 1980 games in lake placid where a team of amateur and college players defeated the heavily favorited soviet union. team usa's co-captain ryan suter's father was on the team and asked him about the usa's teams of winning the gold. >> i hope we do win the gold as my dad says he tells us win the goal so we don't have to talk about the '80 team anymore. you know, he kind of wants to get the attention off him and just move on, move on with his life. >> reporter: yes, he remembers bringing his gold medal to show and tell as a kid and would like to come home with one of his own and we'll be watching. go team usa and the international olympic committee a stop to russia's plan to award medal winning athletes today with the piece of a meteorite that exploded over russia you may remember exactly one year ago. the ioc saying russia can only give medalists those gifts from space after the games are over. the host country had hoped to commemorate the anniversary with these special meteorite medals but looks like it won't happen t

it's a preliminary game, but it brings to mind the miracle on ice at the 1980 games in lake placid where a team of amateur and college players defeated the heavily favorited soviet union. team usa's co-captain ryan suter's father was on the team and asked him about the usa's teams of winning the gold. >> i hope we do win the gold as my dad says he tells us win the goal so we don't have to tk about the '80 team anymore. you know, he kind of wants to get the attention off him and just move on, move on with his life. >> reporter: yes, he remembers bringing his gold medal to show and tell as a kid and would like to come home with one of his own and we'll be watching. go team usa and the international olympic committee a stop to russia's plan to award medal winning athletes today with the piece of a meteorite that exploded over russia you may remember exactly one year ago. the ioc saying russia can only give medalists those gifts from space after the games are over. the host country had hoped to commemorate the anniversary with these special meteorite medals but looks like it won't happen tod

none of the members of team usa were even born for the historic win in lake placid 34 years ago. >>>f the players who will step on the ice for the red, white and blue is capital defenseman john carlson. the five year nhl veteran is one of five capitals in this year's olympics. >> but carlson is the sole representative on our team usa. we caught up with him before he headed out to sochi. >> reporter: don't pinch him. he might make up. this is the stuff dreams are made up. it's new year's night and while most have completed their reveling the celebration has just begun for john carlson. >> it was a whirlwind. everything was going sideways. >> reporter: olympic announcement day. >> i was just waiting and waiting. >> reporter: eventually the wait ended. john carlson became the first capitals player to make the u.s. olympic team since nhl players became eligible to participate in 1998. >> definitely the pinnacle in my mind. any time you can wear your country's jersey and go and represent it is a blast. >> reporter: it wasn't long ago he was a 20-year-old rookie just finding his way. raw,

we were in a little bubble in lake placid playing hockey. our victory was great for a nation but it didn't solve all the world's problems. it just made a country very proud and made a country realize how special the united states is and how great things can happen if you work hard. i think our team depicted what america was all about. >> what do you think about this team this time around? this was so much excitement about this -- i don't know how another game is going to match this excitement. but, again, this wasn't a medal round. >> no. this is just the beginning. as i tweeted out today, strap your boots on. it's going to get more exciting. today was an awesome game. t.j. oshie's performance was spectacular. but you can't forget about jonathan quick. i think it was outstanding when t.j. talked in the interview with dan patrick about how important the goaltender was. you saw when he scored the last goal, he pointed back to his goaltender because you need your goalie to make those saves in order for him to keep having chances to score. it wa

. >> lake placid, new york, got it right. >> beijing though, remember the thing they called the bird cage built just for the opening ceremonies and a couple of the other things. >> it'sdilapidated. >> it's horrible, and they spent literally billions of dollars putting that together. by the way, you have to do olympics right to break even, or you can pull a mitt romney to come and fix it for you. >> greg on his public relations award. >> if you keep talking, hannity might overcook our steaks. he's a man of his word. i bet him that the seahawks would win the super bowl and if he lost he promised to cook us dinner on the fao. >> there's the steak. >> outside grilling and he'll be inside shortly. >> all right. you got it. >> see you in a little bit, sean. >> all right. >> and bob has a super bowl bet to settle up with eric as well. keep it right here on "the five," steaks coming up. >>> a month ago "rolling stone" barfed out a communist manifesto touting a subsidized world where you no longer need to work because someone else will do it. the headline now, "work blows." welcome to obama's

streets of lake placid either. >> usa, usa, usa, usa!ame. it was a miracle. >> the faces of the players themselves, celebrating the miracle, the most important and dramatic victory of their lives, told the story. one person knew just how the players felt. the father of player dave christian, billy christian who played on the u.s. team that beat the russias at squaw valley 20 years ago. >> i could cry i'm so happy. >> the father of jack o callahan was not going to cry. >> total exhilaration! i knew it when he was 6 it would happen. i just knew. destiny. destiny. >> the soviet embassy on 67th street in manhattan may have been the only place in the united states that was silent last night. silent because of the reminder that hung outside the firehouse directly across the street. you need a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i'll use a bunch of them. then how is that a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that's too many -- it's not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor. here's a solution. one pac of cascade complete cleans tough food b