ashley wagner and ashley caldwell are only two of the 230 from the dmv area.comments were made there's no big name about this winter olympics since lindsey vonn had to pull out. why should people watch the olympics and get excited? >> first there will be names we don't know now that will become big names. someone wins an olympic gold medal the country is intransed. bode miller, 36 years old, his fifth olympic game, kind of amazing. 36 is about 75 in snow years. he'll be back. michaela chiffron, 18 years old and gracie gold in figure skating, what a name if she wins a medal and the hockey, especially for the u.s. team both men's and women's and then, of course, ovechkin for the russians, lots of pressure on him. >> reporter: going to ask you just the pressure they have, his third olympics, yet to win a gold, so great to see him. i agree with you yes, the big names are nice, but the excitement of the olympics seeing those young stars rise up. have safe travels. you'll be gone about three weeks. we'll be thinking about you and looking for your report at usa today

ashley wagner got the u.s. team three spots to go to the olympics this past worlds.g at that. we mentioned three women get to go, but only two men going to sochi. we'll be seeing more of that today. who do you think we're going to see headed to sochi for the mens? >> i don't know. it's so exciting. an olympic year is so different than any other year. everyone is so nervous. everyone's at the top of their game. jeremy abbott came out in the short program and was incredible. quads, everything you could think of. our defending national champion, not so great, but in the free skate, anything can happen. >> it's amazing to me how i feel every year, it's really every four years, how these spins and jumps just get more and more incredible. some of the stuff you're seeing now, the quads with the men, how often we're seeing them, did you ever think we'd get to that point? >> no, i've never done a quad. to see these men do these jumps, not only are they doing one quad in a program. they're doing three. >> you won gold in '98, let's not forget about that. any picks, any favorit

>> well, if ashley wagner does not win, and it was a conspiracy, it is outrageous, but if she brings> the u.s. figure skating officials clearly want us to win. >> correct. >> they want us to win, so how do we know better than they do? >> you're making my point, i think they look at the totality of the individual's work. and everybody has a bad day. seriously. so she had a bad night. that does not mean she is not the best to represent the united states. hopefully, she learned a lot from falling twice. she got it out of her system, and that is not going to happen. >> well, to play devil's advocate, that was her most recent performance and she didn't bring it. she didn't do it. >> she didn't get on the podium, and the other one did. >> what if she was like this in had her career and that was the beginning -- >> the other woman was very nice about the whole thing and said i respect the decision, while she was seething -- >> you have to read between the lines. >> she voiced her opinion, but think they this, the wagner situation was quite famous, they did this for commercial purposes, they

ashley wagner, who finished fourth, has international experience and is a two-time national champion. so according to christy yamaguchi, it's possible wagner could get the spot over paulina edmonds. >>> well, the legal sale of marijuana is a booming business for the state of colorado. experts say sales of pot have topped $5 million. an ounce of recreational pot is going for $400. the demand means some stores are selling out. many stores say they need to ration their product. >>> we've got meteorologist rob mayeda. she he's checking out the weather around here. >> we still have enough clouds and a breeze to keep the temperatures up. 51 in san francisco. 47 in san jose. 49 around palo alto. 46 in the east bay around oakland. skies clearing tonight and we might see a few 30s up in the valleys and briefly patchy fog, too. today's rainfall, half moon bay about 0.05 of an inch of rain. just maybe one raindrop fell in oakland to register that trace. all the action has moved away from the sierra. a decent weather system, but things clearly have shut down around the bay area, what's left of th

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. >>> ashley wagner said she quit twitter cold turkey and plans to avoid social media until after the olympics ends. a fire storm erupted after she was selected when she finished fourth. >>> the pope is selling his motorcycle. he added his signature to his harley davidson. he put it up for auction in paris next month. the proceeds will go to catholic charity. the motorcycle company gave the pope the bike as a gift. he's also auctioning off his leather motorcycle jacket. who knew. he currently drives a ford focus in favor of the pope mobile. >> he would look good in that jacket. >>> 49ers fans are gearing up for sunday's game. >> they are sharing their niners pride with us. this guy has his game face on. s s >> take a look at this one. you cannot help but smile. >> you can e-mail your photos and videos to us. you can also tweet them to us at abc 7 news bay area or post them to our facebook page. >>> we need your help. here's the deal. we have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. seattle, emerald bay or san francisco bay area. >> to prove thi

. >>> ashley wagner said she quit twitter cold turkey and plans to avoid social media until after theer she was selected when she finished fourth. >>> the pope is selling his motorcycle. he added his signature to his harley davidson. he put it up for auction in paris next month. the proceeds will go to catholic charity. the motorcycle company gave the pope the bike as a gift. he's also auctioning off his leather motorcycle jacket. who knew. he currently drives a ford focus in favor of the pope mobile. >> he would look good in that jacket. >>> 49ers fans are gearing up for sunday's game. >> they are sharing their niners pride with us. this guy has his game face on. s s >> take a look at this you. you cannot help but smile. >> you can e-mail your photos and videos to us. you can also tweet them to us at abc 7 news bay area or post them to our facebook page. >>> we need your help. here's the deal. we have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. seattle, emerald bay or san francisco bay area. >> to prove this, all you need to do is go to the abc 7

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. >> one of the top two spots, the third went to ashley wagner despite finishing fourth. the nationals typically serve as an olympics trial. >> congratulations to those that made it. we're going to have a highlights from the golden globes award. >> i was not invited to that but have i highlights of the san mateo bridge. clear view and clear drive between the sides of the bay. you know, inside it was 71st annual golden globes awards. >> some predictable winners and surprises. >> true story of a free man sold into slavery honors as best drama. also matthew mcconaughey for "dallas buyers club" and cate blanchett with a best actress nod for "blue jasmine." shot in marin county in part. "american hustle" dominated the comedy category. best picture and best actress for amy adams and jennifer lawrence. >> you were so incredible and unforgettable and -- thank you to my family and my team and i'm sorry i'm shaking so much. >> best supporting actress to jared leto for "dallas buyers club" and leonardo decap preo for "the wolf of wall street." >> breaking bad took honors as best dra

ashley wagner, defending champ, was supposed to go in, win, came in fourth.he was going to make the team. she made the team. i feel there's a good competition between both of them. >> can i say so i get home on saturday -- maybe sunday morning, i was out saturday night. i dvr-ed "saturday night live." here's a skit about heterosexual figure skaters. >> tara, malcolm asked me if he could wear, quote, regular shoes. >> he's going to weave through these three cones. >> looks like he's decided to go right through them. oh, and he is down. >> okay, i can't believe they cut that and didn't show her playing you. >> right. >> having said that -- >> the best part. >> was your twitter going crazy? >> yeah, it was a lot of fun. i'm honored. it was just really fun. >> you know you've hit icon status when you're on "saturday night live." tara, i will see you in sochi. we'll be working together and safe travels. >> thank you, you, too. >> that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and co." brian shactman is up next. brian? >> the agenda the next hour, the president's pe

the president of the figure skating association explained that looking at the past year ashley wagner> the rules really allow for a bad day. or a bad skate. it's not like swimming where at their olympic trials you have to have the two fastest times or you don't get to be on the team. >> reporter: as for nagasu she reportedly asked about appealing the statement, she said in a statement, though i may not agree with it i have to respect the decision. nagasu would have been the year's only olympic veteran. she'll have to wait four years to get a spot when the odds will be even tougher. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller. new york. >> that's a tough call. you take four years, work and practice and get up ever morning and go skating and then you don't have a shot. >>> the online force has been too much for ashley wagner. she tells "people" magazine she's officially giving up social media until after the games. >>> al qaeda is gaining ground again in iraq. americans who fought there cannot believe it. >> i'd never in my wildest dreams would i think only two years after we withdrew we'd

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instead of taking the top three skaters, they're giving one spot to the fourth place finisher, ashley wagnerhird place finisher out of the olympics. the rules are set up to do this, and the idea is that wagner, a former champion, just had a bad night. they're judging her more on the body of work. is this fair? >> a lot of teams are picked by coaches. the basketball team is picked by coach k. and the dream team. >> why have the u.s. nationals at all? why not have the committee just pick? >> the way that mariah is her name? the way she responded to it, she knew that this was a potential possibility. she knew it. and then you combine that with the fact that wagner fell twice in the nationals. now all of a sudden you're fueling the fire for the fans and the people that support this sport to claim that somehow mariah is being shortchanged here. >> life is tough and coaches make difficult decisions all the time. >> you are hard. >> this is figure skating. where they call that the kiss and cry area. >> it's one of the most popular events in the winter olympics. i feel bad because i feel like somebo

first let's talk about ashley wagner. she refers to herself as the almost girl because she has almost gotten it done a couple of times. she's the two time u.s. champion. she's the first-person to win consecutive u.s. championships since michelle kwan. she has been fifth and fourth. there's going to be a lot of expectation on her. but, you never know what's going to happen in figure skating. >> and grracie gold is another name to watch. and then there are some sports where u.s. men can make history in sochi. talk about that. >> all right. so shani davis in speed skating. the thousand meters. the history is that no u.s. man has won the same event in three consecutive games. so shani davis has won two consecutive thousand meters in the speed skating and ironically -- i shouldn't say ironically, coincidentally, a woman has done it. bone bonnie blair has done it. but you also have seth wescott. >> shaun white as well. >> he was the poster boy for snowboarding for so long. he's now like the veteran and he has an opportunity to

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and in that time, ashley wagner has really made her mark, set her standard on the international stageder her belt and just fell under the pressure of this one competition. and with our federation, we do have certain criteria that you look at other than just making the top three. at nationals. >> okay, so that's the context. >> it's heart breaking either way. >> today you see all these pictures of marai with the tears and ashley falling. have you been in touch with any of these women? >> i have seen ashley and i know this is really a hard for her as a skater, you want to skate your best, personally, for your family and your fans. she has taken marai's so-called spot and she's going to want to live up to what she can do. i saw her in exhibition and she skated flawlessly. i think she's going to do well. >> walk me through what that pressure feels like. you know, you know what it's like to win, all eyes are on you, period, tara, but now everyone knows her name and everyone's going to be watching for her. >> exactly. and it's too much pressure. and you really don't know how to prepare for

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olympic team, ashley wagner, got more oohs that ahhs as she fell not once but twice. so, it was somewhat of a surprise when fourth place finisher wagner was told she'd made one of the coveted three slots on the u.s. olympic figure skating team, while nagasu, who skated better this weekend, was not. >> it was a moment of immense relief. i just dropped to my knees and started crying. >> reporter: unlike track and field, there's no stopwatch in skating. >> figure skating can look back over the past year and decide, who is the best we want to send over there? no matter who they pick, someone was going to go home very, very unhappy. >> reporter: u.s. figure skating says wagner got the top credentials of any of our female athletes. and while nagasu did inquire about the appeal process, said she is disappointed but respects the decision. for one skater, the thrill of victory short-lived. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> and coming up next, it's so much cold and flu around. do you know if you're safer hugging someone with a cold instead of shaking hands? fist-bumps or hi

ashley wagner finished fourth in a performance she herself called embarrassing. have more details on this. this is a sport that many don't pay attention to any other time but during the olympics this is one people tune in for, andy. >> reporter: really big deal. it was a big blow to the u.s. olympic team when lindsey vonn announced she was out of the sochi games. wagner had a meltdown in saturday's performance the u.s. figure skating association said we need her. after falling twice in the u.s. figure skating championships in boston saturday, ashley wagner thought her chances of making the sochi games were over. she tweeted after her performance," i am so sorry i let you all down." the top three finishers have always gone on the olympics but not this time. in a controversial move the u.s. skating association passed over third place finisher, and put wagner on the team. patricia st. peter defended the decision saying if you look at ashley wagner's record and performance she's got the top credentials of any of our female athletes. in a statement she said, i'm disap

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ashley wagner placed fourth at the u.s.ips this weekend. >> again, a little slow on the triple lutz. >> triple -- oh. >> disgrace. >> despite falling twice in the free skate, she qualified for team usa ahead of third-place finisher. u.s. figure skating rules allow for a skater's resume during the past year to be considered. is this fair? according to some reports, the top three finishers at the nationals get to be on the u.s. olympic team. do you think this is a little bit of pr because wagner is attractive and fits into the profile of what you want to see from an american -- >> i hope it's not because she's attractive. i hope it's because they think she can compete. we're screwed. there are so many good skaters. my wife was watching that while i was watching football. she kept saying, oh, we fell. oh, we fell. i mean, the couples. is it doubles or couples? they were fantastic. if we have individualed and that's the best we're going to show up. don't yell at me, i know it sounds back, but we're in trouble. >> we're a team o

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the third to ashley wagner despite finishing fourth. and that is causing controversy. the nationals typically serve as a de facto trial for the order at nationals used to select the squad in previous years. normally it's first, second, third. this year no. vancouver olympian mir rai naga will miss out. she release add statement saying she does not agree with the decision but she does respect it. >> 2014 is not turning out the way investors expected. stocks are lower. scott mcgrew has strange news. >> on friday the labor department said america did not add the 200,000 jobs like we expected or even 100,000. but just 74,000 new jobs. add to that the parties rags, the percentage of americans working or looking for work at its lows since the malaise days of jimmy carter. you have to wonder what is going on? some talking heads on the financial channel say we should ignore that jobs number. the same number that they say is so important most of the time so. confusion is reigning. maybe corporate america can lift us out of the malaise. we started reporting season, san francisco

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figure skating association named ashley wagner to the team of three, despite finishing fourth at nationalsng program. it bumps third place finisher off the team, but wagner has been the most successful in international competition and because of that, the u.s. is bringing three and not two skaters to the olympics. what's getting lost in all this, gracie gold's first national championship, she and pau lee that edmonds round out the team that will head to sochi. >>> target's ceo in its first interview is apologizing to as many as 110 million customers who may be victims. >> as time goes on, we are going to get down to the bottom of this. we are not going to rest until we understand what happened and how that happened. clearly, we're accountable and we're responsible, but we're going to come out at the end of this a better company and we're going to make significant changes. >> cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. what else did he have to say? >> the interview he said his heart sunk on that very first day in december when he got word of the attack. of course, christmas wa

weekend trip to kind of reset makes me a better athlete. [ male announcer ] be a weekender like ashley wagner at hotels like hilton and hampton. book now at hiltonweekends.com. >>> welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. a heavy snowfall in january on the east coast doesn't exactly sound like news that should be accompanied by a fainting count that is until you see the record snowfall. this latest winter storm left behind. more than a foot of snow blanketed the i-95 corridor from washington, d.c., to boston. the storm system shut down schools and created a travel mess not just on the roads but at airports, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,400 flights nationwide. cnn crews are feeling the freeze first hand. meteorologist chad myers in plymouth where there are reports of 18-inch snow drifts. margaret connolly is all cozy at laguardia. let's start with you, chad. how bad is it up there? >> reporter: it's warmer than last night by about 15 degrees. at least it seems it. our snow is somewhere between zero and 12 inches. because there's literally no way to figure out what is real snow,

weekend trip to kind of reset makes me a better athlete. [ male announcer ] be a weekender like ashley wagnerton and hampton. book now at hiltonweekends.com. >>> a horrifying story unfolding right now in the canadian province of quebec. a fire at a senior complex. i read that most of the people who lived there were over the age of 85 and that most of those missing needed wheelchairs or walkers. any update now on the number of missing? what happened? >> reporter: no update so far. it's still three confirmed dead and 30 missing. anderson, a grim scene there. obviously they're working right through the night in temperatures now touching minus 30 to try and get to these people. in trying to douse the fire, anderson, they poured so much water on the site, now the site has collapsed plus it is completely encased in ice. it is painstaking work as so many relatives wait on the sidelines. unfortunately police telling them it is going to be several more hours before they know exactly how many people may have died on that scene. >> it sound horrific. do they know what caused the blaze? >> reporter: not

weekend trip to kind of reset makes me a better athlete. [ male announcer ] be a weekender like ashley wagnerow at hiltonweekends.com. >>> up this next discussion could have you shaking your first of fury. airlines are looking to cram even more passengers onto their planes with new slim line seats. and most customers, they won't even notice the change. however a new survey says people are noticing and they certainly do not like it. this could spell big trouble for the airlines' cost cutting ways. >> i hate getting jammed in. it's kind of funny. i think they need to have a combination marketing deal with slim fast or jenny craig. >> it's not just about you losing knee space. the seats are getting more narrow? >> the old seats were a little fatter, so they got them skinnier so they can put an extra row in each plane. that adds up to millions and millions of dollars over time for that aircraft. by slimming them down, they can jam an extra row or extra two rows into each aircraft. in some places you get on a plane, only 17 inches of width in your seat. that's been on ongoing trend as long as losi

ashley wagner took fourth place in nationals but was named to the u.s. in third place. why? >> the national championships aren't the olympic trials. the national championships are national championships. the selection process goes on for a couple of years before the olympic games. the nationals are part of that process but not the process. when you look at ashley wagner, winning nationals twice, placing high enough in the world championships to allow three participants to go. she's already earned her spot on the olympic team. >> do you agree with the decision? >> i, you know, i -- i like to see somebody earn in their spot into the team but ashley kind of did that. i adore, i love her. it was the hardest thing i ever had to do was to give her our traditional ice cream last night and my heart bleeds for her. i'm so sad for her. but ashley, the reason we have three women going to the olympics is because of ashley wagner. >> let's move on to gracie gold, 18 years old. what are her prospects realistically in sochi? >> i think she has a chance for a medal. you

so ashley wagner's the two-time national champion.mericans in sochi. last night, she came in fourth in the short program. a lot of people expecting her to do a little better. how does that affect her chances of making the team? >> you know, honestly, i don't see any problem with her making the team at all. she's been the top american lady for the last two years. and she's got, you know, great position to even medal, might be a potential medal winner at the olympics. i don't see any problem with her making the team. and she's fit. she's healthy. she's ready to go. she may have wanted it a little too bad last night, may have gripped it too tight going into that combination, but did the rest of the program beautifully and intense performance. and a great watch. so i hope people tune in today and watch it. >> hey, scott, it's hoda. i'm liking this 18-year-old gracie gold. i love her last name. she did very well last night. tell us about her chances. >> well, very well is an understatement. she was amazing. she looked like a princess on th