is no and well yes and no i did a forty five minute interview with brian ross at a.b.c. studios and i think i think you used to work for a.b.c. . and you know brian had a forty five minute interview with me that he said he was going to air in two weeks and he never aired it and other other networks wouldn't tape me because the they were nervous because brian ross had the tape and brian ross had his hands were tied and i made it very clear to mr ross that. this was a national security issue and that this story has to get out and he just said it was not news. i have a problem with that and i think the american people have a problem with that and i think i still think that brian ross should air that tape but what would you say i mean fighting big banks at frost is like your life goal right now but would you say you have a strong team of supporters around you and geez see any change coming as a result of your work and efforts more importantly. not from the media and from the public i'm not getting it there either to be honest with you and the reason is because i need the medi

navy ships that will be on scheduled deployment in the nearby black sea. >> brian ross and his team investigating again today. thank you, brian. >>> and our next big story in the news tonight, it is back. the brand-new polar plunge about to hit the midwest and the northeast with snow, ice, and, yes, bone-chilling temperatures again. abc's meteorologist, ginger zee, now, with the icy rescues already under way. >> reporter: a suspenseful rescue on a lake in missouri. firefighters making their way to a man trapped in the frigid waters. all that drama on the ice after the recent bout of mild air. and it all comes to an end tonight. in roanoke, virginia, they are getting ready for a plowable snowstorm. winter storm warnings in place from western north carolina to parts of connecticut. and behind it? a surge frigid air. and, no, this is not the polar vortex. the polar vortex is a real thing. it's a circulation way up in the atmosphere above the poles. it is always there. pieces of it break off in the winter. the chunk we got in early january was a doozy. it brought some of the coldest air in decades. f

our chief investigative correspondent brian ross right here tonight. >>> the governor versus the mayor tonight. once standing beside governor christie. now vowing to stand up to him. she says christie sent her a threat, do what we want, or no help after hurricane sandy. the governor's team denying it. >>> not again. much of the country about to be hit with yet another arctic blast. a new polar vortex hitting just in time for the new work week. and the high-wire act on the roads already. the giant chain reaction accident. >>> and caroline's concern. ambassador caroline kennedy tonight and the tweet on the eve of a controversial move. what are they about to do to the dolphins? >>> good evening and thanks for joining us here on a sunday night. and we begin with mounting concern over security at the olympics in sochi, now just a little more than two weeks away. tonight, that new video and on it, an ominous threat from a team that has struck already. at least one american senator tonight saying it's too dangerous to go to sochi. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross on the new

brian ross on the story for us tonight. >>> polar plunge. caught on camera, a man rescued after falling through the ice. and tonight, the new arctic blast about to drive temperatures down below freezing again. >>> and "real money." you told us it's the number one thing you want this year, getting a raise at the office. >> you have to sell. it's about selling. >> tonight, how you do it. and a surprising secret about your boss you should know before you walk in the door. >>> and a good evening to you on this holiday, honoring dr. martin luther king jr. and we begin this week together with a new and urgent warning about security at the olympics. 17 days away. and sochi, russia, authorities now on the hunt for these eyes, this face. a young woman thought to be what they call a black widow terrorist, on a suicide mission. and the fear, tonight, she is already on the ground, where american athletes and fans from around the world will descend. we have the latest right now, tonight, from abc's chief investigative correspondent, brian ross. >> report

here's abc's brian ross. >> reporter: authorities believe the young woman arrived in the sochi area about a week ago, somehow making it past the ring of security set up to protect the olympic games. over the weekend, police distributed this wanted poster to hotels and at the airport for a so-called black widow terrorist. she was identified as 22-year-old ruzanna ibragimova of dagestan whose husband was killed in a shootout with police last year, and security experts say she is not likely to be traveling alone. >> when it's women, they tend to operate in teams of two, and it's very unlikely that they would just send one of these teams into sochi. >> reporter: some 80,000 security personnel have been sent to sochi to create what russian president putin calls "a ring of steel" about 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. putin told george stephanopoulos that will keep the winter games safe. >> translator: we will do whatever it takes. >> reporter: the pentagon says it has developed contingency plans in case it needs to get americans out of sochi in a hurry in case of an attack including aircraft o

our chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with us with the latest. we have seen overnight the video from those responsible they say for the bombings in russia just last month. >> that's right, george. it's a martyrdom video, they claimed to have carried out suicide trks in volgograd in december against the train station there. they have more in store, a surprise package, and targeting tourists going to the games. >> and president putin vowed to me and other journalists saying he's going to do whatever it takes. and the security services saying they disrupted an operation. >> that's right. this video shows the tough iron-fist approach that president putin has taken. a take no prisoners approach. they say they attacked a stronghold of militants and killed seven of them. the security is on edge as you know. and volgograd tomorrow is the olympic torch relay through the city. >> what is u.s. intelligence picking up about possible threats to the olympics? >> they're obviously very concerned. they're hearing the same things, and the intelligence sources ind

brian ross, following this story. thank you very much, again. >>> tonight, we also have a reminder of just how small a world this really is. we've seen how bad china's air pollution is. pollution so thick, it's hard to see the person next to you, your car, an instant city mess. what we've learned tonight is that some of that pollution travels all the way here. the path varies. but it takes only five to seven days to get to the west coast of the united states. and when it hits the rocky mountains, by the way, some of it starts to trail off in the u.s. we're told, tonight, up to 10% of the annual air pollution on the west coast can be traced back to china. and specifically, the manufacture of all those cell phones and tvs we love to buy. >>> and a former olympian is in the news, tonight, making a charge at embattled governor chris christie of new jersey. on the very day he was sworn in for a second term, another new allegation of bullying. and abc's national correspondent jim avila has those details. >> reporter: chris

br brian ross, abc news, new york. >> recalling more than 225,000 strollers. models in airvarious size and colors. a faulty hinge can break, cut or partially amputate a child's finger. parent should stop using the stroller and contact britax. >> olive garden wants your business so much they will pay for your baby-sitter. free date night for parent next friday night. mom and dad can drop off the kids at certain my smim locations. after dinner, show their olive garden receipt and they get back their deposits. and presumably their kids as well. bloomberg news says in an internal mcdonald's memo each should deliver a quote gold standard cup of coffee with every visit. they want a share of the shrinking breakfast profit and say they lead the quote, coffee wars. >> i need some, thanks. >> i had mine a little while ago. >> thanks for sharing. >>> this kid is not heading to sochi. maybe you should be. >> a skier pull ofg an incredible back flip. 16 years old. bryceon colme p. turning over high in the air. not once, but twice. he landed. that's amazing. >> good for him

brian ross on the story for us tonight. >>> polar plunge. caught on camera, a man rescued after falling through the ice. and tonight, the new arctic blast about to drive temperatures down below freezing again. >>> and "real money." you told us it's the number one thing you want this year, getting a raise at the office. >> you have to sell. it's about selling. >> tonight, how you do it. and a surprising secret about your boss you should know before you walk in the door.

abc news chief investigative correspondent brian ross has the story. >> reporter: a home at the end of hiding place of this exiled russian businessman, valery morosov, who now fears he will be killed after allegations of corruption at the winter olympics. >> you will be drowned in blood. >> you will be drowned in blood? >> yes. >> reporter: morosov told abc news he personally delivered huge payoffs to the office, filled with millions in rubles. >> you have to pay it. no way out. >> reporter: at an estimated cost of between 50 to $60 billion, the olympics in sochi will be the most expensive and critics say the most corrupt ever. >> everybody knows this is the most criminal case in the history of russia. >> reporter: the former deputy prime minister boris nemtsov says he has documented how they got rich. >> they have stole about $30 billion altogether. >> they stole $30 billion? >> yeah, $30 billion. >> reporter: he points to the olympic stadium, three times the cost of any previous stadium anywhere in the world. and even worse, he says, the $9 billion highway and rail project to the ski

brian ross, on the story for us tonight. >>> polar plunge. caught on camera, a man rescued after falling through the ice. and tonight, the new arctic blast about to drive temperatures down below freezing again. >>> and "real money." you told us it's the number one thing you want this year, getting a raise at the office. >> you have to sell. it's about selling. >> tonight, how you do it. and a surprising secret about your boss you should know before you walk in the door. >>> and a good evening to yo

brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> and coming up in just a few minutes, an abc news exclusive. george stephanopoulos sits down with russian president vladimir putin, to talk about the other worry about the upcoming olympic games. the growing uproar over russia's anti-gay laws. >>> back here, now, where governor chris christie and his administration are facing explosive claims from a second new jersey mayor. hoboken's dawn zimmer met with u.s. attorneys in a separate meeting, telling them that they threatened to not release money if they did not support a development project. and she said added, it was clear where the message came from. >> she came, lieutenant governor pulled me aside and she said, essentially, you have to move forward to the rockefeller project. this project is really important to the governor. and she said that she had been with him on friday night and this is a direct message from the governor. >> a spokesperson for go governor christie says the mayor's claims are, quote, categorically false. and her city has not been denied a single grant. the governor spent

our chief investigative correspondent brian ross right here tonight. >>> the governor versus the mayorht. once standing beside governor christie. now vowing to stand up to him. she says christie sent her a threat, do what we want, or no help after hurricane sandy. the governor's team denying it. >>> not again. much of the country about to be hit with yet another arctic blast. a new polar vortex hitting just in time for the new work week. and the high-wire act on the roads already. the giant chain reaction accident. >>> and caroline's concern. ambassador caroline kennedy tonight and the tweet on the eve of a controversial move. what are they about to do to the dolphins?

his head makes startling allegation about shady deals to abc's chief investigative correspondent brian rosspic greed." >> reporter: this year's winter olympics could have been held in the austrian alps with its storied villages. >> or in this popular ski resort, a snowboarder's paradise. instead, the international olympic committee chose a subtropical russian city on the black sea, famed for its summer beaches, but one of the few places in russia that rarely gets snow. and that's the least of this city's problems. while sochi is known for its palm tree ins stoefd snow, there's a blizzard of allegations of unsavory ties to organized crime figures, official corruption and islamic terrorists who have threatened to attack here. all of which raises the question why the international olympic committee chose sochi in the first place. has olympic greed become more important than olympic gold? to find out, we met some of the few russian journalists brave enough to ask those questions. including sergei kanov who always has a hidden camera in his bag in case he is attacked again, as he has been twice

brian ross, in search of those answers. >> reporter: this year's winter olympics could have been held in the storied villages of the austrian alps. or the mountains of south korea, a snowboarder's paradise. instead, the international olympic committee chose a subtropical city in russia, famed for its black sea summer beaches, where snow rarely falls. and locat a few hundred miles from the stronghold of a ruthless terror group that has declared war on the olympics. so, now, the question is being asked, why was sochi picked in the first place? >> the choice of sochi is the best choice. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin pushed hard to win the 2014 games for sochi. but an abc news investigation has found, that behind the scenes, russia was helped in getting the votes by this mysterious businessman, gafur rakhimov, who u.s. authorities say is a key member in one of the world's biggest organized crime networks, involving the trafficking of heroin across russia into europe. >> he's absolutely a very major and very dangerous gangster. >> reporter: yet, rakhimov, seen here at a 201

and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross has those. >> reporter: with american athletes in the final stages of preparation for next month's winter games, there was growing concern today by u.s. officials that terrorists will make good on their threats to attack the olympics in the russian city of sochi. >> i think all the ingredients are there, quite honestly. >> reporter: the latest incident came today, a few hours' drive from sochi, in the city of stavropol, where police discovered four vehicles containing dead bodies, two of them, booby-trapped with powerful bombs. an apparent tactic to first lure and then kill police. in the last two months, dozens of civilians have been killed in attacks on a train station, and buses. sochi, just 250 miles from the border of islamic terror hotbed chechnya, would be a target-rich environment for similar style attacks. especially, say security experts, the brand-new train stations and trains here that will take athletes and spectators to the ski hills. >> i think these new train stations we have around sochi will be soft targets. >> r

abc chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, with the latest now. >> reporter: they are still more than 6,000 miles and 2 weeks away from sochi. but security concerns are clearly weighing on the u.s. athletes competing to go to the olympics, including olympic ski jump team whose first three female members were announced today in salt lake city. >> the only thing i said to my family was, bring a jacket that doesn't scream america. were. >> reporter: for athletes who race down the ski jump without fear to qualify for the olympics, there's not a lot that scares them. >> security isn't my top concern. i hope everybody goes there for the right reasons. >> we try to be safe. we're big fans of the buddy system on our team. other than that, we're going to be pretty sheltered, staying in the village where we are. >> reporter: in a case of what may be just security jitters, the olympic teams of the u.s. and five other countries today turned over law enforcement troubling e-mail messages they had receive about possible attacks. and even the white house press security addressed the threat. >>

brian ross has all the details. >> reporter: a home at the end of this road, an hour's dry from london, is the hiding place for this exiled russian businessman valerie morozov who fears he will be killed after making allegations about payoffs to russian officials overseeing construction at the winter olympics. >> that's you will be drowned in blood. >> reporter: you'll be drowned in blood. >> yes. >> reporter: he said he delivered payoffs to some of the officials right inside the office of president vladimir putin using a piece of luggage like this stuffed with tens of millions of rubles, a corruption tax he calls it. >> you have to pay. there is no way out. >> reporter: at an estimated cost of between $50 billion to $60 billion, the olympics in sochi will be the most expensive and critics say most corrupt ever. >> everybody know this is the most criminal case in the history of russia. >> reporter: former deputy prime minister boris nentsov says he has documented how well connected russians got rich off big olympic construction projects. >> my estimation they saw about $30 billion alto

based on the false connection between saddam hussein and the anthrax mailings and reporters like brian ross and richard ohman of the washington post spread this propaganda to the american public and the damage had already been done at that point and they admitted that also in your documentary it clearly shows these people saying that the only reason that they supported the iraq war was because they thought that the anthrax came from saddam i mean this is a very common narrative that's been largely forgotten you also. mention that the bush administration was on separate oh the antidote for anthrax seven days before first letter was sent but robby nine eleven was a very scary climate couldn't it be possible that the administration was preparing for the absolute worst and really just everything at that point. you know that's something i hear a lot from people and unfortunately almost any angle you try to look at it it doesn't hold water because even if they got some kind of intelligence warning suggesting that someone you know some muslim extremist or somebody was going to send a biological we

abc chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, on keeping them safe. >> reporter: tucker fredericks on the right, is one of the fastest americans on ice. and when the 29-year-old on the left qualified for the u.s. olympics speed skating team last month it was a big moment for him and his family, who have backed him for so many years. but today, his parents in jamesville, wisconsin, said, they will not be going to sochi. their son asked them not to go, because of his concern there could be a terror attack at the olympics. >> he wanted us to stay home so he wouldn't have to worry about us. one less thing to be concerned about. >> reporter: and the concern is growing tonight, as russian authorities come up short in their efforts to find a possible female suicide bomber. this 22-year-old so-called black widow, believed to be already in sochi, preparing to act. >> they have the idea that they are using terrorism as a warm of war. >> reporter: the alleged female suicide bomber being sought in sochi, was reportedly last seen in the downtown area of the city, near city hall. and she is like

here is chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: a hiding place for london, for thisho now fears he will be killed after making allegations about payoffs to russian officials overseeing construction at winter olympics. >> that you will be drown in blood. >> you will be drown in blood? >> yes. >> telling abc news, he personally delivered huge payoffs to some of the officials right inside the office of president vladimir putin. using a piece of luggage like this. stuffed with tens of millions of rubles. tax, he calls it. >> there is sno way out. >> between 50 and $60 billion, the olympics in sochi will be the most expensive and critics say most corrupt ever. >> ever knows this is the most criminal case in the history of russia. >> a political rival of putin says he has documented how well connected russians got rich off big olympic construction con troekts. >> based all about $30 billion all together. >> they stole 30 billion? >> yeah, 30 billion. >> pounting to the olympic stadium, three times the cost of any previous stadium anywhere in the world. and even worse, he s

brian ross tracking the latest. >>> caught on tape, a skydiver knocked unconscious at 13,000 feet unablepull his own rip cord only seconds away from slamming into the ground. how his fellow skydivers rescued him midair. now he speaks out in an abc news exclusive. ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ >>> unplugged, uncensored and unbelievable, madonna and miley pairin

brian ross here with developing details. >>> don't you ever talk about me! >> trash talk tirade, seahawks star richard sherman talks about his epic postgame rant right after his team's big win which sends them to the super bowl. what he's saying now about his brash comments. >>> and photo-bombing at the white house. the nba champs and the first lady bringing the heat in a brand-new push to get everyone working out. is her photo bomb making king james a slam dunk? >> ooh. >>> and good morning, america, boy, the snow is already hitting. it is hitting hard. let's go right to the midwest right now. oh, that is east chicago, indiana, north indiana, see how hard it is coming down. the snow total predictions are going up right now and driving conditions right outside chicago right now. >> and it's heading this way. the heaviest snow expected on the coast straight up the i-95 corridor. looks good right now. won't be that way in a short amount of time. as much as 14 inches in some places. our extreme weather team led by our own ginger zee all ready to bring us the la

brian ross here with developing details. >>> don't you ever talk about me!e, seahawks star richard sherman talks about his epic postgame rant right after his team's big win which sends them to the super bowl. what he's saying now about his brash comments.

brian ross here tracking this developing story. >>> abc news exclusive, the young survivor of this horrifyinglorida speaks out for the first time about the terrifying ordeal that left her and her friend fighting for their lives. ♪ it's not about the money money ♪

here's abc's brian ross. >> reporter: with american athletes in the final stages of preparation for nextng concerns by u.s. officials that terrorists will make good on their threats to attack the olympics in the russian city of sochi. >> i think all of the ingredients are there, quite honestly. >> reporter: the latest incident came a few hours drive from sochi. where police discovered four vehicles containing dead bodies, two of them booby-trapped with powerful bombs. an apparent tactic to first lure and then kill police. in the last two months, dozens of civilians have been killed. and attacks on a train station and buses. sochi, just 250 miles from the border of islamic terror hot bed chechnya would be a target-rich environment for similar style attacks. especially, say experts, brand new train stations and trains here that will take athletes and spectators to the ski hill. >> the new train stations we have around sochi will be a soft target. >> reporter: u.s. officials say there will be small teams of armed american security officials in the olympic village itself. and the u.s. ski an

brian ross here with the latest and a lot of confusion about the threats. >> there is. head of hungary's olympic committee is saying he and his teams of other nations received what he called e-mail threats written in russian and english that the hungarian athletes will be targets of terror attacks at the sochi games. the threats are being taken seriously in hungary but a spokesman for the olympic committee just told us he would call those messages more opinions than threats. a kind of olympic security jitters but all comes after we learn that one u.s. athlete has already told his parents not to come because of the possibility of a terror attack. the parents of one of america's top olympic speed skaters, tucker fredricks, on the right, won't be going to sochi even though he qualified for the u.s. team last month. shawn and dan fredricks told abc their son asked them not to go because of his concerns for security at the olympics. >> he wanted us to stay home so that he wouldn't have to worry about us, one less thing to be concerned about. >> reporter: the fredricks said i

brian ross tracking the latest. >>> caught on tape, a skydiver knocked unconscious at 13,000 feet unable to pull his own rip cord only seconds away from slamming into the ground. how his fellow skydivers rescued him midair. now he speaks out in an abc news exclusive. ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ >>> unplugged, uncensored and unbelievable, madonna and miley pairing up for a performance no one saw coming. ♪ wreck me >>> good morning, america. all back together. >> extended roll today. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> super bowl edition getting all revved up because we're right here in the middle of super bowl boulevard, look at that, some very special cheerleaders. getting all revved up. >> good morning, america. >> the whole region getting in the mood. we'll take a look right there. that's times square. look at the george washington bridge. it was lit up overnight in the colors of the broncos and the seahawks. boy, that looks magnificent. >> everybody is getting in the mood around here. and we have an exclusive look at those super fakes that are turning up before the big game on sunday. authori

with more on that here's brian ross. >>reporter: authorities believe the young woman arrived in the sochi area about a week ago. somehow making it past the ring of security set up to protect the olympic games. over the weekend police distributed this wanted poster to hotels and at the airport for so-called black widow terroris terrorist. she was identified as 22-year-old rose whose husband was killed in a shoot out with police last year. young woman water described as having a 4 inch facial scar. pronounced limp and left arm that would not bend at the elbow. security experts say she is not likely to be traveling alone. >> when women they tend to operate in teams of 2 and very unlikely they would just send one of these teams into sochi. >> some 80,000 security personnel had been sent to sochi to create what russian president putin calls a ring of steel about 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. putin told stephanopoulos that will keep the winter games say. we will do whatever it takes. >>reporter: over the weekend the group t

we'll get the latest from brian ross and the congressional chairman tracking olympic security. >>> plusw s. and big challenges ahead. if they protest, will they be free from prosecution? this morning, vladimir putin only on "this week." >>> and president obama reveals the nsa reforms -- >>> and is the worst over for chris christie or is the scandal spreading? the powerhouse roundtable takes it all on this sunday morning.

brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> a consumer alerted this morning for parents of young children.r several injuries were reported. a faulty hinge can break, cut or even partially amputate a child's finger. parents should stop using the stroller and contact britax. >>> olive garden wants your business so much they'll pay for a babysitter. the struggling restaurant chain offering a free date night for parents next friday night. mom and dad can drop off the kids at certain my gym locations and after dinner show their olive garden receipt and they get back their deposits and presumably their kids as well. how about that? >>> largest restaurant chain hoping coffee will give sales a note. bloomberg news says they should have a gold standard cup of coffee with each visit. mcdonald's wants a share of the shrinking breakfast market. they admit starbucks is leading what the memo calls the coffee wars. >> i could use one. >> i had one a little while ago. >> thanks for sharing. >>> this awesome kid you're about to see is not headed to sochi but maybe he should be. >> take a look. it's amazing

brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> russian security has passed one key test. been hit by two terror attacks. it's about 500 miles from sochi. >>> new polar plunge slammed with bitter temperatures and that snow expected to take a toll on commuters in the biggest city as long the west coast. accuweather jim dickey with the latest. >> good morning, john and marci. arctic cold returned here. you look at early morning temperatures across minnesota. minus 15 in minneapolis. and will fall to minus 16 in bismarck, north dakota. as that cold spreads its way south and eastern we're seeing snowfall on the fringes of it, nebraska, chicago, iowa, but that winds down this morning, improving the conditions. this area of low pressure will intensify. move to the coast. we will track a band of heavy snow out of west virginia to the evening delaware, new jersey towards new york city up towards cape cod. john and marci, back to you. >> those extreme weather conditions forced crews in omaha to suspend recovery. efforts after a deadly industrial accident. two people were killed in

>> brian ross and i will look into this. right, brian? we'll get some answers. >>> thanks, ron. >>> overnight we've got a developing story with some extraordinary images, a family watching in horror as their dream home turns to ashes. more than 70 firefighters tried to save it, but what delayed their arrival at the scene? abc's ryan smith is on the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the images are breathtaking. the smoke and flames could be seen miles away. overnight, a $4 million mansion destroyed, burnt to the ground in indian hill, ohio, a luxury home line suburb of cincinnati. the 10,000-square-foot, 22-room house built in 2006 is all but gone. despite the devastation, fire officials say no one was injured. according to county records, the home is owned by j.r. and maria decker. their son chase took to facebook telling friends that his family and dogs were safe posting "please pray for my family. you will soon see on the news that our home has burned down and there is nothing left of our possessions." >> well involve

brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> in neighboring you cape at least two people have now died in civilin november. thousands of protesters were on the streets of kiev overnight soaking a fiery barricade against police. demonstrations began when the government strengthened ties with russia and grew violent when it outlawed protests last week. the united states is now threatening to impose sanctions. >>> in switzerland, syrian peace talks are already in danger of collapsing after getting off to a rough start. a syrian representative was outraged after the opposition in the u.s. said president bashar al assad should have no role in syria's future. and graphic photos were shown alleging widespread torture of syrian prisoners. but the syrian government dismissed them as a hoax. a u.n. mediator is meeting separately today with both sides. >>> the widow of a florida man shot and killed in a movie theater is sharing her heart-breaking story for the first time. nicole oulson was enjoying a rare date with her husband when the retired police captain sitting behind them got upset when chad oulson

abc's brian ross here. good morning, brian. >> good morning, george. if the terrorists get their way, their prime targets would be the young athletes who worked so hard to get to the olympics. and there's no doubt security concerns are weighing on the american men and women who are heading to sochi. for the first time, women are being allowed to enter the ski jump competition and for the three american women who race down a 350-foot-high ski jump to qualify for the olympics, not a lot seems to scare them. even the news out of sochi. >> there you go. >> i've been watching the news. i'm reading about it and, unfortunately, it's just something that you have to deal with and keep plugging along. >> reporter: it took a long legal battle for the women announced wednesday to be allowed into the olympic event and they told abc news, they have no intention of letting the terror threats distract them. >> security isn't my top concern >> the only thing i said is to my family is bring a jacket that doesn't scream "america." >> reporter: but authorities say the thr

brian ross is here with the latest on the security alerts surrounding the winter games. od morning to you, brian. >> reporter: british security firms have concluded a terror attack is likely before or during the olympics, according to a stark new assessment reported by the bbc. all is this as the russians continue to insist they don't need any help but have the situation in hand. this morning, the olympic torch relay continued across russia and moved into potentially dangerous territory. dagestan, home base for the terrorist group that declared war against russia and the nearby winter games. but russian officials maintain there is no danger. >> it's a wonderful place for olympics, first. secondly, it's not close to the war zone. there is no war zone in russia. >> reporter: but with a week and a half to go, sochi is taking on the look of a hardened fortress. u.s. athletes will begin to arrive here this week. instructed not to wear their distinctive uniforms outside the olympic village to avoid being targeted. >> can you reassure our athletes going to sochi that they'll be

abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the latest. and brian, we're talking scores of arrests happening right now. >> that's right, george. they began in the cold, predawn hours of new york. some 75 former new york city police and firemen expected to be arrested this morning by their former colleagues -- active duty new york city police. the men are being accused of faking injuries connected to the 9/11 incidents, some of them laming psychiatric disorders that did not exist. >> you get a couple of lawyers on the inside, people who know the system and that leads to massive numbers that represented a lot of people. >> a handful of crooked lawyers and doctors who know the system have advised these police officers and former firemen how to game the system and gain thousands of dollars a month, a total maybe of millions of dollars in benefits. and this, they trade on the people who actually did suffer actual disabilities. 343 new york city firemen and 23 new york city policemen who died in 9/11. and they have a great deal of public goodwill

abc's brian ross is here with the latest on all this. good morning, brian. >> good morning, robin.akes drama will play out over the next seven days as the russian security services deploy every technique, every surveillance trick in the book to detect any possible terrorists who have somehow made it into sochi and what can be seen as only a small part of what's going on, the unseen, the russian fsb, new version of the kgb has flooded the city with undercover intelligence officer, spies walking the streets riding trains and buses of the olympic area. and perhaps more important, an electronic eves dropping operation that will collect every phone call, text, e-mail or anything that moves electronically, robin. >> do u.s. officials think it's enough? >> they do believe the russians have cracked down, that the heavy security may well protect sochi. but they worry more about outside of sochi. huge numbers of police and bomb-sniffing dogs from moscow have been sent to sochi leaving moscow more vulnerable. the eyes of the world will be on russia and sochi as president putin says and not ju

. >>> new terror threats surrounding the winter olympics and our abc's chief corespondent brian ross here with the latest. good morning, brian. >> reporter: good morning. the first test of the russian approach to keeping the winter games safe from attack as the olympic torch relay goes to the city of volgograd, the site of two deadly terror attacks just a few weeks ago, including at the train station where the torch relay began this morning. all this as russian security officials are dealing with a new threat from the very terror group responsible for those earlier attacks. this morning, u.s. authorities studying this videotape of two alleged terrorists purported to be the suicide bombers who carried out the recent attacks. they were shown allegedly building their bomb, wiring themselves up detonator in hand and then heading to their targets. their attacks included the volgograd train station and later a crowded trolley. in the tape the men said their group had more attacks planned. a surprise package, they called it, including one, they said, a surprise for the tourists who will come