elena meyers taylor was the favorite going in. our garvin thomas was watching that event. he was in the stands with her husband who is from hayward. >> and, garvin, tell us all about that. >> reporter: well, the event here just got over but i have to tell you about another event that just ended within the last hour, another medal for the u.s. a bronze in women's team pursuit speed skating, the first speed skating medal for the women, team u.s.a. women in the past 16 years. back to the sliding center which in my opinion has the best finish line in all the olympic games. the fans, the athletes, the finish line all right on top of each other and when a competition finishes it is bedlam. and it was just a few minutes ago. let me set the stage for you, going into the final heat elena meyers taylor was in second place in the women's two man bobsled just 0.04 of a second out of first. she did a terrific run on her fourth heat, finished in first place, all she had to do was wait for the final sled, the germans, to see how they would do. well, they did her one better. the germans e

bob sledder elena meyers taylor agreed saying the recent revelations shaken the faith of clean athleteske there's been a loss in faith of the athletes of these scales games of all games because of the offense that is have occurred. so the more of us who are clean and we'll good out there and say, hey, we stand for clean sport the better we're all going to be. >> the americans were speaking as the united states olympic committee begins its assess system of the winter olympic. >>> let's check in with lauren casey who i think has got good news maybe seeing the sun eventually. >> yes. >> slowly but surely starting to see improvement. look. you can almost see the entire skyline of center city philadelphia. the low clouds lifting up. the rain coming to an end and drier air slowly building in. our temperature right now 46 degrees. winds out of the east at around 7 miles per hour. still have wind chill impact feeling like 42 degrees. had temperature grading across the area today chilly in the poconos a high at 39 degrees. we're in the upper 40s in philadelphia. but across portions of delaware,

ivanka trump attended the four-man bobsled finals, sat between olympians and silver medalist elena meyers taylorand lauren gibbs. they won the silver meddle in the bobsled event. ivanka trump will be at the closing ceremony tonight, however, the russian flag will not. you may recall that because of widespread and systematic doping by the russians the international olympic committee banned russia from these games. they did allow athletes to participate as olympic athletes from russia. they were not allowed to carry the flag or wear russian uniforms in the opening ceremony and the ioc decided to stick with that stance for the closing ceremony as well. two russian athletes including a bronze medalist tested positive for doping. >>> here is the final medal count, norway the powerhouse of the winter olympic games, 39 medals, 14 of them gold. germany overtaking canada to place second. team u.s.a. in fourth place with nine gold medals. the netherlands in fifth and south korea overtaking france for sixth. >>> even as these games wrap up if you are ever away from your tv get our free nbcúi and you can wa

elena meyers taylor set a track record in her first bobsled run.day's olympic action not over. >> fremont skater takes the ice tonight, our garvin thomas is live with what karen chen is saying ahead of her big moment. big time for her and for us as well. >> reporter: it certainly is, marcus. i've had the pleasure of interviewing karen chen half a dozen times over the past year. i think i'm in a pretty good place to know what she's feeling right now and i'm guessing nervous is near the top of that list. karen has told me in the past she has had problems with nerves leading up to big events but recently said she's made a big step in conquering that. what she's learned how to do is accept those nerves as a normal part of the process and not try and fight them. of course, the olympic schedule isn't helping karen at all, we are almost two weeks in and she is yet to compete. she has had to sit on the sidelines and watch others do their i think this. she wasn't part of the figure skating team event. karen has been training a couple hours from pyeongchang.

elena meyers taylor of team u.s.a. 0.04 of a second out of first place. the finish of this race will happen within the hour and you can bet we will tell you who won coming up in morning at 6:00. >> thanks, garvin. >>> also all new at 6:00 a.m., garvin is going to talk to tahoe's david wise who goes to gold tonight in freestyle skiing. also going for gold couldn't, palo alto's hillary knight and the u.s. hockey team facing canada in prime time. >> here is quick look at the current medal count. norway continues to lead with 32 total medals, germany and canada rounding out the top three. team u.s.a. tied for fourth this morning. the netherlands, america and france have 14 medals right now. >>> and right now at 5:08 it is cold in squaw valley, over 15 degrees, we compare that could mr. garvin was just giving us that report from, 20 degrees there and it's 10:08 at night. so we are looking at still here in the paris some really cold weather and still some freezing temperatures in some of the inland valleys. also some clouds and some spotty light rain moving int