paul skog, who is an attorney there, brought the team there, and they practiced in evanston.is is an interesting story. >> i know you're going to get to jasper at the end. >> i wasn't going to, but i will now, because he would be great at the olympics. it's a story about how one american who cared about his town, evanston, wyoming, brought them to sochi, and they're going to be at the olympics. >> bob sled? >> yes. >> on coconut rides? >> no, they train here. remember cool running, the movie. >> bob, you're up. >> this weekend, a group of us, including sean hannity and i went out and played golf. >> what a golfer. >> this is what everybody ought to do before they do this, which is exercise, because you get very stiff both from playing golf and the night before. this is the exact set-up, if you notice the way my knee is going forward, everybody ought to emulate that. you'll shoot a scratch game. >> what is that? >> that's you falling down. >> here's the other thing. sun when you're out there, get some sun. everybody is slow. people take it seriously. i don't. i mean, as far as

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it was not that there was, when you live on the north shore outside of chicago, evanston, so schoolthe only guy in my who was black was mr. johnson who started the black entertainment network. did not have differences. i felt a difference in my house but never when i got to school. friends werest jewish kids and jewish kids had moved from chicago after the second world war. there was, it was all new. it was 1946, the north shore took off. yet there were old families that a different age. i did not like it. i was not familiar with it. i had an uncle who was a poet prize winner. librarian of congress for a long time. a poet laureate. i was not an actor but when i decided to become one, they said acting as keep saying an art. you are not an artist. i said why is my uncle an artist? because he is a man of letters. what am i doing? a livinging to make pretending. this family does not pretend. tavis: did your family disown you? >> my dad was gone and my mother, i went to broadway and started to work for mr. kazan. in my first play, there was a review. one of them encouraged, he never doused

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. >> american country lawyer paul skoge lured them to evanston illinois. they are so beloved locals sometimes forget which team their on. >> -- they're on. >> goal u.s.a, making u.s.a, i don't know. >> here far from their tropical island it seems like an unlikely place to find jamaicans, far from the buffalo, without a bobsled run in sight. they qualified for sochi, watts had spent his life savings, and the team had no sponsor. he turned to the internet. he needed $80,000. when donors doubled that in days, he had to ask them to stop. >> should i just cry? i felt really overwhelmed. we have so many people who love us over there and i'm really happy. >> if these tropical islanders can go from a buffalo meadow to an olympic medal that will be the most unlikely of all. john hendren, al jazeera. >> the broncos and the seahawks have arrived in new jersey for sunday's super bowl. missing a whole season due to a neck injury, win or lose, the 37-year-old says he hasn't decided what's going to happen after sunday. >> absolutely had a career change two years ago, wit

. >> reporter: from blaring sirens in evanston illinois, normally for tornado warnings, this one alerting residents to a snow emergency. to a chicago whiteout, up to 18 inches of fresh snow in places. the midwest is a blowing, snowing, deep freeze. officials too, sounding a warning. >> we ask that residents check on the well-being of residents, friends and neighbors. >> reporter: the city's full fleet of 287 snow plows and salt spreaders dominate the streets. plows in nearby rose mount out in force, too. drivers operating on little sleep, a grueling job as we found out. >> when it gets heavy, you just keep going and going and going. >> that's what we do. if you left it build up, you'll never move it. >> reporter: lyle richmond knows that, clearing the snow from his house, over and over again. >> four times within the past 24 hours? >> probably a little less than 246hours, yes. >> reporter: the snowy mess causing cancellations across the u.s. as holiday travelers try to get home. plane de-icers working overtime, more than 500 accidents reported in michigan, icy roads from tennessee to the

in evanston, illinois, blaring sirens alerted residents to a snow emergency. >> we ask that residentsnts. >> reporter: while some skied, the city's full fleet of snowplows and salt spreaders went to work. for millions trying to get home after the holidays, it's been a nightmare. airports weren't much better. more than 2,300 flights were canceled across the u.s. on thursday. just as forecast, the snow and freezing temperatures started late last night. parts of new york could get ten or more inches of snow. there's a state of emergency this morning in new york and new jersey. reena and muhammad? >> thank you, tahman. >>> of course, stay with abc news for the latest on the snow and the bitter cold that's wreaking havoc on parts of this country. live team coverage coming up on "good morning america." >>> police in northern california have an arrest but no motive for the murder of a popular priest. eric freed was found in his church rectory on new year's day after he failed to show up for morning mass. police say there were signs of forced entry and a struggle. the suspect was found at his

in evanston,estern illinois. host: then what. was that economics? yes.t: that is where i met my wife and in economics, d. too. then i was off to become what i wanted to do is be a college professor because you teach three classes a dark three classes a week and get summers of. university td gerst and did that a year and got call from a friend at the treasury that was 1986 the year of tax reform and he said down and workcome with us a while. i took a leave of absence and never went back. host: what do you tell gener la like myself that we being on rstand from the outside looking in? guest: probably the main thing you can't have everything that you want. politicians do this all the time. they oversell. your rates and simplify the system. and of course that is very most voters. and i think -- and we all are analysts.policy why can't would do this and that? not to be condescending but it complicated than that. the reason for most people's cog politicians have oversold what is possible. there is now tremendous interest in tax reform which is way oversold

. >> reporter: they make their training headquarters in the unlikely town of evanston, wyoming, not farark city, utah. as they look forward to sochi, their hearts are back on the islands. >> how much joy would it bring jamaica to see a team carrying the flag into the stadium? >> it would be such an honor for me plus the team that i'm with there plus the president and also the whole entire country. >> reporter: and now, the jamaican bobsledders have proven to competitors and sponsors that they are no novelty act and are in it to win. >> we're no bunch of jokers, not because of the movie came out. we're true athletes, serious contenders. >> at 47, winston watts becomes the oldest bobsled competitor in this year's winter olympics. we should point out though they've qualified, that don't have a lot of sponsorship, they've been running on borrowed sleds, looking for help to get to sochi. >> i hope they get it. >> would love to see them get there. >>> we know you have a lot of shoots this week in preparation for the olympics, doing a lot of the behind the scenes stuff. you did a little curlin

. >> reporter: from blaring sirens in evanston, illinois, alerting residents to a snow emergency, toowing deep freeze. officials, too, sounding a warning. >> we asked that residents check on the well-being of residents, friends and neighbors. >> reporter: the city's full fleet of 287 snowplows and salt spreaders dominate the streets. snowplows in rosemont out in force too, looking like a choreographed valet, drivers operating on little sleep. a grueling job. >> reporter: we found out. >> you just got to keep going and going and going. >> and that's what we do. if it piles up, we'll never move it. >> reporter: lyle richmond knows that. clearing the snow from his house over and over again. snowy mess causing chaos in the air. cancelations across the u.s. as travelers try to get home. plane de-icers working overtime, more than 500 accidents reported in michigan. icy conditions in tennessee and north carolina. this car flipped on its side on roads that look like glass. >> reporter: and you know that chemical salt used to melt snow and ice, turns out if temperatures below 20 degrees, it i