krueger's win was more astonishing for what had gone before.st in the field. for andrew musgrave, seventh is more spectacular than it sounds. when we had a lap and a half to go, i was feeling good, feeling confident. i thought i would get a medal. i was feeling really good and then just try to keep up with krueger on the la st try to keep up with krueger on the last lap, went a little bit hard and then slipped back through the field. for the appeal skiers, this is the gruelling route to victory. and easier path has been laid for amy fuller. too much win for the snowboard heats, she goes straight into the final. the catch? so does eve ryo ne into the final. the catch? so does everyone else. before the weather set in, they crowned a new olympic champion. one with a baby face. this is redmond gerard, born in 2000. snowboarding is made for youthful ambition but the 17—year—old was never meant to do this. norway and canada tend to dominate these gold was set for redmond. to get first is above me. i don't even know what is going on, to be honest. at

alix: alan krueger, you will be sticking with us., ceo of the sound network, will give us an inside look at the inside job market and what ceos say is their biggest problem. i was to point out to exxon premarket, getting slams, down by 3%. here is the why, a big miss on earnings. once you back out some tax reform issues, they only made 88 cents in the quarter and estimate was for more. exxon is a behemoth and needs to produce a lot to replace what it believes each quarter, and it is an ugly number when you have production come in and it is not reacting in kind. this is bloomberg. ♪ kailey: this is bloomberg daybreak. america is forecasting sales for 2% above average estimates. the drugmaker reported first-quarter sales better than expected. they plan to use benefits from the tax cut to boost growth. apple has eased investor concern somewhat. they posted results showing solid demands for its lightship iphone x . plus, they promised to put their buybacks,rk in dividends and acquisition. the richest person in the world got richer. fortu

john-henry krueger getting a silver in speed skating. >> did you say john krueger?nd's name, by the way. he did not win in speedskating. >> he wins -- >> i don't know what he wins. >> just stop. >> domestic bliss. >> this is what it's all about, everybody. here's the leaderboard. here's the medal count. let's check in with amy robach in pyeongchang. >> paul and dan, good morning. >> you'll hear from john today. >> yes, it was a busy day here but the two big events women's super-g and men's figure skating no medals for team usa but so close, it was an incredible competition from the slopes to the ice. >> out comes lindsey vonn down the super-g hill. >> lindsey vonn attacked the super-g course sprinting down the mountainside for her shot at a medal but a mistake near the end of her run leaving the most decorated female skier of all time off the medal stand. >> whoa. >> that's going to hurt her. >> instead finishing in sixth place. vonn sharing her disappointment on twitter saying, it's frustrating to be so close to the podium and to have made such a big mistake but no

that was incredible. >> from john-henry krueger. >> no, he was speedskating. >> freddy krueger. >> sorry everybody. >>> coming up on "gma," if you're tired of winter -- >> i am. >> yeah, see, you live in miami most of the time. >> i'm still tired of it. >> okay. we can help you freshen up your home for spring and how you can breathe life into your space without spending big bucks. without spending big pucks. feel the power of thenew power...smax. ...to fight back theraflu's powerful new formula to defeat 7 cold and flu symptoms... fast. so you can play on. theraflu expressmax. new power. the things we do rising before dawn. sweating it out. tough to do it all. but we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings can't. all we have to do is listen. download audible to start listening. this is food made to sit down for. slow down for. put the phone away, and use a knife and fork for. and with panera catering, it's food worth sharing. panera. food as it should be. persil proclean can and tackle that party foul. it'syou wearing gua

nick goepper and jon henry krueger.elcome. >> thank you very much. >> the first two runs you admit weren't great. it all came down to the final run. did you feel the pressure, the heat, what was going on at that moment? >> i felt immense pressure. not landing my first two runs is totally uncharacteristic for me. i had to lay it down and focus. >> so, you won bronze of course in sochi four years ago. now, you win silver here. is the feeling different this time winning and being up on that podium? >> it is it different. i have a different experience now and a bit different perspective being four years older and not having been in the games. i'm going for the overall collection, bronze, silver, and gold in beijing. >> >> it does feel like we're ramping up. is that the goal in beijing? >> absolutely, 100%. >> john henry, you came out at a crazy race. does that met with you at all, you see people coming down? >> absolutely not. we have to race the skaters during the world cup competitions earlier in the year. we're used to h

maybe he will age when he has to overcome obstacles like the one that simen hegstad krueger did in thehlon and, crashing early and looking down and, crashing early and looking down and out. the norwegian is made of sterner stuff and he will be grouped to stage one of the winter games's great comebacks to lead home in norwegian one that, two, three. kramer secured a victory of a different kinds, his victory of the 5000 metre speedskating completes his domination of this event since 2010, plus this time it was an 0lympic record. perrine laffont claimed france's first gold medal of the games, when she beat defending champion justine dufour—lapointe to win the women's freestyle's moguls. the teenager scored 78.65 for a narrow win over the canadian, while yulia galysheva was third — winning only the second ever winter games medal for kazakhstan. in the last event of the day, david gleerscher surprised everyone to win the men's luge for austria. germany's felix loch had been the big favourite and had led all the way until the final run. and the weather has once again disrupted the skiing eve

. >>> joe matthew was traveling through krueger national park with her companion and she sees all thesens of a pride and around an old dead tree stump but that is not. that is an elephant calf, those are legs. >> that's lunch. >> those lions plan on lunching on that elephant but the buffalo comes up, not alone. the buffalo has brought its posse. >> the elephant herd wasn't around so the buffalo got the little homies back. >> they're not afraid of the pride of lions. >> there's also three of them. hmm, we got it. >> the elephant has been freed. it gets up. the buffalo are around it, protecting it. the lions are still looking. >> no way. get out of town. >> you see how small, that is a very young elephant, looks like one lion tries to come back but a buffalo is like hey, hey, hey, hey, i thought we told you to stop. in this video from botswana these people are on a tour, and they see a mom and a baby walk by in front of them. as they get moving, somebody sees them from behind the brush. >> whoa, oh, oh, oh. >> he's not just angry and chasing them and running up to the edge of the road, he

. >> reporter: and skating through a major spill john-henry krueger captures the silver in the 1,000 meter ski skating final. >> i'm the young kid from pittsburgh who overcame adversity and got second place in the olympics, i mean, a silver medalist it's a huge accomplishment. >> >> reporter: ted leg erty didn't have the runs he was hoping for in the super-g, the gold medalist four years ago in sochi failed to make the medal stand here. tonight in prime time the shib sibs will skate in the pairs and a strong team in the women's halfpipe competition. a lot of momentum building right now for the women's hockey team, they are in the semi-finals against finland, if they can get through that one they play in the gold medal final. that's the latest live here in pyeongchang. back to you, vicky. >> we watched your evolution, too, when you first came to us last week you were so bundled up, had the beanie, the cap, everything was blowing in your face. it looks like the weather is cooperating more. let me put you on the spot here, favorite spot, fairly event you have seen so far? >> reporter: i

. >> reporter: john-henry krueger also taking home the silver in short track speed skating saturday, the first medal in the event for team usa since 2010. the u.s. is now in sixth place in the standings, but looking forward to bringing home more hardware. on the ice, big-time contenders mirai nagasu, who already made history pulling a triple axel in team competition, and the "shib sibs," maia and alex shibutani. >> we're proud of how we performed. we feel really good. >> reporter: plus, lindsey vonn takes another shot at the gold this week in the downhill race, where she dominated in 2010. and now, a doping controversy. the olympic committee saying a russian athlete has failed a doping test. this doesn't look good for the olympic committee, which has allowed the russians to compete here, after allegations of massive systemic doping in 2014. >> matt, thank you. >>> there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight." a major chicken recall. it could affect your child's school lunch. what parents need to know tonight. >>> plus, a family accused of terrorizing fellow passengers aboard

john henry krueger took silver in the men's 1,000-meter race. and in figure skating, a remarkable comeback. ben tracy is in pyeongchang with more. >> wow. a major mistake there. >> reporter: after a disastrous skate in the short program friday, nathan chen was looking for a redemption. >> this is number 6. yes! >> reporter: and he found it. performing a record six quad jumps in his final skate, the highest technical score ever in the olympics. >> nathan chen is still the quad king! >> reporter: his amazing comeback was not enough to meddle, but it did vault him from 17th place to fifth. crowd favorite adam rippon put on another mesmerizing performance, but nobody could catch japan's yuzuru hanyu. he became the first man to win back-to-back figure skating gold medals, since dick button back in 1992. his trademark, winnie the pooh bears, rained down on the ice in his moment of victory. lindsey vonn made her pyeongchang debut in the super "g," and said she was skiing for her late grandfather. vonn is considered the best female skier of all time, bu

. >> reporter: another silver came from john-henry krueger, who said ahead of three of the world's highestd speed skaters in the men's 1,000 metef short skate. five inches is what separated gold from silver in the men's biathlon 15 k mass start which a french man won after an agonizing review of the photo finish. it was an eerily similar moment to his win in sochi. and the shib sibs are back, they skate for the u.s. in ice dancing's first event tonight. also coming up later tonight in prime time the two-men bobsled, that's always exciting to watch, perhaps even more exciting because one of the american competitors justin olsen had an emergency appendectomy just two weeks ago and he is competing. so you will want to watch that. >> thank you very much, gina. >>> a highly anticipated event for many people in the bay area, the women's figure skating short program that's coming up on wednesday. it will be the olympic debut of fremont's karen chen. in a news conference today chen talked about the long leadup to that performance. >> it was definitely pretty tough, but i was cheering for team u.s.

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leanne krueger-braneky, who is a legislator from the counties, has introduced legislation similar toislation in washington to say, "we have to stop this." number one, we need to be clear about the fact that we cannot mistreat women in the workplace. and number two, you cannot use taxpayer dollars in order to shove this under the rug. and the confidentiality agreements, in my opinion, have been used as a way for people to continue to get away with this behavior. >> although some people, victim advocates, would say their victims didn't want to be publicized, either, and have their names hanging out there. so, on the one hand, it helps them and it hurts them. what do you think? >> well, i agree for that part. i agree with everything you said in the sense that sometimes confi-- a lot of women -- you look at the situation with congressman meehan. the victim in that particular case, she does not want to -- she doesn't want to talk about it at all, and we should respect that right for those that have been sexually harassed or abused, not to have to be out there and have their name -- i also

speed skater john-henry krueger winning silver. and still fresh from her loss in the super g, lindsey vonn gets another shot at a medal in the downhill on wednesday. >>> an emotional reunion outside of cleveland, ohio, a woman holds her wedding dress after more than 30 years. a dry cleaner made a mistake in 1985, sending the gown home with the wrong newlywed. fast forward to a few weeks ago, that woman's daughter opens the box and discovers the mistake. she posted pictures on social media. by the end of day, the real owner makes contact, even sending along pictures of herself in the dress. glad she got it back. >>> and when we come back -- a powerful story that starts in parkland, florida, that spreads all over the world. stay with us. all over the world. stay with us. when you have a cold, stuff happens. [ dog groans ] [ coughs and sneezes ] nothing relieves more symptoms than alka seltzer plus maximum strength liquid gels. i love you, basement but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. b

first men's cross-country skiing event taking gold silver and bronze the wage an athlete is seven krueger to the gold medal that he crushed at the start of the race but nonetheless still managed to get back up and win norway has eight medals in total which puts them in third place in the overall medals table although team always participation at the games were never in doubt their arrival was met with some controversy there it's after norwegian state broadcaster published a list of drugs in the team doctor took with him to pyong chairing a remarkable amount of assman medication was noted six thousand doses in fact containing banned substances that's ten times more assman drugs than for example neighboring finland brought to south korea. the quantity of medicines raised a number of concerns and most of those drugs contain substances banned by wider world anti-doping watchdog argues that they can enhance an athlete's performance indeed by expanding lung capacity norway's own anti-doping agencies also admitted the country has a problem with the over use of aspirin medication it is common pra

alan krueger noticed the link with missing workers and opioid use. >> you look at the counties with moreedication, you see a bigger drop in the labor rate for men and women. increase in the prescription rate accounts for 20% and 25% of the decline. >> contractor john o'brien knows the signs. >> i have a list in my head of things i watch for. person x is really good on certain days and on other days it looks like he is completely lost. a guy who has a backpack and he is protective of it and brings it everywhere we go and always that big backpack. that is a good red flag. >> this is a new part of the economic story. the opioid epidemic. personal tragedy holding back the labor market. >> we have an epidemic killing over 30,000 people a year. that's going to have macro economic consequences. if the u.s. will see growth, will have to come from somewhere with. the best are in the labor force trying to figure out how to make it possible for them to regain footing and return to the labor force. >> amy was once one of the missing workers. now 11 years in recovery, she's employed. >> when you thin

guys. >> krueger. his mother, by the way, from pittsburgh.owels. >> it worked. >> it did. congrats. >>> this morning, from the series "breaking through today" in honor of black history month, we are looking at african-americans breaking down barriers and making their mark. >> making history is jordan greenway. the first african-american player on the u.s. ice hockey team. he and his team are playing against applicaolympic athletes russia. he hopes others will follow in his footsteps. >> i love playing the game. i'm honored it is me. hopefully i'm the first of many. >> not a lot of folks can say they represented team usa. here you are part of black history now. it is a big deal. >> it is. it is. >> in december, jordan greenway got the exciting news. after years of hard work and daily practice to the greatest passion, his dream came true. a spot on team usa in south korea. how did it make you feel? >> i don't think it has hit me yet. the best christmas present i got. special moment. there may be pressure that comes with it, but i'll go over and

the 1,000 meter finals john henry krueger finishes second. silver medal for team usa. not what was expected there. there's a surprise medal in one that the team really needed. >> oh, talk about nathan chen. what an inspiring, awesome performance. did he talk about his future plans? >> and do they include going to beijing in 2022? >> reporter: you would have to think they do. this is an 18-year-old who came out here for the first time in the olympics. his nerves got the best of him early, but boy, did he finish strong. he didn't say directly in four years i'm coming back, but he said i'm going to accomplish what i want to in the olympics. i want to reach the top of the podium. i think there's no way he's not a part of team usa in four years. >> jay live for us from pyeongchang. thanks, jay. >>> nathan chen made history last night. he did six quad jumps in his final skate in pyeongchang. the internet went wild. so did figure skaters. we have their reactions right now on nbc10.com and on our app. >>> coming up, a new twist in the aftermath of a local fire. >> weeks after

. >> dennis krueger, active and retired firefighters and spouses.ve been around when this sustainability fund was $1 per person, per month. as i sit here and listen to the commissioner speak about stabilizes rates with excess fund that we, have i would like to submit to this committee -- or excuse me, this commission, that we possibly raise that fund to $5 a month per person. doing quick math on 100,000 people, that would add up to $2.5 million. and that money would be strictly used to stabilize rates. it could also be sold to members as their own private medical savings account. because that money would be used for nothing other than to stabilize a rate which will be paid the following year. only a suggestion, something to consider. but one time this was $1 a month. now it's $3 a month, given the current rate of medical costs and everything, i think $2 per member, per month that would be used to stabilize their rates, would be something that would be easily acceptable. thank you. >> any other public comment on this item? if not i believe this is an

the highest ranked speed skaters wiped out moments before the finish line giving krueger the opening he needed to win that medal. >>> meanwhile nick goepper went for broke in slopestyle. it catapulted him to a silver medal. he won the bronze medal in sochi four years ago. >>> the shib sibs will be back on the ice today. how will they score? we have a one-on-one guide for you on nbc10.com and the nbc 10 app to help you follow along with the program. take some time to check it out. >>> 6:07 right now on this sunday. celebrating the year of the dog. next, details on a special sunday ahead in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood. >>> later, skill on the slopes. meet local athletes hoping to board their way into the next winter olympics. >>> welcome back. krystal klei with you here. starting with the day planner. 35 degrees is where we sit right now. the temperatures already a little above freezing. any of the snow that did accumulate, mostly on grassy surfaces in our philadelphia neighborhoods going to start to melt quickly this morning. then this afternoon it will all be out of here. t

john-henry krueger captures the silver in the 1,000-meter speed skating. >> i'm the young kid from pittsburgh who got second place in the olympics after overcoming adversity. >> check out the first split. >> ted ligety didn't have the runs he was hoping for in the super-g. the gold medalist four years ago in sochi failed to make the medal stand here. >> tonight in primetime, the ship sibs, alex and maia stib tan i will skate. and the freestyle half pipipe competition. >> >> reporter: there's a lot of momentum building for the u.s. women's hockey team. they're in the semifinals. they'll play finland. on the other side of the draw, you've got the olympic athletes from russia and canada. looks like we're headed towards the final that everyone wants to see. canada versus the usa. >> jay gray live for us in pyeongchang. we'll be watching for it. thanks, jay. >>> coming up, town hall tension in montgomery county. >> give us real education. >> neighbors demanding answers of lawmakers in harrisburg and washington as the opioid crisis continues to grip our country. that story next. >>> plus, decisions

ariana krueger says she was groomed for a sexual relationship that lasted until she was 24 years old.all this started when i was 13. so every level that we got to was not something shocking. i didn't have any sexual experience. every step that he took me to along the way was a step he was preparing me for, whether he was texting me about it ahead of time and asking for pictures. >> hutchinson denies the abuse. usa swimming says this is the first it's heard about her alleged abuse as a minor. paula faris has more on the allegations at 7:00 on gma. >>> a decision about making drought era water restrictions permanent in california has been de delayed. the restrictions will be how much you can water your lawn and requiring hotels to ask before washing your towels. violators would face a $500 fine. the state water board met yesterday and postponed the decision until april after receiving pushback from water agencies. >>> a company believes it has a breakthrough treatment to help children survive severe peanut alleger jis. it was developed in brace baine. they gave children daily doses of a

>> den nit krueger, active retired firefighters and spouses. part of this is an outside person myself trying to investigate inside the insurance industry. very baffling. second of all, experience. what i would like to ask this board to do is try and get a level -- one level for cataract surgery. having just gone through it, i've had a number of things told to me. one insurance company tells me we only pay for surgery with a knife. another insurance company tells me you have a choice of later surgery or a surgeon with a knife. third insurance company, all they do -- as i believe i've been told, is laser surgery. so we have three of our providers with three different types of surgery. what i would like to see is the bottom line be laser surgery for everybody. if you want to choose a surgeon with a knife, go ahead. but when you read the data and you look at everything, the precision of laser surgery is a benefit to all members. one of our providers, that's all they give. another one, i've been told, no. we will give you a surgeon with a knife. i w

i'm kyle krueger with the ethics commission. i'm our senior legal and policy analyst. so electronic policy particularly in its early stages, has been in place for about five years. i know there were some hiccups with that, but you at the board and the late mayor ed lee have helped us build out better processes in the system. i don't think it's going to be a problem going forward. in addition to that, building on our education and compliance team, we'll be much better able to sort of answer and get back to people, you know, within 24 hours and really be able to rectify these issues quickly. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: and supervisor stefani, through the chair, i'd be happy to work on -- if we want to send this to the full board and work on some language that could allow the director of ethics under certain circumstances to waive if there's a compelling reason somebody can show cause. >> yeah, i don't think there's any reason to delay it here today in committee. definitely open to looking at this a little bit more, and then you and i working together, if we even fee

i am ted krueger, the dean of the law school. it is my great pleasure to welcome justice ruth bader ginsburg. we are very proud to partner with the national constitution center tonight. the present will introduce justin's ginsburg -- justice ginsburg. i want to introduce a bit of the history of the roberts lecture. the lecture is named for our supreme court justice roberts and was established in 1956. the wording of the original agreement about the lecture says, the lecture is to be delivered by a nationally prominent person who might be expected to make a significant contribution in legal thought. [laughter] >> i think we have met and exceeded and blown out of the water that standard tonight with justice ginsburg. we celebrate her 25 years on the supreme court as well as groundbreaking contributions to american prudence obama court and as her tremendous career as a legal scholar, litigator, and lower court judge before she will joined the court. justice roberts himself, was a graduate of penn law. will will and he served for 20

krueger of wisconsin to be united states district attorney for the eastern district of wisconsin, john h. durham of connecticut to be united states district attorney for connecticut, department of justice, john c. anderson of new mexico to be united states district attorney for new mexico, brandon c., joseph p. of p. kelly of nebraska to be united states attorney for the district of nebraska, scott murray to be u.s. attorney for the district of new hampshire. mr. alexander: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate, if confirmed, the nominations be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, no further motions be in order and any statements relating to the nominations be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the question occurs on the nominations en bloc. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. alexande

>> joining us for options insight is jim krueger -- jim strugger. happy weekend to you.e buying early on and selling in the last hour. we are not seeing that now. it is down over the last five days. seems to be perhaps a driver. are at a critical point in terms of volatility. there has been some interesting landng, but in equity ball , there is a curve that is going inverted, vix,g futures, that is inverted. we are just making the shift ,ack to being in contango sloping, where spot vix continues to decline that would be rare across the street to have a shock of the magnitude that we have experienced. you move back into contango and shift quickly out of that. that is positive for stocks if what we're looking at continues into next week. >> so we have a good chart of the vix curve to show what you are talking about, in terms of ,ositive for stocks, not always perhaps there has been times were that has not happened, has that happened or would there, if we had a massive selloff, would that be isolated? >> if spot vix continues to decline and you move into an environment next

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. >> reporter: and as it turns out, jolene gutierrez krueger, a columnist for the "albuquerque journalpy of that list a few years earlier, when she worked the police beat. now that two women from ida's list had been identified, jolene had an idea. >> i said to one of my editors, you know, maybe we ought to run that list. maybe we ought to, you know, be a little more proactive. and the editor didn't say a whole lot. and i thought, well, i'll write it and we'll see what happens. >> reporter: the resulting column, which for the first time publicly connected the missing women on ida's list with the west mesa bone field, hit the front page one month after the first bone was found. >> the response was amazing. i think because for the first time we had started to put faces on these women and we had explained to the citizens of albuquerque that there weren't just two women that were missing. there were whole bunches of them. >> reporter: suddenly families who'd once felt isolated in their agony now felt a communal bond. and at the center of it all was dan valdez. >> and i said, well, let's gat

you talked about john henry krueger. >> he had a silver medal in the 1,000. >> the speed skating. >>confidence, they can let that ride. john henry in the 500 on the short track, one to look out for. >> one of the funnest sports to watch. savannah made a prediction. she said lindsey vonn was going to do well in the downhill. you've seen her go through a couple runs. >> we've seen her go through a lot the last couple weeks. lindsey vonn, the way she approaches her racing and her life is something we admire. i think she can win the gold medal. it will be deserved. and the way she's handled the criticism during these olympics, i think she goes away a winner, whether she wins or not. >> agree. hoda had a prediction, as well. she is watching mirai nagasu. >> yes. >> she thinks we may see her on the podium. >> what do you think? >> when you said mirai nagasu, you started smiling and i started smiling. she has a magnetic personality. and it's not just the crowd that will react to that. judges play into that kind of thing. when the crowd is lifted and upbeat, mirai nagasu has courage. she's g

and john henry krueger for the 1000 meters. >> you're a paid spokesman for one of our sponsors, hershey'sawesome team usa merge, if a person has a blue dot on the back of the hershey's gold bar. >> there you go. not only do you get the swag, you get a gift card for 500 bucks. how about that? how about folks at home? >> for people who are not here, obviously experiencing this in pyeongchang, every time an american wins gold, you go to the hershey's facebook page and you download a coupon. you redeem it and get a free hershey's gold bar. >> congratulations. what's your name? >> caitlin morrison. from portland, oregon. >> there you go. hoda? >> al, thanks. >>> straight ahead, we're going to talk to members of the u.s. luge team and find out how emily is feeling after that epic crash you guys saw. >> still smiling. >> first, this is "today" on nbc. [ applause ] >>> welcome back to pyeongchang. we're always so happy when members of team usa join us in olympic park. >> right now, that honor goes to the members of the men and women luge team. emily sweeney, erin hamlin and chris mazdzer. emily,

nor wean acknowledge -- norwegian simon krueger.gold, silver and bronze for the event. a clean sweep. >> i've been thinking about the olympics since i was young and started with the sport. it's the biggest thing you can win as an athlete. >> reporter: what's the secret to norway's success? one of the country's top olympic officials credits the way norwegian children are taught to love sports. they don't actually keep score for any competition until kids turn 13. they say that make it less about winning and more about fun. the winning comes later. at this olympics, there's a lot of it. >> all of the teammates on the norwegian team, makes it fun to do well when they're here. we've been here since the beginning. >> reporter: the norwegians can do no wrong on skis. they sprint, shoot, fly and flip better than everyone else. they can skate, too, breaking an olympic record for the 500 meter, just for good measure. marit bjoergen, the iron lady, is the most decorated female olympian of all-time with 13 career medals. she could still win ev

brian: like a krueger film. steve: not exactly.ith you in washington, d.c. i don't travel well. i'm on wall street. i handle money. brian: it was all about money on capitol hill. it was talking about the economy. because you are in a business wins and losses, ups and downs. we have numbers. why is it that some democrats are having trouble realizing that the economy is going up, g.d.p. is going up. and paychecks may be going up? >> paychecks are going up as of this month. as of today. because tax rates have come down. paychecks will go up. so the federal government is going to be taking out less money? >> yes. taking out less money. let's be very clear about this. paychecks are going um because tax rates are going down. that's shall i repeat it? no. let me repeat what nancy pelosi has said three times. brian: do you know what we did? we recorded it on our vcr. >> what's that mean you are going to run a sound bite. brian: push the play button. ainsley: this is the reaction from the vice president because nancy pelosi called it crumbs