and mike seem to uncle double olympic champions at these olympics here in sochi and maksim of course will be carrying the flag tonight at the closing ceremony of the sochi games thank you so much for your time. but winter games have been full of unexpected victories and surprising disappointments as well and you get a chance to tell us what were the most memorable quote artie's facebook page to post your ideas and remember fails and tough luck moments are also a part of a limb pick history you can also share your opinion on twitter with the hash tag my sochi moments the best will be read out during our special coverage of the closing ceremony later tonight. the g twenty four jean-paul must really be called to meet again exhilarating willing to listen are you joining me and you see no way i'm a kevin zero in the russian olympic news team for sochi twenty four taking. all the . we can see with other news it's been the most turbulent week ukraine has seen in its modern history in less than seven days the capital of the seas from european country has gone through fire smoke and ugly clas

forty five meters it's very tough but also today will get another glimpse of the figure skating stars maksim trying coffin tatiana they've already won gold in the team event but they are the favorites in the pairs which begins today it's also worth saying they already world and european champions despite only being together for three years and despite maxine's famous bad temper so how did they manage to achieve all this success in such a huge space of time just maybe it's written in the stars i was familiar with some of the axioms traits besides my zodiac sign is gemini and lexeme is a libra so we get along just fine works because when we first started skating together i told the tiana that more than half of what people say about my personality is probably true as she told me she could get along with pretty much anyone fine whatever people say about my or someone else's personality figure skating is a sport and what matters is the result doesn't matter what my personality. it's like some would say about a coach for example he's insufferable the most important thing is my training in my perfo

to face the chinese and also a bit later on we'll get another glimpse of the figure skating stars maksim and tatiana. they've already won team gold and are favorites for the pairs event which does get underway this evening it's also worth noting that they are world and european champions despite only being together for three years and despite. famous bad temper so what is the secret of their success over such a short space of time or maybe just maybe it could be written in the stars i was familiar with some of what seems to treat. my zodiac sign is gemini and lexeme is a libra so we get along just fine. when we first started skating together i told her to know that more than half of what people say about my personality is probably true as she told me she could get along with pretty much anyone. whatever people say my or someone else's personality figure skating is a sport and what matters is the result doesn't matter what my personality is like some would say about a coach for example he's insufferable the most important thing is my training and my performance and the medals i win which

tatiana and maksim won the gold medal in pairs while teammates [ non-english language ] took the silver. alfonso van marsh, cbs news, sochi, russia. >>> everybody should be anticipating 24-hour snow and ice event. >> it's 4:42. coming up, the crippling winter storm moving from the south now up to the northeast and this morning new england is bracing for more than a foot of snow. >> and that's a whole lot of money in that hole. the sinkhole that swallowed up some pricy pieces of history. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, without power in the south because of the snow storm. it's the same scene as two s ago...snappe >>> "snowmageddon" part 2 slamming the northeast. hundreds of thousands are without power in the south because of a snowstorm. two weeks ago it snapped power lines and icy freeways, turning into parking lots. cbs news reporter susan mcginnis reports from snowy washington, d.c. >> reporter: the crippling winter storm that pounded the south has moved north more than a foot of snow in the northeast today. >> we have already seen significant impacts from this storm. powerful nor'easters on the board

country have their hopes pinned on the figure skating today the duo tatiana all the cells are and maksim time called have already made history in the paris short program with a record score and they're hoping to re-establish russia's traditional dominance in the sport but there's plenty of other action on its way in our farmer is keeping up with all of that he now joins us live from the mountain cluster andrew what's happening on the slopes we're hearing there's been some worries about the weather. well that's right and he might be able to see that the sun is a beating down on my back as i speak and that's prompted concerns about the possibility of melting snow but organizers have insisted that everything is fine and all events will go ahead as shai jewel today and that's included the women's downhill which produced an absolute classic we've seen a dead heat between slovenia seen amazing scenes dominate the sand and that means they will both walk away with a gold medal and that has never happened in this event in the olympics before but coming back to the weather just yesterday temperatu

their figure skaters who won three golds on the home ice of a team competition and then pairs with maksim trunk often tatyana velocity helping seal bow and in the women's individual competition after a surprise package adelina sotnikova bridges for performance of our life to beat retiring south korean superstar yuna kim and claimed russia's first ever gold in battle then since i was just as well as i'm very proud to have won a gold medal at the age of seventeen it's such a great feeling it's about who with everything including myself sometimes i said to my mom i can't do this anymore i'm tired and she says ok give it up i'll still love you anyway but then i realize that i won't give up and will take my gold ten years ago russia didn't even have a sliding center very roughly which makes for feats of gold medalists alexander tried to call them the skeleton of a two man bobsled team of alexanders of cough and alex a boy order even more remarkable. it always helps when you're competing at home because of the support you get from friends and relatives we felt we couldn't let them down and we d

i'm joined now from new york, by maksim.you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> director of a documentary about the group and its confrontations about the putin regime. they've been getting a lot of attention in american pop culture, as you know, like this appearance on "the colbert report" last night. >> what i don't understand is why you would be going against someone like vladimir putin, who is just trying to preserve the peace and bring russia into a brighter future. [ speaking russian ] >> translator: we have different ideas about a bright future and we don't want a shirtless man on a horse leading us into that. >> funny, even in translation. are they now the main voice of russian dissidents? >> absolutely. after they were released, especially, and given the media attention to the trial to their initial performance and then to their incarceration, right now they've come out and yeah, they're absolutely the main spokespeople for the opposition and they've been using that attention to -- they've been using that attention to

you've got to say that tatyana and maksim, they have the advantage.ting? >> to be gentle about it, the present, not so much. i think there's a very good chance to take a deep breath and say this gently. there's a good chance that outside of ice dancing, in which meryl and charlie might very well walk away with the gold, aside from that, men's and ladies' singles, the americans might leave here without a gold for the first time since 1936. >> hope we can prove you wrong somehow. >> women's cross-country airing tonight? >> yeah. airing tonight. we thought there might be a very, very good chance the united states might win a medal in this event for the first time since 1936. didn't happen. >> 1976, right? >> 1976, excuse me. 1976. thank you. >> alan. always great to catch up with you. >> you can catch the olympic action tonight at 8:00/7:00 central here on nbc. we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. ♪ >>> how do we miss kathie lee and hoda? >> we miss them so much. >> we miss you guys. >> we'll bring you back some vodka. >> who do you got coming

the russians, tatiana volosozhar and maksim trankov completely dominating the event with the highestal for the russians because listen to this statistic. they won the gold medal in this event at every single olympics. from 1966 to 2006. then they were completely shut out last time in vancouver. so tonight, the couple performs again in the long program. it's not just about them winning. it's about redemption for the entire country when it comes to this event. which brings us to tonight's highlights beyond the pairs figure skating. four-time olympic medalist shani davis of the u.s. competes in the 100-meter speed skating men's. women's downhill tonight. i don't want to spoil this, if you go on google, you can see the outcome, but there is a very exciting outcome when it comes to the downhill. there's a tie, believe it or not. very rare in olympic history. women's halfpipe in snowboarding. we'll see whether or not the snow conditions are any better there. and then the luge doubles as well. remember, you can watch on cnbc tonight curling, as always, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. during the wint

russians filled with pride after tatyana slvolosozhar and maksim trankov won in the pairs in figure skating the first time a host country has done that in 78 years. and in a highly competitive field, americans marissa castelli and simon shnapir placed ninth. a different sort of dancing. lolo jones posting video of a sidewalk danceoff between teammate jasmine fenlater and a member of the jamaican bobsled team. all right. so awesome dancing there. but here's what we have to look forward to tonight with american skeleton race, second heading into tomorrow's final, we'll also be seeing the men's slo slopesty slopestyle, men's figure skating and much more. very exciting night. >> very tight competition in the men's figure skating to look forward to. who's keeping track at home of the medal count? here we go, norway on top, 13 medals overall. the u.s. moves into second now with 12 medals. and our crowd likes that. followed by canada and the netherlands with ten each. >> catching up. >> catch us up on the other news. >>> news making waves in the television world this morning, comcast, our parent c