. >> mikaela shiffrin wins! >> chloe kim, you're olympic champion. >> and craig has made his way to milan to kick off our countdown today wednesday, february 12th, 2025. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, and craig melvin, live from milan, italy. >> hi there, everybody. good morning. welcome to "today." nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. do you want to help me say buongiorno? this is where the eyes of the world will be. craig? >> buongiorno to you. laura, good to see you. it was very important that i come do a little recon, research for you ladies and the show. one year out, as you mentioned. this is the first time the winter games are split between two cities, milan and 160 miles north, cortina, as well. we will give you a preview while a few of the athletes are going to join us. mike tirico is here to give us expert analysis. by the way, there will be some food. there will be some drink. and i'll take you inside the dome behind

nick shiffrin has more. amra was established after the creation of the state of israel to serve the palestinian population. it has come to provide some six million palestinians in gaza and the occupied territories not only humanitarian assistance but education and healthcare. they help commit the hamas terror attacks israel says. the u.n. has said nine amra staff may have been involved and were fired. to understand the future, we get two views. the director of amra's washington, d.c. office and asa farayem with the israeli defense forces now a fellow with the washington institute for middle east policies. welcome to the news hour let me start with you. what is going on with amra as we said earlier there is an official ban that has gone in effect but you're still operating. what's the status? >> all amra facilities remained open. save our field headquarters in jerusalem. in fact, we had 400 medical consultations in east jerusalem alone. school is going to reopen again on sunday. in gaza, we are -- our interna

if too many c's member shiffrin thank you so much. >> i have a couple more questions. one is you said that part of the effort of this was to make it simpler like how is this simpler? that's great. what do we streamline? so i think the biggest simplification is that we went from, you know, a dozen different category. so if you were a business and you were filing you had to find your business activity, figure out which one you were in. it's not just a simple rate question you had each category had its own formula for how to calculate the tax that meant that if they made a mistake i'm going to say that very generously let's say they made a mistake or let's say they took an aggressive position and picked a different category with a more favorable calculation. the difference could be $20 million like it could be these huge swings. and so then what would happen is we would figure that out in an audit and that would lead to a lot of litigation because we would say hey, you owe this with penalties and interest it. but you know, i think beyond just that confusion between the ca