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. >>> coming up later this morning on "today," a live interview with olympic superstar simone biles,man's best friend. a man's dog waited outside a hospital in turkey where the owner was being treated. when family members tried to take the pooch home, she escaped and found her way back to the hospital she was finally reunited with her owner after he was discharged and sent home look how excited and the tail waggg. i hopein >>> right now at 4:30, reprioritizing the rollout. the big switch the state might make as millions of californians anxiously await their covid vaccines. could it change your place in line? >>> plus, years later, the heartbreak will never fade for families of those killed in the deadly warehouse fire in oakland. the plea deal, the founder of the ghost ship warehouse is expected to take in just a few hours. >>> and a live look outside on the bay bridge, where the roads are soggy for this friday morning. spot the showers across the bay area. meteorologist kari hall tracking how long this wet weather will linger this weekend,

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keeps killing it imagine her seeing a simone biles tweet.mething like that with your new knee. >> yeah, i get -- >> all your new parts. >> get up and lay down >>> just ahead, what's the quickest, healthiest breakfast out there? the answer may not be what you think it is. well, on "start today," the eye-opening advice and recipes i picked up from a health and fitness guru you're going to >>> plus, we honored larry king he excelled on the field he was quite the leader off the field, as well this morning, we'll revisit our conversation almost a year ago when we talked about the pressure of living up to the expectations the hardest period of his life he was very specific about how he wanted to be remembered. >> that moment when you asked him who he thought was the best player -- >> i loved that. >> -- the way he answers that question is everything >> it is >> i'm with you. >> he showed so much personality in the moment. incredible >>> also in the "3rd hour," two stars for the price of one daveed diggs and jennifer connelly talking about "snowpie

near perfect score of 9.95 and praise from some of her heroes, including olympic gold medallist simone biles on black culture and bring it to the gymnastics world. that's what i feel like i did. >> yes, you did. let's bring that to the olympics. our first low to the heartbreak of watching the one you love turn and walk away.six-month-ola weigh in but she wasn't ready to say good-bye to her handler. not yet. she holds on, gripping the zookeeper's leg with both paws as he walks away. just slides right across the floor with her. eventually, he is able to pry her off as she makes one last desperate plea before giving up and rolling over, exhausted from loving so deeply. the first giant chinese panda born in south korea made her debut to the public earlier this month. she's a star getting millions of fans online as this clip went viral this week. that is true love right there. our next high to the gift that keeps on giving. the bernie sanders inauguration memes. we sampled the bottomless supply of memes built off the famous image of the vermont senator bundled up durg tin inaugural ceremony. his

it's been viewed over 9 million times on social media and won applause from olympian simone biles.ce to keep us all moving on the dance floor. congratulations to mia dennis. >> dana: incredible. can't wait to see her on the olympics when we have those again. jesse? >> jesse: let's get back to what i do best. you want to see a little baby ninja? check this kid out. >> dana: is that real? >> jesse: the ultimate fruit ninja. a little karate chop on the pineapple. >> dagen: i get it... >> jesse: you called me out on fake news? >> dana: it's been a long day! greg, go ahead. greg, it's going to be a long day forever because you got to show show on 9:00 a.m. let's see this. greg, our pandas hideous monsters pretend to be adorable playthings quiz? let's look at this video. our panda my if you can play this, our pandas hideous or are they adorable playthings? my theory is they are pretend to be a fun loving until they can get close enough to rip your face off. it does appear to be very, very adorable. doesn't want him to leave. isn't that cute? i think we have other tape of pandas. but he w

. >> reporter: word on thursday that the tokyo olympics were about to be canceled gave simone biles a case of deja vu. >> i did not know what to think. i was like, oh, goodness here we go again. >> but today japanese officials denied reports of a consolation. >> we are confident about the game this is summer. >> reporter: vowing to move forward in six months after last summer's delay. >> it is kind of crazy, but it is to be expected. we are in a pandemic so we're kind of ready for whatever life throws at us at this point. >> reporter: the renewed commitment comes as much of japan is under a state of emergency from a new wave of covid infections vaccinations in japan are still a month away and polls show up to 80% of people there do not want the games to be held this summer >> public opinion always matters. but i think that just reinforces for us the need to make sure that people do understand that sports actually is quite good at this >> reporter: if the olympics do take place, the atmosphere will likely be different. including the possibility of fewer or no fans in attendance to watc

olympic gold medalist simone biles saying, this was so fun to watch. keep killing it. as a woman and of course, i had to incorporate a lot of parts of my culture. she danced through this whole thing in addition to all that tumbling. look at her go. by the way, she won. >> she's good. she's good. >> first place with this routine. >> she's good. you should watch the whole routine. so creative, so entertaining. she's beautiful. >>> coming up, peyton manning. anook at h new super bowl commercial. he's here live. come on back. come on back. o the builders. no matter what goes wrong in this country they're out there. look to the families. the communities. every small town, city and schoolyard. and know that they will endure. because in this country, we build with something stronger than brick or steel. we build with each other. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to "gma" from >> reporter: welcome back to "gma" from norwalk, connecticut. sunny, but chilly. here's what it looks like in california. a little rainbow there in the pacific. beautiful shot. >>> coming up -- how to sharpen up

. >>> coming up tomorrow on "today," we're excited to catc up with one of our favorites, simone biles> we love it. she always makes us smile. >>> let's get one final check of the weather this hour. al, what you got >> we are looking at the weekend ahead and always nice to do that mountain snow is out west. sunshine from the plains into texas. lake-effect snow continues in the northeast. for saturday, a winter chill continues with still some lake-effect snow a wide swath of snow from the plains all the way to the rockies. sunny and mild from the gulf to texas. sunday windy in the northeast and parts of new england more snow stretching from th rockies into the great lakes, and a heavy storm developing with lots of rain down through the gulf another storm moving in to the west coast this is just the beginning of a stormy season and pattern that's going to be developing out there. that's what's going on around the >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. yes, enjoy the sunshine today, this is the last little bit of it, highs in the mid-60s in the valleys and sunshine. but then by to

fellow gymnast and olympic champion simone biles tweeting, do the damn thing, girl.dy's girl. i look up to him so much wanted to shout him out and pay a tribute to him. >> reporter: nia's dad casey has been her biggest fan since day one. they share a special bond. >> words can't describe how proud of her i am. >> reporter: though he has been watching nia her entire life, he agrees, her latest performance was something special. >> i think i was just as much as in awe as the rest of the world. there's some aspect of the performance that touched everyone to see that impact, just awesome. >> awesome indeed. we should mention, that performance earned nia the pac-12 women's gymnastics specialist of the week >> the best part, we have nia dennis with us right now nia, good morning. >> hi, nia. >> good morning. thank you so much for having me. >> you know, i was thinking about the fact that the stands were empty during that performance, and then imagining the roar you would have had if they'd been full then i thought, you know what, the roar you're getting from the internet,

warnock is simone biles, ossoff is the other young laud i dids on the team. going to get the tens and the tens and the tens. that's how it works. warnock is much more well known. baptist church, well known throughout the state. he already had a state. he is a georgia native, unlike his opponent. kelly loeffler is from illinois. nothing wrong with being an import but she doesn't have a history there. doesn't have a history in the state. there is a sense that she bought her state, came in as this rich lady to waft in. that's not me saying that. that's doug collins, who ran a vicious campaign against her in the primary and set her up as this inauthentic figure. so, she comes in with a lot more deficits than perdue, whose cousin sunny perdue, used to be governor of georgia. so, he's got a family with a long history in the state. so does warnock. you've got to realize loeffler is the weakest link. she's the one with the least history. then she ran a campaign in which she attacked ebenezer baptist church and its pastor. then the focus has been on beating up the bla