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u.s. ski and snowboarding team will compete here at the ski resort in sochi. an area with vast narrow roads and rugged terrain. does that make evacuating the u.s. ski team from an area particularly challenging? >> well, any time you have a limitation on entering egress points, it definitely presents a level of challenge. >> but how much can a private security firm really do in the event of an attack? >> in our city for example if we have an incident, the first thing they do is close bridges and tunnels. the same thing's going to happen over there. they're going to lock it down. no private security firm's going to walk in there and suddenly have them abandon their procedures. >> global rescue admits that while the russians are in charge, their value lies in providing an extra layer of protection especially when the athletes are traveling to and from the games. >> if you're on the outside, you're pretty much on your own. and that's unfortunately the reality of this situation. >> but richards points out there is a silver lining. >> this terror threat to the games,

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u.s. ski team. someone big celebrities gathered at pebble beach today. it was a lot of fun. >> this might be the only place in northern that they are -- northern california they are hoping the rain could hold off. the wednesday before the tournament they have the celebrity challenge with the better known amateurs and celebrities playing in the tournament. this year one that's featured is not a stranger to northern california sport fans. aaron rodgers who made a nice birdie putt. this came coupe to the 18th. because of -- down to the 18th. it was kenny d making a long par putt. that put the pressure on lucas black. the birdie was not short because andy garcia made a great approach. rogers understands the importance of this tournament tournament started by bing crosby. it the most nerve-racking thing i do all year. staying out of the way. not playing music, all things i like to do on a regular basis with the group i usually play with. this is fun, it's an incredible venue. the hospitality is great. the fans are great. hopefully the weather holds up. it's f

u.s. ski team. college basketball up top... ...pac-12 sunday for the ladies...zona at stanfo. ...script a little differen but the result...the same... ver from the >>> the machine keeps rolling along. college basketball up top. pac-12 on sunday for the ladies. arizona at stanford. stretched a little different, the results the same. this was over from the beginning. arizona lost 23 straight going in. sam allson, 5 of the cardinals 103 pointers. the entire roster got that today. up 40 at one point. 15 points, 9 rebounds, coasting, 74-48, earning a bye. >> it was a great game for us. so many people got to come in and so many contributed our coach talks about i love playing but it gives other people an opportunity to come out and get experience come march. i am all about it. >> let's talk about you, young lady, driving down the road i was like how could see be a senior, you just got here it seems like. >> i know, time flies, time flies, i am sort of bad. thissum iser i was thinking oh, man, my last chance, my last few days, few weeks, so, i am milking it but i am su

u.s. ski team. >>> a weather alert faesaffecti the bay area. the rain coming down, rob mayeda coming up in just a few minutes. >>> an officer shot and injured a carjacking suspect. the suspect threatened a resident with a shotgun and demanded his vehicle just about 3:00 in the morning. this is down the street from the san jose country sclub golf course. they found the suspect a few blocks away and stopped him after a short chase. police say he is expected to survive his swrrys. >>> nearly 9 million pounds of beef have been recalled. no reported illnesses have been tied to the products which were produced during the last year. for more information you can visit our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> and coming up next, an in depth interview with olympian and bay area native, brian boitano. what he thinks about being picked as part of the u.s. delegation to the olympics. >>> and we're tracking more rain around the bay area. more snow in the sierra than we've seen, possibly, in a year. those snowfall totals coming up . >>> this week, president obama tol

u.s. ski team. can people change?ell, that's a -- that is a tough one, but i would say yes, people can change. that's what i believe, anyway, and i will till the day i die. you do realize you're proving the exact opposite of your point. see? she's changed. she used to be very supportive of me. [ beep ] claire: come on. [ beep ] [ television plays loudly ] aah. phil! ow, ow! why is it so loud?! my ears are bleeding. i don't know! make it stop! i just installed a sweet home-theater system in the family room. the, um... the trouble is, claire struggles with technology of any kind. i mean, remotes, cellphones, computers... haley, have you seen my blue --

u.s. ski team. >>> welcome back. oranges will start costing you more at the grocery store.n california a week of freezing temperatures back in december now costing millis citrus growers about $441 million lost in naval and mandarin oranges as well as the lemon crop as well because of the cold. juice prices won't be affected. the majority of the citrus crop is eaten there. >>> the honeymoon is over for children in stafford county. theyave to make up some of the snow days they have enjoyed this winter. that means going to school on president's day. students also have classes all day on april 18th, may 23rd and june 11th. school was supposed to get out early on those days. a lot of school systems working that now, how to make up for lost school days. i'm hoping. >> they are not done yet. they have to figure out how to do it more i'm betting here. here's a pretty picture. tomorrow morning, don't expect to see that, right, tom? >>> exactly. we are predawn in washington. we'll have our temperatures hold below freezing under this partly cloudy sky. time for weather and traffic on

u.s. ski team. . >> runs of brave he is souls gathered yesterday at the aquatic park to take a chilly plungeal polar lunch and 5q run raising money for special olympics northern california. teams raised $125 each which paid for one season of sports instruction. and competition at no cost to special olympic athletes. the next polar plunge will be held march 2nd in lake tahoe. lisa, it makes me shiver just looking at that. >> certainly. and it is still cool out here with temperatures in the 40s with the fog in some of our valves here's the plan for the rest of the morning. the fog peels back. as it does, it reveals plenty of sunshine. but with that on shore push we will have numbers cooler at the coast with low 60s there. elsewhere look for upper 60s to return for oakland, fremont and palo alto, and low 70s make a comeback in the north bay and our east bay valley. a couple dry days before the rain comes midday wednesday. more rain friday. thank you, lisa. that's it for us. we are off a bit early this morning because of nba basketball. next, a battle between western conference powers, the clipp

u.s. ski team. aren't as bad as yesterday.e wet than snowy. the sierra ski resorts e being pummeled with snow. reporter ken rudulph is at boreal. angry people who have spent lot of money to watch the olympics. why they are >>> it looks like the temperatures are going to continue to drop and we are going to 18 inches more of snow in the tahoe area. >> reporter: it was rain in the higher elevations was that a concern in. >> it always is. the temperatures dropped this morning and continue to drop throughout the day. 7200 feet the fact that the majority of it came in snow it is fantastic. we want more snow but it gives us a boost to the base that we already had on our snow making operation. we are continuing to expand the terrain. we opened up to another lift and open to 210 acres open. >> reporter: it is here, the first storm of the season paying off for this resort. >>> a lot of skiers and snowboarders in sochi as well. but, less people. why they are having trouble getting into the venues. >>> and meet "the beatles." they rocked the ed sullivan

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u.s. ski team. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> good morning at 5:00 on inday. hope you had a great but wet weekend. i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. it was great all around because we got a lot of rain. >> little spring cleaning, taxes, you can wear the pajamas and just sit around without feeling guilty or watching the radar or the activity going on to the north where the storm lived up to its billing. good news on live doppler 7 hd, a drying trend with the rain. it is damp outside, fog is forming, still

u.s. ski team was hoping this real-life rocket science would help them do. one of the items was this. >> basically it is a missile guidance system brought down to the size of a quarter. >> reporter: the alpine skier is wearing the device today, capturing millions of data points and speed and force and g force, all for his coaches to analyze. >> this takes it to an entirely different level. >> reporter: when the difference between first, second and third can be just a hundredth of a second, the u.s. olympians hope their investment in technology will place them at the top of the podium. if you want to hit top speed, who better to ask than the people who make fighter jets. the u.s. speed skating team has partnered with lockheed martin and under armor to design the mach 39. a suit more aerodynamic than anything seen in the sport before. in order to fly farther, u.s. ski jumpers practice their form in specially designed wind tunnels. but the real secrets may be held deep inside the snowboard and skier center of excellence in park city, utah. >> this is a little b

u.s. athletes arrived in sochi this week. 230 members are on the usa team. it's the all-time largest delegation of any nation in winter games history. among them is the first-ever u.s. olympic female skio compete this year is an incredible feat in and of itself. ted rowlands has their inspiring story. >> she's super balanced -- >> reporter: for jessica jerome, the feeling of a perfect jump is like nothing else. >> effortless, clean and you just float. >> reporter: jessica's incredible olympic journey started with this jump at the age of 7. >> number 28, jessica jerome. >> good jump, jess! >> reporter: she came home one day and announce shed wanted to ski jump, and i had no idea what she was talking about. >> reporter: within a few years, jessica and a few of her friends from park city, utah were competing, hitting jumps at 60-plus miles an hour, right alongside the boys. >> we talked back, and you couldn't tell the difference. >> reporter: it was decided that women would only be able to compete against each other. >> which was great for us, because we had our own -- we wanted our own competitions, but then they would say, well, you just don't have the depth that the guys have. >> repo

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u.s. ski team. >>> tonight a manhunt has just ended for an escaped quadruple murderer.um security prison in michigan sunday night. a prison spokesperson said they believe he acted alone, with no assistance. >> he made his way up to our perimeter fences and then moved them, bent them. he got through the fences and was able to flee on foot. >> he wasn't wearing typical prisoner garb either. apparently, he was in a kitchen uniform, which also might have helped him blend in with the snow at the prison during the escape. authorities say he then abducted a woman with a box cutter and drove with her over 100 miles to elkhart county, indiana, where they stopped for gas. the woman was able to call 911. >> i'm being held -- i'm hostage to an escaped convict. from the ionia correctional facility. >> you're being held hostage? >> yes. >> she snuck away and locked herself in a restroom, where she stayed unharmed until police arrived. elliot fled. authorities say that after a short chase tonight he was captured in a stolen vehicle in laporte, indiana. elliot was serving life for kill

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u.s. ski team. flames. christin ayers is in east oakland. christin? >>> breaking news tonight, a huge fire going on in east oakland right now. an old grocery store going up in flames. >> reporter: let's get right to the video so you can see what it looks hike. flames are shooting out of an appan donned building here if this area at 54th and international. it's a part of the three-alarm fires as firefighters were working on through this evening. apparently the flames are so intense at one point where the firefighters, they actually had to be removed from the roof where they were trying to fight the flames. again these flames, they are out. very smoky here at 54th and international and no report that anyone has been hurt. again this was an abandoned building, hoping no one was inside. it's the very latest reporting live, christin ayers. >>> pleasanton police called police asking to do a welfare check on a woman depressed and suicidal. when hayward police showed up, neighbors reported hearing five gunshots being fired. no word on the woman's condition to

u.s. ski team. burglar this weekend. and is >>> an east bay business owner who was worried about crime came face-to-face with a burglar this weekend. and it was his teenager who came to the rescue. this happened at tony's shoes on b street in downtown hayward. ann notarangelo on the break-in and how a family rallied together. >> the suspect was holding two boxes of boots in his hands. he just yelled, what are you doing here? >> reporter: just before 7 a.m., jose juarez woke up to the sound of breaking glass. within minutes, police got the call there was a burglar in process, with a twist. juarez was holding down the suspect. >> he encountered the suspect, who immediately began punching him in the face. the store owner fought back. during the struggle, they fell to the ground. >> reporter: juarez, his wife, a 16-year-old son and two younger children were living in the upstairs apartment to try to prevent this very thing from happening, after an attempted theft earlier in the week. but police say this was more than a theft

u.s. ski team. >>> abc7 news begins with breaking news. >> the breaking news is in san francisco this morningch is on for the hit-and-run accident driver who ran over a man and last him fighting for his life outside of city hall. abc7 news cover is on the scene. cornell? >> southbound van necessary is -- van fess is -- van ness is closed after a hit-and-run accident left a man in his 50's fighting for his life. he was crossing van ness in the crosswalk toward city hall and he was struck by a vehicle headed south on van ness. the man was treated by paramedics at the scene and transported to the hospital. the vehicle is described "dark colored sedan or s.u.v." the car last the seen and has not been found by police. the victim was pulling a recycling bin cross the street because of the bottles and cans and

u.s. ski team. night. developing news tonig dangerous attack on drivers. >> police tonight searching for whoever is throwing water bottles at the windshield of moving car in the north bay. >> i'm in for carolyn tonight. incidents happened along state route 12 west of highway 101 in santa rose all within a few miles of each other. >> allen is there tonight on the story. >> school bus traveling down occidental road at stone point in santa rosa today when a passenger from oncoming car threw a bolts at it. >> hit the become of the mirror pwraebingt right here and it broke out the glass and mirror. >> second attack on school bus. last week another bottle shattered the windshield of this bus while driving in the same area. >> broken glass embedded in the driver hand as well as in her eye. >>reporter: yesterday 3 other cars attacked along state route 12 not far away. chp says water bolts lick this hammered a soft bull size hole in two windshield and shattered another. drivers sprayed with glass. >> combined speed

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u.s. ski team. >>> curling has been around for at least 500 years. but not a whole lot of people know much about the olympic sport. the san francisco bay area curling club always takes this opportunity during the winter games to try to change that. and today showed people how to play. >> kimberly tere live with more on how the sports is connected to a well-known 49er player. >> reporter: that's right. right now, on the ice, you see a very popular olympic sport, figure skating. but earlier this afternoon, hundreds came out to try their hand at curling. the simple but very intricate sport consists of two teams taking turns sliding very heavy polished stones across ice. the goal, of course, to hit a circular target called the house. the san francisco bay area curling club holds lessons year round. during the olympics, interest peaks. many of the people playing today actually told us they'd watched curling on the olympics. some mentioned making fun of it, seeming simplicity, joking they could easily make it onto an olympic curling team. but then they act

u.s. ski team. >>> some netflix users will be getting a better experience.he los gatos streaming video service has agreed to pay comcast for direct access to the cable company's high-speed network. that means customers will get faster streaming speeds while watching movies and tv programs. no word on the terms of the deal. this comes just after comcast agreed to buy time warner cable for $45 billion. comcast is the parent company of nbc bay area. >>> google will soon know you better than your spouse. that is the out rage just claim by top executives at the tech giant. google's director of engineering says he's working on a computer system that will know the answer to your question before you've asked it. google believes that understanding what language means is the key to teaching machines to think, predicting computers will outsmart humans by the year 2029. >> doesn't that sound crazy? >> a little crazy. he as smart guy, though. >> he's a brilliant man. anyway. >> so is henry. >> yes, and he's a handsome man too. >> oh, well thank you. >> we like the glasse

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u.s. ski team. >>> in 2014 gay marriage is on the march across america and gays and lesbians are now allowedhe u.s. military. but tonight one young man is attempting to go where no openly gay man has gone before -- an nfl locker room. his name is michael sam. he's an all-american defensive lineman with a fascinating back story. and ever since he came out on espn's "outside the lines," reaction has been pouring in from across the league. not all of it positive. here's chris connelly. >> sam taking it in for the mizzou touchdown! >> this is just telling someone that hey, i'm gay and that's it. it's nothing -- it's not a big deal to me. >> right there because that's all it takes. >> reporter: it has proven to be a big deal to everyone else. michael sam, now the first openly gay nfl draft prospect, out and proud, he says. speaking with ease about dating another man back at the university of missouri. >> i know what i want. i know that i can have a relationship now with a man. we went out publicly. we had dinners together. movies. holding hands. >> reporter: will others in the nfl have a problem?

u.s. ski team. >>> there's a lot that goes on in a fully automatic weapon when it's firing at top speed. guys have captured it all, of course, with their slow-mo cameras. 18,000 frames per second. gavin and dan are in alabama. they chose to focus their high-speed camera on the chamber this time instead of watching the bullets come out of the barrel because they were really interested to see that mechanism work so quickly. dan is in the british army and he has that gun experience but gav really only has experience with an xbox controller and now it's gav's turn and he was instructed to just hold the trigger and you can see that rifle just push him back and he really doesn't have much control over it. you can see it kind of climb up. then he gains control of it, brings it back down and they kind of get a laugh out of it. >> you did crap yourself. >> yeah. >> gav was also interested in slow-motion how long it took his eyes to blink after that first round was fired. >> there goes the eye. >> oh. >> just now blinking. >> yeah. he's blinking. >>> the song "let it go" from the hit disney animat

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u.s. ski team. right. great news. this is great news for california. >> that was the reaction on the news at 9:00 from a california lottery official after learning someone in the bay area picked all five numbers plus the powerball. >> the ticket, the only winning ticket is worth $425 million. the 6th biggest jackpot in lottery history. >> good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama dates in for carolyn johnson. someone just got super rich. >>abc7 news reporter sergio guintana -- quintana is live where the winning ticket was sold. >> that's the jackpot that says it stands at $400 million. as you mentioned, powerball says there has been such a swell of tickets sold today that the actual jackpot is at $425 million. the winning ticket was sold right out of that machine right there at this station in mill pea dis. since the winning ticket was sold here, the owners of the station will get a $1 million bonus. the clerks here tell us that ticket might have been sold sometime today. unfortunately the california lottery authority