today show live from vancouver is seconds away. hope to see you on monday morning. see you then. bye. good morning. evan almighty. evan lysacek with the skate of his life! lysacek wins the gold! on the biggest night of his skating life, evan lysacek out-duels reigning olympic champ evgeny plushenko to win gold in men s figure skating, america s first in that event in 22 years. and after dazzling the world last night, he s charming the crowd here on grouse mountain today, friday, february 19th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a friday morning, as we take a beautiful look down at the city of vancouver from high atop grouse mountain. i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. and i was at the finals last night to see evan win the gold medal, and may i just say for the record, yes! it s so great! it was so great! you re giddy, even if you didn t get any sleep. i got two hours. evan s here. he got no
we re back now with more of today on a friday morning, the 19th day of february 2010. a nice look at grouse mountain high above the city of vancouver, british columbia. the start of the eighth day of competition here at the xxi winter olympics. i m matt lauer along with meredith vieira, ann curry and al roker. and this morning, tiger woods is speaking out about the scandal he s involved in and the state of his marriage. we re going to have more on that in a live report in a couple of minutes. also ahead, team usa built their lead in the medal count on thursday, led by evan lysacek s gold medal in the men s figure skating. first time an american man has won the gold since 1988 when brian boitano did it. we re going to have more with him, with evan, in just a bit. yeah, and his was not even the only great performance by a u.s. person in this olympics, because julia mancuso won silver to tie bode miller as our country s most decorated olympic skier. we re going to hear