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>> who doesnt like a new bed. right? >> from all of us here, thanks welcome to "world news," where right here tonight, millions of americans are battling the fast, furious and frozen finale of a record-breaking storm. ice falling like missiles. firefighters barely able to see the flames. drivers stranded in their cars. and 500,000 americans without power on a dark and stormy night. american outrage. 65 of the most dangerous men in the world, freed from prison in afghanistan. why? your cabl...

Event, only the third time in winter olympic history. in figure skating, experts telling us the skaters are jumping farther than ever before. >> its unbelievably hard. theyre going through the air, three rotations, four rotations, and theyre landing basically on a butter knife. >> reporter: watch american pair skaters marissa castelli and simon shnapir. watch again. see how high she goes. keep in mind, hes 64". look, she rotates four times, barely landing it. were seeing moves rarely displayed i...

Experienced soviets a big-time run for their money. they won the game by a score of 4-3. here in the final seconds of the game as called by al michaels. >> five seconds left in the game. >> do you believe in miracles? >> yes! >> unbelievable. >> the u.s. went on to win the gold medal with the win over finland. >> that was incredible. i remember it very well. we move to 1984. summer games in los angeles. standout gymnast mary lou retton. just weeks before the olympics she underwent surgery for ...

>> russia hasnt won an olympic title in skating since 2006. that changed today when team figure skating ended and the host country claimed its first gold at these games. the man who pushed them over the top, 31-year-old yevgeny plushenko, the individual gold medalist from 2006. team usa took bronze. as meryl davis and charlie white wowed the audience with an arraign of spins and lifts. in snowboarding slope style, the u.s. did even better. 23-year-old jamie anderson from south lake tahoe, califo...

>> reporter: how do you do that in an olympic final? >> i dont know. thats my thought process. >> reporter: organizers suggested they do know why some of the venues look so empty, despite statements that 92s are of tickets were sold. a lot of people, they suggest, are showing up late. >> russians like to come to the event not prior by as close as possible. >> reporter: figure skating is drawing crowds and photos of ashley wagner went viral, one after her performance, the other reacting to her sc...

Started to pay off. winning back-to-back national championships. endorsement deals followed from cover girl to hilton. >> be a weekender like ashley wagner. >> reporter: and although the old demons returned last month in boston, shes got one more chance for a comeback. >> i have cried and screamed and laughed, im so spent right now. just because -- i am an olympian. >> reporter: an olympian with something to prove to fans and to herself. besides the team skate, ashley is one of three american wo...

Missed jump. she wanted to quit. >> to come so close to your dreams coming true and not really achieving it is devastating. >> reporter: but the survivor in her kicked in so ashley decided to take a huge risk and move across the country to california to train with the legendary coach john nix, even though there was no guarantee he would take her on. at 19 she gave herself a year to become a national champion, and nix saw in her that fight. >> get. get it. get it! >> people who come back from def...

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Games delegation. chris jansing is here with us tonight with a look at some of the americans we should be keeping an eye on. were going to hold you to each one of these. >> reporter: all right, we shall see. but in the meantime, you know one of the great thrills of every olympics is that something will happen that will absolutely shock us. something will surprise and amaze you. olympics, after all, are where champions are made. and here are just some of the americans to watch. there is a pervasi...

Finally, what if the u.s. olympic teams official yogurt never made it over here to be enjoyed by all those olympians? the yogurt is chobani, made in the usa, and there is a pallet containing 5,000 containers in refrigeration in newark airport, and its supposed to be here. the russians say they dont have the right type of customs certificate and dont have proof it meets their sanitary standards. the white house and at least one u.s. senator have intervened, pleading with the russians to not to be...