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Seen anything like it. to paducah, kentucky. hard work it takes to win. during a championship game between murray state and southeast missouri, murray states canon scrambled to get the loose ball and on his knees near the half court line. nothing but net before the buzzer. his winning basket helped them clench the regular season. good for him. a boston area robber good beating from a 75-year-old grandma. look at her go. police say this granny has lots of gusto. thats a price scanner she is h...

Eastwood. theyre all hippies. >> stop it. >> did you see the press conference afterwards. a half-pipe, a full pipe in the press conference. >> you guys sound like your parents watching elvis on the ed sullivan show. >> why is he moving his hips that way? its just not natural. >> maybe this will appeal to you more. lindsey vonn, the downhill skier, she was folk focused on shin injury. it healed in time and she came back and won. today, shes got one of the combined races with slalom and downhill, ...

A white-hot wednesday that didnt disappoint. a record setting day for american athletes with the most medals for team usa in any single day of any winter olympics. >> oh! and there it is! oh! >> one of them, a repeat gold to the king of the half-pipe, shaun white. soared above the competition with the now-famous turn, mctwist 1260 on the second run to seal the gold and on the downhill -- >> ive given up everything for this. it means everything to me. >> an emotional lindsey vonn. her gold medal ...

Half-pipe. how does he do it? >> its kind of a mindset you have to take where you basically initiate the first trick and then normally land right about here, you go in for the second flip and its all commitment from there. >> im joined by austin murphy and "sports illustrated." put this into perspective. when you see it, its hard to believe anyone can pull this off especially with the graphics. how far ahead of other snowboarders is white zblus terms of his abilities? >> you know, shaun was on t...

And boy, did they meet them. best day in any winter games ever. our own willie geist is soaking it all in. in vancouver. he was arrested briefly for trying to avoech the vice president but its all better now. big day for the usa, willie. >> yeah. got a real credential. thats why it was a big day to start with so im here legally for the first time and historically big day. the best as you said as an american winter olympic team. three golds. and the headliner last night was shaun white. they call...

>> i fought a very hard race and im happy, man. i won another silver medal and it feels amazing. >> reporter: teammate j.r. celski took the bronze. his first ever and quite a feat after his career was almost cut short at trials when a blade sliced his thigh. >> i told myself before it was probably going to be one of the craziest races ive ever seen. >> reporter: on the long track americans came up short, failing to medal in the 5,000. later today usa womens hockey is expected to freeze out china...

>> reporter: everyone is looking at her, of course, the downhill and super "g" but there are other stars that we can also watch here starting with shani davis. he doesnt support any support from the u.s. team. he will not be participating in the team events. he, of course, was the first african-american to win. and then apolo anton ohno. he has five medals. thats tied for the most for a male in a winter olympics. hes trying to beat bonnie blair. hell have four events to do that. then we go to sh...

City. got to build you a little half pipe in new york, that will be a good one for your husband, kiran, to get to work on for the kids. >> goodness, i think he would fall a lot if he tried that. >> end up in a great youtube video. >> like the slip and slide one, except he wouldnt land in the pool. thanks, rob. this mornings top stories minutes away, including an eye-opening assessment of the terror assessment. why major intel agency think an attack coming in the next few months. a deadly morni...

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Told. ann, im going to offer our viewers a spoiler alert really quickly. close your eyes, cover your ears. dont change the channel though. well give you a few seconds. there we go. david wise of reno, nevada, just claimed gold in the mens ski ha half-pipe. . >> im actually in krasnaya p y polyana which is the mountain venue. up there it was really miserable. they had very wet snow, and, in fact, in the mens ski halfpipe tonight, david wise, he posted a 92 on his first run, and on his