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Seawall by a pair of rogue waves. they were watching a surfing contest south of san francisco. at least 13 people were injured, some with broken bones. the powerful waves pushed spectators on to a rocky beach. the father of the late georgian luger who was killed on friday tell nbcs stephanie gosk has son was scared about the speed of the track but said he would still race because he was there to go as fast as he could. it comes amid a "wall street journal" report that says prior to the crash t...

Happened, killing the 21-year-old geor january sgian e was to blame and not the track. ive talked to coaches and officials and think it was inappropriate. clearly it is the fastest track in the world and seems to be a contradiction not a problem with the track and make major changes. they lower the start making a lot of athletes unhappy because it changed, you know, the game for them. they tweaked with the ice. they put the wall up on the 16th curve where the accident happened. so all these chan...

Luge federation had discussed the dangers posed to athletes by the sports increasing speed. this track here in vancouver thought to be among the fastest, if not the fastest, in the world. although members considered limiting speeds to 85 miles per hour on future courses, the changes would not have applied to the track at whistler where the 21-year-old georgian died. although officials blame human error in the crash, they have raised the wall around the course and altered the starting location to...

Homelessness in vancouver. jamie? >> jamie: its interesting you make that distinction so we can understand it. i want to ask you also about the luge. i know there have been changes made. this is really a topic of conversation, perhaps controversy internationally. whats the latest? >> reporter: well, jea, jamie. it really ramped up yesterday from comments from the president of georgia who took exception to comments made by officials basically pointing to the lugerr being responsible for his own d...

Police and riot gear confronted almost 200 protesters and made seven arrests outside a popular department store selling olympic souvenirs. controversy brewing after the death of the georgian luger. sounds like the uproar over his death is becoming an international issue? >> the controversy has ramped up in the last day or two because the president of georgia came out yesterday and held a news conference and he was critical of comments made by the olympic committee and also canadian officials abo...

Vancouver luge officials who concluded it was human error that caused the death of that luger. here is what he had to say. >> i dont claim to no all the technical details, but one thing i know for sure, that no sport mistakes is supposed to lead to a death, no sports mistake is supposed to be fatal. >> reporter: he went on to say that the luger who was killed was very experienced. he came from a long line of lugers and he doesnt know what kind of error he may have made but he did not deserve to ...

An athlete killed right before the opening sarah palins yesterday during a practice run on the luge. mark mckay is live from vancouver. many are wondering if his death was human error or was the track just too slick? >> reporter: well, betty, t.j., this happened about six hours before the opening ceremonies so you can imagine the shock that really went through this entire region. there has been an investigation into the deadly mishap on the whistler sliding centre on friday. the bc coroners offi...

Doesnt hurt to be number 1 but it does hurt when youre the only 1. and akamai handled this load. same thing happened to amazon. they had a configuration problem. this is one of these things. i look at it this way. that is human error. the fact is a small error like that, if you saw the cascading impact it had. if you go to downdetector.com, you can see the huge spikes where this went down. we depend on this content to transact commerce and business. neil, im looking at it from the other side wha...

>> well, i mean, i agree. i agree with the fact that, i mean, if his message is the fact that there are over 3,000 people that did not have to die in the aftermath of the hurricane and that the result was not -- i guess i would disagree with the premise that he had in terms of so many people dying as a result of the fact that it was a big hurricane. because a lot of what happened had to do with human error. human error, fema error, federal assistance error, local assistance error. the fact that ...

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