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Tarico the new primetime host of our olympics coverage. pyeongchang is around the corner. have you started studying. >> we are getting there. it is a year away. come the you will if a of next year, once football starts we go on a sprint because super bowl sunday happens and then the first night of the olympics will be the following thursday half a world away. we are starting to watch the figure skating the skiing. a lot of the championships for this year are happy happening now. >> we have the s...

We know were not the center of your life but well do our best to help you connect to what is. we watched this woman confront hundreds of riot police alone. holding her ground. even while pelted with stones. the police rattled their heels for more. >> nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel has been in sochi as part of nbcs olympics coverage for the past couple weeks but when intense street fighting broke out in ukraine, richard left the olympics, left sochi and beelined for kiev. richar...

We watched this woman confront hundreds of riot police alone. holding her ground. even while pelted with stones. the police rattled their heels for more. >> nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel has been in sochi as part of nbcs olympics coverage for the past couple weeks but when intense street fighting broke out in ukraine, richard left the olympics, left sochi and beelined for kiev. richard is there now in the middle of the fighting. i want you to see this new reporting he just filed...

2009 that 400 or so solar power plants blanket the southwest, not happening. fewer than 20 were actually not all consumers want to pay more just because something is green and without the subsidies. investors are not saying its not profitable. some environmentalists are backing away from this type of plant, upset at number one, the five square mile footprint, number two, the ugly view, number three, use of water and finally, that birds, they think the solar panels are a lake. when they fly down,...

Olympics coverage begins tonight at 8:00 eastern on nbc. all right. heres a look at some of the stories topping the news now. there will be no jail time for this texas teen who used affluenza as his defense in a drunk driving crash that actually kid four people. in addition to ten years probation the judge did send 16-year-old ethan couch to a rehab facility that this parents will be paying for. a doctor treating the castaway who was adrift at sea for more than a year says his health is dete...

These folks and the folks in the room plainly did, if the republican debates had been a reality tv show, which is kind of what they seemed like a lot of the time, they would have already been signed up for 20 more seasons at this point. the people on that show would have their children doing spin-offs already. they got excited for the republican debates and that part of the primaries. it showed in the numbers. millions of people tuned in for all 20 episodes of the republican debate show. if it h...

>> oh! >> iceberg tsunami. a glacier from greenland melting off the side of a cliff and causing the scare of a lifetime for a boatful of tourists. its video you just have to see. "newsroom" begins right now. and good morning. thank you so much for joining me. im carol costello. we begin this morning in oak creek, wisconsin, the site of the weekend massacre at that sikh temple. for the third straight night, the community has bonded in its grief. and the vigil keeps growing larger. the...

Today. im thomas roberts. we do have olympics coverage right here on msnbc tomorrow with womens soccer qualifying rounds on wednesday, the mens soccer qualifying rounds on thursday. that means im going to be back with you on friday. until then, you can tweet me always. dont go anywhere. "now" with alex wagner is coming up next. hey, thomas. teams obama and romney get back to business or politics as usual. we will compare the presidents choice message with the governors build that attack. plu...

desperately screaming for help. two separate and independent auto analyses say it is not george zimmermans voice. well get more in a live report moments from now. malfunction and pilot error are the two leading theories in the crash today of a commuter plane in russia with 43 people on board. 31 people were skilled. survivors badly hurt. the pilot reportedly was trying to make an emergency landing shortly after take off for reasons still unknown. better from canada, france and britain ...