Helping superheroes fly. Good morning. Bombshell indictment. Special Counsel Robert Mueller announcing charges against 13 russians and three Russian Companies accordingterfere in t. President trump saying he is vindicated and his campaign did not collude with russia. Is he and his Campaign Team out of the woods . What about future attacks . We have every angle covered. Could he have been stopped . The fbi makes a stunning admission that it mishandled a tip about the Florida School shooter when a tipster warned about him weeks before the tragedy. The Florida Governor calling on the fbi director to resign as the president visits florida. Will anything be done to will anything be done to prevent the next one . Winter woes. Another big storm takes aim at the east coast with more than 35 Million People in the crosshairs from virginia to maine. At least half a foot of snow expected in new york and boston. Dylans tracking it all. All that, plus nathan chen with a comeback for the ages. He has it all. Dazzling on the ice, landing five quadruple jumps, an olympic record. Yes was it enough to win an olympic medal . Lindsey vonn misses the podium in her longawaited games. Unfortunately i just made a mistake and thats ski racing, you know. A virtual unknown takes the gold. And its beginning to look a lot like summer . Turns out the surprise sport of these olympics is volleyball. Why some are hoping the summer game becomes a winter staple today, saturday, february 17th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games in pyeongchang, south korea. Welcome to today. Im craig melvin along natalie morales, nice enough to join us while sheinelle enjoys her day off back home and dylan dreyer. Missed you. Ive seen a lot of her around lately. Were olympic buddies. Tough day for the americans here. Really inspirational as well. Those performances by nathan and adam rippon, can i say, i want to give them big hugs. Theyre going to be here this morning. They are. Ill get to do that on behalf of everyone back home who wants to give them hugs. Team usa taking on the olympic athletes from russia on the ice in a few moments. Well have all the olympic action from here in pyeongchang in a few minutes. Lets get to the top story on this saturday morning. That is the bombshell announcement friday that special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 russians for interfering with the 2016 election. Shortly after the inindictment was made public, President Trump insisted that it clearly showed his campaign did not collude with the russians. Nbcs White House CorrespondentKelly Odonnell is near the president s florida who home. Kelly o, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, craig. The president pivoted away from calling the investigation a witch hunt or repeating that Vladimir Putin denied to him that he was involved in the interference. Instead he went on twitter to say that evidence shows that russians began this interference in 2014 before he was a candidate, to rye to claim the Trump Campaign was not involved. The president ignored questions about a sweeping new indictment in the russia probe hours after he had been personally briefed by the Deputy Attorney general. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States. Reporter for more than a year the president repeatedly discredited the russia investigation. Not a story where they talked about collusion. There was none. It was a hoax. Reporter and mocked any suggestion that russia tried to help him. Have you seen any russians in West Virginia or ohio or pennsylvania . Reporter the government now says russians did come to the u. S. Under false pretenses in 2014. To begin collecting information for their 2016 interference. 13 russian nationals and three Russian Companies were indicted to promote discord and interrupt the american electoral system overall. Russians also recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns and stage political rallies. Reporter the government says russian operatives posed as american activists with stolen or Fake Identities and used a u. S. Based Computer Network to conceal their real location. Part of their mission was to spread derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. The indictment also says they made contact with unwitting members, volunteers and supporters of the Trump Campaign. And emphasized unwitting. Theres no allegation in this indictment that any american had knowledge. Reporter the white house seized on that to make a much broader claim using trump favored all caps to say the investigation found no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia, even though that assertion goes beyond the scope of this indictment. And in a separate development involving the former chairman of the Trump Campaign, paul manafort, who has been indicted, prosecutors told the court theyve identified additional banking crimes that relate to his past business practices, although theres no indication yet that theyve added any new charges to the indictment. Manafort says he was innocent of the charges. Craig, natalie . Kelly o donnell there for us in palm beach. Thank you. Nbc news justice and security analyst, matt, good morning to you. Good morning. This seems to be another time well use the word unprecedented, which comes around a lot it seems. But truly is a striking in history when you read through this 37page indictment. Its stunning, the efforts that the russians, that the 13 individuals named and the three companies underwent to undermine a democracy. Walk us through the significance of this indictment. This really was an historic moment for the Justice Department for the United States, in revealing a more sweeping plot to violate u. S. Election law and interfere in our election than anyone knew. We all knew about their activities on social media, but this indictment reveal ace plot that began earlier than we knew, was better financed than we knew at some point, over a Million Dollars a month in budget and extended not just online but to russian intelligence operatives coming to the United States to gather intelligence, recruiting people to attend rallies on the ground and even paying people to attend Hillary Clinton and protest. This was a sweeping conspiracy to violate u. S. Election laws and i think its clear this is just the beginning of muellers investigation and there will likely be further indictments to come. Matt, President Trump did not respond to some shouted questions yesterday at the white house, but he did take to twitter. And this is what the president tweeted yesterday afternoon. He said, in part, russia started their antiu. S. Campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump Campaign did nothing wrong. No collusion. And, again, matt, President Trump for a long time insisted that the whole thing was a sham, was a ruse. Now it appears as if he is acknowledging that russia did, in fact, interfere with our election. What do you make of the tweet and of the president s apparent change of heart . The president continues to behave more like a defendant than a president with regard to this whole investigation. What you would expect a president to do is react not just about himself and about his campaign but what this means for the country and what the government he leads is going to do to respond. We havent seen that from the president. He has now finally at least dropped the idea that this is a hoax but were still not seeing leadership from him to tell the American People what were going to do to prevent this from happening in the future. We just saw this week the intelligence community, intelligence chiefs testify to congress that they believe the russian interference is not over, it will come again in the 2018 mid terms and likely in the 2020 president ial election as well. Matthew miller, so clearly a lot to be did he say sseminated. A lot to be looked at. The president is spending the weekend at his estate in flchlt before he arrived he stopped in parkland. The president met with victims and thanked First Responders as well. This, as outrage grows over an fbi tip about the shooter that the agency now admits it mishandled. Nbcs myr a. Rod rig ez is in florida where the memorial to the 17 victims continues to grow. Maya, good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. In addition to the tip that the fbi received the Sheriffs Office is revealing over the years they received more than 20 calls regarding the suspect shooter. All of this as this weekend more funerals are set for the victims. As family and friends say their final goodbyes to victims of Wednesdays School shooting a knife was stabbed in my heart. Reporter this morning the fbi under fire for its mishandling of a detailed tip in january, warning niklas cruz had a desire to kill. The caller provided information about nikolas cruz and the potential of him becoming a school shooter. The agency admits it did not follow up on the tip. Governor rick scott calling for the fbi directors resignation. That they failed us on this monumentous level is so heartbreaking. Reporter meanwhile the president spending the weekend in nearby maralago stopped by the hospital and the Sheriffs Office praising their response. Very sad Something Like that could happen. But the job the doctors did, the nurses, the hospital, First Responders, law enforcement, really incredible. Reporter but anger is building over how there could be another mass shooting at a school. We want to send a message to these politicians that they cannot allow this to continue. Reporter for debbie hickson, whose husband, chris, died in the shooting he wasnt just a hero on wednesday. He was a hero every day. Reporter the issue is much bigger. It isnt just because the fbi dropped the ball on that particular kid. Its happening all over the place. So, that is a huge problem. Reporter a problem nicole hawkley says shes trying to address through a sandy hook promise. She lost her son, dylan, in that shooting. This can be an incredibly isolating time even with all the support of the world around you and the compassion of the community, you can can still feel lost and theyre not. Reporter the angels you see behind me were originally set up in another nearby town to honor the victims of sandy hook. After what happened on wednes y wednesday, they were moved here to parkland. Craig and natalie . Wow it would be nice not to ever have to see those angels again. I know. Maya. Rod rig ez for us in florida. Thank you. The east coast is gearing up for another winter storm and tens of millions will see snow in the next 24 hours. Dylan is here to tell us what to expect. Its the weekend and its a fastmoving system is the good news. It wont have a huge impact on people trying to get around. Hopefully you can just stay home this weekend. The snow as the storm moves east rain snow line to contend with. For now we have winter storm warnings and advisories in effect. 35 Million People at risk for some sort of wintry weather. As we go through the day today, we will see this storm race out of the midwest, move through the ohio and Tennessee River valleys where it will produce a lot of rain. Once you get into western virginia, it turns over to snow. The snow will continue to fall, especially northern new jersey, north of new york city well see heavier bands of snow. Its gone by sunday morning. As for snowfall totals, again, that rain snow line will have a huge impact on who gets what. We will see a widespread one to three inches of snow. Just to the north of new york you will see 4 to 7, 4 to 6 of snow with higher amounts possible up across southern new england. This storm will move out by sunday so then everything will start to melt away. Well come back to you in a few moments for your national forecast. Now to the olympic action here in pyeongchang. Natalie mentioned a few moments ago, a bit of a disappointing day for team usa on the ice and on the slopes as well. Keir simmons has it all covered for us. Good to see you, buddy. Reporter great to see you, my friend. Natalie, nice to have you with us as well. Lindsey vonn returned to the slopes for her first olympic competition since 2010, falling short of land iing on the podiu. Nathan chen, after a disastrous olympic debut, proved himself capable of a recordbreaking skate. Lets get this Party Started, nathan. Reporter on the ice, it was a night of near redemption for american skating phenom nathan chen after a disastrous pair of falls in the Short Program, chen bounced back, turning up the heat on his competition in the free skate. Gorgeous quad lutz. And another quad toe. Reporter attempting six quad jumps, completing all but one cleanly. He now holds the record for the first man to land five quad jumps in olympic competition. Nathan chen is still the quad king. Reporter inspired performance earning him the highest score of the night but not enough to overcome his stumbles for a place on the podium. I tried to catch up points and win the long, a big accomplishment for me. Just onwards and upwards. Want to be on top of that podium some day. Reporter right behind chent, vincent joe, good enough for sixth place. And adam rippon, a fan favorite of these games, getting the crowd going once again with his trademark passion, but lacking more technical jumps, finishing tenth. I was just so proud of what i was able to put out there. To come away from this Olympic Games and skate three clean programs is more than i could have dreamed of. Reporter it was japans hanyu, who defended his gold from sochi with a near flawless skate. Amazing quad sal. Reporter a blizzard of winnie the pooh bears thrown to the ice from his adoring fans. Javier fernandez earning spain their first olympic skating medal ever. Lindsey vonn was looking for gold in the womens super g. Skiing a near perfect run for much of the course, the american went wide on one of the last turns. Whoa and almost down the side. Reporter the first racer down the mountain, she quickly dropped out of medal contention. You faced so many challenges, injuries, just the winds today. Good for you for competing, for going for it. Ive been waiting eight years for this. I didnt want to come to the finish and say i didnt try hard enough or i didnt push myself enough. I pushed myself as hard as i could. Unfortunately, i just made a mistake. And thats ski racing. Reporter czech skier ledecka was surprised herself. She showed up later in goggles explaining she had no makeup. We were there to see the czech take that gold. She stood after the finish line in stunned silence for a while. Lets take a look at the latest medal count. Norway is pulling away ahead here. Big news overnight, the u. S. Has fallen out of the top five. Here is what you can look for tonight. Ted liggety is going for his third in the giant slalom. Maame biney will take on the short track and the large hill for ski jumping, guys. Lot to look forward to. Dylan is back with a look at our national forecast. Yes and besides that storm thats producing a lot of rain through the middle of the country that will turn into the snowy evening and nighttime for the northeast, snow through the northern rockies. We could end up with several feet of snow in that area. We also have and weve got a combination of cold and mild temperatures across the bay area. Santa rosa, waking up to 36 degrees. Oakland at 42. Hayward, 45. And check out palo alto at 38 degrees. Now, even though were off to a chilly start, we are actually expecting to see pretty seasonal temperatures into the afternoon. Mild temperatures will begin to dominate shortly after your lunch hour by 11 00 a. M. , at 62 degrees. By 12 00, about 65 degrees. And by 1 00, 67 degrees. We are tracking a bit of a system that is expected to bring some snow to the Higher Elevation areas. Look who is in the house to morning, look whos in the house. Yea nathan chen is here. Well talk live to nathan after that major comeback on the ice. Im so excited. Plus a look back at an incredible first week of the 2018 olympic winter games. Has it only been a week . It feels like longer. First this is today on nbc. Were back on a saturday morning with the olympic version of the download. The look back at the thrilling week in pyeongchang. To victories to dominance from start to finish, it has been an olympic week to remember. Shaun white takes gold. Spectacular display of skill. Crushed the competition flying high in the history books with the epic final run. The return of the king. Shaun white become the first snowbordard snowboarder to take home another olympic gold. We have two words for you. Chloe kim. She conquered in her olympic debut. Bringing home gold for team usa. 98. 25. Chloe kim. The youngest woman ever to win an olympic snowboarding medal. The daughter of south korean immigrants, kim dug into her food cravings as her home and host country celebrated her. Finally down goes Mikaela Shiffrin. Mikaela shiffrin glided in the gold medal finish in the womens giant slalom. Gold for Mikaela Shiffrin in pyeongchang. Was unable to defend her title in sochi in the o