Dramatic images of a 40 million gas platform, sinking into the sea. The crew was forced to hang on for dear life. Were going to have the story behind that accident. And on a much lighter note, were starting our yearlong countdown to the winter Olympic Games in sochi, russia. Check out whats going out on the plaza this morning. We have explaining to do, that is freestyle skiing. Some of the guys practicing wild aerials on trampolines. Hope you brought your trampoline shoes, willie. Start with the wild night at the super bowl. Jenna wolffe is in new orleans for us this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. What a game last night, complete tale of two halves. The guys in back of me were diehard ravens fans. They couldnt stop screaming the whole first half. The guys in front of me, diehard 49er fans. They couldnt stop screaming the whole second half. Me, in the middle, i enjoyed a little beyonce, a little blackout and a little football. It will forever be known as the game the lights went out. Literally. Half the power in new orleans stadium, the superdome here, is out. Reporter the Baltimore Ravens had just taken a commanding 286 lead with a recordbreaking kickoff return. Nine yards and a touchdown. Reporter when suddenly out went the power. Local officials said an outage happened after a fault sensing equipment detected an abnormality. Fans, players and a worldwide tv audience waited and waited and when the lights came back to life, so did the 49ers. And a touchdown, San Francisco. Reporter once looking like a snoozer, the longest super bowl in history became a nail biter that came down to the very last play. But in the end the ravens held off San Franciscos furious comeback. It hasnt sunk in yet. Crazy. Unbelievable. Reporter ravens quarterback joe flacco nabbed the games mvp award. Throwing three touchdowns. And while he held court with the media, we took the field with his teams. That game was a lot closer than either team would have liked. In the end the ravens did what the ravens came to do, picking up the second ever super bowl franchise win. Cue the festivities. How much did the blackout bother you mentally . It didnt really bother us. Weve been through a lot worse than that. Reporter you look war torn and beat. I fought with every fiber, everything i had. That belongs to you guys now. That thing is so beautiful. What are you feeling now . Im feeling great. Reporter how much did that blackout stop the momentum you had going in the first half . 30minute break. Shout out to beyonce, they say her halftime show killed it and absorbed all the energy. Reporter oh, yeah. About that beyonce, singing live as promised, she lit up the superdome with all her Single Ladies and the destinys child reunion many were hoping for. On this night, beyonce left the National Anthem to fellow diva alicia keys. O say can you see reporter while Jennifer Hudson joined the choir from sandy hook elementary with emotional rendition of america the beautiful. At the end of the night, though, it was the ravens who were the better team with older brother, john harbaugh, besting his younger brother, jim. Its never pretty. Its never perfect, but it is us. Reporter their parents celebrating a bittersweet victory and players soaking up a tough win in the big easy. Amazing. Phenomenal. Listen to them baltimore, were champions reporter all right. The lights were out for about 34 minutes or so. Heres the deal. No one panicked. No one got terribly upset. No one wanted to storm the field. Everybody sat there relatively calm. I mean there was a really bad wave that tried to go around the studio. For the most part everybody was okay. Just waiting for the game to come back on. As a thank you, what did the nfl do . They gave everybody an incredible second half of football. Back to you. Jenna wolffe live in new orleans, thanks. New York Daily News writer mike lupica was in the press box during the socalled blackout on the beau you. I began asking when the lights went out what was the first thing that went through his mind . What were the possibilities . First of all, i dont know how it works at your house, but i cant fix a Circuit Breaker at my house so when it got dark there, i immediately being a trained reporter said this is not a good thing. Only a sick and twisted person would think it had something to do with the halftime show. As a sports writer, youre wondering is this going to change the game. It looked like in all ways jacoby jones had turned off the lights on the super bowl and if somebody told you heres whats going to happen in the next hour and a half, the 49ers will come back and have a ball in the air at the end to win the game you would have laughed. Thats what happened. The score is 286 ravens at that point. Clearly something changed during the 34 minutes. What do you think the real impact was on the players as they stood there and waited for the lights to come back on . Going into the super bowl you hear two week layoff will affect one team or the other. You knew there might be a momentum shift. You didnt know it. It looked like it was going to be one of the blowout super bowls out of the past and instead it turned into one that becomes memorable in about 9,000 ways. They kind of started the resumption of mardi gras early in new orleans last night. For all the planning, all the preparation that goes into the super bowls, all the rehearsal, not just in new orleans but any city, the question a lot of people were asking last night and this morning is, how could that have happened . Do we have any more information about what happened last night . Entergy. Theyre still calling it an abnormality which we were able to figure out ourselves. Willie the shame of it is, this had been such a spectacular comeback week for new orleans. Its a Great American city. This was a celebration of the city, and everything went so great until there were about 13 22 left in the second half of the super bowl. And then we got a good game after that. So i dont think anybody will blame the city for that one. Mike, surviving in the dark in new orleans last night, thanks so much. Coming up, much more well have a touch football game. Sounds good. More on the super bowl, the commercials, halftime show coming up a little bit later. For now here is savannah. Thank you. Now to the tense hostage drama in alabama, entering its seventh day. This morning, police say they are still communicating with the suspect, holding a 5yearold boy in an underground bunker. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is covering the story for us from midland city, alabama. Gabe, good morning. Reporter good morning, sa van na. The little boy, ethan, is supposed to turn 6 years old very soon. Theres a haunting possibility he might spend his birthday as a hostage. Right now police are choosing their Public Comments very carefully, because the suspect might have access to television. You raise me up reporter South Alabama is in mourning. Raise me up reporter as bus driver charles polands funeral sunday, friends and family remembered a man who died, protecting children. His actions spoke louder than any words that could have ever been said about him. He laid down his life for the kids on that bus. Reporter police say his alleged killer, jimmy lee dykes, boarded a stopped school bus and demanded two kids. When poland refused, police say dykes shot him to death and took a boy named ethan with a mild form of autism hostage. I wish i could just hug him and hold him and tell him its going to be all right. Reporter police say dykes has kept ethan in an underground bunker allowing him blankets, crackers and coloring books. The bunker is believed to have plenty of supplies and as the sandoff enters its second week no telling how long it could last. Psychologists say the toll on ethan could be significant. This child is most likely completely terrified. The overriding thought in his head is that he wants his mother, that he just wants to be out of that situation. Reporter the ordeal brings back eerie memories of another kidnapping in 1976. Three men with guns abducted 26 children, ages 5 to 14 from a school bus in chowchilla, california, the kidnappers forced them underground. Into a buried moving van. They spent 16 terrible hours there, clutching each other in tears. The kids and their bus driver, also hailed as a hero, managed to escape. But 37 years later for many, the scars remain. The longterm effects are very deep. To this day, im 46 years old and i sleep with a nightlight. And thats not normal for an adult. Reporter in that case, the motive was ransom. Here in alabama, the reason is still a mystery. At this point little ethan has spent more than 137 hours underground. Savannah . Gabe gutierrez in alabama for us. Thank you. Natalie morales is at the news desk with this mornings other top stories for us. Good morning. Good morning, willie and savannah. Good morning, everyone. In Southern California at least eight people have been killed overnight when Officials Say a bus carrying tourists from tijuana, mexico, slammed into the back of another car on a mountain road. Nearly 40 other people were injured in the collision. The u. S. Company operating the bus had no crashes in the past two years, according to federal records. The president heads to minneapolis today to meet with local leaders on the issue of gun control. In his annual presuper bowl interview last night, the president addressed a range of other issues, including the risk of brain injury in children playing football. I want to make sure that were doing everything we can to make the sport safer. And that means that the game is probably going to evolve a little bit. President obama also addressed the boy scouts longstanding policy of excluding gays and lesbians saying that they should have, quote, access and opportunity, the same way everyone else does. A new york icon is laid to rest today at the funeral for former new york city mayor ed koch. Former president bill clinton speaks at the Manhattan Service and kochs favorite subway station will be renamed in his honor. Defense secretary leon panetta defended the use of unmanned drone strikes to target potential terrorists who are a threat to the u. S. In an interview on meet the press, he says the decision to strike doesnt come lightly. Now lets head to wall street, Cnbcs Kayla Tausche is at the new york stock exchange. Good morning to you, kayla. Good morning. The stock market near record highs closing friday at a level it hadnt seen since 2007, lifted by positive data on hiring. Wall street hopes the rally will continue. Its watching cbs, the host of the super bowl, and entergy, the Company Responsible for the blackout. How much will it cost them both . Interesting. Well be watching that stock. Kayla tausche at the new york stock exchange, thanks. A terrifying video that appears to show an iranian natural gas platform sank last week in the rsian gulf. In it you can see, workers are scrambling along the rig as it sinks, but iran has not commented on the number of injuries or fatalities in the sinking. Irans development of the oil field has been in jeopardy since sankships have caused western companies to withdraw. Dramatic faceoff outside of Buckingham Palace during a changing of the guard when a man burst through a security barrier, wielding two large knives, holding one to his throat. Police moved in and managed to the 44yearold with a taser. Officials say he was not threatening the public but did lunge at an officer. He appears in a london court today. Researchers in england say they have found the skeleton of king richard iii. Dna results show that the battle scarred bones found under a parking lot are beyond doubt those of the king killed in battle some 500 years agop. Richard iii was immortalized by William Shakespeare as a brutal tyrant who delivered the famous lines now is the winter of our discontent and my kingdom for a horse. The king will be reburied at a nearby cathedral early next year. It is 7 15 right now. You are uptodate. Lets turn it over to savannah, willie and roker, the soontobe raven. You will be donning a ravens costume. Something like that. What we could conjure up. Well try to get the mascot costume in. We have a few minutes. Good luck with that. We are talking about, though, a lot of snow throughout the great lakes. A clipper system, one of two pushing through, snow from milwaukee into before low, upstate new york. This system will move pretty quickly, dump about three to six inches of snow over the next 24 to 48 hours, but it will also have a secondary system back behind that. And so were looking at generally one to three inches, a more widespread area, three to six. In the traditional lakeeffect areas, erie, pennsylvania, jamestown and upstate new york, anywhere from six to nine inches of snow, as much as a foot. Well get to your local forecast but first this message. A talking train. This ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what its carrying, while using less fuel. Delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. After all, whats the point of talking if you dont have something important to say . 7 16 on a postsuper bowl monday. Were looking good on the san mateo bridge. Look out for thick pockets of fog wherever you are headed this morning. Fog is drifting around the bay area. 65 in livermore. Sun out between 2 00 and 3 00 p. M. In full force. Well get a couple hours of sunshine but not a lot. Enough to wamp rm us into the m 60s. Highs tumble tomorrow. Willie . Al, thanks very much. To texas, search for the motive of a u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. Another iraq war veteran is charged in that case. Lester holt has the latest on the investigation. Lester, good morning. Willie, good morning. I get to meet and spend time with chris kyle last year for the release of his autobiography. He was the most lethal sniper in u. S. History. He and a friend were gunned down at a shooting range in glenrose, texas. A sad twist of fate for a man who became a hero on the battlefield. Americas deadliest military sniper who, over four it tours in iraq, made over 160 confirmed kills, a number chris kyle told me a year ago was not the one he focused on. Every person i killed, i have a clear conscience of. They were actively trying to harm americans, military or civilians. Reporter he and his friend, chad littlefield, were shot to death. The alleged killer, eddie ray ralph, former marine, arrived at the range with the victims. After killing them with a semi automatic handgun at close range, he drove to his sisters house and confess ed to the murders before returning home. He was apprehended without any scuffle or fight. And then early this morning, he was arraigned and brought to our jail here where he is now. The sheriff says his understanding is that ralph may suffer from mental problems related to his military service, but offer nod specifics or possible motive. I dont think anybody knows why. They all went out there together. Reporter much of kyles time in iraq was spent providing sniper cover for troops. Insurgents nicknamed him the devil of ramadi. It gave me pride, knowing i was doing my job enough to get into the minds of the terrorists and make them fearful of me. Reporter back here in the states he started a company in his native texas and raised his public profile with projects like the nbc reality show stars earn stripes which paired celebrities with soldiers to carry out militarystyle missions. Tap, rack, bang. Reporter kyle said he was raised to be patriotic, but also had a strong faith in god. That faith especially saw him through his last combat tour, when he was shot twice, one bullet stopped by his body armor. The other, deflected off his goggles. I had a Guardian Angel out there and im sure he hates me, because i would come home and i would break my toe going up the stairs. But every time i went overseas, he kept me chris kyle leaves behind a wife and two children, willie, according to officials, eddie ray rout has been arraigned on two counts of murder. Lester holt, thanks so much. Coming up new detail on the mysterious death of a new york mom killed in turkey. Her mom opens up in an exclusive live interview. 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Im jon kelley. Just in case you missed it, the 49ers quest for six ending just short of its ultimate goal. Niners last night losing 3431 to baltimore making the ravens this years super bowl champions of super bowl xlvii. Fans disappointed but they kept emotions in check. San Francisco Police telling us they did arrest 25 people for public intoxication and there were no major issues. Meantime, Team President jed york sa