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good morning. striking gold on day one of the vancouver games. the u.s. takes its first gold medal and claims bronze in the same event. we ll talk with two of team usa s hi-flying medalists when they join us live. oh, yes. apollo anton ohno on his way to becoming the most decorated american ever to compete in the games. we ve got the finish you won t want to miss. ready to race? american skier lindsey vonn gets a couple of days to recover from the painful shin injury as weather keeps her off the slopes again. will the extra time have her ready on race day? that s the big question, today, sunday, february 14th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television go morning, everyone. welcome to today on this sunday morning. i m lester holt in vancouver where the first day of competition is complete at the 2010 winter olympic games. and i m jenna wolfe here in new york where the most exciting thing that happened so far is that i got to work on time. lester, you win. it was a good win too. good day for team usa, one day, four medals. not a bad start. yeah, some great competitions. i don t know if you caught the finish on the 1500 but the ski slope certainly awesome as well. warm weather kept the downhill ski slopes closed another day. that could be good news for lindsey vonn giving her injured shin time to heal. will she be ready? coming up we ll ask someone who knows what lindsey is going through, 1998 gold medal winner peicabo street. then we re going to meet a man who meets a goose that gives him a good ole thrashing. find out what he did to make the feathers fly when we talk to him and maybe the goose live. what was the book when the gooseot loose i think that was the case of that. my tour in vancouver with one of the most famous names in beverly hills. actor jason priestley made his name on the hit show beverly hills 90210 but he s actually here from vancouver so we hit the town with him. he showed me some pretty cool places. we ll show them to you coming up. i have a bunch of questions so maybe we can sit down and have a powwow. teausa came out of the gate blazing on the first day of competition. reporter: apolo own know was in fourth place and looked winded. two of the three south koreans ahead of him wiped out in the final turn and second place astonished ohno. j.r. celski took third and bronze. that gave his six medals, making him the most decorated olympian in his sports history. it was a good race, it was a hard race. a lot of bumping, a lot of contact. but it worked out. reporter: and it wasn t over yet. under the lights, american hannah kearney took the gold in the women s moguls. a textbook run that beat the canadian champion, jen heil. her teammate shannon bahrke won the bronze giving team usa the lead in the medals. so far the mogul is the only women s or men s alpine event that hasn t been postponed. with thick fog dropping visibility to near zero and steady rain turning much of whistler s snow into mush, ticket holders by the thousands found their events rescheduled or put on hold. among them, vice president joe biden out with the family to enjoy the men s downhill, but it s been delayed until monday, weather permitting. it is definitely much like when you re catching a flight at the airport. check before you go. reporter: on a day that despite all the setbacks saw the making of history on the olympic short track. after a first full day of competition, the u.s. has four medals and two of those medal winners are with us this morning. hannah kearney won gold, shannon bahrke won bronze. welcome and congratulations. thank you. anybody been to sleep tonight? not yet. happy valentine s day. tell me what you guys shared when it was all said and done. you know, i had the privilege of watching hannah ski her final run and it was just unbelievable watching her come down and having that perfect run was just really cool. yay hannah! olympic champion. you said perfect run. hannah, i think the commentator suggested this, the flip at the end and i watched this smile grow on your face as you re heading to the finish line. what was going through your mind? not a lot. i was just reacting to each mogul and each turn. i knew i was going to have to ski really well to win this gold medal. it s been a goal of mine so i was thinking about the task as hand. as soon as i crossed the finish line, i knew i concede my best. then you have to sit there and wait and it s an exciting moment. shannon s enthusiasm was shared immediately. she was convinced i d won a gold medal. i wasn t sure yet. you knew. i said if she doesn t win the gold medal there s something wrong because she conceskied tht i ve seen. how do you do what you need to do? i think that i ve been training for this moment, competing week after week in an event and trying to ski my best. this is another ski competition so i couldn t think about anything else except for the fact that i was competing. and, shannon, let s talk about your run. how did you feel when you came off, made the final flip and came down? you know, i honestly was just like, i don t know. i looked at the coaches and i was like i don t know how i felt. i looked at them and they were like yeah, yeah, yeah. i looked at everybody and i was like really, it was that good? okay. all right, i ll be really excited. when the score came up it was above and beyond what the other girls had skied so i knew i d put down a good run and the others would have to ski well to beat that. you got silver in salt lake city. you had a lot of pressure going in. how did you empty out and focus on what you had to do? honestly i didn t have that much pressure. i think that hannah carried a lot of the pressure for , just being number one in the world last year, so i kind of was able to sneak in the back door. but afterwards they said, shannon, say your name and three-time olympian and two-time olympic medalist and i just freaked out. oh, that s just so cool. you guys are going to bring some enthusiasm to the medals stand. that all happens tonight? yeah, yeah. we get to stand up there with two american flags. the first two americans to win medals. did you catch any of the short track? i watched it on television, the tape delay. a lot to feel good about. go team usa. what were the conditions up at cypress. moist. moist? pouring rain. i ve told evybody this. i m from tahoe and it rains there a good majority of the time so i kind of felt at home with the rain in my face and the slushy snow. i was like all right, i can do this. now you can focus you re getting married soon. yeah, 10-10-10. to matt happy. yeah. are you going to keep happy? super happy. all the way around. hannah kearney, shannon bahrke, thank you. we look forward to watching the medals ceremony. now we want to check the other headlines. norah o donnell is at the news desk for us. good morning, everyone. we begin in northern california where a surfing contest turned into near tragedy. at least 13 speculators were seriously injured after two huge waves came crashing down sending dozens of people on a jetty running for their lives. several were taken to the hospital suffering broken legs and hands. others were treated at the scene for scrapes and bruises and waves in the area were estimated to be 20 feet high. new information in the case of that university of alabama biology professor charged with killing three colleagues. police are say amy bishop shot and killed h brother in massachusetts in 1986. it was ruled an accident then and no charges were ever filed against the harvard-educated neurobiologist. the mother of four faces the death penalty if convicted of friday s killings. president obama will receive an update later today from afghanistan s top commander, general mcchrystal, over the offensive taking place. nato troops have come under intense fire in the taliban stronghold. some 30 insurgents have been kill and two nato soldiers. a dozen people snowboarding in alaska came under an intense avalanche. the president of conoco phillips alaska died in the avalanche. another person in the group is still missing. astronauts aboard the space shuttle endeavour or on within unusual mission today. they were hooking up plumbing for the newest addition. a 14th day has been added to the mission giving the crew more time to work on the $400 million room. that s an expensive room. and finally, just in time for valentine s day, a hugging frenzy in las vegas. jeff embraced the spirit of the holiday setting the world record for getting the most hugs in 24 hours. the 51-year-old ohio man, a/k/a teddy mchuggin logged a total of 7, 777 hugs. he ended up raising money for the american heart association. and that s the news. now back to jenna and janice. oh, happy valentine s day to you. happy valentine s day. 6,999 to go. okay, one more. norah, thank you very much. the other half of my hug, janice huff, is here with a check of the weather. happy valentine s day to you. happy valentine s day to you too. we ve got snow to talk about in the forecast again. we ve got another storm brewing across the central plains this morning. right now the snow amounts are very light and it looks like as it heads towards the east coast we re talking anywhere over the ohio valley of 3 to 6 inches of snow. it s not as big as the last few that midthe mid-atlantic and eastern seaboard but it should arrive tomorrow and tuesday. it s snowing around st. louis, lexington, kentucky, down towards paducah and a few rain showers in arkansas and the mid-mississippi valley. only 64 degrees today in miami with sun.sun. everyone. i m news 4 meteorologist chuck bell, off to a clear but cold start here in washington. our temperature now, 25 degrees. it s 26 in fairfax and falls church this morning. 21 in manassas. 28 in winchester and front royal. 25 at the inner harbor of baltimore. today s forecast, mostly sunny, a bit breezy, but plenty of melting going on today. high temperatures, mid- to high 30s, a west wind, 10 to 18 miles per hour. now here s jenna. janice, thanks. up next on today, the latest on american skier lindsey vonn. will see be ready to ski by wednesday? 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picabo street is here with us now. good morning. good morning. let me ask you this. it s been such a whirlwind of press around lindsey vonn and news of her shin injury has really intensified this focus. what are some of your colleagues and other people in the skiing community saying about the whole situation? well, everybody is kind of nervous, but at the same time everybod knows lindsey, they know how strong she is. thisisain delay has been the biggest blessing that we could have all asked for. people are optimistic and they re positive, as i am. the general out there is just okay, enough of it, let s get on today. yesterday and today s practice runs both cancelled. how important are these practice runs? you had the time away, i guess, helps her injury more so i guess she doesn t need all this practice down the course? no. by now she s strong and she s confident and she has the training that she needs under her belt to compete. now it s just a matter of how quickly can they familiarize themselves with the changing conditions and how safe is the course going to be and can they really drop the hammer and ski all out when they re on it. it s going to be interesting for all of us and from i spoke to a couple of people, including lindsey yesterday, from whistler and the rain is just so epic. it s making real mush out of the snow. the conditions on the course are really bad. you mentioned you spoke to her. what else did you talk about? did she think she could compete in all five events? i didn t ask her that. we talked 30 seconds about her shin and then talked about other stuff and tried to distract her from what s going on. the bottom line is time is on her side right now and that s great. her shin feels better every day. she s put it in her boot. the one thing that she has done is keep everything the same in her program. she hasn t changed her boots, she hasn t put padding in her tongue or changed her setup at all to accommodate her shin. when she gets back on her skis she ll have a real familiar feeling with her stuff and i m confident that she s going to prevail. she sounds really good. she s really fired up. you know a little about what this shin injury does and how it feels. is she still the one to beat even though she is suffering from this injury? she absolutely still is the one to beat. it s funny how many people are talking smack about it to try and tone her town a little bit and diffuse some of the pressure that they re feeling because they know that she is so hard to beat. and that just lets us all know that they re nervous, that she s going to beat them at 80%. the world will get to see it. we ll all be watching. we thank you so much for your time this morning. thanks for having me. still to come on a sunday edition of today, olympic history. apolo ohno skates into the record books with a silver last night. we ll hear from him right after these messages. thanks. stay on the line! whatever your destination, fidelity has the people, guidance, and investments to help you find your way. 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do you adapt? do you acknowledge that? i love it. i love it, because every year is a new year, every competition is a new competition. and for me i ve seen the best in the world many, many times over. it is ohno to the line, it is gold for ohno. you have a great recognizable face. i m curious how much of that recognition is apolo ohno the speed skater and how much is the dancer. that s a good question. hopefully more for thepeed skater but i have a feeling a lot of people who watched dancing with the stars. you can check out my entire interview tonight on nbc nightly news. we ll take a break and be back. first these messages. uh-huh. yeah. fashion deficient. and tom. copy incapable. it s open kimono time. looking good, dan. oh, we want to make sure all our ducks in a row. yeah. volume control syndrome. but we focus on the talent and skill that each person. brings to the team. i mean, no one s really concerned about labels. not even mine. labels get in the way. disabilities rarely do. visit thinkbeyondthelabel.com to evolve your work force. it s 8:26 right now. taking a live look outside, it is a chilly morning here in the nation s capital. a little bit of snow on the way. chuck will talk about that in a moment. good morning, everyone. i m kimberly suiters. it is sunday, february 14th, 2010. here s a look at what s making headlines this morning. d.c. snow emergcy has ended, but the district is still trying get rid of all that snow. mayor adrian fenty says streets are passable, but many roads are down to single lanes. snow crews are using the holiday weekend to plow and widen the lanes for the tuesday morning commute. this weekend, d.c. is asking you to move your vehicles off of major commuter routes like m street. hours of frustration for passengers on an amtrak train yesterday. the train left for richmond yesterday around 2:50. it sat on the track for more than five hours. amtrak officials say there were significant mechanical problems. 111 passengers were on board. one passenger sent us pictures of folks huddled up under blankets because they didn t have heat. they couldn t get the passengers off the train because of all the snow and there was no road nearby. and finally, a cans to enjoy the snow. snow lovers will be allowed to sled down the capital s front lawn for this weekend only. it was the first time since the 9/11 attacks. chuck s forecast, when we come back. boss:hey, glad i caught you. i was on my way to present ideas about all the discounts we re offering. i ve got some catchphrases that ll make these savings even more memorable. gecko: all right. gecko: good driver discounts. now that s the stuff.? boss: how bout this? gecko: .they re the bee s knees? boss: or this? gecko: sir, how bout just fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. boss: ha, yeah, good luck with that catching on! anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. meteorologist chuck bell joining us now. chuck, two things to talk about. the melting that will happen today and the snow that may come on monday. yes. those are two very important things that everybody wants to know an awful lot about. a lot of sunshine today. temperatures will be above freezing for much, if not all, of the afternoon hours today, allowing for a great deal of melting, and more importantly, softening up all the slushiness and the iciness that s really packed down on some of the roads. temperatures above freezing with the sunshine today, will really soften the ice quite a bit. that will be welcome news for everybody who s been snowbound now for the better part of a week. temperatures are in the mid-20s around town right now. 25 here in northwest. 26 degrees in falls church. 28 in annapolis. temperatures for today above the freezing mark. any number higher than 32 is a good thing. high today, up near 37 degrees. so even though that s about 10 degrees colder than average for this time of the year, it s still above freezing. that s what matters. tomorrow, there is an 80% chance of a rain/snow mix into the area. places north and west of i-95 could see as much as 1 to 3 inches of snow along into the east of i-95, down into southern maryland, mostly a rain/snow mix, tending to be more in the way of rainfall. kimberly? i wouldn t mind a little bit of snow on top of all the ice around my house. i m a snow lover. coming up on we are back on this sunday morning, february 14th, 2010 oh, february 14th! we ve got ourself valentine s day. happy valentine s day to all of you watching at home, to the crowd outside our studios here in new york. out on the plaza, i m jenna wolfe. lester holt is back over in vancouver. one day of the olympics is in the books. please allow me to wish you a very happy valentine s day. and let me send happy valentine s day back to you. i m unfortunately not spending it with my wife but i wish her a happy valentine s day. or with me. you re not with me either. you as well. there will be gifts but this gets me past the hump. we ve got a lot to get to including exploring vancouver with a guy a lot of young women grew up idolizing. teens might remember him as brandon walsh from beverly hills 90210 but jason priestley is from right here in vancouver, b.c. weeding a chance to catch up as he took me around to some of his favorite hometown spots. he even stopped for a f pictures with adoring fans. his, by the way, not mine. our tour with him just ahead. i know canada is famous for its skis but not quite as famous as this. check this out. what was meant to be a relaxing day of fishing didn t quite go as planned. we re going to talk to this guy about his feathered friend and what if this fisherman will ever brave the water again now that he got pseudoattacked by a gas basically. in n york we would call that a mugging. i think he got his watch and wallet probably. or just a normal day. also behind the technology of the vancouver olympics for events like skiing and bobsled the difference between gold and silver is less than a blink of an eye. coming up a look at some of the gizmos and gadgets to make sure that the gold medal ends up in the right hands. all right, less tear i just got hit by a sign and this doesn t even have anything on it. what kind of sign is this? what s going on here? i ve got to come out there to vancouver. i m getting hit by blank signs. get off of me. anyway, let s get another check of the weather from janice huff. janice, do you have any signs with actual words on it? i ve got a sign. we ve got cards given out to everybody and, yeah, it s valentine s day. we have a lovely group all wearing the same scarf. good morning. good morning, lentine s from virginia and rolla, missouri. how are you guys? good. are you having fun in new york? yeah. are you excited to be on the today show right now? yeah. would you like to say happy valentine s day? happy valentine s day. they re so agreeable. let s check the weather this morning and see what s going on across the country. on this valentine s day we have some rain showers in the pacific northwest, sunshine across california and the southwest. here in the northeast it s clearing out, a little cloudy this morning and it s chilly, but it should warm up into the upper 30s this afternoon. snow will be on the move tonight across the ohio valley and into pennsylvania. d.c., it looks like you ll get a mix of rain and snow this this and a good sunday morning, everyone. happy valentine s day. i m news 4 meteorologist chuck bell. the sun is shining out there and temperatures are finally on their way up after a very cold start this morning. a lot of places down into the teens. quantico still in the teens this morning, right alongside the water there. temperatures, mid-20s around town with windchills in the upper teens to near 20. today, plenty of sunshine, a will little breezy outside, but plenty of and when we re not here, you can always check your forecast any time by logging on to weathecom. now here s lester. this morning on today s consumer, keeping warm. the recent snowstorms in the state may have left us here in vancouver feeling a bit of snow envy, but it is cold at the site of some of those alpine events so today consumer correspondent and reader s digest contributor janice lieberman offers us a peek at some of the latest advances in cold weather clothing for olympians and regular joes alike. they barrel down chutes at more than 80 miles an hour, hurdle themselves 20 feet in the air and fly off mountaintops and they do it all in the most challenging of conditions. snow, wind, ice. after all, this is the winter olympics. so how do the athletes keep their muscl warm? conventional wisdom has always been bundle up. bulk equals warmth. i can t move my arms! but for these athletes, less is actually more to win the gold. under armour designed the ski uniforms. the company says the key is a dual-layer fabric. the inside hates water, the outside loves it, pulling sweat off your body and trapping warm air against your skin. another cutting edge technology is thinsulate. i stopped off to see in 3-m s men minimum lab. ken, who is this guy? well, we call him fred. hi, fred. fred is a heated man quinn used in tests like this one. this side of the jacket we have thinsulate insulation. this side we don t have any insulation. blacks and purposing is what he is looking for showing it s trapping fred s heat and keeping it inside the jacket. reds and yellows indicate heat escaping. your body is a furnace and that s what we re relying on. but i wanted to see for myself, so i donned a jacket the ski team will wear around the olympic village to face the thermotron, an environmental chamber set to, guess this, negative 12 degrees. this is cruel and unusual, but i m going to give it a try. into the cooler. it s minus 12 degrees in here. i ve got to tell you the truth, this is pretty warm but my legs are freezing! what you re seeing here is the cold temperature on the outside, being black, and all of your heat on the inside with all the different colors. so it worked. so it worked. but we wanted to see how this stuff works outside the lab, so we asked a group of brooklynites who walk every saturday and say they re always cold to try an under armour base and thinsulate jacket. i was very, very warm. i actually started to sweat in the middle of the walk. efficient. very efficient. they like it in brooklyn, but how will it play in vancouver? for today, janice lieberman, nbc news, new york. joining me now with more technology of the games from keeping warm to keeping time is fast company magazine contributor paul huffman. great to see you here. nice to see you too. i had a chance to go down with the u.s. men s bobsled team for an upcoming segment. i m in a bulky sweater and jeans. they were wearing something that looked like what you have next to you. do you think it made a difference? i think it made a difference. i felt warmer but they were probably warm erp. they were probabl a little faster too. these suits are about muscle support, believe it or not. the technology is woven into the suits to support the muscles as they flex and release. and actually give these guys an advantage even when they re pushing off at the very beginning. and they have got several runs so they have got tstay dry as well. that helps as well. so warmth, dryness and muscle support. we mentioned a bit ago a lot of these races are timed down to the thousandths of a second. there s a new take on the starting gun. omega, the official timekeeper of the games, this is a little more updated since 32. i won t point it at you but i am allowed to now. this is the starting gun you ll see at the beginning of the speed skating events, for example. the difference is it doesn t look like a gun. they were having a heck of a time getting through airport security, believe it or not. they had to come up with another shape. what this does is it sds a light and a surround, it creates a sound, you can create any sound you want. this is like a gun. you ll hear it now. ready to go. yep. and the bottom line is this thing does exactly what the gun did before. sends a pulse, starts things off. the light is important because the farther you are away from the gun sometimes you don t react as quickly, which is hard to believe. believe it or not, they put speakers right next to each of the athletes so there s no delay but the light is the most accurate way of knowing. you also have a wand that they re using. yeah. what is this? there s nothing magic about the wand. this is at the start of the downhill. they put it right against the shins of the athletes. when the athlete goes through it, they actually trigger the electronic device inside. so physically hit the wand. that s right. in fact the start mechanism is accurate within 0.0001 of a second. give me some ideas how they do these split-second finishes. this is a device embedded in the ice in the bobsled and luge track. it sen a signal across to another infrared device. when the athlete goes through it, it creates a split time. do they have some way of warming it? the back part of the wiring is in fact a heating element. tell me about this. this is for valentine s day keep track of your loved ones, if you re a little suspicious, this is actually on the boots of the cross country skiers and the speed skaters. when they go across a transmitting device, it reflects a unique number back and they know which athlete went by. pdas are a big part of the action. this is called the wow or wow is the technology in it. it s an application. it lets people who are away from the games keep in touch. for the first time available to consumers. it used to be just the olympic family, all those guys in faensz coa fancy coats and credentials. you can download and find out about the weather, the medal count and all information about the games. well, we re out of time. good to see you. enjoy the games. up next, caught on tape, a relaxing day on the water turns ugly. it s man versus goose. right after these messages. 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was it hostile towards you? was there any animosity at all? no. you know what, we were friends, we were hanging out, having a good time. everything seemed normal. then all of a sudden it started honking at me, talking a little trash back and forth. i guess i called it a name so it got upset. i thought it was going to back down. i guess it called my bluff, jumped on my back. which, by the way, i thought that was kind of a cheap shot, you know whatty mean. kind of like a low blow on my back. better you said that than i did. go on. what do you think set it off then, drew? you know, honestly, i really don t know. personally i don t think it was trying to attack me really. in a serious note it never his at me one time before. and when it jumps on my back it never pecks at me a really bites me. plus, why would a goose wait an hour, you know. geese don t normally have anti-kayak policies, so we understand that this was probably just a lone incident. so be honest with me here. were you scared when this thing jumped on your back? i was more shocked, kind of like you were a few minutes ago when that sign hit you in the back. you kind of know what i m talking about here. i absolutely do. i assume you re getting right back out in the boat and going to go again, right? you know what, i v been to some therapy sessions for goose attack victims. if the progress keeps up, i might be able toet back on the water soon. the good thing is you are not sarcastic or funny at all. drew gregory, thank you so much. you ve got a good personality, we like it. we re glad you survived and we re glad you joined us this morning. thanks for having me. now here s lester. goose attack therapy. you ve got to love it. he s an actor, director, producer and native of vancouver, b.c. jason priestley may be known from beverly hills 90210 but to the people of vancouver, he s simply jason. he took me for a tour around vancouver, the town he still calls home. for ten years his zip code was 90210. but before he became an american heartthrob in beverly hills, jason priestley was at home on the streets of vancouver, b.c., where i met up with him. hey, jason, how are you? great to see you. how you been? good, good, i m in your town. let me show you a couple of spots. vancouver s sea of towering high rises says jason is relatively new, a symbol of the city s rapid growth. i come back here and i see these big sweeping changes. our first destination was for lunch. this is south granhole and this is where viges is. it s a popular indian restaurant. it s only open for dinner but next door is its sister restaurant, rangoli s. this looks good. after a quick bite we were off to jason s next vancouver pick. through stanley park and across the lion s gate bridge, we went to north vancouver and a setting you d never expect in the middle of this bustling metropolis. check this out. the suspension bridge spans a deep gorge in an idyllic urban forest. it shakes. that s good isn t it. yeah, right. you ll need to get your sea legs as every step brings a sway. the only thing i feel like one of those indiana jones movies where the bridge falls out. first open in 1889, the bridge is vancouver s oldest tourist attraction. also attracting a lot of attention in the park was my tour guide. after a few photos, it was off to jason s next spot and the quickest way back into the city. hasn t changed. really, no kidding. in 25 years. the sea bus helps us beat the reverse commute across the bridge. smooth and fast. within minutes we ve landed at the foot of one of vancouver s most charming and vibrant districts. this is the really old part of town, as you can tell by the cobblestone streets and everything. there s the steam clock. i ve heard about this. well, it s a steam-powered clock. that s great. can i have a picture? yeah, sure. can you kiss me? oh, you re very kind. our final destination is the irish heather, an upscale pub, for a pint andome good conversation about where it all started for this accomplished actor and director. i went to theater school here and i started my career here. when i left here in 1987, it was a much smaller film town than it is now. there s a lot of production here now. you ve had this incredibly successful career but will always be known for 90210. describe what life has been like after that point in your career. i ve had a great career since leaving that show. it s been fantastic. i ve had the opportunity to do theater and to do movies and other tv series. jason comes north often and recently completed a series for hbo canada. while he and his family s current zip code is in los angeles, he will always be at home in vancouver. thank you for a wonderful time on the town. it was a great time on the town. he s fun to spend time with, if you don t mind the frequent interruptions with people wang their picture with them. the women in the red jackets, that was the danish women s curling team. 90210 continues to live on in reruns and he continues to make new projects here and overseas. lester, i don t think you fully appreciate, you had lunch with brandon wall shchsh. i don t know what kind of a fan you were with the show but many, many, many women would be jealous of your lunch with brandon walsh. operative term there, women. but i did enjoy the time, he s a lot of fun. this is a great town. nothing is far from anything here, that s the one thing i really learn from our trip. well, good job with that. thank you very much, lester. we ll be right back right after this. may i say. ef bee-utiful! prescription nasonex is proven to help relieve indoor and outdoor nasal allergy symptoms like congestion, runny and itchy nose and sneezing. 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