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WCAU Today February 24, 2018

Pleading guilty in the investigation. Another missed sign . The fbi investigating this morning why another tip was never passed along of the Florida School shooter after a woman said she had concerns over quote going to explode. Emotions run high as teachers r head back to the classroom. And all that plus Companies Cutting ties with the nra. A former Miami Dolphins player is under investigation for a threatening post. And the south with relentless rain. Homes and streets under water. It doesnt look like it is letting up soon. Dylan is tracking it all. Saturday, february 24th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. Good morning. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us. Im sheinelle joenes. Im craig melvin. Im dylan dreyer. Were back together. It feels like summer break and you have not seen everybody in a while. How was your summer . You feel rusty. Did you miss us . I did. You did a phenomenal job. Was it just as much fun . It was a lot of fun. The experience of a lifetime. My first olympics. A lot of fun. Good to be back. Yes. How about the curling match . Right. I was up at 3 00 a. M. Watching these guys. Here is the thing about u. S. Curling. These guys were not supposed to be in the gold medal game, much less win it. That is the beauty of the olympics. Comeback kids. The olympic action overnight. Lets begin with that. Top story. Team usa winning two more medals, including that gold for the First Time Ever in curling after a thrilling match against sweden. A silver in the big air snowboarding competition. Well talk to all of the medalists coming up. Lets get the latest from miguel almaguer. He is in olympic park this morning. Miguel, good morning. Reporter sheinelle, good morning. A good day on the ice and team usa in events where not everyone was an american favorite, many olympians battled their way on to the podium. Five on the board for team usa. Reporter this is gold on ice. The American Curling Team bumping off the swedes. Sweeping their way to the first gold medal ever. Shuster stays hot. Reporter a stunning comeback after blanked in vancouver and sochi. It is great when he it is your first one. To get one and for the country is just incredible. Welcome to the greatest show on snow. Reporter mens big air took competition to new heights with monster jumps and scary spills. American kyle mark defying gravity and with this jump the dictionary. A front side triple wocork 1440 bloody dracula. Embraced by teammate and fellow golden boy red gerard. I worked hard to get to here and walking away with silver is sick. Reporter mack wasnt the only american making headlines in big air. Ivanka trump here to lead the u. S. Delegation for the closing ceremony. Watching history before she takes part in it sunday. For now, no plans to meet with the north korean delegation. At the closing ceremony, Jessie Diggins has been selected by teammates to carry the american flag. It is Jessie Diggins delivering a golden moment. Reporter with randall, diggins won gold for Cross Country skying. The first ever for the u. S. After raisie racing in the star stripes, she will carry it. Gold in two sports. Led erk ledecka. Reporter the first woman to ever win two golds in two different sports at the winter games. Tonight, for team usa, the games are nearly over, but on the podium theyre Still Standing strong. Lets take a look at the latest medal count. Norway cannot be caught. They are followed by germany, canada and the u. S. In fourth. Here is what to watch for today at the Winter Olympics. The fourman bobsled competition wraps up with finals. And in figure skating, the highly anticipated gala. Sheinelle, back to you. Thank you, miguel. Lets talk about the gold medal match. Team usa down and out and they came back in a major way bringing home the gold with that thrilling victory against the favorite swedes. We are so happy to have all of the guys with us. Skip john shuster and tyler george and Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner and joe polo. Congratulations. Thanks, guys. Skip shuster, lets start with you, sir. How does it feel being an olympic Gold Medalist . Its its starting to sink in a little bit. Back in 2006, we got the first medal for the u. S. , bronze medal. This is pretty darn special. Pretty special. Tyler, lets bring you in here. It is called the miraccurl on ice. You were on a hot winning streak. Winning five games in a row. What changed . How did you pull it off . You know, honestly, the best thing for us is to play canada the next day. When you play against the best team in the world, you have nothing to lose. You play loose and confident and against that team, that is how you start the hot streak. A Canadian Team you hadnt beaten in competition. You had to beat them not once, but twice. John, you have an incredible comeback story. Cut from the team four years ago and you start your own team and at one point, you guys were known as the rejects. And now the rejects are all wearing gold medals. Yeah. We didnt get rejected for long. This team came together back in the fall of 2014 and actually won a couple National Championships and represented the u. S. In those and made the medal round each time. We knew we had a chance coming in here. We upgraded to something a little bit bigger. Joe, you have been part of both medals for the curling team. What do you say to those who say curling isnt a sport . We put in a lot of hard work in the gym and on the ice. Challenge to come and try it and not be sore the next day. Matt hamilton, you have some celebrity doppelgangers out there. I wanted to put up the picture of the most famous. There is none other than super mario. Who wore it better . You or marimario . You know, he might have rocked the red hat better, but im rocking this better than he could. Im happy with it. Congratulations, guys. We are so happy and proud of you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Lets get to the other big news. The new charges facing the former Campaign Manager manafort as his top aide pleads guilty. Is this another sign the special counsel getting closer to the white house . We have correspondent Kelly Odonnell with more. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. The white house is not commenting on the charges of Paul Manafort in the guilty plea of rick gates. This stems from the Business Life and not work of the campaign. Both men indicted that included money laundering, but now the special counsel is bringing forward of evidence of additional crimes. The special counsel squeeze. Late friday, new charges levelled against Paul Manafort. Trumps Campaign Chairman in 2016. Manafort accused of making secret payments to former european politicians to get them to take positions favorable to ukraine. While manafort worked for a russia backed ukraine leader in 2012 and 2014. The new charges following a big break friday. Manaforts former top aide rick gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. Gates is now cooperating with the special counsel. Manafort responded that he hoped gates would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. President trump was not asked about the russia investigation during his conference with australias prime minister. He did respond to the White House Security clearance controversy. Saying he would not overrule the chief of staff with the interim clearance. That is up to general kelly. General kelly will make that call. Reporter in a raucous and free wheeling speech earlier friday. Second amendment. Reporter the president talked gun policy. Pushing for teachers with gun skills to carry weapons at schools. Even though an armed deputy at the Florida High School did not confront the gunman. He decided not to go in. That was not his finest moment. That i can tell you. Reporter President Trump says he will take action. We want to be powerful and very strong on background checks and especially as it pertains to the mentally ill. Reporter late friday there was a scare here that had the white house on lockdown for a time. There now has been a woman, a 35yearold woman from tennessee, taken into custody after the van she was driving went into a barricade. Secret Service Officers said she spotted a pistol and forcibly removed her from the van and took her into custody. According to police reports, there were incidents where she tried to gain access in the white house. Craig. Kelly, thank you. Now to the emotional scene in parkland, florida where teachers returned to the school on friday for the First Time Since the horrific shooting. This as we get new information about another possible warning sign missed about the shooter. Maya rodriguez is in parkland this morning. Maya, good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. Well, right now, we know that parents and teachers and students tomorrow will be able to go back to Stoneman Douglas high school for the First Time Since the shooting. Teacher s went in yesterday for the first time to get belongings and assess what is going on in the school and classrooms. All of this as the investigation uncovered new details. This morning, new details about the tip called into the fbi last month. A person the agency describes as close to 19yearold shooting suspect nikolas cruz warned authorities that cruz was quote going to explode and feared he would be getting into a school and just shooting the place up. The fbi did not followup on that tip. All this while on friday teachers at Stoneman Douglas returned to a campus shaken by tragedy. This school is my home and im very angry. Reporter the shooting that killed 17 prompted Florida Governor rick scott to announce new measures. Raising the age limit to buying a firearm to 21. I know some are advocating a take away for Second Amendment rights. That is not the answer. Reporter the governor calling for Law Enforcement officer to be assigned to every public school. The Broward Sheriffs Office says scot peterson, the armed officer at Stoneman Douglas did not confront the shoot errer or enter the building. Peterson resigned. He has not responded to requests for comments from nbc news. Other officers did respond to the shooting. Including Sergeant Jeff henrik. His wife works at the school. His son a student there. By the grace of god, when they walked in the hallway, they found each other. Reporter the school now preparing to take on a lesson in learning and healing. We will take it one day at a time. One class at a time. One minute at a time. Reporter now as for those injured in the shooting more than a week later, three remain in the hospital. All in fair condition. Craig. Maya rodriguez, thank you. Dylan, a lot of folks dealing with a lot of rain. A lot of rain and rain for days. That is causing the issue. The story is the heavy rain. 43 Million People under flood watch this morning from the northeast part of texas to pennsylvania. Homes, cars and football fields seen here in kentucky are almost completely submerged. Flooding for days is causing rivers to rise like the one in michigan and the ohio river has been flooding as well. Heavy through Southern Illinois and parts of Central Indiana and back through dallas as well. If we go to last monday, the rain has been training over the same areas from texas through especially arkansas and all the way up to pennsylvania since monday. Thats why all of this water is trickling into the rivers and lakes and the streams and thats causing the concern for more flooding. We have some flash flood warnings in effect across eastern oklahoma and northwestern arkansas. As we go through the day today, the front will finally start to move east. Another very wet day through texas and arkansas and Southern Illinois. The front will move east for sunday. We could see severe storms. There is the possibility of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. Especially in good morning. Today were looking at temperatures a little warmer than average into the 50s. That comes with a lot of gray, rainy conditions. 53 in center city. 52 for the high in lands dale. Allentown making it to the low 50s. On and off rain. Chances arent as high for new jersey, the shore or delaware. The temperatures at 5 in smyrna. And thats and thats yo forecast. Thank you, dylan. Still to come, the former nfl player investigation after posting a threatening social media message. And a look back at the highlights of the second week at the olympics in pyeongchang. Im a concrete mason. I own my own company. I had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. Finally, listening to my wife, went to a doctor. And i became diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma. 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United states women taking on canada. She scores. The game was tied at the end of regulation and again after overtime. Finally a nail biting shootout. Scores the United States wins gold in pyeongchang the win 38 years to the day after the miracle on ice. Here comes diggins a heart stopping finish in womens crosscountry skiing as Jessie Diggins came from behind to beat norway and sweden. Jessie diggins delivering a landmark moment that will be etched in u. S. Olympic history. The first ever crosscountry gold medal for the u. S. Diggins winning gold along with kikken randall. Russian rivalry. Zigitova winning gold. Her fellow russian medevevo coming in second. None of the u. S. Women making the medal stands. The shibutanis making a splash. Alex and Maia Shibutani winning bronze in the ice dance finals. Their second medals of the games. On the slopes, a mondumental match up. Lindsey vonn and likely her last Olympic Games went headtohead against Mikaela Shiffrin and the super combined. Shiffrin coming out on top. Scoring silver after vonn skied off course in the slalom run. David wise threw down a dominant run when it counted most. His teammate, Alex Ferreira winning silver for a onetwo finish. Jamie anderson won two medals at the same Winter Olympics. The superstar snatching silver in the big air debut. Honestly, im tripping. Im grateful. Adam and finally it was a match made in olympic heaven when snls leslie jones and adam rippon teamed up this week. Every outfit she has on, i want to wear to the club. She makes me feel like a woman. I get it. If they aint dating, they dating now. So many good moments. Every one is better than the next. Still ahead here, too close for comfort. A trespassing squirrel almost gets run over by when heartburn hits. Fight back fast with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum. Smoothies. Only from tums lyrics things are gonna get lyricseasier. 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