Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100212:18:31:00
Ceremonies. 17 day of games and 82 countries are competing. 5,500 athletes at a cost of about $1.63 billion to operate it, including a whole lot of security. let's go to mark mckay, he's with cnn sports. he's in vancouver covering this whole situation. mark, how's it looking out there? is it getting under way? people exciting? >> reporter: yeah, people are very excited, ali. what's up with that? you're in atlanta, you're getting the snow. i'm at the winter olympics in vancouver. >> i know. >> reporter: no snow down here. we have it at whistle ewhistler good news for the alpine event. it seemed...