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Steel are going to be safe. the question is about people getting to sochi from outside of russia. people who are going to be traveling from turkey, for instance and neighboring countries. whether those people can get there safely. that is the big concern. >> a lot of soft targets outside the sochi area. as if the olympics didn't have enough problems already, as if security weren't already tight, there's this now. nick paton walsh joins us now. are russians recalculating security plans? >> i think the russians would say they've done all they can here. they've thrown the book at the venue behind...

And then have you to go home and shovel? >> i shoveled this morning. i thought i was going to pull into my driveway. the snowplow pushed all the snow off the street, built up like a four-foot wall right. my driveway. this is the heaviest snow i've ever had to shovel. >> you got your workout in. >> i'm telling you what, i got my workout in. it took me a long time to get my car a little eight feet inside the driveway. it took me an hour. >> and you'll be doing again today, my friend. >> probably right. >> oh, sorry. moving on now. at a high-level meeting at the white house yesterday, president...

Are tracking. we are working closely with the russians and other partners to monitor any threats we see. >> president obama telling cnn's jake tapper russia has shared security plans. >> i think we have a good sense of the security that they are putting in place to protect not only the athletes themselves but also visitors there. >> reporter: the u.s. insists it will only step in if russia asks but top counter terrorism officials met tuesday at the white house to review plans by the state department and defense secretary chuck hagel and chairman of the joint chiefs to be ready just in case. by...

Rutherford, new jersey. so the handoff to next year's host committee just happened, and of course, they're focusing on the security plans, right? >> absolutely ch and new jersey state police are in charge of securing the super bowl. and as part of that the new jersey state police visited the past three super bowl cities to observe how those cities prepare for their super bowl. it makes sense officials for the next three super bowl cities will come here to new jersey to see how new jersey is handling things. and that's what happened, glendale, arizona, houston had officials here touring the pol...

Quarantine zone. >> it's a dangerous neighborhood as you know and that being said and the threats there are probably greater than we've seen at any other olympics prior to the games. at the same time the russians have put together, i think, an unprecedented level of security. some 40,000 police and military. i mean the total number of police in the state of utah when we had the games in 2002 i believe is around 4,000. in the whole state. >> i don't think the president thinks sochi is as safe as utah in '02? >> i don't know the degree of threat and i haven't seen their security plans. i can ass...