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Here is something else we found. ♪ so this is the french ski team doing their version of "thriller." kind of rocking it. and then there's this. ♪ okay. french biathletes trying to channel michael jackson's smooth criminal but hard to be smooth when you're on that surface. they do a good job, too. these are the things we're looking out for on a friday morning. well, did it lead to any decisions on how to move health care reform forward or is it just at this point about reconciliation? we're going to talk to republican congressman who is also a retired heart surgeon and who is in the room. p...

>> i think she's frankly one of the brightest guests on the show. >> and willie geist in vancouver there with the headlines there. >> and willie's one of the brightest guests we have on the set in vancouver. >> absolutely. >> not right now i'm not that bright, i can tell you at this hour. i'll get to it, let me give you one quick headline before you get back to your conversation, guys. some controversy on the american ski team. lindsey vonn, the superstar, the golden girl, the "sports illustrated" cover girl, thought to be the greatest american skier ever, going down here in the giant slalom. ...

Super g or super combined as well but julia mancuso, also a silver in the downhill. she also earned a silver in the super combined. so a lot of good news coming out of the ski team. and there was a surprise on the slopes yesterday. alex, with andrew weibrecht of course he came away with the bronze as well. so a lot ahead. we've got the men's super combined comes up tomorrow, it was rescheduled from earlier in the week. thank you very much, michelle franzen. we'll talk with you again and get more updates from vancouver. let's take a look at the current medal count. the u.s. is in first plac...

You're looking at pictures from just a couple of hours ago, right here in downtown, vancouver. the olympic torch finally arriving in the city of vancouver, where the caldron will be lit tonight for the opening ceremony, 7:30 eastern time here on nbc. some news yesterday and more from downhill skiing in that women's team, we've been talking about lindsey vonn yesterday. but stacey cook took a hard spill yesterday. it looks worse than it was. she was airlifted to a hospital, just as a precaution. but how tough is she? she's going to be back on the slope, we hear, today or perhaps tomorrow to get...

Skiing events are taking place at a lower elevation at cypress mountain. it's simply too warm. the temperatures in the upper 30s today. for the most part of last week they were in the 40s. it's tough to keep snow from melting at those temperatures. what they're doing, they're helicoptering snow down from higher peaks to where these events are going to start taking place this weekend. there are dump trucks being used to move snow around. they're doing what they can to try to keep those competition runs ready to go starting this saturday when the free stylers will hit the course there. the u.s. ...