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Controversy and a fair amount of criticism running up to today's opening. has it been overblown, you feel? are people giving the russians too hard a time? >> well, i think that with respect to security and accommodations, those have been kind of the two major storylines that i've seen, there have been concerns. they've been addressed. they are being addressed. and you know, the advice being given to people here is the same as we would give in the united states to any major sporting event, which is, you know, be careful, be mindful, know where your stuff is. you know, if you see unattended back...

Large number of americans out of russia if it came to that, wolf. >> i want to go back to sochi. nick payson walsh is our man on the scene. are folks there, athletes, tourists, speck tay ttators, to are they nervous about a potential terror attack? >> reporter: at the airport this afternoon we saw the us a rhee trooeian ice hockey team, big guy, not scared of much, but their two female many members received that letter yesterday threatening them of kidnap. they were relaxed but one said they were going to take a decision as a group if they were going to leave the olympic village during the tim...

On the bus in volgagrad was a william, and chechen terrorists have shown a propensity to use women in these attacks, starting with the hostage taking back in the early 2000s. >> that's right. and two women wore suicide vests on aircraft and brought aircraft down in russia. but these women are highly motivated. typically these are widows of islamists who have been killed by russian security forces. so there's an element of revenge for them, sort of in their minds, an honor-type killing. the fact that they're inside russia and have access, if not to sochi itself, and they may, but certainly to s...

The u.s. delegation or any other delegation from a visiting nation be worried about terrorism at the games? >> well, i'm sure the chechans will try to launch an attack, it is a high profile event and world press there. but russians have been preparing for this for a long time. i'm quite sure they would have made really extensive preparations to protect both the athletes and the venues for the games. >> and do you expect some modifications in their security have been made as a result of those two attacks taking place just 400 miles from the sochi games? >> clearly the attacks do signal that one...

Ready for possible scenarios that could turn out not so well. what are they? >> that is the u.s. military's role, to prepare for the worst if you like. they are now doing that. the russians as we were explaining yesterday have the lead naturally in all the security around sochi itself, around the olympic games but u.s. military is going to put assets into the region. in particular look at the black sea just right next to sochi there, take a look at this map. we got a quote from the pentagon which reads, air and naval assets to include two navy ships in the black sea will be available if reques...