. >> what did you learn from vancouver? >> i was 19 going into vancouver. i was a teenager looking to have a good time. get some experience under my belt. now i can go into this game with a clear vision of what i am going there to accomplish. all of the years i have put into training and practicing onto the ice. hopefully win some gold medals. >> what is the financial pressure of being in the sport you are in? >> it is tremendous how much we train and how much we are not able to support for ourselves. liberty mutual is stepping in and helping me to fund my goals and my dreams of being an olympian again. without that, i would not be able to do the sport at all. when the olympics are coming up, the sponsors reach out. >> do you want your face on wheaties? >> wheaties box would be awesome. i'm sponsored by them as well. if i do well, i will get my face on a box. >> my guest is from suburban seattle, the ceo of the legacy agency which represents him. welcome. it is easy to understand the marketability, but this man has an interesting back story. >> he is a fant

a shark >> what did you learn from vancouver? >> i was 19 going into vancouver. i was a teenager looking to have a good time. into this game with a clear vision of what i am going there to accomplish. i have put into training and practicing onto the ice. >> what is the financial pressure of being in the sport you are in? weit is tremendous how much trade and how much we are not able to support for ourselves. liberty mutual is stepping in and helping me to fund my goals in my dreams of being an olympian again. without that, i would not b able to do the sport at all. coming up,ympics are the sponsors reach out. >> do you want your face on wheaties? >> i'm sponsored by them as well. if i do well, i will get my face on a box. >> he is from suburban seattle. the ceo of the legacy agency which represents him, welcome. understand the marketability, but this man has an interesting back story. >> he is a fantastic individual. he is 23 years old, but he is mature beyond his years. he spent his entire life whichng back from injury, you effort before. since he was a kid, he

is a beautiful city and now both of my kids were born in vancouver so i have two canadian children. and the strangest thing about canada is the canadians they're just so damn nice i mean it is incredible they are rude and hoover of montreal toronto it is a stereotype that is based on truth is based on truth. and they live in our shadow the shadow of america hovers over them yeah it makes me wonder if there are some sort of atomic bombs. if you could have something named after you it would be a sandwich like a reuben but not a ribbon ameesha ameesha hidden talent you have we may not know about. and curl my tongue. my god. how did you find that talent i actually saw someone else did it and i practiced for about two weeks through again once ok. that's enough thank you me thank you thank you my guess the most town was the collins supernatural airs tuesdays at nine. he stand eight central remember you could find me on twitter at king's things and if you haven't found me sure already you apparently don't know much about twitter we'll see you next time. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news hav

who claimed ice dancing bronze with partner maksim at the last games in vancouver said she expects world pairs skating champions. and maxim trying to go all the way in. our figure skating pair simply have to win gold as for the other sports of course it will be more difficult never the less well all hoping for a medal at least i'm not saying gold but the medal for sure. i stand to touch on enough to one olympic gold and tour in two thousand and six the same year you've won the men's singles he then claimed silver in vancouver and is currently fighting to be fit for saatchi where nothing thinks he's russia's only podium hope in the men's event. i think it's going to be really hard for if. i don't see anyone else really if he manages even third place it will be a major victory for him and for us i wish him every success in trying. meanwhile the countdown to the sochi twenty fourteen paralympics reach one hundred days on wednesday people gathered at the black sea resort to celebrate the milestone as well as catch a closeup glimpse of some of the two hundred sixteen paralympic medals. that.

is a beautiful city and now both of my kids were born in vancouver so i have two canadian children. and the strangest thing about canada is the canadians they're just so damn nice i mean it is incredible they are. drawled toronto it is a stereotype that is based on truth is based on truth. and they live in our shadow the shadow of america hovers over them yeah it makes me wonder if there are some sort of atomic bombs. if you could have something named after you it would be a sandwich like a reuben but not a ribbon ameesha ameesha hidden talent you have we may not know about. and curl my tongue. my god. how did you find that talent i actually saw someone else did it and i practiced for about two weeks to again once ok. that's enough thank you thanks to my guests the town was a collins supernatural airs tuesdays at nine and he stand eight central remember you can find me on twitter at king's things and if you haven't found me sure already you apparently don't know much about twitter we'll see you next time. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is

after a disappointing performance of the last winter games in vancouver but an excellent show. in the paralympics russia's investment in solid she all year training facilities and is out for major countries hoping to vote shine it is made an olympics and inspire it's you and the new farm dames to be very telling some of those youngsters term golden dreams into gold medals richard onboard fleet r.t. moscow. now with the winter season finally underway in russia's bobsled and skeleton stars had to settle for silver medals at the opening world cup event in canada that turn alexanders a call of state his four month bob's play to join second place alongside germany and behind american olympic champion steven holcomb while reigning world champion jealous of the star xander to check all of finished second best to latvian star martin is due cause and russia's first ever women's european champion in the kitchen i was promoted to sell that he played britain's lizzy yarnold after noel pikas place of the usa was disqualified. and finally to the such a winter olympics and nine months after o

. [♪ music ] >> i was really lucky because i got to go to vancouver, seattle, and alaska to learn about genetically modified salmon. it's so cool. these fish are just crazy. you got to take a look. this here is a gm salmon that is a year old. >> genetically modified, right. >> yes. >> this king may be facing competition from a fish created in laboratory. >> those fish are hungry. >> reporter: they're called mg, genetically modified. here in vancouver, canada, these trains have been genetically modified to become a super salmon, eating voraciously and growing by leaps and bounds. >> i was throwing feed out in the water and it was a feed ing frenzy. >> they respond dramatically and show a 30-fold increase in growth relative to wild type . >> 10 to 30 times the speed of growth. >> taking science a step further, asking the food and drug administration to approve their farmed salmon for sale in the u.s. and from the looks of things it might happen. the fda has said it is safe to environment. it was first engineered in 1989. it's an atlantic salmon modified by a combination of chnookcal monda

. >> what did you learn from vancouver? >> i was 19 going into vancouver. i was a teenager looking to have a good time. get some experience under my belt. now i can go into this game with a clear vision of what i am going there to accomplish. all of the years i have put into training and practicing onto the ice. hopefully win some gold medals. >> what is the financial pressure of being in the sport you are in? >> it is tremendous how much we train and how much we are not able to support for ourselves. liberty mutual is stepping in and helping me to fund my goals and my dreams of being an olympian again. without that, i would not be able to do the sport at all. when the olympics are coming up, the sponsors reach out. >> do you want your face on wheaties? >> wheaties box would be awesome. i'm sponsored by them as well. if i do well, i will get my face on a box. >> celski is from -- my guest is from suburban seattle, the ceo of the legacy agency which represents him. welcome. it is easy to understand the marketability, but this man has an interesting back stor

after a disappointing performance of the last winter games in vancouver but an excellent show. in the paralympics russia's investment in solid she all year training facilities and is out for major countries hoping to vote shine it is made an olympics and inspire it's you and the new findings to be very telling some of those youngsters turn golden dreams into gold medals richard pombo of lead r.t. moscow. now with the winter season finally underway in russia's bobsled and skeleton stars have to settle for silver medals at the opening world cup event in canada veteran alexanders of call of state his four month bobsled to join second place alongside germany and behind american olympic champion steven holcomb while reigning world champion jealous and star alexander to check of finished second best to latvian star martin is due cause and russia's first ever women's european champion in the kitchen i was promoted to sell that link britain's lizzy yarnold after noel pikas place of the usa was disqualified. and finally to the such a winter olympics and nine months after online booking

russia, sochi, 2014, what did you learn from vancouver that you can apply to sochi? was 19 going into vancouver, so i was a young teenager, getting some experience under my belt, and now that i have that, i can go in with a clear vision of what i want to accomplish and put all of the years i have put into training and practicing onto the ice and hopefully win some gold medals. >> what is the financial pressure of being in the sport you are in? >> it is tremendous. how much we train, and how much we are not able to support for ourselves, so companies like liberty mutual are helping and stepping in help me, to help me fund my goals and my dreams. of being an olympian again, and without that, i would not be able to do this sport at all. when the olympics are coming up, the sponsors kind of reach out. >> what goes into marketing and -- an olympic athlete? >> we think is going to do a terrific job. you are completely right. his story translates regardless of what happens on the ice. he is an inspiration. >> so the sponsors that are committed to him are? >> we have tried t

after a disappointing performance of the last winter games in vancouver but an excellent show. in the paralympics russia's investment in some of g. all year training facilities and is out for major countries hoping to vote shine it is made an olympics and inspire its you and the new findings to be very telling some of those youngsters turn golden dreams into gold medals richard pombo of lead r.t. moscow. now with the winter season finally underway in russia's bobsled and skeleton stars had to settle for silver medals at the opening world cup event in canada that turned alexander's a call of state his four month bobsled to join second place alongside germany and behind american olympic champion steven holcomb while reigning world champion ellison alexander to chekov finish second best to latvian star martens to cause and russia's first ever women's european champion in the katyn i was promoted to sell that he played britain's lizzy yarnold after noel picas pace of the usa was disqualified. and finally to the such a winter olympics and nine months after online booking began ticke

a few miles away from vancouver, bc bud is easy to find out on the streets. a dope dealer approached us offering to sell some pot. >> do you grow it? >> yeah. >> where do you grow it? >> in the basement of my house. >> reporter: the punishment for people caught selling. >> i got my fifth conviction for a pound of pot and they gave me 10 days. >> that's it? >> yeah. >> reporter: growing marijuana at home is now a cottage industry. the growers enboldened by light sentences. officers found an operation worth hundreds of thousands of the dollars. >> we've had one individual tell us he made $240,000 in less than 10 months work by renting two slots. two homes, yeah. >> reporter: but the marijuana drug trade is about more than just pot. in case after case, police say they are finding links to cocaine and organized crime. a constant flow of drugs and money across a porus border. >> that's it for this week's second look. i'm julie haener. thank you for watching. 'round. a smoked, shank half ham ound. with starbucks at $6.99, serve coffee everyone savors. top it off wi

. >> what did you learn from vancouver? >> i was 19 going into vancouver. i was a teenager looking to have a good time. get some experience under my belt. now i can go into this game with a clear vision of what i am going there to accomplish. all of the years i have put into training and practicing onto the ice. hopefully win some gold medals. >> what is the financial pressure of being in the sport you are in? >> it is tremendous -- how much we train and how much we are not able to support for ourselves. liberty mutual is stepping in and helping me to fund my goals and my dreams of being an olympian again. without that, i would not be able to do the sport at all. when the olympics are coming up, the sponsors reach out. >> do you want your face on wheaties? >> wheaties box would be awesome. i'm sponsored by them as well. if i do well, i will get my face on a box. >> j.r. celski is from suburban seattle, the ceo of the legacy agency which represents him. welcome. it is easy to understand the marketability of apollo ohno, but this man has an interesting back s

among the many things in his head, memories of a night four years ago, the opening ceremonies of the vancouver games, when he had a flag in his hand and a country on his shoulder. >> you open up and walk up and, "oh my god", and you feel the roar of people and you can't put it in words. i was absolutely happy just to be there and carry the flag. >> he lives in seattle with his wife kate and daughter frankie. he gets support from the peruvian olympic committee and more from the international olympic's sol darty program. he'll cover about a third of the cost - $50,000 from his pocket this time around. kate works for microsoft. he has a consulting business. roberto was a surfing champion and long distance runner before he tried skiing, a sport he admits at 43 years old, he is still learning. >> believe it or not i'm getting older and better. >> he finished 94th out of 95 in his event in the 2010 olympics in vancouver. and knows he will not win a medal in socchi. victory is raising awareness of winter sports in his native country. >> how much recreational skiing is in peru. >> tiny little. >> righ

the bobsledder going for gold after a crash during the vancouver games. >>> the countdown to sochi is on. we're 44 days from the start of competition. you may not think of the bay area as a hotbed for bobsledding. three of the 14 men on the team live here. a story of one local team member whose road to sochy is filled with other priorities. >> at first glance the california health club in pleasant hill may not look like a place where olympic athletes train. it's far from the olympic training centers. chuck berkley isn't your ordinary olympian. at 37, he is working harder than some of his younger competitors. and using his age as an advantage. >> strength training, speed work, things the last 20 yearses, i do what works. i consider myself fortunate to be able to do this at this level and be competitive, still beat up on some young guys that live here full time. >> named to the u.s. bob sled team he competed in the four-man of the 2010 vancouver olympics those games ended in heart break when his sled flipped. >> the first thing you think this is scary. really scary. and painful. as you

yesterday she tweeted about a deadly car crash on i-205 in vancouver. she updated followers that she realized that her husband was actually late coming home. she tweeted a trooper on scene who realized something horrible happened. >> you started to realize she may know someone in the crash. >> yes. at that point i went and started reading what she was posting. can't find my husband. he's not answering his phone. that's when i realized this might be something we want to deal with now. >> the trooper rushed investigators to her house to tell her in person and at 3:50 she tweeted it's him, he died. she says her husband has epilepsy and troopers say his car collided head on with a pickup. the driver survived but was seriously injured. last night she was still updating followers tweeting my boys are finally asleep, i feel like a block of cement fell on me. then both my mom and mother-in-law left. tomorrow i'll have family over, tomorrow will be hard. i'll hear from the medical examiner, then thoughts went through my mind with hubby wearing holy undies. she h

this after a traumatic crash during the vancouver games. >> the countdown to sochi is on. we are 44 days away from competition, and you may not think of the bay area as a hotbed for bobsledding, but consider this. three of the 14 u.s. men on the national team live here. today m bay shows us the story of one local team member that has plenty of other priorities. >> reporter: at first glance the california health club in pleasant hill may not look like a place where olympic athletes train. it's month nonsense and far away from the high-tech olympic training centers, but chuck burkely isn't your ordinary olympian. at 37 he is working harder than some of his younger competitors. using his age as an advantage. >> strength training, speed work, and those things that i've developed over the last 20 years, i just -- i do at work. i feel myself very fortunate to be able to do this at this level and still be competitive, still beat up on some young guys that live there full-time. >> named to the u.s. bobsled team in 2007, burkely competed in the four-man bobsled in the 2010 vancouve

karen johnson lives near vancouver, washington. she often listens to police scanners and tweets out information to help others avoid accidents and hazards on the road. well, yesterday she tweeted about a deadly car crash on i-205 and vancouver. as she updated her followers, she soon realized her husband was late coming home. she urgently tweet aid trooper on the scene who realized something horrible had happened. >> she started to realize she may know someone in that crash. >> i went to her and stwartd reading what she was focussing. can't find my husband. he is not answering his phone. at that point that's when i realized that this might be something that we want to deal with right now. >> the trooper rushed investigators to her house to tell her in person. at 3:50 p.m. karen tweeted it's him. he died. she says her husband has epilepsy. troopers say his car crashed the median and collided head-on with a pickup truck. the truck driver survived but was seriously injured. >>> he is best known for his action-packed films, and many are

and then vancouver race to a 2-0 first period advantage. carolina managed to draw level. this is second of the game. 3-2, vancouver. >>> that's all the sport for now. >> we'll see you later. thank you very much. the world's biggest online retailer is saying that it's considering using aerial drones to deliver small packages to its customers. amazon showed this online showing the mechanical device and how it would really work. well, the prototype which looks like a giant robotic insect, would transport items from the warehouse directly to people's homes, and that will significantly reduce the time to deliver items that are bought online. but amazon is saying it will take four or five years before it's delivery drones gets off the ground. we'll have much more on that story right here on al jazeera. so oh do stay with us. back in a minute. report. as states try to save money, are prisoners paying the price? >> what are you talking about, he's dead. >> an exclusive investigation into prison health care. the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you,

a group of dreamt of becoming an olympic champion since he was fourteen when his dream came true in vancouver in twenty two as he clinched his first there were gold in russia's first of those games in a dramatic photo finish edging his combat troops alexander upon dreams however the twenty year old says winning his second olympic gold will be much harder than. course i've already dreamt about winning the gold medal in sochi and it a lot of it was difficult for me to win in vancouver over that was my first victory and it's easier to win the first time then the second time and to defend your title which is why i'll just give my all and see what happens because i don't get the most just. group went on to become the two time world champion this february while he devotes almost all his time to training in knowing that this is the only recipe for success is naturally he wants to become an national hero in his home games in sochi. but with themselves my preparations for the olympics have changed a little bit as the track in sochi is very demanding we aim to use my full strength with maximum speed so

a group of dreamt of becoming an olympic champion since he was fourteen when his dream came true in vancouver and twenty as he clinched his first there were gold in russia's first of those games in a dramatic photo finish edging his combat troop alexander upon dreams however the twenty eight year old says winning his second olympic gold will be much harder than . course i've already dreamt about winning the gold medal in sochi a bit of it was difficult for me to win in vancouver over that was my first victory and it's easier to win the first time then the second time and to defend your title which is why i'll just give my all and see what happens there glad to get the most just. to go for went on to become the two time world champion this february while he devotes almost all his time to training in family knowing that this is the only recipe for success is bashfully he wants to become international if his home games in sochi. themselves my preparations for the olympics have changed to their full of it as the track in such she is very demanding we aim to use my full strength with maximum speed

a group of dreamt of becoming an olympic champion says he was fourteen when his dream came true in vancouver and twenty as he could change his first there were gold and russia's first of those games in a dramatic photo finish edging his combat troop alexander farm dreams however the twenty two year old says winning his second olympic gold will be much harder. course i've already dreamt about winning the gold medal in sochi and it a lot of it was difficult for me to win in vancouver over that was my first victory and it's easier to win the first time then the second time and to defend your title which is why i'll just give my all and see what happens there glad to get the most just. to go for went on to become the two time world champion this february while he devotes almost all his time to training in family knowing that this is the only recipe for success is naturally he wants to become in national hero if his home games. with themselves my preparations for the olympics have changed a little bit as the track in sochi is very demanding we aim to use my full strength with maximum speed so we

june 15th, 2011, vancouver british columbia. the nhl stanley cup finals are where the hometown canuks face the boston bruins this a critical winner take all battle. they face the critical boston bruins in a winner take all. rich is a photographer who shot the games for the past decades. >> they're huge. i mean, it's the hottest ticket in town. >> when the bruins win the game 4-0 and claim the stanley cup in their backyard, the fans don't take the loss well. vancouver "sun" editor, dean waton witnesses the riot first hand. >> i walked downtown and there were pillars of smoke coming out. you just knew it was a bad situation. they were throwing racks at police officers and kicking in windows and it was a frightening experience. >> guys were coming out of the store like clowns in a mini car. just one after another. it looked like a mad black friday setup. as early evening turns tonight, tensions escalate and there's no end in site to the looming vandalism. loots and vandalism. the riot police take a stand, forming human walls and ma

bobsled team in 2007, he competed in the 2010 vancouver olympics. those games ended in heart break when his sled flipped. >> first thing you think is this is scary. really scary. and painful. then as you come to the realization of what's happening, you realize, man, this is my olympic games. it's probably over. and it was. >> reporter: berkeley left the sport for a couple years, but then returned last season ready for redemption. >> it ended prematurely for me. so that's a big reason why i'm coming back. i want a result next to my name. >> reporter: and he's enduring this rigorous training while still working full time and helping to raise his two daughters. >> i miss you guys when i'm gone. >> i'm really proud of him because he's been training a lot, and he's been doing it as hard as he can just to get the exercise that he would need. >> and that was janelle wang reporting. the final men's bobsledding team for sochi won't be named until january, but berkeley says he's confident his name will be on the list. for now he's competing on the world cup c

and steve anderson executive director of open media in vancouver thank you all. still here on capitol hill there's a new budget deal on the table that could avoid another government shutdown next month public and house budget chairman paul ryan in the senate democratic budget chairwoman patty murray announced the deal on tuesday night i am happy to report that senator murray and i have reached an agreement. we've been talking all year and this week that hard work of the two of us sitting down and talking to each other all year is paid off. the deal would set spending for this fiscal year at one point zero one two trillion dollars and it gets rid of roughly sixty three billion dollars in arbitrary sequester cuts that in two thousand and fourteen and twenty fifteen but those cuts are replaced by savings elsewhere plus another twenty two point five billion dollars and more deficit reduction and some of the so-called savings include higher fees on airline tickets a paid cut to newly hired federal workers of more than one percent then a one percent cut in the cost of

>> i was 19 going into vancouver . now that i have that experience i can really go into this game with a clear vision of what i am going there to accomplish. i can put all the years that have put into training and practicing onto the ice and hopefully win some gold medals. >> was a financial pressure of being in the sport you're in? >> is tremendous how much we train and how much we are not able to support for ourselves. companies like liberty mutual help and step in and help me there it they help me fund my goals and my james of being an olympian again. without that i wouldn't be able to do the sport at all. --n the olympics are on coming up, you have to reach out . if i do well in the coming months i will get my face on a box of wheaties. >> he grew up in seattle rooting for hometown hero apolo ohno. it is easy to understand apolo ohno's marketability, but this man jrcelski has an interesting background. >> he is a fantastic individual, he is 23 years old, but he is mature beyond his years. he spent his entire life n

. >> i fell into the boards five months before the vancouver olympics and wound up putting six inches in my right blade right and by thigh. it went in, i bounced off the boards, pulled the blade out, looking at this meatloaf in my leg am a wondering what was going on. i cut myself all the way to my fever bone. you can imagine being in top shape going to olympic trials and all of a sudden being taken out like that. i leave it up to my support system to bring me back. >> 60 stitches? >> 60. it was a shark bite. >> they are that he is back and ready for sochi. --i'm small compared to, compared to some of my competitors. i get tossed around. >> give us the comparison. how tall are you? >> 5'8", 140 pounds. 6'2",f my competitors are getting up there. the looking at them on line. >> you don't let them push you around? >> no. toetimes it does play it vantage but i try to be faster than them. >> what is it like to whip around that track? per hour,0 miles straight at a 180 degree radius. you have to somehow managed to i cannot theater explain the feeling. how do i do that? you are going to be

a group of dreamt of becoming an olympic champion says he was fourteen when his dream came true in vancouver and twenty as he clinched his first there were gold in russia's first of those games in a dramatic photo finish edging his combat troops alexander farm dreams however the twenty year old says winning his second olympic gold will be much harder than. course i've already dreamt about winning the gold medal in sochi it was a it was difficult for me to win in vancouver over that was my first victory and it's easier to win the first time and the second time and to defend your title which is why i'll just give my all and see what happens there glad to get the most just. to go for went on to become the two time world champion this february literally while he devotes almost all his time to training in family knowing that this is the only recipe for success is naturally he wants to become an national hero at his home games in sochi. themselves while preparations for the olympics of change are there to love it as the track in such he is very demanding we aim to use my full strength with maximum

and steve anderson executive director of open media in vancouver thank you all. here on capitol hill there's a new budget deal on the table that could avoid another government shutdown next month public and house budget chairman paul ryan in the senate's democratic budget chairwoman patty murray announced the deal on tuesday night i am happy to report that senator murray and i have reached an agreement. we've been talking all year and this week that hard work of the two of us sitting down and talking to each other all year is paid off. now the deal would set spun spending for this fiscal year at one point zero one two trillion dollars and gets rid of roughly sixty three billion dollars since questor cuts set to hit in two thousand and fourteen and twenty fifteen but those cuts are replaced by savings elsewhere plus another twenty two point five billion and more deficit reduction some of those so-called savings include higher fees on airline tickets a paid cut to newly hired federal workers of more than one percent and a one percent cut in the cost of living adjus

it's possible that were possible and reinstate anderson is the executive director of media in vancouver in this unique perspective on this new link about how canadian spies were basically working at the behest of the nsa to spy on the key trading partners. stephen what has been the reaction in canada toll on these revelations since june and how is this latest leak. it made me change their reaction to expect some fallout of this week it with canadian canada's allies. i think for sure and i'm thinking canadians domestically of an increasingly alarmed tens of thousands of people of reset the lawmakers to call for more over say and really when it comes down to mistrust i mean and and this latest revelation that a tiara canadian spy agency is i and our tendencies are being used at the back pass and the us an essay for spying on our allies. i'm just making a worsening and government wanted to bet that basic questions like how many canadians are swept up in the surveillance from what information they have on us the house to cure those databases to do it is that information being shared with ot

and steve anderson executive director of open media in vancouver thank you all. staying here on capitol hill there's a new budget deal on the table that could avoid another government shutdown next month republican house budget chairman paul ryan in the senate's democratic budget chairwoman patty murray announced the deal on tuesday night i am happy to report that senator murray and i have reached an agreement. we've been talking all year and this week that hard work of the two of us sitting down and talking to each other all year is paid off now the deal would set spending for this fiscal year at one point zero one two trillion dollars and it gets rid of roughly sixty three billion dollars in sequester cuts set to head in two thousand and fourteen and twenty fifteen those cuts though are replaced by savings elsewhere plus another twenty two point five billion dollars and more deficit reduction some of those so-called savings include higher fees on airline tickets a paid cut to newly hired federal workers of more than one percent and a one percent cut in the cost

he finished 94th out of 95 in his event in vancouver, and knows he is not going to win a medal in sochi. victory is just raising awareness of the winter sport in his home country. right now he is the peruian winter olympic skiing team, all of it. but he has a vision of kids growing up to some day take on the world. >> to train a group of kids that live in the andies, and put them on roller skis, and perhaps few years down the road, we'll have a house made peruvian delegation. >> reporter: and he hopes a second olympic appearance and what he expects will be a better performance will help him raise money and interest so he can get that program started. meanwhile it's just him and the snow and a challenging trail ahead. >>> okay. plenty more of course on our website. you can check that out, aljazeera.com/sport, the latest on south africa's second test match with india. okay. that is all the sport for now. >> thank you, andy. stay with us here on al full b with me is straight ahead. don't go away. here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim

there is even an atm in vancouver. certain countries have struggled with how to classify it. is it a commodity, is it an asset, a currency? they want to tax it in germany, like they want to tax everything they can in germany. the question is, will denmark and germany follow norway and -- in taxing actual purchases of bitcoin? if you pay with your fiat currency, do you have to pay a vat tax for buying that bitcoin just like you are buying software or anything else? in the u.s., regulators have come down hard on people who want to be exchanges. operating a bitcoin exchange means you have to register in each different state as a money transaction company. 47 states, so it will cost you millions of dollars around the world. i found over the last nine days you can pay for virtually anything with bitcoin. i have lived on it for the last two weeks, only using dollar bills for tips. >> it is crazy to think how much the value of this has fluctuated in the nine days you have been covering it. we will be closely watching the next few days as well. >> i do want to point out that we join

. ♪ ♪ >> to park royal mall in vancouver where mish and jason are just going to go see santa. of course they're wearing their ugly sweaters. but this isn't just let's go see santa day. suddenly bruno mars' song "let's get married" is playing. mish noticed all her friends are dancing by the escalator. she said at this point she was in shock, she realized what was happening and she was not expecting it because she thought he was going to propose on christmas. >> where's santa? >> who cares! >> yeah, she got her christmas wish. >> it's funny because she's being pulled around by the dog. she's the dog walker. she's on the clock. so jason walks over, gives her a big old smooch and then gets down on one knee for the beautiful moment. >> that's really funny. as she waiting there, the dogs -- >> somebody take the dogs for just one second. but finally she says yes, she takes the ring. >> it's official. >> that's why all her engagement photos are going to have a big goofy sweater on. >> they seem really in love. it's fun to see these when they seem in love because it's such a surprise,

. >>> winnipeg and vancouver have met the first time in 17 years. canucks, deflecting that goal in the canucks had a major loss in their game as their starting goal tender left due to injury. winnipeg tied the game but instead vancouver would get the winner. giving canucks a gig 2-1 win. >>> chad liggetty had to settle for third in the world cup giant slalom over the weekend, made up for it by claiming victory in italy on monday, collecting the world record prize of over $100,000. body miller had to settle for third. both competing in the winter olympics in soxi. >>> for the first time in history hollywood park horse park has held its last race. the venue was opened in the summer of 1938, bankrolled by a group of shareholders that included walt disney and bing crosby. seabiscuit won the first race. after decline of fences the 260 acre site will be replaced by housing and retail developments. that's a shame. that's it for me. >> thank you very much. half of mexico's prisons are overcrowded and many are understaffed. nearly a third reoffend when they'

he's been down this olympic road before, competing in vancouver back in 20 10. now berkeley is on track to compete in sochi, russia. doing it in an unconventional way. at first glance, the california health club in pleasant hill may not look like a place where olympic athletes train. it's no nonsense and far away from the high-tech olympic training centers, but chuck berkeley isn't your ordinary olympian. at 37, he's working harder than some of his younger competitors. and using his age as an advanta advantage. >> strength training, speed work and the things have developed over the last 20 years. >> i consider myself very fortunate to do this at this level, still be competitive, still beat up on some young guys that live there full time. >> reporter: named to the u.s. bobsled team in 2007, berkeley competed in the four-man bobsled at the 2010 vancouver olympics. those games, though, ended in heartbreak when his sled flipped. >> the first thing you think is, this is scary. really scary. and painful. then as you come to the realization of what's happening, you rea

. >> to royal mall in vancouver where mish and jason are you know, going to see santa and, of course, they're wearing their ugly sweaters because you have to see santa with your ugly sweater. this isn't just to let's go see santa day. bruno mars' song "marry you" starts playing ♪ hey baby i think i want to marry you ♪ >> mish starts noticing all her friends are dancing by her by the escalators. we talked to mish who is a huge fan of the show by the way and did tell us at this point she was in shock. she realized what was happening, not expecting it, because she thought he was going to propose on christmas, but came early for her. christmas came early. >> where's santa? >> who cares. >> she got her christmas wish. >> it's funny because she's being pulled around. she's a dog walker. walking dogs, on the clock. so jason walks over, gives her a smooch, and then gets down on one knee for the beautiful moment. it's funny how she's waiting there and the dogs pull her away. >> come on, run, run. >> somebody take the dogs for one second. >> finally she says yes. takes the ring. it's offici

and new york and chicago and vancouver, along with the sochi olympics, created some great opportunities for us to tell stories about these players. >> you will come out of the olympics with some very good benefits? >> hockey is a global sport. the nhl wants to have a global business. the olympics is a great platform. we think we're going to use it more effectively this year. ultimately, i think part of the answer for us is to have our own world cup. a world cup of hockey, which is a big tradition in hockey and has been very successful. whether that is something we do parallel to the olympics or instead of the olympic is something for the commissioner to figure out. other see a big opportunity from a business stand point for the nhl. >> $3.3 billion and you are now publicly stating that $4 billion is a legitimate benchmark. >> i think the rogers deal starts to get us there. we have some maturation of some of the platforms, the event platforms. our digital media platforms begin to do it. international gets us there. >> everybody might argue that there were some challenges about the rapid

yesterday she tweeted about a deadly car crash on 205 in vancouver. she updated her followers, then soon realized her husband was late coming home. she urgently tweeted a trooper on the scene who realized something horrible happened. >> you started to realize she may know someone in the crash. >> yes. then i went and started reading what she was posting, can't find my husband, not answering his phone, that's when i realized that this might be something that we want to deal with now. >> very sad. the trooper rushed investigators to her house to tell her in person. at 3:50 she tweeted it's him, he died. her husband has epilepsy. the car collided with a pickup truck. the driver survived but was injured. last night she was updating her followers. she has many of them tweeting my boys are finally asleep. i feel like a block of cement fell on me. my mom and mother-in-law left. tomorrow i'll have family over. i'll hear from the medical examiner. then a thought went through my mind. my hubby was wearing holy undies. how awful. a little sense of humor there. >

and new york and chicago and vancouver, along with the sochi olympics, created some great opportunities for us to tell stories about these players. >> you will come out of the olympics with some very good benefits? >> hockey is a global sport. the nhl wants to have a global business. the olympics is a great platform. we think we're going to use it more effectively this year. ultimately, i think part of the answer for us is to have our own world cup. a world cup of hockey, which is a big tradition in hockey and has been very successful. whether that is something we do parallel to the olympics or instead of the olympic is something for the commissioner to figure out. there is a big opportunity from a business stand point for the nhl. >> $3.3 billion and you are now publicly stating that $4 billion is a legitimate benchmark. >> i think the rogers deal starts to get us there. we have some maturation of some of the platforms, the event platforms. our digital media platforms begin to do it. international gets us there. >> everybody might argue that there were some challenges about the rapid g

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james instagramed this photo from the first day of filming in vancouver. michael jordan and yvette prieto are expecting, but jordan has three grown children from a previous marriage. >>> after last year's in-flight safety videos, featuring "lord of the rings" characters, there's a life-sized picture of a dragon on a plane. >> and the kardashian clan has released their christmas card for 2013. baby north is not in there that's an interesting photo. >> why aren't their significant others in that? >> it's just all about them. >> or is it because they're on the outs with some of them, maybe? >> did you see -- bruce jenner? he's like -- he's locked in some kind of a -- >> in that picture? >> in the picture. it's funny looking. he's trapped in some kind of glass area. >>> i'm betty nguyen, this is "early today," we hope it's just your first stop of the day here on nbc. >>> leading the news, "the new york times," scottish authorities seek choose the copter crash. investigators are trying to figure out what caused a police helicopter to plunge through the roof of

we see the impacts to the food insecurity in canada and internationally, in vancouver, food insee kuali'i hiv positive individuals are 50 percent more likely to die than the people who are not food insecure and i want to end by saying that we know that the freedom from hunger is a right, but more than that, tackling the food insecurity head on is a practical and cost effective approach to improving health and saving lives. thank you. and the next two speakers are ken, from the community services and rama from the community housing, and meals on wheels and kevin, a great leader from the tender loin neighborhood, and the center, and the healthy corn ner historical, and tammy, wo ng, from i can't read it. ryan from tndc and fred and another >> in this city we are all connected and the portion of the citizenry is anxious and distressed because they are growing and that effects all of us all across the city, have you heard that this is a city wide issue. and we are here to ask for your support to really support all of the non-profits represented here, and that provide the food programs. we are