Breaking news tonight. The deadliest avalanche in California's history. Eight people confirmed dead and one skier still missing.A group of 15 buried under a massive avalanche the size of a football field. Rescuers battling treacherous conditions. Finding six people alive.The community in mourning as questions grow over why the group with professional guides went out despite the major risk. Our team is there tonight. Raging wildfires across the plains, including fire, natives, buildings, even this bus engulf ...

WE ARE COMING ON THE AIR WITH THE DEADLY AVALANCHE IN THE WEST. EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED, SIX SKIERS RESCUED AS A STORM SYSTEM DUMPS SNOW ON THAT STATE, PART OF A DANGEROUS WEATHER PATTERN THREATENING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. WE'VE GOT TEAM COVERAGE AND A LOOK AT WHAT'S AHEAD.ALSO TONIGHT, THE NEW AND BIGGER REWARD IN TUCSON WITH SO MANY DESPERATELY HOPING FOR ANSWERS ABOUT NANCY GUTHRIE. HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT IS TURNING TO A STRATEGY FOR THEIR NEW DNA EVIDENCE THAT IS PROVEN TO HAVE HELPED BEFORE IN THE CASE OF THE ID ...

Shiffron hopes it all comes true. >> Tonight, the best ski racer in the world delivered not one but two near perfect runs. [cheering] >> Golden again at the Olympics.>> Finally, Olympic redemption for Michaela Shiffren. And it wasn't even close at the finish, crouching down as it sunk in. The crowd roaring.[cheering] >> OH MY GOD, I WAS CRYING. I WAS SHAKING. >> It's been eight years since Shiffron stood on an Olympic podium.as you waited to stand up onto the podium, you closed your eyes. You really took a ...

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We would like to welcome Emory Layman. He is a a member of that US men's pursuit speed skating team. He joins us now from Milan.All right. Good morning. Welcome.Your team has now won two Olympic medals. Uh and two of you set a world record during the first event of the World Cup this year. What do you think makes you guys so successful.>> Oh man, I think we just got that uh American spirit. We work as a team. We work together.Um, I think a lot of other teams go out there as individuals and we really go out ...

Let's bring in newly minted silver medalist Mac Forehand. Uh Mac Jay says you're gnarly. How do you feel after earning your first Olympic medal.[laughter] >> Yeah, it definitely feels really good. It's It's been a dream of mine my entire life. And to have this around my neck right now, it it's really cool.Definitely really special. >> Is so cool. Now, you lost the gold to Norway by just a whisper even after an impressive third round.Some on social media are saying, you know what, you should have taken the t ...

The Blade Angels taking to the ice tonight. Amber Glenn, Alyssa Lou, and Isabel Levito. >> It's been thinking about talking about how special it would be to skate here at the Olympics in Milan.>> All three US figure skaters entered as medal contenders in an event the US hasn't meddled in since 2006. And tonight, two of the Americans skated clean programs. >> I'm just like really, really happy.And this moment's really exciting and I don't want it to, you know, end. But Amber Glenn made a mistake that could t ...

I would imagine in the last couple of days you've been getting a lot of advice from people. Is there one thing that has helped you that you've heard from somebody. >> It's really that medals don't define who you are. It's always just, you know, what you do, how you do it, and the person you are that defines you in your own way.>> Does that help you. Are you able to take that message and and actually really act on it. Yes, I definitely, you know, felt it and just the amount of support, the amount of love I'v ...

How did it feel to have Taylor Swift do the introduction for you. >> Oh my god, I totally forgot about that. Amber sent it the other day.So much has happened here at the Olympics. So seeing that, at first I thought it was fake. I totally thought it was fake.I thought that was really cool. And funny enough, at first when it was set into the group chat and everyone was freaking out, I didn't understand why because I didn't recognize Taylor Swift's voice. But um that's still cool.None of us knew that was going ...

The real competition in Milan right now, Olympics versus opera. This is Lascala, the world's most iconic opera house. It's just a short walk from the Duomo at the center of Milan, which has been overtaken by the Winter Olympics.They're doing ghetto damarong. That's right. The only opera during the Olympics is Vagner's Ghetto Damarong or the Twilight of the Goats.As the city stages the Olympics, Lascala is staging the apocalypse. The opera is 5 and a half hours long. It features betrayal, treachery, corrupti ...