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For the first time since the games began, we woke up to a dusting of snow here in Torino. It has since become a blanket, and the expression you hear among fellow Americans in the commissary at the NBC compound is that where dealing with snow is concerned, Turin is the "Washington, D.C. of Italy." If you've spent any time in the Nation's Capital, then you know it only takes a dusting to paralyze streets. To our amazement, for a brief time today, here at the foot of the Italian Alps (I'm pretty sure snow was INVENTED here), the people of this city were having a tough time getting around. The flakes were briefly the size of hubcaps and the snow has left a nice layer of white on everything. While there are numerous French influences visible here, on a day like this, Turin takes on a decidedly Eastern European feeling. It's also something of a mind-bender that while Whitney Houston sings in the Medals Plaza a few blocks from here (the music is piped through the entire downtown), we are inside our headquarters just off the piazza watching the Daytona 500 while working on Nightly News... selfishly hoping for a rain-free, accident-free second half of the race, so that the first East Coast feed of Nightly News airs on time.
On the broadcast tonight, the continuing struggle and sadness in the Philippines...our own Mark Potter got a helicopter ride to the affected area today and has a first-hand report. Also the Sunday news from Washington -- regarding Secretary Chertoff and Vice President Cheney. The news continues to be generated here at these games -- we'll have a rundown of the victories, disappointments and cancellations (due to snow, of all things). Tonight Mike Taibbi will profile the Pride of Harvard on the U.S. women's hockey team. It can certainly be said that where hockey is concerned, the Swedes seem to have our number. Kevin Tibbles continues to take the Canadian hockey result very hard. We are counseling and consoling him. The question for many of us in the media is: will we learn any lessons about advance hype after some of the performances by members of the U.S. team at these games? Its one of the many stories as we pass the mid-point of competition.
We hope you'll join us tonight.
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