Olympics: While the games begin in SOCHI, Russia, The 2014 Winter Olympics got underway Thursday the 22nd Winter Games started with crystal clear temperature just below 20 degrees.

These Olympics are an 18-day competition beginning with qualifying in the men and women slope-style events, qualifying in women's freestyle skiing moguls and team figure skating. Both the slope-style competitions and the team figure skating are new events to this year's program, during which 98 gold medals will be awarded.

Tutor Perini Corporation was awarded the contract to build The City Island Bridge and is now being awarded another one valued at approximately $60 million. This one is for building a replacement Maintenance of Equipment building at the Hudson Yards site in New York, in connection with the Company’s previously announced Amtrak Tunnel project.

Sochi Russia is the site of The Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to begin is a few days, but someone should notify the Olympic Organizing Committee the place is a mess.

The Winter Olympics Games' organizers may thin they're ready, but some hotel rooms have no light bulbs, no shower curtains, only cold water only and you cant close the doors to keep away stray dogs.
And did we mention their tap water, which looks more like.... Let's clean it up and call it apple juice, or perhaps beer.

Snowplow drivers are having a go at it just to keep ahead of the sleet and ice which has been falling all night.

There is no one else who actually sees the ice and snow firsthand like those people driving the plows.

These dedicated individuals are racing to keep our roads plowed to stay ahead of the fast-falling sleet and snow.

"What's made it hard this year is that the streets keep freezing after it snows," says Guy, a driver who's been at it for nearly 20 years. "It makes it hard to pick up snow." He continues to say...

While many Americans were digging out of their last snowstorm, a new winter storm with snow and lots of ice has arrived at the doorsteps of people living in two dozen states affecting 100 million people from Maine to Colorado.

Forecasters are expecting six inches of snow on portions of New York, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Another wave of rain has moved in under the snow belt, affecting parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and others.