[Marsh:] American figure skater Nathan Chen offers condolences to the victims' families in the deadly Florida school shooting before taking to the ice. Coy Wire has more from Pyeongchang. Coy, I mean, obviously, this tragedy stretching even there in South Korea.
[Coy Wire, Cnn Sports Correspondent:] Yes, Rene, less than 24 hours before that highly anticipated men's figure skating short program, the world's only undefeated skater this season, 18-year-old American Nathan Chen, was asked about the shooting.
[Nathan Chen, Team Usa Figure Skater:] Truly, my heart hearts go out my heart goes out to them. It's devastating. It's terrible that things like this keep happening. But, you know, I can just give all of the families involved my condolences. And I hope that, you know, everything kind of starts going on an upward trend. But, I mean, yes, it's not great news to hear that before a competition.
[Wire:] Having fallen earlier in the team event, the pressure for Chen was high. Chen fell not once but twice. He is currently in 17th place. He is the defending U.S. champ. Now the legendary 23-year-old from Japan, Yuzuru Hanyu, though, looked poised. The defending Olympic champ put up the second highest score ever recorded, falling just short of his own world record. His passionate fans threw truckloads of stuffed Winnie the Poohs, Hanyu's favorite, onto the ice when the score was announced. I was sitting among them. Some were praying, others were crying, but all celebrating the top scorer heading into the free skate, which is later tonight, East Coast time. Now, in women's slalom, Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin, the overwhelming favorite to defend her gold from 2014 finished fourth. It's her strongest event. She said she vomited before her first run. She said it was nervousness. She had expectations of four medals at these games. She already did capture gold in the giant slalom. Let's give you an early start on your medal count. Norway at the top with 19. Germany with 15. Canada, 13. The Netherlands, 12. And the U.S. still sitting in fifth place with eight medals. Rene, back to you.
[Marsh:] All right. The U.S. sitting in that fifth place. Hopefully we'll move up a little bit. Thank you so much, live for us in South Korea, Coy Wire. Now, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Turkey trying mend relations and breaking protocol, meeting with the country's president without an American translator. Tillerson and President Erdogan met for more than three hours Thursday. The Turkish foreign prime minister did the translation. The State Department says that the secretary has met with Erdogan before and was OK with it. Tillerson is in Turkey to discuss tensions over the United States anti-ISIS alliance with the Kurdish militia in Syria. Moments ago, Turkey's foreign minister said the U.S. and Turkey agreed to start normalizing relations on the issue. Let's hope that that translation was accurate. Well, EARLY START continues right now.
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