The news earn our paychecks. Theres breaking news. Gunnar bentz and jack conger, they are now on a plane. They are flying home, u. S. Bound after testifying in rio here. The headline, though, according to rio, police is this the swimmers were vandals and not victims. They were accused of making up that story about being robbed at gun point. The police chief said no robbery was the victims. They could be charged, he said. It was reported that lochte was indicted and then nbc news said he was not. Lochte said he was robbed at one point, but police say their countrys reputations that been damaged forever because the swimmer lied. Thats their words. The park and damaged the bathroom. Yes, they were ordered out of a car, and yes, police were called because of this vandalism. But no way police say lochte was robbed. So i guess its a pickle here. Neither side agreeing. In the middle, there are attorneys and we have yet to see that exclusive interview with ryan lochte. Whats interesting, is that all of the talk of his teammates and whatever happened in the middle of the night has stolen the headlines from olympians who have worked so hard to get here. We know that conner fields had his quarterfinals today. And the headline was moved away from conner because of this lochte thing. I talked to mike fields and he finished at the top of his quarterfinals. What does that mean at home . Vegas time, conner fields goes for the gold. Everybody cross your fingers and toes. Do everything you can, light a candle for conner and keep hopes up that conner fields, our las vegas olympian, is able to win and bring home the gold. Jim and marie, what a day its been. We will for sure. One guy who is doing that is con conners dad,. Reporter yeah, this guy goes to social media and things like, dream come true or a picture of him holding his ticket. Hes a lot like a young teenager in love with life and the experience and has been given that rebirth and in love with life because of the young man he was part of giving life to. Its a beautiful dynamic. Inspiration on top of inspiration. Thank you for your live report. Even when hes not on air, you can follow along with reed and chloe on social media. Theyve been posting like crazy. All games long. You can check out their photos any time when they are not here on the air. Go to news3lv. Com or our Facebook Page and you will find all of our olympic coverage there. We have our viewers on our team rio. They are having the experience at the games as well. You can check out this gamry falls. For all of the stories and photos check out the olympics page under the sports tab on our website. The olympics continue tonight with the worlds fastest man and womens platform diving and the indoor volleyball team. It starts at 8 00 p. M. After a man is fighting for his life after he was hit by a taxi. Police believe the victim was jaywalking. It happened near harmon and paradise, east of the strip. News 3s nathan oneal shows us what happened. Reporter a man violently thrown to the ground after police say he was hit by a taxicab while he was jaywalking across this busy street. He hit the window. Like the window crack. When they flipped him over, we not reporter witnesses say one car swerved to avoid him. The taxi cab was able to stop in time. He was in the middle of the street. Reporter the cabdriver was running from dropping off a fare at the airport when Police Believe the man was struck. Police say the man darted in the roadway at least 200 feet a family story as clark county has already seen 30 pedestrian deaths so far this year. Thats up from last year. I dont know if there is a bar in there or not. Came out drunk or something. Didnt know what he was doing. Reporter the victim suffered internal and brain injuries. Police say he was unconscious when he was taken to the hospital. Although this is a busy outlet to the las v drivers taking risks. Most of the people are aware of that. Their eyes up are up. Sometimes there will be a pedestrian that might jump in front of you because they think they have the ultimate rightofway which is incorrect. Reporter nathan oneal, news 3. The cabdriver stayed at the scene. Police say the driver was not impaired. Darren sharper, the nfl years in prison for drugged and raping him. The federal judge said she could not ignore the damage he did to women and society. The judge ignored a multistate plea agreement that called for a nineyear sentence. Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest in las vegas, arizona and california. Prosecutors say he would drug women so he could rape them. Gawker. Com is shutting down. As you may remember, gawker lost a by hulk hogan. Gawkers founder reportedly told the staff the site will shut down next week. The company went into bankruptcy after it was sold to univision. Theres other blogs it operates. The man who climbed trump tower in new york with suction cups had been planning that stunt for a while. Well tell you why police say he was waiting for the perfect a daughter of an nfl great a month after 9 11, i got a call from david and he told me he was going into the national guard. He was sent to iraq to be a gunner on a humvee. A car pulled up in the driveway and three soldiers got out, will stay with me the rest of my life. You have moments when you really dont want to live anymore, its a fate that i would not wish on anybody, not anybody. When i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. Wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably. I would like to tell donald trump what it feels like, and i dont think that donald trump will ever understand that. Votevets is responsible for the contents of this advertising. . Some 3 of 0,000 twitter accounts have been suspended for promoting terrorism. According to the social those accounts were suspended within the past six months. Its believed many have ties to isis. The guy who scaled the outside of trump tower planned that stunt for a while. Police say he waited until his folks left town before he headed to manhattan to climb the building. They also say he ordered those suction cups and other before the stunt on august 10th. It landed him in jail. Hes facing charges of Reckless Endangerment and trespassing. He told police he wanted a personal meeting with donald trump. A pause to take a look at whats coming up at 7 00. Its one of the biggest supplies. Well share tips to help you save money when you are getting your kids ready to head back to school. Lets talk about the weather. You look and you think am i gonna get rain . The kids are heading back and you think of monsoonal season. We have the clouds shielding us from the sun. Degrees. Lets head on outside. Well show you our camera from mesquite. Start out with the sunshine. But as that moisture from those collapsing thunderstorms oozed into southern nevada, watch the clouds build. As you look off into arizona and utah, pretty good thunderstorms in that direction as well. The far south end of the valley, right side of the screen, you can see the clouds building and a couple of those storms have our country. Pecos and bonanza, 100. The humidity is starting to back off now. While it will be more humid tomorrow than it was earlier in the week, it wont be as humid as it is root now. Right now. Up in far northwest its 97 and 16 . If you are heading out, its humid. But temperatures in the double digits. Just barely on the east the valley. Sandy valley, 91. 86 in searchlight. Indian springs, 95. As you map out your friday, making it to the end. Week, mid80s. Well get in the lower 100s. You will have a few clouds, extra moisture. Hard to avoid the clouds. Not much at all in the wind category. No surprise there. In town were not expecting that. Up on the mountains, its a possibility. Thats what were seeing with mountains. There is a Little Development right here to the north. We will keep an eye on this. Eastern parts of the county right there on the border with arizona, thats still a toad floater. Not a lot of toads to float. The ripple that caused the storms will go to the east and marginal air will come to the west. Fast forward 24 hours southern california. Phoenix, 103. San francisco, 72. Southern nevada, 58 on the mountain. Indian springs in the 60s for the morning low temperature. The lake looking at 105 while the mountain maxes mouth at 78. For the Las Vegas Valley overnight tonight, 81. Still a few evening thunderstorms. Then partly cloudy with some clearing late. Then tomorrow, look for a if were going to get any storms, they will be south and east of the valley or on the mountains. Not expecting them in town. Sevenday forecast, look at the temperature cooling. 101 on your saturday. 97 with a chance for thunderstorms in the afternoon. You got that, jerry . [laughter] making sure you are ready. Crack the whip and make sure the Weather Authority is on thats true. Check in with sports now. Amber joins us with the latest on local olympian cunningham. The 18yearold son of Randall Cunningham and now hes representing the the u. S. On the stage. Here she is on her third and shoulders here. She clears it and advances to the final on saturday night. Spencer haywood, the nba hall of famer is known to take the nba to the Supreme Court and winning a case that allowed players to enter the league at a younger age. He stood up for what he believed in and players like kobe bryant and lebron james but it was other black athletes standing you for what they believed in. . 1968 saw not only the mexico city olympics my city was burning down. There was racial turmoil all around. The civil rights movement. Basketball. Part of that movement, the olympic project for human athletes to boycott and not go. So they were letting everybody try out. And 18yearold spencer haywood, soon to be 19, made the team. He picked cotton and played basketball and avoided the you can clucks club those were the police. Haywood saw only the ti but i was so focused about the treatment i was getting at that point in time. Once at the 68 games, he revolutioned the high jump. You think hes gonna jump like scissors. Bob beamen set a record that still stands and he saw the protest of racial discrimination. Two guys had the courage to do it. And for it, smith and carlos were sent home. Put them out of the village. That was the painful day for all of us athlete. Haywood fought through the pain. The youngest lad to make a basketball t i stood up for what i believed in. And that is usa basketball should not lose because of me. The u. S. Won gold. Haywood became a hero. From what i was had been treated im an american hero. The world knows my name and we just brought home the gold for the United States of america. About. He scored 145 points in that olympic. The pride does not fade at all. He had a tough childhood. It was a tough time in this country. But boy, does he have pride and love for the u. S. Oh, say can you see [laughter] still ahead fans of the festival got a big suri the blue cut fire. We have good news to report. More progress there on the front lines. An update health. An update when we come [ricky]quality top tier gas can help engine performance. Hmm,wonder what thats like. This guys performance on the road inspires me. Hes the real mvp we did it,man hahah [ricky whispers]you inspire me. [announcer]arco. Quality top tier gas for less. For seniors like barbara, Social Security makes a difference evevery month. But for the wall street types whove given congressman joe hecks campaigns over 500,000, and why joe heck and wall street support it. Under hecks privatization plan, Retirement Security gets risked on the stock market. And the wall street types supporting joe heck make billions. Whose side are you on . Senate majority pac is responsible as advertised, the storms over the sheep mountains continue to show s weakening as they stagger to the southeast. The one along the nevada arizona border has weakened. Its falling into parts of arizona. I dont think that will be an impact player for clark county much locker. Tomorrow morning, expect machines. There will be a few clouds over the mountains. 81 degrees. Were looking for a high of 103. With a slight chance of a mountain storm. Kelly will keep you updated on that begins at 4 30 a. M. Lets talk about quite the spectacle in minnesota. The festival started with a parade of boats here. Take a look. The ships are replicas of ships centuries ago. The most eyecatching watercraft by far was this one. The worlds biggest rubber duck. I dont recall the from being back at this era. Probably not. More of a modern addition. But im sure that it just had the crowd going crazy. The festival attracts thousands of visitors each year. This runs through run. Pretty cute. Rubber ducky. Want to give you a feignal look at final look at the blue fire. This started tuesday morning. Nice to report progress. It started near the cajon pass in San Bernardino. Thats what shut down the 15. Its back open now. And a lot of people are still evacuated from their homes tonight. Well have another update for will ryan lockie be indicted for claiming he and three teammates were robbed in rio . Well sort through conflicting reports. And that raging wildfire that continues to threaten homes scene. Despite the pot guess, the progress, firefighters have a lot of work ahead of them. And were on storm alert. Well tell you where the rain could hit next. Finally, progress to report as firefighters scramble to get control of this wire burning in the San Bernardino mountains. This is the one that shut down i15 for two days. The blue cut fire ha nearly 36,000 acres. We just learned its 22 contained. So some good news to tell you about. Thank you for joining us. Im marie mortera. Im jim snyder. More than 82,000 people are still not allowed back into their homes, as that fastmoving fire approaches their towns, burning everything in its path. It is burning just west of the cajon pass, moving toward wrightwood, california. Interstate 15 at the pass, finally reopened at aboving