Diagnosis in the country. Nightly news begins right now. [000 01 02;00] nightly news beg right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Our top story is developing here in Rio De Janeiro tonight, where Big Questions are suddenly being raised about the alleged Armed Robbery of american swimmer, ryan lochte and some of his teammates on the streets of rio last weekend. A judge here in brzezinski today has ordered the seizure of lochte and fellow american, jimmie feigen over alleged inconsistencies of their story over what happened and what was seen in a piece of Surveillance Video that recorded the athletes that night. Late details. Reporter the Surveillance Video obtained by daily mail. Com shows the american swimmers, ryan lochte,un and jimmie feigen clearing the athletes village sunday morning after a long night out. Lochte sharing this video from a party. Hours later, he told todays show, billy bush
Early evening tshower popping up. Tonight is partly cloudy, warm and humid with lows near 70, and patchy fog. Slick and slippery roads are drying out this morning, incident 894 nbspeeds at or above posted this morning looking to tonight 41 south at watertown plank road full closure at 11 tonight until 4 30 tomorrow morningdot urges you to give an extra 5 to 10 minutes more on the roads and take your time to avoid any incidents drive safely as you tensions have eased in milwaukee as teens respect a citywide curfew. Sherman park was also closed again overnight. That park just reopened. Ann sterling is live ann it is a lot quieter morning. Ive seen a few mpd offices driving by. The park reopened at 6am. Right across the street is the bp gas station. Atf now offering a 10 thousand dollars reward for information that leads to an arrest. The damage of all the buildings torched and looted exceeds several million dollars. 8 businesses were set on fire. The crowds took to the streets saturday n
Copacabana beach today, wednesday, august 17th, 2016. Dont know if ive seen him do quite that good ever and that may there and then have been the gold medal jump. That one just about perfect announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special splitedition of today. [ cheers and applause ] hoda, were here to covering the olympics, so its all about the athletes. Were going to be talking about a lot of medalists this morning, but with we could give out an olympic gold medal for sportsmanship and supporting team usa, the guy standing down on the deck, get it this morning. He flew all the way from los angeles here to surprise the final five. Hes been watching simone biles tweet. He was keeping up with all of it. He said, what am i doing at home . He got on a plane. There was a lot of cloak and dagger. Were going to
About endorsements and his future in the pool. And spectacular finish. The 2016 summer games come to a colorful close in rio. Americas breakout star simone biles carrying the stars and stripes as team usa racks up more gold medals. Claressa shields making history in the ring. Golden again now, joining us live. And the Mens Basketball Team a head above the rest closing out the games on top for team usa. And good morning, america. Great to start the week in times square and what a finish to those olympics. There you see the fireworks, waterfalls as well at the closing ceremonies and 121 medals for team usa. Incredible, and then simone biles carrying the flag for america in maracana stadium. President obama saying he couldnt be prouder of team usa. Your determination and passion inspired so many of us. You carried that flag high tonight, simone biles. And then simone replying, thank you, such a huge honor, go usa. What a treat she was to watch during the whole olympics. Well have more on
It is a real nightmare. Amy as secretary of state john kerry 60 saudi arabia, we will speak with angie coburn of Andrew Cockburn of harpers magazine and then a new expose, charged with murder, but they did not kill Anyone Police did. The chicago reader has exposed 10 pieces since 2011 where police kill a civilian in chicago but charge an accomplice with the murder. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In louisiana, more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance as cleanup begins from last weeks historic flooding. At least 13 people died in what the red cross has called the worst Natural Disaster in the u. S. Since hurricane sandy. President obama is scheduled to tour flooddamaged areas on tuesday. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says more help is needed for the recovery effort. Typically by this point in a storm, i think red cross would be receiving a lot more donations. I think there wou