The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer 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. Good morning, everyone. Edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show without Medal Winners. Look at who we have today. The 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. By the way, their parents are all hanging out over here tan
Attack on Kurdish Workers Party there. Last week the commander of that party promised increased attacks against police. At least 14 of those injured are in serious condition now. Back here at home, denver 7 is still on the fire watch this morning. Firefighters were able to keep a fire from destroying homes near carter lake. Take a look at how close the flames got. You can see the house right there. The threat isnt over yet. At last check Larimer County now, and 55 contained. There are some steps you can take to make sure flames dont get that close to your house. Things like cutting back vegetation within 30 to 100 feet around your home. When making improvements on your house, use fire resistant materials. Its back to school today for students in jeffco and boulder valley. The bus stop. And also on that threat for fires. Better chance for storms this afternoon. And youre going to find wind this morning through Larimer County and near carter lake pretty calm at 5 to 10 miles per hour. It
New dos and i bet theyre glad helmets will cover their head. Thats bad. Theyre pretty bad. Amelia has more on the train. New details about the train to the plane, which is experiencing what rtd is calling severe delays with no estimate as to how long the repairs will take. We got the note in the 4 00 a. M. Hour. This is our live view from our crews at the 40th and york station we have seen the crossing guard arms down, both sides putting out the own and the gates. It could affect people until noon today. What rtd told us so far is theres no estimate on when tissue will be resolved and people need to anticipate delays so not much so far. We have a call to rtd to learn more and will give you that update as soon as possible. Weve got severe delays across yikes what a morning. All right, thank you much. This is what is left of a garage after a car crashed into it overnight. Denver police said the car crashed into a garage at evans and irving around 2 00 this morning, then backed out, drove
Fairway, these tracks lead up to the fifth hole where heat damaged the grass and endangered the lives of golfers. Its not the kind of driving you expect on a golf course. It was certainly out of the ordinary and very shocking to us as players to have that happen. For john krasner add game of golf turned into something much more serious breakage and we got a warning from the clubhouse that someone had driven through the course with the objective of not Denver Police want the driver. , the city workers repair the damage that runs about 75 feet on the green and fairway. They cut out the damage, and replace it with new turf. The workers become an unexpected hazards at the fitful. Afternoon with golfers presence, that level of endangerment and just lack of regard for human life, thats only became very alarmed. He says hes seeing it vandalism a golf courses before, but never when people are playing. That is one of the busiest anytime between 12 and four, you will see the course pulled. They
Posting selfies on the beach, in the jungle and on the water but police now say they were smuggling cocaine the entire time. Anthony weiner under fire. Child services investigating after he sent that lewd selfie showing his 4yearold son in the background. The estranged husband of Hillary Clintons top aide in trouble. Could he lose custody of their son . Good morning, america. A little rain on the lens there this thursday morning. Boy, what a day for donald trump. Yesterday, there you see the diplomat shaking hands with the mexican president , calling him a friend, praising his country. No talk about mexico paying for that wall until last night there in arizona. Quite a different tone. He fired up the crowd with those familiar lines and were going to get into all that this morning and hear from Hillary Clintons running mate tim kaine live. But first, that hurricane warning for florida. The weather set to ruin the east coast as Tropical Storm hermine strengthens and it could become the f