Olympics. The worlds best gymnast, simone biles, vaulting americas final five to a history making victory. Katie ledecky beat her off the start. As recordbreaking Katie Ledecky dominates in the pool and americas golden boys pick up another first place. The United States is going to win the gold medal. Michael phelps adding two more gold medals to his recordbreaking tally. Were live in rio for all the action this morning. Good morning, america. And good morning, simone biles and the rest of america. How about that team usa dominating the olympics blowing away the competition. Four more golds on tuesday. Including Michael Phelps winning his 21st gold. There he is celebrating with his son boomer. Amy is at our olympics desk in rio this morning. Good morning, guys. So much excitement for team usa did get to be in the pavilion when the five made history with americas first consecutive team win in gymnastics and that was just one of the nights big moments. Cant wait to bring you the rest. We
Session but a few more counties have their first day of school today. If youre waking them up for school, your kids, were waking you up with Team Coverage. Well check in on summer construction that went on right down to the wire. Plus a new curriculum that will have kids using their own cell phones and tablets to learn. Thank you so much for waking up with abc action news. First to kick off the first day of school in pasco and polk counties, janelle and ivan with traffic and weather together. You wanto it will take a little longer to get there with the buses but no real issues out there now. Next week of vacation, do they leave later in the summer . Thats turning it around, right . Good for you pasco and polk. Shortening up the year. Right. Looking murky out there. Checking with ryan, reporting a little fog on the ground. I dont think it will be a huge deal but patchy fog not out of the question for eastern pasco 7 01 sunrise. So it will be dark for a while. Upper 70s. By pickup time u
To try 41 as an option depending where youre coming from and where youre going. Elsewhere taking a look outside, 275 through downtown tampa looks great. Just five minutes to get from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 bridge 01. Can you hear that . More than 100,000 students in polk county will be waking up realizing summer is over. Todays the first school, for some the first day in a brand new building. Ryan raish is live in citrus academy. Did they get everything done in time . Reporter just in the nick of time. In fact if you were here a week ago there thwas an active construction scene. You would see trucks, cranes, painters hard at work, working 24 7 to try to get this school ready in time. And it is ready for students to arrive any moment for the first the theme is everything civics. So that is kind of the unique part about this school. Every class the students will attend will have some type of circumstances tiein. Were talking about civics tiein. Were talking about taking a
Into the aisle. A Flight Attendant carried off in a neck brace. Major washout. Flash flood from arizona to pennsylvania drowning homes and roads leaving thousands without power. Now the dangerous rain is moving east. While the lifethreatening threatening heat wave moves in as well. And the amazing rescue. Finally we heard just a tiny little voice. Three College Students stranded in a cave lost for nearly 30 hours. Inside, announcer live in times square a rio de janeiro, this is good morning america. It is a great morning, a great friday, a huge crowd in central park. Look at that. All there for mr. Keith urban. Cant wait for that. And, of course, so much excitement in rio, as well. Unbelievable. Those two simones. Stealing the show. Gymnast and Simone Manuel becoming the first africanamerican woman to win in swimming. Michael phelps, a full body ahead of the competition while winning his 22nd gold medal breaking a record more than 2,000 years old. Counting them. For most individual oly
The fog. Of course by the afternoon you always want to pack rain gear this time of year. Were in the midst of the wet season so well get rhett later today with showers and storms. The coverage not horrendous but 50 , pretty typical. Rest of the upper bay area, upper 70s. Well get to low 90s, it will feel like 100 to 105. Storms then will develop east and continue to move west. Everybody now back for now hopefully quiet. Now is good. Not a lot of cars on the road now. Corey dierdorff is checking out the veterans expressway for us. Hes behind the wheel of our live drive cam. Hes around the airport, not a lot of cones where he is but you will run into some of those cones on the veterans expressway. Not slowing anyone down. Looking at clear drive times on the veterans expressway. Were watching one crash in largo, ulmerton road at 119th with the crash, although my traffic indicators around there are in the green still. You stay my want to give yourself extra time. U. S. 19 looking great thr