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 split edition of today on a friday morning. Savannah, its great to see you. We have reached the final hours of our countdown to tonights Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games. And ill be honest with excited, im nervous, im all of the above. Youre nervous . What . You dont have to do a back flip, do you . No, you know what, thats actually right. You know, we are hosting the Opening Ceremony. What do we have to be nervous about . Were not competing in the Olympic Games. I have to tell you, savannah, youve been to the olympics, you know sometimes in the morning when the crowd gathers here at an olympic set, you have wonderful, little moments, unexpected moments. I had one of those a second ago. I was Walking Around talking to on copacabana beach, and i walked up to this guy right here, and i said, hey, love the tshirts
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 split edition of today on a friday morning. Savannah, its great to see you. We have reached the final hours of our countdown to tonights Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games. And ill be honest with you, im youre nervous . What . You dont have to do a back flip, do you . No, you know what, thats actually right. You know, we are hosting the Opening Ceremony. What do we have to be nervous about . Were not competing in the Olympic Games. I have to tell you, savannah, youve been to the olympics, you know sometimes in the morning when the crowd gathers here at an olympic set, you have wonderful, little moments, unexpected moments. I had one of those a second ago. I was Walking Around talking to walked up to this guy right here, and i said, hey, love the tshirts, team usa, youve got the simone biles faces there. Who are y
. . Teammates, close friends, medalists tonight in rio, biles and raisman. That brings us to a look at the medal count of day six. Presented by mcdonalds, supporting athletes on their another big day and night for the americans, with five golds overall. While the United States owns more gold medals than any other country in olympic history, fiji won a gold in rugby for its first medal of any kind. A nation with a population less than delaware, fiji loves rugby like no other sport. Children grow up with a ball in their hands. Entire villages huddle around radios and small tvs to listen to or watch the National Team play. 15,000seat national stadium. There you see it, in the capital city. And they watched the gold medal match won by their countrymen there tonight. Meanwhile, turning back to the headliners here in rio, a group that included aly raisman, winning a silver medal and the performance of her life in the all around. Raisman has five medals in her distinguished olympic career, th
Reporter stacys job is a chess game, a game with the highest stakes, someones life. The majority of people that we deal with are people that have made bad decisions, a series of bad choices or mistakes and find themselves in a position they really didnt want to be in, but here we all are and then theres you. And then theres evil. Reporter evil came to Platte Canyon high sc september 27th, 2006. He took several students hostage. It was stacys job to figure out what he wanted. The most important part of negotiations is the listening piece. Reporter but the shooter never said a word. One of the hostages, emily keys did. She was so strong and to be 16 years old and to just show the strength and tenacity that she did, that has always been a that situation, i have no excuse. Reporter this is the one time stacy wasnt able to connect, help, change the outcome. Shes been successful every incident before and since. All but one, all but one. It really changed my life and i make sure that it chang
Day. Good morning, boys. How are you doing . Good. How does it feel . I dont see know boys here. It is strictly men. Yup. Okay. All right. We are almost at 80. Almost at 80 degrees. 79 degrees. And it really is nice, nice start to the day. It feels nicer too. Humidity, yes dew points are running 72, which humid outside. However compared to last week when dew points were like 75 to 78 big difference we got the rain chance today will hold at 20 . So, a little bit more time to dry things out and High Temperature i am thinking getting back to about 92 degrees. Okay . All right. Thank you, dave. 9 01 we will catch you up to some speed is on some problems areas. Nebraska shut down southbound direction. South of bush boulevard more specifically it okaloosa intersection. And also northbound lane nature but we know this involving heart bus and also aequestrian equestrian. And we want get this. We mentioned an earlier report we had streak fire vehicle fire reported out of Pinellas County this is