. . 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 m supporting athletes on their journeys toward olympic gold. 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 play. And today, fans packed the 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, three of them g
Reporter we begin with two big stories out of the rio olympics. The first fall from olympic grace gold medal winner ryan lochte apologizes for his role in a scandal. Reporter the second victory for connor bringing home the gold. Reporter what a roller coaster at the games. We watched the thrill of vict we and sometimes the agony of personal defeat. Good eveningm we have been following rio live. Start with electricitys apology. Territory. Ryan issued an apology heavily lawyered. Look at the text. I will read it. I want to apologize for my behavior for not being more careful and how i described the events of the morning and my role in taking the focus away the olympics. Heed, i waited share the thoughts until confirmed the legal situation was addressd and it was clear that my teammates would arrive home safely that is ryans statement. Talk about the team members and voof them. Gunner and jack have been allowed leave brazil one we are told revised an earlier statement. Jimmies attorneyed
An hour. A passing shower or a thunderstorm. Otherwise the warmest two days coming up here through the next several days will be today and again tomorrow. A little bit cooler over the weekend, not by much. Still into the mid80s away from the coastline. Near 80 along the coastline. The weekend forecast ahead, more on that coming up. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with danielle gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. If youre getting ready to get out the door, hard to see, but this is 93 southbound as you makeou somerville. The lights are moving. Thats a good sign. Lets go to the maps. A couple work crews out there. Route 1 looking good. Braintree to boston northbound on the expressway, south of town just ten minutes. Route 3, 24 and 95 all green. Were not watching any issues there. Heading in or out of town on the pike, youre problemfree. A couple work crews still out there on 128. Still wrap things up as we head into the 5 00 hour. Routes 2 and 3 are problem free, youre getting ready to
Camera . Soon, you wont be shelling out quite so much cash. Jenna thanks for joining us tonight im Jenna Rehnstrom tim seaman has the night off. We begin tonight with a grim discovery in pierce nebraska. The state patrol is now investigating the discovery of a body found burned in an abandoned pickup truck. A vecle was spotted in a field about 10 miles outside of town around three this afternoon. Investigators say they discovered the remains of a person in the cab of that charred pickup truck. The Nebraska State Patrol and the state Fire Marshals Office were called in to investigate. The state patrol says the vehicle was still smoldering and too hot to get inside. The state patrol along with teh state fire marshal and Pierce County Sheriffs Office are working to identify the body and the cause of more details as they come into us. Jenna fire officials in spencer say flamable materials too close to a space heater caused a house fire saturday. One person was found dead inside the mobile
republican national committee, harold dean. let s get to you from the latest from london. there are a lot of great stories over there, a lot of really great stories. we ll start with gymnastics, 16-year-old the women s all-around competition. host family, to train with the best coach in the united states. and it paid off last night as she took gold, russia took silver and bronze. an american, aly raisman was tied for third, but by a bumped fourth so the united states gets gold with gabby douglas. in the pool everybody talking before the games about the rivalry between phelps and lochte. we saw them head to head twice. lochte won the first one. last night, michael fephelps winning the 200 im. phelps first individual gold medal of these games. lochte said i wanted five gold but i can t be too disappointed. tyler cleary for the united states. on the women s side, rebecca soni, a name you haven t heard much about. not getting the attention for team usa. she is now set two worl