Out. The u. S. Women knocked out of the olympics in the quarterfinal round missing the opportunity to go for gold for the first time in olympic history. But there are plenty of other chances for team usa to add to the medal count as week two of the Olympic Games gets under way, today, saturday, august 13th, 2016. Another gold medal in the 800 and the world record. Unbelievable. Threeway tie for the silver medal. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin alongside Natalie Morales and al roker is here. Where do they come . You come to the today show set. We have them in the house fresh off the first week in the stunning 800meter victory last night. Katie ledecky with the gold medal. Lots of gold around her neck. And not to be outdone. We have two other gold athletes. Maya dirado with another win with the 200me amazing comeback in the 50meter free style. 16 years after he first won the g
This wonderful picture of the storm chaser here on the state fair grounds. A really great shot. It is great. Reporter l itll look great above your desk. Yeah, he was there the couple of days. It looks good. Reporter let him know you think he did a good job. Think its going to look great in the weather center. Humid and hot here the summer fest, im losing my mind. And the dew point is at 72,er and it feels like 94. Lots of people staying hydrated, and trying to find some shade. Here are a few showers that popped up working over lake michigan. Looking to the west, were in the clear on the state fair grounds. Well continue to watch things here with our storm chaser. Thats why were here. Well keep an eye on the sky heading into this evening. Really, i think, the next couple back to you guys. Good to know this for all of the fair goers. The milwaukee man accused of drowning his three month old son will stand trail. Sean flowers waved his preliminary hearing and faced charge. He is accused o
Reading from a teleprompter instead of unscripted rally with followers. General Michael Flynn is speaking right now. Were going to bring you mr. Trump as soon as he begins to address the crowd. But first to trump supporter Betsy Mccaughey with us now. Good to have you here. Thank you lets get right to the sound bite that everyone is paying attention to, even his son eric on fox business earlier today referred to him as humble trump. Is this a hum bler donald trump . A humble trump but a clever way to take away from the media and his critics, issues theyve been harping and harping and harping on for weeks, ever since the convention because truly he wants to pivot and provide to the nation a really powerful economic message, and voters now will have a choice between Hillary Clintons class warfare and his message of economic growth, and its no mistake that michigan is one of the places hes going to be delivering this because that state is right in the middle economically in this country,
Massialas looking to close it out. Instead its baldini keeping it alive for italy. 4431. Parry, riposte, counterriposte. No. The remise riposte by baldini. Yes. And there it is Alexander Massialas lunges forward and comes up with the point that wins bronze for the United States for the first time in 84 years a u. S. Foil team has medaled in the olympics. This Wonderful Group of four fencers slayed the dragon of london. Theyve gotten a medal. Doesnt matter the color. Theyve won a bronze medal. Look how happy they are. All the pressure. Congratulations to usa fencing. Congratulations to usa fencing president Donald Anthony and groi congratulations to the team and congratulations to the coaches. They are going home with some hardware. The games of the xxxi olympiad on the networks of Nbc Universal are brought to you by the allnew versatile honda ridgeline. By chobani. By kubo and the two strings. In theaters august 19th. And by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 on car insurance. And got
To make matters more confusing hes backtracking his dramatic description. This is what he told nbc the day after the incident ever happened. I was like we didnt do anything wrong. I am not getting down on the ground. The guy pulls out his gun. Cox it. Puts it to my forehead and takes it down. I put my hands up, i was like, whatever. Now lochte is telling nbc their cab wasnt pulled over instead they were ambushed while stopped at the gas station and the gun was only pointed at him and not held to his head. Authorities called on lochte and fagan to stay in the country but he had already landed on american soil. He told usa quote i am just trying to give brazil what they need or want or get out of here. Its a hassle, but i am safe and everything is fine. They are calling for lochte to return to rio. We would never require any american citizen to comply with those kinds of requests. We would like to see and encourage american citizens to do what they can to work with brazilian authorities.