Franklin aims for a big come back. Nightly news begins right now. Back. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening from the olympic park in baja. Americans with a chance to increase their medal count in just a moment. Lets begin with what police in florida unimaginable accident, the Fatal Shooting of a civilian volunteer as she took part in a Police Academy training drill, the 74yearold woman seen moments before she was killed when real bullets were somehow fired in what was supposed to be a demonstration. How does Something Like that happen . Keri sanders tonight from punta gorda with late details. Reporter 73yearold Mary Knowlton a retired librarian, married 55 years with her attended a Community Event on tuesday, gary witnessed in disbelief as this Punta Gorda Police officer dressed as a criminal during a role playing exercise shot garys wife, first in the shoulder and then
Amelia, were all here. Yes. Were in the backyard. Because it is a beautiful morning. Yes. It is really nice and warm and things are changing. A little cooler tonight, and tomorrow. More clouds around the area. And for our friends in northeastern colorado, be on the lookout for some big storms, late tonight. And what a greatlooking sunrise, we have a lot of folks call these broncos sun rises, appropriate. Broncos are in chicago this evening. I will have a forecast for you, coming up, in a few minutes, for that tt be having on the lakeside tonight. And mid60s tonight. Mid70s by 9 00, 10 00, this morning. And we will move to the upper 80s. And i am going to keep it it just shy of 90 degrees today, with one or two storms. I will put it in the 3 00 to 7 00 time period and similar in nature to the storms we have seen lately, where a couple of spots get those little downpours, but most everybody else doesnt really get very much of anything. And even as those move out, the clouds do not, becau
Yes. Turning to the olympics where swimmer Katie Ledecky is making a difference for the u. S. Relay team. The americans were running second in the 4x200 relay. Ledecky dove in and anchored the team to beat australia by two seconds. The men considered to be the greatest male gymnast picked up another medal. Japans gymnast held someone off with a british gymnast not far behind. Hes won the last six world championships. Thanks to him, japan is third in both gold medals and the overall medal count. China is second in both. The u. S. Remains a leader with 11 golds, 11 silvers, 10 bronzes. A total of 32. Not bad at all. Competi competition. Phelps and lochte go head to head. Katie ledecky will qualify for the 800meter freestyle. And golf returns to the olympics for the First Time Since 1904. Weve been waiting a long time to see golf back at the olympics. Well have full coverage of that tomorrow morning here. Its amassing the that got you, really . Yeah. Really . Dont mind me. Its amazing the
Good evening. And as we come on the air tonight, several breaking stories on the campaign trail. And a bizarre scene playing out right here in new york city late today. A drama playing out right there at trump tower in midtown manhattan. You can see a climber scaling the 58story tower, using suction cups to get up. You can see, police had removed a window at the 21st floor, pulling him in as bystanders and pedestrians were watching the whole thing unfold from down below on fifth avenue. Abcs gio benitez is live from the scene tonight. Gio, good evening. Reporter david, good evening to you. Police say hes clearly a stuntman, but even with his capture, we still dont know what he was doing climbing this building, all the way up to the 21st floor. Take a look at some of this video. Tonight, mystery over why this man climbed trump tower. Social media showing him starting around 4 00 p. M. These photos taken from inside the tower as he makes his wearing a backpack and using giant suction cup
This is your skin. This is your skin in the sun. The sun ages your skin and can cause skin cancer. In another important story today, the commander of the u. S. Led Coalition Says that isis is losing fighters every day. Lieutenant general Sean Mcfarland said 45,000 isis fighters killed in iraq and syria in two years of bombing. U. S. Special forces are also on the ground in syria. And for the first time, we have extensive video of them training local soldiers to fight isis. The trouble is, the video came from isis itself. Here is charlie dagata. Reporter the isis propaganda video says these are u. S. Backed Syrian Rebels headed towards isis stronghold of al bukamal. Before theyre stopped short by a hall of gunfire. A hail of gunfire. And forced to retreat. The 20 minute video also appears to show american and British Special forces with their new syrian army recruits in a Training Camp in jordan. We have blurred their faces to protect their identities. But isis has not. You can start ov