taking gold and silver. christian taylor capturing gold in the triple jump. in the men s 400 relay? did you hear hear about this, mantao mitchell heard something in his leg pop with half a lap to go. helping the u.s. tie for first. only laters did doctors tell him he had broken his leg. can you imagine? running on a broken leg. heather: wow, i don t know how he did that. but that is the definition of dedication right there. rick: that is the olympic spirit for himmers hear is the medal count. the u.s. out front with 90 medals over all. china is second with 80. trailing with is russia, host country, great britain and germany. heather: still thinking about running on that broken leg. a preview of today s best action for you. the u.s. women s basketball team going for their fifth straight american medal. the american women are scheduled to play france in the championship game.
let s go now by phone to bobby outen, he s manager of dare county, north carolina. we understand you re calling us from emergency management headquarters in mantao, north carolina. what s the situation, bobby? right now, here it s calm and raining. we re waiting for the worst to come. we re probably a couple hours away before the stronger winds come. hatteras is probably 50 miles or so south of us. and that s where we expect the worst of it to be. larry: how are the evacuations going? the evacuations went well. we got everybody off hatteras yesterday so we got the people out of harm s way down there. today, we got most of the people off the ocean front in the towns and areas north of hatteras. those are the area wes were most concerned with. i think those evacuations have gone well. larry: is anybody holding out or did you get them all off? i m sure there are people holding out. i talked with nags head earlier this morning.