. . . . 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 th
Well start to see some of the showers inland and push back toward the coast by later on. If you are pushing off to work on this friday morning, weve got your traffic and weather together. Janelles here. Its been quiet so far. Yeah. Usually friday mornings are quiet. I dont want to jinx it just yet. A lot of the construction from overnight has cleared, so were looking good on all of the major roadways. We are starting off in pinellas county. This is i275 right at gandy. About 67 the average the sunshine freeway. Lets get a check of the drive times across the bridges. We are all under ten minutes. The Courtney Campbell at 8. The Howard Frankland is running at 8. Deiah . It is 5 31 right now. Youve heard the warnings over and over again. Lock your car doors to prevent theft. Hillsborough county deputies say crooks are using what they find inside of the unlocked cars to break into homes. Rodney dunningan is live this troubling news. Rodney, how did this thing pull off . Reporter deiah, thi
Thunderstorms. Wind nw 5 10. Low 57 it was in june of 2008 when the massive flood destroyed the old Hancher Auditorium in iowa city. Walk through the front doors for the first time at the new facility a little higher up and a little further off the iowa river. Walking into the lobby is the first part of the Hancher Auditorium experience. We had executive director Chuck Swanson take us through the lobby a part of hancher that will be well worth your time. Chris so as people first walk into Hancher Auditorum, chuck, their eye is drawn there right. Can you tell us a little bit more about what it is and what it represents . By a west african artist, ellena suey is his name and hes actually a professor in west africa. Its the result of the iowa state and art buildings law that, when construction happens, we spent 0. 5 of the construction budget on visual art. To 1 03 this is a piece of art that is tied togth of copper wire. Ellena suey, just two years ago, got the golden lion award in venic
I just turned 29 for the 12th time or Something Like that. You may encounter some areas of heavy rainfall, the saturday again through this morning about 3 00 oclock likely have some are Stormy Weather between four and 5 00 cold front radar shows rainfall in Ashtabula County there is some clusters of showers over they carry advising you to stay off of the lake with ways kicking off and a Small Craft Advisory in effect. There were some cloud to ground lightning strikes almost currently 73 degrees akroncanton the dewpoint is 17, making it feel tropical with lots of juice onc they front goes through it will be much more comfortable and that air mass should be in plac for quite some time, a monday morning the dewpoints will be i the 40sd allowing temperatures are likely drop into the upper 40s were nighttime lows over inland nooks and crannies. As we animate, the winds turned around from the northwest probably through sunday and the diminish at night. We got plenty of precipitation from th
Senator. What happens next, an epic close call. And good morning, amamerica. Pretty scary moment for senator jeff flak you kept the elephants calm. Sflt slowest elephant can outfast the fastest man. Thankfully they cant outrun the safari jeeps. Welcome back. Great trip. A lotf news to get to including this rescue unfolng right now. Aive look at rockaway beach. A fishing boat got in trouble and a coast guard went in to get it. See how rocky the seas a and the coast guard ship actually overturned. So far everyone is okay but the rescue is going on right now. Wel stay on top of i in this morning. Take a look now at waverly, virginia, where a state of emergency was declared. 53 rorted tornadoes in just the last 48 hours stretching from texas up to virginia and at least eight weatherrelated people without power this morning. We have full Team Coverage tracking it all and w begin with abcs gio benitez in lancaster, pennsylvania. Good morning to you, gio. Reporter amy, good morning to you. Th