The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show look at who we have today. That is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. All hanging out ov
The heat index for tomorrow to toms river through the five boroughs. 10 4 is the real feel. Today we are going to be hovering right around 100 degrees. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Weather then heather how are the trains doing . Reporter just fine. Long island railroad, Jersey Transit and metro north doing okay. You had some earlier signal problems on the 5 trains yesterday near morris park. They are repaired but you expect residual delays as a result. Then we have this issue on 17, southbound side midland avenue into century road, we have construction. All lanes are closed down and diverted at midland avenue. You can see the big line of red there. That means it is completely shut down. Use fairview avenue as your alternate or hop on the garden state parkway. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today in effect for today. Rob over to you. Hurt including three firefighters who had minor injuries. A man is the most seriously hurt.
Abcnews. Com and our Nightline Facebook page. What a sight. A man scaling trump tower in midtown snatched by police in the suction cup climber and wait till you hear what he says why he was there. Now headed to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. We have two reports tonight beginning with jim dolan live in midtown, part of the first tv news team on the scene. He made it up to the 21st floor before police hauled him forcefully inside the building. This was a dangerous stunt that traffic snarled on 5th avenue and left people staring up for much of the afternoon. It was costly. It was frightening. And it was riveting. Reporter there he was, scaling the glass face of trump tower using a rig that consisted of suction cups and a harness, hoping to reach the top of the 633 foot tall trump tower. People on the ground couldnt take their eyes off the spectacle unfolding on the building facade and playing out start out. There was a gentleman, this man to our right, and he was jumping up and
Floor before police hauled him forcefully inside the building. This was a dangerous stunt that left traffic snarled on 5th avenue and left people staring up for much of the afternoon. It was costly. It was frightening. And it was riveting. Reporter there he was, scaling the glass face of trump tower using a rig that consisted of suction cups and a harness, hoping to reach the top of the 633 foot tall trump tower. People on the ground couldnt off the spectacle unfolding on the building facade and playing out live on tv. Tyler saw it all start out. There was a gentleman, this man to our right, and he was jumping up and down, extremely anxious. He was running across the side of the building. As we walk inside, hes suction cupped to the glass. Reporter police later broke reach him. Each time the climber moved laterally to his left to avoid police, all the while holding a running conversation with them. He wanted to climb to the top so that he could talk to mr. Trump. That was the basis of
Humidity. And boy is it humid out there to start. Chris it feels like the deep south this morning. Dew points in the mid70s. As high as it gets around here. The combination of heat and humidity prompting a heat advisory for much of the commonwealth. The exception down through buzzards bay and the cape and the islands. You wont be as hot down that way, but you sure are warm this morning. 76 in boston. 76 in hyannis. Doesnt take much to get beloved 90. Well be there this afternoon. Dew points low to mid70s. Very humid air mass in place, although quiet times across new england. Cant rule out a passing shower that tries to pop up here south of the mass pike, especially down through connecticut, rhode island and southeastern mass. Much of the day will be dry. Feel like 100, 104 this afternoon with air temperatures running in the middle 90s. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with danielle gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. A quiet start to your morning on the roads. H