2016. 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. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. We refuse to do a show without Medal Winners. Look at who we have today. That is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh pernot is alongside her. Michael hickson and sam do dorman 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. By the way, their parents are all hanging out over here taking pictures of them. By the way, you know who else is joining us on the beach this morning . Its going to feel
It is a sticky start. As far as the wet weather goes we saw more storms roll through last night. We will probably see some more today as well but for right now the majority of us are dry until we had over to the side. Ashtabula county you are waking up to some moderate showers. Along 90 youre seeing some light to moderate rain falls right now. As we head throughout your day, these highs degrees. ThunderStorm Chances are rising until tomorrow morning. One more accident to tell you about lets talk about this first. Overnight we did had a crash on state route 8 near hudson. An suv hit guardrails and burst into flames. Where trying to find out how the driver is doing. Police to tell us there are no traffic restrictions in that area. I just spoke with them. They are still on the scene so make lets head to the map and look at that accident. Were not seeing any delays because of that area in that area. We did notice this. Cars are going only 12 miles power on east 112. I think it is cars goin
Fifth floor atrium to get Donald Trumps attention. Climbing Donald Trumps wall, not spider man, but a man with suction cups. This 20yearold from virginia spent two hours climbing the glass facade of trump tower in midtown manhattan. While police cut through air vents, broke glass, and eventually removed entire window panes, blocking his movement with a window washing platf on the ground, they shut down busy 5th avenue and set up giant air bags, all until they could safely grab him. I was waiting for the perfect time to present itself, when i felt it was safe for him, myself and my crew. Ben detective Chris Williams and david walker acting like it i reached out, took hold of his hand and said, sir, you need to come with me and took him inside with the help of my partner and took him into custody and presented him to ems. Police say the man posted a Youtube Video tuesday claiming to be an independent researcher. He endorsed trump and asked for a meeting. Climbing the building was to get
Visibility under a couple miles in lawrence and beverly. Patchy areas of fog this morning and all this moisture will cause airquality issues later today. We have an alert of three New Hampshire and along coastal maine. The rest of us have a heat advisory starting at noon through 7 00. At times the heat index is going to be up around 100 degrees away from the south coast. Low to mid 70s, 77 right now in plymouth, temperatures coming up pretty quickly vats by 10 00 a. M. , but with yo these humidity levels, it will feel much hotter. 95 in boston; not a record, but close. Upper 90s through the merrimack valley, but with the humidity it will feel like 90 degrees, getting close to if not you want to use caution. Right now i want to get you out to the roads and see how we are looking. Olessa good morning. A live look at the pike, a check by allston brighton, eastbound heading to the top of the screen. Lets see the rest of your ride; a pretty quiet start, just some overnight construction. No
You walk outside and it already feels like it is very oppressive. Wherever you see that reddish color, easternmost massachusetts, the dew points are off the charts. This will be with us for the entire day. You can see it is down to about half a mile, so th that it may slow you down this morning. The air quality becomes an issue later today, especially if you have respiratory issues. Keep that in mind for later today. Temperatures were now running in the 70s, as cool as it has been , lowtomid 70s right now and once we burn off the fog sunshine throughout the day, temperatures by noon time around 95 in boston, 98 in lawrence so it will already be feeling close to 90 degrees and that feels like heat index will be around 100 degrees. Lets get you out of the roads, this may slow some folks down. Olessa this stretch looks ok, the expressway by the south a model, and traffic is getting by without any delays. Lets get to the maps and check out the rest of your trip. So far, so good into boston