victory as michael phelps and ryan lochte go head-to-head with a photo finish now heading for the finals and carmelo anthony setting a u.s. olympic scoring record as they edge out australia in a nail-biter. we re live in rio for all the action. good morning, america. usa, usa. how about katie ledecky, pushing team usa to yet another gold medal in the pool. and look at her teammates, reach out, grab her hand at the end. another gold for team usa. big day ahead. amy s tracking all the excitement in rio. it is so exciting here, guys. team usa dominating in the water and on the bike. finishing strong, celebrating there with her 5-year-old son and we have her amazing story just ahead. okay, amy. we ll get back to you. first that breaking news, a massive fire in maryland taking down an apartment complex. firefighters rushing to save survivors. more than two dozen people taken to the hospital. abc s gloria rivera is on the scene in silver spring, maryland. good morning,
the u.s. women gold i the 4x2. that was beautiful! that s 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 ve from rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today. thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olpics. i m matt lauer along with ho kotb. savannah is ew york. we ll talk to her in a one second. you know wha 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, there s more, michael hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and we ll ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. the green water in the pool. it s so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd ge
and other items in the stadium. the lawsuit seeks to recover out-of-pocket costs for tickets, lodging, travel expenses and other items. now at four - a stolen car was pulled out of a pond today in kenosha. now police are on the hunt for the person who drove that stolen s-u-v into a pond this morning. as pete zervakis reports. it touched off a frantic response. and left behind a mess. a semi driver making a delivery spotted the suv almost fully retention pond about 5:30 this morning fire fighters responded to the scene near this meijer store at 77th and green bay. the vehicle in the pond was reported stolen yesterday. as we arrived we could still see the headlights on so from past experience it would be a very short period of time it was in the water worried someone might still be in the water. the kenosha county dive team searched below the surface. there was a whole bunch of cop cars, fire trucks you name it the already divers didn t find any victimsa tow truck pulled the ca
years ago her business and the restaurant was the first to open and from beginning everyone was worm, hardworking, immigrant workers. the workers are all really, really nice people. they re very conscientious. they re very hard workers. they re always waving to the children. they re very nice to the parents. parents all go and eat they re super, super, super nice people. officials say the others injured in this crash are expected to be okay. the names of the two other passengers killed in the van have not yet been released. business owners here say those workers took that van to and from work every day. reporting live in basking ridge, new jersey, cefaan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. a major shakeup today in the athletic department at rutgers university. both the athletic director and the head football coach out. eyewitness news sports anchor laura behnke with the college football regular season ending yesterday, you could call this black sunday in the ncaa. but for
went to his exgirlfriend s home he assaulted the woman and bled with their daughter elinor with their daughter elinor trotta. he fled the scene in a vehicle like this 199 gray mazda 626 with delaware registration 247457 police also now say he could ebbly be traveling with unknown woman in gray ford mustang on older model red ford explorer. take a look at their pictures please. trotta is 5 8 and his daughter was wearing a purple puffy coat, frozen sneakers from the proofy and the suspect is possibly traveling through new jersey to new york city. anyone with information about these two people is asked to call 911. reporting live in newcastle this morning. jeannette byardelle cbs3 eyewitness news you. the amber alert is through the state of ohio. more on that throughout the broadcast this morning. our other top story dangerous cold gripping our area. eyewitness cam giving us look at center city where temperatures feel subzero we re at 25 off where we should be. that s