Mary heather and b en, tom brady says that it was his decision to end the appeal. A birthday tweet from his wife on wednesday, his 39th birthday. Tom brady says his decision not to appeal his 4 game suspension, was very personal. Tom brady my family is everything to me, and obviously the support of my teammates, my coaches of our fans. This just hurts. I have tried to move on from it. Mary brady says the focus has to be helping the team prepare for the new season. He has a job to do, and hell approach it the way he always does, menatlly and physically ready to bring it. Tom brady we have a lot of new players on the team. We are just trying to incorporate them. I think we are trying to build coming up. A lot of practice left. Mary as for how he will handle that month when he is banned from the field . Tom brady ill deal with that when it comes. If i have a plan, i may change it. I dont really know. Im just trying to practice every day, get better. Mary tom brady says it is a long season
Copacabana beach today, wednesday, august 17th, 2016. Dont know if ive seen him do quite that good ever and that may there and then have been the gold medal jump. That one just about perfect announcer from nbc news, 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. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special splitedition of today. [ cheers and applause ] hoda, were here to covering the olympics, so its all about the athletes. Were going to be talking about a lot of medalists this morning, but with we could give out an olympic gold medal for sportsmanship and supporting team usa, the guy standing down get it this morning. He flew all the way from los angeles here to surprise the final five. Hes been watching simone biles tweet. He was keeping up with all of it. He said, what am i doing at home . He got on a plane. There was a lot of cloak and dagger. Were going to show you the
We want to welcome you back. Im marie mortero. Im jim snyder. Fields has spent much of his training at the four facilities here in town. Reed cowan is live in rio with a peek at how the whole family is preparing for quite the competition. Reed . Reporter well, i tell you what, when the guy that connor calls big mick left our interview, i said i kin of want him to be my buddy. Lets give you a peek into connors life here in rio. Weve been able to see him in a couple of different settings, news settings. Hes articulate, wellspoken. When i complimented him on this, he said my mom thinks i should work for espn. Thursday, his dad said hes in then friday is the day im gonna put it out there. Connor fields is going to win gold so he can bring it back to las vegas. Efry every time we talk to the olympians, we ask them what they want to do when they come back . They always say eat. Heres what connor said he wants to do when he get back to las vegas. Theres so many food places im going to g big b
While he wont be on the podium, were still cheering for jason pryor. It is what it is. Its any given sunday. Today, i was a couple mistakes short. Thats how it is. Well be watching for jason, though. His dad tells us 2020 in tokyo, definitely on his horizon. Eleven members of jasons extended family came to rio. For many, it was the first time to see him compete on international level. Now, they will get to spend time with him in brazil. Hes always been a person who has persevered, and he uses these jumps that he may not have been pleased with to take him to another level to find out how he can improve and do better. But this is great. Only 38 men on the planet earth were here today in this we appreciate the pryors giving us a little bit of perspective on this. This is such an incredible stage, no matter what our athletes do here. The u. S. Mens rugby team also created. Russ, it wasnt looking so good earlier today. The u. S. Rallied against argentina. They finished at the last second, 1
Day showers. More likely in the Lehigh Valley. Right now, scattered fair weather clouds. 83 degrees at noon time today. A pretty good warmup in store for philadelphia. Getting ready for sunshine. Just a few thin clouds around. Well see them at 8 00, again at 11 00. Thats going to reach a warmup today and bring us more humidity. So well get closer to the 90 degrees mark this afternoon. Well feel like its in the 90s, thanks to higher humidity. A warm day in the suburbs. Lehigh valley, a chance of thunderstorms. Most of the area will be dry. Into the 70s with nothing but sunshine at the jersey shore. Ill go through the forecast, hour by hour, to show you when the showers may pop today. Ill be back in a few minutes but first Jessica Boyington has the first alert traffic. Thanks, bill, looks great, southbound, cameras right around baltimore pike. No backups or delays so far. There is a downed tree lower merion, right around old lancaster road. Were seeing delays around that. 95 through dela