Today, saturday, august 6th, 2016. Team usa has won backtoback gold medals. Another strong finish by phelps. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games. Welcome to a special split edition of today on this saturday morning. A look at the olympic cauldron burning bright in downtown rio. Im craig melvin in rio. Stephanie ruhle and Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer holding down the fort in new york. We are all smiling at the intro and we are not even there. I am under the weather, craig. I have olympic fever. You were at the Opening Ceremony last night. How was it . It was flat out amazing. One thing i discovered about the brazilian people over the past nine days or so, they know how to throw a party. And last night, they threw one heck of a party. They were dancing in the aisles. There was singing. It was a fantastic show. The highlight probably seeing team usa, 550 members strong, with Michael Phelps coming in. The crowd went wild. Well have lots more
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Quietdry roads incident free this morning several overnight closures are reopening in the next 5 to 10 minutes brewers versus the braves at miller park tonight at 6 20 Delta Airlines passengers are dealing with major delays this morning a Technical Glitch is grounding every single delta flight. Weve been checking in with Mitchell International and so far all flights on the airports website, both arriving and departing, say theyre on time but again were told that all flights both here in the u s and internationally are grounded. On twitter delta is apologizing to customer after customer. Delta is calling this a systemwide computer failure thousands of flights are affected. An Airline Failure but didnt have any details about what happened or when its going to be fixed. Well stay on top of this for you throughout live at daybreak. If you travel a lot or even a little but are looking to speed your way through airport security, you now have an opportunity to enroll in the tsa pre check at m
Im lets head over to meteorologist mike bennett. Hey, mike. Let me say this, though. Heavy rain for some of us. Others of you even by tuesday or wednesday may be saying what rain . So lets get right to it. Heres the Hilton Clearwater beach cam. You can see the waves have been rough all day and thats going o be the case for the next four or five days, so regardless of the rain, not exactly the weather through midweek. Heres how much rain weve seen so far. You see its pretty scattered over most of the area. The one exception being out across the nature coves. Look at those rainfall totals ot of hernando and citrus counties. Were talking more than 7 inches of rain according to radar estimates on shore. Youre talking about 1, 2, 3, 3 and a half inches of rain, right hernando county, close to 2 inches of rain, so certainly this has been the area thats seen the most rain over the last several hours and this will be the area that well have to wath closely in the coming days. As far as rain go
The standoff, as well. China is worried about getting paid back on its investments. The yields on onemonth treasury yields continue to head higher this week. Its just another sign that investors are getting increasingly worry worried about the government defaulting on its locations i would argue theyre not worried enough, but we can talk about that in a mip. China and japan arent the only ones calling for a solution out of washington. Howard schultz is urging leaders to push for a shutdown. He says the following, utterly disappointed by the level of ir responsibility and dysfunction we are witness to with our elected Political Leadership. It is our responsibility to address this crisis of competent that is needlessly being set in motion. During the last debt ceiling debate, youll remember schultz made headlines by calling for americans to stop making political contributions until lawmakers struck a bipartisan deal on the countrys debt revenue and spending. Dallas fed president Richard