. . . . Teammates, close friends, medalists tonight in rio, biles and raisman. That brings us to a look at the medal count of day six. Presented by m journeys toward olympic gold. Another big day and night for the americans, with five golds overall. While the United States owns more gold medals than any other country in olympic history, fiji won a gold in rugby for its first medal of any kind. A nation with a population less than delaware, fiji loves rugby like no other sport. Children grow up with a ball in their hands. Entire villages huddle around play. And today, fans packed the 15,000seat national stadium. There you see it, in the capital city. And they watched the gold medal match won by their countrymen there tonight. Meanwhile, turning back to the headliners here in rio, a group that included aly raisman, winning a silver medal and the performance of her life in the all around. Raisman has five medals in her distinguished olympic career, three of them gold. Tonights silver for
In a neck brace. Major washout. Flash flood from arizona to pennsylvania drowning homes and roads leaving thousands without power. Now the dangerous rain is moving east. While the lifethreatening threatening heat wave moves in as well. And the amazing rescue. Finally we heard just a tiny little voice. Three College Students stranded in a cave lost for nearly 30 hours. Inside, the race to find them. Announcer square and rio de janeiro, this is good morning america. It is a great morning, a great friday, a huge crowd in central park. Look at that. All there for mr. Keith urban. Cant wait for that. And, of course, so much excitement in rio, as well. Unbelievable. Those two simones. Stealing the show. Simone biles, best allaround gymnast and Simone Manuel africanamerican woman to win in swimming. Michael phelps, a full body ahead of the competition while winning his 22nd gold medal breaking a record more than 2,000 years old. Counting them. For most individual olympic titles and won by alm
Walk away from this completely uninjured. A woman in Critical Condition after an alligator bite. Tonight new details about that desperate moment and who helped pull her to safety. The 11second victory lap. Katie ledecky shatters a world record. Tonight the final swim from Michael Phelps and simone manuel. The gold rush is on for team usa. Good eve for joining us on this saturday. Im cecelia vega and we begin with two major and deadly threats tonight. Dangerous heat for millions in the east and in the deep south historic flooding. Louisiana in a state of emergency at this hour. This is the scene near baton rouge. More than two feet of rain falling in 24 hours. Entire neighborhoods now under water. The National Guard called in. More than 1,200 rescues. Residents say they barely had the sidewalks here in new york, 136 degrees, more than 50 million americans under a heat alert tonight. But now the biggest threat those rivers are still rising and rising fast. Abcs phillip mena starts us off
Good morning, welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Lets start with meteorologist bill henley whos got the nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather. Weve been hearing the term feel like temperature. I feel like well hear a lot more of it. Right on through the weekend. The alert for the dangerous heat continues today, tomorrow and sunday. For philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey and delaware, the feels like temperature will feel like more than 100 degrees. Very hot and humid. The temperature anywhere from 100 to 110 is what theyll feel like. Feel the steaminess, just not the extreme heat. 77 degrees with scattered clouds. 81 right now in philadelphia with a southerly wind at 12 miles anc hour. Well see southwesterly winds. Drying in more heat and humidity during the day. 86 degrees by 10 00 this morning. Thats close to the normal High Temperature for this time of year. The Lehigh Valley, the clouds overhead, there were showers and thunderstorms first thi
9 00 were looking forward to another rain. This is tropical moisture continuing to feed across northeast ohio. So youre seeing the gray skies, lingering through sunday afternoon. We have slight changes in the forecast. Looks like more moisture even for your monday and heavyduty rain for tuesday afternoon. So lets finish up the weekend on the wet side, along with temperatures. They are cooling off just a few cleveland. Ashland to medina lower to mid 70s. Looking at highs today lower 80s across the board. Dew points are still up, also as the front is starting to track across northeast ohio. So tracking rain this morning for twinsburg just moving north and east out of the hudson area, so stark county already this morning, getting hit with a little bit of rain, you can down from euclid to lake county. These are heavy downpours, no lightning associated with those cells but even ashtabula to connoat they are slow moving systems, moving east 5 do 10 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour but cloudy skies and