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 mcdonalds, supporting athletes on their 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 radios and small tvs to listen to or watch the National Team 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 ha
Pelley louisiana is under a state of emergency tonight after intense storms dumped as much as three inches of rain an hour. Livingston, louisiana, got 17 inches, and its not over. At least one person is dead. Theres more flooding in mississippi and alabama. Omar villafranca is in amit city, louisiana. Reporter in tangipahoa parish, louisiana, out businesses and entire neighborhoods. Vehicles and homeowners re forced tovacuate. My house is completely flooded and i have never flooded before. Reporter emergency crews went aer those who couldnt get ou on tir o, usi boats and highwater vehicles t take stranded neighbors and pets to higher ground. Residents chipped in. Where is all this water supposed to go reporter but in baton rouge, the rising floorpts after he was swept away while trying to escape. Drum was his friend. He got over and he went under and didnt come back up. Reporter several drivers in amit city teamed up to help an elderly man to safety who was trapped in his car. Jordan t
Successful business and the perfect family. Youre not the master of the universe, mike. Well see how tough you are, and your plane falling out of the sky. Im supposed to clean it out. Do you have any evidence he is done any of these things . Change everything, passwords, code, secure this place. He is a bad it in theaters, september 23rd. Celebrity buzz in new york city. Phelps is from nearby in maryland. He says he cant get back to watch the ravens play. Taking a look at the medal count. The United States leads with 16 gold medals. China second, japan third, and the u. S. Also the overall leader there with 38 medals. Coming into the olympics, there was talk simone biles would be the best u. S. Gymnast in history. Now that talk juju chang has more on biles incredible performance. Its official. The worlds greatest gymnast. Reporter simone biles springing into action. And grabbing that coveted title in rio winning the womens individual all around gold medal. Standing tall at just 49, the
Joining the pantheon of greats. A dream come true for the ohio native. I was just a really hyper kid. I was always bouncing off the walls so gymnastics fit, and i didnt try any other sports. It was like gymnastics chose me, and then ive loved it ever since. Reporter her significant flip named the biles. She body and on the second body she does a flip and lands forward. I believe that her floor routine is the best and most difficult floor routine ever performed in the sport of gymnastics. Reporter her teammate, aly raisman impressing with a second. And russia taking home the bronze. Biles relishing the victory with her teammates, leaving rio with the coveted title, and a taste coming up today, Michael Phelps is competing in the 100 butterfly finals. Katie ledecky set a record yesterday and the u. S. Basketball teams are back on the court as well. The women take on canada. The women play serbia. Lets hope the men play a little bit better than the last time against australia. They were do
You back. 4 00yesterday, most of us were enjoying the sunshine of the day, and through 7 00 or 8 00, we saw the strong storms along i75, and that took it until midnight when the storms pushed into the gulf of mexico. I think today it will be almost identical. No rain chances this morning, a 20 rain chance in the early afternoon, and almost all of the rain is after 4 00 p. M. As the storms head back to the coast. Before the rain gets here, its a hot day. 91degrees, and above average. At 6 08, an hourbyhour look at the friday into the weekend, and Meredyth Censullo will help you look at the roadways. Lets go out and show you what it looks like. Green on i75 and 275, indicating no delays. South tampa, we want to let you know about the emergency sewer work that got underway directions between concordi a and ferdinand. You can get by, but look out for workers there. Delays pasco into hillsboro county, gayle and gene, back to you. Thank you, and right now a horrifying murder of a 13day old b