Wheel of our live drive cam. Hes on the Courtney Campbell causeway. No crashes and looking great right now across all three bridges. The Courtney Campbell is less than ten across the other two bridges. We are following one crash around st. Pete beach, gulf boulevard right at pinellas bay way. We have road blocks reported here. You can see the yellow so a little slow heading northbound leading right up to that intersection. Leave yo we head out the door. Taking a live look outside. This is the junction at i275 and i4. Looking great rate now. These cars right here, the taillights are heading south towards the howard frankland. That car is taking just five minutes. Back to you. One minute after 6 00 right now. We want to get to the latest on the tragic news weve been following now. A Pinellas County woman is getting ready to face a judge yearold son brutally beat his 13 day old sister to death. That woman Kathleen Steele is jailed. Investigators say she left her three children inside of a
Fighting to recover and what we are learning about the Company Behind that dangerous ride. And rough night in rio. American superstar Allyson Felix. It will be tight. Beat by a photo finish. Her competitor grabbing her gold with a dive over the line and in the gym, Laurie Hernandez snags a silver but simone biles slips on the beam. Oh, boy. Settling for bronze oneonone with Michael Phelps this morning. We ask is he really retiring, about fatherhood and he reveals the secret inside his shoe. Were live in rio with team usa. Good morning, america. Announcer live in times square and rio de janeiro, this is good morning america. That was Allyson Felix saying good morning to america. Big fight at the olympics again, the moment so many people are talking about, that photo finish those races in grade school if i knew i could do that. Team usas Allyson Felix considered a favorite but she was denied gold by a dive there. The world debating that silver medal. Felix still breaking an olympics reco
And before they were stars. A quiz for you tonight. Do you recognize these faces . Golden even back then. Good evening on this very busy friday night. We begin with the deadly flooding. Caring washed away. Drivers rescued from rising waters. With blistering heat now moving in too. Life threatening. There is a state of emergency in louisiana tonight. An elderly driver rushed off the road. Good samaritans rushed in to save him. This school bus, children rescued. Tonight, there are flood alerts from the south through new england. And a short time ago, reports that five people were struck by lightning in new york city. Rescues are turning out. Reporter in louisiana, more than a foot of rain in hours. Floods powerful enough to sweep this tractor trailer right off interstate 10. Reporter trapped residents can only wait for help. You can see behind me, theres basically no way to get out. Reporter the high water already taking the life of a 68yearold man who was swept away east of baton rouge
Declaring a heat emergency. People are looking for any way to beat the heat. That looks fun, chris. Lets head out there. Chris lets skip out on the 9 00 a. M. News, get out there on the jetskis. Thats great way to cool off, head to the beach, head out on the water. Good morning, everyone. Heat advisory in place. It will feel a lot like yesterday, 11 00 a. M. Until 7 00 a. M. For the heat index. 100 to 105 again. 105 yesterday for the heat indices. 78 degrees right now. Rather quiet. A couple spot showers out into worcester county, but i think the best chance of scattered showers and storms will arrive midafternoon through the early evening. So for some of us, well get locally heavy rain out of the showers and thunderstorms for other towns. They remain hot and humid. I think many of us reaching the middle 90s this afternoon. You combine that with dew point levels running into the low 70ss, it feels more like 100 to 105 again by 3 00, 4 00 p. M. Keep cool. Sarah were following breaking n
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