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 on the deck, 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
Will still be very muggy. A little cloudy there over salem street in downtown apex this morning. The sunshine will warm things up quickly. 73 in wake forest. 73 in south hills. 75 in rocky mount. 77 in fayetteville. Expect upper 70s heading out the nearly 90 by lunchtime and mid 90s for this afternoon. We are looking at a big cooldown by next week but over the weekend, it still stays fairly warm and muggy. The big change is our chance for thunderstorms. That goes up and ill talk more about that in just a few minutes. Brian is here with a look at the roads. This is the durham freeway this now pulling it over into the work zone there in that east end connector project work zone. It is a minor crash. Everything is on the side of the road. In the past couple of moments, all of the lanes have opened on the southbound side of the durham freeway. It is backing up a little bit there. Ten minutes that make the ride from mangum street. Dont think you need to consider usi alternate route but well
Shore. Theyll be better off as we move through this afternoon. More heat monday, though, especially philadelphia, where well see a stretch of 90s. Today will be day three, making it the sixth heat wave of the summer. Right now, your temperatures looking like this. Were the 71 in philadelphia. 66 in lancaster, and 57 for the current temperature in pocono. Millville, 72, these temperatures, though, as weve been talking about, not going to stick around, because were looking at it pumping up in the afternoon, purely sunny conditions outside. Radar and satellite showing were not tracking clouds, no rain, but well be tracking the temperatures elevating, and then as we move into the mid part of the workweek, thats when we might be tracking more shower activity and a drop in temperatures. Well check in on that, coming up. Thousands of runners are getting ready for the philly 10k. It is closing some streets in south philadelphia, and nbc 10 Monique Braxton is live at 8th and south street, and t
Reporter ramona boone is Zalayia Jenkins great aunt. This legacy garden, an idea that bloomed shortly after the little girl was shot and killed while sitting in a home across the street. I want to put a purple lilac bush. Reporter zalayias favorite color. The bullet holes in the home have been covered up, but zalayias loss will never go away. I get to do this instead of being upset. Reporter theres even a little library. We painted it purple. And you have to give her the bling. Reporter last month, 24 people were killed in milwaukee, the deadliest august in 25 years. Each homicide, a sad reminder. My heart goes out to every family that lost somebody. Reporter kids have been planting flowers, a safe space where they can keep her legacy. And knows the truth, come tell the truth. Reporter the family has a gofundme account to raise funds for the garden. If you like to help, we have that in the . On tv . Section of wisn. Com. In milwaukee, ben hutchison, wisn 12 news. Anchor a reward is sti
Are running 3 minutes at a time going to oakland from the terminal here. So that bart can perform that 2nd of two schedule closures performing the maintenance. They say once the maintenance is complete riders can expect a smoother ride through the bay hopefully and they say the track needed work and its critical to get in there and do this. We did speak to bart this morning. They spoke about the buses and the closure whenever you come out of the station you have buses waiting for you. This one coming every minute. It will take you over the bridge and we cant say enough how grateful we are for our passengers and riders who are bearing with us and being patient with us as we carry out the maintenance work. And the bart spokesman saying as of right now all of the work is on schedule. They are not having any hangups. Its going well. They come out live and take out another look at howard in maine. Just a few writers. I talked to some of the writers here and they are taking the buses. They s