Oh my goodness, talk about competing when it matters the most. The first sweep in this event in olympic history. Its over. The United States has won the bronze. 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 plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to another split edition of our show on a thursday morning. Day 13 of the Olympic Games. Savannah is back in new york. I have hoda on the beach. Good day for usa yesterday and we wake up on this thursday morning and people still talking about this swimming situation. A few days left in competition and that seems to be topic one. At least this morning. Overnight that drama at the rio airport. Gunnar bentz released afford being taken off their flight home. They were on the plane and were taken off. Officials investigating their claims of being robbed. Ryan lochte already back home. We talked to him. Well tell you what he had to say. How
Exclusive conversation. Thursday august 18th, 2016. Oh my goodness, talk about competing when it matters the most. The first sweep in this event in olympic history. Its over. The United States has won the bronze. 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. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to another split edition of our show on a thursday morning. Day 13 of the Olympic Games. Savannah is back in new york. I have hoda on the beach. Good day for usa yesterday and we wake up on this thursday morning and people still talking about this swimming situation. A few days left in competition and that seems to be topic one. At least this morning. Overnight that drama at the rio airport. U. S. Gunnar bentz released afford being taken off their flight ho home. They were on the plane and were taken off. Officials investigating their claims of being robbed. Ryan loch
Expressing concern about his drug use. The guy was an amazing man. On the cover of Time Magazine at the age of team. He teamed up with darrell for a documentary. Very well done film. Promoting it, though, he has not been there at times. A lot of folks are very did you miss me . Rosanna is in portugal. She missed a huge party. Lionell richie. He has been in the news lately as the father of Justin Biebers girlfriend. Great guy. He performed at that apollo benefit over the weekend. Lets see. Ron perlman. Ushered jumped around. Glenn stephani. Do we have a picture of usher . I was very cool, too. I did not ask anyone for a selfie. Imagine having all of those people at your kerry did you see them acting all loveydovey . Greg they were making out. They did a nice duet together. All right. What else . Top that. Mike hamptons weekend with friends. It was good. It is a short one. Greg there are people at her house. Do not be thinking about dropping by her house while she is gone. It is back to
Activist attack on wall street. This time, United Airlines. Two hedge funds with stakes in united announcing they think the board stinks and they want its own birthdays. What is interesting im looking a the release from par capital and all item meter capital. They own united shares. And they say say we are not shortterm traders nor are we activists. Yeah, right. They are active right now on getting six people onto the board. Including Continental Capital gordon buffoon. There are not people who will argue that united lagged its competitors. Its performance over the last five years, it has been underperforming relative to its competitors. By the way what you are looking at right there those are members of a Teamsters Union protesting out the jp Morgan Transportation Conference Today where the cfo for United Airlines was giving a presentation to analysts. Here is lebeau talking about the Management Team performing woef woefully. If in a horse race and you are in fourth place you are not.
And reand general andrea and janelle, back to you. Police are searching for a driver of a car and the driver who fled on foot. Cbss Magdalena Doris joins us live with a look at that new video. Reporter good morning jenel and andrea. When you see this video, you will agree the passengers inside this van are so lucky it wasnt so much worse. Police say that the driver of a stolen rental car sped through this stop sign and ar careened into a van that was was carrying children. The impact was Strong Enough to flip the van carrying six passengers, including a three yearold and a threemonthold. The collision at the intersection of shore avenue and princeton street happened before 11 p. M. A car hit the van with such force it flipped. After the crash the investigators say the driver despite the dramatic jarring collision, miraculously the two small children, a 15yearold girl and three young adults riding in the van are okay. They were taken to jamaica hospital as a precaution. Now, police are