This morning on gma. And the greatest, simone biles making history with her fourth gold in rio flipping in a flawless floor routine on the final night for americas final five and from the mat to the track, that heartwarming moment, putting spirit ahead of medals. And youll meet the american man called the olympic selfie king who called his boss saying i cant return to work until he lands the one star that got away. Finish line . Announcer live in times square and rio de janeiro, this is Good Morning America. We do say good morning, america. On this wednesday morning. What a stunning night at the olympics. Simone biles as you said, david, making history with her fourth gold in rio. She is just incredible. Take a look at this. Simone on the cover of Sports Illustrated along with katie that they are. These athletes may not have won a medal but won our hearts. Abbey dagostino and Nikki Hamblin helping each other up on the track. First the breaking news that we want to get to. Electric shoc
Is doing to prevent the same outages today. Good morning, everybody. Dont let the creeping sunshine fool you. It is already hot, muggy, and sweaty out there. Coming in today, i was like, as soon as you walk out the door, its that kind of heat. Its in the 80s at 6 00 in the morning. Woo it is warm out there. [ laughter ] its saturday, august, 13th. Im rob nelson. Im michelle charlesworth. Its good to have you back here. Toni yates is never borning. No shes not. Thats my girl. When is this heat going to break . Christmas . Not soon. We have at least two more days where temperatures are in the 90s and the feelslike temperatures are in the triple digit range again this for the feelslike temperature. I think sunday were right in the same spot. We really dont see a lot of relief coming in. Monday well take the temperatures down still muggy, though. This is a look into the battery. We can see the Empire State Building and one world trade. For the excessive heat warning, the hottest locations,
From right now. Clear skies to partly cloudy. Parks reporting clear skies on those automated meters. Its 73 bridge port. What a great start. Really nice morning. Its going to be a nice august day. Were looking at mid to upper 80s. The humidities are held at bay today. A little more humid tomorrow. Thunderstorms late in the day sunday. Big old weather changes for next week. Debbie duhaime has been talking about garbage, the throughway, up there. Thats for sure. Were going to start off with the garbage spill. Were going to go to live shots. This is hamilton avenue at 3rd avenue in brooklyn. Look at the mess here. Its an overturned garbage truck with this garbage all over the place. Crews are here cleaning up the scene. They have been out here for quite awhile. Avoid hamilton avenue in brooklyn. The ramp from hamilton avenue to the bqe is completely blocked as well. This is going to take awhile to to the maps and tell you about a major problem on the new york state throughway. Exit 11 in
Breaking news this morning. A u. S. Olympic swimmer has just completed a fourhour interview with Brazilian Police as two of his teammates are set to land on u. S. Soil shortly after also being questioned about their claims of an armed robbery. Brazilian Authorities Say those claims were made up but the swimmers refute that. Gunnar bentz and jack conger board a flight in rio last night. Rio police say the pair along with teammates ryan lochte and james feigen were confronted by robbers. In a statement overnight the u. S. Olympic Committee Says we apologize to our hosts in rio and the people of brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence. They left followed by an angry crowd. Abcs matt gutman has more on the investigation and what the swimmers say. Reporter its the robbery that police say never took place. And its now at the heart of this video obtained by abc news shows ryan lochte one of the winningest olympians in history and t
The fence here. They have been here for 11 hours awaiting outside. Relatives of the fileds father in support of him. He is at the Police Station where detectives are also questioning the childs stepmother. This is video of the childs father yesterday collapsing, overcome with grief after he found out about the death of his daughter. He was at work at the time in brooklyn. He returned back to the house the bathroom was locked with no water in the tub but the child was dead. Police immediately labeled it suspicious. The 9yearold girl had just moved from india to live with her father about three months ago. Relatives are at a loss. I was shocked, you know . I was shocked. I never think this was going to happen, you know . That shes no more. Reporter again, the medical examiner to determine the cause of demme. Again, no cause of death. Again, no ones charged as of yet but Police Continue to question the childs stepmother. Marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. A family is dema