Surfers. From aly raisman winning the silver medal to jebby stone rowing her way to the silver its been a productive summer games so far for our local athletes. The bronze medal from the drasage competition. Laura graves hoping to add another medal in individual final. Graves going second to last in the grand prix free style. And the vermont native game posting a personal best score of 85. 196. Graves stellar performance put her in third place. Germany closed out the day by sliding into second knocking graves off the podium. Growing up as the daughter of former rhode island senator and governor lewisa chafy is used to herself in rio. Nancy chen has more on tonights home town hero. Louisa chafy last name may sound familiar. Her father is former rhode island governor lincoln chafee. Now louisa is trying to make a name for herself in olympic world. Standing by her fathers side as he became senator and then making headlines of her own as she sets sail for team usa to rio. Moving from a sup
For francisco 49ers and the question for the broncos who will be the starting quarterback on the regularseason kickoff and 20 days. Nick kicks off her Team Coverage tonight and join us live outside the stadium. Of course were talking quarterbacks. We just mentioned it 20 days away from the nfl regular Season Opener it will take place a Mile High Stadium gary has still not decided who will start at quarterbk decision sooner rather than later between mark sanchez and Trevor Semyon large bulk of that could hinge very likely on what happens here tonight last week in chicago a veteran marks interest that took this dark got all the snaps with the first tamers tonight will be the second your guide 24 your Trevor Simeon the Northwestern University coach has planned simeon will get the First Quarter and a half of action tonight was sanchez set the play the next quarter and a half and paxton lynch to get the crumbs after that. Believe it or not it remain civil even friendly between the two qbs.
Lackluster august drops report, summer jobs of june and jobs in july fading last month. We explain the surprise slowdown that we saw. Plus Tropical Storm hermine tearing her way through the gulf coast. Storm warnings up the eastern seaboard. Where the deadly storm is heading next . And College Football starts with overtime victory by number 9 tennessee. Former dolphins and pitt head coach and College Football analyst Dave Wannstedt gets us ready for the fall. Liz . Cheryl a fed rate hike is in question in the economys tugofwar. We are less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. Lets start the countdown . Well, the markets are looking to close out the week on a high note following the august jobs report which came in lower than expected. The three major averages all on track to close higher for the week. Take a look at s p, the dow and the nasdaq, green numbers there. The move to the chip isnt working out for verifone. Reporting lower than expected T
So marty, where is that storm headed next. We understand it could head right up the coast. It looks that way. Were going to have it centered in georgia. Theres the center of the storm. There are bands of thunderstorms that go all the way town to tampa, florida. This is very heavy rain. Now, rainfall rates of 2, 3, 4 inches per hour. Were tracking portions of so florida, upwards of a foot to up to 15 inches. It is moving as the storms continue to track through the carolinas this weekend. Its exiting very early tomorrow morning into early by midday tomorrow, we see it moving out of North Carolina. Several areas between 612 inches of rain in the carolinas, those are going to be the big problems down with this storm. Thats the flooding, not really clouds are over us. Theyve kept us warm overnight. Were in the 60s right now. We have a storm system in western colorado that will bring some early showers to us today. In fact, were anticipating showers as early as 11 00 a. M. And then wrapping
The emergency workers speaking out this morning. You cant stop me no and the battle at bristol. The famous motor speedway transformed into a massive College Football stadium ready to host a record crowd. Its tennessee versus Virginia Tech. Were live at the track for a great gridiron pit stop. And good saturday morning, everyone. We want to thank you for joining us this weekend as there is our own rob marciano hey, rob surrounded by fans at the Bristol Motor Speedway in bristol, tennessee. Theyre expecting the largest College Football crowd ever, and can i say maybe a record in beer consumption. They have purchased over 500,000 a half million beers for this particular game. A half million beers . A half million beers. Im not sure that should be legal. Well, you know, its tennessee, everybody, but the raceway is going to be transformed into a football field as tennessee takes on Virginia Tech. Its going to be an epic game in more ways than one, as we just mentioned. And we can guarantee