American champion denied a record gold. And a dive leaving a divide. And americas golden girls back in action. Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Another big night of competition getting under way here in rio soon. Well be getting to that shortly. But once again, the unprecedented flood in louisiana. Despite a Welcome Break in the rain, new areas are under water tonight as floodwaters move downstream. While in already hard hit places, displaced residents are returning home to see what is left. 40,000 homes are damaged, where in some areas only one in eight have flood insurance. Today the number of water rescues climbed to 30,000, while the death toll for the disaster reached at least 11. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez leads our coverage for us again tonight. Gabe, good evening. Reporter lester, another eight parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration and
Early evening tshower popping up. Tonight is partly cloudy, warm and humid with lows near 70, and patchy fog. Slick and slippery roads are drying out this morning, incident 894 nbspeeds at or above posted this morning looking to tonight 41 south at watertown plank road full closure at 11 tonight until 4 30 tomorrow morningdot urges you to give an extra 5 to 10 minutes more on the roads and take your time to avoid any incidents drive safely as you tensions have eased in milwaukee as teens respect a citywide curfew. Sherman park was also closed again overnight. That park just reopened. Ann sterling is live ann it is a lot quieter morning. Ive seen a few mpd offices driving by. The park reopened at 6am. Right across the street is the bp gas station. Atf now offering a 10 thousand dollars reward for information that leads to an arrest. The damage of all the buildings torched and looted exceeds several million dollars. 8 businesses were set on fire. The crowds took to the streets saturday n
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
Any other material submitted for purposes of the hearing will be printed into the record. Without objection, the committee is adjourned. Mike debonis covers congress with the washington post. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] excuse me. My name is jim lange, from the Congressional Institute . I emailed you about congressional reform. Right. [indiscernible] adams was not a good president , not a successful president. If his career had ended at the and of his presidency, i dont think i would have written a book about him. Johnight on q a, quincy adams militant spirit , about the life of the sixth president of the United States and his career afterwards. The thing that strikes you not as a politician, he is a politician, hes held elective forme, he didnt alliances. He didnt do anything you would do in order to be able to persuade
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