[ cheers and applause steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon tonight, join jimmy and his guests Chelsea Handler, senator Bernie Sanders musical guest the war on drugs and featuring the legendary roots crew and now, heres your host, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy thats your fault, yeah oh my goodness oh, hey. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. On a friday thats some friday love right there. Thank you. Welcome to the tonight show, everybody. Lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, everyone is still talking about last nights president ial debate. But based on the early ratings, it had about 7 million fewer viewers than the first one its not that 7 Million People chose not to watch, its that after the first debate they left the country [ laughter ] but based on some snap polls, trump won the debate by 98 to 2 thats according to the fair polling site guntotingeagle. Com. [ laughter ] but this is interestin
Verrazano, head to the lower level to avoid this. On the Grand Central parkway, this is eastbound out by clear vie two lanes remain closed. Stick to the expressway. Breaking news in Staten Island, thats where police say a man was found dead near the Ferry Terminal. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is in st. George with what we know now. Reporter were watching the investigation officers and detectives with flash flights are going down the ramp between the st. George terminal and the baseball park. Thats where they found the body of a man believed to be in his 30s on a park bench. Well show you some video of this investigation which started just before 2 00 this morning. Thats when officers received a 911 call about someone on the bench. When they arrived, they found the victim stabbed multiple times in the torso. He was pronounced dead added scene. Here, but they also dont know who could have done Something Like this. That is part of the investigation. This is also near a correct shun
Access the terminal as the Investigation Continues here. The 49yearold man, person of interest in police custody. Also, recovering from puncture wound to his own arm. All new at noon, the nypd has arrested john gotti, the 23yearold grandson of the late gotti. The grandson of john gotti arrested in betweens today for helping to run a pill ring. Hes expected to appear in Queens Criminal Court later this afternoon. John gotti accused of selling beach area of queens. Hes expected to appear in Queens Criminal Court this afternoon. All this comes as the fbi was doing a separate mafia bust stretching from new york to boston down to florida. More than 40 reputed mobsters rounded up this morning on Health Care Fraud and construction and racketeering crimes. Those suspects are expected to appear in federal court here in new york and up and dow east coast so two significant mafia related round ups this morning. One involving the grandson of the late john gotti. The other, dozens of reputed mobste
Head of the cdc gets set to tour miamis hot zone today. Kicking it off in style. The u. S. Womens soccer Team Wins Big in its rio debut. As preparations for the opening ceremonient the enter the final stretch, august 4th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today countdown to rio with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Its thursday morning. We have matt in rio. The olympic action is under way. The Opening Ceremony just one short day away. Started us off. Not too bad. I want to show you something funny, first. Im here along the promenade at copacabana beach. We havent formally started the games yet. I ran into the mascots from 2018. Guys, good to see you. Cool. Well see you guys in two years. Youre right, by the way, great start for the u. S. Womens soccer team. 20 over new zealand. Were a little tired. We were at maracana stadium as we
We have fast track maintenance on the l train, no service between Broadway Junction and lorimer street. We have about 13 buses. A man found near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Tracie strahan has more information. Reporter weve seen a lot of detectives out here. Theyre blocking off the area where the body was discovered near the st. George terminal. Its an area where construction is happening, but a 911 call alerted them to what was happening. Well show you video of the investigation since that male body was discovered on a bench around 1 45 this morning. The victim. He was declared dead on the scene. Had stab wounds to the torso. They dont know the identity of the person found stabbed to death on the bench. Police tell me theyre trying to nail that down as well as finding out a motive for this as well as any suspect vovred. This is happening near the st. George terminal where theyre doing construction. A lot of people working on that project coming into work. Theyre not allowed down