Nbc 10 is your home for all of the action. The olympic torch arrived in rio by boat this morning ahead of the games. And it will pass through the city end and up at the Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony friday night. And the most decorated olympic athlete of all time will now add a unique honor to his outstanding resume. Flag bearer. And we get to claim him. U. S. Swimmer Michael Phelps will lead the United States athletes into Rios Maracana stadium during fridays Opening Ceremony. And Fashion Designer ralph lauren created a special uniform for phelps to wear during the parade of nations. The olympic swimmer is an 18time gold medallist. Good morning. Im katy zachary. A lot to get to today. Its just after 11 00 on your wednesday. Olympic action gets underway actually tonight for the u. S. Womens soccer team. South jersey native carly lloyd and her squad, take on new zealand. Pamela osborne spoke with some Young Players who are training under carlys coach. It sounds like its a lot
You can see the skies brightening up. The temperatures warming up, upper 70s by 11 00 this morning. Some scattered clouds in new jersey and a few in the Lehigh Valley. This is where theres fog first thing this morning. The fog showing seens of thinning out. Near 80 degrees at lunch time, into the lower 80s this afternoon. The humidity will be lower later today as we see the temperatures climb into the 80s for the suburbs. Plenty of sunshine, after morning clouds in new jersey, 82 degrees this afternoon and at the shore, in for mostly sunny skies and 79 degrees. Low 80s with less humid conditions for delaware and the Lehigh Valley. A look ahead at the weekend when im back in a few minutes. Jessica boyington with the first alert traffic. Were watching the boulevard around the schuylkill expressway. Were not seeing big backups or delays here. You can see north or south were doing just fine. The same goes for the schuylkill expressway. I just checked in with the drive times there. There is
The ground and rosemary, you were inside when all of this happened. We were, pam. We were here for a separate Court Hearing. As soon as we got off the elevators to come outside and finish an interview, thats when the fire alarm went off and they told everybody to get out. As you can see, Philadelphia Police and fire are still on the scene here, investigating. They will most likely be here for the rest of the morning, into the afternoon. Meantime, anybody who was inside the criminal Justice Center, the cjc, is now evacuated outside. Take a look. Theyre waiting here on third and broad street. Theyre waiting for the allclear. I just spoke to the sheriff a short time ago who told me an elevator did fall. The details are unclear. We dont know how many floors that elevator fell. But we know one woman was inside. We have video of that woman being taken out on a stretcher, being loaded on to an ambulance to be taken to the hospital. She appeared to be okay. We spoke to her briefly about what s
This was trump last night. I think hes the worst president maybe in the history of our country. I think the republican nominee is unfit. The president earlier in the day with his harshest words yet. It has to be more than what you say. This is not somebody i can support for president of the United States. As trump tries to dig out of yet another controversy over what he said about women and sexual harassment. And who will it be . Its one of the greatest honors given to an american athlete carrying the flag into the opening olympic ceremony. We know who it is. And well have the big reveal today, wednesday, august 3rd, 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. Welcome to another little bit edition of today, wednesday morning, crunch time here in rio, the openings ceremony at the Olympic Games now just two days away. It is our third morning here o
Majors when im back in ten. New from overnight in philadelphia, police and fire crews were forced to shut down a part of broad street after a car burst into flames following an accident. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live on the scene in the citys nicetown section. Tell us what happened. This stretch of broad street is pretty quiet in the middle of the night. Ill tell you what happened here. Philadelphia police tell us a car was going south at wyoming, hits the median, goes out of control and hits two cars on the other side of the road from where we are. The car ends up in the middle of broad street and bursts into flames. Take a look at this video that was obtained by nbc 10 here. This is what it looked like moments after crash. One officer described this as a fireball. It happened just after midnight. One of the officers from the 39th district happened to be driving down broad at the same time that this happened. At the point that he showed up here, just the engine was on fire. But it quic