The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer 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. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show that is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. By the way, their parents are all hanging out over here taking pictures of them. By the way, you know who else is joining us on the beach this morning . Who . Its going to feel a little like greenville, tennessee, because the band perry is coming down here to rio and theyll put on a live concert on the beach a little later in the show. Savannah, back in new york and i know theres a lot going on in your world as well. Exactly, guys. Good morning to you. Good to see you. The president ial race as hot as ever here. Thats leveled against his opponent yet . Last night, he accused president obama of founding isis and naming Hillary Clint ton as its cofind cofounder. And then a man scaling a building in new york, trump power. Well have the latest on all of that coming up. For now, back to you in rio. From natalie. Good morning to you. Good morning, guys the duel in the pool. Michael phelps and ryan lochte will go head to head tonight. With swimmers, cyclist and divers racking up gold medals, team usa is on the cusp of a big milestone. Team usa is approaching a major australia. Adding to that is Katie Ledecky. Ledecky turned in a powerful performance trailing which bun second when she hit the water coming from behind with incredible closing speed to win by close to two seconds before hitting the pool the team, which included Alison Schmidt and a stunning win defeating josh pernot. Biggest shock of these Olympic Games. First ever swimming medal for kazakhstan. Michael phelps and ryan lochte took first and second when they at the olympics and lochtes final race of the games. We bring out the best of each other. Weve been doing it since 2004. Every time i race him, its the best. For olympians outside the aquatic center, it was a battle against mother nature. Armstrong wins her third consecutive gold. Armstrong now the oldest woman to medal in the sport birthday sharing an emotional and tearful embrace with her young son moments after her victory and drama in Beach Volleyball. Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross facing tough competition from the switzerland. The match taking a turn when one of the players smashed into the sand hurting her neck. Winning by just ten points. Australia came within striking distance in the last 30 seconds of the game. But superstars kyrie irving led the team to victory. And a quick check of the medal count. U. S. Team still leading by a lot beating out chinand far and coming up today, events to look out for. Golf returning to the olympics after 112 years. Matt is excited. In gymnastics, of course, womens allaround finals. Simone biles and harrison tries to make it back to back gold in judo and Michael Phelps and ryan lochte facing off in 200 i. M. Busy day. Team usas latest Medal Winners. Alison schmidt part of that gold winning relay and first time olympian josh pernot. How does it feel. You have a gold medal around your neck along with a silver, how does that feel for you, im speechless. Taking in the whole process. The journey has its ups and downs. And to have a gold around my neck again, an amazing feeling with three other girls. How much pressure were you feeling on the deck knowing its your job in the relay to get that team off to a very strong start. Knowing that you have Katie Ledecky theres not much laps to watch the other girls and wringing your hands making sure it works out. I had complete faith in the other three girls. Like i said, having katie anchor our relay, i wouldnt have any other swimmer anchor our relay. Josh, first time olympian. You sit there with the silver medal around your neck. Is the way you played it out in your mind for the last ten years . Yeah. Its absolutely a dream come tr country that well. Kazakhstan got the gold. It was a touch. Did you realize how close you were at that moment . That dude was super far away from me. I could only see two surrounding me so i had no idea. Hes a good kid. Im happy for him. As we were talking about families a second ago before we went on the air and just briefly talk about what this has been like for your families to go through this. Family for the First Time Since being in rio, and there were a lot of tears. Happy tears. Knowing that everything weve been through together, they are there every step of the way. They are standing right over there. I feel like my family has been loving every minute of this. Every day i get a text from mom or dad saying this is sick. We love being here. Im happy for them. We would like to give you a chance to say hi to folks at youre from michigan . Yes. Josh . Whats up, berkeley . Guys, congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Now more on team usas dominance in the pool and the big races to look forward to today. Mike tirico is daytime host of nbcs olympic coverage. Good morning to you. Lets talk about the duel in the pool. What are you expecting . How can you beat one more time phelps and lochte in the pool in this race. These two guys have either one gold or World Championship for a decade in this event. One more time a showdown. They swim side by side. How do you think that affects the race . They have a great sense of where the other guy is at this point after competing in the same event for so long. You just look at lochte and you look at his career great. The problem is hes swimming in the era of the greatest and how will history remember him . In an event phelps won three times in a row in the olympics, if lochte can get this, that will add to the specter of his greatness. Lets talk about Katie Ledecky. Magnificent. I used that one. Give me the list, matt. Pool last night in the relay you were talking about. You had the sense it was going to be no chance for anybody else from australia or canada to hold her off or catch her when she took the lead. Now the were look at another great gold haul for her. You think thats just a layup. Weve learned in sports there are no guarantees. That one feels really good. Let me do this. Ill ask you and then ill lean back here and ask these two to weigh in as well. Could Katie Ledecky, she holds the world record and alison will tell me thats 8 06 68, right . Exactly. Could Katie Ledecky be the first person to swim the 800 meters under 8 minutes at some point . I think given everything thats happened, that would be a lot, given the toll of the week. I dont mean tonight but in here career. Oh, in her career. The way this career is going, why not. If somebody is going to do it, it will be Katie Ledecky. What else are you looking forward, mr. Tirico . You mentioned the golf starting. Its been over a century. But the gymnastics with the Great Success of the women. Can you win the allaround and biles is just so good. But aly raisman, keep an eye on her. Rivalry. Biles versus raisman. U. S. Versus u. S. Its a rivalry but they cant wait to travel as a team around america and inspire more dreams. America cant wait either. Mike tirico. Thank you very much. Folks, congratulations again. Were going to have more on what you can expect in that gymnastics competition coming up. Tim daggett and Nastia Liukin will join us. You can catch the showdown between Michael Phelps and ryan lochte. In new york. All right, guys. Thank you. In the president ial race this morning, donald trump stirring new controversy after he labeled president obama the founder of isis and Hillary Clinton its cofounder. This as we learn more about the man who captured a lot of attention on wednesday when he scaled the side of trump tower. Nbcs Haley Jackson is here for us this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. All eyes on that trump tower climber on fifth avenue, but is on donald trump today doubling down on his new attack against president obama. This morning Donald Trumps not backing off one of his toughest attacks yet, accusing president obama of founding isis. He was the founder, absolutely the founder. He and hillary get the most valuable player award having to do with iraq and having to do with the isis situation. Reporter four times on cnbc of his rowdier rallies. Hes the founder of isis. Reporter trump insists hes not changing, even in the midst of what Time Magazine today calls simply a meltdown. I just keep doing the same thing im doing and in the end its either going to work or im going to, you know, im going to have a very, very nice long vacation. Reporter trump on defense for his controversial comments suggesting gun rights advocates could act against Hillary Clinton. Judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. Nothing was said wrong and only the haters tried to grab onto that one and it was very unsuccessful. Reporter trump also pushing. Its called pay for play. If emails were never invented, would she be happy . Reporter bill clinton has defended the foundation with Hillary Clintons campaign telling nbc news the new emails work. All of it coming amid a skyscraper standoff in new york city. Suction cups and all, Police Busting glass to try to stop a man scaling trump tower. The climber quuk quickly becoming a media spectacle on air and on line requesting a meeting with donald trump before police hauled him in. Donald trump again hit clinton after the father of an orlando nightclub shooter attended one his attendees raised some eyebrows here in the sunshine state. Disgraced former congressman mark foley sitting directly behind trump in his camera shot. Foley telling nbc news he is a trump supporter. The two are friends for 30 years. And this morning, savannah, trump has been on the cover of a lot of magazines but he may not like this new one out from time. Take a look, it shows trump with the simple caption meltdown. Savannah . Haley jackson on the campaign trail for us. Thank you. 25 people were injured, several others still missing after an explosion rocked an Apartment Building outside washington, d. C. The fire in silver spring, maryland, started just before midnight. More than 150 firefighters were called to battle those flames. They were fueled by a natural gas line. Firefighters were able to rescue several people who were trapped inside their apartments. Nearly 100 people have been displaced by that fire. And what a bizarre story out of england this morning. Police are investi player at wimbledon was poisoned. Gabrielle taylor was midway through her match when she became sick and she was forced to turn out. Her mother said her 18yearold daughter was diagnosed with a rare bacterial disease, and she believes it was not an accident. Police are investigating the possibility that she could have been targeted by a rival player or coach. Guys, hope youre having a good morning. We are, savannah. Nice to see you. Well, the sea, she is less angry in rio, but youre talking about a rare event back home. We saw a tornado in connecticut yesterday, another one in long island. Look at the video from connecticut. This is north haven. Ef0 tornado going through knocking down trees, splintering trees, debris. A real mess. Thankfully nobody injured and no serious damage, but still nuch enough of a problem. Lets look at the heat were talking about. Were talking 70 Million People under some sort of heat advisory. 22 states stretching from the midwest and the plains all the way into the northeast and new england. Heat advisories for boston and new york city. Look at the temperatures, what theyre going to feel like today, well over 100 thanks to this bermuda high. The air temperatures near 100, 100 today into tomorrow. The northeast into the Midatlantic States and the gulf coast as well. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next thats your latest weather. Guys . Al, thanks so much. Coming up, were going to get to the bottom of that big olympic mystery. Why is the water in some of the pools turning green and were going to ask silver Medal WinnersMichael Hixon and sam dorman what its like to dive into that. Kerri Walsh Jennings opens up about going for a fourth straight gold medal in Beach Volleyball this time with brand new partner, april ross. Coming up on trending, is that the duchess of cambridge going for cycling gold here in another question. Is that the band perry on copacabana beach . The answer to that is yes. A live concert from them coming up. 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This should be the name. Or something more like golden gold. One. Were back now on a thursday morning. 7 30. Take a look at the view. Thats sugarloaf right there. Hoda, remember, we were up there lets see if we can pan over to the left. Youll start to see part of rio in the background now as the camera reveals the curve of copacabana beach coming up right now. And i want you to take a look down in the notch of the hill down below. Thats us . Thats our studio. Everybody wave. Turn around and wave, folks. Thats studio 1a rio style here on copacabana beach home of the 2016 summer games. Thats really cool. That was beautiful by the live concert from the band perry here on that beach in just a couple of minutes. Love them. They are right over there in the orange room hanging out. Excited for that. We have a lot to get to in this half hour. Lets go right to your olympic headlines. Another night, another gold for Katie Ledecky in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. She was swimming last. She entered the pool in second place. Guess what. She touched the wall nearly two seconds ahead of the competition. Shes unreal. As for the men, Michael Phelps and ryan lochte qualified first and second for the 200 meter i. M. Final, setting up one last duel in the pool, and that happens tonight. Thats going to be a thriller. In mens gymnastics, japan repeated as gold medal winner in mens individual allaround. Women get their turn today including the final five simone biles and aly raisman. Well have more on that battle and after 112 year absence, golf returns to the olympics this morning. Its a traditional 72hole tournament over the next four days. Team usa represented by pro golfers bubba watson, ricky fowler, patrick reed and matt kuchar. We look forward to that. Thats going to be great. And remember, wednesday, we mentioned that one of the olympic diving pools had turned green and now other pools have done the same. Whats with the color change . Whats that all about . Into that and he is over at olympic park. Hey, keir. Reporter good morning. I dont know whether to laugh or cry here. Athletes spend years preparing for the olympics only to compete in water the same color as the paving here. Olympic officials admitting they ran out of the right chemicals. It appears that allowed algae to spread to two pools now and now competitors are complaining that a startsingling startling view today at the aquatic center. Reporter a stunning admission by olympic officials. The unsightly color ca