overdrive on the road to a massive infrastructure bill. olympic glory. the latest on team u.s.a., and allyson felix s golden finish. and later, wonderful wally. a home town honors a trailblazer as she shares her story of soaring into space. i m looking out the window, and i say, wow! there goes the ground! this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. we begin tonight with the significant setback in america s covid recovery. new daily infections have reached their highest levels in six months, returning to numbers we haven t seen since the past winter surge. take a look. new daily cases bottomed out in june at 11,000. now they number more than 100,000. several southern states are facing their largest outbreaks of the pandemic. the worst is in florida, which had more than 134,000 cases last week. the delta variant is fueling infections, especially among the unvaccinated nationwide. and now there s concern that one of the world s b
copacabana beach today, wednesday, august 17th, 2016. don t know if i ve 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 split-edition of today. [ cheers and applause ] hoda, we re here to covering the olympics, so it s all about the athletes. we re 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 get it this morning. he flew all the way from los angeles here to surprise the final five. he s 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
you live. bill? you ll feel the heat this afternoon. this morning, temperatures are cooler. running 5 to 9 degrees cooler than yesterday at this tile which means we re 77 degrees at philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey are drying out after storms of last night. lehigh valley is 73 degrees and 75 in delaware. that s a live view from frawley stadium. the temperatures climbing into the low 80s by 9:00 this morning and philadelphia at 77 degrees right now. we ll see sunshine and 77 degrees at 6:00 but 82 by 9:00 and that quick warmup continues. middle 90s for philadelphia. hot and humid for the suburbs and new jersey. at the shore, up to 90 degrees this afternoon. steamy there, too. 90s, lower 90s for the lehigh valley. middle 90s, will feel like 100 degrees this afternoon for delaware. i ll go through the forecast hour by hour when i m back in a few minutes. first, jessica boyington has an update from the first alert traffic center. we re starting things off with an acciden
have day after day after day of this, and that s what we ve had. it started on wednesday of last week. it peaked over the weekend when it felt like 110 in philadelphia. 100 degrees is the way it felt today and back up to at least 102 tomorrow with a high of 95 so if anything it s going to get a little more hot and human tomorrow. 87 in the parasuburbs and philadelphia 93 degrees. feels like 100 in vineland and 102 in dover which, of course, is nothing compared to what we saw over the weekend. i ll let you know when we see that significant relief and when storms are going to come in just a few minutes. okay, glen. to decision 2016 and the push for pennsylvania. today hillary clinton campaigned in scranton, and she brought vice president joe biden with her. that s his hometown. biden said electing clinton as the first female president would change the lives of women and girls. nbc 10 s lauren mayk reports from scranton. on cancer research, hillary clinton told the crowd i
copacabana beach today, wednesday, august 17th, 2016. don t know if i ve 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 plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split-edition of today. [ cheers and applause ] hoda, we re here to covering the olympics, so it s all about the athletes. we re 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 he flew all the way from los angeles here to surprise the final five. he s 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. we re going to show you the epic surprise in a littl