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olympics. the world s best gymnast, simone biles, vaulting america s final five to a history making victory. katie ledecky beat her off the start. as record-breaking katie ledecky dominates in the pool and america s golden boys pick up another first place. the united states is going to win the gold medal. michael phelps adding two more gold medals to his record-breaking tally. we re live in rio for all the action this morning. good morning, america. and good morning, simone biles and the rest of america. how about that team usa dominating the olympics blowing away the competition. four more golds on tuesday. including michael phelps winning his 21st gold. there he is celebrating with his son boomer. amy is at our olympics desk in rio this morning. good morning, guys. so much excitement for team usa did get to be in the pavilion when the five made history with america s first consecutive team win in gymnastics and that was just one of the night s big mome ....
in tennessee. they screamed a little bit and hit the ground laying there. reporter: authorities in pennsylvania are now investigating what went wrong. it s still unclear how long the park will remain closed. linsey davis , abc news, new york. another bomb attack at a popular resort in thailand hours after twin explosions in the coastal town of authorities say the attacks may be politically motivated possibly to undermine the military government. they ruled out islamic terrorism. in syria humanitarian aid arrived in the war ravaged city of aleppo. convoys delivered water and fresh food. a temporary cease fire allowed the supplies into the city. it got so bad residents were reportedly cooking leaves off several days and doctors in aleppo urged the president to try to intervene. only 15 doctors remain in the city to treat hundreds of thousands of victims. a new report finds at least 1500 people have been killed chemical weapons in syria. with more than 160 attack ....
. hi there. thanks for being with us friday. i m chris tye. first the heat, then the humidity. let s see. it s friday and the radar is popping. you ve got that right. you guys come over here to the weather senter and take over for me. we have another round of rain and storms firing up now in northeast ohio. as we take a look out, we have a flash flood watch to talk about. that starts saturday afternoon and goes through sunday. that is once that front gets here. we ll talk more about that thunder firing up now around huron, moving over toward the vermilion area toward the lake shore. further south to willard, that s going to clip the south end of nowalk and new long london hearing rumbles of thunder. southwest corn ore corner of wayne. if you re leaving the house to go out someone leaves work to come home, give them a text to let them know. a shower from the northeast corner of ashland. ashtabula getting hit with heavy rain along the state line area. there s is ....
with people brave enough to hunt these. inside and outside syria doubts are growing that the pause in fighting agreed on by world powers this week will actually happen. a deal is more likely to fail than succeed. on the ground government forces supported by air raids are trying to ensieshgel raids in the largest city of aleppo and captured strategic high ground after forcing opposition fighters out of the small town on the road down into aleppo, they are now in a position to move further towards the city to the next rebel-held town. on friday government forces captured the village as they attempt to close the circle around aleppo city and also took another town from the rebels. government forces have now essentially captured most of the rebel supply routes into aleppo. and zaina has more on the turkey-syria border. reporter: this high ground gives the syrian or my and its allies an advantage. the main rebel supply line to the west to the northern side of aleppo is n ....
abuse following protesters alleged brutality. and david cameron s tight rope walk as he holds discussions on how britain can stay in the european union. the u.s. has carried out air strikes in libya, targeting fighters aligned with isil. libyan officials say at least 40 people have been killed in the attack west of the capitol tripoli. let s go straight to our correspondent in washington, d.c., rosiland jordan. rosalind what more are you hearing about this strike? well, the pentagon spokesman peter cooke has just released a statement confirming that there was an air strike against an isil training facility northwest or so of the capitol, tripoli. and he goes on to say, and i m going to quote from his statement, destruction of the camp and removal of [ inaudible ] also known as sabir with eliminate an experienced facilitator, and is expected to have, quote, an immediate impact on isil s ability to facilitate its activities in libya. and he goes on to say the u.s. ....