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simone biles leading the way with electrifying routines on the balance beam, vault, and on the floor. there were still stunning upsets. venus williams and her sister, serena, losing a doubles tennis match for the first time. venus also lost a single match earlier in the day, but serena is still in the running to take it again in rio. serena was the best serena in london i ve ever seen. i can only hope i get there again. that was insane. reporter: other nations had to deal with setbacks off the field. kenya s track and field manager sent home and facing investigation following the release of a video showing him offering to protect athletes from drug tests. and the entire russian they failed para-athletes. their medals over morals mentality disgusts me. reporter: now remember, guys, team russia is still competing in the current games. although more than 100 athletes were banned as part of the same doping scandal. in fact, the international olympics committee ignor ....
u.s. beat out france in the 4 by 100 relay. he has the most medals of any athlete ever. impressive. in gymnastics, the women s three-time champion simone biles and allie riceman led the way. overall, the medal count looking good for team usa. they lead with 12 medals. italy and japan tied with seven. as far as golds, the u.s., china, and australia are tied with three apiece. one woman who seemed destined for gold is instead in intensive care this morning. the woman was leading the road race when that crash happened. she suffered a concussion and matt gutmann has more. reporter: the dutch cyclist recovering in a hospital. skidding into that turn earlier wobbling, then launching over the handlebars into a concrete gutter. she s down. reporter: and the jeers of zika by brazilian fans contagious, spreading from the soccer pitch to the pair of americans at the beach volleyball stadium. [ chanting zeke zika ] rio s woes not all manmade. winds forcing the sus ....
concussion and three small spinal cord fractures. she s said to be conscious and okay. those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 8th. from abc news, this is world news now. good morning to you all. we begin this half hour with the death of a ten-year-old boy during a family outing at a water park. he was riding on the water slide in kansas city kansas, the tallest in the world. 17 stories insane or crazy in german. riders have to follow some strict rules. there s no word on how this accident took place. we honestly don t know what s happened. that s why an investigation, a full investigation is necessary. all our rides are inspected every day, and our rides are inspected by an outside party before the season starts. the water park will be closed guards may be too distraught to work there. it s the first fatality at the park since it opened. zplrch donald trump is looking to get back on message. he s been struggling in the polls, and he tried ....
we had a brief respite this morning. let s find out what is in store later today. right now, we re taking a live look out wilmington, delaware. the tarp is out covering the field. what you can see is the few areas right now isn t getting any rain outside. look on the doppler radar, hitting parts of new jersey, philadelphia and tracking to the northeast. let s take a look a little closer into some of the stronger cells. right now, you see part it moving to the northeast, yellows, reds, oranges, the heavier rain moving through and this will continue tracking along into parts of philadelphia and then tracking into new jersey as well. philadelphia itself, not seeing a ton of showers at this point, but we have seen rain move through this morning already. wet roads are certainly going to be the case if you get an early start to your day. now into new jersey, tabor knackle, the heavier rain, through lacey, pressing along to the shore, that activity moving off the coast here ....
here. most of the showers hitting pennsylvania and new jersey are moving off to the north, and off shore, but we do see some hanging along the shore. let s zone in there. closely, you can see, red and oranges near fork and toms rivers, some of the heavy rain out there. this is going to move off as we move through the next hour. there are flood advisories and flash flood warnings in place. they ll be lifted around lunchtime. for the rest of the zone, not tracking any more showers. clouds are starting are clear. we re at 79 in philadelphia. dover, 80 degrees there. still in the upper 60s in mount pocono. we ll talk more about temperatures through this afternoon and a second round of rain. thank you, krystal. we re getting reports of trees down fouling this morning s heavy rain. this tree fell on an suv in center city. this is at hint and south streets. you can see the street is blocking blocked off there because of that tree. and strawberry drive in west philadelphia ....