nightly news begins now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. a deadly and powerful storm has ravage add southern california. tonight, almost 20,000 people are still without power. the lasting effect of a dangerous weather system that left millions cowering through the night as strong winds and damaging rains caused landslides, flash floods, giant sinkholes and chaos on the roads. steve patterson reports from duarte, california. reporter: traffic jams are common on southern california interstates, but not like this. it s incredible to see how big this flood is. reporter: on one of the west s biggest arteries. interstate 5 still on hold. flooding this morning, half a day after a rush hour washout snarled traffic for hours. look at that. reporter: the aftermath of a deadly storm that slammed into the region. more rain in one day than some areas see in a month. in victorville, res
of a brighter future. nightly news begins now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. a deadly and powerful storm has ravage add southern california. tonight, almost 20,000 people are still without power. the lasting effect of a dangerous weather system that left millions cowering through the night as strong winds and damaging rains caused landslides, flash floods, giant sinkholes and chaos on the roads. steve patterson reports from duarte, california. reporter: traffic jams are common on southern california interstates, but not like this. it s incredible to see how big this flood is. reporter: on one of the west s biggest arteries. interstate 5 still on hold. flooding this morning, snarled traffic for hours. look at that. reporter: the aftermath of a deadly storm that slammed into the region. more rain in one day than some areas see in a month. in victorville, rescuers find a mo
straight to olympic city where we find melissa ageary. still at 11:00, so busy. reporter: thousands of people are still here milling about at olympic park, and taking pictures and exploring the park. we have swimmers in the pool right now, and tonight all eyes are going to be on copacabana beach because of beach volleyball, and you can imagine the rivalry tonight between usa and brazil when those teams hit the sand. and for santa clara native, kerri walsh. kerri walsh jennings making her fifth appearance, but this time with a new partner, april ross. walsh says she is excited to play on copacabana beach. it s electric to play in copacabana and i can t wait to give the fans the best show in the world. and partner ross says she is ready to rumble. i am not going to hold back at all and get out there and unleash the beast. reporter: we re going to see her unleash the beast tonight. that match is tonight, copacabana, it starts at midnight. now, if when all of these ma
there are millions of people around the world who contribute in different ways to make our world a better place through sport. to honor such outstanding personalities who put sport at the service of humanity, the international olympic committee has created a unique distinction which we award for the first time now. ladies and gentlemen, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the fields of education, culture, development, and peace through sport, in the true olympic spirit, the olympic laurel is awarded to the great olympic champion, and great olympic philanthropist. i am an olympian gold medalist and olympic recordholder. it is a home of athletes. when i was young, 8 years old, i used to run all way from my home to school. so i was really training without knowing. my dad is the only one who would take care of me. so after my running, what i did, i started the children home with my wife. taking care of orphan kids to give them shelter and education. having a chi
phelps out of retirement, competitively coming back in 200 fly and reclaiming the title he owned in 04 and 08 was a big deal to him. tonight he became the oldest swimmer male or female to win individual gold medal in olympic history. we take one more look at michael phelps latest remarkable showing. so long from rio. take your mark. kenderesi in lane four. cseh in lane three. everybody on the planet has been talking about phelps and leclos. the other two swimmers have a great chance to win. kenderesi probably because he is so young might not be able to do it. phelps had a great turn in the middle of the pool. cseh had the lead at the turn. michael phelps in lane five looks like he is going to have the lead here at the half way point. phelps in lane five looking really good early on. that is a little long on that turn. not too bad. but out very quickly. he was 53 flat when he went 164. had half second lead on leclos. now they are inching up a little bit. cseh two