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the u.s. women win gold in the 4x2. that was beautiful! that s 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. edition of today. thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. i m matt lauer along with hoda kotb. savannah is in new york. we ll 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 without medal winners. look at who we have today. the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. congratulations. also here, there s more, michael hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and we ll ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. the green water in the pool. it s so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. by the way, t ....
floor before police hauled him forcefully inside the building. this was a dangerous stunt that left traffic snarled on 5th avenue and left people staring up for much of the afternoon. it was costly. it was frightening. and it was riveting. reporter: there he was, scaling the glass face of trump tower using a rig that consisted of suction cups and a harness, hoping to reach the top of the 633 -foot tall trump tower. people on the ground couldn t off the spectacle unfolding on the building facade and playing out live on tv. tyler saw it all start out. there was a gentleman, this man to our right, and he was jumping up and down, extremely anxious. he was running across the side of the building. as we walk inside, he s suction cupped to the glass. reporter: police later broke reach him. each time the climber moved laterally to his left to avoid police, all the while holding a running conversation with them. he wanted to climb to the top so that he could talk to mr ....
abcnews.com and our nightline facebook page. what a sight. a man scaling trump tower in midtown snatched by police in the suction cup climber and wait till you hear what he says why he was there. now headed to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. we have two reports tonight beginning with jim dolan live in midtown, part of the first tv news team on the scene. he made it up to the 21st floor before police hauled him forcefully inside the building. this was a dangerous stunt that traffic snarled on 5th avenue and left people staring up for much of the afternoon. it was costly. it was frightening. and it was riveting. reporter: there he was, scaling the glass face of trump tower using a rig that consisted of suction cups and a harness, hoping to reach the top of the 633 -foot tall trump tower. people on the ground couldn t take their eyes off the spectacle unfolding on the building facade and playing out start out. there was a gentleman, this man to our righ ....
the heat index for tomorrow to toms river through the five boroughs .10 4 is the real feel. today we are going to be hovering right around 100 degrees. you re never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. weather then heather how are the trains doing? reporter: just fine. long island railroad, jersey transit and metro north doing okay. you had some earlier signal problems on the 5 trains yesterday near morris park. they are repaired but you expect residual delays as a result. then we have this issue on 17, southbound side midland avenue into century road, we have construction. all lanes are closed down and diverted at midland avenue. you can see the big line of red there. that means it is completely shut down. use fairview avenue as your alternate or hop on the garden state parkway. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect for today in effect for today. rob over to you. hurt including three firefighters who had minor injuries. a man is the m ....
joseph ryan . he is 19 years old from the washington suburb of great falls, virginia. he is charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass and has been under psychiatric evaluation at bellevue hospital. at no time did he express he wanted to hurt anybody. his intention was to meet with mr. trump. he made this youtube video before the climb, explaining he intended the stunt as a way to arrange a meeting with donald trump. according to police, he left his family s home in virginia and drove 250 miles to new york, checked into the bowery grant hotel 10:00 tuesday and arrived at trump tower 3:00 p.m. yesterday. he began his assent at roughly 3:30. he was arrested almost exactly 3 hours later after an or deal that mez rrized hundreds on the street mesmerized hundreds on i reached out, i took hold of his hand and i said, sir, you need to come with me. i brought him inside with the help of my partner. we placed him. reporter: back to live picture, trump towe ....