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victory in the 400-meter relay as michael phelps and ryan lochte go head-to-head with a photo finish now heading for the finals and carmelo anthony setting a u.s. olympic scoring record as they edge out australia in a nail-biter. we re live in rio for all the action. good morning, america. usa, usa. how about katie ledecky, pushing team usa to yet another gold medal in the pool. and look at her teammates, reach out, grab her hand at the end. another gold for team usa. big day ahead. amy s tracking all the excitement in rio. it is so exciting here, guys. team usa dominating in the water and on the bike. gold medalist kristin armstrong who turns 43 today, by the way, there with her 5-year-old son and we have her amazing story just ahead. okay, amy. we ll get back to you. but first, we want to get to that breaking news, a massive fire in maryland taking down an apartment complex. firefighters rushing to save survivors. more than two dozen people taken to the ho ....
2016. 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 liro good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today. i m matt lauer along with hoda kotb. savannah is in new york. we refuse to do a show without medal winners. look at who we have today. that is alison schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in is alongside her. michael hickson and sam dorman 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, their parents are all hanging out over here taking by the way, you know who else is joining us on the beach this morning? it s going to feel a little bit like tennessee because th ....
downpours. there is a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 5:30 for eastern suffolk county between southampton and east hampton and up toward the twin forks. we also have a flash flood warning in effect for this same area from south hold over to east hampton. a lot of very heavy rain and large amount of lightning strikes over a very tiny area. 500 within the l between southampton and east hampton. and rainfall is coming down at the rate of 3 to 4 inches an hour. that s why we have the flood warning. the same storm produced wind damage in north haven, connecticut before the storm moved across long island sound and out towards the twin forks. we can see it s still moving offshore mainly and away from the area, but the severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect. he ll let i ll let you know if there are breaking news, the man climbing up the side of trump tower on east 56th street. a crowd growing below to watch it unfold. reporter: we are seeing wild pictures. ....
one here for him, uchimura still has another event remaining in rio, that s the floor exercise, but it won t end for him here as his final olympic bow will likely come four years from now in his home nation when tokyo hosts the 2020 olympics. as we say good night, the medal ceremony for uchimura, ukraine s oleg verniaiev who had gold in his sights until the final restation winds up with ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? [ cheers and applause ] and that does it for us. bright and early and we ll see you tomorrow night from rio. pride, glory, cultural expressions, it has more flags than the opening ceremony, only here it s all stars and stripes. scaling trump tower using suction cups. why he did it. streets flooded and a tornado just confirmed. and a screen you can touch. and even write on. when you see a computer that can do all that, it might just make you wonder. hey, what else can it do? a tornado gave people the fright of their hives. but first. you can see they droppe ....
showers out to the west of us. no big problems from the rain through the morning hours. a quick look at one of those storm reports, this is out at mattituck, officially an ef-0 tornado in mattituck. today, nothing severe. but any one particular storm could get nasty. 87 by what are we watching on the morning commute? not much out there just some road work. route 17, all lanes are shut down between midland avenue an century road. that s something to keep in mind. on the cross bronx expressway, road work in both directions. eastbound two lanes are shut down by webster avenue. westbound out by the bronx river more weather and traffic on the 4s. right now the man who scaled 21 flights of trump tower is in the hospital. we re learning more about who he is and the message he had for donald trump. today in new york s katherine creag has the latest on the high rise drama that lasted for hours. once you arrive at trump tower, the first thing you notice are police officer ....