Up with amanda boiler. She was a part of the magnificent 7 team that did win the gold in atlanta. She had a lot to share with us, about what she thought alex could potentially do here while hes in rio. Reporter alex came here specifically for one job. We had struggles in day 1. Two falls. He came up and nailed his routine. I think he can do even better. I think performances across the board. Ive watched alex work really hard, and i think its going to be his time to shine. Reporter certainly, were all here hoping and rooting back hope that thats going to be the case for alex. Im not going to give away any spoilers, but it was thrilling to say the least, no matter what happened today, i can tell you alexs journey is not over, individual medals on wednesday. Tonight, a huge night for swimming. Thats going to be coming up in just a bit. You wont want to miss that. Back to you in phoenix. I bet its hard not to give us those spoilers. Thank you very much. Vanessa will be giving us a behind t
Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening from copacabana beach. There is a lot of olympic news to tell you about. But before we get to that, we want to update you on the massive meltdown today at the worlds Second Largest Airline thats stilfe on the air. Tonight Delta Airlines is in recovery mode, trying to get people where they need to be after its global Flight Network goe Flight Network was grounded to a halt for several hours when its commuters went down. The outage turned some airport terminals into virtual encampments, passengers waiting for flights and answers. And it comes amid a troubling spate of airline commuter failures. Uter failures. Gabe gutierrez has the latest. Reporter the outage was massive, stretching across the country from washington to miami to chicago. Inside of the worldwide delta was shut down. I was like, whoa, i think im going to be kind of