Yes. Turning to the olympics where swimmer Katie Ledecky is making a difference for the u. S. Relay team. The americans were running second in the 4x200 relay. Ledecky dove in and anchored the team to beat australia by two seconds. The men considered to be the greatest male gymnast picked up another medal. Japans gymnast held someone off with a british gymnast not far behind. Hes won the last six world championships. Thanks to him, japan is third in both gold medals and the overall medal count. China is second in both. The u. S. Remains a leader with 11 golds, 11 silvers, 10 bronzes. A total of 32. Not bad at all. Competi competition. Phelps and lochte go head to head. Katie ledecky will qualify for the 800meter freestyle. And golf returns to the olympics for the First Time Since 1904. Weve been waiting a long time to see golf back at the olympics. Well have full coverage of that tomorrow morning here. Its amassing the that got you, really . Yeah. Really . Dont mind me. Its amazing the
Coming from behind to beat Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. The amazing photo thats going viral this morning of bolt in front of everybody else smiling at the camera. We begin this morning, though, with the massive flooding in southern louisiana, especially around baton rouge. Theres a federal declaration with five people dead. The numbers are simply staggering. More than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes, and 10,000 spending this morning in shelters. Also rescued the approximately 1,000 drivers and passengers stranded for 24 hours or more on interstate 12. The National Guard used their helicopters throughout the day to deliver food, water, and well as to remove people from their positions and bring them back to a place of safety. The governor says he wont say the flooding is worse than a hurricane but says its very bad. Thousands of people are without power, and thousan
Mandatory and voluntary evacuations underway. The fire started sunday afternoon, but so far no structures have been damaged. A large dust storm blew through the phoenix area on tuesday just hours after moisture from tropical depression javier flooded roadways in tucson. More than 5,000 homes lost power during the storm. Drivers are urged to take visibility. Michael phelps picked up two more gold medal. First he won the 200 meter butterfly, raising his arms to pump up the crowd. And then he anchored the mens 4 by 200 free style relay. Phelps now has won three golds at rio. 21 in his lifetime, and three more attempts to go. He was so exhausted getting out of the pool after that out. And there was the mishap where his cap ripped as he was trying to put it on. He used a teammates. He tliped it inside out and off he went. The u. S. Gymnastics team is dominating. The teams score was more than 8 points ahead of russia. And speaking of dominant, thats the biggest margin of victory since 1960.
Successful business and the perfect family. Youre not the master of the universe, mike. Well see how tough you are, and your plane falling out of the sky. Im supposed to clean it out. Do you have any evidence he is done any of these things . Change everything, passwords, code, secure this place. He is a bad it in theaters, september 23rd. Celebrity buzz in new york city. Phelps is from nearby in maryland. He says he cant get back to watch the ravens play. Taking a look at the medal count. The United States leads with 16 gold medals. China second, japan third, and the u. S. Also the overall leader there with 38 medals. Coming into the olympics, there was talk simone biles would be the best u. S. Gymnast in history. Now that talk juju chang has more on biles incredible performance. Its official. The worlds greatest gymnast. Reporter simone biles springing into action. And grabbing that coveted title in rio winning the womens individual all around gold medal. Standing tall at just 49, the
Joining the pantheon of greats. A dream come true for the ohio native. I was just a really hyper kid. I was always bouncing off the walls so gymnastics fit, and i didnt try any other sports. It was like gymnastics chose me, and then ive loved it ever since. Reporter her significant flip named the biles. She body and on the second body she does a flip and lands forward. I believe that her floor routine is the best and most difficult floor routine ever performed in the sport of gymnastics. Reporter her teammate, aly raisman impressing with a second. And russia taking home the bronze. Biles relishing the victory with her teammates, leaving rio with the coveted title, and a taste coming up today, Michael Phelps is competing in the 100 butterfly finals. Katie ledecky set a record yesterday and the u. S. Basketball teams are back on the court as well. The women take on canada. The women play serbia. Lets hope the men play a little bit better than the last time against australia. They were do